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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *用* | 用* | *用
to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using / to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness; utility / (bound form) expense; outlay / (courteous) to eat; to drink / (literary) hence; therefore
HSK 1
good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
HSK 2
cost / expenditure / expense / CL: 筆|笔, 個|个
HSK 3
to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc) / burden
HSK 4
(idiom) to keep on the right side of everyone (often at the expense of principle)
expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
HSK 6
wasted money / pointless expense
to submit an expense account / to apply for reimbursement / to write off / to wipe out
HSK 7-9
to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others) / overdoing it / to go overboard
at public expense
HSK 7-9
to look for a bargain / to seek advantage / to try to gain at expense of others
at one's own expense / self-funded
HSK 7-9
medical treatment at public expense
to fabricate excuses (idiom) / to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account)
advantageous / favorable / to benefit at others' expense / to take unfair advantage
to whet the appetite / appetizing / to amuse oneself at sb's expense / to tease
to render an account; to submit an expense account; to apply for reimbursement
(accounting) accrued expense
heavy on form, light on substance / to stress form at the expense of content
to send sb abroad at the government's expense
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *资* | 资* | *资
resources / capital / to provide / to supply / to support / money / expense
to give unequal emphasis to / doing some things at the expense of others
expense
to act cleverly to get what one desires / to get the best at least expense
(of a plant) to experience excessive vegetative growth (at the expense of flowering or fruiting)
to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later
to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior
business cost / business expense
(math.) to be written using the following notation / (accounting) to be recorded as (income, an expense etc)


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