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balance / equilibrium
HSK 6
balance (of an account, bill etc) / surplus / remainder
HSK 7-9
to consider / to weigh (a matter) / to balance (pros and cons)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *秤* | 秤* | *秤
steelyard balance; Roman balance / CL: 臺|台
HSK 7-9
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
HSK 7-9
(accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts / (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge
HSK 7-9
balance (financial) / discrepancy (in a sum or quota) / difference
HSK 7-9
to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
HSK 7-9
to adjust / to balance / to make up a medical prescription
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *锤* | 锤* | *锤
hammer / to hammer into shape / weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance) / to strike with a hammer
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抵* | 抵* | *抵
to press against; to support; to prop up / to resist; to withstand / to be equal to; to match / to balance; to offset / to mortgage / to make up for; to compensate for / to arrive at; to reach / to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
vertigo / dizziness / fainting / feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke) / Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1]
to borrow or lend money / debit and credit items on a balance sheet
scale / platform balance
adverse trade balance / trade deficit
remainder (after rounding a number) / decimal part (of number after the decimal point) / mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.) / small change / balance (of an account)
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
balance scale / Taiwan pr. [tian1 ping2]
standard weight (used on a balance scale)
borrower / debit side (of a balance sheet)
to owe a debt / balance due / debts
credit side (of a balance sheet) / creditor / lender
to check and balance (power) / checks and balances
balance / cash surplus
to balance up / to offset / to counterbalance
(idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power
balance; cash in hand
a steelyard (a type of balance)
(coll.) numeral / counter; chip; token / (old) ready money; cash / standard weight (used on a balance scale)
lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod / tripartite confrontation or balance of forces
pending a decision; hanging in the balance
equilibrium of forces / balance of power
balance (of a watch or clock) / balance wheel
remainder; balance
the tray or pan of a steelyard balance
receiving party / recipient / debit side (of balance sheet), as opposed to credit side 付方
to make even / to balance / (fig.) to be even / to call it quits
the beam of a steelyard / a balance arm
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
to reduce the balance sheet
balance consisting of steelyard with a pan / CL: 臺|台
to shift resources into areas of need / to inject funds / to balance resources
balance (money remaining due)
trade deficit / adverse trade balance
to expand the balance sheet
balance / (state of) equilibrium
(accounting) to balance the books
dynamic equilibrium / dynamic balancing
credit side (of a balance sheet), as opposed to 收方
beam (gymnastics) / balance beam
spreadsheet / trial balance (accountancy)
spring balance
egg balancing (activity popular in China at Lichun 立春 etc) / to stand an egg on its broad end
borrower / debit side (of a balance sheet)
balance of power
balance of payments
sense of balance; equilibrioception
(computing) load balancing
debit balance (accountancy)
trade surplus / favorable balance of trade
separation of powers for checks and balances
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
platform balance
balance due / small balance still to pay / final remaining debt
to break even / balance between income and expenditure
(accounting) to strike a balance / to reverse an entry / to write off
to perform a jar juggling and balancing act
balance sheet


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