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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 break the rules / an illegality / a foul
HSK 6
deep / profound
HSK 6
to establish; to found
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
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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  *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; origin; 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
to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution
HSK 7-9
fountain
HSK 7-9
can be found everywhere
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
four-eyes (facetious term for a person who wears glasses)
to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat
Didi Chuxing Technology Co., aka DiDi, app-based transportation company, headquartered in Beijing, founded in 2012
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
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"
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
Elon Musk (1971-), founder and CEO of SpaceX, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors
Laozi and Zhuangzi (or Lao-tze and Chuang-tze), the founders of Daoism
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
marvelous / mysterious / profound / marvel / wonder
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)
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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  *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]
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
Li Zhe, personal name of fourth Tang Emperor Zhongzong 唐中宗 (656-710), reigned 705-710
(bird species of China) rufous-backed sibia (Leioptila annectens)
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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-
(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)
(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
ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet)
Uber, app-based taxi company founded in 2009
Newfoundland Island, Canada
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
Tencent, Chinese tech conglomerate, founded in 1998
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)
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Workers' Daily, Chinese newspaper founded in 1949
falling tone / fourth tone in modern Mandarin
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)
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
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
April / fourth month (of the lunar year)
Pinduoduo, social e-commerce company founded in 2015
Beijing Youth Daily, newspaper founded in 1949
(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
iron foundry
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
fountain pen
(idiom) propriety, justice, integrity and a sense of shame (i.e. the four social bonds, 四維|四维)
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
Four great beards of Beijing opera, namely: Ma Lianliang 馬連良|马连良, Tan Fuying 譚富英|谭富英, Yang Baosen 楊寶森|杨宝森, Xi Xiaobo 奚嘯伯|奚啸伯
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels
pig iron / foundry iron

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