This week’s update is mainly “maintenance” tasks on our end where we do a broad cleaning up of the curriculum which generates the huge changelog below.
Notably, this week we:
- Made sure all infinitive verb forms are fully highlighted in ALL mnemonics. So if before it was “||Tasty|| describes something that is ||good|| to ||eat||”, it will now be “||Tasty|| describes something that is ||good|| ||to eat||”. This hopefully makes things a bit more clear and consistent.
- Updated all of HSK3 and HSK4 characters and words that only contain <= HSK4 characters to have infinitive verb form (e.g., “to eat” instead of “eat”) where applicable. Also adding and cleaning up the alternate meanings even for non-verb words and characters.
While the changelog is huge, keep in mind that none of the changes below are “breaking” in any sense. None of these items have changed in any significant way, they’ve just been polished a bit here and there. These changes are just some house-keeping on our end to continue to improve the overall quality of the curriculum items we have added over the past two years.
Characters
Updated
- 唱 to sing mnemonic change
- 贴 to paste meaning change: paste → to paste
- 贴 to paste alternate meanings:
paste,pastes,pasted,pasting - 置 to set up meaning change: set up → to set up
- 置 to set up alternate meanings:
set up,sets up,setting up - 有 to possess mnemonic change
- 召 to summon meaning change: summon → to summon
- 召 to summon alternate meanings:
summon,summoned,summoning,summons - 召 to summon mnemonic change
- 飞 to fly mnemonic change
- 如 to be like mnemonic change
- 克 to overcome mnemonic change
- 削 to pare mnemonic change
- 测 to measure alternate meanings:
measure,measured,measuring,measures,to fathom,fathom - 测 to measure mnemonic change
- 填 to fill in meaning change: fill in → to fill in
- 填 to fill in alternate meanings:
fill in,fills in,filled in,to fill out,fill out,fills out,filled out,filling out,to fill,fill - 填 to fill in mnemonic change
- 照 to illuminate mnemonic change
- 冒 to risk mnemonic change
- 尚 to esteem meaning change: esteem → to esteem
- 尚 to esteem alternate meanings:
esteem,esteems,esteeming,esteemed,to respect,respect - 尚 to esteem mnemonic change
- 守 to guard meaning change: guard → to guard
- 守 to guard alternate meanings:
guard,guards,guarded,guarding - 守 to guard mnemonic change
- 完 to finish mnemonic change
- 寄 to mail meaning change: mail → to mail
- 寄 to mail alternate meanings:
mail,mails,mailing,mailed,to send,send,send by mail - 寄 to mail mnemonic change
- 味 flavor alternate meanings:
flavour,taste,smell - 模 to imitate meaning change: imitate → to imitate
- 模 to imitate alternate meanings:
imitate,imitates,imitating,imitated,to model,model - 模 to imitate mnemonic change
- 厌 to detest mnemonic change
- 获 to seize meaning change: seize → to seize
- 获 to seize alternate meanings:
seize,seizes,seizing,seized - 获 to seize mnemonic change
- 洗 to wash mnemonic change
- 逛 to stroll meaning change: stroll → to stroll
- 逛 to stroll alternate meanings:
stroll,strolling,strolls,strolled - 输 to transport mnemonic change
- 备 to prepare mnemonic change
- 沉 to sink meaning change: sink → to sink
- 沉 to sink alternate meanings:
sink,sunk,sinks,sinking - 沉 to sink mnemonic change
- 败 to fail meaning change: fail → to fail
- 败 to fail alternate meanings:
fail,failed,fails,failing,to defeat,defeat - 救 to rescue mnemonic change
- 计 to calculate mnemonic change
- 划 to divide mnemonic change
- 载 to carry meaning change: carry → to carry
- 载 to carry alternate meanings:
