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fork / CL:
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叉* | 叉* | *叉
fork / pitchfork / prong / pick / cross / intersect / "X"
HSK 5
to pay / to spend money / to fork out
HSK 7-9
knife and fork / CL:
to reprint (a work that has been out of print) / to reissue (a vinyl album as a CD, etc) / to replicate / to recreate / (computing) fork (loanword)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扠* | 扠* | *扠
to fork
pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
junction / fork in road
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岔* | 岔* | *岔
fork in road / bifurcation / branch in road, river, mountain range etc / to branch off / to turn off / to diverge / to stray (from the path) / to change the subject / to interrupt / to stagger (times)
fork / bifurcation / to divide
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杈* | 杈* | *杈
fork of a tree / pitchfork
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杈* | 杈* | *杈
branches of a tree / fork of a tree
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丫* | 丫* | *丫
fork / branch / bifurcation / girl
fork (of a tree, road, argument etc) / bifurcation / fork junction
pitchfork / garden fork / restraining pole (used by police) / military fork (of ancient times)
fork in the road
fork (of a tree) / tool made of forked wood
fork in a road / wrong road
tuning fork
(bird species of China) fork-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga christinae)
prong of a fork
attack from two sides / pincer movement / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *椏* | 椏* | *椏
forking branch
fork (bicycle component)


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