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arm / helper
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to have a girl on each arm
tone-arm (tracking arm of gramophone)
arms / equipment / to arm / military / armed (forces)
HSK 7-9
HSK 7-9
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 strength
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *韝* | 韝* | *韝
archer's arm guard
arm
lit. arm-flinging shopkeeper / fig. sb who asks others to work but does nothing himself
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挎* | 挎* | *挎
to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
upper arm
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *膊* | 膊* | *膊
shoulder / upper arm
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
arm span
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *臂* | 臂* | *臂
arm
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
arm wrestling
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *膀* | 膀* | *膀
upper arm / wing
heart-strengthening shot / fig. a shot in the arm
triceps brachii (back of the upper arm)
upper arm / arm / wing
arm wrestling
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
tattoo-covered arm; tattoo sleeve
arm wrestling (Tw)
to use violence (against sb) / to strong-arm sb / to manhandle
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
rocker arm
to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肱* | 肱* | *肱
upper arm / arm
lit. to use one's bent arm as a pillow (idiom) / fig. content with simple things
lever arm (i.e. perpendicular distance from the fulcrum to the line of force)
to wrap one's arm around (used to describe the girth of a tree trunk)
to lend an arm to support sb
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
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挾* | 挾* | *挾
(bound form) to clasp under the arm / (bound form) to coerce / (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc) / Taiwan pr. [xia2]
robotic arm
legal net / the long arm of the law
as the arm moves the finger (idiom) / freely and effortlessly / to have perfect command of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腕* | 腕* | *腕
wrist / (squid, starfish etc) arm
to swing the arm and leg on the same side of the body together while walking
torque arm
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掖* | 掖* | *掖
to support by the arm / to help / to promote / at the side / also pr. [yi4]
linking arms / arm in arm / very close
actuator (arm of a lever) / lever / actuating arm
Sagittarius spiral arm (of our galaxy)
arm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / also pr. [ge1 bi4]
upper arm / arm / reliable helper / right-hand man
crook of the arm
the beam of a steelyard / a balance arm
sling (for a wounded arm)
to bare one's left arm and take off one's cap as an expression of sorrow
arm
full arm (method of painting)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *擓* | 擓* | *擓
(dialect) to scratch (an itch) / to carry on the arm / to scoop up / Taiwan pr. [kuai1]
Perseus spiral arm (of our galaxy)
(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
to shake / to fling one's arm / to lash / to swing
Orion spiral arm or local spur of our galaxy (containing our solar system)
spiral arm
Northrop Grumman (aerospace arm of Boeing)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攙* | 攙* | *攙
to take by the arm and assist / variant of 摻|掺
HSK 7-9


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