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  *刻* | 刻* | *刻
quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals
HSK 2
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  *录* | 录* | *录
to carve wood
HSK 3
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  *切* | 切* | *切
to cut; to slice; to carve / (math) tangential
HSK 4
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  *片* | 片* | *片
thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral : classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91
HSK 2
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  *雕* | 雕* | *雕
to carve / to engrave / shrewd / bird of prey
HSK 7-9
lit. carved railings and jade steps (idiom) / fig. richly ornamented (building)
to carve / to engrave / carving
HSK 7-9
brothel / theater / carved balustrade
carved lacquerware
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  *抠* | 抠* | *抠
to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed) / to carve; to cut / to study meticulously / stingy; miserly / to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
HSK 7-9
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  *追* | 追* | *追
to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old)
to engrave a seal / stamp mark / to print with carved type / to leave a deep impression
stone inscription / carved stone
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea
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  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
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  *刊* | 刊* | *刊
to print / to publish / publication / periodical / to peel with a knife / to carve / to amend
a carved inscription
lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory / unforgettable
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea
a statue / a Buddhist image / sculpture / to carve
HSK 7-9
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  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
rock painting / picture or writing carved on rocks
to seize power / to conquer the world / to establish and expand a business / to carve out a career for oneself
sculpture / (carved) statue / CL:
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea
lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
(idiom) to come first in triennial palace examinations (refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successful candidate in the imperial examinations was entitled to stand); to be the champion; to be the very best in any field
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  *鑴* | 鑴* | *鑴
to engrave or carve, as a block for printing
to cut up (into pieces) / to slice / to carve / to dice / to shred
stone carving / carved sculpture
to engrave / to carve into
to carve a seal / a seal
carved railings
(literary) (Chinese mythology) creature resembling a turtle with the head of a dragon, said to be capable of bearing great loads, often carved as plinths for steles in former times / (literary) strenuous; exerting great force
to carve / to decorate / carved / decorated
to carve / to engrave
(of a bride-to-be) to remove facial hair and trim hairline (old) / to carve a face
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  *矩* | 矩* | *矩
carpenter's square / rule / regulation / pattern / to carve
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  *弤* | 弤* | *弤
carved bow
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  *契* | 契* | *契
to carve / carved words / to agree / a contract / a deed
flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
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  *斫* | 斫* | *斫
to chop / to hack / to carve wood
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  *斫* | 斫* | *斫
to chop / to carve wood
carved or engraved lacquerware
to sculpt / to carve (jade) / ornate artwork / overly elaborate prose
carving / decorative carved pattern / arabesque
Xiping steles, calligraphic work on carved steles of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD)
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  *镂* | 镂* | *镂
to engrave / to carve / hard steel
stele / vertical stone tablet for carved inscriptions
rock carving / cliff engraving / words carved into cliff face
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  *栔* | 栔* | *栔
carve / cut
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  *锲* | 锲* | *锲
to cut / to carve / to engrave / to chisel / fig. to chisel away at
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  *锓* | 锓* | *锓
to carve
a carved printing block
carved pillar, jade doorsill (idiom); heavily decorated environment
to engrave (wood or stone) / to carve
to carve and polish (jade) / to polish and refine a literary work
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  *鋑* | 鋑* | *鋑
to engrave or carve, as a block for printing
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  *刊* | 刊* | *刊
old variant of / to peel with a knife / to carve / to amend
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  *剒* | 剒* | *剒
to cut / to carve


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