| | (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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | (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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| | 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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| | band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL: 條｜条 / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise | HSK 2 |
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| | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people | HSK 2 |
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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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| | gate / door / CL: 扇 / gateway / doorway / CL: 個｜个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) | HSK 1 |
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| | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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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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| | to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately | HSK 3 |
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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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| | strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強｜百强 | HSK 3 |
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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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| | position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential | HSK 2 |
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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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| | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression | HSK 2 |
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| | to hand it (i.e. the aforementioned item) to (sb) | HSK 5 |
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| | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL: 次 | HSK 4 |
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| | rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline | HSK 4 |
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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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| | learning; knowledge; scholarship / a body of specialized knowledge (CL: 門｜门); (fig.) any activity that demands expertise, skill or experience (e.g. gathering forensic evidence, selecting clothing, managing relationships) | HSK 4 |
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| | to visit (a place, e.g. museum or factory); to tour; to look around | HSK 2 |
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| | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force) | HSK 1 |
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| | medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL: 種｜种, 服, 味 / to poison | HSK 2 |
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| | year (e.g. school year, fiscal year) / annual | HSK 5 |
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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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| | to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input) | HSK 4 |
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| | to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society | HSK 1 |
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| | electric vehicle (commonly refers to e-bikes, scooters or electric cars) | HSK 4 |
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| | to visit; to call on (a person or place) / (computing) to visit (a website); to access (a network resource etc) / (Tw) to interview (e.g. for a report or feature story) / CL: 次 | HSK 3 |
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| | (physics) mass / quality (i.e. degree of excellence) / quality and quantity | HSK 4 |
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| | gas (i.e. gaseous substance) | HSK 5 |
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| | a loan / CL: 筆｜笔 / to provide a loan (e.g. bank) / to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank) | HSK 5 |
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| | to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip | HSK 4 |
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| | to suspend / time-out (e.g. in sports) / stoppage / pause (media player) | HSK 5 |
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| | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth | HSK 4 |
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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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| | set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) | HSK 4 |
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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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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條｜条 | HSK 3 |
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| | nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes) | HSK 5 |
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| | vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful) | HSK 4 |
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| | elementary (i.e. easy) | HSK 6 |
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| | to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper) | HSK 4 |
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| | tram; streetcar / trolleybus / electric car / e-bike / (in the context of Japan) electric train | HSK 6 |
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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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| | to check for receipt of (an email, an enclosed item in a letter etc) (typically used in the polite imperative, e.g. after 請｜请) | |
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| | (of a performer) to come onto the stage to perform / (of an athlete) to enter the arena to compete / (fig.) to enter the scene (e.g. a new product) / (of an examinee etc) to leave the venue | HSK 6 |
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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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| | to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials) | HSK 5 |
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| | to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to | HSK 3 |
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| | (Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear themed uniforms (e.g. nurse, student, maid etc), often featuring a more openly flirtatious or physically intimate style of service | |
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| | to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | HSK 4 |
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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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| | customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) | HSK 5 |
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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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| | bicycle or tricycle equipped with a small motor (electric or fuel); (in modern use) electric bicycle; low-powered e-scooter | |
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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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| | identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以 + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank | HSK 4 |
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| | to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission) | HSK 5 |
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| | eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die) | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | 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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| | to go out to sea / to enter the sea (to swim etc) / (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張｜张, 紮｜扎 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | public (e.g. school, hospital) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sales counter dedicated to a certain kind of product (e.g. alcohol) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference) | 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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| | one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ruthless / strong (e.g. of wine) / (loanword) cool / hip | HSK 6 |
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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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| | (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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| | 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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| | (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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| | to deposit (e.g. in a bank account) | |
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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 pair up / to match up / to form a pair (e.g. to marry) / to mate / matched pair | |
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| | storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) | HSK 6 |
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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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| | Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama) | |
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| | to be on the low side; to be inadequate (e.g. of a salary) | |
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| | the former (i.e. the one mentioned first) | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate | HSK 6 |
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| | to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc) | |
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| | appearance / bearing / meter (i.e. measuring instrument) | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas) | |
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| | line (i.e. of people waiting) / queue | |
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| | to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly) / to repeat sth over and over again / to torment sb / to play crazy / to squander (time, money) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | same type / category 1 (i.e. class A) | |
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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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