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blackboard / CL: 塊|块, 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *板* | 板* | *板
see 老闆|老板, boss
HSK 3
boss / business proprietor / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
variant of 老闆|老板
HSK 3
floor
HSK 6
slab / board / plank / CL: 張|张, 塊|块
HSK 7-9
slab / (geology) tectonic plate / (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry) / (economic) bloc
HSK 7-9
to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge
HSK 7-9
clapper-board / auctioneer's hammer / to beat time with clappers
HSK 7-9
(computing) clipboard
(car, bicycle etc) fender; mudguard; (UK) wing
panel / faceplate
board for making noodles or kneading bread dough
(computing) motherboard / (stock market) main board
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *板* | 板* | *板
to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area in the Korean demilitarized zone
billboard
template / (architecture) formwork
ceiling
indigo woad root / root of Isatis tinctoria (used in TCM)
floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)
Robam (brand)
slab; flat board; (engineering) surface plate / flat; level / (fig.) dull; monotonous / abbr. for 平板電腦|平板电脑 and 平板手機|平板手机
roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus
stiff / inflexible / mechanical / stubborn / to cut blocks for printing
iron panel / hot iron plate for fast grilling (Japanese: teppan)
steel plate
Chinese chestnut
copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin
to suffer beating / fig. to be severely criticized / to take a hammering
substrate
meniscus (anatomy)
temporary housing built with wooden planks or other makeshift materials
(dialect) wall brick
to write on the blackboard / writing on the blackboard
divider; partition
springboard / jumping-off point / gangplank
handcart; flatbed cart; flatbed tricycle
template / prototype / model / example
pedal (in a car, on a piano etc) / treadle / footstool / footrest / footboard
slab / flagstone / slate
panel / back panel
rigid / inflexible
Banqiao or Panchiao city in Taiwan
skateboard
blood platelet
board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
cutting board; chopping block
kneading or chopping board
wooden boards used to press sth together / (medicine) splint
backboard
particle board / chipboard
slate
soil crusting
cardboard
shelf
skate shoes
the sole of the foot
see-saw
broad axe
chopping board; cutting board / CL: 張|张
thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
cricket (ball game)
body / physique / physical condition
outmoded / old-fashioned / inflexible
wooden bench or stool / CL: 張|张, 條|条
allegro
bedboard
lath
that clinches it / that's final / no two ways about it
deck (of a boat etc)
waist and back / physique
incisor / molar / screw die / threading die
tangram (traditional Chinese block puzzle)
scrubbing brush
(slang) Spain
pressed (dried) salted duck
battledore and shuttlecock / shuttlecock
bamboo clapper boards used in folk theater
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
a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard
orderly / methodical / rhythmical
blackboard or whiteboard eraser
leaf fat / leaf lard
sailboard / windsurfing
tortoise plastron / turtle shell
washboard / (slang) flat-chested (woman)
stiff / dull
wooden partition
to put on a straight, stern or blank face / to put on a poker face
sampan / also written 舢舨
slab type building
lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail
to be off the beat / to sound awful (of singing) / (fig.) to wander off the topic / (diving) to step toward the end of the board / approach
small drum for marking time
to hold an inconsequential job / to receive a cold reception / to be kept waiting for an assignment or audience / to be out in the cold / to be sidelined / to warm the bench / to cool one's heels
moderato
longboard

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