| | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮｜镇 and neighborhood 鄰｜邻 levels | HSK 1 |
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| | gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | ancient / old / paleo- | HSK 3 |
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| | ancient times | HSK 3 |
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| | earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | HSK 5 |
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| | ancient / old / age-old | HSK 5 |
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| | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil / (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc / sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭｜诡) / one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | HSK 5 |
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| | clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30° | HSK 5 |
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| | second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105° | HSK 5 |
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| | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ancestors; forebears / (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved | 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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| | not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast) | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | history / annals / title of an official historian in ancient China | |
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| | marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位 / nobleman; high official | |
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| | ancient capital | |
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| | to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240° | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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| | rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | |
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| | ancient name of a river 洭河 in present-day Guangdong / (used in ancient place names) | |
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| | ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs | |
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| | banner; pennant (in ancient China) | |
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| | Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC | |
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| | 4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音, corresponding to sol | |
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| | ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility | |
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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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| | 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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| | surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國｜鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東｜山东 | |
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| | Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | ancient city name / happy | |
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| | ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment | |
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| | surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present-day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2] | |
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| | (of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa | |
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| | Chang'an (ancient name of Xi'an 西安) capital of China during Tang Dynasty 唐朝 / now 長安區｜长安区, a district of Xi'an | |
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| | bamboo tazza used in ancient times to hold dry food for sacrifices or at banquets | |
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| | name of an immortal / ancient place name / surname Yan | |
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| | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
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| | one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "hol"), an ancient Korean writing system | |
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| | throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present) | |
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| | to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon | |
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| | 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south) | |
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| | to guard / to protect / bodyguard (for officials in ancient times) | |
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| | ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month | |
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| | ancient unit of weight / money | |
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| | East China Sea / East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) | |
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| | antiquity / ancient times | |
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| | jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck | |
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| | cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban | |
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| | Wuzi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Wu Qi 吳起｜吴起 | |
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| | then and now / ancient and modern | |
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| | Sunday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy) | |
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| | ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺 in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body | |
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| | ancient city | |
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| | role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale | |
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| | large ancient bell | |
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| | jade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times | |
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| | (in ancient times) sacrificial animal (cow, sheep or pig) | |
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| | a silver or gold ingot / mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship) / a name for ancient currency / a rare genius | |
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| | preface; foreword; introduction; preamble / earlier remarks; earlier words / (literary) words of the ancient thinkers | |
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| | stick-like implement inserted into the handles of a tripod cauldron in ancient times in order to lift the cauldron / commonly used in Korean names, transcribed as "hyun" | |
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| | surname Mi / name of an ancient state | |
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| | Thebes, place name in ancient Egypt / Thebes, ancient Greek city state | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times | |
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| | ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc) | |
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| | Thoth (ancient Egyptian deity) | |
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| | remote / hidden away / secluded / serene / peaceful / to imprison / in superstition indicates the underworld / ancient district spanning Liaonang and Hebei provinces | |
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| | ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today) | |
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| | 10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west) | |
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| | ancient Indian name for China | |
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| | ancient text / antique books | |
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| | (bound form) a person in servitude; low-ranking subordinate / (bound form) to be subordinate to / (bound form) clerical script (the style of characters intermediate between ancient seal and modern regular characters) | |
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| | Parthia (ancient country in central Asia) | |
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| | ancient name for go (Chinese board game) | |
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| | xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes | |
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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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| | tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / tenth in order / letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 15° / deca | |
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| | famous prime minister (in ancient China) / names and appearances (Buddhism) | |
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| | senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel | |
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| | therefore / consequently / thus / hence / thereupon / it follows that / where? / to change (into) / ancient unit of weight and money | |
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| | whistling arrow (used in ancient times as a signal) | |
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| | ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區｜阿克苏地区, Xinjiang | |
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| | minister of land and people (in ancient times) | |
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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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| | surname Ji / ancient Chinese city state near present-day Beijing | |
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| | second-hand book / old book / ancient book | |
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| | in ancient times / in olden days | |
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| | Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia) | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | 5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon / ancient Chinese compass point: 120° | |
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| | ancient castle | |
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