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1 People 2 Family Members 3 Getting to know others 4 At school 5 Countries and Languages 6 Reading and writing 7 Numbers 8 The time 9 Days of the week 10 Yesterday – today – tomorrow 11 Months 12 Beverages 13 Activities 14 Colors 15 Fruits and food 16 Seasons and Weather 17 Around the house 18 House cleaning 19 In the kitchen 20 Small Talk 1 21 Small Talk 2 22 Small Talk 3 23 Learning foreign languages 24 Appointment 25 In the city 26 In nature 27 In the hotel – Arrival 28 In the hotel – Complaints 29 At the restaurant 1 30 At the restaurant 2 31 At the restaurant 3 32 At the restaurant 4 33 At the train station 34 On the train 35 At the airport 36 Public transportation 37 En route 38 In the taxi 39 Car breakdown 40 Asking for directions 41 Where is ... ? 42 City tour 43 At the zoo 44 Going out in the evening 45 At the cinema 46 In the discotheque 47 Preparing a trip 48 Vacation activities 49 Sports 50 In the swimming pool 51 Running errands 52 In the department store 53 Shops 54 Shopping 55 Working 56 Feelings 57 At the doctor 58 Parts of the body 59 At the post office 60 At the bank 61 Ordinal numbers 62 Asking questions 1 63 Asking questions 2 64 Negation 1 65 Negation 2 66 Possessive pronouns 1 67 Possessive pronouns 2 68 big – small 69 to need – to want to 70 to like something 71 to want something 72 to have to do something / must 73 to be allowed to 74 asking for something 75 giving reasons 1 76 giving reasons 2 77 giving reasons 3 78 Adjectives 1 79 Adjectives 2 80 Adjectives 3 81 Past tense 1 82 Past tense 2 83 Past tense 3 84 Past tense 4 85 Questions – Past tense 1 86 Questions – Past tense 2 87 Past tense of modal verbs 1 88 Past tense of modal verbs 2 89 Imperative 1 90 Imperative 2 91 Subordinate clauses: that 1 92 Subordinate clauses: that 2 93 Subordinate clauses: if 94 Conjunctions 1 95 Conjunctions 2 96 Conjunctions 3 97 Conjunctions 4 98 Double connectors 99 Genitive 100 Adverbs

9 Old HSK word(s): 为 ** A wei4 (indicating the cause or purpose) 目的 ** B mu4di4 aim/ purpose 用途 ** C yong4tu2 use-way/ use/ purpose/ application 白白 ** C bai2bai2 for nothing/ in vain/ to no purpose 瞎 ** C xia1 become blind/ groundlessly/ to no purpose/ aimlessly 诚心 ** D cheng2xin1 on purpose 用意 ** D yong4yi4 purpose/ intention 专用 ** D zhuan1yong4 for a special purpose 意图 ** D yi4tu2 purpose/ offer

意 thought, idea, opinion / think

图 diagram / chart, map, picture

purpose use, purpose year (a period of 12 months fixed for a certain purpose) use for special purpose ~白pure white || 目的不~ impurity purpose deliberately, on purpose to this end, for this reason (or purpose), in this connection so that, in order to, so as to, with the aim of, for the purpose of 049 Thing, course 事情, 过程 (shìqíng, guòchéng)

41 目的 [-] mùdì (view-goal) purpose: 生活的~ the purpose of one’s life || 她学习的~是为了当医生. Her purpose in learning is to become a doctor. '

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Phonetic KEY:
旨  Purpose zhǐ
Hsk Characters:

HSK -Characters and beyond:

30 Languages	Chinese	Vietnamese

Gb	Big5	Eng	Rad	Mega	Triple
旨 +	旨 + +	purpose, aim / excellent	日	旨	Sun 旨 (ZIEL_ZWECK) zhi3
志 +	【◎Fix:◎誌;◎志】 + +	purpose, will, determination / annals	心，忄	志	Heart 志 (ZWECK) zhi4

purpose: (intention)

Intention {f}, Absicht {f}

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purpose: (reason for doing something)

Grund {m}; Zweck {m}

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purpose: (subject of discourse)

Thema {n}

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purpose: (target)

Zweck {m}, Ziel {n}

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purpose: (have set as one's purpose; intend)

beabsichtigen, planen

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all-purpose: (for all purposes)

Allzweck- [in compound words]

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general-purpose: (all-purpose)

Allzweck- [in compound words]

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on purpose: (purposely, with intention)

mit Absicht, absichtlich, vorsätzlich, extra, bewusst, mit Vorbedacht

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purpose: (intention)

Intention {f}, Absicht {f}

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purpose: (reason for doing something)

Grund {m}; Zweck {m}

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purpose: (subject of discourse)

Thema {n}

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purpose: (target)

Zweck {m}, Ziel {n}

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purpose: (have set as one's purpose; intend)

beabsichtigen, planen

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purposefully: (on purpose) SEE: on purpose ::

purposefulness: (being intentional)

Zielbewusstheit {f}, Zielgerichtetheit {f}, Zielsicherheit {f}, Zielstrebigkeit {f}

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purposefulness: (being resolute)

Entschlossenheit {f}

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purposely: (on purpose; intentionally)

absichtlich

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repurpose: (alter)

umändern, abändern, umwandeln, abwandeln

2000 Words

1238 目的: objective, purpose: I don't know the purpose of his visit. 2185 わざと: on purpose: It looked like he lost on purpose. 6540 複合: composite; compound: Large cities have many multipurpose facilities. 6612 営利: gain; profit: It is prohibited to use this information for profit-making purposes. 7247 見失う: lose sight of: He has lost sight of the purpose of life.

SAIGONESE
I073	cố ý	in purpose, intentionally	mit Absicht, absichtlich
I073	Anh không có cố ý mà	I didn’t do it on purpose	Ich habe es nicht mit Absicht getan.

TED Talk	Segment	Vietnamese	English