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HSK
doctor; physician
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
husband
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
lady / madam / Mrs. / CL:
HSK 4
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
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husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
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(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
Yugoslavia, 1943-1992
the Maldives
senior official (in imperial China)
golf (loanword)
cart driver / coachman
Novgorod, city in Russia
former husband
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
(coll.) older sister's husband
younger sister's husband
(honorific) husband
peasant / farmer
fisherman
scholar officials
street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper
Tolstoy (name) / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian novelist
Steve (male name)
Wolf, Woolf (name)
Cleveland
authority over the household
coward
married man; husband (as a social role)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor
Ralph (name)
First Lady (wife of US president)
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
Krakow
Joseph (name)
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
(literary) husband
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
married woman's lover
polygamy
male adulterer
I (spoken by an old man)
boatman
woodman / woodcutter
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
(idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand
Braşov, Romania
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
night watchman (in former times)
Sharif (name) / Nawaz Sharif (1949-), Pakistani politician
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
common people; ordinary folk
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
sick man
Jeff or Geoff (name)
fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
burlak (barge hauler)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
Van de Graaff (name) / Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901-1967), American physicist
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
porter for a palanquin
mess cook (old)
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
Wroclaw, Polish city
Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS / brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China
Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city)
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
porter / bearer
Cardiff
lit. peddlers and carriers / common people / lower class
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and dramatist
a manly man / a man of character
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
sole ruler / dictator
older sister's husband
peddler / street vendor
pedant / old fogey

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