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  *分* | 分* | *分
to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
HSK 1
to separate / to part
HSK 2
additional / in addition / besides / separate / other / moreover / furthermore
HSK 3
to part; to leave each other / to distinguish; to tell apart / difference; distinction / in different ways; differently / separately; individually
HSK 3
every / various / separately, one by one
HSK 4
to separate
HSK 4
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  *隔* | 隔* | *隔
to separate / to partition / to stand or lie between / at a distance from / after or at an interval of
HSK 4
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
to separate
HSK 5
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  *解* | 解* | *解
to divide / to break up / to split / to separate / to dissolve / to solve / to melt / to remove / to untie / to loosen / to open / to emancipate / to explain / to understand / to know / a solution / a dissection
HSK 6
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  *另* | 另* | *另
other / another / separate / separately
HSK 6
gap / interval / compartment / to divide / to separate / to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc)
HSK 7-9
to separate / to isolate
HSK 7-9
separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)
HSK 7-9
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  *间* | 间* | *间
gap / to separate / to thin out (seedlings) / to sow discontent
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
to separate out
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  *謋* | 謋* | *謋
sound of flesh being separated from the bone
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
entirely different / quite separate
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  *异* | 异* | *异
different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate
to come individually / to treat separately / separate edition / one-way traffic
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  *析* | 析* | *析
to separate / to divide / to analyze
another case (in law) / a case to treat separately
to divide into portions / to package in smaller quantities / to separate into loads
(of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition
coming together and separating / aggregation and dissipation
the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart
separated by (distance or time etc)
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
separate government / partition
to divide / to separate / partition
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  *违* | 违* | *违
to disobey / to violate / to separate / to go against
to sleep in separate rooms / distribution of social housing
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
(to do sth) separately; as a separate action
enumeration comma (、) (used to separate words or phrases in a list)
to separate / to disperse
distance apart / separated by a given distance
to cut apart; to sever; to separate; to isolate
to establish as separate entities / to divide (a company etc) into independent entities / discrete / separate / separation (of powers etc)
to separate / to cut off
to set up separately / to establish separate units
the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭
to lose touch with / missing / scattered / separated from
separated in life and death / to part for ever
to go separate ways (idiom) / to part ways with sb / Taiwan pr. [ge4 ben1 dong1 xi1]
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  *殊* | 殊* | *殊
(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass / (bound form) different / (bound form) special; remarkable / (literary) very; extremely
lit. the two halves of the broken mirror are rejoined (idiom) / fig. long-separated lovers are reunited; a broken relationship is restored
separately / severally / parted hair
to separate flood / flood defense
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
separated by a generation / a lifetime ago
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  *埂* | 埂* | *埂
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom) / fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance
sth else / a separate matter / not the same thing / with different jobs (not colleagues) / a remarkable thing / sth special / an odd thing / sth strange or incomprehensible
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  *暌* | 暌* | *暌
in opposition to / separated from
(idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure); to forcibly break up a couple against their will
hard to untie, hard to separate (idiom); inextricably involved / locked in battle
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
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  *垙* | 垙* | *垙
(literary) footpath separating fields / (used in place names)
lit. body and soul separated (idiom); fig. scared out of one's wits / beside oneself
distinct; different / separately; individually / unusual; novel / (pejorative) eccentric; bizarre
(separated only by) a narrow strip of water
lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers / to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)
lit. to sort the gold from the sand (idiom) / fig. to separate the wheat from the chaff
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  *臿* | 臿* | *臿
to separate the grain from the husk
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  *誃* | 誃* | *誃
to separate
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  *捭* | 捭* | *捭
variant of / to separate / to split
(literary) to be separated (from a friend, one's homeland etc) for a period of time
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)
very close / no gap between them / continuously / unbroken / hard to separate / indistinguishable
to gin cotton (separate seeds from fiber)
to mail separately
separately and exclusively / specially
(literary) separated; parted
(of family members) separated from one another; scattered about; dispersed / (math.) discrete
as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom) / to be entirely different
dieresis / umlaut / diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables
box (featured material enclosed in a rectangle, separate from the main text)
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom) / fig. bold, graceful calligraphy / married couple separated from each other / talented person not given the opportunity to fulfill his potential
(idiom) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate
to part / to separate / to deviate
to separate off / to hive off / a demerger
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
(dialect) to set up separate households / (sports etc) to analyze the reasons for a defeat
(of two people) to separate; to part
Pegu Yoma (mountain range) of south central Myanmar (Burma), separating Irrawaddy and Sittang basins
lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
Line of Actual Control (LAC), separating Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory
impossible to separate / impossible to disentangle / cannot take time out
lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主|乐昌公主 (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom) / fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship
mesh laundry bag (for keeping garments separate from others in the washing machine)
inaccurate / slipshod / poorly thought-out / distant / vague / long-separated / broadly scattered
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  *睽* | 睽* | *睽
separated / stare
lit. persons who walk different paths cannot make plans together / to go separate ways (idiom)
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医
middle dot (·), a punctuation mark used in Chinese text to separate the parts of a transliterated foreign name or elements in a list

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