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HSK
clippers / scissors / shears / CL:
HSK 5
scissors / CL:
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剪* | 剪* | *剪
(bound form) scissors or similar tool / to cut as with scissors / (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate / to edit (video, audio etc)
HSK 5
prices scissor (caught between low income and high prices)
rock-paper-scissors (hand game)
to edit a film or video
to cut off / to cut away / to trim
to cut out
to cut the ribbon (at a launching or opening ceremony)
(to get a) haircut
newspaper cutting / clippings
paper-cut silhouette / outline / sketch
to eradicate / to exterminate
CapCut, a short-form video editing app developed by ByteDance 字節跳動|字节跳动
V sign (hand gesture)
to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc) / edited version
cut into
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剪* | 剪* | *剪
surname Jian
to cut the ribbon (at an opening)
rock-paper-scissors (game)
with hands behind one's back / trussed
(cinema) rough cut
to prune (branches etc)
to cut (with scissors or similar tool); to shear / (geology) shear / (computing) to cut (as in "cut-and-paste")
shampoo, haircut and blow-dry
to prune / to trim
(genetics) spliceosome
(computing) clipboard
nail clipper
to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc) / (genetics) to splice
to tailor (clothes) / to trim (expenditure)
to prune
papercutting (Chinese folk art) / to make paper cutouts
rock-paper-scissors (game)
shears / large scissors / secateurs
shear stress
lawnmower
to cut / to snip
to get a haircut; to give sb a haircut
shear / shearing force
(computing) clipboard
to waylay and rob / highway robbery
shear / shearing force
lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate
shearing / shear deformation
(bird species of China) Indian skimmer (Rynchops albicollis)
to cut (from a movie etc) / to censor
(idiom) clear, bright eyes
scrapbook
thinning scissors


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