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  *水* | 水* | *水
water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment
HSK 1
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  *装* | 装* | *装
adornment / to adorn / dress / clothing / costume (of an actor in a play) / to play a role / to pretend / to install / to fix / to wrap (sth in a bag) / to load / to pack
HSK 2
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  *靠* | 靠* | *靠
to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) / traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
HSK 2
whole entity / entire body / synthesis / as a whole (situation, construction, team etc) / global / macrocosm / integral / holistic / whole
HSK 3
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  *费* | 费* | *费
to cost / to spend / fee / wasteful / expenses
HSK 3
cost / expenditure / expense / CL: 筆|笔, 個|个
HSK 3
dress / clothing / costume / clothes / CL:
HSK 3
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
HSK 5
price / cost / consideration (in share dealing)
HSK 5
to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery) / to make oneself more attractive / to beautify
HSK 6
to change one's costume / to repackage / to remodel / to refit / to modify / to convert
HSK 6
expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
HSK 6
house price / cost of housing
HSK 6
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
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  *粉* | 粉* | *粉
powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝) / to be a fan of
HSK 7-9
to pay / to cover the costs
HSK 7-9
to calculate / to weigh (pros and cons) / to view as profitable / worthwhile / value for money / cost-effective
HSK 7-9
universe; cosmos; space
HSK 7-9
cheaply-priced; low-cost
HSK 7-9
cost-performance ratio
HSK 7-9
expensive / costly
HSK 7-9
to do at all costs / to make an all-out effort
HSK 7-9
construction cost
HSK 7-9
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)
HSK 7-9
to share (a burden, a cost, a responsibility)
HSK 7-9
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
HSK 7-9
to make a supreme effort / at all costs
HSK 7-9
miniature version of sth / microcosm / epitome / (Tw) to microfilm
HSK 7-9
free; no charge; at no cost
HSK 7-9
valuable / costly / expensive
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) Asian rosy finch (Leucosticte arctoa)
stage costume
concentration (percentage of dissolved material in a solution) / consistency / thickness / density / viscosity
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  *cos* | cos* | *cos
(Internet slang) cosplay / to cosplay / to dress up as
ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
costume drama
powder puff (cosmetics)
protective or tinted film (for LCD screens, car windows etc) / facial mask (cosmetics)
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  *脂* | 脂* | *脂
fat / rouge (cosmetics) / resin
(math.) cosine
makeup / cosmetics
L'Oréal (French cosmetics company)
to change clothes / to dress up; to put on a costume; to cosplay / to cross-dress
flowing sleeves (part of theatrical costume)
fare / transport cost
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  *妆* | 妆* | *妆
(of a woman) to adorn oneself / makeup / adornment / trousseau / stage makeup and costume
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc) / to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful / beautiful face / beautified face
Lancôme, French cosmetics brand
face powder and eyebrow liner / cosmetics / (fig.) beautiful woman
incidental costs / sundries / extras
rouge (cosmetics)
facial cream (cosmetics)
a person's clothing / outfit / actor's costume
blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
to share (costs, responsibilities) / to apportion
Shiseidō (Japanese cosmetics company)
(Tw) Costa Rica
lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay
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  *甙* | 甙* | *甙
old term for 糖苷, glycoside
pressed cosmetic powder (formed into a cake) / compact powder
eye shadow (cosmetics)
China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) (abbr. for 中國遠洋運輸|中国远洋运输)
to sing opera arias without staging, costume or makeup / to sing a cappella
glycolysis (anaerobic metabolism of glucose)
(physics) viscosity
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  *苷* | 苷* | *苷
licorice / glycoside
to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort
Avon (cosmetics company)
considerable (cost etc) / bountiful (crop etc) / high (social status etc)
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
remember at all costs
to spend / expenditure / to cost
costus root (medicinal herb) / aucklandia / Saussurea costus / Dolomiaea souliei
eyebrow pencil (cosmetics)
G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
great wide world / marvelously diverse world / (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界)
cosmetics
to concoct by mixing ingredients; to prepare according to a recipe; to make (a salad, a cocktail, cosmetics etc)
fare / transport costs
Cossack (people)
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Russian cosmonaut, first human in space
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
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  *螀* | 螀* | *螀
cicada (Cosmopsaltria opalifera)
miniature / scaled-down / forming a microcosm
(of an actor) to remove makeup and costume / (computing) to uninstall; to unmount
to do sb a favor at little cost
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  *詨* | 詨* | *詨
kind of cicada, cosmopsaltria
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high
a kind act that costs nothing
among insiders; within the community (of publishers, cyclists or cosplayers etc); (esp.) in show business circles
cosmeceuticals
Nicosia, capital of Cyprus
cosmetic tattooing; semi-permanent makeup; micropigmentation / embroidery
Baikonur Cosmodrome
to rent a place with sb else to share the costs
to pay for sth with the loss of (one's health etc) / to have sth come at the cost of (one's reputation etc)
person who joins with others to reduce costs (carpooling, group buying, sharing an apartment etc)

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