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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幫* | 幫* | *幫
to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
evening party / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to give a dinner party / to entertain guests / to invite to dinner
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *造* | 造* | *造
to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops
HSK 3
the other person; the other side; the other party
HSK 3
bilateral / both sides / both parties involved
HSK 3
party / gathering / to meet / to get together
HSK 4
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  *方* | 方* | *方
square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *共* | 共* | *共
common / general / to share / together / total / altogether / abbr. for 共產黨|共产党, Communist party
HSK 4
to mediate / to bring parties to an agreement
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乙* | 乙* | *乙
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *券* | 券* | *券
bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate
HSK 6
party / delegation
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黨* | 黨* | *黨
party / association / club / society / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
political party / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
to see someone off / to throw someone a send-off party
HSK 6
banquet / feast / dinner party / CL: , 個|个
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *主* | 主* | *主
owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games)
HSK 7-9
persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)
HSK 7-9
to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:
HSK 7-9
light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
party / carousal / hilarity / merriment / whoopee / to carouse
HSK 7-9
to engage in social activities; to socialize / dinner party; banquet; social engagement
HSK 7-9
secretary (chief official of a branch of a socialist or communist party) / clerk / scribe
HSK 7-9
to get together socially / to celebrate / party / celebration
HSK 7-9
to read out loud to an audience / a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference)
HSK 7-9
to have a get-together / celebration / party
HSK 7-9
a guild / (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild / the Japanese word for company
drinking party / wine reception
Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik
Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council
abbr. for 中國共產黨|中国共产党, Chinese Communist Party
party leadership group
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會|中国共产党中央委员会
socialist party
Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT) / Nationalist Party
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. for 民主進步黨|民主进步党
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list
Communist Party
(loanword) party
a party (in a contract or legal case) / one side / area / region
party membership
the school (as a party in a contract, dispute etc) / the school authorities
tea party
political party / faction
party member
youth corps / youth wing of a political party
within the party (esp. Chinese communist party)
Central Party School, China's highest institution specifically for training Party cadres, founded in 1933
Communist Party of China
dance / ball / party / CL: 場|场
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor
Party committee
(Tw) garden party; fete (held in a garden or park); carnival; fair
both ends / both parties to a deal
Party and government administration
ruling party / the party in power
Xinhua News Agency, founded in 1931 as the press outlet of the Chinese Communist Party
to realize in hindsight; to realize belatedly; to be late to the party
banquet / dinner party / soiree
to vent one's anger on (an innocent party) / to take it out on (sb)
dinner party / banquet
lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties
to draw to oneself; to gather up; to collect / to fold up (an umbrella, wings etc) / to assemble (a party of persons) / to rope in (some people)
Communist Party member
party boss
lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom) / fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits
to join a political party (esp. the Communist Party)
sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil
Military Commission of the Communist Party Central Committee
worldwide green parties
opposition party
high cadre / top party member
social gathering; party
history of the Party
branch secretary / secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League / abbr. for 支部書記|支部书记
hawk faction (opposite: 鴿派|鸽派, doves) / fierce and combative party / war party / warmongers
both parties (to a lawsuit) / plaintiff and defendant
the Japanese side or party (in negotiations etc)
the bride's side (of a wedding) / of the bride's party
centralized power (history), e.g. under an Emperor or party
party-founding
opposition (political) party
Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party)
Modi (name) / Narendra Modi (1950-), Indian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party or Indian People's Party) politician, Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001, PM from 2014
third plenum of a national congress of the Chinese Communist Party
the guilty party files the suit / the thief cries thief
tea party
the spirit or character of a political party
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會|中共中央纪律检查委员会
worker's party / labor party
farewell party
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
restricted document, available only to certain individuals such as high-ranking Party officials (abbr. for 內部參考|内部参考) / (literary) palace eunuch
the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses
drinking party / to go on a binge / to paint the town red
party constitution
(military) advance party

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