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| | good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello | 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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| | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct | HSK 1 |
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| | some / a few / a little / (following an adjective) slightly ...er | HSK 1 |
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| | again; once more; re- / further; beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则, 再就是 etc) / (literary) to reappear; to reoccur | HSK 1 |
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| | very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) | HSK 1 |
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| | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc | 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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| | nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this | HSK 3 |
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| | standard; norm; criterion / (adjective) standard / good; correct; conforming to a standard | HSK 3 |
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| | (bound form) to compare / (literary) to dispute / compared to / (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather / also pr. [jiao3] | HSK 3 |
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| | (pronoun) this / (adjective) this | |
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| | particle used between an adverb and a verb or adjective / (dialect) particle used after a negative adverb such as 不 or 別|别 without any other following element | |
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| | that one / that thing / that (as opposed to this) / (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis) / (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word) / (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc) / (euph.) menstruation / sex / also pr. [nei4 ge5] | |
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| | a bit; a little bit / (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit / (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er / a point (in a discussion etc) / (calligraphy) dot stroke (、) / one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟) | |
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| | (adjective) other | |
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| | easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible" | |
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| | (literary) (similar to 多麼|多么, used before an adjective in exclamations) how (fortunate etc); so (many etc) | |
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| | (dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô]) | |
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| | to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective) | |
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| | (formal) very; quite; deeply (usu. followed by a two-syllable adjective or verb) | |
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| | (after an adjective) very | |
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| | (before an adjective, to indicate superlative degree) the most ... / (literary) what exemplifies this particular quality to the highest degree is ... | |
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| | (adjective) lacto-vegetarian | |
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| | (coll.) (after adjectives such as 多, 大, 遠|远, 高) very / extremely | |
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| | (adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and onions) | |
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| | (slang) (adjective) (of one thing) one of the only two; (of two things) the only two | |
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| | extremely (placed after verb or adjective) | |
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| | (literary) (adjective) (of birds) flying; soaring | |
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