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HSK
whole entity / entire body / synthesis / as a whole (situation, construction, team etc) / global / macrocosm / integral / holistic / whole
HSK 3
temporary construction-site shed (sometimes used as workers' accommodation)
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *管* | 管* | *管
to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to in ... constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards
HSK 3
used in the construction ...為例|以...为例, "to take ... as an example"
(construction) frame / (fig.) framework
HSK 7-9
to carry out large scale construction
construction site
HSK 7-9
to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
subject-predicate construction
construction / to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
HSK 7-9
without destruction there can be no construction
China Construction Bank
construction worker / builder
verb-object construction
certified construction engineer
to supervise; to oversee (e.g. a construction project) / (of a regulatory body) to oversee; to regulate (e.g. financial institutions) / supervisor
construction company / housebuilder
uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped
building / construction / civil engineering
project duration; construction period
ruler and compass construction (geometry)
(the 3rd part of a 3-part construction: + (noun) + 莫屬|莫属, meaning "to be none other than (noun); would have to be (noun)") (this construction comes after a description of a person or thing that has a certain attribute)
(of a construction project etc) unfinished; derailed (due to critical setbacks)
China Communications Construction Company
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent)
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("the Corps"), a state-owned economic and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
apartment building offered for sale before construction is completed / off-plan property
(dialect) partition or screen made of plaited bamboo (or rushes, grain stalks etc); a weir of similar construction used to trap fish
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
unit in charge of construction / builder
China Construction Bank (abbr.)
person or household that has to be relocated (to make way for a construction project etc)
under construction
China Democratic National Construction Association
to join the two sections (of a linear structure: bridge, dike etc) to complete its construction
earthquake-resistant construction
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *欀* | 欀* | *欀
inner lining of wooden utensils / component beam used in building construction / species of oak tree with medicinal bark (old)
road construction
galvanized iron sheet (for building construction)
to construct (often sth abstract, such as good relations) / to set up / to develop / construction (abstract) / architecture
truss (weight-bearing construction of cross-beams)
box girder (construction)
(literary) to establish; to found (a country etc); to initiate construction (of sth large-scale, e.g. a palace, university etc)
to complete a construction project
construction cost
HSK 7-9
Halliburton (US construction company)
(Tw) pebble-wash finish; exposed aggregate surface (construction technique using cement mixed with small stones, then washed to expose the pebbles)
abbr. for 違章建築|违章建筑, illegal construction
starting price; base fare (for a taxi trip, construction project etc)
new construction / newly built
chiseled stone (used in construction)
construction plan
to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc) / to develop and change
defensive structure / military fortifications / (Tw) construction works / civil engineering works
rebar (construction)
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桢* | 桢* | *桢
(old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction; (fig.) mainstay; pillar; backbone
airport construction fee (abbr. for 機場建設費|机场建设费)
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
ruler and compass (in geometric constructions)
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
Nishimatsu Construction Co.
barge board / weather board / eaves board (construction)
lime plaster (construction)


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