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  *太* | 太* | *太
highest / greatest / too (much) / very / extremely
HSK 1
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  *是* | 是* | *是
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)
HSK 1
very; really / unusual; extraordinary
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *很* | 很* | *很
very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *老* | 老* | *老
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
HSK 1
not very / not too / not often
HSK 1
very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts
HSK 2
unusual; special / very; especially; particularly / expressly; for a specific purpose / (often followed by ) in particular
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挺* | 挺* | *挺
straight / erect / to stick out (a part of the body) / to (physically) straighten up / to support / to withstand / outstanding / (coll.) quite / very / classifier for machine guns
HSK 2
like that / in that way / or so / so / so very much / about / in that case
HSK 2
very good
HSK 2
near in time / in the near future / very soon / recent
HSK 3
full of / brimming with / very full / permeated
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *美* | 美* | *美
beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself
HSK 3
cold (climate) / frigid / very cold
HSK 4
huge / immense / very large / tremendous / gigantic / enormous
HSK 4
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *可* | 可* | *可
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able / to approve; to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very / but; however
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *冻* | 冻* | *冻
to freeze / to feel very cold / aspic or jelly
HSK 5
(used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding / (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough / (of an animal) fierce / (of a resemblance) striking / (of liquor or chili pepper) strong / (of bacteria) virulent
HSK 5
very long / endless
HSK 5
at the minimum; at the very least
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *当* | 当* | *当
at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *特* | 特* | *特
special / unique / distinguished / especially / unusual / very / abbr. for 特克斯, tex
HSK 6
flower vase / (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent)
HSK 6
very red / red through and through / to blush (deep red)
HSK 6
not very / not particularly
HSK 6
not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it
HSK 6
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  *良* | 良* | *良
good / very / very much
HSK 7-9
that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蛮* | 蛮* | *蛮
barbarian / bullying / very / quite / rough / reckless
HSK 7-9
vile / nasty / of very poor quality
HSK 7-9
old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
HSK 7-9
very happy; elated
HSK 7-9
very late at night
HSK 7-9
good or bad / good and bad / standard; quality / (coll.) very bad
HSK 7-9
very early in the morning / in the wee hours
HSK 7-9
thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
HSK 7-9
very much / extremely / one ten thousandth part
HSK 7-9
very wealthy person
HSK 7-9
to feel very apologetic
HSK 7-9
very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
HSK 7-9
very far away
HSK 7-9
poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed
HSK 7-9
very likely / prone to
a very long time (etymology: in mathematics, n represents an arbitrarily large number)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巨* | 巨* | *巨
very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic
not at all ... / how very ...
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俄* | 俄* | *俄
suddenly / very soon
very small / very few / very minor
that very same year
(literary) to be very familiar with (sb or sth); well acquainted with; fully conversant with
for a very long time
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *稔* | 稔* | *稔
(literary) ripe grain; ripe; harvest; year / (literary) very familiar with; well acquainted with
the very front
(the) very first
very / greatly
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *煞* | 煞* | *煞
fiend / demon / very / (Tw) SARS (loanword)
strong card / honor card (card games) / very popular or successful person / self-important
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *忒* | 忒* | *忒
(dialect) too / very / also pr. [tui1]
(suffix) very / extremely
very fragrant / luxurious / beautiful
to starve to death / to be very hungry
very auspicious / extremely lucky
a very high official in ancient China / juvenile delinquents
very able person
that very day / the same day
ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly
to pay attention to one's appearance; to like to be well-groomed / (literary) on very friendly terms
vaguely / dimly / probably / very likely
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甚* | 甚* | *甚
excessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
very impressed; stunned; amazed / to astonish; to impress greatly
(idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best / (idiom) to list one by one
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甭* | 甭* | *甭
(dialect) very
vast and plentiful / ample / very many
very loudly / at the top of one's voice
very slow / exasperatingly slow
to make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's (idiom) / to share everything / to be on very intimate terms
lit. can be counted on one's fingers (idiom) / fig. very few
very lucky indeed
very fast / at high speed
very hard
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *齁* | 齁* | *齁
to snore / thirsty from excessively salty or sweet food / (dialect) very / extremely
(idiom) very few
terrific / terrible / (after ) very
very powerful army
a tiny bit / very little / next to nothing (idiom)
to know (sth) very well / to be an expert in
I'm afraid that... / perhaps / maybe / very likely
very fierce
very slight sound / rustling (onom.) / to stream down (of tears) / luxuriant growth (of vegetation)
enormous sum / millionaire / very rich
(idiom) (of siblings, spouses etc) very close to each other; inseparable; devoted to each other
(dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly
not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom) / to take great pains / to be very patient
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殊* | 殊* | *殊
(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass / (bound form) different / (bound form) special; remarkable / (literary) very; extremely
very serious / grave / profound
very / extremely
(affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal
stretch a hand and grab it (idiom); very easy

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