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象征 (xiàngzhēng) — symbolism; to symbolize

HSK 5 | n/v | a symbol or symbolic representation; the act of symbolizing

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通知 (tōngzhī) — notification; to notify

HSK 4 | noun/verb | an official notice or the act of informing someone

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Sindarin Books and Journals

Books for learning Sindarin: grammar references, textbooks, and the primary source journals Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon.

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不合理 (bù hélǐ) — Unreasonable / irrational

HSK 4 | adjective | not in accordance with reason or logic

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形态 (xíngtài) — form, shape, mode

HSK 6 | n | the form, configuration, or mode of existence of something; morphology

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选择 (xuǎnzé) — to choose; to select; choice

HSK 4 | verb/noun | the act of choosing or a choice made

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JLPT N3 Lesson 9: Reading Newspaper Japanese

Decode formal newspaper Japanese at N3 level: headline omission rules, passive constructions, nominalization, 〜により/〜として in formal writing, number expressions, and analysis of real-style article sentences.

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Lesson 6: Concessive and Causal Connectives

Master the paired connectives 虽然...但是, 因为...所以, and 尽管...还是 to express contrast and cause-effect relationships in complex sentences.

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优势 (yōushì) — advantage; strength; edge

HSK 4 | noun | a superior position or quality that gives an edge over others

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呈现 (chéngxiàn) — to present; to appear

HSK 5 | verb | to present; to emerge; to take on a certain appearance

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批判 (pīpàn) — to criticize; to critique; criticism

HSK 5 | verb/noun | to criticize systematically; critique; critical analysis

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竞争 (jìngzhēng) — to compete; competition

HSK 4 | verb/noun | to strive against others for the same goal or resource

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推动 (tuīdòng) — to drive; to promote; to advance

HSK 5 | verb | to drive forward; to promote; to give impetus to

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Lesson 31: Class Plurals

Sindarin collective suffixes: -ath (total collective), -rim (people/kindred), -hoth (hostile host), -gwaith (company) — with all attested examples from Tolkien.

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成果 (chéngguǒ) — achievement; result; fruit of effort

HSK 4 | noun | a positive result obtained through effort

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N4 Kanji: 指 (Finger, Point)

JLPT N4 kanji 指 — readings, vocabulary, stroke order, mnemonic, and common confusion pairs.

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一 — JLPT N5 Kanji

一 (ichi/itsu/hito-tsu): one. JLPT N5 kanji.

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CF 450B - Jzzhu and Sequences

The problem defines a linear sequence $fn$ with two initial values $x = f1$ and $y = f2$, and a recurrence that repeats every six terms: $f{n} = f{n-1} - f{n-2}$.

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Education & Learning

Esperanto vocabulary for school, university, subjects, learning, and academic life.

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获得 (huòdé) — to obtain; to gain

HSK 3 | verb | to obtain or achieve something through effort

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投入 (tóurù) — to invest; to put into; input; absorbed

HSK 5 | verb/noun/adjective | to put in effort or resources; input; deeply absorbed

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没关系 (méi guānxi) — it's okay; no problem

HSK 1 | greeting phrase | reassures someone after an apology

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向 (xiàng) — toward / facing

HSK 3 | preposition / verb | toward, in the direction of; facing; to face

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七 — JLPT N5 Kanji

七 (shichi/nana-tsu): seven. JLPT N5 kanji.

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飞机 (fēijī) — airplane

HSK 1 | noun | airplane, aircraft

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不客气 (bú kèqi) — you're welcome

HSK 2 | phrase | standard response to thanks; also means 'don't be polite'

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干预 (gānyù) — to intervene; to interfere

HSK 5 | verb | to become involved in a situation in order to influence its outcome

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的 (de) — structural particle

HSK 1 | particle | marks possession, noun modification, and nominalization

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条 (tiáo) — measure word for long, flexible things

HSK 1 | measure word | classifier for long, narrow, or flexible objects

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接受 (jiēshòu) — to accept

HSK 3 | verb | to accept, to receive, to take in willingly

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投资 (tóuzī) — to invest; investment

HSK 4 | verb/noun | to commit money or resources in expectation of future returns

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下载 (xiàzài) — to download

HSK 4 | verb | to transfer data from the internet to a device

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作用 (zuòyòng) — function; role; effect

HSK 3 | noun | the function, role, or effect that something produces

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理念 (lǐniàn) — idea, concept, philosophy

HSK 6 | n | a guiding idea, philosophical concept, or core belief underlying a practice or system

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Supplement 8: Vocabulary — Emotions & Abstract Concepts

Sindarin words for emotions, philosophical concepts, and states of being — including the key philosophical terms estel, amarth, and gûr that Tolkien embedded in his Elvish worldview.

