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啊 (a) — sentence-final particle

HSK 2 | particle | expressive sentence-final particle with four tonal variants

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明 — JLPT N5 Kanji

明 (mei/myou/aka-rui): bright. JLPT N5 kanji.

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CF 453C - Little Pony and Summer Sun Celebration

We are given an undirected graph and, for every vertex, the parity of how many times that vertex must appear in a walk. A walk is represented by a sequence of vertices. Consecutive vertices in the sequence must be connected by an edge.

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火 — JLPT N5 Kanji

火 (ka/hi): fire. JLPT N5 kanji.

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Common Mistakes

Top 10 mistakes English speakers make in Esperanto — grammar errors, pronunciation issues, and common misconceptions.

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〜ものを (regret / reproach — it should have been)

N1 grammar pattern 〜ものを expressing regret about an unrealised alternative or reproach toward someone who failed to do something they should have. Literary and formal register.

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弟弟 (dìdi) — younger brother

HSK 1 | noun | one's younger brother

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朋友 (péngyou) — friend

HSK 4 | noun | friend; companion

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深 (shēn) — deep / dark

HSK 3 | adjective | deep (physical), dark (color), or profound (abstract)

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资金 (zījīn) — funds; capital; funding

HSK 4 | noun | money available for investment or use in a project

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〜に際して — JLPT N2 Grammar

Learn how to use 〜に際して (ni saishite) to express 'on the occasion of' or 'at the time of' for significant events and actions. Includes structure, nuance, examples, and comparisons.

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可爱 (kě'ài) — cute; lovely

HSK 3 | adjective | cute, adorable, or lovely

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〜てみる — Japanese Grammar

〜てみる: JLPT N4 grammar pattern. Usage, structure, examples, and comparison with similar patterns.

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CF 474B - Worms

We are given several piles of worms arranged in order. The worms are numbered consecutively across all piles. If the pile sizes are: then the first pile contains worms numbered 1 through 2, the second pile contains worms numbered 3 through 9, and the third pile contains worms…

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完整 (wánzhěng) — complete; intact; whole

HSK 4 | adjective | having all necessary parts and nothing missing or damaged

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哪怕 (nǎpà) — even if; no matter

HSK 5 | conjunction | even if, even though, no matter (strong concession)

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〜として — JLPT N3 Grammar

Learn 〜として (as, in the capacity of) — the N3 pattern for expressing roles, identities, functions, and premises.

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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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巩固 (gǒnggù) — to consolidate; to strengthen

HSK 5 | verb | to make something firmer, stronger, or more secure

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背景 (bèijǐng) — background; backdrop

HSK 5 | noun | background, backdrop, context, personal connections

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预计 (yùjì) — to expect; to estimate; to anticipate

HSK 4 | verb | to estimate or anticipate a future outcome

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完成 (wánchéng) — to complete

HSK 3 | verb | to finish, accomplish, or fulfill a task or goal

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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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其中 (qízhōng) — among; in; therein; of which

HSK 3 | adverb | refers to a subset within a previously mentioned group or set

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安排 (ānpái) — to arrange; arrangement

HSK 3 | verb/noun | to plan or organize something

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价格 (jiàgé) — price / cost

HSK 3 | noun | the monetary value of a product or service

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用户 (yònghù) — user

HSK 5 | noun | a person who uses a product, service, or system

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收益 (shōuyì) — revenue, profit, returns

HSK 5 | noun | financial returns or gains from an activity or investment

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无论 (wúlùn) — no matter; regardless of

HSK 4 | conjunction | expressing unconditional situations

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〜かたわら — JLPT N1 Grammar

N1 grammar pattern 〜かたわら: expressing that someone pursues a secondary activity alongside a primary one — while also, on the side.

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才 (cái) — only then; not until; just barely

HSK 3 | adverb | restrictive adverb expressing lateness, difficulty, or limited scope

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Food Vocabulary

Japanese food and drink vocabulary: common foods, drinks, cooking methods, restaurant expressions, and traditional Japanese cuisine terms.

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结构 (jiégòu) — structure, composition

HSK 5 | noun | arrangement and organization of components within a whole

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招募 (zhāomù) — to recruit; to enlist

HSK 5 | verb | to recruit; to enlist members, volunteers, or employees

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〜が — Subject Marker

〜が (ga): JLPT N5 grammar pattern. Usage, structure, examples, and comparison with は.

