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| | bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL: 張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc | HSK 1 |
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| | strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | south; southern direction / (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River | HSK 2 |
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| | to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) | HSK 2 |
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| | 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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| | river (CL: 條|条, 道) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉 | HSK 2 |
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| | north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River | HSK 2 |
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| | (literary) tributary; branch of a river / clique; school; group; faction / (bound form) style; manner / to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by 一) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie | HSK 3 |
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| | to remit / to converge (of rivers) / to exchange | HSK 4 |
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| | to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research | HSK 4 |
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| | to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water | HSK 4 |
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| | to rise (of prices, rivers) | HSK 5 |
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| | horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent | HSK 6 |
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| | 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 科 / 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 |
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| | main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | water source / water supply / headwaters of a river | HSK 7-9 |
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| | branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream | HSK 7-9 |
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| | riverside / river plain | HSK 7-9 |
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| | upper reaches (of a river) / upper level / upper echelon / upstream | HSK 7-9 |
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| | river basin / valley / drainage area | HSK 7-9 |
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| | continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests / obliged to collaborate towards common goals | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mountains and rivers / landscape | HSK 7-9 |
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| | see 黑龍江省|黑龙江省 / Heilong River or Amur River, forming the border between northeast China and Russia | |
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| | the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong / Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇 | |
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| | Fuchun River in Zhejiang | |
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| | saliva / sweat / a ferry crossing / a ford (river crossing) | |
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| | mountains and rivers / the whole country | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | abbr. for Jiangxi Province 江西省 / Gan River in Jiangxi Province 江西省 | |
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| | Dongjiang River | |
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| | river bank / shore / river drainage ditch (old) | |
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| | Jinsha River, the upper course of the Yangtze River 長江|长江 in southwestern China | |
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| | water from a mountain / mountains and rivers / scenery / landscape | |
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| | to flow together / confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads) / (international) cooperation | |
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| | (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom | |
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| | Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei | |
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| | (of a naval vessel) to cruise / to patrol / (of ducks, boats etc) to move about on a lake or river etc | |
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| | Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) | |
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| | the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原 | |
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| | the Times (newspaper) / River Thames, through London | |
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| | along the bank of a river; riverside | |
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| | river water | |
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| | to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff) | |
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| | surname Luo / old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui) | |
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| | name of a river | |
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| | Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水) | |
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| | West China (region in the upper reaches of Yangtze River and Sichuan Province) | |
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| | river / stream | |
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| | edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore | |
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| | large river (esp the Yellow River) | |
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| | continent / island in a river | |
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| | rainy / place name in Shaanxi / Feng River in Shaanxi 陝西|陕西, tributary of Wei River 渭水 | |
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| | surname Hu / name of a river | |
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| | short name for Chongqing 重慶|重庆 / old name of Jialing River 嘉陵江 in Sichuan | |
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| | Chan River in Henan province 河南 | |
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| | Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang | |
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| | the Bund, a waterfront promenade in central Shanghai, running along the western bank of the Huangpu River | |
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| | (bound form) water's edge; bank; shore / (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc) | |
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| | used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水 / surname Ji | |
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| | to cross a river / to aid or relieve / to be of help | |
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| | fertile / rich / to irrigate / to wash (of river) | |
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| | Yong River 甬江 in Ningbo 寧波|宁波 / short name for Ningbo | |
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| | Si River in Shandong | |
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| | abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China / abbr. for Xiangjiang river in Hunan province | |
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| | name of a river | |
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| | Yellow River or Huang He | |
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| | river in Shandong | |
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| | south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea) | |
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| | Yuan river in Guizhou and Hunan | |
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| | Han River | |
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| | name of a river in Shaanxi province / see 滻河|浐河 | |
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| | Pudong, a district of Shanghai to the east of the Huangpu River, full name 浦東新區|浦东新区 | |
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| | name of a river | |
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| | name of a river in Sichuan | |
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| | to investigate the origin of sth / to trace a river upstream back to its source | |
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| | river valley | |
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| | Miluo city in Hunan / Miluo river in Hunan, famous for Dragon Boat festival | |
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| | to dredge (a river) | |
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| | name of a river in Hunan | |
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| | limit / border / river bank | |
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| | Zhang river in Fujian | |
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| | river God | |
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| | Min River, Fujian | |
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| | sandy beach or river bank / sand dune / sandy land | |
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| | He river in Shandong | |
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| | upper reaches (of a river) / to go upstream / to add some water / to water (a crop etc) | |
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| | river tracing / mountain stream climbing (recreational activity) | |
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| | (of rivers etc) to converge / convergence | |
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| | name of a river in Henan / Henan | |
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| | estuary / coastal inlet / river mouth / seaport / see also 誇海口|夸海口 | |
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| | river source | |
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| | to cross a river | |
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| | tearful / to branch (of river) | |
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| | estuary / the mouth of a river | |
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