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说服 (shuōfú) — to persuade; to convince

HSK 5 | verb | to talk someone into something; to win someone over

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机遇 (jīyù) — opportunity / chance

HSK 4 | noun | opportunity; favorable chance

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举 (jǔ) — to lift / to raise / to cite

HSK 3 | verb | to raise something upward or to give an example

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专业 (zhuānyè) — professional; specialized

HSK 4 | adjective/noun | relating to a specific field of expertise

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给 (gěi) — to give; for (someone)

HSK 1 | verb / preposition | means to give or indicates the recipient of an action

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名字 (míngzi) — name

HSK 1 | noun | name, given name

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JLPT N2 Lesson 4: Nuanced Negation

Master the art of indirect communication by learning how to express complex limitations, obligations, and partial negations in professional Japanese.

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海 — JLPT N5 Kanji

海 (kai/umi): sea. JLPT N5 kanji.

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方面 (fāngmiàn) — aspect; side

HSK 3 | noun | a particular side or dimension of a topic or issue

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医生 (yīshēng) — Doctor

HSK 4 | noun | doctor, physician

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推 (tuī) — to push

HSK 3 | verb | to push, to shove, to promote or recommend

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空 — Kanji Reference

空 (sky, empty): 8 strokes, JLPT N5. On: クウ. Kun: そら、あ-く、から.

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Supplement 1: Historical Phonology — How Sindarin Evolved

The complete sound change history from Primitive Elvish through Common Telerin and Old Sindarin to Classical Sindarin — explaining WHY mutations exist and how the vowel system developed.

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准时 (zhǔnshí) — on time; punctual

HSK 3 | adjective/adverb | arriving or happening at the scheduled time

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洪水 (hóngshuǐ) — Flood, floodwater

HSK 5 | noun | an overflow of water onto normally dry land; a flood

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政治 (zhèngzhì) — politics, political

HSK 5 | noun / adjective | the activity of governance; relating to political affairs

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CF 476E - Dreamoon and Strings

We start with a string s. We may delete exactly x characters, keeping the remaining characters in their original order. The resulting string is a subsequence of s. Inside that resulting string, we look for as many non-overlapping occurrences of a pattern p as possible.

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Lesson 17: City Life

Discuss urban living, infrastructure, and city development using 在 + city + 生活/工作 and city vocabulary at B1 level.

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CF 474D - Flowers

A dinner is represented as a sequence of flowers. A red flower contributes length 1, while white flowers are special: they may only appear in contiguous groups of exactly k flowers.

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它 (tā) — it

HSK 1 | pronoun | third-person singular pronoun for non-human things

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科技 (kējì) — technology; science and technology

HSK 4 | noun | science and technology as a combined field

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〜こそ / 〜だからこそ — JLPT N2 Grammar

Learn 〜こそ and 〜だからこそ to place emphatic focus on a specific element — 'it is precisely X' and 'precisely because of X.'

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虽然 (suīrán) — although

HSK 3 | conjunction | although, even though — introduces a concession, paired with 但是 or 还是

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管 (guǎn) — to manage / to bother with

HSK 3 | verb | to manage, to be in charge of; to bother with, to concern oneself with

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〜にほかならない (nothing other than / is precisely)

N1 grammar pattern 〜にほかならない: emphatic definitional assertion — X is nothing other than Y. Used for declarative identification, formal analysis, and rhetorical emphasis.

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Lesson 19: Technology Ethics

Engage with Chinese discourse on the ethical dimensions of technology, including AI ethics, privacy, data security, and algorithmic bias.

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失败 (shībài) — defeat, failure; to fail

HSK 4 | n/v | the state of not succeeding; to not succeed

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非常 (fēicháng) — extremely; very

HSK 1 | adverb | strong intensifier meaning extremely or exceptionally

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归结 (guījié) — to attribute to; to boil down to

HSK 5 | verb | to trace back to a cause; to attribute; to come down to

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沟通 (gōutōng) — Communicate, communication

HSK 5 | verb/noun | to communicate; mutual exchange of information or feelings

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〜とはいえ — JLPT N1 Grammar

N1 grammar pattern 〜とはいえ: acknowledging a stated fact while introducing a contrasting reality — 'even though, that said, granted that.'