carry,carries,carried,carrying,laden - 企 to tiptoe meaning change: tiptoe → to tiptoe
- 企 to tiptoe alternate meanings:
tiptoe,tiptoes,tiptoeing,tiptoed,to stand on tiptoe,stand on tiptoe - 企 to tiptoe mnemonic change
- 是 to be mnemonic change
- 延 to prolong meaning change: prolong → to prolong
- 延 to prolong alternate meanings:
prolong,prolongs,prolonging,prolonged,to delay,delay - 延 to prolong mnemonic change
- 补 to patch mnemonic change
- 运 to carry mnemonic change
- 冲 to charge meaning change: charge → to charge
- 冲 to charge alternate meanings:
charge,charges,charged,charging,collide,collided,collides - 减 to reduce meaning change: reduce → to reduce
- 减 to reduce alternate meanings:
reduce,reduced,reduces,reducing,to subtract,subtract - 减 to reduce mnemonic change
- 混 to mix mnemonic change
- 培 to cultivate meaning change: cultivate → to cultivate
- 培 to cultivate alternate meanings:
cultivate,cultivates,cultivating,cultivated - 脱 to take off meaning change: take off → to take off
- 脱 to take off alternate meanings:
take off,takes off,took off,taking off,to undress,undress,to remove,remove,to shed,shed - 说 to speak mnemonic change
- 起 to begin mnemonic change
- 记 to remember mnemonic change
- 逐 to pursue meaning change: pursue → to pursue
- 逐 to pursue alternate meanings:
pursue,pursuing,pursued,pursues,to chase,chase - 养 to raise mnemonic change
- 售 to sell meaning change: sell → to sell
- 售 to sell alternate meanings:
sell,selling,sold,sells,to vend,vending,vends,vend - 翔 to soar mnemonic change
- 忘 to forget mnemonic change
- 惊 to startle meaning change: startle → to startle
- 惊 to startle alternate meanings:
startle,startles,startled,startling - 抗 to resist mnemonic change
- 招 to beckon meaning change: beckon → to beckon
- 招 to beckon alternate meanings:
beckon,beckons,beckoned,beckoning - 持 to support mnemonic change
- 担 to carry on the shoulder meaning change: carry on the shoulder → to carry on the shoulder
- 担 to carry on the shoulder alternate meanings:
carry on the shoulder,carries on the shoulder,carried on the shoulder,carrying on the shoulder,to shoulder,shoulder,to carry,carry - 括 to include meaning change: include → to include
- 括 to include alternate meanings:
include,includes,including,included - 挥 to brandish meaning change: brandish → to brandish
- 挥 to brandish alternate meanings:
brandish,brandishes,brandished,brandishing,to wave,wave - 开 to open mnemonic change
- 研 to research meaning change: research → to research
- 研 to research alternate meanings:
research,researches,researching,researched,to study,study,to grind,grind,grinding - 研 to research mnemonic change
- 吸 to inhale meaning change: inhale → to inhale
- 吸 to inhale alternate meanings:
inhale,inhales,inhaled,inhaling - 投 to throw meaning change: throw → to throw
- 投 to throw alternate meanings:
throw,threw,thrown,throws,throwing - 设 to establish mnemonic change
- 返 to go back mnemonic change
- 授 to confer meaning change: confer → to confer
- 授 to confer alternate meanings:
confer,confers,conferred,conferring,to give,give - 治 to govern meaning change: govern → to govern
- 治 to govern alternate meanings:
govern,governing,governed,governs - 治 to govern mnemonic change
- 到 to arrive mnemonic change
- 购 to purchase meaning change: purchase → to purchase
- 购 to purchase alternate meanings:
purchase,purchased,purchasing,purchases,to buy,buy - 购 to purchase mnemonic change
- 构 to construct meaning change: construct → to construct
- 构 to construct alternate meanings:
construct,constructed,constructing,constructs - 构 to construct mnemonic change
