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HSK
doctor; physician
HSK 3
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
husband
HSK 4
lady / madam / Mrs. / CL:
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
Steve (male name)
Slavic
porter
Yugoslavia, 1943-1992
a manly man / a man of character
golf (loanword)
former husband
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
(honorific) husband
the Maldives (Tw)
(coll.) older sister's husband
senior official (in imperial China)
fiancé
Jeff or Geoff (name)
peasant / farmer
fisherman
I (spoken by an old man)
authority over the household
Joseph (name)
the Maldives
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
burlak (barge hauler)
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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)
to force into service / press-gang
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
(old) laborer
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995
married woman's lover
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
waffle (loanword)
Kraft, US food company
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
woodman / woodcutter
to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife
Wolf, Woolf (name)
Braşov, Romania
married man
Ralph (name)
married woman
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子
Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor
older sister's husband
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting
(coll.) he-man
Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company
similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
porter for a palanquin
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts
family-run shop
First Lady (wife of US president)
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible
a lot of people (literary)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master"
(idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
sole ruler / dictator
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
Amah Rock in Sha Tin 沙田, Hong Kong
porter / bearer
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city)
to practice (work skills)
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
rickshaw puller
Tupolev, Russian plane maker
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
married man; husband (as a social role)
(old) concubine
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony
Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867-1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong
younger sister's husband
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
scholar officials
cart driver / coachman
street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper

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