| | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | HSK 1 |
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| | eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL: 隻|只, 雙|双 / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | big and strong; formidable; powerful | HSK 3 |
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| | wheel; disk; ring / steamship / to take turns; to rotate / classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn | HSK 4 |
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| | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss | HSK 4 |
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| | big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) | HSK 4 |
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| | major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL: 件, 樁|桩 | HSK 5 |
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| | greater than; bigger than; more than | HSK 5 |
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| | exceptionally big | HSK 6 |
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| | (sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash / to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches | HSK 7-9 |
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| | overall situation / the big picture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | extended family / big family / harmonious group | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tycoon / magnate / big player (including company, country, school etc) / big shot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole / overall situation; the big picture / cadaver for dissection in training medical students | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take the big picture into consideration (idiom) / to work for the benefits of all | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to talk big / to sound off / bombastic / grandiloquent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to shout / to bellow / to make a big deal of sth / to make a fuss about sth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | big data (computing) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | big / large / great | |
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| | flood / big / great | |
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| | Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukurossi) / big / pillar (old) | |
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| | Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan | |
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| | big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門|门, 尊 | |
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| | big head / mask in the shape of a big head / the larger end of sth / the main part / the lion's share / dupe / sucker / (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 on the obverse side | |
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| | how old? / how big? / how much? / so big / that much | |
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| | beta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
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| | gigantic dragon (lit. and fig.) / titanosaur (abbr. for 泰坦巨龍|泰坦巨龙) / (slang) big dick / schlong | |
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| | cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk | |
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| | to shout and quarrel / to make a big fuss | |
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| | Big Mac (McDonald's hamburger) | |
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| | big shot / top gun / superstar / VIP | |
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| | large / big | |
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| | gamma Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
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| | man with a big smile and evil intentions | |
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| | to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire | |
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| | to hit the big time | |
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| | (onom.) the thump of a big drum | |
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| | (big) store | |
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| | to boast shamelessly / to talk big | |
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| | (coll.) big shot; big name; bigwig; heavyweight | |
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| | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
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| | to talk glibly / to talk big / to be all talk | |
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| | big / gate | |
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| | (astronomy) Big Dipper | |
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| | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
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| | Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business | |
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| | pregnant / potbelly / big eater | |
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| | big wave / Taiwan pr. [tao2] | |
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| | lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转 | |
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| | lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth | |
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| | to have a big head / (fig.) to get a headache / one's head is swimming | |
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| | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people | |
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| | large scale program of lasting importance / project of paramount importance / to think big / annual national audit | |
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| | (slang) (loanword) big boobs / big-breasted / (coll.) tapioca balls, in 波霸奶茶 | |
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| | big / huge / massive | |
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| | (idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive | |
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| | rich and powerful (families) / aristocratic / big shots | |
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| | big | |
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| | gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous | |
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| | big brother | |
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| | to go in for something in a big way; to undertake on a large scale | |
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| | (literary) big ears / (bound form) to droop | |
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| | big lip | |
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| | big toe | |
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| | big arrow / walk fast | |
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| | big-bellied (idiom) / paunchy | |
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| | lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town | |
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| | big rocky mountain | |
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| | big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc) / open mouth / gulping / gobbling / gaping | |
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| | large / bulky / big-ticket item | |
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| | (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL: 條|条) / (literary) big; great / (dialect) he; she; him; her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | to preserve and nurture one's spirit (idiom); honing one's strength for the big push | |
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| | to court death; to take a big risk | |
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| | if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom) / take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves / (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered | |
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| | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星 | |
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| | to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work) | |
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| | cosmetic contact lens / big eye contact lens / circle contact lens | |
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| | a big wok / cauldron | |
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| | the Big Dipper / the Plow | |
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| | big and small | |
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| | (literary) handle of a spoon or ladle / (literary) collective name for the three stars that form the handle of the Big Dipper | |
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| | capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) | |
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| | so big / such a big | |
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| | (Tw) 18-wheeler / big rig / semi-trailer | |
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| | to boast / to talk big | |
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| | arrogant; to put on airs / (business etc) to expand; to enlarge; to do sth on a big scale | |
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| | to become immortal / big promotion / die | |
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| | lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移 | |
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| | thumb / big toe / USB flash drive | |
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| | to have a falling out / to have a big argument | |
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| | lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate one's own strength / also written 蚍蜉撼樹|蚍蜉撼树 | |
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| | a big margin / substantially | |
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| | delta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
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| | daruan or bass lute, like pipa 琵琶 and zhongruan 中阮 but bigger and lower range | |
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| | to make a big fuss over a minor issue (idiom) | |
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| | big restaurant | |
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| | to boast / to talk big | |
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| | big boss / leader of a group / dominant (position) | |
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