| | to leave / to depart / to separate / to distinguish / to classify / other / another / don't ...! / to pin / to stick (sth) in / (noun suffix) category (e.g. 性別|性别, 派別|派别) | HSK 2 |
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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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| | 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) | HSK 3 |
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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 3 |
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| | seat / base / stand / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座 / CL: 個|个 / classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects | HSK 4 |
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| | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL: 次 | HSK 4 |
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| | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression | HSK 4 |
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| | to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper) | HSK 4 |
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| | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條|条 / radical (chemistry) | HSK 5 |
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| | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!) / to sigh | HSK 5 |
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| | vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word | HSK 5 |
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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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| | rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline | HSK 5 |
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| | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | year (e.g. school year, fiscal year) / annual | HSK 6 |
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| | prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) | HSK 6 |
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| | slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison) | HSK 6 |
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| | storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | to weave; to knit; to plait; to braid / (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | teacher-training / pedagogical / normal (school, e.g. Beijing Normal University) | HSK 6 |
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| | expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden | HSK 6 |
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| | to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress) | HSK 6 |
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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 6 |
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| | sharp (e.g. knife blade) / incisive / to the point | HSK 6 |
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| | to inlay / to embed / to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring) / tiling / tesselation | HSK 6 |
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| | to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll) | HSK 6 |
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| | to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant | HSK 6 |
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| | host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference) | HSK 6 |
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| | paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張|张, 紮|扎 | HSK 6 |
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| | hammer / to hammer into shape / weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance) / to strike with a hammer | HSK 6 |
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| | reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate | |
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| | G-spot | |
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| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | |
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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) | |
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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条 | |
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| | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people | |
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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) | |
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| | to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscription) | |
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| | to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room) | |
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| | strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强 | |
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| | competition of skill (e.g. sports) / athletics tournament | |
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| | race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | |
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| | (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5] | |
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| | frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1] | |
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| | prop / support (for weight) / rest (e.g. arm rest) / thanks to / to hold in one's hand / to support in one's palm / to give / to base / to commit / to set / torr (unit of pressure) | |
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| | window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground | |
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| | sales counter dedicated to a certain kind of product (e.g. alcohol) | |
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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 | |
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| | gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) | |
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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) | |
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| | to go / to visit (e.g. another country) / to attend (a banquet etc) | |
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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 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 | |
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| | mask / visor / facepiece (e.g. diving suit, gas mask) | |
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| | to correct / to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) / to cure / rectification / correction / to straighten | |
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| | nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes) | |
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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) | |
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| | the agency in charge of (e.g. a program); the relevant government body | |
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| | inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down) | |
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| | to recount (e.g. results of election) / to re-evaluate | |
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| | to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop | |
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| | catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g | |
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| | to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas) | |
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| | to kick / to play (e.g. soccer) / (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | |
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| | real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) | |
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| | thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 | |
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| | along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line | |
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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) | |
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| | public (e.g. school, hospital) | |
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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 | |
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| | to get natural light (e.g. through a window) | |
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| | celestial body (e.g. planet, satellite etc); heavenly body | |
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| | auspicious / propitious / good luck / felicity / euphoria / used for 旗, e.g. in 旗袍, long Chinese dress | |
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| | department / administrative division / unit (e.g. intensive care unit) | |
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| | to suspend / time-out (e.g. in sports) / stoppage / pause (media player) | |
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| | age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta | |
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| | Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
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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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| | 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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| | (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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| | to sign for the acceptance of sth (e.g. a delivery etc) | |
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| | sixteenth year F4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1999 or 2059 | |
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| | delivery mechanism of a medicine (e.g. pill, powder etc) | |
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| | Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911) | |
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| | page of a publication (e.g. newspaper or website) / printing space (reserved for some content) / page layout | |
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| | twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067 | |
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| | real estate / the property market (e.g. houses) | |
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| | twenty-second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065 | |
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| | musical ensemble of several instruments (e.g. duet 二重奏 or trio 三重奏) | |
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| | sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049 | |
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| | a collector (e.g. of artworks) | |
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| | care / treatment (e.g. nursing care) / to look after | |
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| | bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint | |
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| | to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue) / to promote | |
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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) | |
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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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| | to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare) | |
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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 | |
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| | street dance (e.g. breakdance) | |
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