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HSK
expert; specialist
HSK 3
to return home
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *家
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *家
home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
HSK 1
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
whole family
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
entrepreneur
sovereign country
mathematician
artist / CL: 個|个, ,
editor / compiler
developing country
adventurer
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
notable former families
Daoist
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
biologist
economist
financier; banker
to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
Buddhism / Buddhist
calligrapher
exclusive
HSK 7-9
medical expert / medical specialist
School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
novelist
enemy / foe / (in opera) sweetheart or destined love
merchant / business / enterprise
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
philosopher
cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka)
inventor
sb who gets things done / doer
composer / songwriter
hardworking and thrifty in running one's household
calligrapher and painter
(music) conductor
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇|三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
biochemist
multiethnic state
the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475–221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
historian
perfect / excellent / brought to the utmost degree
I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature)
I / me / we / my home / our house
to lay down a family fortune / to get rich / to become prosperous
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
to take care of one's family
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
psychologist
writer / man of letters / CL: 個|个
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家)
HSK 7-9
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
enemy / foe
to search a house and confiscate possessions
royal / imperial household
nuclear nations
the public / the state / society / the public purse
IKEA, Swedish furniture retailer
next-door neighbor; neighboring household
FamilyMart (convenience store chain)
women (in general)
prophet
to support a family / to raise a family
historian
Yoshinoya (Japanese fast food chain)
to settle down / to set up a home
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
family-like close relationship (idiom)
anthropologist
farmhouse / banker (gambling)
residence / household / to reside
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
industrialist
Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子
wife's family (before marriage)
investor
statesman / politician / CL: 個|个, ,
scientist / CL: 個|个
reformer
historian

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