| | book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊|册, 部 / to write | HSK 1 |
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| | to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文 / abbr. for 開本|开本, book format | HSK 1 |
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| | to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book) | HSK 1 |
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| | book / booklet / classifier for books | HSK 5 |
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| | to place an order / to book ahead | HSK 5 |
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| | to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL: 部 | HSK 6 |
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| | scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll | HSK 6 |
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| | to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book | HSK 6 |
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| | specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc) / article, report or program etc on a specific topic | HSK 6 |
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| | shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation | HSK 6 |
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| | memorandum / aide-memoire / memorandum book | HSK 6 |
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| | (Tw) to cram (from Taiwanese 齧書, Tai-lo pr. [khè su], lit. to gnaw a book) / to study / see also 啃書|啃书 | |
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| | this text / article / the main body of a book | |
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| | your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly | |
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| | to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding | |
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| | surname Yi / abbr. for 易經|易经, the Book of Changes | |
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| | ancient book / old book | |
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| | good-looking / nice-looking / good (of a movie, book, TV show etc) / embarrassed / humiliated | |
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| | to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to speak sarcastically / to deride / caustic / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes ( ䷨) | |
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| | abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经, the Book of Songs | |
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| | a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica | |
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| | a book / a register / account-book | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | entire book; unabridged book | |
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| | (technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本 | |
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| | fragment (of speech etc) / extract (from book etc) / episode (of story etc) | |
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| | booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment | |
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| | permanent / constant / fixed / usual / ordinary / rule (old) / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes ( ䷟) | |
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| | Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC | |
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| | book review / book notice | |
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| | admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs | |
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| | at a glance / (in book titles) overview | |
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| | special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | to read a book / to study / to attend school | |
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| | electronic book / e-book / e-book reader | |
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| | (often used in book or chapter titles) general introduction; overview | |
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| | name of a book / reputation as calligrapher | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
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| | edition (of a book etc) / edition number | |
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| | to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves) | |
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| | rare book / cheat code (video games) | |
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| | banned book | |
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| | a book / a volume | |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经 | |
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| | printed book / copy | |
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| | another name for Book of Changes (I Ching) 易經|易经 | |
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| | original (of a document) / reserved copy (of a library book) | |
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| | Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius / book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism | |
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| | The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
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| | reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc) | |
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| | quotation (from a book or existing source) | |
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| | The Book of Changes ("I Ching") | |
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| | Guanzi or Guan Zhong 管仲 (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國|齐国 of Spring and Autumn period / Guanzi, classical book containing writings of Guan Zhong and his school | |
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| | pocket-sized / pocket (book etc) | |
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| | notes on the use of a book / guide to the reader | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经 | |
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| | Book of Jonah | |
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| | best-seller / best-selling book / blockbuster | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | book cover | |
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| | book or record / registry / roll / place of one's family or ancestral records / membership | |
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| | page of a book | |
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| | treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom) | |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | |
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| | hardcover (book) / elaborately packaged / opposite: 簡裝|简装 | |
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| | Six Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Book of Rites 儀禮|仪礼, the lost Book of Music 樂經|乐经, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | a book on the art of war | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book | |
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| | old book / good book / reliable book / rare book | |
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| | canonical text / treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom) | |
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| | the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经 | |
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| | to thumb through / to flip through (a book) | |
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| | book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16 開|16 开 is roughly A4) / abbr. to 開|开 | |
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| | (literary) to decline / to wane / title of a section in the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
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| | address book / directory | |
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| | the text of an annotated book / an unannotated edition of a book / intagliated characters (on a seal) | |
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| | study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) | |
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| | binding and layout (of a book etc) | |
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| | outer skin / surface / leather cover (of a book) / drum skin / leather upper (of a shoe) | |
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| | reference book | |
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| | same as 書經|书经 Book of History | |
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| | history book | |
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| | reader / an instructional book | |
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| | Batman, comic book superhero | |
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| | lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); fig. to plan ahead / to prepare for a rainy day | |
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| | guide (e.g. book or other printed material) | |
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| | diary (book) | |
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| | character book (i.e. school primer) | |
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| | audiobook / recording of a person reading the text of a book | |
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| | scroll (book or painting) | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi | |
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