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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *別* | 別* | *別
to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc) / (bound form) other; another; different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别, 派別|派别)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *門* | 門* | *門
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *強* | 強* | *強
strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强
HSK 3
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  *屬* | 屬* | *屬
category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *金* | 金* | *金
gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
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  *類* | 類* | *類
kind; type; class; category / (classifier) kind; type / (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
HSK 3
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  *土* | 土* | *土
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
type; kind; category / (computer programming) type
HSK 4
kind / genus / type / category / variety / species / sort / class
HSK 4
to differentiate / to draw a distinction / to divide into categories
HSK 6
classification / category
HSK 7-9
category
HSK 7-9
category / kind
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *石* | 石* | *石
rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
(linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
all categories
grade 2 / second class / category B
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
third category movie (containing sexual or violent content)
same type / category 1 (i.e. class A)
part of speech (noun, verb, adjective etc) / lexical category
(idiom) to organize by categories; to classify
acupuncture point (any point on any meridian) / category of 12 specific acupuncture points near the wrist or ankle, each lying on a different meridian (one of five categories collectively termed 五輸穴|五输穴)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *疇* | 疇* | *疇
arable fields / cultivated field / class / category
third rank / third category / third grade / grade C
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
category / kind / class
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *侇* | 侇* | *侇
(literary) class; category / (literary) to place; to lay out
category / division
reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China)
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal , stone , clay , leather , silk 絲|丝, wood , gourd , bamboo ) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
category of leave (maternity leave, sick leave etc)
main type / main class / main category
grade 3 / third class / category C
category
Fenghuang Ancient Town, in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan, added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2008 in the Cultural category
first class / category A
range of values / category defined by a range of values (tier, bracket, stratum etc)
grade 4 / fourth class / category D
a ranking of items in a particular category, with the most highly regarded on top (neologism c. 2012, coined by analogy with 食物鏈|食物链, food chain)
(math.) derived category
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
category theory (math.)
broad classification / (when followed by 為|为) to roughly divide (into category A, category B, ...)


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