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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 request / to require / requirement / to stake a claim / to ask / to demand / CL: 點|点
HSK 2
to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body
to assert / to claim
HSK 7-9
to be known as; to be nicknamed / to be purportedly / to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
HSK 7-9
to claim / to state / to proclaim / to assert
HSK 7-9
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to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status
HSK 7-9
to put on theatrical makeup / (neologism c. 2014) to debunk sb's claim; to put egg on sb's face
to ask for compensation / to claim damages / claim for damages
HSK 7-9
to claim / to insist
peer competition / to function as rivals / to make claims as an equal
both sides claim they're right (idiom)
(medicine) to complain of; a patient's brief account of their illness / (law) main suit; principal claim
claim to rights (copyright, patent etc)
to claim falsely
to claim a credit against / tax reduction
Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
anti-secession law of 2005 (whereby PRC claims the right to invade Taiwan)
to call oneself / to claim to be / to profess / to claim a title
HSK 7-9
(coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in 專家個頭|专家个头 "expert", my ass!)
to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
to launch a satellite / (fig.) (neologism during the Great Leap Forward, c. 1958) to achieve prominent success / (later used sarcastically) to make exaggerated claims / to talk big
Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands
to make a formal request / formal request / to make a claim (law)
deductible (the part of an insurance claim paid by the insured) / (UK English) excess
to claim credit for oneself
to believe (what sb claims) (usually used in the negative) / (math.) confidence (interval etc)
rushing to stake one's claim in new markets (idiom)
to obtain by impersonation / to falsely claim as one's own
voucher; slip; certificate (used as proof to claim, collect or access sth) / to use such a voucher
a death claimed to be a suicide by the authorities
to claim falsely (literary)
to claim credit due to others
(idiom) to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
(coll.) my ass!; yeah, right! (used to mock a claim sb just made, as in 專家你個頭|专家你个头 "expert", my ass!)
to settle a claim / claims settlement / payment of claims
to claim; to pretend
social climbing / to claim connections with people in higher social class
staking a claim to territory / enclosure
(idiom) to make far-fetched claims; to offer outlandish explanations
to claim (as one's property) / to adopt (a child) / to accept (an illegitimate child as one's own)
to usurp / to claim unjustly / to expropriate
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
to claim ownership (of stolen goods)
to claim credit due to others; to appropriate others' credit or honor
to plead / to claim as an excuse
Niu'e Reef, disputed territory in the South China Sea, claimed by China, Vietnam and the Philippines, aka Whitsun Reef or Julian Felipe Reef
to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise / to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
not to claim personal credit for achievement (idiom)
Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han
to make a claim (for damages etc)


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