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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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| | 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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| | to establish / to set up / to found | 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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| | according to / based on / basis / foundation / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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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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| | to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy | 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 / 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 initiate; to start; to found | HSK 6 |
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| | to establish; to found | HSK 6 |
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| | to break the rules / an illegality / a foul | HSK 6 |
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| | to hang or suspend / to worry / public announcement / unresolved / baseless / without foundation | HSK 6 |
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| | deep / profound | HSK 6 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | 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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| | to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution | HSK 7-9 |
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| | source / fountainhead | 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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| | far-reaching / profound and long-lasting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | foundation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fountain | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout | 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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| | dense / thick / strong / rich (colors) / heavy (aroma) / deep (friendship) / profound (effect) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four types of human emotions, namely: happiness 歡喜|欢喜, anger 憤怒|愤怒, sorrow 悲哀 and joy 快樂|快乐 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | can be found everywhere | HSK 7-9 |
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| | profound / abstruse / recondite / profoundly | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | base / foundation / bottom | 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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| | fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism | |
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| | Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) / surname Ming / Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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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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| | 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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| | Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft | |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | (archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books | |
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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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| | Ali (name) / Ali (c. 600-661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Ngari prefecture in Tibet | |
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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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| | Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism | |
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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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| | GOME, electronics chain founded in Beijing in 1987 | |
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| | Carrefour, French supermarket chain | |
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| | Vanke, large Chinese real estate company, founded in 1984 | |
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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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| | to initiate; to found | |
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| | foundation / base / family estate | |
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| | grade 4 / fourth class / category D | |
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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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| | dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | |
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| | to cast or found metals | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | April / fourth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire | |
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| | base / pedestal / foundation | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute | |
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| | fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010 | |
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| | the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting) / the accomplishments of a well-educated person | |
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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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| | founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure | |
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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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| | foundations (of a building) / base | |
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| | Suzhou embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 湘繡|湘绣, 粵繡|粤绣 and 蜀繡|蜀绣) | |
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| | lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk) | |
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| | four sides | |
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| | foundation groove / trench for building foundation | |
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| | foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia) | |
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| | pig iron / foundry iron | |
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| | to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc) | |
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| | kind of work in production (e.g. benchwork, foundry work etc) | |
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| | profound | |
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| | mysterious / profound / abstruse | |
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| | the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥|礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional | |
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| | Tzu Chi Foundation, an international humanitarian NGO, established in 1966 in Taiwan | |
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| | founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc | |
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| | anniversary of the founding of a school | |
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| | to lay a foundation | |
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