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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
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  *后* | 后* | *后
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
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  *还* | 还* | *还
to pay back / to return
HSK 1
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  *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
to return; to come back
HSK 1
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
to return / to go back
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
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  *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
only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)
HSK 2
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
to be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
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  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 3
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  *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
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  *却* | 却* | *却
but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though
HSK 4
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  *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 report / to give an account of / to collect information and report back
HSK 4
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  *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
to regain / to retake / to take back / to withdraw / to revoke
HSK 4
behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future
HSK 4
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
to return to / to come (or go) back
HSK 5
in those days; back then; in those years / to be in the prime of life
HSK 5
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
to look back / to review
HSK 5
to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc)
HSK 5
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
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  *负* | 负* | *负
to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)
HSK 6
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
dealings / contacts / to go back and forth
HSK 6
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
to pace back and forth / to dither; to hesitate / (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
HSK 7-9
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  *缩* | 缩* | *缩
to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]
HSK 7-9
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
to count backwards (from 10 down to 0) / to count down / from the bottom (lines on a page) / from the back (rows of seats)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *驮* | 驮* | *驮
to carry on one's back
HSK 7-9
to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to sway to and fro / to rock back and forth
HSK 7-9
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain
HSK 7-9
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 return / to come back
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
repayment / to pay back money
HSK 7-9
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弓* | 弓* | *弓
a bow (weapon) / CL: 張|张 / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
to pull back / to shrink / to contract / (physiology) systole
HSK 7-9
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  *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 shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
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
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
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to go back and forth; to go to and fro; to do a round trip
HSK 7-9
lit. to go upstream / to trace sth back to / to date from
HSK 7-9
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
HSK 7-9
to retreat / to shrink back
HSK 7-9
to move aside / to get out of the way / to back down / to concede
HSK 7-9
to repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
to resist / to hold back / to stop / to ward off / to withstand
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unable to hold oneself back; eager to do sth without delay
HSK 7-9
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
backstage area / behind-the-scenes supporter / (computing) back-end / background
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
setback / reverse / check / defeat / frustration / disappointment / to frustrate / to discourage / to set sb back / to blunt / to subdue
HSK 7-9
to bounce / to bounce back / to boomerang / to ricochet / rebound (of stock market etc) / bounce / backlash / negative repercussions
HSK 7-9
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
(economics) to reduce / to curtail / to cut back / to tighten / austerity / tightening / crunch
HSK 7-9
the back of a chair
(idiom) sprawled out on one's back
(of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape / (fig.) to rebound / to bounce back
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繈* | 繈* | *繈
cloth for carrying baby on back
(bird species of China) rufous-backed sibia (Leioptila annectens)
to look back at history
regular men's haircut / short back and sides
to take countermeasures against / to hit back / to counter
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully; to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
buttocks / bottom / butt / back part
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *襁* | 襁* | *襁
cloth for carrying baby on back
to retreat into; to draw back into / (typography) to indent
to go back to the source
to review (a lesson etc) / to bring back to one's mind
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纵* | 纵* | *纵
vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / from front to back; longitudinal; lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / (bound form) to release (a captive) / to indulge / to leap up / (literary) even if
to pay back
to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate
to deprive / to withhold / to hold sth back (and prevent it being known)
to abridge (a text) / to edit out (of a movie) / to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)

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