| | 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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| | two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid | 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 / 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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| | 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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| | between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms | HSK 1 |
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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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| | 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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| | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他, 誰也沒來|除了他, 谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語, 他也會法語|除了英语, 他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B") | HSK 3 |
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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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| | individually; one by one / just one or two; exceptional; rare | 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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| | 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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| | a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座 | HSK 6 |
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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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| | 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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| | bidirectional / two-way / interactive | 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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| | 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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| | to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc) | 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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| | (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ... | 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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| | (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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| | time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the East; the Orient / two-character surname Dongfang | |
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| | lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom) / fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky / (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist" | |
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| | tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate | |
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| | two-party system | |
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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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| | second-rank concubine (title for an imperial concubine ranked two levels below the empress) | |
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| | lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support | |
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| | Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers | |
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| | to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention | |
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| | 11 pm-1 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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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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| | cloth pouch open in the middle, forming two bags / jacket worn for Chinese wrestling | |
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| | lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone | |
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| | (Japanese kokuji) large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together / pr. kasugai | |
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| | Xiao 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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| | ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo | |
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| | sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil | |
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| | two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union | |
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| | peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH) | |
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| | small multi-story building; modest house with two or more floors | |
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| | toy formed of a spindle with two sharp ends / brochette (such as corncob) | |
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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 serve as an official / an official / the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将 | |
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| | lit. one is one, two is two (idiom) / fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut / unequivocal | |
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| | pubic region / point two inches below the navel where one's qi resides | |
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| | to squeeze in / to step in / to take part / to step between (two persons in a relationship) | |
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| | two items / binomial (math.) | |
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| | to equate / to consider (two things) to be equivalent | |
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| | two Germanies / refers to German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) | |
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| | the two poles / the north and south poles / both ends of sth / electric or magnetic poles | |
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| | large steelyard usu. operated by three people – two to lift it using a pole, and one to adjust the counterweight | |
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| | second / number two / next / secondary | |
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| | jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京二胡 | |
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| | two-character surname Ximen | |
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| | 9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | two-character surname Sikou | |
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| | double-sided / two-faced / double-edged / reversible | |
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| | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
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| | 1-3 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | both feet / two-legged | |
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| | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
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| | two-character surname Ouyang | |
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| | a form of automatic writing in which two or more participants hold a single pen over a sheet of paper and invite a spirit to write answers to their questions / a spirit so invited | |
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| | arms / both arms / two arms | |
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| | one person taking on two tasks simultaneously | |
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| | both of them; the two of them | |
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| | the second time / second / number two | |
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| | 2-in-1 / two-in-one | |
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| | (math.) dot product (of two vectors) | |
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| | to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together | |
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| | two-syllable word featuring alliteration or rhyme, such as 玲瓏|玲珑 | |
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| | (formal) very; quite; deeply (usu. followed by a two-syllable adjective or verb) | |
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| | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia | |
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| | buy one, get one free / two for the price of one | |
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| | huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring | |
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| | pavilion (usu. two-storied) / cabinet (politics) / boudoir / woman's chamber / rack / shelf | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | time / one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day | |
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| | two (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / to betray | |
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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 sell at a 50% discount / to fold in two | |
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