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  *从* | 从* | *从
from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
HSK 1
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  *穿* | 穿* | *穿
to wear / to put on / to dress / to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to thread
HSK 1
the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori
HSK 1
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  *走* | 走* | *走
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
HSK 1
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  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
yellow / pornographic / to fall through
HSK 2
straight (in a straight line) / continuously; always; all the way through
HSK 2
to pass through; to get through / to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation) / to pass (a test) / by means of; through; via
HSK 2
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  *通* | 通* | *通
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
HSK 2
to pass / to go through / process / course / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression
HSK 2
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  *吹* | 吹* | *吹
to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through
HSK 2
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  *由* | 由* | *由
to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
HSK 3
to sense / perception / to feel (through the senses) / to experience / a feeling / an impression / an experience
HSK 3
to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience
HSK 3
experience / to go through; to experience
HSK 3
to experience; to go through / experience (CL:,)
HSK 3
to correspond (by letter, email etc) / to send or receive messages through telecommunications
HSK 3
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
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  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross
HSK 4
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  *透* | 透* | *透
(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through / to tell secretly; to leak / thoroughly; through and through / to appear; to show
HSK 4
to recharge (a battery) / (fig.) to recharge one's batteries (through leisure) / to update one's skills and knowledge
HSK 4
to pass / to spend (time) / to survive / to get through
HSK 4
to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount (an obstacle) / (sports) to break through the opponent's defense
HSK 5
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  *闯* | 闯* | *闯
to rush / to charge / to dash / to break through / to temper oneself (through battling hardships)
HSK 5
to go through; to pass through / to be in general use
HSK 6
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  *挨* | 挨* | *挨
to suffer; to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle
HSK 6
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  *夺* | 夺* | *夺
to seize / to take away forcibly / to wrest control of / to compete or strive for / to force one's way through / to leave out / to lose
HSK 6
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  *钻* | 钻* | *钻
to drill / to bore / to get into / to make one's way into / to enter (a hole) / to thread one's way through / to study intensively / to dig into / to curry favor for personal gain
HSK 6
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  *渡* | 渡* | *渡
to cross / to pass through / to ferry
HSK 6
to pass by or through
HSK 6
very red / red through and through / to blush (deep red)
HSK 6
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  *经* | 经* | *经
classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济
HSK 7-9
to enter or exit / to go through
HSK 7-9
what one has learned (through experience, reading etc) / knowledge / insight / understanding / tips / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 7-9
direct observation / directly perceived through the senses / intuitive / audiovisual
HSK 7-9
to prove a point / to expound on / to demonstrate or prove (through argument) / proof
HSK 7-9
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
to pass through / to traverse / to cross
HSK 7-9
to experience; to go through
HSK 7-9
(chemistry) to settle; to precipitate / (chemistry) sediment; precipitate / (fig.) (of emotions, thoughts, experience etc) to settle and be absorbed over time; to take shape gradually (through reflection or maturation)
HSK 7-9
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  *筛* | 筛* | *筛
(bound form) a sieve / to sieve; to sift; to filter / to eliminate through selection / to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water) / to pour (wine or tea) / (dialect) to strike (a gong)
HSK 7-9
to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out
HSK 7-9
to pass through / to penetrate / by means of / via
HSK 7-9
to ponder / to mull over / to think through / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]
HSK 7-9
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  *沾* | 沾* | *沾
to moisten / to be infected by / to receive benefit or advantage through a contact / to touch
HSK 7-9
to get through to sb on the phone
HSK 7-9
to cross over / to pass through
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
(banking) to overdraw / to take out an overdraft / an overdraft / to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue) / (old) to draw one's wage in advance / (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc) / to damage a natural resource through overuse
HSK 7-9
to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection)
HSK 7-9
to connect / to put through
HSK 7-9
to pass through
HSK 7-9
to run through / a connecting thread from beginning to end / to link
HSK 7-9
to go through the motions
HSK 7-9
to make life difficult for / to embarrass / unable to make it through
HSK 7-9
to pass through a country's territory / transit
HSK 7-9
to cross a barrier / to get through (an ordeal) / to pass (a test) / to reach (a standard)
HSK 7-9
click-through rate (CTR) (Internet)
HSK 7-9
to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
to read through
(coll.) (neologism c. 2006) to extract money unscrupulously (e.g. through IPOs, fandom, or game mechanics) while offering little genuine value; to grift; to fleece
Mersey River, through Liverpool
private loan association where money is allocated through bidding / meeting of such an association / to win the bidding at such a meeting
member of a group who have gone through some experience in the same year
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
to parade (a prisoner) through the streets
Mawei river through Fuzhou city
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  *历* | 历* | *历
to experience / to undergo / to pass through / all / each / every / history
to skim (through a book) / to read cursorily / to dip into
see you tomorrow / (coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or less intact (esp. enoki mushrooms)
one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb) / no pain, no gain
countdown / breakdown / to list / to enumerate / to run through
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  *突* | 突* | *突
to dash / to move forward quickly / to bulge / to protrude / to break through / to rush out / sudden / Taiwan pr. [tu2]
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  *棨* | 棨* | *棨
tally for going through a pass
to meet with great difficulties but pull through
reeducation through labor
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  *彻* | 彻* | *彻
thorough / penetrating / to pervade / to pass through
to inspect / to run through a checklist / to take stock / to audit
(literary) to get through the year / entire year / throughout the year
character acquired through long habit / habits and properties
to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie
to consign (goods) / to check through (baggage)
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process
excuse me (i.e. let me through, please) / reflected glory / to benefit from sb else's prestige
to turn over in one's mind (idiom); to think through from different angles / to ponder
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  *阅* | 阅* | *阅
to inspect / to review / to read / to peruse / to go through / to experience
the whole night / all through the night
to slink / to move stealthily / to advance through the water
(speak) without thinking the matter through
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
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  *亘* | 亘* | *亘
extending all the way across / running all the way through
Sava River, flowing through Southeast Europe
to force one's way through a checkpoint (without authorization or stopping)
to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera
hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
interlude / to cross the stage / to do sth as a mere formality / to go through the motions

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