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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *角* | 角* | *角
angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to turn / to go around a corner
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拐* | 拐* | *拐
to turn (a corner etc) / to kidnap / to swindle / to misappropriate / seven (used as a substitute for ) / variant of 枴|拐
HSK 6
corner (of a room, courtyard etc) / (fig.) remote spot; nook
HSK 7-9
edge and corner / protrusion / sharpness (of a protrusion) / craggy / ridge corner
HSK 7-9
to go round a curve / to turn a corner / fig. a new direction
HSK 7-9
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咧* | 咧* | *咧
to draw back the corners of one's mouth
corner of the mouth
within view; visible / (fig.) in the offing; around the corner; soon to materialize
bend in a street / corner / to turn a corner
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *眦* | 眦* | *眦
(anatomy) corner of the eye; canthus
imminent / just around the corner (idiom)
corner (junction of two walls)
corner / nook / recess / out-of-the-way place
corner kick (in soccer) / free strike in hockey
(literary) to look disdainfully out of the corner of one's eye; to look askance at
outer or inner corner of the eye; canthus
to stock up / to lay in supplies / to hoard (for speculation) / to corner the market in sth
to roam all over the place / to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate / (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run; to flee and try to hide
sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
corner gate
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
corner (between walls)
corner of the mouth
a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宧* | 宧* | *宧
northeastern corner of a room
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
(lit.) to face the corner / (fig.) to miss out on sth
corner of the lower hem of a jacket etc
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *睚* | 睚* | *睚
(literary) corner of the eye; canthus
cornered enemy
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *陬* | 陬* | *陬
corner / foot of mountain
corner of eye near temple
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *眵* | 眵* | *眵
(bound form) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
Ketagalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, esp. northeast corner
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *隅* | 隅* | *隅
corner
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *窔* | 窔* | *窔
dark / deep / southeast corner of room
a cornered beast will still fight (idiom) / to fight like an animal at bay
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烓* | 烓* | *烓
three-cornered stove
to be about to arrive / to be around the corner
sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
rounded corner; fillet
(out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辻* | 辻* | *辻
(Japanese kokuji) street corner / intersection / used in Japanese personal and place names / pr. tsuji
the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building
no way out / nowhere to go / trapped beyond hope of rescue / painted into a corner
corner of a page
(of a square shape, such as a house plan) to have a corner missing / (fig.) to lack something / missing piece
to fold the corner of a page / to dog-ear
corner / bend / curve
red phoenix eyes (eyes whose outer corners incline upwards)
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
"matchmaking corner", a gathering in a park for parents who seek marriage partners for their adult children by connecting with other parents who put up posters displaying their unmarried child's details
to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience
four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)
corner / bend
corner of the mouth / labial angle
corner / nook
(slang) to kabedon; to corner (sb in whom one has a romantic interest) against a wall (loanword from Japanese ドン "kabedon")
outer corner of the eye
corner bracket (for securing the corner of a picture frame etc) / brad
to round up (fugitives) / to corner and arrest
(anatomy) medial canthus; inner corner of the eye
(football) set piece (a restart of play following a stoppage, including free kicks, corner kicks, penalty kicks, goal kicks and throw-ins)
(dialect) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
English corner / spoken English practice group
chair designed to fit in corner of a room
beck iron (corner of anvil)
(engineering) corner case
inner corner of the eye
Ketagalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, esp. northeast corner
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *呡* | 呡* | *呡
the corners of the mouth / the lips
coin minted in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han 漢靈帝|汉灵帝, with a square hole in the middle and four lines radiating out from each corner of the square (hence the name 四出文)
(anatomy) lateral canthus; outer corner of the eye
inner corner of the eye
outer corner of the eye
to be cramped in a corner (idiom)
to overtake on a bend (driving) / (fig.) taking opportunity of tight corners to make swift progress (economy etc)
to turn a corner / corner
street corner
catty-corner / to be diagonally opposite to
outer corner of the eye
subscript or superscript / corner label (on a product, image, document etc) / app icon badge (symbol on the upper-right corner an app icon, such as a red circle to indicate unread messages)


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