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the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori
HSK 1
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
day / a (calendar) date / days of one's life
HSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
character / intrinsic quality (of a person) / quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)
HSK 4
lifelong / all one's life / marriage
HSK 5
in those days; back then; in those years / to be in the prime of life
HSK 5
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  *拼* | 拼* | *拼
to piece together / to join together / to stake all / adventurous / at the risk of one's life / to spell
HSK 5
sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot / fig. the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
track (for trains etc) / orbit (of a satellite) / (fig.) a person's established path in life / desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor) / (audio engineering) track / (quantum mechanics) orbital
HSK 6
to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement
HSK 6
to sacrifice one's life / to sacrifice (sth valued) / beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
HSK 6
to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!
HSK 6
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  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
life
HSK 7-9
to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth
HSK 7-9
new / newborn / emerging / nascent / rebirth / regeneration / new life / new student
HSK 7-9
to make life difficult for / to embarrass / unable to make it through
HSK 7-9
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
life (a person's whole life) / in one's entire life
HSK 7-9
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
lifelike / true to life / distinctly / clearly
HSK 7-9
eager to excel / eager to get ahead in life / strong-minded
HSK 7-9
throughout one's life / lifetime; lifelong
HSK 7-9
each goes his own way (idiom); each person has his own life to lead
HSK 7-9
personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life
HSK 7-9
to eat, drink and be merry (idiom) / to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
HSK 7-9
to flee for one's life
HSK 7-9
to endanger / to jeopardize / a danger (to life, national security etc)
HSK 7-9
to live one's life / to pass one's days / to get along
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
to conspire to murder / to plot against sb's life
HSK 7-9
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent
HSK 7-9
to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point
HSK 7-9
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
joys and sorrows / partings and reunions / the vicissitudes of life
HSK 7-9
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
vivid and colorful (idiom); true to life / lively and realistic
HSK 7-9
lit. to make sb wear tight shoes (idiom) / to make life difficult for sb
HSK 7-9
life or death
HSK 7-9
shelf life / expiration date
HSK 7-9
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
HSK 7-9
(of a deceased) during one's life / while living
HSK 7-9
spray / ocean spray / spindrift / fig. happenings from one's life / CL:
(Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂|教育与娱乐) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行 / (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation)
primordial spirit / fundamental essence of life
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
way of life / lifestyle
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  *世* | 世* | *世
life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble
scientific name / Latin name (of plant or animal) / (according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students
one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
morning dew / fig. precarious brevity of human life / ephemeral
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  *身* | 身* | *身
body / life / oneself / personally / one's morality and conduct / the main part of a structure or body / pregnant / classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset / Kangxi radical 158
auspicious day / good day / happy life
all one's life / lifetime
to give one's heart to / to devote one's life to
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) / (tired) to death / (terrified) out of one's wits / (beaten) to within an inch of one's life / (knock) the daylights out of sb
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  *蟲* | 蟲* | *蟲
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
this life / this age
since birth / for one's whole life
Yanshou county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang / to extend life
to grapple (with the enemy) / to fight at the risk of one's life
everyday life / regular pattern of life
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  *烈* | 烈* | *烈
ardent / intense / fierce / stern / upright / to give one's life for a noble cause / exploits / achievements
lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
to bring back to life
the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind
to demand sb's life
to live forever / eternal life / all one's life
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
long life
life insurance
Lord (UK hereditary nobility) / UK life peer
to return to one's unit / to go back to one's station in life
army life (idiom) / the experience of war
to float / to hover / to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life) / to rove / showy / superficial
sex life
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  *喪* | 喪* | *喪
to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc) / to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc) / to die / disappointed / discouraged
human life / CL: 條|条
to draw designs, maps etc / picture (e.g. of life in the city)
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
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  *壽* | 壽* | *壽
long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary
this life
all walks of life; all social circles
to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
to start a new life; to make a fresh start
months and year / time / days of one's life
life imprisonment
to succeed in life / to become somebody
(coll.) expert; connoisseur; guru; enthusiast; geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person; person who understands life / (literary) optimist
the Eternal Wheel of life in Buddhism

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