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  *马* | 马* | *马
horse / CL: / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess
HSK 3
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  *帅* | 帅* | *帅
(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
HSK 4
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  *招* | 招* | *招
to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess
HSK 6
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  *盘* | 盘* | *盘
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
move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数
HSK 7-9
to play chess
HSK 7-9
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  *㐷* | 㐷* | *㐷
(Chinese chess) horse; knight (on the red side)
chess / CL:
arrangement / composition / layout / opening (chess jargon)
HSK 7-9
to deal the fatal blow (sports, chess etc) / to score the winning point
endgame / conclusion / outcome / final part of a chess game
chess piece / CL: 個|个, 顆|颗 / (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)
HSK 7-9
to play go, chess etc
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棋* | 棋* | *棋
chess / chess-like game / a game of chess / CL: 盤|盘 / chess piece / CL: 個|个, 顆|颗
HSK 7-9
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
miraculous hands of a healer / highly skilled person / brilliant move in chess or weiqi (go) 圍棋|围棋
to play chess
pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
Chinese chess / CL:
land battle chess, Chinese board game similar to Stratego
castle / rook (chess piece)
opening (chess etc) / early stage of game, match, work, activity etc
to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die
move (in chess or martial arts)
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卒* | 卒* | *卒
soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
foot soldier / minor figure / a nobody / (chess) pawn
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
chess game
Chinese chess tournament
chess champion
state of play in a game of chess / (old) chessboard
lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran
(Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away / (fig.) a useless action or comment; sth done after it's too late
HSK 7-9
sacrificed piece (in chess or Go) / abandoned child / (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or sacrificed (an ally, a product, employees etc) / (in expressions such as 拋家棄子|抛家弃子) to abandon one's child(ren)
chess skill
(sports) member of the national team / national representative / (medicine, chess etc) one of the most highly skilled practitioners in one's country
to withdraw a move (chess)
attack from two sides / pincer movement / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *仕* | 仕* | *仕
to serve as an official / an official / the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将
drawn game (in chess or other board game) / CL: 盤|盘
to fight and kill; to engage in fierce combat (also used figuratively of opposing chess players)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *着* | 着* | *着
a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick; tactic / (dialect) okay; all right / (dialect) to put in; to add
move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 招數|招数
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *车* | 车* | *车
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)
to sue for peace / to look for a draw (chess) / summation (math.)
International Chess Federation
a move (in chess)
middle game (in go or chess)
checkers (board and pieces for go 圍棋|围棋 or Chinese chess 象棋 etc)
to force a draw (in chess, competition etc)
games (such as chess, dice etc) / gambling / contest
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枰* | 枰* | *枰
chess-like game
commander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess
to make a bad move (in a game of chess)
opposing sides (in chess etc) / position (of opposing forces)
scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
chess
defensive position (in chess) / room for maneuver; a way of escape
chess player
endgame (in chess) / desperate situation / aftermath (of a failure)
Deep Blue, chess-playing computer, first to defeat reigning world champion, developed by IBM (1985-1997)
move (in chess or martial arts)
expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties)
white Go chess piece / bee pupa / albino
dead bullet (one that does not fire) / a bad move (in a game of chess)
Japanese chess (shōgi)
blunder (in chess)
black piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go) / (astronomy) sunspot
Xu Jun (1962-), Chinese Chinese chess grandmaster
dead piece (in Chess) / stupid move / hopeless case
to checkmate (in chess)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罫* | 罫* | *罫
squares of a chess board
rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling / to pass the buck
Double Queen Pawn Opening / Closed Game (chess) / same as 封閉性開局|封闭性开局
Closed Game / Double Queen Pawn Opening (chess) / same as 雙后前兵開局|双后前兵开局
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *将* | 将* | *将
(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)


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