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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *的* | 的* | *的
of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *后* | 后* | *后
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
HSK 2
behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future
HSK 4
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)
HSK 2
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 3
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *却* | 却* | *却
but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though
HSK 4
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *还* | 还* | *还
to pay back / to return
HSK 1
to return / to go back
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *归* | 归* | *归
to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
HSK 4
to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc)
HSK 5
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
in those days; back then; in those years / to be in the prime of life
HSK 5
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
to regain / to retake / to take back / to withdraw / to revoke
HSK 4
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *项* | 项* | *项
back of neck / item / thing / term (in a mathematical formula) / sum (of money) / classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc
HSK 4
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
setback / reverse / check / defeat / frustration / disappointment / to frustrate / to discourage / to set sb back / to blunt / to subdue
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腰* | 腰* | *腰
the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch; pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裁* | 裁* | *裁
to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
HSK 7-9
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
(coll.) to back down; to concede defeat; to lose one's nerve
to repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
to return to / to come (or go) back
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罩* | 罩* | *罩
to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it
HSK 7-9
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
HSK 7-9
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later
to look back / to review
HSK 5
to draw a bow; to pull back a bowstring
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to send back
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
to lean on / to rest against / to rely on / support / backing / back of a chair
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
(dialect) cricket (insect) / (slang) to whisper gossip behind sb's back
backstage area / behind-the-scenes supporter / (computing) back-end / background
HSK 7-9
laid back; leisurely / (of resources: workers, funds etc) unused; idle
to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom) / to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
(bird species of China) black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
to report / to give an account of / to collect information and report back
HSK 4
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond
to release (a hostage) / to put back in place
to go back and forth; to go to and fro; to do a round trip
HSK 7-9
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缩* | 缩* | *缩
to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]
HSK 7-9
to look back at history
(bird species of China) olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni)
to pace back and forth / to dither; to hesitate / (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
HSK 7-9
to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain
HSK 7-9
restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post
(idiom) mutual exchange of assistance; to benefit from each other's strengths and make up each other's shortfalls; to reciprocate with material assistance; to scratch each other's back
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings
(Tw) gift given when visiting sb (esp. a local specialty brought back from one's travels, or a special product of one's own country taken overseas)
incoming telephone call (or telegram) / to phone in; to send in a telegram / to have an instant attraction to sb / (of electricity, after an outage) to come back
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
to pay back in full / to redeem a debt
to report back after completion of one's mission
to renege / to go back (on a deal) / to back out (of a promise)
to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram
to resist / to hold back / to stop / to ward off / to withstand
HSK 7-9
to fight back; to return fire; to counterattack
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *憋* | 憋* | *憋
to choke / to stifle / to restrain / to hold back / to hold in (urine) / to hold (one's breath)
HSK 7-9
calf (back of the leg below the knee)
the way back / return route
to earn back (money one invested, wasted etc)
to sway to and fro / to rock back and forth
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
trapezius muscle (of the upper back and neck)
lit. to shrink back at the sight of (sth daunting) (idiom) / fig. to be deterred
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to pull back / to shrink / to contract / (physiology) systole
HSK 7-9
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent
to replay / to play back
rear court / back garden / backyard (also fig.)
(Internet slang) to retaliate verbally; to hit back (at critics)
to beat back / to repel
(of a person) to return to the fray after a period of inactivity; to jump back into the thick of things / (of sth that was once popular) to be resurrected; to make a comeback
dealings / contacts / to go back and forth
HSK 6
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth

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