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| | tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed | HSK 1 |
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| | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc | HSK 2 |
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| | specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門｜门, 個｜个 / professional | HSK 3 |
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| | straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive | HSK 1 |
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| | basic / fundamental / main / elementary | HSK 3 |
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| | important point; main point; focus / key (project etc) / to focus on; to put the emphasis on | HSK 2 |
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| | main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | main part / bulk / body / subject / agent | HSK 5 |
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| | street / main street / CL: 條｜条 | HSK 6 |
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| | main street / avenue | HSK 6 |
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| | to start / to put one's hand to / to set about / the seat to the right of the main guest | HSK 7-9 |
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| | main force / main strength of an army | HSK 7-9 |
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| | owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | gist / main idea / general tenor / one's judgment | |
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| | five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored | |
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| | based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine) / crux of an issue / main point in an argument / sticking point / deadlock in negotiations | HSK 7-9 |
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| | main island | |
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| | Tripitaka, the three main types of text that collectively constitute the Buddhist canon of scriptures: sutras, commandments and commentaries | |
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| | (main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL: 間｜间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to get off the main topic / to digress | |
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| | arterial road / main road / main watercourse | |
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| | main topic; matter at hand | |
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| | general idea / main idea | HSK 7-9 |
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| | main engine / (military) lead aircraft / (computing) host computer / main processor / server | |
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| | hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (music) lead single; the main song promoted from an album | |
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| | main building | |
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| | army / main forces | |
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| | master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine | |
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| | main business | |
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| | leader / the one in control / main (part, character etc) | |
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| | chief offender / main culprit | |
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| | main artery (blood vessel) / fig. main highway / arterial road | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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| | first class / prime / main | |
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| | main job / day job / steady full-time job (as opposed to temporary or casual) / chief or principal post (as opposed to deputy) | |
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| | main assault / to focus on / to specialize in / to major in | |
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| | (sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc) | |
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| | main line / trunk line | |
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| | main aspects / essentials / gist | HSK 7-9 |
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| | main ingredients (in a cooking recipe) | |
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| | this text / article / the main body of a book | |
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| | (computing) motherboard / (stock market) main board | |
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| | main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme | |
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| | heroine (of a novel or film) / main female protagonist | |
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| | opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity | |
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| | (idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved; death ends all one's troubles | |
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| | principal; main; flagship (product); title (track) / to specialize in; to take as one's priority; to primarily focus on | |
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| | main bearing | |
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| | outline / main threads | |
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| | principal cause; main reason | |
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| | main channel | |
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| | principal or main material (engineering) | |
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| | Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind | |
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| | main point / essential | HSK 7-9 |
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| | main content / matter / work / origin of an incident / cause / purpose / subject (of business letter) | |
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| | main peak (of a mountain range) | |
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| | main hall of a Buddhist temple | |
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| | (idiom) criminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster | HSK 7-9 |
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| | victim (of a criminal) / party involved (in a dispute etc) / main instigator | |
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| | to concentrate on the main points (idiom); to bring out the essentials | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 / Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠｜七龙珠 | |
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| | main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech) | |
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| | to fail to grasp the main points | |
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| | main hall / front courtyard / law court | |
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| | main mountain of a region | |
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| | main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort | |
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| | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet | |
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| | major road / thoroughfare / main road | |
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| | righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing | |
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| | (medicine) to complain of; a patient's brief account of their illness / (law) main suit; principal claim | |
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| | main type / main class / main category | |
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| | motif (loanword) / main idea / theme | |
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| | main hall | |
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| | main course | |
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| | axis / principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc) / main axle (of engine) | |
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| | (computing) main memory; RAM | |
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| | abstract / gist / main points | |
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| | big head / mask in the shape of a big head / the larger end of sth / the main part / the lion's share / dupe / sucker / (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱｜袁世凯 on the obverse side | |
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| | the gist (of a text or argument) / the main points | |
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| | oversight / negligence / careless / negligent / not concentrating on the main point | |
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| | Jokhang, main Buddhist temple in Lhasa, a sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| | trunk / main / core | |
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| | front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門｜后门, back-door or under the counter) | |
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| | Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum | |
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| | Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects 吳語｜吴语 | |
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| | monastery main gate (Buddhism) / monastery | |
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| | gist / main idea | |
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| | main group | |
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| | Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河｜黄河 and the Changjiang 長江｜长江 | |
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| | body / life / oneself / personally / one's morality and conduct / the main part of a structure or body / pregnant / classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset / Kangxi radical 158 | |
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| | Hakodate, main port of south Hokkaidō 北海道, Japan | |
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| | main point / emphasis | |
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| | Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport | |
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| | (astronomy) main-sequence star | |
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| | main stream (of a river) | |
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| | to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse | |
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| | (music) theme; principal melody / (fig.) central theme; main idea / (of a movie) created with the purpose of promoting Party values and point of view | |
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