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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *號* | 號* | *號
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
signal
HSK 2
model (particular version of a manufactured article) / type (product specification in terms of color, size etc)
HSK 4
number / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
symbol; mark; sign
HSK 4
parentheses; brackets
HSK 4
name / term of address / title
HSK 5
slogan / catchphrase / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to call / to appeal
HSK 5
vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
HSK 6
code name
HSK 7-9
to register (at a hospital etc) / to send by registered mail
HSK 7-9
mark / symbol / notation / seal
HSK 7-9
to be known as; to be nicknamed / to be purportedly / to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
HSK 7-9
nickname
HSK 7-9
first rate / top rank / number one
HSK 7-9
nickname
HSK 7-9
account number; username
HSK 7-9
to number / numbering / serial number
HSK 7-9
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
HSK 7-9
tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *號* | 號* | *號
roar / cry / CL: 個|个
account number; username
comma (punct.)
reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)
question mark (punct.) / unknown factor / unsolved problem / interrogation
signal
honorific title / form of address reserved for a queen, ancestor, emperor etc
number of military unit
ZIP code / postal code
trumpet / small size (clothes etc) / (coll.) a number one; a piss / (humble) our store / alternate account (for an Internet forum etc)
ordinal number / serial number / sequence number
first day of the month / toilet / (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)
flashing light / indicator light
an order (esp. army) / bugle call expressing military order / verbal command
secret signal (sign) / countersign / password
store / a business
(Tw) companies; businesses
trademark
odd number (on a ticket, house etc)
semicolon (punct.)
name; title / good reputation
characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number
character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop
exclamation mark ! (punct.)
plus sign + (math.)
bugle horn
(archaic) title granted to a person / to ban an (online) account
lot number / batch number
minus sign - (math.)
Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)
to dial a telephone number
asterisk * (punct.)
grade
quotation mark (punct.)
full stop / period (punct.)
telephone dial
to take one's seat according to the ticket number / (fig.) to put (things or people) in their right place / to take a general comment as a personal attack
signal light / car indicator
to cry piteously / anguished wailing / same as 哀嚎
to boss people around (idiom)
to have the power to rally supporters
signal / sign (traffic control etc)
consecutive serial numbers / chain (of supermarkets, hotels etc) / hyphen
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)
seat number
work chant / prison cell / type / sort / mark / sign / signal / (Tw) brokerage firm
lottery
to wail / to cry out in distress
trombone
first issue
(math.) equals sign =
colon (punct.)
punctuation / a punctuation mark
trumpeter / military bugler
official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉, etc)
to feel sb's pulse
ellipsis (punctuation)
registered letter
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
to cry / to wail loudly
tone mark on a Chinese syllable (i.e. accents on ā á ǎ à) / (music) key signature
braces; curly brackets { }
jacket worn esp. by soldiers in former times, with large insignia on the front and back indicating unit affiliation
number / serial number
title of honor / term of respect
negative value sign - (math.) / minus sign
enumeration comma (、) (used to separate words or phrases in a list)
to howl / to yell
(newspaper) extra / special number (of a periodical)
temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor
(music) sharp (♯)
to blow a brass instrument
Chinese guillemet 《》(punct. used for names of books etc)
(math.) plus sign (+)
(coll.) to slink off
to bawl / to wail / to cry
square brackets [ ]

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