| | (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 |
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| | how / which | HSK 1 |
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| | which ones? / who? / what? | HSK 1 |
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| | 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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| | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本 | HSK 2 |
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| | actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled | HSK 3 |
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| | interest (desire to know about sth) / interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 4 |
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| | to couple; to link; to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與｜与 + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc); to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc); to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling | HSK 7-9 |
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| | angle from which one observes an object / (fig.) perspective; viewpoint; frame of reference / (cinematography) camera angle / (visual perception) visual angle (the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye) / (photography) angle of view | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to entrust (to sb) / to place (one's hope, energy etc) in / a thing in which one invests (one's hope, energy etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | immediately / presently / following which | HSK 7-9 |
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| | direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to peel / to skin / to tear / to pull down / to cling to (sth on which one is climbing) / to dig | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling | HSK 7-9 |
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| | career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life | HSK 7-9 |
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| | stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved) / a (usu. bad) situation / leeway | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ancestors; forebears / (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (ACG) Japan (from the anime "Code Geass", in which Japan was renamed Area 11) | |
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| | which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠｜武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | painted skin (which transforms a monster into a beauty) | |
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| | (vulgar) derogatory name (in which 日 means 肏) for the "People's Daily" 人民日報｜人民日报 | |
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| | what / how / why / which / carry | |
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| | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
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| | sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters) | |
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| | which / who | |
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| | to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school | |
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| | slot within a schedule / timeslot (for a TV program, a session with a photographer etc) / range of dates in which an event is to be held (film screening, exhibition etc) | |
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| | tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse) | |
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| | who / which / what | |
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| | Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會｜中共中央纪律检查委员会 | |
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| | elevated stage on which martial competitions or duels were held / arena / ring | |
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| | music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7 | |
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| | the bleating of sheep / final particle which transforms statements into questions that indicate doubt or surprise (Cantonese) | |
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| | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | writing style in which the main subject is approached directly from the outset / opposite of 冒題｜冒题 | |
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| | Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China | |
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| | to direct a movie in which one also plays a major role as an actor / (fig.) to plan and execute a scheme all by oneself | |
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| | Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged / the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼｜释迦牟尼, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas") | |
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| | river crab / Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧｜和谐, which is blocked by the great firewall of China) | |
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| | to pace back and forth, not knowing which way to turn; to hesitate; to waver | |
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| | reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China) | |
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| | Mozi (c. 470-391 BC), founder of the Mohist School 墨家, which flourished during the Warring States period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | to think / this / which? / how? (literary) / Taiwan pr. [ren4] | |
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| | (neologism) (slang) penis ( 丁丁 resembles "JJ", which is short for 雞雞｜鸡鸡) | |
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| | not knowing which course to follow (idiom); at a loss what to do | |
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| | stream which returns after branching | |
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| | (fig.) gulf; chasm; wide gap / (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 and Han 漢｜汉 | |
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| | (military) to mount a secondary attack / (fig.) to assist in tackling a problem / (sports) to participate in a play in which a teammate scores (i.e. perform an assist) | |
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| | blueprint / source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based | |
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| | the duration of a conference / the period over which a conference (or expo etc) is held / session / the date of a meeting | |
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| | anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part) | |
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| | one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲｜实岁 | |
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| | to pay one's respects by bowing with hands in front of one's chest clasping joss sticks, or with palms pressed together / (Tw) religious ceremony in which offerings are made to a deity | |
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| | excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself | |
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| | turning point / breaking point / inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign) | |
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| | (calligraphy) technique in which the shaft of the brush is held at a low angle, so that the tip of the brush runs along the edge of the stroke (cf. 正鋒｜正锋 and 側鋒｜侧锋) / (fig.) unorthodox or improper way of doing things | |
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| | a bag which holds 30 pecks (i.e. approx 3 kg dry measure) | |
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| | names of the tunes to which 詞｜词 poems are composed | |
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| | Asparagaceae, family of flowering plants which includes asparagus | |
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| | a form of theatrical double act in which one performer speaks or sings while the other, in front, pretends to be doing the speaking or singing / double reed (as in an oboe or bassoon) | |
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| | lit. that which is long divided must unify, and that which is long unified must divide (proverb, from Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义) / fig. things are constantly changing | |
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| | (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind | |
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| | rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing | |
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| | Wuxi opera (which developed in the area around Wuxi 無錫｜无锡) | |
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| | in Daoism, astral wind on which immortals may ride / strong wind | |
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| | rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted) | |
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| | the part of a number which is discarded when rounding down | |
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| | business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture | |
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| | historical communal administrative and self-defence system created during the Song Dynasty and revived during the Republican Era, in which households are grouped in jia 甲 and jia are grouped in bao 保 | |
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| | (in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse; a state of disfavor | |
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| | Manchurian wild rice 菰, aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot | |
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| | common name for 麋鹿, Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), which is said to resemble an amalgam of animals such as a cow, deer, donkey and horse / an odd mixture of disparate elements / hodgepodge / farrago | |
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| | third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet | |
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| | that which is yearned for by the public | |
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| | percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick | |
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| | (dialect) mounded row of soil (in which crops are planted) | |
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| | the first of the three annual periods of hot weather ( 三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days | |
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| | a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool | |
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| | the hidden and the visible; that which can be seen and that which cannot; darkness and light; night and day; wisdom and ignorance; evil and good; the living and the dead; men and ghosts | |
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| | lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用｜卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court) | |
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| | lit. not even one stroke is negligent (idiom) / fig. to write characters (calligraphy) in which every stroke is placed perfectly | |
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| | potion given to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life (aka 孟婆湯｜孟婆汤) / magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions | |
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| | (bound form) bird of the Procellariidae family, which includes shearwaters, gadfly petrels etc | |
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| | to arrange things in sequence / sequence in which things are arranged | |
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| | practice in which a novice monk is shouted at or hit with a stick with the purpose of bringing about instant awakening (Buddhism) / to rebuke sternly | |
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| | the pivots, at the top and bottom of a Chinese door, on which the door turns | |
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| | small pillars that support the roof, those which rest on the main beam | |
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| | Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted | |
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| | (Buddhism) to designate the boundaries of a sacred place within which monks are to be trained; a place so designated / (fantasy fiction) force field; invisible barrier (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 結界 "kekkai") | |
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| | (stone which resembles jade) | |
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| | Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍｜茭白笋, which is swollen by a smut fungus / variant of 菇 | |
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| | a stump on which chickens roost | |
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| | the blood of a sacrificial fowl which was sprinkled on doors and vessels | |
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| | string on which coins are strung | |
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| | binzi, a species of apple which is slightly sour and astringent; the tree that produces this apple | |
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| | form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王｜商纣王 in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire | |
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