- 出 to exit mnemonic change
- 入 to enter mnemonic change
- 浴 to bathe alternate meanings:
bathe,bathing,bathed,bathes,bath - 浴 to bathe mnemonic change
- 容 to contain mnemonic change
- 赏 reward alternate meanings:
to reward,to award,award - 破 to break mnemonic change
- 列 to line up meaning change: line up → to line up
- 列 to line up alternate meanings:
line up,lined up,lines up,lining up,line - 替 to replace meaning change: replace → to replace
- 替 to replace alternate meanings:
replace,replaced,replaces,replacing,to substitute,substitute - 替 to replace mnemonic change
- 办 to manage mnemonic change
- 苏 to revive mnemonic change
- 加 to add mnemonic change
- 得 to obtain mnemonic change
- 待 to treat mnemonic change
- 积 to accumulate mnemonic change
- 移 to shift meaning change: shift → to shift
- 移 to shift alternate meanings:
shift,shifts,shifting,shifted,to move,move - 移 to shift mnemonic change
- 透 to penetrate meaning change: penetrate → to penetrate
- 透 to penetrate alternate meanings:
penetrate,penetrates,penetrating,penetrated - 诱 to entice mnemonic change
- 来 to come mnemonic change
- 算 to calculate mnemonic change
- 答 to answer mnemonic change
- 休 to rest mnemonic change
- 依 to depend on meaning change: depend on → to depend on
- 依 to depend on alternate meanings:
depend on,depends on,depended on,depending on,to rely on,rely on - 化 to transform mnemonic change
- 从 to follow mnemonic change
- 读 to read mnemonic change
- 施 to carry out meaning change: carry out → to carry out
- 施 to carry out alternate meanings:
carry out,carried out,carries out,carrying out,to execute,execute - 施 to carry out mnemonic change
- 居 to reside meaning change: reside → to reside
- 居 to reside alternate meanings:
reside,resides,residing,resided,residence,house - 护 to protect mnemonic change
- 禁 to prohibit meaning change: prohibit → to prohibit
- 禁 to prohibit alternate meanings:
prohibit,prohibits,prohibited,prohibiting - 擦 to scrub meaning change: scrub → to scrub
- 擦 to scrub alternate meanings:
scrub,scrubbed,scrubs,scrubbing - 擦 to scrub mnemonic change
- 抽 to take out alternate meanings:
take out,taking out,takes out,took out,to pull out,pull out,to draw out,draw out - 抽 to take out mnemonic change
- 申 to express meaning change: express → to express
- 申 to express alternate meanings:
express,expresses,expressed,expressing,to explain,explain - 申 to express mnemonic change
- 断 to break mnemonic change
- 折 to break meaning change: break → to break
- 折 to break alternate meanings:
break,broke,breaks,breaking,to discount,discount - 扫 to sweep meaning change: sweep → to sweep
- 扫 to sweep alternate meanings:
sweep,swept,sweeps,sweeping - 扫 to sweep mnemonic change
- 寻 to seek meaning change: seek → to seek
- 寻 to seek alternate meanings:
seek,sought,seeks,seeking,to search,search - 当 to work as mnemonic change
- 用 to utilize alternate meanings:
utilize,utilizing,utilized,utilizes,to use,use,to utilise,utilise - 用 to utilize mnemonic change
- 怀 to cherish meaning change: cherish → to cherish
- 怀 to cherish alternate meanings:
cherish,cherished,cherishing,cherishes - 临 to overlook meaning change: overlook → to overlook
- 临 to overlook alternate meanings:
overlook,overlooked,overlooks,overlooking - 引 to draw meaning change: draw → to draw
- 引 to draw alternate meanings:
draw a bow,draw,draws,drawing,drew - 较 to compare mnemonic change
- 防 to guard against mnemonic change
- 附 to attach meaning change: attach → to attach
- 附 to attach alternate meanings:
attach,attaching,attaches,attached - 降 to descend meaning change: descend → to descend
