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HSK
(of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term
HSK 2
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  *右* | 右* | *右
(bound form) right; right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
HSK 1
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  *大* | 大* | *大
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
HSK 1
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  *火* | 火* | *火
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
HSK 3
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  *先* | 先* | *先
beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
HSK 1
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  *靠* | 靠* | *靠
to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) / traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
HSK 2
older sister / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
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  *店* | 店* | *店
inn; old-style hotel (CL:) / (bound form) shop; store
HSK 2
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  *两* | 两* | *两
two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty (old)
HSK 1
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
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  *保* | 保* | *保
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system
HSK 3
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  *者* | 者* | *者
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后 or to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this
HSK 3
older brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *第* | 第* | *第
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
HSK 1
father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older
HSK 4
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  *引* | 引* | *引
to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 , one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
HSK 4
big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
HSK 4
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
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  *旧* | 旧* | *旧
old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
refrigerator / (old) icebox
HSK 4
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  *老* | 老* | *老
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
HSK 1
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
old friend / (slang) period / menstruation
HSK 2
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  *姐* | 姐* | *姐
older sister
HSK 1
girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *归* | 归* | *归
to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
HSK 4
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  *卵* | 卵* | *卵
egg; ovum; spawn / (coll.) testicles / (old) penis / (expletive) fucking
HSK 7-9
courtyard / garden / yard / patio / CL: 個|个 / (old) servant
HSK 2
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  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
HSK 5
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  *篇* | 篇* | *篇
sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article
HSK 2
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  *最* | 最* | *最
old variant of
HSK 1
elderly / old age / autumn of one's years
HSK 2
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  *干* | 干* | *干
old variant of 乾|干
HSK 1
(idiom) to live to be a hundred years old (often used as a blessing or wish for longevity)
to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc)
HSK 6
filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
HSK 7-9
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  *寺* | 寺* | *寺
Buddhist temple / mosque / government office (old)
HSK 6
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  *年* | 年* | *年
grain / harvest (old) / variant of
HSK 1
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  *和* | 和* | *和
old variant of
HSK 1
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  *末* | 末* | *末
tip / end / final stage / latter part / inessential detail / powder / dust / opera role of old man
HSK 4
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  *登* | 登* | *登
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
HSK 4
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 5
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
(coll.) wife's older brother
senior / older generation / precursor
HSK 7-9
(slang) the older person in a romantic relationship; an older partner
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
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  *文* | 文* | *文
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
HSK 7-9
antique; old relic / (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey
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  *令* | 令* | *令
to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem
HSK 5
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
(literary) commoner; unlearned person (in former times, one who had not obtained an official degree) / (old) temporary conscript
person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character
HSK 7-9
the present time / (old) (in reference to the reigning monarch) His Majesty
HSK 7-9
(coll.) wife's older brother
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  *花* | 花* | *花
old variant of
HSK 1
to consume; to use up / to deplete; to expend / (old) news; mail; message
HSK 6
paper / treatise / thesis / CL: / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
HSK 4
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  *漏* | 漏* | *漏
to leak / to divulge / to leave out by mistake / waterclock or hourglass (old)
HSK 5
form of address for a (slightly) older man (esp. among males)
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  *州* | 州* | *州
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
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  *社* | 社* | *社
(bound form) society; organization; agency / (old) god of the land
HSK 5
to grow into one's looks; (of a young person) to develop more attractive facial features as one grows older
machine / machinery / mechanical / (old) cunning / scheming
HSK 6
age (number of years old)
HSK 6
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  *镝* | 镝* | *镝
arrow or arrowhead (old)
old-fashioned / out of date / to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon
HSK 6
to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
HSK 7-9
pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater)
HSK 5
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  *笑* | 笑* | *笑
old variant of
HSK 1
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  *拐* | 拐* | *拐
cane / walking stick / crutch / old man's staff
HSK 6
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
old variant of
HSK 5
e-commerce (abbr. for 電子商務|电子商务) / (old) to negotiate by telegram or telephone
(old) enclosed carriage for carrying passengers / (automotive) sedan
HSK 7-9
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  *铺* | 铺* | *铺
to spread / to display / to set up / (old) holder for door-knocker
HSK 6
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  *兜* | 兜* | *兜
pocket / bag / to wrap up or hold in a bag / to move in a circle / to canvas or solicit / to take responsibility for / to disclose in detail / combat armor (old)
HSK 7-9
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait)
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  *师* | 师* | *师
teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops
old name for China / Cathay
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  *拿* | 拿* | *拿
old variant of
HSK 1
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  *吾* | 吾* | *吾
(old) I; my
Old Chinese (linguistics)
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
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  *伊* | 伊* | *伊
(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that / (bound form) Iraq (abbr. for 伊拉克) / (bound form) Iran (abbr. for 伊朗)
master / qualified worker / respectful form of address for older men / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 5
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
suit / a set / a collection / of the same kind / the same old stuff / set pattern of behavior
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
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  *兆* | 兆* | *兆
(bound form) omen / to foretell / million; mega- / (Tw) trillion; tera- / (old) billion
large-sized (of clothes, shoes) / (old) to give an order / (old) to quit one's job in a store
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  *㖊* | 㖊* | *㖊
fathom (1.83 meters) (old)
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  *奏* | 奏* | *奏
to play music / to achieve / to present a memorial to the emperor (old)
HSK 6
college / school (old)
HSK 7-9
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  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
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  *腔* | 腔* | *腔
(bound form) cavity / (bound form) speech; talk / tune / accent (in one's speech) / (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
HSK 7-9
old system / weights and measures of former times
to nurse / to look after / to watch over / (old) hospital nurse
HSK 7-9
(old) Down syndrome; trisomy 21

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