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| | junior / primary | HSK 3 |
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| | initial / preliminary / tentative | HSK 3 |
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| | at that time / originally | HSK 3 |
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| | beginning of the year | HSK 3 |
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| | first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally | HSK 4 |
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| | initial stage / beginning period | HSK 5 |
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| | elementary (i.e. easy) | HSK 6 |
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| | for the first time / first (meeting, attempt etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | start of month / early in the month | HSK 7-9 |
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| | original intention | HSK 7-9 |
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| | originally; at first; at the outset | HSK 7-9 |
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| | initial / starting (point) | |
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| | third year in junior middle school | |
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| | first love | |
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| | preliminary contest / initial heats of a competition | |
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| | 2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year | |
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| | preliminary exam / qualifying exam / first try / preliminary testing | |
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| | primary election | |
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| | model or template character / written slogan or phrase / mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc) | |
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| | to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc) / a preliminary study | |
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| | startup (company, phase etc); newly established | |
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| | to bury the hatchet / to become reconciled | |
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| | preliminary trial | |
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| | to marry for the first time / to be newly married | |
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| | first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school | |
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| | newborn / nascent / primary (biology) | |
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| | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August | |
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| | initial / original / originally / at first | |
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| | as before / as ever | |
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| | early winter | |
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| | early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter | |
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| | early years | |
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| | to be a newcomer / just off the boat | |
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| | first offender / first offense | |
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| | to regret one's past deeds (idiom) | |
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| | early evening when lanterns are first lit | |
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| | venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn | |
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| | first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom) | |
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| | early summer | |
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| | early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar | |
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| | first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time | |
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| | early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years | |
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| | the first of the three annual periods of hot weather ( 三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days | |
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| | at the outset / at first / early | |
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| | lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent / first sign of emerging talent / budding genius | |
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| | (one's) original intention, aspiration etc / (Buddhism) "beginner's mind" (i.e. having an attitude of openness when studying a subject just as a beginner in that subject would) | |
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| | menarche | |
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| | lower elementary school (abbr. for 初級小學|初级小学) | |
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| | Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | (computing) to initialize / initialization | |
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| | the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable | |
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| | Luo Binwang (640-684), one of Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰 | |
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| | Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰 | |
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| | startup company | |
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| | the absolute beginning | |
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| | Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰 | |
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| | first sign (of budding talent) | |
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| | first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old) | |
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| | archaic (and simpler) form of a Chinese character | |
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| | Lotus (department store chain) | |
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| | Lu Zhaolin (637-689), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰 | |
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| | man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经) | |
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| | Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless | |
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| | almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle | |
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| | primary education / junior school education | |
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| | elementary algebra | |
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| | Ouyang Xun (557-641), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | to have a try / to try one's hand / initial foray | |
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| | late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century | |
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| | Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初 | |
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| | late Yuan and early Ming / mid 14th century | |
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| | Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist | |
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| | junior high student | |
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| | to make a preliminary estimate | |
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| | Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初 | |
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| | rising (sun, moon etc) | |
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| | the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王 | |
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| | beginning student | |
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| | feelings of first love | |
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| | tentative idea | |
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| | lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth | |
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| | first draft (of writing) | |
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| | junior high school / junior middle school | |
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| | lower elementary school (abbr. to 初小) | |
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| | first founded | |
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| | first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time | |
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| | Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang / refers to Yu Shinan 虞世南, Ouyang Xun 歐陽詢|欧阳询, Chu Suiliang 褚遂良 and Xue Ji 薛稷 | |
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| | intact / untouched / as good as before | |
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| | beginning of an age / beginning of a decade | |
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| | Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress | |
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| | (literary) former times / in olden days | |
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| | if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior | |
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| | the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century) | |
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