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  *和* | 和* | *和
(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese
HSK 1
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  *他* | 他* | *他
(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人)
HSK 1
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  *和* | 和* | *和
old variant of
HSK 1
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  *和* | 和* | *和
(literary) harmonious (variant of )
HSK 1
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  *喝* | 喝* | *喝
to drink / variant of
HSK 1
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
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  *河* | 河* | *河
river (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉
HSK 2
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他誰也沒來|除了他谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語他也會法語|除了英语他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")
HSK 3
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  *合* | 合* | *合
to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of
HSK 3
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  *合* | 合* | *合
variant of
HSK 3
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
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  *盒* | 盒* | *盒
small box / case
HSK 5
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  *核* | 核* | *核
pit / stone / nucleus / nuclear / to examine / to check / to verify
HSK 7-9
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  *核* | 核* | *核
variant of / to investigate
HSK 7-9
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  *和* | 和* | *和
surname He
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  *和* | 和* | *和
to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence / to join in the singing / to chime in with others
Li He (790-816), Tang poet
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  *贺* | 贺* | *贺
surname He
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  *贺* | 贺* | *贺
to congratulate
(onom.) he he / mischievous laughter
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  *何* | 何* | *何
surname He
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  *何* | 何* | *何
what / how / why / which / carry
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  *喝* | 喝* | *喝
to shout
a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom)
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  *伊* | 伊* | *伊
(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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  *鹤* | 鹤* | *鹤
crane
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  *禾* | 禾* | *禾
cereal / grain
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  *阂* | 阂* | *阂
obstruct
Yellow River or Huang He
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  *赫* | 赫* | *赫
surname He
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  *赫* | 赫* | *赫
awe-inspiring / abbr. for 赫茲|赫兹, hertz (Hz)
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  *貉* | 貉* | *貉
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) / raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki) / also pr. [hao2]
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  *菏* | 菏* | *菏
He river in Shandong
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  *壑* | 壑* | *壑
gully / ravine / Taiwan pr. [huo4]
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
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  *渠* | 渠* | *渠
(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条) / (literary) big; great / (dialect) he; she; him; her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
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  *阖* | 阖* | *阖
door / to close / whole
dabbler / dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert
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  *颌* | 颌* | *颌
(bound form) jaw
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  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
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  *吓* | 吓* | *吓
to scare / to intimidate / to threaten / (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut / (interjection showing astonishment)
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  *荷* | 荷* | *荷
Holland; the Netherlands (abbr. for 荷蘭|荷兰)
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  *荷* | 荷* | *荷
lotus
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  *荷* | 荷* | *荷
to carry on one's shoulder or back / burden / responsibility
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  *呵* | 呵* | *呵
(bound form) to scold / to expel breath / (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated) / interjection of surprise
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  *褐* | 褐* | *褐
brown / gray or dark color / coarse hemp cloth / Taiwan pr. [he2]
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  *诃* | 诃* | *诃
to scold
lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
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  *翮* | 翮* | *翮
quill
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  *涸* | 涸* | *涸
to dry / to dry up
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  *TA* | TA* | *TA
he or she
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  *劾* | 劾* | *劾
to impeach
to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down
lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken
each takes what he needs (idiom)
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  *怹* | 怹* | *怹
he / she / (courteous, as opposed to )
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  *嗬* | 嗬* | *嗬
(interjection expressing surprise) oh! / wow!
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  *盍* | 盍* | *盍
why not
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  *鸖* | 鸖* | *鸖
old variant of 鶴|鹤
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
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  *龢* | 龢* | *龢
used in given names and as a surname
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  *佢* | 佢* | *佢
(Cantonese) he, she, it
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军 / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
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  *郃* | 郃* | *郃
name of a person
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  *盉* | 盉* | *盉
vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine
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  *纥* | 纥* | *纥
tassels
lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
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  *暍* | 暍* | *暍
hot
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  *猲* | 猲* | *猲
frightened / terrified
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  *翯* | 翯* | *翯
glistening plumage of birds
to allow (sb to do as he pleases)
lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用|卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court)
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  *鹖* | 鹖* | *鹖
crossbill / long-tailed pheasant
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  *嗃* | 嗃* | *嗃
scold with severity
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  *垎* | 垎* | *垎
(literary) (of soil) dry and hard / (used in place names)
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
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  *鉌* | 鉌* | *鉌
small bell
a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts (idiom)
lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
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  *蠚* | 蠚* | *蠚
to sting
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  *焃* | 焃* | *焃
fiery / bright
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
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  *鞨* | 鞨* | *鞨
buskin / name of a tribe / turban
to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down
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  *㪃* | 㪃* | *㪃
to beat; to hit
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  *佫* | 佫* | *佫
surname He
a student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom)
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  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子|馓子
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  *盍* | 盍* | *盍
variant of
He county in Guangxi
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  *惒* | 惒* | *惒
old variant of
Xie He (479-502), portrait painter from Qi of Southern dynasties 南齊|南齐
Chinese treasure ship, a type of large sailing ship in the fleet of Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He 鄭和|郑和
Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention
Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer
single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated)
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet
custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.)

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