| | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘｜打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話｜打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針｜打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣｜打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後｜打那以后 "since then") | HSK 1 |
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| | very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) | HSK 1 |
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| | to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning) | HSK 1 |
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| | idea / opinion / meaning / wish / desire / interest / fun / token of appreciation, affection etc / CL: 個｜个 / to give as a small token / to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc | HSK 2 |
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| | meaning (implicit in a phrase) / implied meaning / hidden meaning / hint / connotation | HSK 4 |
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| | article / essay / literary works / writings / hidden meaning / CL: 篇, 段, 頁｜页 | HSK 3 |
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| | sense / meaning / significance / importance / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | content / meaning / connotation / implication | HSK 7-9 |
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| | idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate | |
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| | (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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| | moral (of a story) / lesson to be learned / implication / message / import / metaphorical meaning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun 的命) / CL: 次 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship | |
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| | to make a pun / to have a double meaning / double entendre | |
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| | lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite) | |
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| | bright / opposite: dark 暗 / (of meaning) clear / to understand / next / public or open / wise / generic term for a sacrifice to the gods | |
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| | original meaning / original intention | |
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| | (Tw) nanometer / nano- (prefix meaning "nanoscale") | |
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| | to contain / to hold / (of a person or style etc) reserved / restrained / (of words, writings) full of hidden meaning / implicit / veiled (criticism) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Marquis (highest Han dynasty ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households) / high nobles | |
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| | deep and profound meaning | |
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| | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound / to comprehend without being told explicitly / to cotton on / knowing (smile, glance etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently | |
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| | to make sense / to have meaning / to have significance / meaningful / significant / worthwhile / important / interesting | |
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| | to extend (the meaning of a word, an analogy etc) / derivation | |
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| | (skincare regimen) Vitamin C in the morning, Vitamin A in the evening (original meaning) / (jocular) coffee in the morning, alcohol in the evening | |
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| | nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism | |
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| | (Tw) meaning; significance; import / CL: 層｜层 | |
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| | (semantics) connotative meaning; connotation | |
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| | meaning of a character | |
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| | meaning of words / semantic | |
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| | ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households / also translated as Marquis | |
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| | tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc) | |
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| | the real meaning / the true essence | |
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| | words do not convey the meaning / poorly expressed / senseless / inarticulate | |
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| | one's words carry an implicit meaning | |
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| | inner meaning / implication / connotation | |
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| | heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound | |
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| | the meaning of sth / an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases / definition / an interpretation (of doctrine) / religious doctrine | |
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| | used in expressions of the form 照 + {verb} + 不誤｜不误, in which 照 means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤｜照买不误, to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes) | |
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| | (literary) what is? / what is the meaning of? | |
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| | overtone (music) / (fig.) connotation / implied meaning | |
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| | pun / play on words / a phrase with a double meaning | |
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| | not to have any meaning / meaningless | |
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| | original meaning | |
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| | palm (of one's hand) / control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand) | |
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| | goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it. | |
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| | (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape | |
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| | to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan | |
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| | content / meaning / connotation / implication / same as 涵義｜涵义 | |
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| | fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action) / worries about the future consequences / often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything" | HSK 7-9 |
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| | meaning / implication / flavor / overtone / to mean / to imply / (Tw) to get a sense of | |
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| | (the 3rd part of a 3-part construction: 非 + (noun) + 莫屬｜莫属, meaning "to be none other than (noun); would have to be (noun)") (this construction comes after a description of a person or thing that has a certain attribute) | |
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| | loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan | |
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| | profound (meaning, implications etc) | |
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| | to understand; to comprehend; to grasp the meaning | |
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| | interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script | |
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| | change of meaning | |
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| | to translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯｜音译) (e.g. 超文本, 火車｜火车) | |
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| | goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it. | |
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| | sincere / real meaning | |
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| | implied meaning | |
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| | ambiguity / several possible meanings | |
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| | (idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology ( 墨 was a reference to 繩墨｜绳墨) | |
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| | (idiom) unspoken implication; the actual meaning of what was said | |
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| | lucky / giga- (meaning billion or 10^9) | |
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| | outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | character having several readings and meanings | |
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| | democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state) | |
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| | brethren on the other side of the border (used in the context of China-Myanmar friendship) (loanword from Burmese "paukphaw", meaning "close kin") | |
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| | formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋, 朗姆酒, 奶昔 and 米老鼠) | |
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| | between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning / connotations | |
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| | He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! | |
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| | ancient meaning / original or etymological meaning of a word | |
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| | discourse / group of sentences with clear meaning / narrative | |
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| | (coll.) piece of light artillery such as a mortar / (fig.) person who speaks boldly and frankly / hot hatch (car) / (also used figuratively with various meanings in other contexts) | |
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| | to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | to open an aperture / (extended meaning) to cut a way through / to open up a road | |
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| | some deeper meaning in this / more to it than meets the eye / there's sth behind all this | |
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| | meaning behind the words / what sb really means to say / one's intentions as revealed in one's words / tone of speech | |
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| | meaning | |
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| | meaning of a word | |
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| | one's words carry an implicit meaning | |
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| | extended meaning (of an expression) / derived sense | |
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| | to make sense of / to grasp the meaning of / to figure out | |
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| | water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate | |
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| | bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答, used in 答應｜答应, 答理 etc | |
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| | to speak / to say / to name / to designate / meaning / sense | |
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| | transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character | |
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| | meaning (of foreign expression) / translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯｜直译) / paraphrase / free translation | |
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| | transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character | |
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| | subtle words with profound meaning (idiom) | |
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| | to mean / meaning | |
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| | original meaning / literal sense | |
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| | to contain / to hold / content / (of a poem etc) full of implicit meaning | |
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| | compound word such as 教室 or 國家｜国家, whose meaning is related to the component hanzi, unlike compounds such as 玫瑰 | |
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| | lit. view a text and interpret (idiom); to interpret word by word without understanding the meaning / a far-fetched interpretation | |
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| | uncommon meaning of a common word | |
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| | fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish) | |
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