HSK 2.0

Browse 4985 vocabulary cards in HSK 2.0, with Chinese words, pinyin and meanings. Study this list with spaced repetition. — Page 99

Legacy HSK standard (2012), commonly found in older study materials.

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• 尚且 — shàng qiě — even
• 弊病 — bì bìng — malady
• 朝气蓬勃 / 朝氣蓬勃 — zhāo qì péng bó — full of youthful energy (idiom) · vigorous
• 查获 / 查獲 — chá huò — to track down and seize (a criminal suspect, contraband and so on)
• 省会 / 省會 — shěng huì — provincial capital
• 礼尚往来 / 禮尚往來 — lǐ shàng wǎng lái — literally proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom)
• 船舶 — chuán bó — shipping
• 见闻 / 見聞 — jiàn wén — what one has seen and heard
• 豪迈 / 豪邁 — háo mài — bold
• 风土人情 / 風土人情 — fēng tǔ rén qíng — local conditions and customs (idiom)
• 举世瞩目 / 舉世矚目 — jǔ shì zhǔ mù — to receive worldwide attention
• 压岁钱 / 壓歲錢 — yā suì qián — money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
• 川流不息 — chuān liú bù xī — the stream flows without stopping (idiom) · unending flow
• 悬崖峭壁 / 懸崖峭壁 — xuán yá qiào bì — sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
• 混浊 / 混濁 — hùn zhuó — turbid · muddy · dirty
• 稻谷 / 稻穀 — dào gǔ — unhusked rice
• 籍贯 / 籍貫 — jí guàn — one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
• 精益求精 — jīng yì qiú jīng — to constantly seek to improve · to keep perfecting
• 苦尽甘来 / 苦盡甘來 — kǔ jìn gān lái — bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom) · the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
• 过奖 / 過獎 — guò jiǎng — to overpraise
• 鸦雀无声 / 鴉雀無聲 — yā què wú shēng — literally crow and peacock make no sound
• 乌黑 / 烏黑 — wū hēi — jet-black
• 公安局 — gōng ān jú — public security bureau (government office similar in function to a police station)
• 南辕北辙 / 南轅北轍 — nán yuán běi zhé — to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
• 季军 / 季軍 — jì jūn — third in a race
• 急于求成 / 急於求成 — jí yú qiú chéng — anxious for quick results (idiom) · to demand instant success
• 拜年 — bài nián — to pay a New Year call
• 津津有味 — jīn jīn yǒu wèi — with keen interest (idiom) · with great pleasure
• 知足常乐 / 知足常樂 — zhī zú cháng lè — satisfied with what one has (idiom)
• 络绎不绝 / 絡繹不絕 — luò yì bù jué — continuously · in an endless stream
• 诞辰 / 誕辰 — dàn chén — birthday
• 连年 / 連年 — lián nián — successive years
• 侃侃而谈 / 侃侃而談 — kǎn kǎn ér tán — to speak frankly with assurance
• 勉励 / 勉勵 — miǎn lì — to encourage
• 各抒己见 / 各抒己見 — gè shū jǐ jiàn — everyone gives their own view
• 旗袍 — qí páo — cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits
• 正负 / 正負 — zhèng fù — positive and negative
• 沾光 — zhān guāng — to bask in the light
• 泰斗 — tài dǒu — abbreviation for 泰山北斗 Tài shān Běi dǒu
• 理直气壮 / 理直氣壯 — lǐ zhí qì zhuàng — in the right and self-confident (idiom) · bold and confident with justice on one's side
• 生肖 — shēng xiào — one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 dì zhī
• 畜牧 — xù mù — to raise animals
• 相辅相成 / 相輔相成 — xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng — to complement one another
• 联欢 / 聯歡 — lián huān — to have a get-together
• 东道主 / 東道主 — dōng dào zhǔ — host
• 农历 / 農曆 — nóng lì — the traditional Chinese calendar
• 勤俭 / 勤儉 — qín jiǎn — hardworking and frugal
• 博大精深 — bó dà jīng shēn — wide-ranging and profound
• 喜闻乐见 / 喜聞樂見 — xǐ wén lè jiàn — to love to hear and see (idiom)
• 得天独厚 / 得天獨厚 — dé tiān dú hòu — blessed by heaven (idiom)