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  *四* | 四* | *四
four / 4
HSK 1
(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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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
to establish / to set up / to found
HSK 3
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
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  *建* | 建* | *建
to establish / to found / to set up / to build / to construct
HSK 3
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
profound / deep / deep-going
HSK 3
deep; profound
HSK 4
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  *厚* | 厚* | *厚
thick / deep or profound / kind / generous / rich or strong in flavor / to favor / to stress
HSK 4
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  *底* | 底* | *底
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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  *季* | 季* | *季
season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields
HSK 4
according to / based on / basis / foundation / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *沉* | 沉* | *沉
to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy
HSK 4
according to / basis / foundation
HSK 5
fountain pen / CL:
HSK 5
to establish; to set up; to found
HSK 5
to found; to establish
HSK 6
to establish; to found
HSK 6
to break the rules / an illegality / a foul
HSK 6
deep / profound
HSK 6
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  *悬* | 悬* | *悬
to hang or suspend / to worry / public announcement / unresolved / baseless / without foundation
HSK 6
to initiate; to start; to found
HSK 6
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  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
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
four seasons, namely: spring , summer , autumn and winter
HSK 7-9
to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout
HSK 7-9
source / fountainhead
HSK 7-9
far-reaching / profound and long-lasting
HSK 7-9
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
profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles
HSK 7-9
dense / thick / strong / rich (colors) / heavy (aroma) / deep (friendship) / profound (effect)
HSK 7-9
foundation
HSK 7-9
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
can be found everywhere
HSK 7-9
to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution
HSK 7-9
fountain
HSK 7-9
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
proposer / initiator / founding member
HSK 7-9
creator; founder; initiator
HSK 7-9
base / foundation / bottom
HSK 7-9
profound / abstruse / recondite / profoundly
HSK 7-9
fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) rufous-vented laughingthrush (Pterorhinus gularis)
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism
Didi Chuxing Technology Co., aka DiDi, app-based transportation company, headquartered in Beijing, founded in 2012
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  *明* | 明* | *明
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
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"
faint / subtle (of sound, scent etc) / profound / mysterious / dim
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 as villains
spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles)
fourteen; 14
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  *启* | 启* | *启
Qi son of Yu the Great , reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
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  *滫* | 滫* | *滫
(literary) water that was used to rinse rice and has become smelly; befouled water
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  *微* | 微* | *微
tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2]
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  *燕* | 燕* | *燕
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
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)
May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
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  *子* | 子* | *子
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-
(idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
Uber, app-based taxi company founded in 2009
Newfoundland Island, Canada
Tencent, Chinese tech conglomerate, founded in 1998
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
baseless (lie) / without foundation
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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  *骚* | 骚* | *骚
(bound form) to disturb; to disrupt / flirty; coquettish / abbr. for 離騷|离骚 / (literary) literary writings; poetry / foul-smelling (variant of ) / (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party
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  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
April / fourth month (of the lunar year)
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼 founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毗尼, 臘伐尼|腊伐尼, 林微尼)
(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
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels
iron foundry
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
fountain pen
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
foundations (of a building) / base
Huang Guangyu (1969-), PRC entrepreneur and millionaire, founder of GOME Electrical 國美電器|国美电器
Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010
Emperor Taizu of Song, posthumous title of the founding Song emperor Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 (927-976), reigned from 960
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  *肆* | 肆* | *肆
four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop
vast and profound
four sides
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
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
to initiate; to found
pig iron / foundry iron
to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc)
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  *鼎* | 鼎* | *鼎
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
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
(bird species of China) rufous-fronted babbler (Cyanoderma rufifrons)
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  *渊* | 渊* | *渊
deep pool / deep / profound
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
(archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books
to lay a foundation
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  *宥* | 宥* | *宥
to forgive / to help / profound
Eastern Wu (222-280) / the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权
to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded; impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead

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