| | you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.) | HSK 1 |
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| | 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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| | (bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位 | HSK 1 |
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| | schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male) | HSK 1 |
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| | a man / a male / men / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | (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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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | HSK 1 |
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| | a man; a male | HSK 3 |
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| | male-female / male and female | HSK 4 |
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| | glass / CL: 張|张, 塊|块 / (slang) male homosexual | HSK 5 |
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| | the male sex / a male | HSK 5 |
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| | duck / male prostitute (slang) | HSK 5 |
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| | 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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| | clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role | HSK 6 |
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| | 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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| | to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc) / Taiwan pr. [tu2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴 | |
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| | male / staminate / grand / imposing / powerful / mighty / person or state having great power and influence | |
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| | 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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| | power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals | |
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| | duck (CL: 隻|只) / (slang) male prostitute | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | (literary) dawn; daybreak / dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors) | |
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| | bolt (male component of nut and bolt) | |
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| | senior or older male schoolmate | |
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| | older male cousin via female line | |
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| | younger male patrilineal cousin | |
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| | (male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner | |
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| | Thomas (male name) | |
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| | (zoology) (of a female) to be in heat; (of a male) to be in rut | |
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| | male / man (Cantonese) | |
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| | male eagle; tercel | |
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| | measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male | |
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| | male star / famous actor | |
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| | senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | (TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive | |
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| | Steve (male name) | |
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| | 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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| | (of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills | |
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| | Viagra (male impotence drug) | |
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| | young disciple (of the same master) / younger or junior male schoolmate | |
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| | junior or younger male schoolmate | |
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| | (bound form) to disturb; to disrupt / flirty; coquettish / abbr. for 離騷|离骚 / (literary) literary writings; poetry / foul-smelling (variant of 臊) / (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male | |
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| | jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" 圭, also given to male infants to play with | |
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| | male and female / both types (acid and alkaline, positive and negative etc) / (chemistry) amphoteric | |
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| | male | |
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| | male and female | |
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| | Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) | |
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| | male military role in a Chinese opera | |
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| | older male patrilineal cousin | |
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| | male baby | |
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| | six close relatives, namely: father 父, mother 母, older brothers 兄, younger brothers 弟, wife 妻, male children 子 / one's kin | |
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| | place in Shanghai / (coll.) male homosexual | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (literary) underage male servant | |
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| | virgin (male) | |
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| | cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute | |
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| | to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom) | |
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| | male lion | |
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| | (male hair style) crew cut / butch cut | |
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| | my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male | |
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| | uncle (polite form of address for older male) | |
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| | (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal | |
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| | younger male cousin via female line | |
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| | male adulterer | |
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| | adult male | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | henpecked male | |
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| | male worker | |
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| | older male patrilineal cousin | |
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| | wife of older male cousin via female line | |
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| | see 貔貅, composite mythical animal (originally 貔 was the male) | |
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| | softshell turtle / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel | |
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| | number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants | |
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| | dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors) | |
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| | stamen (male part of flower) | |
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| | (of a male) to come of age / an adult male | |
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| | handsome male companion / gigolo | |
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| | (archaic) I; me (used by males during the Song and Yuan dynasties) | |
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| | virgin male | |
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| | son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander | |
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| | older male cousin via female line | |
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| | male guest; male visitor | |
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| | son of a male cousin via female line | |
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| | to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty) | |
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| | cock / male breeding poultry | |
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| | male animal | |
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| | male nettle-hemp | |
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| | (of a singer) to lose one's voice / (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty) | |
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| | pure love / BL, aka boys' love (genre of male homoerotic fictional media) | |
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| | spike or male flower of cattail (Typha orientalis) | |
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| | boar / male pig | |
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| | stud / male animal kept to breed offspring | |
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| | lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals) | |
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| | (coll.) male donkey | |
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| | (slang) to engage in male homosexual practices | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | ram (male sheep) | |
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| | male prostitute / (old) pimp | |
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| | 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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