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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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| | Chinese language | HSK 1 |
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| | hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分) | HSK 1 |
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| | point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更 / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items | HSK 1 |
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| | ticket / ballot / banknote / CL: 張｜张 / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions | 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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| | you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.) | HSK 1 |
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| | one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | HSK 1 |
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| | Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to 京) | HSK 1 |
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| | Chinese character(s) | HSK 1 |
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| | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 1 |
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| | 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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| | joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) | HSK 2 |
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| | uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan | HSK 2 |
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| | to celebrate the Chinese New Year | HSK 2 |
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| | bird / CL: 隻｜只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn | HSK 2 |
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| | pen / pencil / writing brush / to write or compose / the strokes of Chinese characters / classifier for sums of money, deals / CL: 支, 枝 | HSK 2 |
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| | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本 | HSK 2 |
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| | the head of an institution whose name ends in 院; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to draw; to paint / picture; painting (CL: 幅, 張｜张) / to draw (a line) (variant of 劃｜划) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃｜划) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃｜划) | HSK 2 |
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| | pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character | HSK 2 |
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| | Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) | HSK 2 |
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| | Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech | HSK 2 |
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| | lunch / Chinese meal; Chinese food / CL: 份, 頓｜顿 | HSK 2 |
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| | south; southern direction / (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River | HSK 2 |
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| | north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River | HSK 2 |
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| | ethnic Chinese person or people | HSK 3 |
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| | fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86 | HSK 3 |
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| | straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | HSK 3 |
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| | board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊｜块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious | HSK 3 |
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| | Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur | HSK 3 |
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| | thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條｜条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | HSK 3 |
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| | horse / CL: 匹 / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess | HSK 3 |
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| | Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY) | HSK 3 |
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| | room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy | HSK 3 |
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| | the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China) | HSK 3 |
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| | Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL: 棵, 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message | HSK 4 |
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| | circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | HSK 4 |
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| | (bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | HSK 4 |
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| | to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character | HSK 4 |
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| | a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL: 支, 把 | HSK 4 |
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| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 4 |
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| | traditional Chinese medicine / CL: 服, 種｜种 | HSK 5 |
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| | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條｜条, 本, 句 | HSK 5 |
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| | Chinese language | HSK 5 |
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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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| | box; case / hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines | HSK 5 |
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| | one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂, 亻 etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting | 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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| | (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian / classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort / (classifier) a kind; a sort / (classifier) (used after the verb 翻 to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番 "to double") | HSK 6 |
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| | clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role | HSK 6 |
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| | Zhonghua, historical and cultural term for China, often used to denote Chinese civilization and identity (as in 中華文化｜中华文化 "Chinese culture") / used in the official name of the Republic of China, 中華民國｜中华民国 | HSK 6 |
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| | land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule | HSK 6 |
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| | horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent | HSK 6 |
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| | Taoism / Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs) | HSK 6 |
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| | Chinese opera | HSK 6 |
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| | Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad | HSK 6 |
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| | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project | HSK 6 |
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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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| | ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊｜块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | demonic / iniquitous / nefarious / evil / unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine) / (coll.) strange / abnormal | 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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| | only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義｜主义 or 論｜论, e.g. 唯理論｜唯理论, rationalism) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale | HSK 7-9 |
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| | traditional Chinese character | 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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| | (bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL: 個｜个, 位, 名 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to strike a pose (Chinese opera) / (fig.) to make a public appearance; to come out in public (revealing one's true personality, opinions etc); (of a product) to appear on the market or at a trade show etc | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chinese-style dress / cheongsam | 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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| | to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology | HSK 7-9 |
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| | simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | traditional Chinese painting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | chinaware / porcelain / china | HSK 7-9 |
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| | courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound / to comprehend without being told explicitly / to cotton on / knowing (smile, glance etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine) / crux of an issue / main point in an argument / sticking point / deadlock in negotiations | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp | 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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| | Chinese painting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology) / one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft | HSK 7-9 |
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| | foreign enterprise / company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong / abbr. for 外資企業｜外资企业 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) Bilibili, Chinese video-sharing website featuring scrolled user comments 彈幕｜弹幕 overlaid on the videos | |
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| | (bound form) China; Chinese / surname Zhong | |
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| | see 南京市 / Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368-1421) and of the Republic of China (1927-1937 and 1946-1949) | |
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