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  *号* | 号* | *号
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
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  *字* | 字* | *字
letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
HSK 1
name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *水* | 水* | *水
water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment
HSK 1
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  *他* | 他* | *他
he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) / (used before sb's name for emphasis) / (used as a meaningless mock object) / (literary) other
HSK 1
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  *称* | 称* | *称
to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise
HSK 2
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  *名* | 名* | *名
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people
HSK 2
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  *套* | 套* | *套
to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ)
HSK 2
name (of a thing) / name (of an organization)
HSK 2
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  *收* | 收* | *收
to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name)
HSK 2
list of names
HSK 2
to sign up / to enter one's name / to apply / to register / to enroll / to enlist
HSK 2
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
surname and given name; full name
HSK 2
like that / in that way / or so / so / so very much / about / in that case
HSK 2
evening newspaper / (in a newspaper's name) Evening News
HSK 2
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  *姓* | 姓* | *姓
family name; surname / to be surnamed ...
HSK 2
the head of an institution whose name ends in / chair of a board / president of a university / department head / dean / premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *总* | 总* | *总
general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理 or 總編|总编 etc
HSK 3
local / regional / district (not necessarily formal administrative unit) / region / area / as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
representative / delegate / CL: , 個|个, / to represent / to stand for / on behalf of / in the name of
HSK 3
to register (one's name)
HSK 4
roll call / to mention sb by name / (to call or praise or criticize sb) by name
HSK 4
hat / cap / (fig.) label / bad name / CL: 頂|顶
HSK 4
to sign (one's name with a pen etc) / to autograph / signature
HSK 5
to sign (one's name) / signature
HSK 5
to raise one's head / to gain ground / account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc
HSK 5
name / term of address / title
HSK 5
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  *签* | 签* | *签
to sign one's name / to write brief comments on a document / inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 籤|签) / visa
HSK 5
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  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
brand name / trademark
HSK 6
China (alternate formal name)
HSK 6
name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose
HSK 6
place name / toponym
HSK 6
bronze medal / bronze plaque bearing a business name or logo etc / CL:
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well-known for sth / to become well known / to make one's mark / to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
HSK 6
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  *标* | 标* | *标
mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units
HSK 7-9
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  *麻* | 麻* | *麻
generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL: 縷|缕 / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb
HSK 7-9
code name
HSK 7-9
family name
HSK 7-9
to call out (a name etc) / to shout
HSK 7-9
to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
HSK 7-9
the name of various contactless smart cards, notably Yikatong (mainly for public transport in Beijing) and iPASS (mainly for public transport in Taiwan)
HSK 7-9
(used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
HSK 7-9
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name
HSK 7-9
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  *坝* | 坝* | *坝
(used in place names) plain; flatland / (dialect) sandbar; shoal
HSK 7-9
see 和田地區|和田地区 / Wada (Japanese surname and place name)
visiting card / name card
Ishikawa (Japanese surname and place name)
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  *秦* | 秦* | *秦
surname Qin / Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇 / short name for 陝西|陕西
character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop
Ōno (Japanese surname and place name)
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  *并* | 并* | *并
short name for Taiyuan 太原
BYD Company (company name)
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  *阿* | 阿* | *阿
abbr. for country names that begin with : Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc
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  *阿* | 阿* | *阿
prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]
Marshall (name) / George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate
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  *辽* | 辽* | *辽
short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁 province / Liao or Khitan dynasty (916-1125)
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  *翼* | 翼* | *翼
surname Yi / alternative name for 絳|绛, the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
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  *魏* | 魏* | *魏
surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
Mark (name)
Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市, Fujian / Lienchiang County, the official name of the Matsu Islands 馬祖列島|马祖列岛, a county of the ROC (based in Taiwan)
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  *沪* | 沪* | *沪
short name for Shanghai
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  *乐* | 乐* | *乐
used in place names
to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
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  *苏* | 苏* | *苏
Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil) / place name / to revive / used as phonetic in transliteration
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  *郝* | 郝* | *郝
ancient place name / surname Hao
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  *葵* | 葵* | *葵
used in the names of various herbaceous plants
Matsuo (Japanese surname and place name)
Martin (name)
Nakano (Japanese surname and place name)
North Sea (in Europe) / historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖, Russia
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  *榕* | 榕* | *榕
Rong, another name for Fuzhou 福州
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  *鑫* | 鑫* | *鑫
(used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity)
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  *鲁* | 鲁* | *鲁
surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东
Henry (name) / henry (unit of inductance)
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  *淮* | 淮* | *淮
name of a river
Bill (name)
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  *郑* | 郑* | *郑
the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑, a county-level city in Henan / surname Zheng / abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州, the capital of Henan
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  *鄀* | 鄀* | *鄀
place name
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  *莱* | 莱* | *莱
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album
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  *昀* | 昀* | *昀
sun light / used in personal name
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  *齐* | 齐* | *齐
(name of states and dynasties at several different periods) / surname Qi
Hainan Province, in the South China Sea, short name 瓊|琼, capital Haikou 海口 / Hainan Island / Hainan District of Wuhai City 烏海市|乌海市, Inner Mongolia / Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州, Qinghai
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
Morgan (name)
adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
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  *沈* | 沈* | *沈
short name for 瀋陽|沈阳
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  *密* | 密* | *密
surname Mi / name of an ancient state
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  *乌* | 乌* | *乌
abbr. for country names that begin with : Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰, Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦 etc / surname Wu
place name
William or Wilhelm (name)
other name of the Xiangjiang river 湘江 in Hunan province
Xinhua (New China), the name of various businesses, products and organizations, notably the Xinhua News Agency 新華社|新华社
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  *申* | 申* | *申
old name for Shanghai 上海 / surname Shen
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  *皖* | 皖* | *皖
short name for Anhui Province 安徽省
Honda (Japanese name)
Hang Seng (the name of a bank in Hong Kong and of the stock market index the bank established)

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