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  *元* | 元* | *元
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first; original; primary / (bound form) basic; fundamental / (bound form) constituent; part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument; variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon
HSK 1
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  *去* | 去* | *去
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
HSK 1
north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River
HSK 2
portion / part of / subset
HSK 2
east / east side / eastern part / to the east of
HSK 1
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  *幹* | 幹* | *幹
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
HSK 1
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  *光* | 光* | *光
light; ray (CL:) / bright; shiny / only; merely / used up; finished / to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
HSK 3
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  *名* | 名* | *名
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people
HSK 2
to separate / to part
HSK 2
middle part; central section; central region
HSK 3
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  *別* | 別* | *別
to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc) / (bound form) other; another; different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别, 派別|派别)
HSK 1
western part
HSK 3
the greater part; the majority; most / Taiwan pr. [da4bu4fen4]
HSK 2
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  *插* | 插* | *插
to insert / stick in / pierce / to take part in / to interfere / to interpose
HSK 5
to hate to do sth / to hate to part with / to begrudge
HSK 5
north / north side / northern part / to the north of
HSK 1
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  *部* | 部* | *部
ministry / department / section / part / division / troops / board / classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
HSK 3
interior / inside (part, section) / internal
HSK 4
to leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
HSK 3
to participate / to take part / to join
HSK 2
to part; to leave each other / to distinguish; to tell apart / difference; distinction / in different ways; differently / separately; individually
HSK 3
northern part
HSK 3
south / south side / southern part / to the south of
HSK 1
to be classified as / to belong to / to be part of
HSK 3
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  *挺* | 挺* | *挺
straight / erect / to stick out (a part of the body) / to (physically) straighten up / to support / to withstand / outstanding / (coll.) quite / very / classifier for machine guns
HSK 2
main part / bulk / body / subject / agent
HSK 5
part; portion; piece / Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4]
HSK 2
the east / eastern part
HSK 3
role; part (in a play or movie etc) / also pr. [jiao3se4]
HSK 4
to part company / to split up / to break up
HSK 4
to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc) / to take part in some activity / to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)
HSK 7-9
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  *處* | 處* | *處
(bound form) place; locality / (bound form) part; aspect / (bound form) office; department; bureau / classifier for locations: spot, point
HSK 4
southern part
HSK 3
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  *抽* | 抽* | *抽
to draw out / to pull out from in between / to remove part of the whole / (of certain plants) to sprout or bud / to whip or thrash
HSK 4
face (body part)
HSK 7-9
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  *離* | 離* | *離
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire /
HSK 2
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  *末* | 末* | *末
tip / end / final stage / latter part / inessential detail / powder / dust / opera role of old man
HSK 4
(idiom) four-part structure of a composition: introduction, elucidation, pivot (shift in perspective), synthesis; (fig.) coherent structural progression in writing, narrative, or any unfolding process
west / west side / western part / to the west of
HSK 1
to be willing to part with sth
HSK 5
failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship)
HSK 7-9
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  *作* | 作* | *作
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
to compete / to take part in a competition
HSK 6
for the most part / on the whole / metropolitan
HSK 5
abyss / depths / deepest or most distant part
HSK 5
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  *欠* | 欠* | *欠
to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
HSK 5
to correspond / answering (one another) / to agree (among the part) / corresponding / relevant / appropriate / (modify) accordingly
HSK 5
reluctant to part (idiom); broken-hearted at having to leave
HSK 7-9
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
HSK 5
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  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
part / local
HSK 7-9
(to play) one's part / one's role / one's duty / (to stay within) one's bounds / dutiful / keeping to one's role
HSK 7-9
place above (it) / upper part (of it)
HSK 7-9
for the most part / many / most / the greater part / mostly
HSK 4
reception pavilion (generally part of a large residence, and often built in a garden)
to exhibit at or take part in a trade show etc
HSK 6
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  *分* | 分* | *分
part / share / ingredient / component
pain / (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt / (of a person) to be in pain
HSK 6
upper part of the body / to put on (clothes on the upper body) / (of a spirit, disease, misfortune etc) to afflict one; to possess one
the northern part of the country / the North
(linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
a small part; a small section
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
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  *膁* | 膁* | *膁
(usu. of an animal) the part of the side of the body between the ribs and the hipbone
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  *微* | 微* | *微
tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2]
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  *晌* | 晌* | *晌
part of the day / midday
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  *扇* | 扇* | *扇
fan / sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth / classifier for doors, windows etc
HSK 5
part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc)
HSK 5
(loanword) bye-bye / also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc / (coll.) to part ways (with sb) / (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth)
lit. a cup of soup / fig. to get part of the profits / one's share of the action
reluctant to part
HSK 7-9
to work part-time while studying / work-study program
HSK 7-9
final part of a go game (see 官子) / endgame / to finish up / to come to the final stage
component / part / fitting / accessory / replacement part
HSK 7-9
the top; the upper part; (its) surface / the authorities; those in charge; the higher-ups
HSK 7-9
front part (of an object) / first part (of an event) / previous paragraph
reluctant to part with (sth or sb); unwilling to let go of
afflicted part
front part / front section
traditional Han Chinese attire (including various styles of clothing worn by the Han ethnic group before the Qing Dynasty, and in the 21st century, revived as part of a cultural movement) / clothing styles of the Han dynasty
very much / extremely / one ten thousandth part
HSK 7-9
the hottest part of summer sets in
wrapping cloth / a bundle wrapped in cloth / load / weight / burden / funny part / punchline
HSK 7-9
lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom) / fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them
to impersonate / to act the part of sb / to disguise oneself as sb else
component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)
(lit.) to take a part for the whole / to generalize
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  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
to take part in an election / to run for office
HSK 7-9
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
a portion smaller than a half / the lesser part / the smaller part
remainder (after rounding a number) / decimal part (of number after the decimal point) / mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.) / small change / balance (of an account)
separated in life and death / to part for ever
(idiom) to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
front / front end / forward part of sth
Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
to hold a concurrent post / part-time; (in academia) adjunct
HSK 7-9
eight-section brocade, a traditional eight-part sequence of qigong exercises
to resign oneself to part with what one treasures
(TCM) upper burner, the part of the body within the thoracic cavity (above the diaphragm, including the heart and lungs)

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