| | 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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| | variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) | HSK 1 |
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| | north / (classical) to be defeated | HSK 1 |
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| | (classical) to say | HSK 2 |
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| | (classical) you (in letters) / variant of 臺｜台 | HSK 3 |
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| | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth | HSK 4 |
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| | signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL: 塊｜块) / brand; trademark (CL: 個｜个) / mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL: 張｜张) / (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌｜词牌 and 曲牌) | HSK 4 |
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| | the classics / scriptures / classical / classic (example, case etc) / typical | HSK 4 |
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| | classical | HSK 6 |
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| | square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively | HSK 7-9 |
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| | classical final particle, similar to modern 了 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (classical) a type of battle-ax / to kill / to slaughter | |
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| | old verse / Classical Chinese poem | |
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| | (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) | |
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| | wormwood like grass (classical) | |
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| | Classical Chinese | |
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| | interrogative particle (classical) | |
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| | to distance oneself from (classical) | |
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| | to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s) | |
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| | academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty) | |
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| | old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject | |
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| | (classical) barely / just / just now | |
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| | to chant; to recite / verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems) / (literary) to lament; to groan / (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects / (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴) (cf. 猱, wide vibrato) | |
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| | Guanzi or Guan Zhong 管仲 (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國｜齐国 of Spring and Autumn period / Guanzi, classical book containing writings of Guan Zhong and his school | |
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| | ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese) | |
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| | (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that | |
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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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| | Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動｜古文运动 and neoclassical 復古｜复古 movements | |
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| | Haydn (name) / Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer | |
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| | "Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts | |
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| | you (Wu dialect) / I, me (classical) | |
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| | pseudo-classical / modeled on antique / in the old style | |
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| | Capricorn (star sign) / northern people in classical times, a branch of the Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴 | |
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| | ceremony / collection of classical writings | |
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| | classical story or quote from the literature / the story behind sth | |
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| | Wenshang County in Jining 濟寧｜济宁, Shandong / classically, upper reaches of Wen River in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國｜齐国 | |
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| | Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn | |
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| | level and oblique tones (technical term for Classical Chinese rhythmic poetry) | |
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| | forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse | |
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| | a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC | |
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| | (classical particle similar to 於｜于) in / at / from / because / than / (classical final particle similar to 嗎｜吗, 吧, 呢, expressing question, doubt or astonishment) | |
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| | writer of 詞｜词 (a kind of Classical Chinese poem) / person of literary talent | |
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| | only (classical, usually follows negative or question words) / (not) just | |
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| | Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川) / classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國｜齐国 | |
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| | a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956 | |
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| | Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the west after dusk | |
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| | to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical) | |
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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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| | muntjac / grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical) | |
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| | various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子｜孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子, and numerous others | |
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| | ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds | |
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| | lit. 之, 乎, 者 and 也 (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions | |
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| | form word / in Classical Chinese, the first character of phrase having auxiliary grammatical function | |
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| | plant similar to coco-grass 莎草 (classical) | |
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| | number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number | |
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| | to remonstrate / to warn earnestly (esp. classical written Chinese) / to exhort | |
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| | rafter (classical) | |
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| | to play the zither / classical variant of 彈琴｜弹琴 | |
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| | (classical) to boil | |
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| | oblique tone / nonlevel tone / uneven tone (the third tone of Classical Chinese) | |
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| | to rely on / father and mother (classical) | |
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| | a faraway and hard-to-reach land (classical) | |
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| | classical music | |
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| | The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶｜韩邦庆, long novel of lower life in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular / translated into Putonghua as 海上花 by Iris Chang | |
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| | classical literature | |
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| | classical field theory (physics) | |
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| | (classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity | |
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| | Han Bangqing (1856-1894), writer and publisher of experimental literary journal in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular, author of novel 海上花列傳｜海上花列传 | |
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| | sonata form (one of the large-scale structures used in Western classical music) | |
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| | classical language | |
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| | Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese | |
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| | classical music (mainly Western) | |
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| | Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts | |
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| | various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子｜孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子, and numerous others | |
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| | beginning-school ceremony (old usage) / classical learning | |
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| | Former Han dynasty study or rewriting of classical texts such as the Confucian six classics 六經｜六经 | |
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| | not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind | |
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| | shanshui poetry, genre of Classical Chinese poetry | |
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| | to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲｜平声) | |
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| | Classical Chinese writing | |
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| | ancient books and volumes / classical writings | |
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| | Li Ao (774-836), Tang dynasty scholar and writer, colleague of Han Yu 韓愈｜韩愈 in promoting classical writing 古文運動｜古文运动 | |
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| | Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動｜古文运动 and neoclassical 復古｜复古 movements | |
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| | literary journal published in 1892-93 by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶｜韩邦庆 featuring serialized novels in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular | |
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| | Gu Yewang (519-581), historian and an interpreter of classical texts, editor of Yupian 玉篇 | |
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| | lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom) | |
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