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| | to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文 / abbr. for 開本|开本, book format | HSK 1 |
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| | English (language) | HSK 2 |
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| | to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL: 篇 | HSK 2 |
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| | foreign language (written) | HSK 3 |
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| | paper / treatise / thesis / CL: 篇 / to discuss a paper or thesis (old) | HSK 4 |
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| | astronomy | HSK 5 |
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| | prose / essay | HSK 5 |
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| | humanities / human affairs / culture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | entire text / full text | HSK 7-9 |
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| | language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject) | |
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| | refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle | |
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| | (coll.) to post a message | |
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| | original text | |
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| | preceding part of the text | |
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| | to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event) | |
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| | Japanese (language) | |
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| | translated text | |
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| | to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s) | |
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| | to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online | |
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| | main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) | |
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| | short piece; article; short essay | |
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| | old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject | |
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| | Russian language | |
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| | official document | |
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| | Kevin (name) | |
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| | poetry and literature | |
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| | clause / explanatory section in a document | |
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| | abbr. for 梵教 Brahmanism / abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语 or 梵文 / abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈, the Vatican | |
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| | Longwen district of Zhangzhou city 漳州市, Fujian | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | (old, now used figuratively) official call to arms / official denunciation | |
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| | to state in writing (laws, rules etc) | |
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| | Owen (name) / Erwin (name) / Irvine, California | |
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| | writing style (formal) / to send an official written communication | |
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| | official written ruling in response to a submission / official approval in writing | |
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| | scripture / scriptures / CL: 本 | |
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| | palindrome | |
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| | Kevin (person name) | |
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| | inscription in bronze / bell-cauldron inscription | |
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| | Jianwen Emperor, reign name of second Ming Emperor Zhu Yunwen 朱允炆 (1377-1402), reigned 1398-1402 | |
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| | Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad | |
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| | hydrology | |
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| | Xingwen county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾, Sichuan | |
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| | Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language | |
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| | Sanskrit | |
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| | essay | |
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| | rune | |
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| | Xiuwen County in Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳, Guizhou | |
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| | to write an article | |
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| | a single penny / a single cent | |
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| | Kuiwen district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong | |
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| | quotation / citation | |
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| | Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times) | |
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| | interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script | |
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| | inscription on a tablet | |
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| | French language | |
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| | Chinese language / Chinese script | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | braille / literature in braille | |
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| | funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address | |
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| | German (language) | |
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| | Steven (name) / Simon Stevin (1548-1620), Flemish engineer and mathematician, played a key role in introducing the decimal system to Europe | |
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| | Longman (name) | |
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| | penniless (idiom) | |
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| | Calvin (name) | |
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| | Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲|形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注|转注 (transfer) | |
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| | Manchurian written language | |
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| | characters cut in relief | |
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| | a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people / two-character surname Yuwen | |
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| | inscription | |
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| | variant of 諮|咨 / used in 咨文 / used in 咨嗟 | |
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| | written / statutory | |
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| | verse | |
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| | litany (text of a prayer) | |
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| | a worthless piece of paper (idiom) | |
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| | the great seal / used narrowly for 籀文 / used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts | |
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| | remarkable or peculiar piece of writing | |
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| | early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆 | |
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| | dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality | |
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| | bell-cauldron script / the 籀文 form of Chinese character used in metal inscriptions | |
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| | petition (submitted to a superior) | |
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| | without a penny to one's name / penniless / stony-broke | |
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| | (old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank) / report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state | |
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| | to parade by interspersing one's speech or writing with literary allusions / Taiwan pr. [zhuan3 wen2] | |
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| | (Internet) to repost (Tw) | |
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| | Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源 / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia) | |
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| | official document sent to an agency (or an official) of equal rank (in imperial times) | |
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| | online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 網絡文學|网络文学) | |
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| | Jyōmon period of Japanese prehistory, with rope pattern pottery | |
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| | (social media) to post; a post | |
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| | hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet | |
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| | Roman Tam (1949-), Canto-pop singer | |
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| | blog article / to write a blog article (netspeak) | |
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