HSK 5 — Advanced Chinese Proficiency

(n./adj./adv.) root, basis; capital, cost; note book; original, one's own, this; originally, to begin with | (m.) measure word for books | (char.) edition, version; script; (ancient China) memorial (passed to the emperor) | (prep.) according to, based on | (char.) inherent, intrinsic; principle, major

(v.) feed (sb); give food to (animals) | (interj.) Hello!

(n.) Miss (title of an unmarried young woman, used after the surname or alone); Miss (female winner of a beauty contest); Miss (after a profession); (derog.) call girl; (ancient China) young lady (used by a servant addressing the master's daughter)

(adj.) white, white color; bright | (adv.) in vain; free of charge, without effort | (n.) Bai (a surname) | (radical.) white | (adj.) (of Chinese characters) misspelt, mispronounced | (char.) clear, plain; spoken part (in an opera); vernacular (of classical Chinese); to explain, to state | (v./n.) to stare coldly or contemptuously; white part (of plant, eye, egg, etc.)

(adv.) don't; (used with "shi" to raise a supposition of sth undesirable happening) | (v./pro.) to leave, to distinguish; other | (v./adj.) (dialect) dissuade from, win over; (of writting) awkward; not getting along well; unpleasant | (char.) difference; classification, category | (v.) (dialect) (of direction) to turn; (of idea or temper) to change | (char.) unique, uncommon, special; miswritten, misspelled, mispronounced | (v.) to fasten (using a pin); to clip into; to trip, to stumble (sb.)

(v.) wait | (n./m.) grade, rank; kind, type | (char.) equal in number or degree | (conj.) until, when | (aux.) and so on, and so forth, etc.; indicating the end of an enumeration

(n.) the abbreviation of Heilongjiang Province | (adj./n.) black; dark; secret, unlawful; night, evening | (adj.) (of people, shop, etc.) wicked, sinister, bad | (radical.) black

(adj.) red | (n.) bonus | (adj.) popular, successful | (char.) needle work (only used in the word 女红) | (char.) of happy occasions; revolutionary

(n./m.) team, class, group, (work) shift, squad, (old) troupe (of performers); (for) group (of people), (scheduled forms of transportation) | (char.) regular, scheduled; (lit.) to move or withdraw (troops)

(v.) bring, take | (n.) belt, band, tape; tire, tyre; zone | (v.) to do something else simultaneously, to bear or wear, to have, to lead, to bring up (a child)

(conj.) and | (v.) follow; (of a woman) marry someone | (prep.) with (recipient of a action); (indicating involvement or relationship) with; (indicating comparison or contrast) with | (n.) heel (of the foot, a shoe, a sock, etc.)

(prep./n.) according to, based on; basis, support, evidence

(v.) close, shut; lock away; (of appliances) turn off; (of company) close down; to concern | (n.) mountain pass; customhouse; critical time, hard time, barrier | (char.) area outside a city gate; bolt, latch; critical juncture, key point

(char./m.) moment; unkind; profound; to set a date (same as 克); quarter (of an hour) | (v.) to carve, to engrave

(n./m.) long and narrow piece; stripe; measure word for long and thin things (trousers, road..., dogs), for people | (char./m.) twig; order; item, article; (measure word) for sth that can be listed item by item (e.g. in official documents)

(adj./n.) (spoken) great, wonderful, fantastic, terrific; stick, club; length or leg of a relay race

(adv./conj.) only, just, merely, the most (used after adj); but, nevertheless, however

(v./n.) dress up, put on make-up; dress oneself as, pose as; style of dressing

(adj.) rich | (char.) to enrich; property; plentiful, abundant

(phr.) lose weight

(n./adj.) economy, economics; economical, affordable

(adv./n.) (used for emphasis in questions) actually, on earth; after all, anyway; truth, outcome

(adj./adv.) empty, hollow; lacking substance, impractical; for nothing, in vain | (v./n./adj.) to empty, to clear out; empty space; free time; unfilled, unoccupied | (char.) sky, air

(adj.) sleepy; tired; difficult, hard | (v.) to trap, to surround; be stranded; (dialect) to sleep

(v./n.) connect, link; military company | (conj.) (even or not even...) concerning..., regarding to...; besides, including | (adv.) repeatedly; continuously, in succession, one after another

(char./m.) little, fine; rough; gross; semi-finished; mao (fractional unit of Chinese Yuan, equal to 10 fen) | (n./adj./v.) hair; feather; wool; mildew; careless; panicky; (dialect) to get angry | (radical.) fur

(v.) get lost, lose one's way

(v.) to arrange, to rank, to put in order

(v.) deceive; get sth. by fraud; mount (a bike or horse)

(adj./adv.) poor, penniless; (also oral: despite sb's difficult conditions) | (char.) having an end; extremely; exhaustively; thoroughly; use up; in trouble

(adj./adv./n.) (color) dark; deep; difficult; thorough; intimate; late (in the day, night or season); very, deeply; depth

(n.) province; provincial capital | (v.) save, economize; omit, leave out; abbreviate | (char.) inspect, examine oneself; become conscious; (lit) visit (parents)

(v./adj./adv.) die, be dead; fixed, rigid; impassable; irreconcilable; extreme; to the death, desperately; unyieldingly

(adj./n./v.) all; possessions; to possess, to own

(m.) measure word used to quantify certain machinery or apparatus; set of items performed on a single occasion | (n.) Tai (the abbreviation of Taiwan) | (n.) platform; tower, terrace; stand; erected structure | (n.) station, service; official post; (lit.) you, your | (char.) used in a name place, see 台州 | (char.) used to form the word typhoon | (char.) table, platform-shaped furniture

(v.) pity, sympathize

(n.) eraser

(n.) envelope

(conj./prep.) in order that; with, by means of; according to; because of; from a point on

(n.) post office