- 降 to descend alternate meanings:
descend,descending,descended,descends - 究 to research meaning change: research → to research
- 究 to research alternate meanings:
research,researches,researched,researching,to study,study - 究 to research mnemonic change
- 维 to maintain meaning change: maintain → to maintain
- 维 to maintain alternate meanings:
maintain,maintains,maintained,maintaining - 统 to unite meaning change: unite → to unite
- 统 to unite alternate meanings:
unite,unites,united,uniting - 统 to unite mnemonic change
- 给 to give mnemonic change
- 经 to pass through mnemonic change
- 却 to withdraw meaning change: withdraw → to withdraw
- 却 to withdraw alternate meanings:
withdraw,withdraws,withdrawn,withdrew,withdrawing - 留 to stay mnemonic change
- 聊 to chat meaning change: chat → to chat
- 聊 to chat alternate meanings:
chat,chatting,chats,chatted - 聊 to chat mnemonic change
- 卫 to defend mnemonic change
- 通 to communicate mnemonic change
- 印 to print mnemonic change
- 退 to retreat mnemonic change
- 限 limit alternate meanings:
to limit - 呼 to shout meaning change: shout → to shout
- 呼 to shout alternate meanings:
shout,shouted,shouts,shouting,to exhale,exhale - 辩 to dispute meaning change: dispute → to dispute
- 辩 to dispute alternate meanings:
dispute,disputes,disputing,disputed,to debate,debate - 避 to evade meaning change: evade → to evade
- 避 to evade alternate meanings:
evade,evades,evading,evaded,to avoid,avoid,avoids,to flee,flee - 收 to receive mnemonic change
- 述 to narrate meaning change: narrate → to narrate
- 述 to narrate alternate meanings:
narrate,narrated,narrating,narrates - 击 to beat mnemonic change
- 传 to pass on mnemonic change
- 含 to keep meaning change: keep → to keep
- 含 to keep alternate meanings:
keep,keeps,kept,keeping,to contain,contain,contains - 漂 to float mnemonic change
- 问 to ask mnemonic change
- 候 to wait mnemonic change
- 决 to decide mnemonic change
- 除 to eliminate mnemonic change
- 懂 to understand mnemonic change
- 登 to mount meaning change: mount → to mount
- 登 to mount alternate meanings:
mount,mounts,mounted,ascend,to ascend,ascends,ascending - 登 to mount mnemonic change
- 发 to send out mnemonic change
- 修 to repair mnemonic change
- 换 to exchange mnemonic change
- 色 color alternate meanings:
colour - 绝 to cut off mnemonic change
- 遗 to leave behind meaning change: leave behind → to leave behind
- 遗 to leave behind alternate meanings:
leave behind,leaves behind,leaving behind,left behind,to bequeath,bequeath,bequeathed,bequeaths - 遗 to leave behind mnemonic change
- 助 to assist mnemonic change
- 供 to supply meaning change: supply → to supply
- 供 to supply alternate meanings:
supply,supplied,supplying,supplies - 供 to supply mnemonic change
- 进 to advance mnemonic change
- 解 to untie mnemonic change
- 编 to compile meaning change: compile → to compile
- 编 to compile alternate meanings:
compile,compiling,compiles,compiled,to compose,compose - 锻 to forge meaning change: forge → to forge
- 锻 to forge alternate meanings:
forge,forged,forging,forges - 司 to take charge of mnemonic change
- 承 to undertake meaning change: undertake → to undertake
- 承 to undertake alternate meanings:
undertake,undertook,undertakes,undertaking,to take on,take on - 释 to explain meaning change: explain → to explain
- 释 to explain alternate meanings:
explain,explains,explaining,explained - 翻 to turn over meaning change: turn over → to turn over
- 翻 to turn over alternate meanings:
turn over,turns over,turned over,turning over - 翻 to turn over mnemonic change
