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  *赢* | 赢* | *赢
to beat / to win / to profit
HSK 3
to walk; to go on foot / to leave; to depart / (informal) to clear off; to beat it / (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out
HSK 1
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  *拍* | 拍* | *拍
to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) / racket (sports) / beat (music)
HSK 3
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  *板* | 板* | *板
board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊|块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious
HSK 3
to defeat / to overpower / to beat / to be defeated
HSK 4
to leave; to walk away; to beat it / to move aside
HSK 2
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  *胜* | 胜* | *胜
victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task)
HSK 3
to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite / to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
HSK 7-9
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
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  *闪* | 闪* | *闪
to dodge / to duck out of the way / to beat it / shaken (by a fall) / to sprain / to pull a muscle / lightning / spark / a flash / to flash (across one's mind) / to leave behind / (Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine
HSK 4
to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg)
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
HSK 6
to viciously beat (sb) up / CL: 頓|顿
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  *殴* | 殴* | *殴
to beat up / to hit sb
to defeat / to beat
beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
to beat sb / to beat (a drum)
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
to beat back / to repel
lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up / fig. determined to sort out a problem
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  *揍* | 揍* | *揍
to hit; to beat (sb) / (coll.) to smash (sth)
HSK 7-9
to beat up / to come to blows / battery (law)
HSK 7-9
policeman's round / patrol / beat
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
to beat and scold
clapper-board / auctioneer's hammer / to beat time with clappers
HSK 7-9
to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions) / to give sb the third degree / to torture
to be a real headache / to find sth a real headache / to beat one's brains
HSK 7-9
to beat / to lash
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
to win; to beat (one's opponent)
to reconnoiter; to case the joint / to cut it fine; to arrive with no time to spare / to dance to the beat
to beat; to pound; to thump
to beat easily / to gain an easy victory
(idiom) if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue
lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard
wooden club (used to beat clothes in washing)
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
to beat time
to beat sb soundly
to suppress / to beat down
no match for / cannot beat
to synchronize (a video etc) to the beat of a piece of music
beat boxing / vocal mimicry / ventriloquism
to gang up and beat
lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter / scrupulous attention to detail
to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom) / to beat one's brains out
to beat (sb) up / to hit
lit. to beat a gong; fig. to irritate sb / a provocation
lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom) / fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy / to hit sb when he's down
to beat one's chest
to be flustered / (dialect) irregular heart-beat
HSK 7-9
to encircle / to go around / to circle / to beat about the bush
two hearts beat as one (idiom); a kindred spirit
to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition) / to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible)
lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom) / fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy / to punish sb as a warning to others
to beat a dog and bully its owner / fig. to humiliate sb indirectly by bullying a subordinate
to beat against the shore (of waves)
lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
to go around in circles / to make a detour / (fig.) to beat about the bush
lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
tricky / involved / to beat about the bush
(music) a half-beat behind / (fig.) rather slow (in performing a task, comprehending etc)
(music) beat
to muddle through / to fob sb off / to beat around the bush / to dodge
(medicine) premature beat; extrasystole
to beat down the price / to haggle / to slash one's prices
to mash / to beat to a pulp
hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one
to kill / to beat to death
beat (music) / paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc) / racket (sports)
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  *拷* | 拷* | *拷
to beat / to flog / to examine under torture / (computing) to copy (abbr. for 拷貝|拷贝)
arriving early can't beat coming at the right time / perfect timing
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
to run off / to beat it
teaching by example beats explaining in words (idiom) / action speaks louder than words
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  *考* | 考* | *考
to beat / to hit / variant of / to inspect / to test / to take an exam
HSK 1
to beat a gong
(slang) to hit sb; to beat sb
lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom) / to hit it off / to click together / to chime in easily
to knock / to grasp sth in the hand and beat it / to toughen oneself up
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  *撽* | 撽* | *撽
to beat with a stick / to hit from the side
to beat viciously
to steal away / to beat it
to beat the summer heat
(coll.) to beat it / to take French leave
(onom.) thump; clunk (e.g. of footsteps or impact); (fig.) a sudden emotional jolt; heart skipping a beat
(in ancient times) to beat the drums and yell (at the moment of launching into battle) / to create a clamor; to make a din; to kick up a fuss about
to hang sb up and beat him / (fig.) (slang) to own (one's opponent) / to thoroughly dominate
to bargain / to cut or beat down a price
(coll.) to leave; to beat it
to beat the gong to open a performance
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
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  *剋* | 剋* | *剋
to scold / to beat
lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom) / fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him
to beat the summer heat
to spend a summer holiday / to beat the summer heat
to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another
to beat rhythmically / to throb / to pulsate

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