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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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| | to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word | HSK 1 |
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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, shadows 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 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 leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to | HSK 3 |
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| | 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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| | say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as the proverb says / as they say... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | needless to say; it goes without saying | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | 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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| | to not say a word | HSK 7-9 |
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| | can't say for sure / maybe | HSK 4 |
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| | in other words / that is to say / so / thus | HSK 7-9 |
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| | it is reasonable to say that... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on | |
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| | if / if one were to say | HSK 7-9 |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head | |
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| | to say everything (that is on one's mind) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in other words / that is to say | HSK 6 |
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| | to say nothing of; not to mention; let alone | 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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| | eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) / aubergine / brinjal / Guinea squash / phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed) / equivalent of "say cheese" | HSK 6 |
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| | to remain silent / to have nothing to say / (coll.) speechless / dumbfounded | |
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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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| | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell | |
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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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| | nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic) | 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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| | discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech | |
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| | words and actions / what one says and what one does | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's own mouth / fig. in one's own words / to say sth personally | |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) / to keep silent | |
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| | let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); to say what you think / honest and straightforward | |
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| | to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hit the target with a single shot / to say something spot on (idiom) | |
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| | hard to say; can't be sure / difficult to speak about; unpleasant to say | |
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| | (say) a few words | |
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| | words / speech / to say / to talk | |
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| | (idiom) needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasize one is innocent or in the clear | |
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| | to understand (by hearing) / to catch (what sb says) | |
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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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| | to pray; to say a prayer | HSK 7-9 |
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| | keep silent / not say a word | |
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| | to declare one's position / to say where one stands | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to keep one's promise; to mean what one says | |
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| | to refuse to say anything about (idiom) / to remain tight-lipped / to avoid mentioning | |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | words / expression / what one says | 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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| | as they say, ... / as the saying goes, ... | |
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| | lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others | |
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| | to state / to say (the quoted words) | |
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| | (after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true | |
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| | to have nothing to say (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sth pertinent to say | |
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| | to say goodbye / to take one's leave | HSK 7-9 |
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| | it is said / allegedly / according to reports / or so they say | |
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| | to speak / to say | |
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| | ability to have one's say and be listened to; influence; clout | |
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| | to say sth | |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | |
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| | needless to say; it goes without saying | |
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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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| | lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard | |
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| | hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions | |
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| | to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard | |
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| | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop | |
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| | frank and outspoken / straight speaking / to say what one thinks | |
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| | frank and outspoken (idiom) / straight speaking / to say what one thinks | |
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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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| | to decide; to have the final say | |
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| | don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say | |
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| | (coll.) unable to control one's tongue / prone to say sth nasty | |
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| | to wave goodbye / (fig.) to say goodbye to / to bid farewell to | |
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| | I have much more to say than can be written in this letter (conventional letter ending) (idiom) | |
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| | strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say | |
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| | where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing? | |
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| | (idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says | |
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| | as the saying goes; as they say... | |
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| | to say goodbye / leave-taking / farewells | |
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| | lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.) / to sing from the same hymn sheet | |
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| | don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say | |
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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 without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | (idiom) to say not a single word about it | |
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| | to parrot / to repeat uncritically what sb says | |
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| | to bid farewell (to); to say goodbye (to) | |
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| | your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (four-character version of 口嫌體正直|口嫌体正直) | |
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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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