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资质 (zīzhì) — qualification; aptitude

HSK 5 | noun | innate ability or formal qualification for a role

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木 — Kanji Reference

木 (tree, wood): 4 strokes, JLPT N5. On: モク、ボク. Kun: き、こ.

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赶 (gǎn) — to rush; to catch (transport)

HSK 3 | verb | to hurry toward something or catch a vehicle in time

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隐含 (yǐnhán) — to imply; implicit; to contain hidden meaning

HSK 5 | verb/adjective | to contain something hidden within; not explicitly stated

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当时 (dāngshí) — at that time; then; at the time

HSK 4 | adverb / noun | referring to a specific past moment

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JLPT N5 — Exam Preparation

Complete JLPT N5 exam prep: format breakdown, 20 vocabulary practice questions, 20 grammar practice questions, 2 reading passages, listening strategies, 30-day study plan, mnemonics, and common traps.

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JLPT N1 Lesson 7: Academic and Legal Japanese

Master the formal grammar patterns used in legal documents, academic writing, and official correspondence, including 〜ものとする, 〜に即して, 〜に反して, 〜をもって, and 〜いかんによらず.

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形成 (xíngchéng) — to form; to take shape

HSK 5 | verb | to form; to come into being; to develop into

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JLPT N3 — Vocabulary (~2,250 New Words)

Complete N3 vocabulary reference: ~2,250 new words beyond N4, organized by semantic domain. Abstract nouns, workplace terms, academic vocabulary, emotional states, and more.

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特点 (tèdiǎn) — characteristic, feature

HSK 4 | noun | distinguishing feature or characteristic

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Lesson 8: Reading Caesar — Applied Intermediate Latin

Apply all intermediate constructions to Caesar's De Bello Gallico, with a full analysis of BG 1.1.

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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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护照 (hùzhào) — passport

HSK 3 | noun | passport — official travel document

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趋势 (qūshì) — trend, tendency

HSK 5 | noun | observable direction of development or change over time

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だから (だから) — Japanese Vocabulary

だから (だから / dakara): therefore, so. N4 level Japanese vocabulary.

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民主 (mínzhǔ) — democracy, democratic

HSK 4 | n/adj | a system of government by the people; fair and open

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个 (gè) — general measure word

HSK 1 | measure word | general classifier for people and objects

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脖子 (bózi) — neck

HSK 3 | noun | neck, the part of the body connecting the head to the shoulders

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输 (shū) — to lose (a competition)

HSK 3 | verb | to lose a game, match, or contest

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专业 (zhuānyè) — major; specialty; professional

HSK 3 | noun / adjective | major field of study; specialized skill or knowledge

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Health Vocabulary — Japanese N1

Essential Japanese vocabulary for illness, medicine, hospitals, exercise, nutrition. N1 level reference with readings, romaji, and examples.

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拿出去 (ná chūqu) — take out (away)

HSK 3 | verb + directional complement | to carry something out of an enclosed space, away from the speaker

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Lesson 6: The Accusative and Genitive Cases — Deeper Dive

Explore all major uses of the accusative and genitive cases, including prepositions, partitive genitive, and genitive of description.

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税收 (shuìshōu) — tax revenue, taxation

HSK 4 | n | money collected by the government through taxes

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谁 (shuí / shéi) — who

HSK 1 | pronoun | interrogative pronoun asking about a person's identity

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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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CF 468E - Permanent

We are asked to compute the permanent of a large square matrix where almost every element is 1, and only a small number of entries are different.

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假日 (jiàrì) — holiday / day off

HSK 3 | noun | an official public holiday or a day free from work

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高 (gāo) — tall / high

HSK 1 | adjective | tall, high, of great height

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

HSK 3 | adjective | feeling emotional pain or sadness

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发展 (fāzhǎn) — development / to develop

HSK 3 | noun / verb | development, growth; to develop, to expand

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N4 Kanji: 院 (Institution, Building)

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

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Lesson 1: Classical Chinese Grammar (文言文)

Mastering 之、乎、者、也 and the grammar of classical Chinese in modern scholarly and literary contexts.

