| | to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student | HSK 2 |
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| | chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance | HSK 2 |
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| | to grow up | HSK 2 |
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| | development / growth / to develop / to grow / to expand | HSK 3 |
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| | to grow; to increase | HSK 3 |
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| | to grow / to grow up / to be brought up | HSK 3 |
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| | to mature / to grow / growth | HSK 3 |
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| | to plant / to grow / to cultivate | HSK 4 |
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| | to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate | HSK 4 |
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| | to increase / to grow in number | HSK 5 |
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| | land used for growing plants / site used for public recreation / abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc | HSK 6 |
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| | to grow to adulthood / fully grown; adult / the whole year | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to increase steadily / to grow with each passing day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to plant; to grow / to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign) / to impose sth on sb / to stumble; to fall down | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to grow / to cultivate / to train / to educate / to patronize | HSK 7-9 |
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| | future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton | |
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| | field for growing happiness / domain for practices leading to enlightenment (Buddhism) | |
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| | to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas) | |
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| | (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears | |
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| | to grow light (at daybreak) | |
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| | to rust / to grow rusty / to corrode / oxidization | |
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| | to grow hair / to become mildewed | |
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| | to plant / to grow | |
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| | growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc) | |
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| | to grow / to nourish / to increase / to cause / juice / taste / (dialect) to spout / to spurt | |
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| | (literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park / (literary) center (of arts, literature etc) | |
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| | to grow (a plant) in a pot / potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant) | |
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| | caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) (The fungus grows within the body of a caterpillar, culminating in the emergence of a stalked fruiting body from the caterpillar's head, and is a much-prized and expensive ingredient used as a tonic in traditional Chinese medicine.) | |
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| | to grow up | |
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| | how well a crop (or plant) is growing / growth | |
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| | to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect / (of a tree) to grow to full size / to become useful for timber | |
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| | to grow (maize etc) from seed / to plant (maize etc) by sowing seed | |
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| | to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by | |
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| | to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds | |
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| | (idiom) to live forever and never grow old | |
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| | to emerge and grow / to develop | |
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| | (literary) to grow / (literary) to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2] | |
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| | two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union | |
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| | to grow / to reproduce | |
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| | mulberry farming / to grow mulberry for sericulture | |
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| | to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly | |
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| | to grow replacement teeth (zoology) / to grow permanent teeth in place of milk teeth | |
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| | lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) | |
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| | (of plants) to grow luxuriantly; (fig.) (of a family or business etc) to prosper; to flourish | |
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| | (area where) vegetation grows / the common people | |
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| | to grow old together | |
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| | to grow the intellect / Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger (Chinese medicine) | |
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| | lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) / fig. barren | |
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| | flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up | |
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| | to grow and multiply without end | |
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| | (idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people | |
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| | new shoot growing from cut branch or stump | |
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| | Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces) | |
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| | to grow crops / food growing | |
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| | to grow (usually of abstract things) / to yield / to develop | |
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| | sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood) | |
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| | to rise suddenly / to grow vigorously | |
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| | to feel terrified / to grow apprehensive | |
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| | to grow a beard | |
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| | terminal bud (growing at the tip of a plant) | |
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| | deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly | |
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| | to grow and spread | |
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| | to grow (prettier etc) / to mature into / to blossom | |
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| | to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow | |
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| | to grow plants hydroponically | |
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| | (of a couple) to grow old together in mutual respect (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises | |
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| | to grow teeth; to teethe / growing teeth | |
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| | vegetation growing thickly | |
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| | "long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168) | |
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| | to grow old / to age / aging | |
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| | axillary bud / bud growing from axil of plant | |
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| | growing flowers | |
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| | to grow all over | |
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| | to give birth / to grow (whiskers etc) / to generate / to produce | |
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| | (agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop | |
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| | mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together) | |
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| | taproot (main root growing vertically down) | |
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| | lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible | |
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| | reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom) / absence makes the heart grow fonder | |
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| | lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) / fig. cannot be easily eliminated / abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风 | |
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| | towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow | |
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| | flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up | |
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| | being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb) | |
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| | flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding / still growing strong / on the up | |
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| | fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home | |
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| | food growing area | |
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| | a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms) | |
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| | hatred caused by love (idiom) / to grow to hate someone because of unrequited love for that person | |
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| | lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it | |
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| | lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you / (fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success / also written 無心插柳柳成蔭|无心插柳柳成荫 | |
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| | a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising | |
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| | to grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳 growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese) | |
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| | absence makes the heart grow fonder | |
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| | to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks | |
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| | (idiom) to live forever and never grow old | |
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