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to participate / to take part / to join
HSK 2
to look around / to tour / to visit
HSK 2
to participate (in sth)
HSK 4
consultation / reference / to consult / to refer
HSK 4
to exhibit at or take part in a trade show etc
HSK 6
to compete / to take part in a competition
HSK 6
to consult a reference / to refer to (another document)
HSK 7-9
staff officer / to give advice
HSK 7-9
to refer to / see also / compare (cf.) / to pay respect to
HSK 7-9
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
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three (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
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to take part in / to participate / to join / to attend / to counsel / unequal / varied / irregular / uneven / not uniform / abbr. for 參議院|参议院 Senate, Upper House
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ginseng / one of the 28 constellations
parameter
Zeng Shen (505-435 BC), a.k.a. 曾子, student of Confucius, presumed editor or author of Confucian classic the Great Learning 大學|大学
reference book
to consult / to refer to / to read (instructions)
for reference only
ginseng
cited material / reference (to the literature) / bibliography
(botany) red sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza)
to go to war / to engage in war
sea cucumber
to consult for reference / see also; please refer to
senator
to comprehend (the nature of things etc) / to achieve enlightenment
(of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky
to formally call on / to worship (a God) / to pay homage to sb
to consider (a matter) / to deliberate
half / half and half / both ... and ... / just as much ... as ... / equally
chief of staff
(idiom) variable / uneven / irregular
senate / upper chamber (of legislative assembly)
to be involved in politics / participation in politics
uneven; jagged; snaggletooth; ragged; serrated
poor man's ginseng (Codonopsis pilosula) / codonopsis root (used in TCM)
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)
to serve as an adviser / (diplomatic rank) attaché / counselor
restricted document, available only to certain individuals such as high-ranking Party officials (abbr. for 內部參考|内部参考) / (literary) palace eunuch
liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
to practice Chan Buddhist meditation / to practice Zen meditation / to sit in meditation
consultant / adviser
Ningpo figwort (Scrophularia ningpoensis) / root of Ningpo figwort (used in TCM)
(military) General Staff Headquarters
parameter (math) / quantity used as a parameter / modulus (math.)
Samson, biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for his strength and feats against the Philistines
senior staff officer; staff officer of great talent
ladybell root (Radix adenophorae)
abbr. for 參議院|参议院, senate / upper chamber (of legislative assembly)
suffrage / voting rights
(military) Chief of Staff
Reference News (PRC limited-distribution daily newspaper)
to proofread / to revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book / to editorially revise a text
Koryo ginseng
(idiom) to receive both praise and criticism; to get mixed reviews
closed to visitors / no admittance
to accuse / to impeach / (in imperial China) to level charges against an official
to fully grasp / to penetrate
to visit / to pay one's respects to (a revered figure etc) / to pay homage (at a tomb etc)
participant
voter turnout
variant of 參與|参与
reference material / bibliography
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争 / also pr. [Cao2 Shen1]
to be a candidate in an election or other selection process / to run for office / to turn out to vote
(computing) actual parameter; argument (abbr. for 實際參數|实际参数)
army Chief of Staff
American ginseng
ginseng and young deer antler (used in TCM)
United States Senate
Three Stars (Chinese constellation)
hemlock (Conium maculatum)
for reference only
to collate and examine critically (texts etc)
delegation
competitor / CL:
reference ellipsoid (geodesy)
equity participation (finance)
to mix
to pass an argument (computing) (abbr. for 傳遞參數|传递参数)
participant
Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), Slovenian modernist writer
Rigel (star) / lit. seventh star of the Three Stars Chinese constellation
uneven and jumbled (idiom); irregular and disorderly / in a tangled mess
to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc)
frame of reference / coordinate frame (math.)
reference material / source documents
frame of reference
Dioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop)
election participant / candidate
moduli space (math.) / parameter space
samgyetang, popular Korean chicken soup with ginseng, spices etc
to have mixed feelings (about sth)
incremental parameter
women's suffrage
(computing) actual parameter; argument
Sichuan codonopsis (Codonopsis pilosula, root used in TCM)
parametrization by arc length (of a space curve)
regular parametrization

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