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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *在* | 在* | *在
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *着* | 着* | *着
aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *还* | 还* | *还
still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else
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
to make headway; to make progress
HSK 3
progress; improvement / to improve; to progress / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肝* | 肝* | *肝
liver (CL:葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
HSK 6
neck of a bottle / (fig.) bottleneck / problem that impedes progress
HSK 7-9
rate of progress
HSK 7-9
depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)
HSK 7-9
to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
HSK 7-9
remarkable (progress, improvement, expansion etc)
HSK 7-9
in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally
HSK 7-9
daily renewal, monthly change (idiom) / every day sees new developments / rapid progress
HSK 7-9
to make progress / to do better / fig. ambitious to improve oneself / to move forwards
to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
progress step by step / gradual progress / to move forward (slowly)
to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day / more (or better etc) with each passing day
battlefield situation / battle progress
evolution / gradual forward progress
to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve
to leap forward / to make rapid progress / a leap forward
to make progress while ensuring stability
to make progress / progress
to advance singing loudly (idiom); triumphant progress
gradual progress / to go forward one stage at a time
progress / to advance
to forge ahead vigorously / to dedicate oneself to progress
rapid progress
lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy / a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress / (of media) to propagate errors / to lead people astray
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will
progress / prospect of solution / sign of positive outcome
lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement to study or progress
income / (literary) improvement / progress
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *邅* | 邅* | *邅
not making progress
lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress
(coll.) (gaming) to progress to the next level / to level up
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捗* | 捗* | *捗
to make progress
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烝* | 烝* | *烝
multitudinous / the masses / to present (to sb) / to rise / to advance / to progress / archaic variant of
to hinder progress
(computing) progress bar
one step, one footprint (idiom); steady progress / reliable
to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)
uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress
(ancient Chinese astrology) Yuebei, a heavenly body postulated to exist at the apogee of the Moon's orbit, hindering the Moon's progress
(literary) making no progress
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom) / one should constantly strive to make progress
progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经, Chpt. 41)
it's better to make slow progress than no progress at all (proverb)
every day sees new developments (idiom) / to make constant progress
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong (abbr. for 民主建港協進聯盟|民主建港协进联盟)
material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
to progress to (a higher-level school)
Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)
to overtake on a bend (driving) / (fig.) taking opportunity of tight corners to make swift progress (economy etc)
solid progress
to push back (progress, the times etc)
in constant progress
constantly increasing without limit (idiom); rapid progress in all directions
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
progress chart; schedule
Progress (name of Russian spaceship)
progress seems like regress (alternative wording for 進道若退|进道若退)


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