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HSK
world / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
the outside world / external
HSK 5
worldwide / entire world
HSK 5
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  *界* | 界* | *界
(bound form) boundary; border / (bound form) realm
HSK 6
boundary / border
HSK 7-9
common boundary / common border
HSK 7-9
(lit. and fig.) field of vision; scope; horizon
HSK 7-9
nature / the natural world
HSK 7-9
industry / the world of business
HSK 7-9
boundary / state / realm
HSK 7-9
academic world / academic circles / academia
business world / business community
New Territories (in Hong Kong)
all walks of life; all social circles
field of vision
to go beyond the border; to be transboundary / (fig.) to transition to a new field of endeavor; to be interdisciplinary
national boundary; border between countries
banking circles / the world of finance
to cross a border / to overstep a bound
to broaden one's horizons
spiritual world
critical / boundary
(idiom) to broaden one's horizons greatly
academic circles / academia
academic world / academic circles / academia
industry
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果
everywhere / across the world
media / commentators
Third World
the press / journalistic circles / the journalists
microcosm / the microscopic world
the press / the media
First World
cosmos (Buddhism)
county border; county line
biosphere / natural world
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
macrocosm / the world in the large
world of the immortals; a fairyland; a paradise
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
lit. the river that divides Chu and Han / fig. a line that divides rival territories / the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard
Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss or Sukhavati (Sanskrit)
the teeming world / the world of sensual pleasures
great wide world / marvelously diverse world / (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界)
paradise (mainly Buddhist) / Elysium / (Budd.) Sukhavati
border / boundary
world of science / scientific circles
upper bound
lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
political and government circles
to demarcate a boundary / dividing line
to cross a border / (sport) to go out of bounds
supremum (math.) / least upper bound
provincial boundary
shallow / not thorough / superficial
an interface / to relate with / to affiliate
heaven
ghost world
(Buddhism) to designate the boundaries of a sacred place within which monks are to be trained; a place so designated / (fantasy fiction) force field; invisible barrier (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 結界 "kekkai")
bounded
the entertainment world; show business
fungus (taxonomic kingdom) / mycota
Brave New World, novel by Aldous Huxley 阿道司·赫胥黎
animal kingdom
state border; state line
Kingdom Plantae (biology)
without borders (used for organizations such as Médecins sans Frontières)
Minecraft (video game)
Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm
sports circles / the sporting world
Kingdom Monera / prokaryote
Palearctic realm
media industry
territory occupied by aborigines in Taiwan (old)
World of Warcraft (video game)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
event horizon
subkingdom (taxonomy)
subcritical
the press / the media
supercritical
moviedom / the world of movies / film circles
(math.) infimum; greatest lower bound
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
(one's) inner world
boundary survey
Antarctic realm
to travel around the world
the entertainment world; show business
demarcation / boundary / delimited / bound (math.)
the objective world (as opposed to empirical observation)
lower boundary
determination of cadastral parcel boundaries
Nearctic realm
Neotropic (ecozone)
Indomalayan realm
extent of one's rights / limits of one's authority

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