| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | HSK 1 |
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| | to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary) | HSK 2 |
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| | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people | HSK 2 |
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| | seat / base / stand / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座 / CL: 個|个 / classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects | HSK 2 |
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| | medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL: 種|种, 服, 味 / to poison | HSK 2 |
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| | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression | HSK 2 |
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| | catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g | HSK 2 |
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| | position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential | HSK 2 |
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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条 | HSK 3 |
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| | strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强 | HSK 3 |
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| | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to | HSK 3 |
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| | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip | HSK 4 |
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| | to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | HSK 4 |
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| | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL: 次 | HSK 4 |
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| | (after a noun) between; among; amid / (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间) | HSK 4 |
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| | vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word | HSK 4 |
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| | to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters | HSK 4 |
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| | rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline | HSK 4 |
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| | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條|条 / radical (chemistry) | HSK 4 |
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| | set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) | HSK 4 |
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| | to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper) | HSK 4 |
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| | a loan / CL: 筆|笔 / to provide a loan (e.g. bank) / to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank) | HSK 5 |
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| | gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) | HSK 5 |
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| | to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission) | HSK 5 |
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| | to suspend / time-out (e.g. in sports) / stoppage / pause (media player) | HSK 5 |
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| | year (e.g. school year, fiscal year) / annual | HSK 5 |
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| | part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes) | HSK 5 |
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| | to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials) | HSK 5 |
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| | storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | HSK 6 |
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| | ruthless / strong (e.g. of wine) / (loanword) cool / hip | HSK 6 |
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| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm / sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest) / (bound form) a shill / to ask; to beg; to entrust (variant of 託|托) / torr (unit of pressure) | HSK 6 |
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| | (of a performer) to come onto the stage to perform / (of an athlete) to enter the arena to compete / (fig.) to enter the scene (e.g. a new product) / (of an examinee etc) to leave the venue | HSK 6 |
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| | reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate | HSK 6 |
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| | to kick / to play (e.g. soccer) / (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | HSK 6 |
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| | window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground | HSK 6 |
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| | platform (at a railway station) / (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an election candidate) / (Tw) website | HSK 6 |
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| | sales counter dedicated to a certain kind of product (e.g. alcohol) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | public (e.g. school, hospital) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study) / to leave one's job; to resign | HSK 7-9 |
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| | frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded / (of sth that would typically dissipate, e.g. floodwater, pollutants) to remain; to linger | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to inlay / to embed / to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring) / tiling / tesselation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | green area (e.g. urban park or garden) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go out to sea / to enter the sea (to swim etc) / (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | live (e.g. broadcast or recording) / what is actually happening / scene / the real situation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | muscle / tendon / veins visible under the skin / sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張|张, 紮|扎 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go / to visit (e.g. another country) / to attend (a banquet etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to correct / to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) / to cure / rectification / correction / to straighten | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly) / to repeat sth over and over again / to torment sb / to play crazy / to squander (time, money) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | height; level; (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低) / no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc) / (of a locality) to have a transportation service / (Tw) to commute | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hub (e.g. of traffic network) / hinge / pivot / fulcrum | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rock / to sway / to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water) / to flutter (e.g. of a flag) / to trick sb into doing sth / to dupe / to con | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to plant; to grow / to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign) / to impose sth on sb / to stumble; to fall down | HSK 7-9 |
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| | teacher-training / pedagogical / normal (school, e.g. Beijing Normal University) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to lead (an animal by the head) / to take the lead / to coordinate (a combined operation) / to mediate / a go-between (e.g. marriage broker) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to benefit (e.g. the people) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义 or 論|论, e.g. 唯理論|唯理论, rationalism) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | competition of skill (e.g. sports) / athletics tournament | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue) / to promote | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to read out loud to an audience / a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room) | |
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| | mask / visor / facepiece (e.g. diving suit, gas mask) | |
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| | real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) | |
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| | delivery mechanism of a medicine (e.g. pill, powder etc) | |
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| | prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) | |
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| | sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049 | |
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| | a collector (e.g. of artworks) | |
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| | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
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| | duel / match / competition between paired opponents (e.g. sporting) | |
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| | electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house) | |
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| | people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization | |
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| | anti-nuclear (e.g. protest) | |
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| | to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations) | |
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| | standardized / standard (service, method etc) / regulation (clothing etc) / formulaic / (telecommunications etc) system / format (e.g. the PAL or NTSC systems for TV signals) | |
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| | to recount (e.g. results of election) / to re-evaluate | |
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| | (med.) endothelium / thin skin on the inside of some fruits (e.g. oranges) | |
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| | to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscription) | |
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| | Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911) | |
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| | to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional | |
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| | to leave first (courteous expression used to excuse oneself) / (euphemism) to predecease; to die first (e.g. before one's spouse) | |
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