| | road; path (CL: 條｜条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle | HSK 2 |
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| | overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia | HSK 2 |
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| | reason / argument / sense / principle / basis / justification / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | principle / doctrine / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 4 |
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| | principle / theory | HSK 5 |
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| | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then / (bound form) standard; norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate; to follow / classifier for written items | HSK 7-9 |
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| | program (i.e. plan of action) / guiding principle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lack of discipline / to break a rule / to violate discipline / to breach a principle | |
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| | positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰｜阴 | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | head rope of a fishing net / guiding principle / key link / class (taxonomy) / outline / program | |
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| | integrity / moral principle | |
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| | legal principle / jurisprudence | |
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| | same principle | |
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| | general rule / general principle | |
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| | (idiom) (of a principle, purpose etc) consistently upheld; adhered to from beginning to end | |
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| | to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知) / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing | |
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| | to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues) | |
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| | scientific principle / theoretical standpoint | |
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| | to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (idiom); pursuing knowledge to the end | |
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| | literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle) / courtesy name | |
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| | to speak out for justice (idiom); to take a stand on a matter of principle | |
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| | "universal love", principle advocated by Mozi 墨子, stressing that people should care for everyone equally | |
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| | major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character | |
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| | (idiom) to keep on the right side of everyone (often at the expense of principle) | |
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| | School of Principle / Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥｜程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤｜程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹) | |
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| | according to reason / in principle | |
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| | golden rule / key principle | |
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| | general rule / simple principle | |
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| | to take as a guiding principle (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle | |
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| | mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion | |
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| | (cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker | |
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| | in principle / generally | |
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| | fundamental principle | |
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| | agnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that some questions about the universe are in principle unanswerable | |
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| | (cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker | |
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| | major principle / general truth / sermon (reproof) / bombastic talk | |
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| | principle / logic | |
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| | principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade) | |
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| | Scientific Outlook on Development, a guiding principle for the CCP attributed to Hu Jintao 胡錦濤｜胡锦涛, incorporated into the Constitution of the CCP in 2007 | |
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| | (lit.) past years' almanac / (fig.) ancient history; obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle | |
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| | (Pauli) exclusion principle (physics) | |
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| | Pareto principle | |
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| | a wise man looks after his own hide (idiom) / to put one's own safety before matters of principle | |
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| | nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism | |
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| | democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state) | |
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| | Archimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy) | |
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| | when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second / the tip of the iceberg / the cockroach principle | |
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| | variational principle (physics) | |
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| | lit. almanac from years back (idiom) / obsolete practice / old-fashioned principle | |
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| | One-China principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China | |
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| | general principle | |
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| | Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927) | |
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| | festive season / happy time / noble principle | |
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| | fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être | |
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