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  *幫* | 幫* | *幫
to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society
HSK 1
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  *剛* | 剛* | *剛
hard / firm / strong / just / barely / exactly
HSK 2
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
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  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
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  *串* | 串* | *串
to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
HSK 6
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  *港* | 港* | *港
harbor / port / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
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  *鋼* | 鋼* | *鋼
steel
HSK 7-9
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  *缸* | 缸* | *缸
jar / vat / classifier for loads of laundry / CL:
HSK 7-9
old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
HSK 7-9
(criminal) gang / gang member / accomplice / crony
HSK 7-9
to collude with / to collaborate with / to gang up with
HSK 7-9
(of rival gangs or armed factions etc) to engage in internecine violence; to have an open fight; to clash on the streets; to have a shootout
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  *港* | 港* | *港
Hong Kong (abbr. for 香港) / surname Gang
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  *疘* | 疘* | *疘
faucet; tap / bicycle handlebar / chief; boss (esp. of a gang) / (referring to a company) leader; front-runner / figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat 龍船|龙船
to go online; to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
to gang rape
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  *槓* | 槓* | *槓
coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole; bar; rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard; criterion / hyphen; dash
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  *肛* | 肛* | *肛
(bound form) anus; rectum
dark road / unlawful activities (contrasted with 白道) / the underworld; criminal gangs
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  *扛* | 扛* | *扛
to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together
gang-related
to gang rape
bunch of gangsters / criminal gang / organized crime syndicate
secret society / underworld gang
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  *戇* | 戇* | *戇
stupid (Wu dialect)
to gang up / to fool around with / to make up to
ringleader / gang leader / chieftain
lit. the whole nest came out (to fight us) / a turnout in full force (of a gang of villains)
gang / faction
to force into service / press-gang
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  *杠* | 杠* | *杠
flagpole / footbridge
gang leader / mafia boss
at one go / at a stretch / for a period of time / forming a gang
boss / gang leader
to band together / to gang up / to stick together
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  *岡* | 岡* | *岡
ridge / mound
outer (of cabbage etc) / upper (of a shoe) / (coll.) group / gang
Ganges River
triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China
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  *罡* | 罡* | *罡
stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper
to collude / to gang up on
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
to collude / to collaborate / to gang up
to tear down / to destroy / to dismantle (a gang) / to abort (a fetus)
gang of bandits / criminal gang (formerly often used of political opponents)
armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
a skulk of foxes, a pack of dogs (idiom) / a gang of rogues
to conspire / to gang up
rank and file member of an outlaw gang / (fig.) underling; minion; small fry
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  *冮* | 冮* | *冮
surname Gang
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  *笐* | 笐* | *笐
bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates
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  *摃* | 摃* | *摃
old variant of
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  *舡* | 舡* | *舡
boat / ship
countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
a pack of rogues (idiom); a gang of scoundrels
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  *杠* | 杠* | *杠
variant of 槓|杠
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  *堽* | 堽* | *堽
mound
to link / to peg (currency) / gang (gears) / continuously / serial verb construction
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  *釭* | 釭* | *釭
hanging bowl for lamp or fish
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  *堈* | 堈* | *堈
earthen jug, crock, cistern
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  *罁* | 罁* | *罁
old variant of
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
(argot) gang leader / (fig.) king; the best / also pr. [kang2ba4zi5]
Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005), one of the Gang of Four
pirate ship / fig. venture of dubious merit / criminal gang / reactionary faction
Mount Gang Rinpoche or Mount Kailash (6,638 m) in Tibet
to gang up and beat
female gang leader / the top woman in her field; doyenne; matriarch
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979
(Tw) female gang leader / female boss / big sister
pole / stick / club / gang of bandits
Mt Gang Rinpoche in Tibet / also called Mount Kailash
rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) / rhesus monkey / lit. river Ganges monkey of north India
Wang Hongwen (1935-1992), one of the Gang of Four
a criminal gang
group scuffle / gang fight
gang rape
human smuggling syndicate / snakehead gang
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  *嘍* | 嘍* | *嘍
(bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits
Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four
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  *崗* | 崗* | *崗
variant of 岡|冈 [gang1]
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  *崗* | 崗* | *崗
(bound form) hillock; mound / sentry post; policeman's beat / (bound form) job; post
Mt Gang Rinpoche in Tibet / also written 岡仁波齊|冈仁波齐
to recruit surrendered enemy and deserters (idiom); to gather together a gang of villains
to press-gang sb and sell into slavery
gang of hoodlums
gang-related case / criminal case
Crips (gang)
the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮)
to form a gang
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  *綱* | 綱* | *綱
head rope of a fishing net / guiding principle / key link / class (taxonomy) / outline / program
to hide (as an undercover agent) / an insider (in a gang of thieves) / a mole
Bloods, street gang in USA
henchman / gang member
clique member / henchman / gang member / crony
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  *鿍* | 鿍* | *鿍
hill / long and narrow highland / (used in place names)


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