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触动 (chùdòng) — to touch; to move emotionally

HSK 5 | verb | to stir emotionally; to touch on a sensitive point

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难过 (nánguò) — sad; unhappy; to feel bad

HSK 3 | adjective | feeling emotional pain or sadness

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容纳 (róngnà) — to hold; to accommodate; to contain

HSK 4 | verb | to have capacity for a number of people or things

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精神 (jīngshén) — spirit; mind; mental

HSK 5 | noun/adjective | spirit, mind, essence; energetic, lively

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CF 470G - Hamming Distance

The task is to compute the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length. In practical terms, you are comparing two sequences of letters and counting how many positions contain different characters. Each mismatch contributes exactly one to the distance.

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CF 468B - Two Sets

We are given a set of n distinct integers. Every number must be assigned to one of two groups. If a number x is placed into group A, then its complement with respect to a, namely a - x, must also be present and must belong to A.

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重要 (zhòngyào) — important

HSK 2 | adjective | describes something of great significance or necessity

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複雑な (ふくざつな) — Japanese Vocabulary

複雑な (ふくざつな / fukuzatsu na): complicated. N4 level Japanese vocabulary.

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其他 (qítā) — other / the rest / else

HSK 3 | pronoun / adjective | referring to remaining or different items

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濒危 (bīnwēi) — Endangered, on the verge of danger

HSK 5 | adjective | on the brink of danger or extinction; endangered

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双 (shuāng) — pair; both; double (measure word)

HSK 2 | measure word / adjective | counts items that come in pairs

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问题 (wèntí) — question, problem, issue

HSK 2 | noun | a question to ask, a problem to solve

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复杂 (fùzá) — complex; complicated

HSK 5 | adjective | complex, complicated, intricate

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没 (méi) — not (past negation), have not

HSK 1 | adverb | negates past actions and the verb 有

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证书 (zhèngshū) — certificate; credential

HSK 4 | noun | an official document certifying achievement or qualification

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合同 (hétong) — contract; agreement

HSK 4 | noun | a legally binding written agreement between parties

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CF 469A - I Wanna Be the Guy

We have a game with levels numbered from 1 to n. Little X can complete some subset of these levels, and Little Y can complete another subset. They decide to cooperate, which means a level is considered passable if at least one of them can complete it.

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面条 (miàntiáo) — noodles

HSK 1 | noun | noodles

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N4 Kanji: 工 (Work, Craft, Construction)

JLPT N4 kanji 工 — readings, vocabulary, stroke order, mnemonic, and common confusion pairs.

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解释 (jiěshì) — to explain

HSK 3 | verb / noun | to explain, to interpret, to clarify; an explanation

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表达 (biǎodá) — to express

HSK 3 | verb | to convey thoughts or feelings

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转化 (zhuǎnhuà) — to convert, to transform

HSK 5 | verb/noun | conversion or transformation between forms/states

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警察 (jǐngchá) — police

HSK 3 | noun | police officer, policeman, the police

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CF 459B - Pashmak and Flowers

We are given the beauty values of n flowers. We must choose exactly two flowers. Among all possible pairs, we are interested only in pairs whose beauty difference is as large as possible.

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Lesson 16: Possessive Pronouns

Sindarin possessive pronouns: suffix forms attached to nouns, independent possessive forms, and the genitive construction with en.

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CF 449B - Jzzhu and Cities

We are given an undirected weighted graph representing cities and roads. City 1 is the capital. In addition to normal roads, there are special train routes that connect the capital directly to some city. The government wants to close as many train routes as possible.

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原因 (yuányīn) — reason

HSK 3 | noun | reason, cause — what explains why something happened

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〜たところ — JLPT N2 Grammar

Learn 〜たところ to express the discovery of an unexpected result upon completing an action, used in formal reports and investigations.

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跳 (tiào) — to jump; to leap

HSK 3 | verb | to move upward or forward by springing off the ground

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〜ずにはすまない (social obligation — cannot avoid doing)

N1 grammar pattern 〜ずにはすまない: expressing that social norms, morality, or the situation demands that X be done — one cannot get by without doing X.

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公司 (gōngsī) — company

HSK 1 | noun | company, corporation, firm

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培训 (péixùn) — Train

HSK 4 | verb/noun | to train, to provide training; training

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家 — Kanji Reference

家 (house, family): 10 strokes, JLPT N5. On: カ、ケ. Kun: いえ、や.

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建议 (jiànyì) — to suggest; suggestion; recommendation

HSK 5 | verb/noun | to propose a course of action; a proposal or recommendation

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