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| | good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello | HSK 1 |
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| | two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) | HSK 1 |
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| | heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns) | HSK 1 |
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| | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese | HSK 1 |
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| | down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action | HSK 1 |
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| | two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid | HSK 1 |
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| | point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更 / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items | HSK 1 |
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| | to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来) | HSK 1 |
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| | zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither | HSK 1 |
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| | house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座, 套, 間|间 | HSK 1 |
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| | two / double / pair / both / even (number) | HSK 3 |
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| | emotion; sentiment / affection; feelings between two persons | HSK 3 |
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| | individually; one by one / just one or two; exceptional; rare | HSK 4 |
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| | to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | HSK 4 |
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| | (two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply | HSK 4 |
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| | two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个) / both / some | HSK 4 |
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| | to lift / to raise / (of two or more persons) to carry | HSK 5 |
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| | to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable | HSK 5 |
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| | bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate | HSK 6 |
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| | a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座 | HSK 6 |
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| | two sides; both sides | HSK 6 |
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| | one's two hands / two prongs (of a strategy) / both aspects, eventualities etc / skills / expertise | HSK 6 |
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| | time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | gap / interval / compartment / to divide / to separate / to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to proceed in parallel / side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole | HSK 7-9 |
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| | double / twice / simultaneous / holding two or more (official) posts at the same time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to attend simultaneously to two or more things / to balance (career and family, family and education etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together | HSK 7-9 |
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| | crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bidirectional / two-way / interactive | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of two things) to come into contact / to meet / to hand over to / to take over from / to associate with / to have friendly relations with / to have sexual intercourse | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms / to place on a par with / (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils | HSK 7-9 |
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| | amphibious / dual-talented / able to work in two different lines | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
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| | to serve as an official / an official / the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将 | |
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| | definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters) | |
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| | to split the bill (where the male counterpart foots the larger portion of the sum) / (theater) a system where two actors take turns in acting the main role, with one actor replacing the other if either is unavailable | |
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| | to sit for the second round of a two-stage exam | |
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| | both of them; the two of them | |
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| | Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China | |
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| | two-person / double / pair / tandem | |
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| | peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH) | |
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| | two-character surname Ximen | |
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| | parent and child / parent-child (relationship) / two successive generations | |
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| | both ends (of a stick etc) / two extremes | |
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| | (literary) to end; to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词 / classifier for songs or ci poems | |
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| | double-sided / two-faced / double-edged / reversible | |
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| | two-character surname Ouyang | |
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| | both countries; two countries | |
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| | two-character surname Zhuge / Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2] | |
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| | to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together | |
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| | pavilion (usu. two-storied) / cabinet (politics) / boudoir / woman's chamber / rack / shelf | |
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| | to join the two sections (of a linear structure: bridge, dike etc) to complete its construction | |
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| | the East; the Orient / two-character surname Dongfang | |
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| | tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | to split in two / to divide | |
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| | dance for two / pas de deux | |
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| | one or two; a few / a little; just a bit | |
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| | promoter / advocate / driving force / pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi) | |
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| | Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology | |
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| | 2-in-1 / two-in-one | |
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| | (of two performers) to speak or sing alternately / to be fit for the purposes of a job or task / (of food) to suit sb's taste | |
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| | two (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / to betray | |
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| | two-way translation | |
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| | secondly / the other (usu. of two) / the second | |
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| | train or coach service ("service" as in "they run 12 services per day between the two cities") | |
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| | to use (two words etc) together / to use (sth) continuously | |
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| | two-character surname Shangguan | |
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| | hollow layer between two solid layers / (architecture) mezzanine | |
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| | time / one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day | |
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| | two-character surname Nangong / Nangong, county-level city in Xingtai 邢台, Hebei | |
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| | to break or cut in two / to sever / to cut off / (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc) / to interrupt / (math.) to truncate | |
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| | two-character surname Gongsun | |
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| | two legs / both feet | |
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| | to access / to transfer passengers between two railway lines | |
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| | Sichuan / originally two provinces of Qin and Han | |
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| | Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima | |
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| | teahouse (usu. of two stories) | |
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| | lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y) | |
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| | two-character surname Dugu | |
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| | two-character surname Xiahou | |
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| | time / period during the day / one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支 | |
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| | antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound) / to fight / to wage war | |
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| | two chambers (of legislative assembly), e.g. House of Representatives and Senate | |
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| | two-phase (physics) | |
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| | tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up | |
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| | one of a sequence of contests (or subdivisions of a contest) between the same two opponents / round (boxing etc) / rally (tennis etc) / frame (billiards etc) / inning / (tennis, soccer etc) rubber or leg / round (of negotiations) | |
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| | positioned between (two parties) / to mediate between | |
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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | two-character surname Baili | |
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| | to miss a line / to confuse two lines | |
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| | old place name (in present-day Linyi County 臨猗縣|临猗县, Shanxi) / two-character surname Linghu | |
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| | to sell at a 50% discount / to fold in two | |
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