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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *号* | 号* | *号
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
stature; height; size (of a person or object) / (agriculture) bundle of cereal stalks tied together
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *品* | 品* | *品
(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods / (bound form) grade; rank / kind; type; variety / character; disposition; nature; temperament / to taste sth; to sample / to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute)
HSK 5
model (particular version of a manufactured article) / type (product specification in terms of color, size etc)
HSK 4
size / height / stature
HSK 5
large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate
HSK 2
size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes) / (coll.) propriety
HSK 4
small scale / small size
HSK 4
medium sized
HSK 7-9
lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity / one solution fits a diversity of problems / one size fits all
packet size (computing)
as it turns out / by lucky coincidence / (of number, time, size etc) just right
HSK 6
D size battery
goat / (gymnastics) small-sized vaulting horse
large-sized (of clothes, shoes) / (old) to give an order / (old) to quit one's job in a store
(music) tuba / (of clothes, print etc) large size; large format / (polite) your (given) name / (coll.) number two; poop; to defecate
to thin fruit (to increase fruit size etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *码* | 码* | *码
(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事 "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
HSK 7-9
to size sb up / to look sb up and down / to take the measure of / to suppose / to reckon
HSK 7-9
pocket-sized / pocket (book etc)
HSK 6
trumpet / small size (clothes etc) / (coll.) a number one; a piss / (humble) our store / alternate account (for an Internet forum etc)
size / height / stature
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磅* | 磅* | *磅
scale (instrument for weighing) / to weigh / (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams) / (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type) / (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness)
HSK 7-9
C size battery (PRC) (Taiwan equivalent: 二號電池|二号电池) / AA battery (Tw) (PRC equivalent: 五號電池|五号电池)
size / fitting (of apparel)
medium sized enterprise
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
cup (bra size)
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect / (of a tree) to grow to full size / to become useful for timber
small or medium size enterprise (SME)
lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom) / fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance
medium-sized
trivial / minute (size)
(plant pathology) to become stunted / (horticulture) to dwarf; to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) / (fig.) to diminish the status of; to disparage / (fig.) to downplay
large size
character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop
size / height
to rank second (in terms of some attribute: size, frequency, quality etc)
(food) portion size
to increase the number of pages or the size of the pages of a publication
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *目* | 目* | *目
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
(fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes
large and small; of all sizes
file size
amount of reduction; size of discount
standard (hotel) room / two-person room of standard size and amenities / abbr. to 標間|标间
grain size
piece of dough cut to the right size (for making jiaozi etc)
amplitude modulation (AM) / size of an adjustment
(Tw) C size battery (PRC equivalent: 三號電池|三号电池)
medium-sized
(sieve) mesh size; (sandpaper) grit size
lit. (of a melon vine) laden with melons of all sizes (idiom) / fig. (of descendants) to thrive and prosper for generations
lit. hair and beard all in one stroke / fig. to handle different things by the same method / one method to solve all problems / one size fits all
length and width; size; dimensions
largest-size housepainter's brush
size / body size
(Tw) miniature, concealable camera with a pinhole-sized lens / pinhole camera
to abridge / to cut a text down to size for publication
jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京胡
size (i.e. area) of a country, geographical region or school campus etc / (fig.) scope / extent
(Tw) (fashion retailing) available only in a limited range of less popular sizes
treating everyone the same, regardless of individual differences / one-size-fits-all approach / (typesetting) block paragraphs (no indenting, and blank space between each paragraph)
to cut food into a specific size or shape (strips, slices or cubes etc) / (dialect) screwdriver
(historical) bound foot (esp. one only three inches long, considered the ideal size of a woman's foot)
to judge the hour and size up the situation / to take stock
kappa, a child-size humanoid water creature in Japanese folklore
amount of food one eats / portion size


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