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  *穿* | 穿* | *穿
to wear / to put on / to dress / to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to thread
HSK 1
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  *装* | 装* | *装
adornment / to adorn / dress / clothing / costume (of an actor in a play) / to play a role / to pretend / to install / to fix / to wrap (sth in a bag) / to load / to pack
HSK 2
dress / clothing / costume / clothes / CL:
HSK 3
to decorate / to dress / to make up / to adorn / manner of dressing / style of dress
HSK 5
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  *服* | 服* | *服
clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes
HSK 6
cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits
HSK 7-9
attire; clothes; dress
HSK 7-9
wedding dress / CL:
HSK 7-9
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  *裁* | 裁* | *裁
to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
HSK 7-9
to decorate; to adorn; to dress up / to disguise oneself
HSK 7-9
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  *扮* | 扮* | *扮
to disguise oneself as / to dress up / to play (a role) / to put on (an expression)
HSK 7-9
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  *衣* | 衣* | *衣
to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes)
dressed in Western-style clothes / impeccably attired
to dress in a hurry with part of the body showing
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  *cos* | cos* | *cos
(Internet slang) cosplay / to cosplay / to dress up as
to change clothes / to dress up; to put on a costume; to cosplay / to cross-dress
to decorate / to adorn / to dress up / to polish (a written piece) / to qualify or modify (grammar)
evening dress
smart clothes / particular about one's dress
lit. dressed up animal (idiom) / fig. immoral and despicable person
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  *襼* | 襼* | *襼
sleeve of dress
to dress; to be dressed / clothing; apparel
heavy makeup and gaudy dress
Chinese dress
a one-piece dress
dress rehearsal / to have a dress rehearsal
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  *靓* | 靓* | *靓
to make up (one's face) / to dress / (of one's dress) beautiful
long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao
dragon robe / emperor's court dress
court dress in former times
to mount (a picture) / to dress / to adorn / decoration / packaging
beautiful silk fabrics / person in beautiful silk dress
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  *靼* | 靼* | *靼
(phonetic) / dressed leather
casual dress
Western-style dress
to dress cold food with sauce / (slang) there's not much you can do about it (wordplay using instead of its homophone 辦|办)
to remove makeup / (old) to take off formal dress and ornaments
everyday clothes; informal dress; civilian clothes
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  *褶* | 褶* | *褶
(arch.) court dress
to get dressed
lit. lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze (idiom) / fig. gorgeously dressed (woman)
hat that goes with formal dress / top hat
to dress and groom oneself
to apply makeup conspicuously (idiom) / dressed to the nines and wearing makeup
not care about one's appearance (idiom) / slovenly in dress and manner
to dress up in disguise (idiom); to pretend for the purpose of deceit
(of a man) to dress as a woman (idiom)
to dress (troops) / to line up (to arrange in a straight line)
bizarre dress
to decorate / to dress up / to deck
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  *玘* | 玘* | *玘
type of jade ornament for court dress (old)
immaculately dressed / well-groomed / dapper
old person who dresses up as teenager / mutton dressed as lamb
to dress up and make up (like an actor)
audition / dress rehearsal / preview (of a theatrical performance) / dummy run
to dress up
to prettify; to dress (sth) up
(of a dress etc) border, edging
mourning dress
leather (shoes) / fig. Western dress
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  *裍* | 裍* | *裍
a border or band on the edge of a dress
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  *髽* | 髽* | *髽
dress the hair
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  *襛* | 襛* | *襛
bright light / warm dress
white silk mourning dress
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  *纑* | 纑* | *纑
hempen thread / to dress hemp
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  *襢* | 襢* | *襢
unadorned but elegant dress
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  *袺* | 袺* | *袺
lift up a dress
to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom) / diligently attending to official matters
fringes of cloth / (fig.) one's dress; one's appearance
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  *襶* | 襶* | *襶
untidy (in dress)
(of a dress etc) border, edging
to put on clothes; to get dressed
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  *掍* | 掍* | *掍
edging (of a dress etc) / old variant of
to put on a suit of armor / to put on dress / to wear
national dress; traditional attire / (Internet gaming) domestic gaming server; (esp.) Chinese server (abbr. for 國內服務器|国内服务器)
to mold (into seductive shape) / to dress up (usu. derogatory) / to sex up
slit dress
(of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
costume / ceremonial dress (determining the grade of an official)
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  *炝* | 炝* | *炝
to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc / to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further
woman's dress (loanword from Russian) / gown
(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth
taste in clothes; dress sense; fashion sense
(cinema, theater) to dress the set
dress shoes
safety shorts (worn under a skirt or dress to prevent accidental exposure)
low-cut (dress) / plunging (neckline)
baby-doll dress
in hemp cloth and with a leather belt / poorly dressed
formal dress
to follow sb's example / to emulate / (of troops etc) to dress (come into alignment for parade formation)
style of dress / one's appearance
to dress / dress / clothes / outfit
to dress a corpse / shroud
(Chinese folk religion) Heibai Wuchang: two deities, one dressed in black and the other in white, responsible for escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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