| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests) | HSK 1 |
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| | old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents | HSK 1 |
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| | elderly / old age / autumn of one's years | HSK 2 |
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| | from childhood; from a young age | HSK 2 |
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| | middle age | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) row; line / (bound form) line of business; trade; profession / (bound form) commercial firm / (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row; (Tw) column / classifier for rows or lines | HSK 3 |
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| | modern times / modern age / modern era | HSK 3 |
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| | old / opposite: new 新 / former / worn (with age) | HSK 3 |
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| | to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon | HSK 3 |
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| | age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss | HSK 4 |
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| | maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | the present age / the contemporary era | HSK 5 |
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| | ancient / old / age-old | HSK 5 |
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| | age (number of years old) | HSK 6 |
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| | age limit / fixed number of years | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated | HSK 7-9 |
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| | descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations | HSK 7-9 |
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| | old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak | HSK 7-9 |
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| | old / aged | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for many generations / generation / era / age | HSK 7-9 |
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| | life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle | |
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| | age / length of experience, membership etc | |
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| | timeliness / period of viability or validity / (law) prescription; limitation / (metallurgy) aging | |
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| | age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta | |
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| | lasting for ages / long drawn out / remote in time or space / unhurried / a great number (of events) / preposterous / pensive | |
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| | medieval / Middle Ages | |
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| | aged | |
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| | hoary head / old age | |
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| | mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc) | |
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| | a flourishing period / period of prosperity / a golden age | |
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| | school age | |
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| | golden age | |
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| | of the same age | |
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| | long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary | |
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| | (bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age) | |
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| | last phase (of an age) | |
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| | eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
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| | (of wine) aged / (of debts etc) old; longstanding | |
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| | (familiar) elder brother | |
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| | years / time / age | |
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| | (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age | |
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| | venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera) | |
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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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| | to live to the (ripe) age of | |
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| | without doubt / with full self-confidence / forty years of age | |
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| | elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age | |
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| | this life / this age | |
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| | one's declining years; one's old age | |
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| | years of age / age | |
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| | for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead) | |
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| | all ages | |
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| | indistinct / fuzzy / blurred with age | |
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| | (a person's) current age | |
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| | to age prematurely / premature senescence | |
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| | medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand | |
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| | (dialect) today / (literary) the present; this age | |
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| | men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages | |
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| | of age / of the appropriate age | |
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| | entire year / throughout the year / age at death | |
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| | to have attained the age of | |
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| | greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar | |
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| | aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) | |
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| | old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged | |
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| | fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years) | |
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| | childbearing age | |
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| | lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home | |
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| | (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) | |
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| | (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part | |
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| | for a long time / for ages | |
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| | to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor | |
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| | (in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age | |
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| | old / aged / (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous / forceful | |
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| | age and experience / seniority | |
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| | infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms) | |
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| | the present age / in office / the current office holder | |
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| | one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁 | |
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| | age (of a young woman) | |
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| | throughout the ages | |
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| | married woman of mature age | |
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| | to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life | |
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| | extremely aged / gray and venerable | |
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| | (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64 | |
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| | middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age | |
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| | glacial epoch; ice age | |
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| | (idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others | |
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| | aged; senile | |
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| | respect the aged | |
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| | dim sight of the aged / doddering / senile | |
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| | old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age | |
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| | length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age | |
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