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HSK
form; shape / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to form; to take shape
HSK 3
image / form / figure / CL: 個|个 / visualization / vivid
HSK 3
outer appearance / form / shape / formality / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
circumstances / situation / terrain / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to describe / (literary) countenance; appearance
HSK 4
shape / form / pattern / morphology
HSK 5
circumstances / situation / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
topography / terrain / landform
HSK 5
to become deformed; to change shape; to morph
HSK 6
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to appear / to look / form / shape
HSK 6
round / circular
HSK 7-9
invisible
HSK 7-9
deformed; malformed / lopsided; unbalanced
HSK 7-9
picture / figure / diagram / graph / depiction / graphical
HSK 7-9
all kinds of / all sorts of / every (different) kind of
HSK 7-9
incorporeal / virtual / formless / invisible (assets) / intangible
HSK 7-9
imperceptibly / virtually
HSK 7-9
figure / shape / external form / contour
HSK 7-9
inseparable (as form and shadow)
HSK 7-9
formation
HSK 7-9
invisibles (trade)
with only body and shadow to comfort each other (idiom) / extremely sad and lonely
to vanish / to hide / to cover one's traces
variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃|笔划 and 筆畫|笔画 / exact synonym and homonym written with different characters
contact lens / CL: 隻|只,
sawtooth shape / zigzag
circular sector
barcode
triangle
scalene triangle
all-terrain vehicle (ATV)
adjective
not the usual type / atypical / heterotype
rectangle
shaping / reshaping / plastic surgery or orthopedics (abbr. of 整形外科)
graphics card
pattern
hexagon
curve; arc
figure (esp. a woman's)
ring-shaped / (math.) annulus
material; tangible; visible / shapely
to take shape / shaping / forming
square / square-shaped
to hide from public view / to conceal one's identity / to lay low
human form / human-shaped; humanoid
Transformers (franchise)
square
polygon / same as 多邊形|多边形
pictogram / hieroglyph
to betray anger (idiom); fury written across one's face
equilateral triangle
topographic map
polygon
tantamount to / to be like
graphical user interface (GUI)
lit. as the shadow follows the body (idiom) / fig. closely associated with each other; inseparable; to follow relentlessly
fantastic oddities of every description (idiom); grotesquely shaped
semicircular
a bar / a strip
original identity fully revealed (idiom); fig. to unmask and expose the whole truth
deformation; bending
(idiom) burly chap; husky fellow
bar chart
orthopedic (e.g. surgery)
spherical; ball-shaped
ideology
to become a mere formality
to pale by comparison (idiom)
rectangle
formalization / formalized
octagon
face light up with delight (idiom); to beam with joy
amphitheater
metaphysics
isosceles triangle
plastic surgeon
pentagon
phono-semantic compound character
semantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component in )
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
cuneiform (Babylonian script)
ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character
(pharm.) vehicle / excipient
(idiom) to feel inferior; to feel inadequate
conical
(of a location) strategic; advantageous
pentagon
oval
rhombus
parallelogram
husky / burly
trapezoid / ladder-shaped / terraced
form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation) / morphology (linguistics)
similar in shape and appearance
amorphous carbon
original shape / true appearance (under the disguise) / true character
visual arts
cuneiform (letters) / wedge-shape

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