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to accept or reject
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *受* | 受* | *受
to receive / to accept / to suffer / subjected to / to bear / to stand / pleasant / (passive marker) / (LGBT) bottom
HSK 3
daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it (idiom) / a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions / the buck stops here
to swallow in one gulp (idiom) / (fig.) to accept without thinking / to lap up
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *收* | 收* | *收
to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name)
HSK 2
not to accept as correct (idiom); to object / to disapprove / to take exception to
HSK 7-9
to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
HSK 2
bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant
HSK 7-9
to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject
not to accept sth / to want to have sth overruled or changed / to refuse to obey or comply / to refuse to accept as final / to remain unconvinced by / not to give in to
HSK 7-9
to accept a bribe
HSK 7-9
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奉* | 奉* | *奉
to offer (tribute) / to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc) / to esteem / to revere / to believe in (a religion) / to wait upon / to accept orders (from superior)
lit. if you agree to bet you must accept to lose / fig. you bet, you pay
to deign / to condescend / to yield to (entreaties) / to submit to (sb) / (polite) to deign to accept (a post)
to accept delivery of goods / to pick up goods
lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise / you flatter me
HSK 5
to undertake / to take on (i.e. to accept a task)
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to accept / to receive
receptor (biochemistry) / acceptor (semiconductors)
to receive / to accept / to carry on
to accept a job offer / to apply for an advertised position
HSK 7-9
to accept punishment
to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
HSK 2
to reject / to refuse to accept
to receive / to accept
can't afford to play / (fig.) can't accept it when one loses
to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam / to admit (a student) / to hire (a job candidate)
HSK 4
to submit cheerfully / to accept willingly (idiom)
(commerce) to accept (i.e. acknowledge as calling for payment) / to honor (a check, a promise)
to accept a marriage proposal
readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views
Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy. / Since this is so, we should accept it. / Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth. / If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.
Tian Ji races his horses (and accepts one loss in order to ensure two wins) (idiom)
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.
to accept surrender
Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth
to accept to hear a case / to handle (a service)
HSK 7-9
to provide a place to stay / to house / to accommodate / (of an institution etc) to take in / to accept
to accept / to receive
to accept a gift / to receive presents
to accept without question / to take sth at face value
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
to receive / to accept / to take in / to hold
to come to accept an unpleasant fact / to get over sth / to cheer up
to inspect and accept / acceptance
HSK 7-9
to refuse to accept a payment / to refuse to pay / to stop (a check or payment)
lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside / to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively
to accept abdication
to be willing to / to be ready to / to be content with / accepting (of restriction, sacrifice, risk etc)
to kindly accept (an offering)
to surrender / to accept defeat
to formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc)
lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted
(idiom) to accept wholeheartedly; to embrace; to be won over
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *□* | □* | *□
uptight; obstinate; to awkwardly force oneself to do sth (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [king], often written as ㄍㄧㄥ, no generally accepted hanzi form)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衔* | 衔* | *衔
bit (of a bridle) / to hold in the mouth / to harbor (feelings) / to link / to accept / rank / title
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
to provide transport / to accept the Mandate of Heaven / to acknowledge one's calling to be emperor
reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate
HSK 6
(of a device) designed to accept a cassette, cartridge or canister (loanword from "cassette") / designed to have a card or ticket inserted (also written 插卡式) (loanword from "card")
to take in / to absorb / to admit / to accept
HSK 7-9
broad-minded / accepting / philosophical (about things)
can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one
to assert categorically / generally accepted view
to take a customer's order / (of a taxi driver) to accept a booking / (of a delivery rider) to accept a delivery job
bribery / to give or accept bribes
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it
at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will
to urge sb to accept a post / to urge sb to agree to do sth
better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option
refusing to accept
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
to hire (an employee) / to accept (a manuscript) for publication
(of a newspaper) to stop accepting incoming articles
to accept criticism gladly (humble expr.) / to be happy when one's errors are pointed out
(literary) please kindly accept
to accept a compromise
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
to accept and maintain faith (Buddhism)
to accept (a bit reluctantly) / to put up with
deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom) / (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc)
accepted theory or formulation
to reconsider / to reexamine / to review (e.g. a report prior to accepting it)
to accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)
to accept wholeheartedly / to embrace / to be won over
to catch (sth thrown etc) / to receive (sth given) / to accept
to solicit a bribe / to accept a bribe
lit. if it's wrong, it's wrong (idiom); to make the best after a mistake / to accept an error and adapt to it / to muddle through
uncontroversial / accepted
to accept the new / to take fresh (air) / fig. to accept new members (to reinvigorate the party) / new blood
can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one
to tolerate / to accept (criticism, resignation etc) / same as 容納接受|容纳接受
to undertake / to accept a contract
HSK 5
(literary) to choose between rejecting and accepting
to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
to confess one's fault / to accept one's punishment

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