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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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  *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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  *人* | 人* | *人
person; people / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
population / people
HSK 2
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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
Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to )
HSK 1
ethnic Chinese person or people
HSK 3
number of people
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
other people; others; other person
HSK 1
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
someone / people / anyone / there is someone there / occupied (as in restroom)
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
patent / sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people / monopoly
HSK 5
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
people
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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  *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
poor people / the poor
HSK 4
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  *海* | 海* | *海
ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
HSK 2
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
HSK 7-9
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
(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
(of an area) vast or extensive / large-scale / widespread / (of people) numerous
HSK 3
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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
People's Republic of China
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
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
People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
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  *伙* | 伙* | *伙
companion / partner / group / classifier for groups of people / to combine / together
HSK 4
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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
(neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society)
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
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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)
prestige / reputation / trust / credit with the people
HSK 7-9
people's government
race (of people)
meeting place / place where people gather / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
servant / to employ sb for a job / to manage people / to be in need of staff
HSK 7-9
considerate (of other people's needs)
HSK 7-9
People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
young people / youngster
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
line (i.e. of people waiting) / queue
lit. people shouting and horses neighing (idiom) / fig. tumultuous / hubbub
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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
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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
people killed in battle
overcrowded with people / overstaffed
backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) / (may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc)
to appoint people according to their merits (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity
Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to )
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military)
HSK 7-9
starving people
outsourcing / people who judge others by their looks (abbr. for 外貌協會|外貌协会)
like a swarm of bees; in droves (used to describe people flocking to do sth)
ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
HSK 7-9
to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
People's Bank of China (abbr. for 中國人民銀行|中国人民银行)
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
lit. when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb) / fig. the more people, the more strength
to attract people's affection / charming / delightful
HSK 7-9
not living up to expectations (idiom) / failing to inspire confidence among people / unpopular
tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
Indian (person) / CL: 個|个 / Indian people
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
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  *民* | 民* | *民
(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
deputy to the People's Congress
another person; sb else; other people
HSK 7-9
to enter deeply into people's hearts / to have a real impact on the people (idiom)
HSK 7-9
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
(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
the "good-looks club": people who attach great importance to a person's appearance (pun on 外貿協會|外贸协会 foreign trade association)
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
the remaining people
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
people's militia / militia / militiaman
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)
National People's Congress (NPC)
column; file (formation of people) (CL:,) / PLA army corps (1946–1949) (CL:個|个)
people (in general); people around the world; everyone
Japanese person or people
Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
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  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
to order people about / to stir up / to sow discord
people
to bring up / to train / to contribute to / achievements (usually of young people)
HSK 7-9
People's Bank of China

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