| | to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine | HSK 1 |
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| | to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word | HSK 1 |
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| | (classical) to say | 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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| | to leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to | HSK 3 |
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| | legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... | HSK 3 |
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| | at least / (to say the) least | HSK 3 |
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| | can't say for sure / maybe | HSK 4 |
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| | to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not | HSK 4 |
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| | to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances) | HSK 5 |
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| | eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) / aubergine / brinjal / Guinea squash / phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed) / equivalent of "say cheese" | HSK 6 |
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| | to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides | HSK 6 |
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| | in other words / that is to say | HSK 6 |
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| | to declare one's position / to say where one stands | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to speak / to say | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words and actions / what one says and what one does | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (bound form) to say; to tell / to announce; to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit; to sue | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to say nothing of; not to mention; let alone | HSK 7-9 |
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| | nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to say everything (that is on one's mind) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words / expression / what one says | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pray; to say a prayer | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to agree / to go along with / to echo (what sb says) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to say goodbye / to take one's leave | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | needless to say; it goes without saying | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as the proverb says / as they say... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to have nothing to say (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | it is reasonable to say that... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to not say a word | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in other words / that is to say / so / thus | HSK 7-9 |
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| | if / if one were to say | HSK 7-9 |
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| | say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words / speech / to say / to talk | |
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| | to say sth | |
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| | to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc) / to say repeatedly / to urge insistently / to ask repeatedly / to stick to a point / (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound | |
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| | to state / to say (the quoted words) | |
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| | to take medicine orally / oral (contraceptive etc) / to say that one is convinced | |
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| | it is said / allegedly / according to reports / or so they say | |
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| | (say) a few words | |
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| | to say goodbye; to bid farewell / to pay a farewell call | |
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| | to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard | |
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| | discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech | |
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| | to speak / to say / to name / to designate / meaning / sense | |
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| | to speak plainly; to speak one’s mind; to say directly | |
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| | repeatedly (say something) | |
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| | hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve | |
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| | to say candidly / to acknowledge frankly | |
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| | to say hello to / to send one's regards to | |
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| | (idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says | |
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| | to wave the hand (to say goodbye, or in a negative gesture) / crank handle | |
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| | meaning behind the words / what sb really means to say / one's intentions as revealed in one's words / tone of speech | |
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| | to say a few parting words; to bid goodbye | |
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| | to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd | |
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| | animal cited in ancient texts, resembling a buffalo (some say rhinoceros or female rhinoceros) | |
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| | to bid farewell (to); to say goodbye (to) | |
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| | to read silently / to mouth (the words of a prayer etc) / to say to oneself / to contemplate inwardly | |
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| | to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means / to think and act as one | |
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| | frank and outspoken (idiom) / straight speaking / to say what one thinks | |
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| | to say more than is necessary / to give unnecessary details | |
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| | to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word | |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) / to keep silent | |
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| | (idiom) to say not a single word about it | |
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| | one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct | |
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| | needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | to say goodbye / leave-taking / farewells | |
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| | (idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on | |
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| | to say straightforwardly | |
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| | to want to say sth but then hesitate | |
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| | to say clearly / to argue clearly / to pronounce / pronounced | |
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| | (idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement; just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true | |
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| | to speak / to say | |
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| | (idiom) to say one thing and do another | |
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| | to say straight out / to point out bluntly / to give a straightforward account / to disclose | |
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| | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop | |
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| | to bow down to everything sb says or does / to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself | |
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| | to say, without careful consideration | |
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| | to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own / to parrot | |
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| | letting everyone have their say / taking people's views into account / free expression of different views / (contrasted with 一言堂) | |
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| | to say (sth that relates to oneself) | |
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| | to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong | |
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| | to parrot / to repeat uncritically what sb says | |
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| | to pray / to say one's prayers | |
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| | to shout (i.e. to say in a loud voice) (usually followed by the words shouted) / (old) (of yamen bailiffs etc) to walk ahead of an official, shouting at pedestrians to clear the way | |
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| | one's own mouth / fig. in one's own words / to say sth personally | |
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| | not to worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say | |
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| | lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); to say what you think / honest and straightforward | |
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| | to say / to speak / to talk | |
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| | to not know what to say; to be lost for words | |
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| | to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition) | |
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| | to remain silent / to have nothing to say | |
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| | to wave goodbye / (fig.) to say goodbye to / to bid farewell to | |
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| | to use one's mouth (to say sth) | |
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