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说清楚 (shuō qīngchǔ) — say clearly / explain clearly

HSK 3 | verb + result complement | to express something in a way that is fully understood

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论坛 (lùntán) — forum

HSK 5 | noun | a public forum for discussion; an online discussion board

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はっきり (はっきり) — Japanese Vocabulary

はっきり (はっきり / hakkiri): clearly. N4 level Japanese vocabulary.

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朋友 (péngyou) — friend

HSK 1 | noun | friend

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用 (yòng) — to use

HSK 1 | verb, preposition | to use, to employ, with (using)

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能力 (nénglì) — ability; capability

HSK 5 | noun | ability, capability, capacity to do something

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特别 (tèbié) — special / especially

HSK 3 | adjective / adverb | special, particular; especially, particularly

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医生 (yīshēng) — Doctor

HSK 4 | noun | doctor, physician

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Lesson 41: Elision

Sindarin vowel elision: when final and initial vowels contract, apostrophe usage, elision in poetry and prose, and the famous Elvish examples from Tolkien's texts.

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CF 461E - Appleman and a Game

Appleman starts with an empty string. In one second he may append any substring of t to the end of the string he is building. For a fixed target string s, Appleman chooses an optimal sequence of substrings and finishes s in the minimum possible number of seconds.

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相反 (xiāngfǎn) — opposite; on the contrary

HSK 5 | adjective/adverb | expressing the idea of being contrary or the reverse

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Lesson 14: Feelings and Emotions

Express a full range of emotions in Esperanto, describe how you feel, use -iĝ- for emotional changes, and comfort others in conversation.

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自由 (zìyóu) — freedom; free

HSK 5 | noun/adjective | freedom, liberty; free, unrestricted

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〜ことなしに — JLPT N3 Grammar

Learn 〜ことなしに (without doing ~) — the formal N3 pattern expressing that one action is performed without the prerequisite action.

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〜べく — JLPT N1 Grammar

N1 grammar pattern 〜べく: a formal literary purposive expressing 'in order to ~, for the purpose of ~' — the written formal equivalent of ために.

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培育 (péiyù) — to breed; to nurture

HSK 5 | verb | to breed, to nurture, to cultivate (plants, organisms, or people)

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影响 (yǐngxiǎng) — to influence; influence; impact

HSK 5 | verb/noun | to have an effect on someone or something; the effect produced

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虽然 (suīrán) — although / even though

HSK 4 | conjunction | although; even though; though

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N4 Kanji: 曇 (Cloudy)

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

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Lesson 12: Idioms in Context (成语 I)

Master five classical Chinese idioms with their full narrative and argumentative contexts, understanding their etymologies and modern usage patterns.

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雨 — JLPT N5 Kanji

雨 (u/ame): rain. JLPT N5 kanji.

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国家 (guójiā) — country, nation

HSK 2 | noun | a sovereign state or nation

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それから (それから) — Japanese Vocabulary

それから (それから / sorekara): and then, after that. N4 level Japanese vocabulary.

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CF 477E - Dreamoon and Notepad

The document can be viewed as a vertical stack of rows, where each row has a fixed length and the cursor always sits at some coordinate inside this grid.

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〜をはじめとして / 〜をはじめとする — JLPT N2 Grammar

Learn 〜をはじめとして and 〜をはじめとする to introduce a representative example from a larger group in formal Japanese.

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经验 (jīngyàn) — experience

HSK 4 | noun | experience gained through practice or life

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网络 (wǎngluò) — network; online

HSK 5 | noun/adjective | network; the internet; online

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数字经济 (shùzì jīngjì) — digital economy

HSK 5 | noun | economic activity driven by digital technologies and data

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JLPT N5 — 10 Structured Lessons

10 structured lessons building JLPT N5 from zero: hiragana/katakana mastery, self-introduction, numbers, places, daily activities, shopping, adjectives, past tense, desires, and plans.

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得到 (dédào) — to get; to obtain; to receive

HSK 3 | verb | to successfully obtain, receive, or achieve something

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继续 (jìxù) — to continue

HSK 3 | verb | to continue or keep doing something

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先 — JLPT N5 Kanji

先 (sen/saki): before. JLPT N5 kanji.

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