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  *幾* | 幾* | *幾
how much / how many / several / a few
HSK 1
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  *就* | 就* | *就
(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 著|着) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: ... ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: ... ...) if not ... then must be ...
HSK 1
how much?; how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number?
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *多* | 多* | *多
many; much; more; a lot of / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly-
HSK 1
many / quite a lot / much better
HSK 2
many / a lot of / much
HSK 2
many / a lot / not few
HSK 2
ten million / countless / many / one must by all means
HSK 3
usually / in many cases / more often than not
HSK 3
many years / for many years / longstanding
HSK 4
many kinds of; multiple; diverse; multi-
HSK 4
for the most part / many / most / the greater part / mostly
HSK 4
many times / repeatedly
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *番* | 番* | *番
(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian / classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort / (classifier) a kind; a sort / (classifier) (used after the verb to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番 "to double")
HSK 6
many-sided / in many aspects
HSK 6
local bus or train / slow train with many stops
HSK 6
cannot do without / to be unavoidable / are bound to be many
HSK 7-9
for the past many years
HSK 7-9
a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
HSK 7-9
many years ago; in the past / in one's early years
HSK 7-9
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *稠* | 稠* | *稠
dense / crowded / thick / many
HSK 7-9
to raise one and infer three / to deduce many things from one case (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Heping or Peace district (of many towns) / Heping district of Tianjin municipality 天津市 / Heping district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
a few years; several years / how many years?
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沓* | 沓* | *沓
again and again / many
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繁* | 繁* | *繁
complicated / many / in great numbers / abbr. for 繁體|繁体, traditional form of Chinese characters
clam / bivalve mollusk, many spp.
tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *眾* | 眾* | *眾
(bound form) crowd; multitude / (bound form) many; numerous
too many; excessive
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黎* | 黎* | *黎
(literary) black / dark / many / multitude
many schools of thought / many people or households
special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia
many and varied / of many different kinds
many stars / a vast sky full of stars
in many ways / from all sides
lit. the eye cannot take it all in (idiom) / fig. too many good things to see; a feast for the eyes
many-headed / many-layered (authority) / devolved (as opposed to centralized) / pluralistic / (as classifier) number of animals / long term (finance) / long (investment)
(dialect) how much / how many / how (smart etc) / such ...
to double / to redouble / to increase many times over / to multiply by a factor / multiplication
several years / many years
how many times / several times / how many degrees (in terms of temperature or angle) / several degrees / to what degree; to what extent
to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score / not many; only a few
Yingpan, common place name ("army camp") / place near Jintian village 金田村 in Guangxi where the Taiping Tianguo rebels took their oaths in 1851 / place in Xinfeng county 新豐縣|新丰县 traditional camping place of brigands / Yingpan township, place name / Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi / Yingpan township in Yunnan / (many others)
lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
many / much / a lot / lots and lots / more / even more
(literary) (similar to 多麼|多么, used before an adjective in exclamations) how (fortunate etc); so (many etc)
the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister
a close friend over many years
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夥* | 夥* | *夥
many / numerous
many; diverse
many and complicated / mired in minor details
(idiom) too many to count; innumerable
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原, Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
many different types
lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth / many new things emerge in rapid succession
many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength / There is safety in numbers.
absolutely true (idiom) / manifold / true from many points of view
many wolves and not enough meat / not enough to go around
Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu , collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝
year in, year out (idiom) / (over) many years
(idiom) (under) the public eye; the stares of many people
(idiom) to come in many different shapes; to display a great variety of forms
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
many things waiting to be done (idiom) / a thousand things to do
as many as; no less than / not inferior to; as good as; on a par with
deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous / full of craft and cunning
(idiom) many little things add up to sth great; many little drops make an ocean
the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom)
using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
full up
compound with many families living together
so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted / innumerable crimes (idiom) / see also 罄筆難書|罄笔难书
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *那* | 那* | *那
(archaic) many / beautiful / how / old variant of
(idiom) it takes many years to raise children to be upstanding citizens
many things waiting to be done (idiom) / a thousand things to do
many and varied / confused
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
to include and monopolize many things / all-embracing
many and elaborate
name used for many fishing birds / cormorant / osprey
old rice / rice kept for many years
seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing
many times / on more than one occasion
to mention some but omit many others (idiom) / to leave out much more than one includes
misplaced kindness / humble term: I do not deserve your many kindnesses.
Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan, with many Han, Wei and Jin dynasty royal tombs
grand scribe (official position in many Chinese states up to the Han)
year in, year out (idiom) / (over) many years
and so on / so and so / many and confused
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
complex; complicated; many and varied
Baal, god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities
successive years / over many years
for many generations
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
dzi bead, a type of stone bead highly prized in Tibet for many centuries, reputed to hold supernatural power
diverse and muddled / many and confused

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