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to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails / innovation
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *新* | 新* | *新
new / newly / meso- (chemistry)
HSK 1
New Year / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
bridegroom; groom
HSK 4
HSK 2
fresh (experience, food etc) / freshness / novel / uncommon
HSK 4
new type; new kind
HSK 4
all new; completely new
HSK 6
again; once more; re-
HSK 2
brand new
HSK 7-9
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 5
bride
HSK 4
Xinzhu or Hsinchu city in northern Taiwan, noted for high tech industries / Xinzhu or Hsinchu county in northwest Taiwan
to remain fresh in one's memory (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Xinxiang, a county in Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市, Henan
(of markets, industries, infectious diseases etc) rising / emerging / in the ascendant
HSK 6
Beijing news (newspaper)
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, capital Ürümqi 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市 (abbr. to )
novel coronavirus (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
Happy New Year!
newly married couple / newlyweds
the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
new style; latest type
HSK 7-9
Protestant / adherent of Protestantism
Hu-Wen New Administration (formed in 2003), ostensibly reform-oriented leadership of Hu Jintao 胡錦濤|胡锦涛 and Wen Jiabao 溫家寶|温家宝
latest / newest
to renovate / to refurbish / to refresh (computer window) / to write a new page (in history) / to break (a record)
HSK 7-9
Yangxin, a county in Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei
to set a new record
to reform and start afresh (idiom); to turn over a new leaf
Niigata, a city and prefecture in Japan
modern / fashionable
HSK 7-9
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
long COVID
to bring in the new (idiom); new directions, different creation
Xinfeng or Hsinfeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
rising star; new talent
treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France
novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒|新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
lit. new bud / fig. new and original
HSK 7-9
newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent / newlywed, esp. new bride / newlywed couple; bride and groom / (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
HSK 6
top news story
new style / latest fashion / new model
HSK 7-9
novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒|新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
novel; new; exotic
HSK 7-9
China News Service (CNS), a state-owned news agency in China, focused primarily on providing news to Chinese communities outside mainland China
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *新* | 新* | *新
abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆 / abbr. for Singapore 新加坡 / surname Xin
Singapore
news media
creativity
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019
high tech / high technology
HSK 7-9
to innovate / innovation
HSK 6
ChinaNews (China News Service)
new (army) recruit
hipster
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
new generation
fresh and clean
HSK 7-9
new knowledge / new friend
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year
website of China News Service 中國新聞社|中国新闻社 (chinanews.com)
to add (sth new) / newly added; additional
abbr. for Singapore 新加坡 + Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚 + Thailand 泰國|泰国
Australasian realm
dynamic update (Internet)
Protestantism
spokesman
daily renewal, monthly change (idiom) / every day sees new developments / rapid progress
HSK 7-9
a pleasant change / a breath of fresh air / refreshing
HSK 7-9
neoclassical
news conference
all-time high
New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
new housing development
Neolithic Era
General Administration of Press and Publication (PRC state censorship organization)
Business News / Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo daily)
Happy New Year
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆
as fresh and clean as nature (idiom)
Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times
new faction
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
New Age (movement)
new era; new epoch

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