| | 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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| | house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, 座, 棟|栋 | HSK 1 |
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| | outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home | HSK 1 |
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| | to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) | HSK 1 |
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| | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) | HSK 1 |
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| | parts of the country other than where one is | HSK 2 |
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| | pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character | HSK 2 |
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| | only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival) | HSK 2 |
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| | apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond | HSK 2 |
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| | usually / in many cases / more often than not | HSK 3 |
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| | more (than sth else) / even more | HSK 3 |
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| | among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments | HSK 3 |
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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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| | victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task) | HSK 3 |
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| | weak; feeble / young / inferior; not as good as / (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than | HSK 4 |
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| | within / less than | HSK 4 |
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| | speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message | HSK 4 |
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| | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | 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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| | only / merely / nothing but / no more than / it's just that ... | HSK 5 |
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| | incessantly / without end / more than / not limited to | HSK 5 |
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| | greater than; bigger than; more than | HSK 5 |
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| | to be lower than | HSK 5 |
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| | greater than / to exceed | HSK 5 |
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| | under / beneath / less than | HSK 5 |
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| | (of time or place) in; at; on / (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for / (indicating a source) from; out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by | HSK 6 |
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| | old-fashioned / out of date / to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon | HSK 6 |
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| | to compete / competition / match / to surpass / better than / superior to / to excel | HSK 6 |
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| | less than, < | HSK 6 |
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| | record of actual events / documentary (factual rather than fictional) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ahead of schedule / sooner than planned / to bring forward (to an earlier time) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to get out of a predicament / to stick out / to take the initiative / remaining odd fraction after a division / a little more than | HSK 7-9 |
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| | less capable than desirable (idiom); not as strong as one would wish / the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak | HSK 7-9 |
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| | willingness / would rather (agree to X than Y) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom) / to wait idly for opportunities / to trust to chance rather than show initiative | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be excessive; to be more than is required | HSK 7-9 |
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| | would rather ... (than ...) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | over fifty percent / more than half | HSK 7-9 |
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| | no less than / not inferior to | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to seem / to appear / to resemble / similar / -like / pseudo- / (more) than | |
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| | (bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself | |
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| | (classical particle similar to 於|于) in / at / from / because / than / (classical final particle similar to 嗎|吗, 吧, 呢, expressing question, doubt or astonishment) | |
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| | rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其 + {verb1} + 不如 + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}") | |
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| | more than half / greater part / most / probably / most likely | |
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| | fully / no less than / as much as / extremely | |
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| | to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc) | |
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| | to suggest (rather than depict in detail) / freehand style of Chinese painting, characterized by bold strokes rather than accurate details | |
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| | limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment) | |
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| | more than ten / a dozen or more | |
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| | (idiom) more than enough | |
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| | to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) / to aim too high | |
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| | not beyond the scope of / nothing more than | |
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| | senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | to do more than is required (idiom); superfluous / gilding the lily | |
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| | grain crops other than rice and wheat | |
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| | more than half | |
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| | (lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal | |
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| | non-staple foods / (Tw) solids (food for infants other than breast milk and formula) | |
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| | an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom) | |
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| | a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings | |
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| | better to just get the pain over with, rather than prolong the agony | |
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| | to give a discount / to be of less value than anticipated | |
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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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| | excessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2]) | |
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| | (idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive | |
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| | easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done | |
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| | junior female student or apprentice / daughter (younger than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | to put on airs; to pretend sth is better than it is; affectation | |
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| | in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay | |
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| | a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold | |
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| | to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table) | |
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| | It is better to squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb) | |
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| | seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing | |
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| | worse than a dog or pig / lower than low | |
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| | to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own | |
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| | more than / greater than | |
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| | commodity grain (grain produced as a commodity rather than for self-sufficiency) | |
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| | not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary | |
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| | senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | to be higher (than the stated amount) by ... | |
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| | to arrive (esp. of notable person) / to visit (more formal than 光臨|光临) | |
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| | half dead / more dead than alive | |
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| | up to; no less than; as much as | |
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| | (of fuse wire) to melt; to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID) | |
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| | it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away | |
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| | more than one can attend to (idiom) / deluged (with inquiries etc) / overwhelmed (by the beauty of the scenery) | |
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| | to be better than | |
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| | not only; far from; more than | |
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| | please find sb better qualified than me (idiom) | |
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| | to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius) / to choose honor over life; would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles | |
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| | lit. the voice of the guest overwhelms that of the host (idiom) / fig. a minor player upstages the main attraction / minor details obscure the main point / the sauce is better than the fish | |
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| | nothing other than / to differ in no way from / the same as / to amount to | |
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| | to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home) | |
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| | more than ten; a dozen or more | |
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| | rather die than submit (idiom) | |
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| | older (than average in a group, at school, for marriage etc) | |
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| | many times / on more than one occasion | |
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| | lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC | |
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