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  *你* | 你* | *你
you (Note: In Taiwan, is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, is used to address both males and females.)
HSK 1
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  *字* | 字* | *字
letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
HSK 1
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  *男* | 男* | *男
(bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
a man / a male / men / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *他* | 他* | *他
(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人)
HSK 1
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  *弟* | 弟* | *弟
younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)
HSK 1
a man; a male
HSK 3
male-female / male and female
HSK 4
glass / CL: 張|张, 塊|块 / (slang) male homosexual
HSK 5
the male sex / a male
HSK 5
duck / male prostitute (slang)
HSK 5
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
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  *净* | 净* | *净
clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role
HSK 6
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  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
HSK 7-9
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  *凸* | 凸* | *凸
to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc) / Taiwan pr. [tu2]
HSK 7-9
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  *阳* | 阳* | *阳
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴
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  *雄* | 雄* | *雄
male / staminate / grand / imposing / powerful / mighty / person or state having great power and influence
to split the bill (where the male counterpart foots the larger portion of the sum) / (theater) a system where two actors take turns in acting the main role, with one actor replacing the other if either is unavailable
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  *势* | 势* | *势
power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals
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  *鸭* | 鸭* | *鸭
duck (CL:隻|只) / (slang) male prostitute
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
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  *旦* | 旦* | *旦
(literary) dawn; daybreak / dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
bolt (male component of nut and bolt)
senior or older male schoolmate
older male cousin via female line
younger male patrilineal cousin
(male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner
Thomas (male name)
(zoology) (of a female) to be in heat; (of a male) to be in rut
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  *佬* | 佬* | *佬
male / man (Cantonese)
male eagle; tercel
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  *丈* | 丈* | *丈
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
male star / famous actor
senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
(TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive
Steve (male name)
to tie up / to bind up / (medicine) to ligate / (of a male) to have a vasectomy (ligation of the vasa deferentia) / (of a female) to have one's tubes tied (tubal ligation)
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  *牡* | 牡* | *牡
(of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills
Viagra (male impotence drug)
young disciple (of the same master) / younger or junior male schoolmate
junior or younger male schoolmate
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  *骚* | 骚* | *骚
(bound form) to disturb; to disrupt / flirty; coquettish / abbr. for 離騷|离骚 / (literary) literary writings; poetry / foul-smelling (variant of ) / (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male
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  *璋* | 璋* | *璋
jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" , also given to male infants to play with
male and female / both types (acid and alkaline, positive and negative etc) / (chemistry) amphoteric
male
male and female
Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males)
male military role in a Chinese opera
older male patrilineal cousin
male baby
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
place in Shanghai / (coll.) male homosexual
lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband
(literary) underage male servant
virgin (male)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
male lion
(male hair style) crew cut / butch cut
my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male
uncle (polite form of address for older male)
(affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal
younger male cousin via female line
male adulterer
adult male
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
henpecked male
male worker
older male patrilineal cousin
wife of older male cousin via female line
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  *貔* | 貔* | *貔
see 貔貅, composite mythical animal (originally was the male)
softshell turtle / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel
number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants
dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
stamen (male part of flower)
(of a male) to come of age / an adult male
handsome male companion / gigolo
(archaic) I; me (used by males during the Song and Yuan dynasties)
virgin male
son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander
older male cousin via female line
male guest; male visitor
son of a male cousin via female line
to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
cock / male breeding poultry
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  *犆* | 犆* | *犆
male animal
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  *枲* | 枲* | *枲
male nettle-hemp
(of a singer) to lose one's voice / (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty)
pure love / BL, aka boys' love (genre of male homoerotic fictional media)
spike or male flower of cattail (Typha orientalis)
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  *豭* | 豭* | *豭
boar / male pig
stud / male animal kept to breed offspring
lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)
(coll.) male donkey
(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices
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  *厮* | 厮* | *厮
(bound form) together; each other / (bound form) male servant / (bound form) dude; so-and-so (used in 那廝|那厮 and 這廝|这厮)
ram (male sheep)
male prostitute / (old) pimp
the capping ceremony, a Confucian coming of age ceremony for males dating from pre-Qin times, performed when a boy reaches the age of 20, involving the ritual placing of caps on the head of the young man

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