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HSK
keyboard
HSK 5
compact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM / CL: , 張|张
HSK 4
tray / plate / dish / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
HSK 4
(share trading) mid-cap
disk drive
(bird species of China) racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia)
USB flash drive; thumb drive
to interrogate / to question (at a roadblock)
hard disk
HSK 7-9
slipped disk / vertebral herniation / prolapsed disk
USB flash drive
abacus / CL: / plan / scheme
HSK 7-9
chessboard layout / (fig.) overall situation
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
floppy disk
offer / to make an offer (commerce)
cold plate / cold meats
(of a stock price or market index) currently lower than at the previous day's close
building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent)
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
lit. to put everything out including the tray / to reveal everything / to make a clean breast of it all
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
(astronomy) astrolabe / (astrology) horoscope / astrological chart
Panshan county in Panjin 盤錦|盘锦, Liaoning
going around a mountain
twisting path / tortuous road
to sell up / to wind up a business
Liupanshui, prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省
counting one's chickens before they are hatched
(computer) disk
HSK 7-9
a plateful / comprehensive / the full works (e.g. a banquet) / the full price
Panzhou, a county-level city in Liupanshui City 六盤水市|六盘水市, Guizhou
closing price (of share, commodity etc)
cups and dishes in complete disorder (idiom); after a riotous drinking party
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
suction pad / sucker
(finance) to crash / to collapse / crash
meter dial / watch face
to occupy illegally / to seize (territory) / to entrench (oneself)
dapanji or "big plate chicken", a kind of spicy chicken stew originating from Xinjiang
to plot / to scheme / to calculate
HSK 7-9
USB flash drive; thumb drive
distributor / wholesaler / middleman
to take stock / to make an inventory
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
(bird species of China) lesser racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus remifer)
a hand basin
(finance) (of a fund manager, high-wealth individual etc) to make large trades (in stocks, futures etc) / (fashion, movies etc) (of an industry heavyweight) to make a play in the market
market close
online storage space / cloud file storage
intervertebral disk
lit. like a sheet of loose sand / fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
(idiom) lacking in social grace and unfit to be a representative
(of a person) objectionable / (of two people) to find each other disagreeable
dashboard / indicator panel
baking tray
to sit cross-legged (as in the lotus position)
(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
to cross-examine / to interrogate and refute
lit. coiled dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent
herniated lumbar disk
cloud storage service
revolving tray on a dining table / lazy Susan
(bird species of China) greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus)
(political party's) voter base / (musician's) fan base / (a business's) customer base / the funds necessary for a venture / foundation on which sth's existence depends / bedrock (in the figurative sense)
to carry out gymnastic tricks on horizontal bar
portable hard drive; external hard drive
across the board / comprehensive / overall / global
(loanword) penicillin
twisted / spiral / uneven stones
(computing) solid-state drive (SSD)
the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard / fixed opinion / solid idea / decisive plan
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
pig butchering scam (where the scammer builds trust with the victim over time, "fattening them up," before ultimately "slaughtering" them by taking their money); (esp.) romance scam
drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
heavyweight operator in a market
to interrogate / to examine
twining mountain road
disk
liquidation
(electronics) pad; land (a connection on a circuit board)
the tray or pan of a steelyard balance
Russian roulette
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
soup plate
Yingpan, common place name ("army camp") / place near Jintian village 金田村 in Guangxi where the Taiping Tianguo rebels took their oaths in 1851 / place in Xinfeng county 新豐縣|新丰县 traditional camping place of brigands / Yingpan township, place name / Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi / Yingpan township in Yunnan / (many others)
military camp / nomadic camp
(bicycle) crankset
lower millstone / tray of a mill
chassis
shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
tray / salver / pallet
pallet jack
to interrogate and get to the bottom of sth

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