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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
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
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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
a man; a male
HSK 3
male-female / male and female
HSK 4
father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older
HSK 4
the male sex / a male
HSK 5
duck / male prostitute (slang)
HSK 5
glass / CL: 張|张, 塊|块 / (slang) male homosexual
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
male husky (dog)
(coll.) bald crown; male pattern baldness
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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
older male cousin via female line
male worker
bolt (male component of nut and bolt)
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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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  *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
Viagra (male impotence drug)
older male patrilineal cousin
highly eligible bachelor / desirable male partner
senior or older male schoolmate
nephew by the male line
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
younger male patrilineal cousin
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  *牡* | 牡* | *牡
(of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills
(male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner
Thomas (male name)
(TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive
(zoology) (of a female) to be in heat; (of a male) to be in rut
debut (by a male performer or sports player)
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  *佬* | 佬* | *佬
male / man (Cantonese)
male eagle; tercel
older male second cousin
Steve (male name)
young disciple (of the same master) / younger or junior male schoolmate
junior or younger male schoolmate
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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)
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
male military role in a Chinese opera
to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
male lion
(male hair style) crew cut / butch cut
womanly temperament / femininity / effeminate (of male) / cowardly / sissy
my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male
uncle (polite form of address for older male)
younger male cousin via female line
(of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together / to be like family / to share the same view of things
male adulterer
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
male horse / stallion
henpecked male
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
male star / famous actor
adult male
male guest at party
stamen (male part of flower)
(of a male) to come of age / an adult male
handsome male companion / gigolo
males eligible for military service / draftee / abbr. for 役齡男子|役龄男子
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  *旦* | 旦* | *旦
(literary) dawn; daybreak / dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
(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
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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
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
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)
(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
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
stud / male animal kept to breed offspring
lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)
(coll.) male donkey

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