| | of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute) / (used to form a nominal expression) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs | HSK 1 |
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| | there still remain(s); there is (or are) still / in addition | HSK 1 |
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| | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] | HSK 2 |
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| | exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s) | HSK 5 |
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| | to get one’s courage up / to embolden | HSK 7-9 |
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| | road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) | |
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| | brother(s) and sister(s) | |
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| | (Japanese) high school girl’s uniform | |
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| | taste bud(s) | |
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| | recent year(s) | |
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| | to hope / to expect / expectation(s) | |
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| | microsecond, µs, 10^-6 s | |
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| | the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket / lapel | |
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| | to speak plainly; to speak one’s mind; to say directly | |
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| | father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch | |
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| | lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment | |
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| | lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for | |
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| | circumstance(s) encountered in one's life (favorable or otherwise) / stroke of luck / opportunity | |
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| | S-shaped / serpentine / coiled like a snake | |
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| | words written on one’s deathbed / an artist's final work / swansong | |
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| | Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis | |
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| | Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company) | |
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| | in the newspaper(s) | |
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| | a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".) | |
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| | reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".) | |
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| | P.S. / postscript | |
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| | variant of 尚方劍|尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill | |
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| | pro-U.S. | |
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| | to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own | |
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| | femtosecond, fs, 10^-15 s | |
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| | nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 奈秒 | |
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| | Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons | |
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| | arms race / armament(s) race | |
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| | The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis | |
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| | open system(s) | |
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| | “Methods of Sima”, also called “Sima Rangju’s Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书, written by Sima Rangju 司馬穰苴|司马穰苴 | |
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| | ankylosing spondylitis / Bechterew’s disease | |
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| | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate | |
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| | to wipe one’s ass / (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess | |
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| | signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish | |
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| | (neologism c. 2012) (interjection of encouragement) Let’s do this! / Come on, you can do this! | |
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| | imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill | |
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| | alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge | |
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| | military strength / military force(s) | |
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| | exception(s) | |
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| | Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau | |
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| | (Tw) (in a research project) collaborator of the investigator(s) | |
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| | (U.S.) Peace Corps | |
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| | the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw | |
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| | nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 納秒|纳秒 | |
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| | alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge | |
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| | (Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票|统一发票 to the customer’s cloud account | |
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| | lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A 拔根汗毛比B 的腰粗) | |
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| | to put oneself in sb else’s shoes | |
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| | Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index | |
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| | Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th | |
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| | S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1] | |
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| | picosecond, ps, 10^-12 s | |
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| | double-stamen orchid (Diplandrorchis sinica S.C. Chen), an endangered species | |
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| | complement of a set S (math.) / the set of all x not in set S | |
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