| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | HSK 1 |
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| | (bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above | HSK 1 |
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| | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) | HSK 1 |
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| | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first; original; primary / (bound form) basic; fundamental / (bound form) constituent; part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument; variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon | HSK 1 |
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| | original; former / originally; formerly; at first / so, actually, as it turns out | HSK 2 |
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| | head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column | HSK 3 |
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| | parent / one's own (flesh and blood) / relative / related / marriage / bride / close / intimate / in person / first-hand / in favor of / pro- / to kiss / (Internet slang) dear | HSK 3 |
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| | first (of all) / in the first place | HSK 3 |
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| | sofa (loanword) / CL: 條｜条, 張｜张 / (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post | HSK 3 |
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| | at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic | HSK 3 |
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| | original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course | HSK 3 |
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| | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc | HSK 4 |
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| | fine / good / first-rate | HSK 4 |
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| | first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally | HSK 4 |
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| | first / original / primitive / original (document etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another | 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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| | first / first time / for the first time | HSK 6 |
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| | palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale | HSK 6 |
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| | to enter a school or college / to go to school for the first time as a child | HSK 6 |
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| | to give emergency treatment / first aid | HSK 6 |
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| | to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time) | HSK 6 |
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| | ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first batch | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to gain first-hand knowledge of sth / to experience for oneself / knowledge / experience / insight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | top-notch; first-rate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first rate / top rank / number one | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take the lead; to be the first; to set an example | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for the first time / first (meeting, attempt etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | originally; at first; at the outset | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the first light of dawn / (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first signs / development (of a situation) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as soon as possible / at the first opportunity / the sooner the better / before it's too late | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to witness / to see at first hand / to see with one's own eyes | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to open a business / first transaction of a business day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first third of a month | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節｜春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first-hand | HSK 7-9 |
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| | beginning / first day of lunar month / north | |
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| | to put on a hat / to be first / to dub | |
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| | first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers | |
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| | Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 and creator of agriculture | |
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| | first love | |
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| | George Washington (1732-1799), first US president | |
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| | first-year university student | |
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| | leading / in first place / top of the list | |
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| | New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) | |
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| | first month of the lunar year | |
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| | first issue / first public showing | |
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| | home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter | |
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| | first instance (law) | |
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| | first choice / premium / to come first in the imperial examinations | |
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| | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | (mainly used in the negative) in the first place; absolutely; simply | |
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| | surname Qin / Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇 / short name for 陝西｜陕西 | |
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| | one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday) | |
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| | (the) very first | |
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| | to step out / to take a (first) step | |
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| | Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings | |
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| | model or template character / written slogan or phrase / mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc) | |
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| | to take the lead / to be first to start | |
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| | Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital) | |
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| | love at first sight | |
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| | first-rate / top-notch | |
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| | first year of an emperor's reign / first year of an era / first year of a significant time period | |
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| | Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷｜司马迁, first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史 | |
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| | the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served | |
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| | initial price (e.g. for the first kilometer) / prices starting from | |
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| | first rays of morning sun / first glimmer of dawn | |
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| | gold medal; first prize | |
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| | to be the first; to lead the way | |
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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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| | "Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts | |
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| | anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part) | |
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| | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇) | |
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| | first prize | |
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| | branch / stem / stalk / CL: 根 / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏, initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) | |
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| | to aspire to the throne / to aim at (the first place etc) | |
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| | to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat | |
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| | (of alcohol) to go to one's head / (old) (of a bride-to-be) to bind one's hair into a bun / (of a prostitute) to receive a patron for the first time | |
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| | Ying Zheng (260-210 BC), personal name of the first emperor 秦始皇 | |
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| | superb / first-rate / (of officials in imperial times) the highest rank | |
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| | original name; real name / (of foreigners) first name; given name | |
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| | January / first month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | eye-opening ceremony for a religious idol (Buddhism) / to consecrate / to bless / transparent / translucent / haircut / shaving the head or face (humorous) / a method of decoration / first light (astronomy) | |
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| | at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling | |
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| | omen / prior indication / first sign | |
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| | first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school | |
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| | empress's throne / (fig.) first place in a feminine competition | |
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| | Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖｜汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC) | |
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| | Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor | |
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| | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
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| | (computing) input method where the user types just the initial or first letter of each syllable, e.g. "shq" or "sq" for 事情 | |
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| | first session (of a conference etc) | |
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