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  *多* | 多* | *多
many; much; more; a lot of / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly-
HSK 1
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  *比* | 比* | *比
to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
HSK 1
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  *更* | 更* | *更
more / even more / further / still / still more
HSK 2
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  *楼* | 楼* | *楼
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)
HSK 2
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  *再* | 再* | *再
again; once more; re- / further; beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) or for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则, 再就是 etc) / (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
HSK 1
that level or higher; that amount or more / the above-mentioned / (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
HSK 2
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL:
HSK 2
barely / only / merely / only (this and nothing more)
HSK 3
incessantly / without end / more than / not limited to
HSK 5
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  *来* | 来* | *来
to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来)
HSK 1
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  *强* | 强* | *强
strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强
HSK 3
no more; no longer
HSK 6
only; merely; nothing but; no more than / it's just that ...
HSK 5
greater than; bigger than; more than
HSK 5
more and more
HSK 2
usually / in many cases / more often than not
HSK 3
to go a step further / (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
HSK 3
more (than sth else) / even more
HSK 3
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  *点* | 点* | *点
to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts
HSK 1
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  *还* | 还* | *还
still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else
HSK 1
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  *越* | 越* | *越
to exceed / to climb over / to surpass / the more... the more
HSK 2
once more; once again
HSK 5
say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject
HSK 7-9
(broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
HSK 5
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable
HSK 5
to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides
HSK 6
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  *抬* | 抬* | *抬
to lift / to raise / (of two or more persons) to carry
HSK 5
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  *兼* | 兼* | *兼
double / twice / simultaneous / holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
HSK 7-9
almost / nearly / more or less / about the same / good enough / not bad
HSK 2
again; once more; re-
HSK 2
more or less; roughly; approximately
HSK 5
(idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
HSK 7-9
a bit; a little bit / (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit / (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er / a point (in a discussion etc) / (calligraphy) dot stroke (、) / one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟)
to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery) / to make oneself more attractive / to beautify
HSK 6
to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
HSK 7-9
(embryology) to involute; involution / (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race; to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, ,
HSK 6
to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc)
HSK 7-9
more or less
HSK 7-9
(of two or more things) to occur at the same time; to be mingled; to accompany each other
more than a year
especially; particularly; even more than usual / extra; additional
HSK 4
achievement; accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
HSK 7-9
in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole / overall situation; the big picture / cadaver for dissection in training medical students
HSK 7-9
work more and get more
HSK 7-9
ever more critical / problems get more and more intense
HSK 7-9
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  *似* | 似* | *似
to seem / to appear / to resemble / similar / -like / pseudo- / (more) than
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
to do sth more quickly / Hurry up! / Get a move on!
even more (so)
HSK 6
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  *肽* | 肽* | *肽
peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
product lacking one or more of three requirements such as production license, inspection certificate, and manufacturer's name and location
lit. when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb) / fig. the more people, the more strength
to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
HSK 7-9
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
more than half
not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary
(idiom) a thing should not be attempted more than three times; don't repeat the same mistake again and again / (idiom) bad things don't happen more than three times
more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)
HSK 7-9
all the more / increasingly
to ease (tension) / to alleviate / to moderate / to allay / to make more mild
HSK 7-9
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
to feel even more (lonely etc); to be extremely (sad, delighted etc)
exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more
to get out of a predicament / to stick out / to take the initiative / remaining odd fraction after a division / a little more than
HSK 7-9
to become more youthful
to some extent / more or less
(of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition
dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone) / (fig.) (coll.) knowledge presented in readily assimilable form; just what you want to know: no more, no less (no padding 水分)
(increasing) day by day / (more critical) with every passing day / gradually
HSK 7-9
over one billion / more than a billion
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  *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
manhole cover (more formally, 窨井蓋|窨井盖)
let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more
HSK 7-9
day by day / more and more / increasingly / more and more with each passing day
HSK 7-9
to match one's strength with / to compete / more competitive / to set oneself against sb / disobliging / to make a special effort
HSK 7-9
more than ten; a dozen or more
(idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive
(idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
to select (one or more options from a list) / to check (a box)
over fifty percent / more than half
HSK 7-9
more than / greater than
to have more work than one can deal with / to have one's hands full
two-item combo (usu. referring to a food dish, esp. two types of meat served with rice or noodles) / (real estate) duplex; semi-detached / (computing) double pinyin (input method in which each syllable is typed using no more than two keystrokes: one for the initial consonant and one for the final)
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  *益* | 益* | *益
benefit / profit / advantage / beneficial / to increase / to add / all the more
in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw)
to proofread / to revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book / to editorially revise a text
yet again / once again / once more
married, with one or more children
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  *愈* | 愈* | *愈
the more...(the more...) / to recover / to heal / better
that's all / nothing more
HSK 7-9
more and more
HSK 7-9
to pay extra; to pay more
pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
(idiom) an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth

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