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  *看* | 看* | *看
to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for
HSK 1
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  *电* | 电* | *电
lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc
HSK 1
telephone / CL: / phone call / CL: / phone number
HSK 1
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  *号* | 号* | *号
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
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  *找* | 找* | *找
to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek / to return / to give change
HSK 1
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  *打* | 打* | *打
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針|打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后 "since then")
HSK 1
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  *叫* | 叫* | *叫
to shout / to call / to order / to ask / to be called / by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
HSK 1
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  *唱* | 唱* | *唱
to sing / to call loudly / to chant
HSK 1
to make a telephone call
HSK 1
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  *通* | 通* | *通
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
HSK 2
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  *喊* | 喊* | *喊
to yell / to shout / to call out for (a person)
HSK 2
to think of / to call to mind / to anticipate
HSK 2
to recall / to think of / to call to mind
HSK 2
to call / to be called
HSK 2
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  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
HSK 3
military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
HSK 3
to visit; to call on (a person or place) / (computing) to visit (a website); to access (a network resource etc) / (Tw) to interview (e.g. for a report or feature story) / CL:
HSK 3
roll call / to mention sb by name / (to call or praise or criticize sb) by name
HSK 4
to convene (a conference or meeting) / to convoke / to call together
HSK 4
to remind / to call attention to / to warn of
HSK 4
long distance / long-distance phone call (abbr. for 長途電話|长途电话) / long-distance coach (abbr. for 長途汽車|长途汽车)
HSK 4
to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not
HSK 4
to call / to appeal
HSK 5
to pay a visit; to call on
HSK 5
to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call
HSK 6
to call / to dial
HSK 6
to assume / to suppose / supposed / so-called / assumption / hypothesis
HSK 7-9
to call out (a name etc) / to shout
HSK 7-9
call charge
HSK 7-9
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
to pay a New Year call / to wish sb a Happy New Year
HSK 7-9
to call; to address as / form of address; appellation
HSK 7-9
to call into question / to question (truth or validity)
HSK 7-9
to call to mind and ponder over / aftertaste
HSK 7-9
incoming telephone call (or telegram) / to phone in; to send in a telegram / to have an instant attraction to sb / (of electricity, after an outage) to come back
HSK 7-9
to convene; to call together
HSK 7-9
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
to call on (sb to do sth) / to appeal (to) / an appeal
HSK 7-9
to pay a formal visit / to call to pay respects / to meet one's senior or superior
HSK 7-9
to call oneself / to claim to be / to profess / to claim a title
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
to visit / to call on sb / to look around
HSK 7-9
to call for help
HSK 7-9
(often used in the context of diplomacy) to meet with; to pay a visit to; to call on
HSK 7-9
to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers / fig. to stir up troubles
HSK 7-9
what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ... / (derog.) so-called
HSK 7-9
Holy sacrament / Christian rite (esp. Catholic) / also called 聖禮|圣礼 by Protestants
Mr Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明 / usually called Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传
bus or tram stop / intermediate stop (on route of ship, plane etc) / port of call / stopover
to seek by inquiry or search / to call on / to visit
to say goodbye; to bid farewell / to pay a farewell call
(slang) to cheer sb on / to show one's support / ("call" is pronounced approximately like English "call")
suona, Chinese shawm (oboe), used in festivals and processions or for military purposes / also written 鎖吶|锁呐 / also called 喇叭
to answer the roll call at 卯時|卯时, i.e. between 5 and 7 am / fig. to put in a conventional appearance
call-in (loanword)
Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 前漢|前汉, Former Han Dynasty
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  *喾* | 喾* | *喾
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏
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  *怼* | 怼* | *怼
(Internet slang) to attack verbally; to publicly criticize; to call out
to summon / to beckon / to call
King Helu of Wu (-496 BC, reigned 514-496 BC) / also called 吳王闔閭|吴王阖闾
voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller / also called 扶他林
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  *拜* | 拜* | *拜
to bow to; to pay one's respects / (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion) / to make a courtesy call / (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony / to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc) / (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
to call (to do something)
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  *麝* | 麝* | *麝
musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) / also called 香獐子
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  *相* | 相* | *相
each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶 (a fret on the soundboard is called a )
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  *蜀* | 蜀* | *蜀
short name for Sichuan 四川 province / one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国 after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉, situated around what is now Sichuan province
to exhale; to breathe out / to make an outgoing call / (computing) to bring up (a menu, search bar, virtual keyboard etc)
to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over
to label / to call
Zhao Kuo (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國|赵国, who famously led an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC / also called Ma Fuzi 馬服子|马服子
School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names
to be collectively called / collective term / general designation
to be available at any time / to be on call
to call in a loan
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
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  *唤* | 唤* | *唤
to call
Lüshun port, on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula / called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905 / in Lüshunkou district of Dalian 大連|大连, Liaoning
sperm concentration, often called sperm count
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  *访* | 访* | *访
(bound form) to seek by inquiry / (bound form) to visit; to call on
to call at / to stop at / berth
to bring in / to call in / to transfer (a person, data) / (computing) to call / to load (a subroutine etc)
to call it... / known as...
to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram
(honorific) to visit / to call in
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡
King Helu of Wu (-496 BC, reigned 514-496 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸 / also called 吳王闔廬|吴王阖庐
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  *召* | 召* | *召
to call together / to summon / to convene / temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)
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  *哗* | 哗* | *哗
clamor / noise / (bound form) sound used to call cats
to formally call on / to worship (a God) / to pay homage to sb
person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as
to shout / to yell / (telecommunications) to call
Pazhou district in Guangzhou, Guangdong / Pazhou Island in Guangzhou, formerly called Whampoa, historical anchoring point for foreign trade ships
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
to take a curtain call / (fig.) to come to an end
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
an order (esp. army) / bugle call expressing military order / verbal command
Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
to demand; to call for; to petition / demand; wish; request / to promote one's brand; to appeal to (consumers) / (marketing) message; pitch

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