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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *托* | 托* | *托
to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm / sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest) / (bound form) a shill / to ask; to beg; to entrust (variant of 託|托) / torr (unit of pressure)
HSK 6
arms / equipment / to arm / military / armed (forces)
HSK 7-9
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挽* | 挽* | *挽
to pull / to draw (a cart or a bow) / to roll up / to coil / to carry on the arm / to lament the dead / (fig.) to pull against / to recover
HSK 7-9
to have a competition / to measure with one's hand or arm / to make a gesture of measuring
HSK 7-9
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  *挎* | 挎* | *挎
to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)
HSK 7-9
arm / helper
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攙* | 攙* | *攙
to take by the arm and assist / to mix; to blend; to dilute; to adulterate
HSK 7-9
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  *臂* | 臂* | *臂
arm
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  *挾* | 挾* | *挾
(bound form) to clasp under the arm / (bound form) to coerce / (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc) / Taiwan pr. [xia2]
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  *膊* | 膊* | *膊
shoulder / upper arm
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
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  *擓* | 擓* | *擓
(dialect) to scratch (an itch) / to carry on the arm / to scoop up / Taiwan pr. [kuai1]
rocker arm
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腕* | 腕* | *腕
wrist / (squid, starfish etc) arm
arm wrestling
crook of the arm
legal net / the long arm of the law
sling (for a wounded arm)
heart-strengthening shot / fig. a shot in the arm
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肱* | 肱* | *肱
upper arm / arm
the beam of a steelyard / a balance arm
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
to lend an arm to support sb
to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
linking arms / arm in arm / very close
to use violence (against sb) / to strong-arm sb / to manhandle
arm strength
lit. arm-flinging shopkeeper / fig. sb who asks others to work but does nothing himself
upper arm
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掖* | 掖* | *掖
to support by the arm / to help / to promote / at the side / also pr. [yi4]
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  *膀* | 膀* | *膀
upper arm / wing
lit. to use one's bent arm as a pillow (idiom) / fig. content with simple things
actuator (arm of a lever) / lever / actuating arm
arm
upper arm / arm / reliable helper / right-hand man
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *韝* | 韝* | *韝
archer's arm guard
to bare one's left arm and take off one's cap as an expression of sorrow
to wrap one's arm around (used to describe the girth of a tree trunk)
arm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / also pr. [ge1 bi4]
upper arm / arm / wing
as the arm moves the finger (idiom) / freely and effortlessly / to have perfect command of
to tug at / to pull at sb aggressively / to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way / (derog.) to hobnob / to consort
lever arm (i.e. perpendicular distance from the fulcrum to the line of force)
arm
to shake / to fling one's arm / to lash / to swing
arm span
triceps brachii (back of the upper arm)
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
arm wrestling (Tw)
Orion spiral arm or local spur of our galaxy (containing our solar system)
tattoo-covered arm; tattoo sleeve
Northrop Grumman (aerospace arm of Boeing)
Sagittarius spiral arm (of our galaxy)
tone-arm (tracking arm of gramophone)
full arm (method of painting)
arm wrestling
spiral arm
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
Perseus spiral arm (of our galaxy)
torque arm
to swing the arm and leg on the same side of the body together while walking


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