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  *等* | 等* | *等
to wait for; to await / by the time; when; till / and so on; etc.; et al. / (bound form) class; rank; grade / (bound form) equal to; same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
HSK 1
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  *寄* | 寄* | *寄
to entrust; to place in sb's care / (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily / (bound form) foster (as in 寄女 foster daughter) / to send by post; to mail
HSK 4
to rely mainly on / to attach most importance to
HSK 5
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  *重* | 重* | *重
heavy / serious / to attach importance to
HSK 1
to attach importance to sth; to value
HSK 2
military family member; dependent of a servicemember / (historical) civilian employee attached to the military
supplementary / incidentally / in parentheses / by chance / in passing / additionally / secondary / subsidiary / to attach
HSK 7-9
caster (attached to the bottom of furniture, trolleys etc)
yolk sac (ectodermal cells attaching fetus to uterus before the development of the placenta)
to adhere / to attach oneself to / to append
weight (i.e. importance attached to sth)
the "good-looks club": people who attach great importance to a person's appearance (pun on 外貿協會|外贸协会 foreign trade association)
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
teashop with performance by 評書|评书 story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts)
attached with the letter
subsidiary / auxiliary / attached / affiliated / subordinate / subordinating
HSK 7-9
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  *恋* | 恋* | *恋
to feel attached to / to long for / to love
in love with / to feel deeply attached to
to give equal emphasis to; to attach equal importance to
lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom) / fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly
glove compartment (of a car) / glovebox (sealed compartment with attached gloves for handling hazardous materials etc)
someone who attaches great importance to good looks (esp. in others)
rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)
to ask a price; to charge / (fig.) to attach conditions (in negotiations)
to be enamored of / to have tender feelings for / to be sentimentally attached to (a person or place)
to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
to love / sentimentally attached to
to be fondly attached to; to not wish to part with; to cling to
deeply attached / devoted
stigma attached to a disease
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  *附* | 附* | *附
to add; to attach / to be close to; to be attached
HSK 7-9
vertical space in a newspaper between two attached pages / vertical line on the back of clothing
attached externally (e.g. fuel tank); plug-in; add-on / special software used to cheat in an online game
to attach most importance to
blind date / arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. [xiang4 qin1]) / to be deeply attached to each other
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  *傅* | 傅* | *傅
(bound form) instructor / (literary) to instruct / to attach / to apply (makeup etc)
as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers / deep friendship / closely attached to one another
(arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
attached (or affiliated) secondary (or middle) school / abbr. for 附屬中學|附属中学
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  *挜* | 挜* | *挜
attach / brandish / hold
to attach importance to sth / to value
cable carrier (used to protect cables and hoses attached to a machine) / tow chain
infix (grammar), particle attached within a word or expression
to attach sb's name to (a role); to go by the title of / nominal; in name only
to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own / a sentimental attachment
trophoblastic layer (attaches fertilized ovum to the uterus) / trophoderm
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  *魄* | 魄* | *魄
(literary) soul; mortal soul (i.e. attached to the body)
lit. to cling to the high, connect to the rich (idiom); to try to attach oneself to the rich and powerful / social climbing
tender and soft as water / deeply attached to sb
board (attached to a wall)
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  *罱* | 罱* | *罱
a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool
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  *茹* | 茹* | *茹
to eat / (extended meaning) to endure / putrid smell / vegetables / roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
to pay attention to / to care about / to attach importance to
to hate to leave a place where one has lived long / to be attached to one's native land and unwilling to leave it
to form ties / to become attached (to sb, sth)
to lie down on a bed / (physiology) implantation (attachment of a blastocyst to the lining of the uterus) / (of an oyster larva) to attach to a substrate / (fig.) to take root / to become established
annexed to / attached to / associated
flat stone with ropes attached, used to ram the ground
photo attached to the front of a hearse in a funeral procession
attached / included herewith
(arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
to be sentimentally attached to sb or sth
troops attached to a unit
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  *缑* | 缑* | *缑
rope attached to a sword hilt / (archaic) hilt / sword
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  *瑱* | 瑱* | *瑱
(literary) jade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear, symbolizing refusal to listen to malicious talk / (literary) to fill up


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