| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | Chinese character(s) | HSK 1 |
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| | numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本 | HSK 2 |
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| | character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | to sign (one's name) / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | to learn to read / able to read; literate | HSK 6 |
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| | writing desk | HSK 6 |
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| | office building | HSK 6 |
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| | calligraphic style / typeface / font | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pyramid (building or structure) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | subtitles; captions (of a movie etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (financial) deficit / red letter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wording | HSK 7-9 |
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| | crossroads / intersection | HSK 7-9 |
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| | handwriting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | traditional Chinese character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | incorrectly written or mispronounced characters | HSK 7-9 |
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| | characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number | |
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| | character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | (numeric, data) field | |
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| | number of written characters; number of words; word count | |
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| | to write (by hand) / to practice calligraphy | |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | character (computing) | |
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| | component in Chinese characters, occurring in 青, 毒, 素 etc, referred to as 青字頭|青字头 | |
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| | to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare) | |
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| | letters or words / words or phrase | |
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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 type | |
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| | Red Cross | |
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| | piece of paper with short note / short letter | |
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| | copybook (for calligraphy) | |
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| | Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎 in 2nd century | |
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| | letter puzzle | |
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| | new character (in textbook) / character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied | |
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| | the strokes of a character / calligraphy and painting | |
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| | form of a Chinese character / variant of 字型 | |
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| | I-beam | |
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| | to combine / combination / composite character (i.e. a synonym of 合體字|合体字) / (of clothes) to be a good fit | |
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| | incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text) | |
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| | wrongly written or mispronounced character | |
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| | T-shaped | |
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| | gold lettering / gold characters | |
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| | meaning of a character | |
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| | movable type | |
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| | abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | cross-stitch | |
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| | to learn to read / able to read; literate | |
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| | single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) | |
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| | to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling) | |
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| | brief note | |
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| | first letter of a word or serial number / first character of a Chinese word / first digit of a number / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable | |
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| | words / expressions / writing | |
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| | the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮|礼 ( 禮儀|礼仪), music 樂|乐 ( 音樂|音乐), archery 射 ( 射箭), charioteering 御 ( 駕車|驾车), calligraphy or literacy 書|书 ( 識字|识字), mathematics or reckoning 數|数 ( 計算|计算) / another name for the Six Classics 六經|六经 | |
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| | to spell / spelling | |
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| | fortune telling by unpicking Chinese characters | |
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| | prefix | |
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| | to create Chinese characters / cf Six Methods of forming Chinese characters 六書|六书 | |
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| | character with two or more readings | |
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| | literal / typeface | |
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| | big-character poster | |
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| | ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character | |
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| | component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root; etymon | |
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| | between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning / connotations | |
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| | diction; enunciation / (opera) to pronounce the words correctly | |
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| | to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc) / an inscription | |
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| | mispronounced or wrongly written character | |
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| | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom) / (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect / each word is highly valued | |
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| | T-square / set square (carpenter's tool) | |
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| | flip-flops (abbr. for 人字拖鞋) | |
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| | literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle) / courtesy name | |
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| | to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording | |
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| | character code | |
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| | character book (i.e. school primer) | |
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| | (idiom) every word is a gem | |
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| | obscenity | |
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| | to pronounce (clearly or otherwise) / to enunciate | |
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| | (idiom) to say not a single word about it | |
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| | "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁 | |
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| | font / typeface | |
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| | (written) in black and white | |
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| | radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用, 同, 網|网 etc, referred to as 同字框 | |
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| | character (computing) (Tw) | |
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| | to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom) | |
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| | mustache shaped like character 八 | |
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| | "walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头 | |
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| | weighing every word | |
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| | to practice writing characters | |
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