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| | (of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term | HSK 2 |
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| | ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2] | HSK 2 |
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| | to establish / to set up / to found | HSK 3 |
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| | base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental | HSK 3 |
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| | to establish / to found / to set up / to build / to construct | HSK 3 |
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| | undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | profound / deep / deep-going | HSK 3 |
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| | deep; profound | HSK 4 |
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| | thick / deep or profound / kind / generous / rich or strong in flavor / to favor / to stress | HSK 4 |
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| | bottom; base / background; foundation / copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a record / (suffix) end of a year or month / (math.) radix; base (abbr. for 底數|底数) | HSK 4 |
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| | season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields | HSK 4 |
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| | according to / based on / basis / foundation / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy | HSK 4 |
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| | according to / basis / foundation | HSK 5 |
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| | to establish; to set up; to found | HSK 5 |
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| | to found; to establish | HSK 6 |
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| | to break the rules / an illegality / a foul | HSK 6 |
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| | deep / profound | HSK 6 |
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| | to establish; to found | HSK 6 |
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| | to hang or suspend / to worry / public announcement / unresolved / baseless / without foundation | HSK 6 |
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| | to initiate; to start; to found | HSK 6 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout | HSK 7-9 |
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| | source; origin; fountainhead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | far-reaching / profound and long-lasting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to put sth on the bottom / to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime / to lay the foundation / to come last in the rankings | HSK 7-9 |
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| | profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dense / thick / strong / rich (colors) / heavy (aroma) / deep (friendship) / profound (effect) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | foundation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fountain | HSK 7-9 |
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| | can be found everywhere | HSK 7-9 |
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| | proposer / initiator / founding member | HSK 7-9 |
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| | creator; founder; initiator | HSK 7-9 |
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| | base / foundation / bottom | HSK 7-9 |
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| | profound / abstruse / recondite / profoundly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (bird species of China) rufous-vented laughingthrush (Pterorhinus gularis) | |
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| | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism | |
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| | four-eyes (facetious term for a person who wears glasses) | |
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| | to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat | |
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| | Didi Chuxing Technology Co., aka DiDi, app-based transportation company, headquartered in Beijing, founded in 2012 | |
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| | Eastman (name) / George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor and founder of Kodak 柯達|柯达 / Max F. Eastman (1883-1969), US socialist writer, subsequently severe critic of USSR | |
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| | Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams" | |
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| | Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical | |
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| | Elon Musk (1971-), founder and CEO of SpaceX, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors | |
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| | Laozi and Zhuangzi (or Lao-tze and Chuang-tze), the founders of Daoism | |
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| | faint / subtle (of sound, scent etc) / profound / mysterious / dim | |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | marvelous / mysterious / profound / marvel / wonder | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | fourteen; 14 | |
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| | Qi son of Yu the Great 禹, reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC) | |
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| | Guo Quan, formerly Professor of Nanjing Normal University, sacked after founding New People's Party of China 中國新民黨|中国新民党 | |
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| | (literary) water that was used to rinse rice and has become smelly; befouled water | |
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| | tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2] | |
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| | Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布 | |
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| | Li Zhe, personal name of fourth Tang Emperor Zhongzong 唐中宗 (656-710), reigned 705-710 | |
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| | (bird species of China) rufous-backed sibia (Leioptila annectens) | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409–436) / surname Yan | |
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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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| | May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- | |
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| | (Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂|教育与娱乐) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行 / (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation) | |
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| | (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person | |
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| | Carrefour, French supermarket chain | |
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| | ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet) | |
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| | Uber, app-based taxi company founded in 2009 | |
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| | Newfoundland Island, Canada | |
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| | a type of clay found in the region of Yixing 宜興|宜兴, used to make Yixing stoneware, with its distinctive russet or dark purple coloring | |
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| | Tencent, Chinese tech conglomerate, founded in 1998 | |
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| | Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc. | |
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| | Workers' Daily, Chinese newspaper founded in 1949 | |
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| | falling tone / fourth tone in modern Mandarin | |
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| | baseless (lie) / without foundation | |
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| | New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) | |
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| | (bound form) to disturb; to disrupt / flirty; coquettish / abbr. for 離騷|离骚 / (literary) literary writings; poetry / foul-smelling (variant of 臊) / (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male | |
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| | Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party | |
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| | (bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese) | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 | |
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| | father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) | |
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| | April / fourth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Pinduoduo, social e-commerce company founded in 2015 | |
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| | Beijing Youth Daily, newspaper founded in 1949 | |
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| | (name) Ali / Ali (c. 600–661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Alibaba, e-commerce company (abbr. for 阿里巴巴) / see 阿里地區|阿里地区 | |
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| | iron foundry | |
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| | Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft | |
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| | fountain pen | |
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| | (idiom) propriety, justice, integrity and a sense of shame (i.e. the four social bonds, 四維|四维) | |
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| | Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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