| | prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough | HSK 1 |
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| | the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori | HSK 1 |
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| | to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student | HSK 2 |
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| | to raise (animals) / to bring up (children) / to keep (pets) / to support / to give birth | HSK 2 |
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| | to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child | HSK 3 |
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| | to give birth / to reproduce / to produce / product / resource / estate / property | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give birth to; to bear / fertility | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | since birth / for one's whole life | |
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| | to face childbirth / about to give birth / refers esp. to the onset of regular contractions | |
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| | planned childbirth / birth control / family planning / abbr. for 計劃生育|计划生育 | |
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| | to apply for residence / to register a birth | |
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| | birth / birthday / brag / boast / to increase | |
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| | hare lip (birth defect) | |
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| | full moon / first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month) | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | outstanding student / to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality) / to enhance the genetic quality of a population; eugenics | |
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| | from birth / by one's nature | |
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| | constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology) | |
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| | to unload cargo / (fig.) to give birth to a baby | |
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| | time of birth / period of labor / lying-in | |
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| | year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支 | |
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| | one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁 | |
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| | one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch | |
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| | difficult birth / (fig.) difficult to achieve | |
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| | Temujin, birth name of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗 | |
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| | cesarean birth | |
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| | to help a mother give birth | |
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| | to give birth without complications / easy childbirth / safe delivery / natural birth (without surgical operation) | |
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| | Jiang Ziya (c. 1100 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), partly mythical sage advisor to King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and purported author of “Six Secret Strategic Teachings” 六韜|六韬, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to newlyweds) | |
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| | birth canal (in obstetrics) | |
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| | to practice birth control | |
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| | to have one's fortune read / system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle) | |
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| | cleft palate (birth defect) | |
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| | one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁 | |
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| | to give birth (animals) / to bear a litter | |
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| | red-dyed egg, traditionally given to friends and relatives one month after the birth of one's child | |
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| | to be born / arrival of newborn / birth (of a savior or religious leader) | |
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| | red-painted eggs, traditional celebratory gift on third day after birth of new baby | |
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| | one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁 | |
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| | Huang Shigong, also known as Xia Huanggong 夏黃公|夏黄公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author | |
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| | birth name of Qing emperor Guangxu 光緒|光绪 | |
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| | to give birth to a baby / (of animals) to give birth to young | |
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| | stranger / living person / to give birth / to be born (in a certain time or place) | |
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| | to have a premature birth | |
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| | date and time of a person's birth / age | |
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| | dog giving birth to three puppies | |
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| | to exceed the stipulated limit of a birth-control policy / to be reincarnated / to be lenient | |
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| | natural mother / birth mother | |
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| | lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age | |
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| | to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride / one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols ( 六禮|六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride's family | |
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| | (car racing) pole position / (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth) | |
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| | to give birth to a child | |
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| | to bear (give birth) | |
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| | dog giving birth to a puppy | |
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| | the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) | |
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| | female suffering absence or atresia of vagina (as birth defect) | |
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| | (literary) to have a baby girl; to celebrate the birth of a daughter | |
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| | (of animals) to give birth / to foal, to whelp etc | |
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| | deformed child / child with birth defect | |
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| | (literary) to have a baby boy; to celebrate the birth of a son | |
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| | to give birth to | |
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| | to give birth / to grow (whiskers etc) / to generate / to produce | |
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| | to give birth to a child or children | |
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| | to give birth to a baby | |
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| | female suffering absence or atresia of vagina (as birth defect) | |
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| | postpartum care center (a facility providing services such as professional care and nutritionally balanced meals for mothers during the traditional month of rest after giving birth) | |
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| | Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子 text on military strategy | |
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| | man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经) | |
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| | date of birth | |
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| | deformity / birth defect / abnormality | |
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| | birth rate | |
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| | Yuting, trade name of an emergency birth control tablet containing the hormonal medication levonorgestrel | |
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| | new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice | |
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| | place of birth | |
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| | birth defect | |
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| | birth defect | |
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| | birth by caesarean section | |
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| | birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc) | |
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| | birth name of Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | to give birth to / to give rise to | |
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| | premature (birth, child) | |
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| | lady who has given birth twice | |
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| | divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date | |
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| | birth permit | |
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| | local anesthetic / anesthesia to half the body (as for a C-section birth) | |
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| | Sima Rangju (c. 800 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), military strategist of the Qi State 齊國|齐国 and author of “Methods of Sima” 司馬法|司马法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黃石公|黄石公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author of “Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黃石公三略|黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | Jiang Shinian (c. 2000 BC), birth name of Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God, first of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 and creator of agriculture in China | |
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| | department of gynecology and obstetrics / birth clinic | |
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| | to marry and give birth late | |
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| | a child with a birth defect / a deformed child | |
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| | feast at the birth of a child | |
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