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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *楼* | 楼* | *楼
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
more / even more / further / still / still more
HSK 2
almost / nearly / more or less / about the same / good enough / not bad
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *越* | 越* | *越
to exceed / to climb over / to surpass / the more... the more
HSK 2
again; once more; re-
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
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
more and more
HSK 2
only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *强* | 强* | *强
strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强
HSK 3
usually / in many cases / more often than not
HSK 3
to go a step further / (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
HSK 3
barely / only / merely / only (this and nothing more)
HSK 3
more (than sth else) / even more
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抬* | 抬* | *抬
to lift / to raise / (of two or more persons) to carry
HSK 5
greater than; bigger than; more than
HSK 5
once more; once again
HSK 5
up and down / top and bottom / old and young / length / about; more or less
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
only / merely / nothing but / no more than / it's just that ...
HSK 5
more or less; roughly; approximately
HSK 5
incessantly / without end / more than / not limited to
HSK 5
(not) any more
HSK 5
a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, ,
HSK 6
to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides
HSK 6
to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery) / to make oneself more attractive / to beautify
HSK 6
no more; no longer
HSK 6
even more (so)
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
once more; once again; one more time
HSK 7-9
day by day / more and more / increasingly / more and more with each passing day
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
achievement; accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
HSK 7-9
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兼* | 兼* | *兼
double / twice / simultaneous / holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
HSK 7-9
to attend simultaneously to two or more things / to balance (career and family, family and education etc)
HSK 7-9
to make more beautiful / to decorate / embellishment
HSK 7-9
(increasing) day by day / (more critical) with every passing day / gradually
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钉* | 钉* | *钉
to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on
HSK 7-9
to ease (tension) / to alleviate / to moderate / to allay / to make more mild
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
that's all / nothing more
HSK 7-9
increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more
HSK 7-9
over fifty percent / more than half
HSK 7-9
to be excessive; to be more than is required
HSK 7-9
more and more
HSK 7-9
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
work more and get more
HSK 7-9
to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
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
let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more
HSK 7-9
ever more critical / problems get more and more intense
HSK 7-9
(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
more or less
HSK 7-9
say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject
HSK 7-9
more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)
HSK 7-9
(of fuse wire) to melt; to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *益* | 益* | *益
benefit / profit / advantage / beneficial / to increase / to add / all the more
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)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *似* | 似* | *似
to seem / to appear / to resemble / similar / -like / pseudo- / (more) than
even more
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)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肽* | 肽* | *肽
peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扛* | 扛* | *扛
to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together
to give a more granular level of detail / to elaborate / to refine / to become more differentiated
seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic
more than / greater than
manhole cover (more formally, 窨井蓋|窨井盖)
many / much / a lot / lots and lots / more / even more
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *茄* | 茄* | *茄
phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夾|夹 is more common
to arrive (esp. of notable person) / to visit (more formal than 光臨|光临)
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *愈* | 愈* | *愈
the more...(the more...) / to recover / to heal / better
to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day / more (or better etc) with each passing day
all the more / increasingly
to wander about / to roam / to move back and forth between (government and academia, two or more countries etc) / to flow through (a circuit, a network, the body) / to skirt (the border of legality) / (of a singer's voice) to move within its range / (of a stock price) to fluctuate within (a range)
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弥* | 弥* | *弥
full / to fill / completely / more
(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition
item (in a program of entertainments) / trick (act of mischief) / worthwhile result / accomplishment / sth significant but not immediately apparent / sth more than meets the eye
national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
all the more / even more / further
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甚* | 甚* | *甚
excessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
(of two or more things) to occur at the same time; to be mingled; to accompany each other
garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives / (fig.) retail investors who lose their money to more experienced operators (i.e. they are "harvested" like garlic chives)
character with two or more readings
lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay
(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
to blend two or more medicines / compatibility (of herbal remedies, medicines)
(originally) to provide assistance / (more recently) to show one's support (for a singing idol etc)
(idiom) more than enough
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
to become more and more / to gradually become
to be more scared than hurt (idiom) / to get through a daunting experience without mishap

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