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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *我* | 我* | *我
I; me; my
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *帮* | 帮* | *帮
to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吧* | 吧* | *吧
(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume.
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *很* | 很* | *很
very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *东* | 东* | *东
east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord
HSK 1
at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)
HSK 1
Excuse me, may I ask...?
HSK 1
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弟* | 弟* | *弟
younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *带* | 带* | *带
band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL: 條|条 / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise
HSK 2
to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咱* | 咱* | *咱
I or me / we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)
HSK 2
we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5]
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搬* | 搬* | *搬
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *敢* | 敢* | *敢
to dare / daring / (polite) may I venture
HSK 3
fear / to dread / I'm afraid that... / perhaps / maybe
HSK 3
customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
(physics) mass / quality (i.e. degree of excellence) / quality and quantity
HSK 4
brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
HSK 4
right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth
HSK 4
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input)
HSK 4
(coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)
HSK 4
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
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
gas (i.e. gaseous substance)
HSK 5
to wrap; to pack / to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out / (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file)
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乙* | 乙* | *乙
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
HSK 5
to hand it (i.e. the aforementioned item) to (sb)
HSK 5
lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise / you flatter me
HSK 5
to hide / to conceal / to mask / to shelter / to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden) / to hide oneself / to lie low / to nestle / hidden / implicit / private / covert / recessed (lighting)
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *券* | 券* | *券
bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate
HSK 6
elementary (i.e. easy)
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *即* | 即* | *即
namely / that is / i.e. / prompt / at once / at present / even if / prompted (by the occasion) / to approach / to come into contact / to assume (office) / to draw near
HSK 7-9
old man / I (an old man referring to himself)
HSK 7-9
vehicle model (i.e. particular version of a car or motorcycle etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丙* | 丙* | *丙
third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl
HSK 7-9
to condense / to coagulate / coacervation (i.e. form tiny droplets) / aggregation / coherent
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *框* | 框* | *框
frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1]
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *余* | 余* | *余
extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me
HSK 7-9
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication) / a radio
HSK 7-9
to answer a riddle / to guess (i.e. form an opinion without much evidence)
HSK 7-9
arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context
HSK 7-9
to topple (i.e. knock over) / to capsize / fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion) / to undermine / to subvert
HSK 7-9
eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
HSK 7-9
foreign (i.e. of foreign nationality)
HSK 7-9
program (i.e. plan of action) / guiding principle
HSK 7-9
newspaper (i.e. a company) / CL:
HSK 7-9
athletic track / track / runway (i.e. airstrip)
HSK 7-9
appearance / bearing / meter (i.e. measuring instrument)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *持* | 持* | *持
to hold / to grasp / to support / to maintain / to persevere / to manage / to run (i.e. administer) / to control
HSK 7-9
a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个,
HSK 7-9
only / just (i.e. it is only that...) / all except / unique
HSK 7-9
person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character
HSK 7-9
(banking) to overdraw / to take out an overdraft / an overdraft / to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue) / (old) to draw one's wage in advance / (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc) / to damage a natural resource through overuse
HSK 7-9
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *余* | 余* | *余
(literary) I; me / variant of 餘|余
HSK 7-9
to put together an order and deliver it (i.e. 配貨|配货 and 送貨|送货) / to deliver (goods)
HSK 7-9
to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
if only (sth were possible) / I wish (that)
HSK 7-9
(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P / Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他 "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
HSK 7-9
honorific: I've long looked forward to meeting you. / It's an honor to meet you at last.
HSK 7-9
one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with) / subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself) / belonging to / affiliated / under one's command
HSK 7-9
minor (i.e. person under 18)
HSK 7-9
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *载* | 载* | *载
to record in writing / to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc) / Taiwan pr. [zai4] / year
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吾* | 吾* | *吾
(old) I; my
same type / category 1 (i.e. class A)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *予* | 予* | *予
(archaic) I / me
cotyledon of a bean or pea (i.e. either of the halves of a bean or pea) / thick bean sauce (abbr. for 豆瓣醬|豆瓣酱)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *己* | 己* | *己
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *臣* | 臣* | *臣
state official or subject in dynastic China / I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign) / Kangxi radical 131
privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
to reflect / reflection (from a mirror etc) / reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塑* | 塑* | *塑
to model (a figure) in clay / (bound form) plastic (i.e. the synthetic material)
(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom
(military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艾* | 艾* | *艾
Chinese mugwort or wormwood / moxa / to stop or cut short / phonetic "ai" or "i" / abbr. for 艾滋病, AIDS
geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区 and cell used to specify a character in a CJK character set)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戊* | 戊* | *戊
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta
(literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)
high position / eminent status / top job / raised position / upper (limbs) / a high (i.e. local maximum) / high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc
(slang) to ship a couple (i.e. to strongly desire that a pair of fictional characters become a couple) / also pr. [ke4 C P]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *庚* | 庚* | *庚
age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta
external (i.e. not built-in 內置|内置)
to interpret / to comment and explain / to annotate / to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role) / to decode / interpretation / annotation
coronary (i.e. relating to the coronary arteries or veins) / crown-shaped
nature (i.e. properties of sth) / character
father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
to eliminate dust (i.e. filter out suspended particles)
(of trains) up (i.e. towards the capital) / (of river boats) to go against the current / to submit (a document) to higher authorities
to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)
the far end (of an object) / remote (i.e. operating from a distance or over a computer network) / (anatomy) distal
sage / the Sage (i.e. Confucius) / (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty / (religion) saint
another name for Book of Changes (I Ching) 易經|易经

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