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1
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今
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jīn
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- now
- the present time
- current
- contemporary
- this (day, year etc)
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=2
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门
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mén
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- gate
- door
- gateway
- doorway
- opening
- valve
- switch
- way to do something
- knack
- family
- house
- (religious) sect
- school (of thought)
- class
- category
- phylum or division (taxonomy)
- classifier for large guns
- classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
- (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
classifiers: 扇, 個
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=4
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怎么
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zěnme
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- how?
- what?
- why?
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=4
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怎么
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zěnme
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variant of 怎么 zěnme
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=5
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能
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néng
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- can
- to be able to
- might possibly
- ability
- (physics) energy
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=5
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能
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nài
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 耐 (“to bear; to withstand”)
- a surname
- alternative form of 耐 (“to bear; to withstand”)
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=5
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能
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tái
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 台 (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
- alternative form of 台 (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
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=5
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能
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tài
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 態 /态 (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
- alternative form of 態 /态 (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
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=5
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能
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nái
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- (obsolete) mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
- mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
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=5
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能
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tāi
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
- only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
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=5
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能
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xióng
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 熊 (xióng, “bear”)
- alternative form of 熊 (xióng, “bear”)
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=6
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么
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yāo
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- youngest
- most junior
- tiny
- one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
- one or ace on dice or dominoes
- variant of 吆 yāo, to shout
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=6
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么
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má
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exclamatory final particle
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=6
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么
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ma
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interrogative final particle
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=6
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么
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me
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suffix, used to form interrogative 什么 shénme, what?, indefinite 这么 zhème thus, etc
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=6
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么
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yāo
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- (Mainland China) yocto- (SI unit prefix)
- (dialectal) one
- (mathematics) related to number 1
- a surname
- ace; one on dice or dominoes
- one
- one (used to reduce ambiguity when saying the numeral 1, especially on the phone, when reading an ID card, in aviation, or in the military)
- related to number 1
- tiny; minute
- yocto- (SI unit prefix)
- youngest
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7
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朦
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méng
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used in 朦胧 ménglóng
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