| | ordinarily / in normal times / in peacetime | HSK 2 |
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| | at any time; at all times / at the right time; whenever necessary | HSK 2 |
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| | modern times / modern age / modern era | HSK 3 |
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| | always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence) | HSK 3 |
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| | ancient times | HSK 3 |
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| | military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種｜种 | HSK 3 |
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| | many times / repeatedly | HSK 4 |
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| | (two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply | HSK 4 |
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| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 4 |
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| | number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.) | HSK 6 |
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| | to suffer; to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle | HSK 6 |
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| | (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian / classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort / (classifier) a kind; a sort / (classifier) (used after the verb 翻 to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番 "to double") | HSK 6 |
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| | classifier for times, round trips or rows / a time / a trip | HSK 6 |
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| | to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person | HSK 7-9 |
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| | person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at all times and in all places (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to double / to increase by a certain number of times | HSK 7-9 |
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| | abreast of modern developments / to keep up with the times / progressive / timely | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL: 套 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea) | |
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| | former times / olden days | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠｜武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times | |
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| | bronze mirror (used in ancient times) / to reflect / to mirror / sth that serves as a warning or a lesson / to examine / to scrutinize | |
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| | (literary) to administer; to govern / (bound form) governor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times) | |
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| | (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain | |
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| | the Times (newspaper) / River Thames, through London | |
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| | common rue (Ruta graveolens) / (used in old compounds relating to books because in former times rue was used to protect books from insect damage) | |
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| | antiquity / ancient times | |
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| | banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣｜县 county / CL: 面 | |
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| | outstanding heroes / warlords vying for supremacy (in former times) / stars (of sports or pop music) | |
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| | (since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial | |
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| | "Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times) | |
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| | former times / the past / Taiwan pr. [xi2] | |
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| | prehistoric times; (attributive) prehistoric | |
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| | handed down from ancient times / family heirloom | |
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| | morning and night / always / at all times | |
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| | bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times) / letter; correspondence; book; document | |
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| | xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes | |
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| | (idiom) the prevailing trend; the trend of the times; an inevitable direction | |
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| | to double / to redouble / to increase many times over / to multiply by a factor / multiplication | |
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| | superb / first-rate / (of officials in imperial times) the highest rank | |
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| | (in former times) to escort the emperor (or other important personage) / (nowadays) to escort sb (usually jocular) | |
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| | to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom) / to remain perplexed despite much thought | |
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| | Capricorn (star sign) / northern people in classical times, a branch of the Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴 | |
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| | middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times) / midfield / mid-court (in sports) / half-time / intermission half-way through a performance | |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | teashop with performance by 評書｜评书 story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts) | |
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| | to ration merchandise (esp. food in times of shortages) | |
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| | Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國｜战国 / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉｜魏晋 (3rd century AD) | |
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| | clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power | |
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| | artistry / talent / skill / (in ancient times) female entertainer | |
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| | the local commander / provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times) | |
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| | unit of length used in ancient times, equal to 7 or 8 Chinese feet 尺 | |
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| | copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) | |
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| | county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times) | |
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| | outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times | |
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| | how many times / several times / how many degrees (in terms of temperature or angle) / several degrees / to what degree; to what extent | |
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| | to stagger (times) | |
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| | Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times | |
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| | fork in road / bifurcation / branch in road, river, mountain range etc / to branch off / to turn off / to diverge / to stray (from the path) / to change the subject / to interrupt / to stagger (times) | |
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| | to incline (one's torso); to bow / leather ball used in ancient times / (literary) to bring up; to rear / Taiwan pr. [ju2] | |
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| | to guard / to protect / bodyguard (for officials in ancient times) | |
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| | decrepit and behind the times; old; useless / (humble) I; me (used by the elderly) | |
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| | generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) | |
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| | guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times) | |
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| | dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times) / dried; withered | |
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| | 1-3 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times | |
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| | (in former times) banknote with a value in silver | |
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| | since ancient times / since times immemorial | |
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| | private school (in former times) | |
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| | to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship | |
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| | sporting coach / military drill master (in Song times) | |
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| | navy (in Qing times) | |
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| | the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world | |
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| | to pay respects / to wish good health / in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千) | |
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| | to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times) | |
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| | at all times / at every moment | |
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| | capital of 府 prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) / prefectural seat | |
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| | Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service | |
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| | lit. in the same boat under wind and rain (idiom); fig. to stick together in hard times | |
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| | to hunt / to go hunting (as winter sport in former times) / hunting dog / imperial tour | |
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| | silk brocade bag, used in ancient times to hold poetry manuscripts and other precious items / (fig.) tip (a piece of practical advice) | |
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| | Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song | |
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| | jade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times | |
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| | official's salary (in feudal times) | |
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| | (idiom) (when followed by 不) at no time; never (Note: 無時無刻不｜无时无刻不 therefore means "at no time not ...", i.e. "at all times".) / (when not followed by 不) at all times; always | |
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| | throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present) | |
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| | in former times / the olden days | |
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| | old woman (at times contemptuous) | |
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| | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備｜刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮｜诸葛亮 to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb | |
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| | Epoch Times, US newspaper | |
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| | Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times) | |
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| | to sing to a string accompaniment / education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times) | |
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| | 7-9 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | 11 pm-1 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | court dress in former times | |
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