| | paper (CL: 張|张, 沓) / classifier for documents, letters etc | HSK 2 |
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| | to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes | HSK 3 |
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| | knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL: 把 / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs | HSK 3 |
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| | round / lump / ball / to roll into a ball / to gather / regiment / group / society / classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) | HSK 3 |
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| | to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll | HSK 4 |
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| | examination paper / test paper / CL: 份, 張|张 | HSK 4 |
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| | paper / treatise / thesis / CL: 篇 / to discuss a paper or thesis (old) | HSK 4 |
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| | to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper) | HSK 4 |
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| | written examination / paper test (for an applicant) | HSK 6 |
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| | blueprint / drawing / design plans / graph paper | HSK 7-9 |
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| | paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張|张, 紮|扎 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | test paper; examination paper | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled; crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak; feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor; inferior | |
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| | ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead | |
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| | to construct / to form / to make up / to compose / literary composition / paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) | |
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| | classifier for a ream of paper | |
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| | paper clip | |
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| | joss paper made to resemble paper money | |
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| | paper towel / napkin / facial tissue / CL: 張|张, 包 | |
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| | paper | |
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| | folder / file (paper) | |
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| | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book | |
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| | paperback / paper-cover | |
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| | toilet paper | |
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| | paper matrix in which type is set | |
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| | scrap paper | |
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| | piece of paper with short note / short letter | |
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| | bank notes / paper currency / CL: 張|张 | |
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| | toilet paper / bathroom tissue | |
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| | photographic paper | |
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| | filter paper | |
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| | slip of paper | |
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| | kraft paper | |
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| | wrapping paper | |
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| | lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker | |
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| | joss paper made to resemble paper money | |
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| | to fold paper (to make origami articles); origami | |
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| | letter paper / writing paper | |
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| | to review (a paper or manuscript) | |
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| | lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC | |
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| | to write or draw with a brush / to put pen to paper / to write | |
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| | fine writing paper, originally from Jing county 涇縣|泾县, Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui | |
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| | letter / letter paper | |
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| | paper clip | |
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| | paper mulberry tree | |
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| | waste paper | |
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| | paper pulp | |
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| | papercutting (Chinese folk art) / to make paper cutouts | |
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| | notebook / paper notepad / laptop computer | |
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| | to hang (paper) / to mount (painting) | |
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| | short note / slip of paper / stripe / (slang) cop / (old) prostitute | |
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| | paper pattern as model in dressmaking / paper patten | |
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| | squared paper / graph paper / grid paper (manuscript paper with squares for Chinese characters) | |
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| | money / paper money / variant of 抄 | |
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| | lit. one object bests another object / every item has a weakness (idiom) / there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock | |
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| | lit. dazzling with paper and gold (idiom); fig. indulging in a life of luxury | |
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| | wide belt / sash / (packaging) paper sash around a book or other product | |
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| | to put pen to paper; to start writing or painting | |
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| | human figure made of paper or papier-mâché | |
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| | to put pen to paper | |
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| | lit. paper can't wrap fire; fig. the truth will out | |
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| | to put pen to paper | |
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| | title page / flyleaf / end paper | |
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| | to appear vividly on paper (idiom); to show forth vividly (in writing, painting etc) / to stand out markedly | |
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| | paper tiger | |
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| | to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc) | |
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| | money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll / (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession | |
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| | draft paper | |
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| | plaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc) / silkworm basket / metal foil / foil paper | |
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| | to put pen to paper; to start to write or draw | |
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| | lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs) | |
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| | wax paper / stencil paper | |
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| | to present (a gift) / offering / to feed (a signal to a device, paper to a printer etc) | |
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| | pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras | |
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| | fine paper made from bamboo, used for calligraphy, painting etc / also written 毛邊|毛边 | |
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| | ash from burnt paper | |
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| | (idiom) a piece of paper is too short to convey my feelings | |
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| | paper dolls for ritual use in the shape of people or animals | |
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| | to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces) | |
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| | tall conical paper hat worn as a public humiliation / dunce cap / (fig.) flattery | |
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| | form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters | |
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| | rice paper / membrane of glutinous rice, used to wrap sweets etc | |
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| | a worthless piece of paper (idiom) | |
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| | joss paper | |
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| | print media / (old) paper taper used to light a cigarette etc | |
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| | photocopier paper | |
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| | to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper) | |
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| | to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony) | |
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| | a piece, scrap or fragment of paper | |
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| | carbon paper | |
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| | pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras | |
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| | dye paper / lake / pond / mount scroll | |
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| | paper clip | |
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| | toilet paper | |
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| | (onom.) giggling / breathing / tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc | |
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| | rice-paper plant (Tetrapanax papyriferus) | |
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