| | to hand it (i.e. the aforementioned item) to (sb) | HSK 5 |
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| | platform (at a railway station) / (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an election candidate) / (Tw) website | HSK 6 |
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| | to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary) | HSK 2 |
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| | (after a noun) between; among; amid / (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間｜弹指之间) | HSK 4 |
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| | (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est / (after 之) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最 "the greatest in the world") | HSK 1 |
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| | east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord | HSK 1 |
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| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | to pair up / to match up / to form a pair (e.g. to marry) / to mate / matched pair | |
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| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | HSK 1 |
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| | to be on the low side; to be inadequate (e.g. of a salary) | |
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| | to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc) | |
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| | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘｜打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話｜打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針｜打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣｜打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後｜打那以后 "since then") | HSK 1 |
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| | ukiyo-e | |
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| | (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom | |
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| | Jingdong, Chinese e-commerce company | |
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| | to deposit (e.g. in a bank account) | |
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| | to rock / to sway / to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water) / to flutter (e.g. of a flag) / to trick sb into doing sth / to dupe / to con | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to unpick and wash (e.g. padded garment) | |
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| | to poke in the eye / (gaming) to place a ward (i.e. vision-granting item) / to keep tabs on (an online discussion etc); to monitor (for updates) | |
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| | to lay down (a rule, a plan of action) / to draw up / booked out (i.e. already fully booked) | |
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| | reading head (e.g. in tape deck) | |
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| | sandpaper (i.e. abrasive) | |
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| | thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 | |
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| | lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) / fig. to succeed in the imperial examination | |
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| | very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) | HSK 1 |
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| | to use as a venue (e.g. use {a restaurant} as the venue {for a farewell party}) | |
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| | (neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core") | |
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| | (neologism c. 2019) to exert control over (sb) by means of psychological manipulation (e.g. negging) / a person who does so (loanword from "pickup artist") | |
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| | twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067 | |
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| | to wrap; to pack / to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out / (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file) | HSK 5 |
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| | to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) | |
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| | e-commerce (abbr. for 電子商務｜电子商务) / (old) to negotiate by telegram or telephone | |
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| | Year of the Cock (e.g. 2005) | |
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| | to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of) | |
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| | to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
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| | to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc) / (of a locality) to have a transportation service / (Tw) to commute | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chinese Dream (i.e. the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation), term associated with Xi Jinping 習近平｜习近平 | |
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| | to sample; to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste | |
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| | only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義｜主义 or 論｜论, e.g. 唯理論｜唯理论, rationalism) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older) | |
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| | sth small that one can find pleasure in (e.g. a cold beer after a hard day or a serendipitous find in a second-hand store) | |
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| | to inlay / to embed / to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring) / tiling / tesselation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) | |
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| | scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") | |
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| | eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | photovoltaic (e.g. cell) | |
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| | drugs ban (e.g. for athletes) | |
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| | window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground | HSK 6 |
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| | e-mail inbox | |
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| | bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate | HSK 6 |
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| | namely / that is / i.e. / prompt / at once / at present / even if / prompted (by the occasion) / to approach / to come into contact / to assume (office) / to draw near | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling) | |
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| | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條｜条 / radical (chemistry) | HSK 4 |
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| | chemical formula (e.g. water H2O) | |
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| | standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters | |
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| | race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | HSK 6 |
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| | to make up the number (i.e. to fill places up to a given number) / to serve as stopgap | |
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| | year (e.g. school year, fiscal year) / annual | HSK 5 |
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| | (slang) to ship a couple (i.e. to strongly desire that a pair of fictional characters become a couple) / also pr. [ke4 C P] | |
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| | Chinese (i.e. of Chinese nationality) | |
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| | legendary person / legend (i.e. person) | |
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| | analyst (e.g. of news) | |
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| | peridium (envelope or coat of fungi, e.g. puffballs) | |
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| | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people | HSK 2 |
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| | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL: 次 | HSK 4 |
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| | the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce) | |
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| | rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline | HSK 4 |
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| | adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | seat / base; stand / (bound form) constellation / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座｜师座) / classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc | HSK 2 |
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| | dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil) | |
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| | host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | small craftsman (contemptuous) / clatter (e.g. of footsteps) / jumbled mass / press of bodies / tumult | |
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| | to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment | HSK 7-9 |
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| | subject-verb-object SVO or subject-predicate-object sentence pattern (e.g. in Chinese grammar) | |
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| | general trade (i.e. importing and export without processing) | |
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| | a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) | |
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| | to topple (i.e. knock over) / to capsize / fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion) / to undermine / to subvert | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to appear on the public roll of successful examinees (i.e. pass an exam) / to make the list / (of a song) to hit the charts | |
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| | medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand | |
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| | subdivision (e.g. of provinces into counties) | |
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| | special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條｜条 | |
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| | to display and sell (e.g. at a fair) / sales exhibition | |
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| | 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 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters | HSK 4 |
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| | to join up / to enlist (e.g. in the military) | |
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| | approximate number / imprecise indication of quantity (e.g. 十幾｜十几, 兩三百｜两三百, 一千多) | |
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| | privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state) | |
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| | to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations) | |
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| | competition (e.g. sporting) | |
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| | tram; streetcar / trolleybus / electric car / e-bike / (in the context of Japan) electric train | HSK 6 |
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| | (onom.) tinkling (e.g. of jewels) | |
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| | time-sharing (shared use, e.g. of a holiday home) / (computing) time-sharing | |
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| | weight (i.e. importance attached to sth) | |
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| | hard power (i.e. military and economic power) | |
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| | black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground) | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older | |
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| | Chukuang township in Lienchiang county 連江縣｜连江县 i.e. the Matsu Islands, Taiwan | |
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| | person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account) | |
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