HSK 6 — Vocabulary, Translation and Exam Prep (page 25)

(char.) reason, cause; to carry on, to continue | (conj./prep.) because, for; in light of; as result of

(n.) aunt on mother's side, sister of one's mother; aunt (woman of one's mother's age)

(char.) -ize, -ify (suffix used after a noun or an adjective to form a verb); (abbr.) chemistry | (v.) transform, turn, change; melt, dissolve | (v.) (variant of 花 v., rarely used now) to spend, to take time | (v.) digest; reduce; (of monks) beg alms

(v.) become, turn, change into | (v.) succeed, accomplish, complete, finish; help to achieve or succeed | (v.) be capable, be able; be acceptable; to amount to (a considerable number or amount) | (char.) established; result; mature | (n.) one-tenth

(char.) net, pure | (n.) painted face role (one of the four main roles in traditional Chinese opera) | (adv./adj./v.) only, all the time; clean; having nothing left; to make...clean

(v.) give off, send out; run a risk of | (char.) to offend, to violate; to bold, to rash; to assume false identity

(prep.) at, in; from; by; indicating the object of an action; (indicating comparison) than, (used after a verb or adjective) with reference to, to | (n.) Yu (Chinese family name)

(v.) kill, murder | (n./v.) harm, disaster; cause harm to, contract (a disease) | (char.) harmful, injurious; to feel (afraid, astonished, shy)

(n./v.) circle, ring, loop; (of shooting) ring; link, one part of the whole; to surround, to encircle

(adj.) yellow | (adj.) (film, book) rated only for adults | (n./v.) yellow-colored animal product; (abbr.) Yellow River; (oral) fall through, come to nothing

(conj./adv.) or; perhaps; (lit.) slightly | (pro.) (lit.) someone, some people

(v./n.) explain; unbind; cut apart, dissect; divide, separate; dismiss; understand; solve a math problem; (Math.) solution | (v.) send under guard, escort | (n./v.) acrobatic (on horse); a surname; (spoken) get the point, see

(v./n.) pay attention to; manage, run; tidy up, put in order; texture (in wood or skin); reason; natural science, physics

(n./v.) tray, plate; dish; to coil up; to build; to examine; to transfer the ownership; to transport | (char./m.) sth in the shape of a plate or a tray; market quotation, current price; domain; (measure word) game, set, dish, reel, coil

(n.) skin, peel, husk; leather, fur; cover, wrapper | (radical.) skin | (adj.) (informal) naughty, mischievous; durable; robust strong; unresponsive, thick-skinned | (char.) surface; skin-deep, superficial; flat piece, thin sheet; rubber

(adj./v.) (of liquid or gas) clear; clarified; to count; to settle or pay off (debts) | (n.) Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) | (char.) pure, spotless; unmixed; just and honest; quiet, silent; to purify

(n./v.) net, web; (also: net-like object; network); to cover to enclose with a net; to catch with a net | (radical.) net

(char.) special; spy, secret agent | (adv.) for a particular purpose; very, especially; (lit.) only

(v.) beg, ask, request; seek, pursue; require; demand (as opposed to supply); (math) find (out)

(n./m./v.) material; making; fodder, manure; to anticipate; to take care of; pill (measure word for Chinese medicine)

(av.) should, to be somebody's turn to do something | (v./pro.) to owe; this, indicating somebody or something mentioned before, mainly used in formal document | (v.) to deserve, ought to, would (used in exclamatory sentences as an intensifier)

(n./m.) week; circuit, circle, round | (n.) Zhou (name of a dynasty in ancient China); Zhou (Chinese family name)

(char.) occupation; business, enterprise; property; school work; already; (lit.) to be engaged in; (Buddhism) karma | (radical.) profession, business

(v.) miss, delay; hinder, impede | (char.) incorrect; error, mistake; mistakenly

(v./n.) to print; seal, stamp; mark, trace

(v.) enroll, hire, employ | (v.) beckon, gesture; attract; provoke, tease | (v.) confess, admit | (n.) movement in wushu; trick, move, device, idea

(n.) needle, pin; needle-like object; injection; stitch; acupuncture

(char.) pine | (v./adj./n.) loosen, relax; untie, unfasten; loose, slack; light and flaky; not pinched for money; dried minced meat

(n.) section, item (in a legal document); fund, sum of money; name of the sender or recipient; pattern, style | (m.) item, clause (in official documents); kind, type | (char.) (lit) slow, leisurely; sincere; knock; receive with hospitality, entertain (a guest)

(adj./v.) miscellaneous, varied, mixed; extra; to mix, to mingle

(char.) turn around and look at; call on, visit; to patronize | (v.) look after, take into consideration

(v.) broadcast | (v.) to sow, to disperse

(n.) bosom | (v.) have something in mind; to conceive (a child) | (char.) mind, heart; think of, yearn for

(adj.) fat, greasy; loose-fitting; (of land) rich, fertile; lucrative | (n./v.) fertilizer; to fertilize; get rich by illegal means

(n.) subject of instruction, branch of academic study, academic department; (biology) family | (n.) division, section, department (of an admin unit) | (char.) imperial civil exam or its subjects; article, clause (in laws and regulations); to impose a punishment; words said as part of a classical Chinese opera

(av.) consent, agree; be willing to | (char.) (lit.) meat or flesh attached to the bone

(pro./adv.) other, another; in addition, besides

(adj.) close, dense; intimate; fine, meticulous; secret, confidential

(v.) exempt, free sb from; dismiss from a post; avoid, escape; forbid

(char.) mother; female elders (in the clan); (fig.) origin, mother; nut | (adj.) female (animals or birds) | (radical.) mother