- 播 to broadcast mnemonic change
- 摇 to shake meaning change: shake → to shake
- 摇 to shake alternate meanings:
shake,shook,shakes,shaking - 免 to avoid meaning change: avoid → to avoid
- 免 to avoid alternate meanings:
avoid,avoiding,avoided,avoids - 虑 to ponder alternate meanings:
ponder,ponders,pondered,pondering - 虑 to ponder mnemonic change
- 关 to shut mnemonic change
- 罩 to cover alternate meanings:
covers,covered,cover,covering - 罩 to cover mnemonic change
- 巩 to consolidate mnemonic change
- 杜 to prevent mnemonic change
- 焚 to burn mnemonic change
- 燃 to ignite meaning change: ignite → to ignite
- 燃 to ignite alternate meanings:
ignite,ignites,igniting,ignited,to burn,burn - 燃 to ignite mnemonic change
- 赞 to praise meaning change: praise → to praise
- 赞 to praise alternate meanings:
praise,praises,praised,praising - 销 to spend meaning change: spend → to spend
- 销 to spend alternate meanings:
spend,spending,spends,spent,to expend,expend,expends,expending,expended - 销 to spend mnemonic change
- 迫 to compel meaning change: compel → to compel
- 迫 to compel alternate meanings:
compel,compelled,compelling,compels,to press,press,to force,force - 谓 to call meaning change: call → to call
- 谓 to call alternate meanings:
call,calls,calling,called - 罚 to punish meaning change: punish → to punish
- 罚 to punish alternate meanings:
punish,punished,punishing,punishes,penalize,to penalize,penalty,penalized,penalizes,penalizing - 毕 to complete meaning change: complete → to complete
- 毕 to complete alternate meanings:
complete,completes,completed,completing,to finish,finish - 毕 to complete mnemonic change
- 访 to visit mnemonic change
- 忆 to recall mnemonic change
- 抄 to copy meaning change: copy → to copy
- 抄 to copy alternate meanings:
copy,copies,copied,copying - 摸 to grope meaning change: grope → to grope
- 摸 to grope alternate meanings:
grope,groping,gropes,groped,to touch,touch - 描 to describe alternate meanings:
describe,described,describing,describes,to trace,trace - 描 to describe mnemonic change
- 挑 to select meaning change: select → to select
- 挑 to select alternate meanings:
select,selects,selecting,selected,to choose,choose,to pick,pick - 挑 to select mnemonic change
- 拴 to tie mnemonic change
- 扬 to hoist meaning change: hoist → to hoist
- 扬 to hoist alternate meanings:
hoist,hoists,hoisted,hosting,to raise,raise - 扬 to hoist mnemonic change
- 扩 to enlarge meaning change: enlarge → to enlarge
- 扩 to enlarge alternate meanings:
enlarge,expand,enlarging,enlarged,enlarges - 罢 to cease mnemonic change
- 摆 to arrange meaning change: arrange → to arrange
- 摆 to arrange alternate meanings:
arrange,arranges,arranging,arranged - 致 to deliver meaning change: deliver → to deliver
- 致 to deliver alternate meanings:
deliver,delivering,delivers,delivered - 藏 to store mnemonic change
- 聚 to assemble meaning change: assemble → to assemble
- 聚 to assemble alternate meanings:
assemble,assembles,assembling,assembled,to gather,gather - 铝 aluminum alternate meanings:
aluminium - 刷 to brush meaning change: brush → to brush
- 刷 to brush alternate meanings:
brush,brushed,brushes,brushing - 启 to open mnemonic change
- 奈 to deal with mnemonic change
- 裹 to wrap meaning change: wrap → to wrap
- 裹 to wrap alternate meanings:
wrap,wraps,wrapping,wrapped - 裹 to wrap mnemonic change
- 拆 to take apart mnemonic change
- 归 to return meaning change: return → to return
- 归 to return alternate meanings:
return,returns,returning,returned,go back to,to go back,go back - 趋 to hasten meaning change: hasten → to hasten
- 趋 to hasten alternate meanings:
