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  *好* | 好* | *好
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
HSK 1
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  *人* | 人* | *人
person; people / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to )
HSK 1
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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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  *口* | 口* | *口
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
HSK 1
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  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / CL: 個|个 / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
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  *老* | 老* | *老
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
HSK 1
other people; others; other person
HSK 1
(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway / (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) / (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance
HSK 2
people
HSK 2
unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *位* | 位* | *位
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential
HSK 2
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  *组* | 组* | *组
to form / to organize / group / team / classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries
HSK 2
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  *海* | 海* | *海
ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
HSK 2
number of people
HSK 2
population / people
HSK 2
someone / people / anyone / there is someone there / occupied (as in restroom)
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
the people / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
(of an area) vast or extensive / large-scale / widespread / (of people) numerous
HSK 3
ethnic Chinese person or people
HSK 3
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
poor people / the poor
HSK 4
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  *伙* | 伙* | *伙
companion / partner / group / classifier for groups of people / to combine / together
HSK 4
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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
patent / sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people / monopoly
HSK 5
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
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  *辈* | 辈* | *辈
lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people
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
another person; sb else; other people
HSK 7-9
(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened / (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason / (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
HSK 7-9
fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny
HSK 7-9
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
HSK 7-9
antenna; aerial / (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people
HSK 7-9
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military)
HSK 7-9
model; example (for people to follow); (in reference to a person) role model
HSK 7-9
group of people / camp / faction / sides in a dispute
HSK 7-9
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
to bring up / to train / to contribute to / achievements (usually of young people)
HSK 7-9
people from the same workplace or profession; co-worker; colleague / (fandom) fan creator or enthusiast involved in derivative works (e.g. fan fiction, fan art)
HSK 7-9
to get people to laugh / funny / hilarious
HSK 7-9
to benefit (e.g. the people)
HSK 7-9
servant / to employ sb for a job / to manage people / to be in need of staff
HSK 7-9
hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
HSK 7-9
lit. clothing, food, housing and transportation (idiom) / fig. people's basic needs
HSK 7-9
prestige / reputation / trust / credit with the people
HSK 7-9
person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
HSK 7-9
considerate (of other people's needs)
HSK 7-9
to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3]
HSK 7-9
meeting place / place where people gather / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
to enter deeply into people's hearts / to have a real impact on the people (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
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
ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
HSK 7-9
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  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
to attract people's affection / charming / delightful
HSK 7-9
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  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
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  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
Amis or Pangcah, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Songhay people of Mali and the Sahara
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  *鑫* | 鑫* | *鑫
(used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity)
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  *民* | 民* | *民
(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
to swear or curse (at people) / to scold or yell at someone
public housing / dormitory, esp. for unmarried people
to benefit the people
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
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  *越* | 越* | *越
generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南
the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)
Indian (person) / CL: 個|个 / Indian people
Babuza, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Marseille, city in south France / Basay, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
to value talent; to cherish talented people
(of government policy, noise pollution, crime etc) to make people's lives difficult
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
outstanding people / water and fire (in Daoist writing)
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  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written )
(vulgar) derogatory name (in which means ) for the "People's Daily" 人民日報|人民日报
(idiom) to fan the flames / to incite people / to stir up trouble
popular feeling / the will of the people
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  *扛* | 扛* | *扛
to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together
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  *啸* | 啸* | *啸
(of people) to whistle / (of birds and animals) to screech; to howl; to roar
relations with other people
(idiom) to become as one (with a particular group of people); to mix well; to bond
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会)
ignorant masses / to keep the people in ignorance
to transport; to carry (goods, materials or people)
the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia
man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
people's livelihood / people's welfare
to recognize people (of babies) / to be able to tell people apart

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