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to answer; to respond / to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
HSK 2
overcoat / topcoat / cloak / CL:
HSK 2
to affix a seal / to stamp / to print out (with a printer)
HSK 2
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, ,
HSK 5
in addition / moreover / (used before a disyllabic verb to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned) / to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb) / to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)
HSK 5
difference; discrepancy
HSK 6
printer
HSK 6
subconscious mind
HSK 7-9
to constrain or repress emotions / oppressive / stifling / depressing / repression
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
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saying / famous remark
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general idea / main idea
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careless
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(idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
chivalrous / chivalry / knight-errantry
HSK 7-9
negligent / careless / inadvertent
HSK 7-9
clearly and easy to see (idiom); obviously / clearly / it goes without saying
HSK 7-9
to leave without saying good-bye
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flabbergasted / astonished
HSK 7-9
very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
HSK 7-9
needless to say; it goes without saying
HSK 7-9
the next generation
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ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry
HSK 7-9
Taibao or Taipao city in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) / tree rhododendron (Rhododendron delavayi)
Xingang or Hsinkang Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
(saying) everyone minds their own business
Zaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Xikou or Hsikou Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
(saying) time is precious
(idiom) to be the richest person (or family) in a region; to possess great wealth in one's locality
first-year university student
good news
(Tw) to like; to prefer
if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
(idiom) it's only right and proper; it goes without saying
Yenji Xuyzu aptonom nahiyisi or Yanqi Hui autonomous county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Bar-Ilan University, in Israel
Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 and neoclassical 復古|复古 movements
sub-Saharan Africa
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
to pronounce / pronunciation / to emit sound
fricative
Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), poet and essayist
the genitals
insincerity; hypocrisy / insincerely
(music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature)
Yizhu or Ichu Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Shuishang Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Xiayi county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
Daying county in Suining 遂寧|遂宁, Sichuan / Great Britain
the next step
fixed / unalterable
unification (of the nation) / large scale unification
common saying / idiom
lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content
narrow sense / restricted sense
ant
Xikou or Hsikou Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing
as the saying goes...
(like) a cat on a hot tin roof / anxious / agitated
forensic pathologist; forensic doctor; medical examiner
gums / gingiva
Lopnur nahiyisi or Yuli county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Dabu County in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong / Tai Po district of New Territories, Hong Kong / Dabu or Tabu Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Chaqiliq nahiyisi or Ruoqiang county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Zen saying repeated as cant / (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase
to answer questions (as teacher or consultant) / to clarify doubts
of Asian descent
51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
to slip / to drift
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems / saying one thing but meaning sth different
stone rubbing (to copy an inscription)
an old saying
anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)
tea drink; tea-based beverage
uniform / to standardize
floriculture; art of flower arrangement
to express or convey one's ideas
odd jobs / part-time worker
to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again
(computing) dot matrix printer
lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived
dentist
infanticide
Bügür nahiyisi or Luntai county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
to camp / to pitch camp / stationed / quartered / Taiwan pr. [zha2 ying2]

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