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HSK
bad; harmful; unhealthy / (of a device, connection, material etc) defective; faulty
HSK 5
to exercise; to move about; to work out / shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) / movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc) / (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity / (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项) / to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
HSK 2
connection / contact / relation / to get in touch with / to integrate / to link / to touch
HSK 3
(of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle / common ground; points of commonality; overlap; connection / interaction; dealings / (math.) (set theory) intersection
HSK 7-9
to be related; to be connected / relationship; connection
HSK 6
to get in touch with / to contact / to stay in contact (with) / liaison / (math.) connection
HSK 5
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
to associate (cognitively) / to make an associative connection / mental association / word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs
HSK 5
to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection)
HSK 7-9
railtrack connection / to integrate into sth / to dock / to connect / to be in step with / to bring into line with / to align
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攀* | 攀* | *攀
to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status
HSK 7-9
contacts; connections; network
earth (electric connection) / to earth
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
to have no opportunity / no way (of doing sth) / no chance / no connection / not placed (in a competition) / (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
HSK 7-9
to hand over to / to give to higher authority / to seek connections in high places
a connection (sb with whom one has dealings on the basis of "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours")
the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
man-woman connection / intimate relationship
(coll.) unrelated; lacking any connection
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
HSK 7-9
connection / link / to link together
antenna; aerial / (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people
HSK 7-9
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
to seek a government post through bribery or connections
to link / to join / link / connection
HSK 7-9
connection / association / involvement
seamless connection
connection-oriented
(coll.) to use sb else's Internet connection (with or without permission)
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
to seek help from social connections
to relate (to) / to concern / to involve / connection / relationship
(idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc)
to have a connection with / to be close (to reality) / to be relevant / to have one's hand in
lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people
to climb (of climbing plants) / to creep / to cling on to / fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful) / social climbing
parallel connection
virtual connection
electrical lead; connecting line / (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection / (congressional) caucus
Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑, Jie , Di , Qiang , esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國|五胡十六国
dial-up connection / dial-up networking
social climbing / to claim connections with people in higher social class
data link connection identifier (DLCI)
to use social connections / to toady to influential people
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姻* | 姻* | *姻
marriage connections
connection charge
stratagem; method; approach / (martial arts) movement / social connections / (sb's) background story
good karma / opportune connection with marriage partner
(Tw) to be in the care of one's relatives / to be dependent on a relative / to draw on family connections
what's that have to do with it? / what's the connection?
(electronics) pad; land (a connection on a circuit board)
Henry Ying-tung Fok (1913-2006), Hong Kong tycoon with close PRC connections
to replug / to disconnect and reconnect (from a plug, port, connection etc)
dial-up (Internet connection)
connection frame / linked frame


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