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bad / harmful / unhealthy
HSK 5
good and honest / kindhearted
HSK 4
good / favorable / well / fine
HSK 4
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  *加* | 加* | *加
to add / (math.) plus / to increase; to augment / (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like , , etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良 "make some minor improvements to (it)")
HSK 2
fine / good / first-rate
HSK 4
malnutrition / undernourishment / deficiency disease / dystrophy
positive (in its effect) / leading to good consequences / virtuous / (medicine) benign (tumor etc)
HSK 7-9
to improve (sth) / to reform (a system)
HSK 7-9
Nara prefecture in central Japan
conscience
HSK 7-9
(Tang dynasty) official responsible for tracking down and arresting lawbreakers
bad money drives out good money (economics)
Liangqing, a district of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市, Guangxi
good doctor / skilled doctor
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
harmful trend
innate sense of right and wrong / conscience / bosom friend
kindhearted / good-natured
devoid of conscience (idiom); utterly heartless
conscientious
good medicine / panacea / fig. a good solution / a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
a good wife and loving mother
gems of wisdom (idiom); priceless advice
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
submissive / accommodating
good medicine / effective prescription / fig. good plan / effective strategy
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  *良* | 良* | *良
good / very / very much
HSK 7-9
Treatise 134 BC by Han dynasty philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒
instinctive understanding, esp. of ethical issues (idiom); untrained, but with an inborn sense of right and wrong / innate moral sense
warm and kind
Mt Mengliang in Mengyin county 蒙陰縣|蒙阴县, Linyi 臨沂|临沂, Shandong
good friend / companion
intimate friend and companion (idiom)
it goes against one's conscience
excellent / of superior quality
good harbor
good plan / right strategy / to take one's time forming the right decision
benign tumor
(idiom) to get happily married; to form an auspicious union
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱
good plan / good idea
not totally heartless / still having a shred of conscience
Thai ginger / lesser galangale (Kaempferia galanga)
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
virtuous cycle (i.e. positive feedback loop)
temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous
Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë 夏洛特·勃良特
husband (arch.)
virtuous companions and worthy friends
Orléans
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
fine time, lucky day (idiom); fig. good opportunity
to have fed one's conscience to the dogs (idiom) / devoid of conscience
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
inability to adjust / unable to adapt
to sit and waste a good opportunity (idiom); to lose the chance
indigestion
Furano, Hokkaidō, Japan
Gallen Lo (1962-), Hong Kong actor and singer
woman from a respectable family / respectable woman
conscience
a good chance / a golden opportunity
gems of wisdom (idiom); priceless advice
to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom) / to debauch
in all honesty / truth to tell
Liangzhu (c. 3400-2250 BC), neolithic culture of Changjiang delta
Yiliang county in Kunming 昆明, Yunnan
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Yanliang District of Xi’an 西安市, Shaanxi
Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
a good while / a long time
Nara, an old capital of Japan
good agricultural land / fertile land
good horse
(of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom / (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
temperate, kind, courteous and restrained
good companion
fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom); everything lovely
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
considerably / much / quite a bit
good and bad people intermingled
Liangxiang town in Beijing municipality
New Orleans, Louisiana
docile / tame
Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists
to earn people's praise through one's good deeds (idiom)
reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution)
Varyag, former Soviet aircraft carrier purchased by China and renamed 遼寧號|辽宁号
dacron (loanword)
fine evening, beautiful scenery (idiom)
(of a man) able and virtuous
loose or defective contact (elec.)
Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
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
expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill / A masterpiece demands suffering.

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