hasten,hastening,hastens,hastened - 趋 to hasten mnemonic change
- 啸 to whistle mnemonic change
- 措 to arrange meaning change: arrange → to arrange
- 措 to arrange alternate meanings:
arrange,arranged,arranges,arranging - 矫 to rectify mnemonic change
- 递 to hand over meaning change: hand over → to hand over
- 递 to hand over alternate meanings:
hand over,hands over,handing over,handed over - 躺 to lie down meaning change: lie down → to lie down
- 躺 to lie down alternate meanings:
lie down,lies down,lying down,lay down,to recline,recline - 堵 to block up alternate meanings:
block up,blocks up,blocking up,blocked up,to stop up,stop up,stopped up,block,blocked - 捉 to catch mnemonic change
- 操 to exercise meaning change: exercise → to exercise
- 操 to exercise alternate meanings:
exercise,exercises,exercising,exercised,drill,to drill - 隔 to separate meaning change: separate → to separate
- 隔 to separate alternate meanings:
separate,separated,separating,separates - 窥 to peep mnemonic change
- 绽 to split open mnemonic change
- 绘 to paint mnemonic change
- 综 to sum up meaning change: sum up → to sum up
- 综 to sum up alternate meanings:
sum up,sums up,summed up,summing up,to add up,add up,to sum,sum,put together - 孵 to hatch mnemonic change
- 酿 to brew mnemonic change
- 溉 to irrigate mnemonic change
- 醒 to awaken meaning change: awaken → to awaken
- 醒 to awaken alternate meanings:
awaken,awakens,awakening,awakened,to wake up,wake up - 醒 to awaken mnemonic change
- 译 to translate meaning change: translate → to translate
- 译 to translate alternate meanings:
translate,translated,translates,translating - 择 to choose meaning change: choose → to choose
- 择 to choose alternate meanings:
choose,chooses,choosing,select,to select,selects,selected,selecting - 炼 to smelt meaning change: smelt → to smelt
- 炼 to smelt alternate meanings:
smelt,smelted,smelts,smelting - 晒 to bask meaning change: bask → to bask
- 晒 to bask alternate meanings:
bask,basked,basks,basking - 献 to donate mnemonic change
- 闹 to make noise meaning change: make noise → to make noise
- 闹 to make noise alternate meanings:
making noise,makes noise,make noise,to make trouble,make trouble,making trouble,trouble,noisy - 阅 to read meaning change: read → to read
- 阅 to read alternate meanings:
read,reads,reading,to peruse,peruse,peruses,perusing - 阅 to read mnemonic change
- 疗 to cure meaning change: cure → to cure
- 疗 to cure alternate meanings:
cure,cures,cured,curing,to treat,treat - 疗 to cure mnemonic change
- 汇 to converge meaning change: converge → to converge
- 汇 to converge alternate meanings:
converge,converged,converges,converging - 匿 to hide mnemonic change
- 挤 to squeeze mnemonic change
- 映 to reflect meaning change: reflect → to reflect
- 映 to reflect alternate meanings:
reflect,reflecting,reflected,reflects - 爬 to climb mnemonic change
- 租 to rent mnemonic change
- 阻 to block meaning change: block → to block
- 阻 to block alternate meanings:
block,blocking,blocked,blocks - 捕 to catch mnemonic change
- 航 to navigate meaning change: navigate → to navigate
- 航 to navigate alternate meanings:
navigate,navigates,navigating,navigated - 航 to navigate mnemonic change
- 耗 to consume mnemonic change
- 灌 to irrigate mnemonic change
- 驯 to tame mnemonic change
- 梦 dream alternate meanings:
to dream,dreams,dreamed - 冻 to freeze mnemonic change
- 捍 to defend mnemonic change
- 窒 to obstruct mnemonic change
- 舔 to lick mnemonic change
- 沐 to wash hair mnemonic change
- 沏 to infuse mnemonic change
- 陨 to fall mnemonic change
- 酝 to brew mnemonic change