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Pīnyīn
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HSK
[0263a24]
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  *舉* | 舉* | *舉
to lift / to hold up / to cite / to enumerate / to act / to raise / to choose / to elect / act / move / deed
HSK 2
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  *嚴* | 嚴* | *嚴
surname Yan
 
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  *嚴* | 嚴* | *嚴
tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father
HSK 4
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  *陽* | 陽* | *陽
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴
尊者
honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)
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  *問* | 問* | *問
to ask; to inquire
HSK 1
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  *趙* | 趙* | *趙
surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476-220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
 
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  *趙* | 趙* | *趙
to surpass (old)
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  *州* | 州* | *州
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
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  *一* | 一* | *一
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
HSK 1
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  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
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  *不* | 不* | *不
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
HSK 1
將來
in the future / future / the future / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *時* | 時* | *時
surname Shi
 
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  *時* | 時* | *時
o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period
HSK 3
如何
how / what way / what
HSK 3
(
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  *猶* | 猶* | *猶
as if / (just) like / just as / still / yet
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  *是* | 是* | *是
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)
HSK 1
分外
exceptionally / not one's responsibility or job
HSK 7-9
)
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  *州* | 州* | *州
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
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  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
放下
to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc)
HSK 2
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  *著* | 著* | *著
a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick; tactic / (dialect) okay; all right / (dialect) to put in; to add
 
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  *著* | 著* | *著
to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in
HSK 4
 
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  *著* | 著* | *著
aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
HSK 1
 
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  *著* | 著* | *著
to wear (clothes) / to contact / to use / to apply
 
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  *著* | 著* | *著
to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding
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  *貼* | 貼* | *貼
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
HSK 4
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  *體* | 體* | *體
used in 體己|体己 / Taiwan pr. [ti3]
 
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  *體* | 體* | *體
body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics)
衣衫
clothing / unlined garment
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  *會* | 會* | *會
can; to have the skill; to know how to / to be likely to; to be sure to / to meet; to get together / meeting; gathering / (suffix) union; group; association / (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])
HSK 1
 
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  *會* | 會* | *會
(bound form) to reckon accounts
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  *須* | 須* | *須
must / to have to / to wait
HSK 7-9
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  *脫* | 脫* | *脫
to shed / to take off / to escape / to get away from
HSK 4
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  *㕁* | 㕁* | *㕁
old variant of 卻|却
HSK 4
 
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  *卻* | 卻* | *卻
but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though
HSK 4
)
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  *嚴* | 嚴* | *嚴
surname Yan
 
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  *嚴* | 嚴* | *嚴
tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father
HSK 4
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  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
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  *一* | 一* | *一
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
HSK 1
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  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
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  *不* | 不* | *不
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
HSK 1
將來
in the future / future / the future / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
放下
to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc)
HSK 2
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  *箇* | 箇* | *箇
variant of 個|个
HSK 1
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  *甚* | 甚* | *甚
variant of
 
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  *甚* | 甚* | *甚
excessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
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  *麼* | 麼* | *麼
exclamatory final particle
 
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  *麼* | 麼* | *麼
interrogative final particle
 
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  *麼* | 麼* | *麼
suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么, what?, indefinite 這麼|这么 thus, etc
 
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  *麼* | 麼* | *麼
tiny / insignificant
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  *人* | 人* | *人
person; people / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *不* | 不* | *不
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
HSK 1
知己
to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend
HSK 7-9
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  *過* | 過* | *過
surname Guo
 
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  *過* | 過* | *過
to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-
HSK 1
 
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  *過* | 過* | *過
(experienced action marker)
HSK 2
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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
 
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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome
HSK 3
不知
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *力* | 力* | *力
surname Li
 
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  *力* | 力* | *力
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
HSK 3
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  *大* | 大* | *大
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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  *大* | 大* | *大
see 大夫
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  *州* | 州* | *州
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
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  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
恁麼
(old) this way / what?
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  *則* | 則* | *則
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then / (bound form) standard; norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate; to follow / classifier for written items
HSK 7-9
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  *擔* | 擔* | *擔
to undertake / to carry / to shoulder / to take responsibility
HSK 7-9
 
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  *擔* | 擔* | *擔
picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole
HSK 7-9
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  *取* | 取* | *取
to take / to get / to choose / to fetch
HSK 2
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  *去* | 去* | *去
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
HSK 1
(
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  *喚* | 喚* | *喚
to call
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  *不* | 不* | *不
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
HSK 1
回頭
to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by
HSK 5
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  *爭* | 爭* | *爭
to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
HSK 3
奈何
to do something to sb / to deal with / to cope / how? / to no avail
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