| | gate / door / CL: 扇 / 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 |
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| | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals | HSK 1 |
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| | a man / a male / men / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | only have ... / there is only ... / (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 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 ... (who ...) (Example: 只有男性才有此需要 "only men would have such a requirement") / (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 只有屈服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | HSK 3 |
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| | brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal | HSK 4 |
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| | master / qualified worker / respectful form of address for older men / CL: 個|个, 位, 名 | HSK 5 |
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| | elegance (for men) / elegant demeanor / grace / poise | HSK 5 |
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| | stuffy / shut indoors / to smother / to cover tightly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bored / depressed / melancholy / sealed / airtight / tightly closed | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 |
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| | surname Men | |
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| | men's clothes | |
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| | porridge / rice sprouts | |
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| | (lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group | |
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| | men's volleyball / abbr. for 男子排球 | |
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| | to cook in a covered vessel / to casserole / to stew | |
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| | men and horses / troops / group of people / troop / staff / centaur | |
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| | men's singles (in tennis, badminton etc) | |
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| | lay hands on / to cover | |
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| | chang pao (traditional Chinese men's robe) / gown / robe / CL: 件 | |
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| | cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban | |
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| | long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao | |
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| | man or men (formal) | |
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| | many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength / There is safety in numbers. | |
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| | men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages | |
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| | men's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc) | |
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| | menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc | |
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| | men's restroom; men's toilet | |
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| | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact | |
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| | mendelevium (chemistry) | |
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| | Taoist robe / traditional men's gown | |
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| | to regard men as superior to women (idiom) | |
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| | men, women, young and old / everybody | |
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| | the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales | |
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| | lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory | |
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| | official business / government workmen / odd-job men | |
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| | chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy | |
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| | regular men's haircut / short back and sides | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | melancholy | |
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| | dark | |
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| | elm / gum | |
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| | (bound form) a kind of headscarf worn by men in ancient China (variant of 幞) / variant of 袱 / Taiwan pr. [pu2] | |
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| | scam girl / woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧 | |
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| | a kind of headscarf worn by men in ancient China | |
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| | all men are brothers | |
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| | men's basketball / men's basketball team | |
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| | (slang) negative, toxic competition between women (esp. in seeking the favor and approval of men) | |
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| | a giant among men (idiom) | |
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| | married quarters / residential quarters for men with families | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius) | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | little green men from Mars | |
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| | men's singles (in tennis etc) | |
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| | wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust | |
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| | brothers / comrades / men / brethren | |
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| | hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything | |
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| | contour pouch brief (men's underwear) | |
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| | mountain pass / defile (archaic) | |
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| | lit. men's footprints are rare (idiom) / fig. off the beaten track / lonely / deserted | |
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| | those with lofty ideals (idiom) / men of vision | |
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| | the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | record of famous men / anthology of biographies | |
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| | scam girl / woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧 | |
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| | to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc) | |
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| | to have been cheated on by one's partner (formerly meant "to be a cuckold", i.e. applied to men only) | |
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| | genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (gem) / rouge | |
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| | men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom) | |
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| | real men do not easily cry (idiom) | |
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| | men's basketball | |
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| | men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb) | |
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| | (men) sideburns / (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples | |
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| | lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds / desolate (idiom) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Men of Zheng fighting over their respective ages (idiom) / a futile quarrel | |
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| | woman hired to lure men to high-priced bars | |
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| | (idiom) to have had relationships with many men | |
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| | lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom) | |
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