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to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
to explain / to illustrate / to indicate / to show / to prove / explanation / directions / caption / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *講* | 講* | *講
to speak / to explain / to negotiate / to emphasize / to be particular about / as far as sth is concerned / speech / lecture
HSK 2
explanation / to explain / to interpret / to resolve / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to explain (a text)
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  *說* | 說* | *說
to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine
HSK 1
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  *白* | 白* | *白
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
HSK 1
to enlighten / to explain (a text etc) / to stimulate (a mental attitude) / enlightenment / revelation / motivation
HSK 5
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  *解* | 解* | *解
to divide / to break up / to split / to separate / to dissolve / to solve / to melt / to remove / to untie / to loosen / to open / to emancipate / to explain / to understand / to know / a solution / a dissection
HSK 6
a hint is all that is needed / understanding each other without the need to explain
to explain
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
to explain
HSK 7-9
lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise
hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
to explain (verbally); to give a running commentary
HSK 6
to explain the facts / to defend against an accusation
to explain / to justify / to defend (a point of view etc) / to provide an explanation / to try to defend oneself
HSK 7-9
popularization of science (abbr. for 科學普及|科学普及) / (attributive) popular science / (coll.) to explain in layperson's terms
HSK 7-9
to preach / to explain publicly
to introduce oneself / originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
illustration / diagram / graphical representation / to explain with the aid of a diagram
to elucidate / to explain clearly / to expound
to mark out / to tag / to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to / to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin)
to break (a bond, constraint etc) / to explain / to unravel / to decipher / to decode / to crack (software)
HSK 7-9
to interpret / to comment and explain / to annotate / to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role) / to decode / interpretation / annotation
to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom) / (of language) simple and easy to understand
to straighten out / to explain / to ease sb's anxiety
to explain sth over and over again / to repeat
to annotate / annotation / comment / interpretation / to explain with notes / explanatory note
to explain in simple terms
to seek an answer / to look for an explanation / to explain / explanation
to enumerate in detail / to explain clearly
to explain / to expound / to interpret / elucidation
to argue needlessly; to waste time explaining
funeral / to explain (literary)
to explain in simple terms / succinct / concise
to elucidate / to expound / to study and explain
to narrate / to explain / to justify oneself
words of truth / moral expressed in words / written article explaining a moral
to gesticulate while talking (idiom) / to explain by waving one's hands / to criticize or give orders summarily
HSK 7-9
explaining a character or word by using a homophone
to explain oneself
to analyze / to explain
to explain all the details / complete narrative
to explain in detail / detailed answer / full solution (to a math problem)
to explain / to interpret / interpretation
interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script
to explain (the difference)
teaching by example beats explaining in words (idiom) / action speaks louder than words
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  *陳* | 陳* | *陳
(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display / (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell / old; stale
to explain in detail personally
to argue needlessly; to waste time explaining
kite (lit. "wind zither", traditionally explained as being named after kites fitted with bamboo whistles that produced musical sounds when flown)
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  *申* | 申* | *申
to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
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  *詁* | 詁* | *詁
to comment / to explain
to gesticulate while talking (idiom); to explain by waving one's hands / to criticize or give orders summarily / also written 指手畫腳|指手画脚
to explain truly (esp. of classic or religious text) / true commentary / correct exegesis
the seat of the Law, on which the one who explains the doctrine is seated (Buddhism)
start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
Higgs (name) / Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles
Explaining in words is not as good as teaching by example (idiom). Action speaks louder than words.
"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning
to explain a sutra / to expound the classics
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  *釋* | 釋* | *釋
to explain / to release / Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / Buddhism
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  *詮* | 詮* | *詮
to explain / to comment / to annotate
to explain clearly / to elucidate


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