| | (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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | original; former / originally; formerly; at first / so, actually, as it turns out | HSK 2 |
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| | at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic | HSK 3 |
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| | first / original / primitive / original (document etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | first (of all) / in the first place | 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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| | to enter a school or college / to go to school for the first time as a child | HSK 6 |
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| | fine / good / first-rate | HSK 4 |
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| | early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another | HSK 5 |
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| | original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course | HSK 3 |
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| | palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale | 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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| | (bound form) row; line / (bound form) line of business; trade; profession / (bound form) commercial firm / (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row; (Tw) column / classifier for rows or lines | 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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| | 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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| | the emergency number for medical assistance and first aid in Mainland China | |
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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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| | at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give emergency treatment / first aid | HSK 6 |
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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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| | January / first month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | first / first time / once / (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
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| | ranked number one in the world / the world's first | |
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| | first third of a month | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first class / category A | |
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| | first instance (law) | |
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| | first prize | |
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| | first-rate / excellent (loanword from Japanese 一番, ichiban) | |
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| | success at one go / to succeed at the first attempt | |
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| | first day of the month / toilet / (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship) | |
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| | first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc) | |
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| | first (of two parts) / last (week etc) / previous / the above | |
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| | unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom) | |
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| | familiarity at first sight | |
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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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| | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc | HSK 4 |
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| | the former (i.e. the one mentioned first) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三｜张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry / (dialect) wolf | |
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| | home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter | |
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| | lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八 has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet | |
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| | (mainly used in the negative) in the first place; absolutely; simply | |
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| | to meet (sb) for the first time; to encounter (a place, an idea etc) for the first time | |
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| | Ming Taizu, temple name of first Ming emperor Hongwu 洪武 | |
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| | to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first half of a game or contest | |
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| | first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally | HSK 4 |
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| | lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom) / fig. to hit the nail on the head | |
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| | first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627) | |
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| | first wife | |
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| | late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty | |
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| | ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school | |
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| | ascending colon (anatomy) / first section of large intestine | |
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| | new moon / first day of the lunar month | |
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| | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
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| | first half of a game or contest | |
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| | Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武 | |
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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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| | thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 | |
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| | to see through something at first glance (idiom) | |
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| | first secretary | |
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| | to compete to be first / to contest first place | |
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| | ground floor / first floor | |
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| | man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經｜三字经) | |
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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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| | first month of the lunar year | |
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| | first half of one's life | |
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| | striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another | HSK 7-9 |
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| | first signs / development (of a situation) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨｜国民党 / same as 孫逸仙｜孙逸仙 | |
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| | the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄｜扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters | |
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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 of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old) | |
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| | unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers are first meeting, but soon friends / an acquired taste | |
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| | (idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try | |
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| | municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶｜重庆, the first level administrative subdivision / province level city / also called directly governed city | |
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| | to open a business / first transaction of a business day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | step one / first step | |
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| | person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as | |
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| | first / first time / for the first time | HSK 6 |
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| | first prize | |
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| | generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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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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| | 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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| | first month (of either lunar or Western calendars) | |
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| | to compete to be the first to answer a question (as on a quiz show) | |
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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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| | at first glance | |
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| | lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet | |
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| | lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent / first sign of emerging talent / budding genius | |
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| | omen / prior indication / first sign | |
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| | front part (of an object) / first part (of an event) / previous paragraph | |
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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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