| | to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文 / abbr. for 開本|开本, book format | HSK 1 |
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| | to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book) | HSK 1 |
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| | to read a book / to study / to attend school | HSK 1 |
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| | good-looking; nice-looking / (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good / in an embarrassing situation | HSK 1 |
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| | book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊|册, 部 / to write | HSK 1 |
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| | book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition | HSK 1 |
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| | specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc) / article, report or program etc on a specific topic | HSK 3 |
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| | to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely | HSK 4 |
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| | to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book | HSK 4 |
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| | scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll | HSK 4 |
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| | to place an order / to book ahead | HSK 4 |
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| | to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL: 部 | HSK 4 |
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| | book / booklet / classifier for books | HSK 5 |
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| | (technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本 | HSK 6 |
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| | booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment | HSK 6 |
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| | pocket-sized / pocket (book etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / gossip / gossipy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | HSK 7-9 |
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| | treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fragment (of speech etc) / extract (from book etc) / episode (of story etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to follow the rules / to do as instructed / to play by the book / to comply with a request | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | HSK 7-9 |
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| | main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) | |
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| | your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly | |
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| | (Tw) to cram; to study (from Taiwanese 齧書, Tai-lo pr. [khè su], lit. to gnaw a book) / see also 啃書|啃书 | |
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| | ancient book / old book | |
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| | a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica | |
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| | entire book; unabridged book | |
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| | permanent / constant / fixed / usual / ordinary / rule (old) / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes ( ䷟) | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
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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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| | to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding | |
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| | a book / a volume | |
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| | abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经, the Book of Songs | |
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| | Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC | |
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| | Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经 | |
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| | Book of Jonah | |
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| | electronic book / e-book / e-book reader | |
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| | random thoughts / (in book titles etc) impressions / jottings | |
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| | hardcover (book) / elaborately packaged / opposite: 簡裝|简装 | |
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| | quotation (from a book or existing source) | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | (bound form) book; record; register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership | |
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| | scroll (book or painting) | |
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| | exercise book / workbook / CL: 本 | |
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| | envelope / wrapper / (book) jacket / (record) sleeve | |
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| | at a glance / (in book titles) overview | |
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| | Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬, Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer | |
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| | can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take / flexible | |
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| | The Book of Changes ("I Ching") | |
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| | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book | |
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| | Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries, a book of travel records by 徐霞客 on geology, geography, plants etc | |
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| | special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | reference book | |
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| | book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general) | |
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| | canonical text / treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom) | |
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| | to stop one's pen / to break off writing / final remarks (at the end of a book or article) | |
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| | copy (of a document) / book with model calligraphy for copying | |
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| | impression of a book / opinion expressed in a book review | |
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| | reader / an instructional book | |
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| | page of a book | |
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| | admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | Batman, comic book superhero | |
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| | course of study (commonly used in book titles) | |
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| | surname Yi / abbr. for 易經|易经, the Book of Changes | |
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| | address book / directory | |
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| | original (of a document) / reserved copy (of a library book) | |
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| | Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius / book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism | |
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| | book cover | |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经 | |
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| | Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group | |
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| | same as 書經|书经 Book of History | |
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| | name of a book / reputation as calligrapher | |
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| | manuscript (of a book etc) / sketch (of a design etc) | |
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| | Baruch (name) / Baruch, disciple of Jeremiah / book of Baruch in the Apocrypha | |
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| | collection of documents / library / book series / sequence of data, esp. genome | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | Book of Micah | |
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| | imperial edict / heavenly book (superstition) / obscure or illegible writing / double dutch | |
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| | a treasured rare book | |
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| | lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment | |
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| | reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc) | |
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| | revised edition (of a book) | |
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| | to cover up; to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
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| | lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); fig. to plan ahead / to prepare for a rainy day | |
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| | study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | (literary) a knife used for carving; a graver / (literary) to cut blocks; to block-print (a book) | |
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| | banned book | |
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| | to thumb through / to flip through (a book) | |
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| | memorandum / aide-memoire / memorandum book | |
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| | the classics a Confucian scholar must read (such as The Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 and The Book of Rites 禮記|礼记) | |
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| | book review / book notice | |
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| | commemorative album; autograph book; (graduation) yearbook | |
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| | Superman, comic book superhero | |
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