| | you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.) | HSK 1 |
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| | child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | a speech / to speak / to talk / to address / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name) | HSK 2 |
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| | seat / base; stand / (bound form) constellation / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座) / classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc | HSK 2 |
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| | specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc) / article, report or program etc on a specific topic | HSK 3 |
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| | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss | HSK 4 |
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| | maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | website / web address / URL | HSK 4 |
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| | big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) | HSK 4 |
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| | handsome guy / lady-killer / handsome (form of address) | HSK 4 |
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| | master / qualified worker / respectful form of address for older men / CL: 個|个, 位, 名 | HSK 5 |
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| | name / term of address / title | HSK 5 |
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| | to respect; to revere; to esteem / honorable; distinguished (used on formal occasions before a term of address) | HSK 5 |
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| | to replace (a worn-out tire etc) / to change (one's address etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | to express in words or writing / to make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc) / to address (an audience) / same as 致詞|致词 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to call; to address as / form of address; appellation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | address | HSK 7-9 |
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| | husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch | |
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| | father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 | |
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| | state official or subject in dynastic China / I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign) / Kangxi radical 131 | |
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| | (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names) | |
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| | (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) | |
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| | sage / the Sage (i.e. Confucius) / (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty / (religion) saint | |
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| | boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer | |
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| | Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant | |
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| | name and address of the sender enclosed / details inside | |
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| | eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
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| | someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname) | |
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| | benefactor (term used by a monk to address a layperson) / donor (semiconductor) | |
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| | see 娭姐, father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady | |
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| | (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman | |
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| | Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) | |
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| | to address / to search for address / to input data into memory | |
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| | aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) | |
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| | lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
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| | courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor | |
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| | sir (respectful form of address for an old man) | |
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| | to address sb deferentially / title / honorific | |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her) | |
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| | senior official / senior officer / commanding officer / CL: 位 / sir (term of address for senior officer) | |
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| | uncle (polite form of address for older male) | |
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| | funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address | |
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| | (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal | |
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| | you (used to address a deity) | |
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| | gentlemen (form of address) | |
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| | paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach | |
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| | title; appellation; form of address | |
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| | to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸 and 媽媽|妈妈) | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | honorific title / form of address reserved for a queen, ancestor, emperor etc | |
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| | (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister | |
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| | (Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. [a-má]) | |
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| | (honorific written address) My dear friend | |
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| | (honorific written address to younger man) My dear young friend | |
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| | (archaic form of address) his excellency the army commander | |
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| | little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older) | |
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| | to address or refer to (sb) respectfully (as ...) / respectful term of address; honorific title | |
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| | honey (endearment in addressing a little girl) | |
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| | business address; office address | |
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| | address book / directory | |
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| | little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older | |
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| | current address / place of residence | |
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| | mailing address; postal address | |
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| | (idiom) to address sb directly by name; to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating familiarity or overfamiliarity) | |
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| | address resolution protocol / ARP | |
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| | email address | |
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| | destination address / target address | |
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| | (computing) network address translation | |
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| | water in a distant place is of little use in putting out a fire right here / (fig.) a slow remedy does not address the current emergency | |
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| | grandpa (polite form of address for old man) | |
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| | home address | |
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| | broadcast address | |
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| | speech delivered by a head of state to the legislature (e.g. (USA) State of the Union Address, (Russia) Address to the Federal Assembly etc) | |
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| | father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady | |
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| | telephone contact notebook; address book | |
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| | (often used in traditional novels) term used by an emperor to address the empress | |
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| | lit. slow no aid to urgent (idiom); slow measures will not address a critical situation / too slow to meet a pressing need | |
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| | delivery address | |
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| | return address | |
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| | absolute address (computing) | |
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| | (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman | |
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| | mail address | |
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| | contact address | |
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| | uniform resource locator (URL), i.e. web address | |
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| | issue that needs to be addressed first (before another issue can be resolved) | |
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| | addressable (computing) / accessible via an address | |
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| | self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) | |
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| | multicast address / multistation address | |
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| | I beg you to partake of this sacrifice (used at the end of an elegiac address) | |
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| | stack address (computing) | |
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| | source address | |
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| | relative address (computing) | |
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| | destination address | |
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| | old lady / Madam (polite address) / CL: 位 | |
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| | lit. distant water does not cure present thirst; fig. urgent need / a slow remedy does not address immediate needs | |
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