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identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
HSK 4
position / status / place / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
treatment / pay / salary / status / rank
HSK 4
grade / rank / status
HSK 5
composition; ingredient; element; component / one's social status
HSK 6
to hide oneself / invisible (person or online status)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攀* | 攀* | *攀
to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status
HSK 7-9
equal to / having the same social class or status
HSK 7-9
person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character
HSK 7-9
low status / lowly / to lower (one's head)
HSK 7-9
to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:
HSK 7-9
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
social status / price of a slave / price of a person (a sportsman etc) / worth / value (of stocks, valuables etc)
HSK 7-9
high position / eminent status / top job / raised position / upper (limbs) / a high (i.e. local maximum) / high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *郎* | 郎* | *郎
(arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth
(of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status / to marry down
family status
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status
equal status / equal treatment / parity (under the law) / equity / reciprocity
(of personnel or positions) having permanent status under China's official staffing system 編制|编制, with full benefits and job security
(coll.) to try to improve one's social standing by marrying or affiliating with people of higher status
drop in price / devalued / to have one's status lowered
to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
a person's status
(idiom) to show deference to sb of lower status; to condescend; to deign
considerable (cost etc) / bountiful (crop etc) / high (social status etc)
lintel (of a door) / fig. family's social status
(plant pathology) to become stunted / (horticulture) to dwarf; to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) / (fig.) to diminish the status of; to disparage / (fig.) to downplay
meager (wages) / humble (social status) / feeble (voice)
to take things as they are (idiom) / to leave a situation as it is / to be happy with the status quo
of undetermined status / unregulated
most-favored nation (trade status)
armband (e.g. as part of uniform or to show status)
to offer humbly (written at the end of letter to sb of higher status); your humble servant
to improve one's family's social status by moving up in the world / to switch one's allegiance to a new patron
handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status)
composition / make-up / ingredient / element / component / one's social status / same as 成分
honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)
to be unworthy to associate with (sb of higher social status)
suboptimal health status
social composition / social status (in Marxist theory, esp. using during the Cultural Revolution)
subprovincial city (having independent economic status within a province)
to wish for higher status (idiom); to curry favor in the hope of promotion
(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom) / not to treat everyone equally favorably
regarding oneself as number one in terms of leadership, seniority or status
health status
sub-provincial (not provincial status, but independent)
one's moral standards are not in keeping with one's social status
calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social status
spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
(of status or wealth) to decline / (of buildings etc) to become dilapidated / run-down / (of plants) to wilt
(computing) status bar
etiquette / (old) gradation of etiquette with social status
suboptimal health status
economic situation / one's socio-economic status
(coll.) raw score (before adjustments such as bonus points for ethnic minority status etc, esp. in college entrance exams)
choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈 is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎, where 韓|韩 is his surname and 昌黎 is his clan's ancestral prefecture .)
door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel


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