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a man / a male / men / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *们* | 们* | *们
plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
HSK 1
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  *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
brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
HSK 4
only have ...; there is only ... / (used in combination with ) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy") / it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要 "only men would have such a requirement") / (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服 "the only thing you can do is give in")
HSK 3
elegance (for men) / elegant demeanor / grace / poise
HSK 5
master / qualified worker / respectful form of address for older men / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 5
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  *闷* | 闷* | *闷
stuffy / shut indoors / to smother / to cover tightly
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闷* | 闷* | *闷
bored / depressed / melancholy / sealed / airtight / tightly closed
HSK 7-9
(slang) to pander to men
a kind of headscarf worn by men in ancient China
many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength / There is safety in numbers.
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
brothers / comrades / men / brethren
lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong
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  *门* | 门* | *门
surname Men
men and horses / troops / group of people / troop / staff / centaur
magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men
HSK 7-9
lit. men's footprints are rare (idiom) / fig. off the beaten track / lonely / deserted
to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc)
men's basketball / men's basketball team
men's bathroom (abbr. for 男衛生間|男卫生间)
men, women, young and old / everybody
(idiom) to compare favorably with men in terms of ability, bravery etc / to be a match for men / lit. not conceding to men (beard and eyebrows)
men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius)
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
a giant among men (idiom)
men's singles (in tennis etc)
men's clothes
real men do not easily cry (idiom)
official business / government workmen / odd-job men
men's basketball
those with lofty ideals (idiom) / men of vision
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焖* | 焖* | *焖
to cook in a covered vessel / to casserole / to stew
abbr. for 男子足球 men's soccer / abbr. for 男子足球隊|男子足球队 men's soccer team
three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
record of famous men / anthology of biographies
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
men's volleyball / abbr. for 男子排球
men's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc)
(gem) / rouge
married quarters / residential quarters for men with families
woman hired to lure men to high-priced bars
chang pao (traditional Chinese men's robe) / gown / robe / CL:
cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
Ming dynasty scholar (1602–1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 復社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five Men's Tombstone Inscription 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记
wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust
men's restroom; men's toilet
(idiom) to have had relationships with many men
men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages
Taoist robe / traditional men's gown
to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds / desolate (idiom)
Men of Zheng fighting over their respective ages (idiom) / a futile quarrel
genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand
men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom)
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
regular men's haircut / short back and sides
the hidden and the visible; that which can be seen and that which cannot; darkness and light; night and day; wisdom and ignorance; evil and good; the living and the dead; men and ghosts
to have been cheated on by one's partner (formerly meant "to be a cuckold", i.e. applied to men only)
Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors
menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc
(slang) gold digger; woman who pursues men for money
the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
men's singles (in tennis, badminton etc)
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
little green men from Mars
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亹* | 亹* | *亹
mountain pass / defile (archaic)
scam girl / woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧
the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales
(men) sideburns / (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples
man or men (formal)
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
contour pouch brief (men's underwear)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暪* | 暪* | *暪
dark
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  *钔* | 钔* | *钔
mendelevium (chemistry)
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  *樠* | 樠* | *樠
elm / gum
long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao
all men are brothers
(slang) negative, toxic competition between women (esp. in seeking the favor and approval of men)
lit. Notes on Passing the Hall, historical jottings by 12th century Southern Song poet Fan Gongcheng 范公偁, containing moral instructions derived from great men of Song dynasty
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *懑* | 懑* | *懑
melancholy
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
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  *扪* | 扪* | *扪
lay hands on / to cover
Five Men's Tombstone Inscription, an essay by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥 commemorating five martyrs who died resisting the tyranny of Wei Zhongxian 魏忠賢|魏忠贤 during the late Ming dynasty
scam girl / woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *襆* | 襆* | *襆
(bound form) a kind of headscarf worn by men in ancient China (variant of ) / variant of / Taiwan pr. [pu2]
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  *穈* | 穈* | *穈
porridge / rice sprouts


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