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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
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  *支* | 支* | *支
to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
HSK 3
to shoot; to fire (a gun)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挺* | 挺* | *挺
straight / erect / to stick out (a part of the body) / to (physically) straighten up / to support / to withstand / outstanding / (coll.) quite / very / classifier for machine guns
HSK 2
(idiom) with real guns and live ammunition; (fig.) for real (involving genuine action rather than rehearsal, simulation or theory); (coll.) to have actual sex; to go all the way
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  *枪* | 枪* | *枪
gun / firearm / rifle / spear / thing with shape or function similar to a gun / CL: , , 桿|杆, 條|条, / to substitute for another person in a test / to knock / classifier for rifle shots
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *滚* | 滚* | *滚
to boil / to roll / to take a hike / Get lost!
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丨* | 丨* | *丨
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
machine gun
to shoot with a gun / shooting incident
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  *杆* | 杆* | *杆
stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns
HSK 6
roof of the mouth / to load a gun
gun battle / firefight
(gun) trigger
to open fire / to shoot a gun
HSK 7-9
big shot / top gun / superstar / VIP
gun barrel
Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun
big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門|门,
to rake with machine gunfire / to strafe / to machine-gun down
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
an air gun
to be hit by a gun / shot
Uzi (submachine gun)
machine gun / also written 機槍|机枪
bore of a gun
temperature gun
nail gun; staple gun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棍* | 棍* | *棍
stick; rod; truncheon / scoundrel; villain
HSK 7-9
to sneak off; to slip away / (sports) to jump the gun; to make a false start / (fig.) to jump the gun; to start doing sth before it's allowed / (of a movie, game etc) to be leaked before the official release
toy gun
to shoot a bird (with a gun, slingshot etc) / to photograph birds
nail gun / stud gun
a gun / guns in general
gun barrel
anti-aircraft machine gun / CL:
anti-aircraft gun
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
gun barrel
heavy machine gun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *□* | □* | *□
(onom.) pew! (sound of a bullet fired from a gun) / also pr. [biu4]
spray gun
gun turret
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow)
water pistol (toy) / water gun / sprinkler / water cannon
sealant gun / glue gun
gun bolt
Maxim machine gun
bolt of gun
to open fire / to shoot a gun
gun barrel
infrared body thermometer / temperature gun
submachine gun
recoil (of a gun) / backlash / reactive force
butt of a gun / stock
cannon / gun / artillery
cannon / gun / artillery
light machine gun
to jump the gun / to make a false start
heat gun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衮* | 衮* | *衮
imperial robe
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  *栓* | 栓* | *栓
bottle stopper / plug / (gun) bolt / (grenade) pin
gel blaster; gel gun
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
muzzle of a gun
hunting gun / shotgun
rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun)
mountain gun (portable artillery piece used in mountainous terrain) / (dialect) bumpkin; simpleton; idiot
rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磙* | 磙* | *磙
roller / to level with a roller
caliber (of a gun)
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
western style guns (in former times)
stun gun / Taser
flintlock musket / fowling piece (shotgun) / air gun
machine cannon / machine-gun cannon
anti-aircraft gun
also written 重機槍|重机枪 / heavy machine gun
to fire a gun / to substitute for sb in sitting an examination
smoke (from guns)
gun salute (e.g. 21-gun salute) / salvo
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蔉* | 蔉* | *蔉
to bank up the roots of plants
bandits with guns / an armed criminal / a gunman
butt of a gun
barrel of a gun
rivet gun
water gun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辊* | 辊* | *辊
roller
recoil (of a gun) / backlash
Gatling gun
to carry a gun
request granted (formal usage in old document) / to aim (gun)
to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun / (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铳* | 铳* | *铳
ancient firearm / gun
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  *呯* | 呯* | *呯
(onom.) bang! (gong, gun firing etc)
recoil (of a gun)
gun cover
(of a gun) to explode; to blow up
rear sight (of a gun)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绲* | 绲* | *绲
cord / embroidered sash / to sew

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