| | how? / what? / why? | HSK 1 |
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| | what? / something; anything | HSK 1 |
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| | how much?; how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number? | HSK 1 |
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| | which ones? / who? / what? | 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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| | many; much; more; a lot of / 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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| | what are you doing? / what's he up to? | 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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| | what's to be done | HSK 2 |
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| | how / what kind | 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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| | why? / for what reason? | 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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| | what kind?; what sort? | HSK 2 |
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| | how / what way / what | HSK 3 |
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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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| | 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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| | whatever / no matter what (who, how etc) / regardless of / not to discuss | HSK 3 |
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| | no matter what or how / regardless of whether... | HSK 4 |
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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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| | contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you | HSK 5 |
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| | it is a pity / what a pity / unfortunately | HSK 5 |
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| | too bad / how terrible / what bad luck / terrible / bad | 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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| | 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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| | 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 add up the total / to figure what sth amounts to / to consider | 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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| | (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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| | 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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| | 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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| | let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means | 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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| | what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ... / (derog.) so-called | 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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| | words / expression / what one 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 express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to lack the ability to do what one would wish | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to do what needs to be done, without delay | HSK 7-9 |
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| | What's (he) up to? / What's the motive behind all this? | |
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| | to present a treasure / to offer a valuable piece of advice / to show off what one treasures | |
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| | (coll.) what? | |
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| | (idiom) what is there against it? (rhetorical question indicating an eagerness or willingness to do sth) | |
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| | how about it? / what do you think? | |
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| | Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters) / sb who keeps to their word no matter what | |
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| | to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you | |
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| | to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind | |
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| | each takes what he needs (idiom) | |
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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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| | Sinosauropteryx, a small dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern China during the early Cretaceous period | |
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| | to have heard what was said | |
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| | when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives. | |
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| | (literary) what kind of person | |
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| | what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation | |
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| | used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 / (Tw) (coll.) what? | |
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| | to blindly follow suit (idiom) / to imitate slavishly / to do what everyone else is doing | |
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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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| | (idiom) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc) | |
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| | no matter (who, what etc) | |
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| | household responsibility system, introduced in the early 1980s, under which each rural household could freely decide what to produce and how to sell, as long as it fulfilled its quota of products to the state | |
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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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| | 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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| | what | |
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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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| | lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around | |
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| | (idiom) to rely on a single authority to determine what is correct / to regard a source (or entity or individual) as the ultimate authority | |
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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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| | used in 乜斜 / (Cantonese) what? | |
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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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| | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
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| | excessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2]) | |
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| | (literary) what? / where? / why? | |
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| | (idiom) to be all talk and no action; to preach what one does not practice | |
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| | the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom) | |
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| | (neologism c. 2017) (slang) to demand proof of what one believes to be an unfounded accusation only to have irrefutable evidence duly supplied | |
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| | to contend on strong grounds / to argue strongly for what is right | |
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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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| | to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard | |
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| | at what time?; when? | |
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| | what one acquires / one's gains | |
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| | what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom) | |
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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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| | what one does / doings | |
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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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| | tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software | |
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| | thoughts / what one has in one's heart | |
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| | to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken) | |
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