| | what? / something; anything | HSK 1 |
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| | how? / what? / why? | HSK 1 |
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| | dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL: 種|种, 席, 句, 口, 番 | HSK 1 |
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| | many; much / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly- | HSK 1 |
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| | how much?; how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number? | HSK 1 |
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| | particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?") / particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?") / particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?") / (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action / particle indicating strong affirmation | HSK 1 |
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| | which ones? / who? / what? | HSK 1 |
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| | what are you doing? / what's he up to? | HSK 1 |
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| | what's to be done | HSK 2 |
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| | why? / for what reason? | HSK 2 |
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| | how / what kind | HSK 2 |
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| | how (wonderful etc) / what (a great idea etc) / however (difficult it may be etc) / (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc) / to what extent | HSK 2 |
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| | to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet | HSK 2 |
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| | what kind?; what sort? | HSK 2 |
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| | to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary) | HSK 3 |
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| | how / what way / what | HSK 3 |
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| | whatever / no matter what (who, how etc) / regardless of / not to discuss | HSK 3 |
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| | to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友) | HSK 3 |
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| | no matter what or how / regardless of whether... | HSK 4 |
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| | too bad / how terrible / what bad luck / terrible / bad | HSK 5 |
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| | contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you | HSK 5 |
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| | to lean against / to rely on / on the basis of / no matter (how, what etc) / proof | HSK 5 |
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| | it is a pity / what a pity / unfortunately | HSK 5 |
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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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| | (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened / (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason / (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people | HSK 7-9 |
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| | let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more | HSK 7-9 |
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| | what one has learned (through experience, reading etc) / knowledge / insight / understanding / tips / CL: 項|项, 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL: 套 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hold or offer with both hands / to sing the praises of / classifier for what can be held in both hands | HSK 7-9 |
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| | live (e.g. broadcast or recording) / what is actually happening / scene / the real situation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | and then (what follows next) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to do what one is told / obedient | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words and actions / what one says and what one does | HSK 7-9 |
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| | height; level; (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低) / no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last | HSK 7-9 |
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| | so-called / what is called | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words / expression / what one says | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent | 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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| | what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth / acting heroically in a just cause | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to add up the total / to figure what sth amounts to / to consider | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to do what needs to be done, without delay | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) what? | |
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| | used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 / (Tw) (coll.) what? | |
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| | what kind? / how, what / somewhat | |
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| | tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software | |
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| | in any case; no matter what | |
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| | non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和) | |
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| | no matter (who, what etc) | |
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| | lit. what the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes (idiom) skilled at the job / entirely in one's element / going smoothly and easily | |
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| | What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) | |
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| | (literary) what is? / what is the meaning of? | |
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| | what | |
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| | inner feelings / what is deep in one's heart | |
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| | what time? / when? | |
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| | small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么) | |
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| | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
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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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| | suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么, what?, indefinite 這麼|这么 thus, etc | |
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| | what / how / why / which / carry | |
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| | what? / how? / how about? / whatever / also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5] | |
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| | and so on; and so forth; and what not | |
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| | target / aim / objective / what one hopes to gain | |
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| | at what time?; when? | |
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| | what remains unseen is deemed to be clean / what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom) | |
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| | excessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2]) | |
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| | interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer / Eh? / what? | |
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| | interjection of surprise or doubt / Eh? / My! / what's up? | |
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| | what one does / doings | |
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| | (Tw) (Internet slang) Greetings! (used when it's unknown what time the reader will see one's post, or just to be cute) | |
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| | (idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says | |
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| | old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949) / (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal | |
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| | what one is good at | |
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| | dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone) / (fig.) (coll.) knowledge presented in readily assimilable form; just what you want to know: no more, no less (no padding 水分) | |
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| | (literary) what? / where? / why? | |
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| | to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard | |
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| | (idiom) whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means | |
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| | to understand what one is reading or watching | |
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| | Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南|台南, Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006 | |
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| | how about / what kind of | |
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| | known / what one knows | |
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| | short name for Sichuan 四川 province / one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国 after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉, situated around what is now Sichuan province | |
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| | to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject | |
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| | to misinterpret what one sees or reads / to misjudge (sb) / to mistake (sb for sb else) / to misread (a document) | |
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| | to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken) | |
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| | to believe (what sb claims) (usually used in the negative) / (math.) confidence (interval etc) | |
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| | the wording and purport of what one writes | |
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| | (literary) what one sees / (literary) opinion; view | |
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| | hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds? | |
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| | what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation | |
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| | to blindly follow suit (idiom) / to imitate slavishly / to do what everyone else is doing | |
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| | to have the nerve / what a cheek! / to feel no shame / to overcome the shame / (is it) proper? (rhetorical question) | |
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| | future events / and what happened next... (in fiction) / funeral arrangements | |
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| | (nonverbal grunt as interjection) / OK, yeah / what? | |
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| | what is / (old) what for / (in a rhetorical question) it's no use | |
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| | where? / what place? | |
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| | what course to follow / what path to take | |
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| | stake (in a gamble) / (what is at) stake | |
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