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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen )
HSK 1
hair (on the head)
HSK 2
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  *头* | 头* | *头
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *掉* | 掉* | *掉
to fall / to drop / to lag behind / to lose / to go missing / to reduce / fall (in prices) / to lose (value, weight etc) / to wag / to swing / to turn / to change / to exchange / to swap / to show off / to shed (hair) / (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
HSK 2
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  *指* | 指* | *指
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end
HSK 3
to get a haircut; to have one's hair done / to cut (sb's) hair; to give (sb) a haircut
HSK 3
beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL: , / (coll.) bandit
HSK 5
(idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking
HSK 7-9
to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out / to omit (a character when writing)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缕* | 缕* | *缕
strand / thread / detailed / in detail / classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *秃* | 秃* | *秃
bald (lacking hair or feathers) / barren; bare; denuded / blunt (lacking a point) / (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something
HSK 7-9
clip / hair fastener / checkpoint
HSK 7-9
lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / fig. extremely stingy
HSK 7-9
to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules / meticulous / not one hair out of place
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair
to let the wind blow on oneself; to be exposed to the wind; to air out (a room); to blow air (e.g. to dry one's hair) / (fig.) to brief sb informally; to leak or hint at information ahead of formal release
bangs / fringe (hair)
bun hair extension
armpit hair
to spruce up; to renovate; to tend (a garden); to groom (one's hair); to finish (a rough surface); to trim (a lawn); to touch up (a photo)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *旟* | 旟* | *旟
banner with falcons / mussed up hair
hair grip / hair clip
white or gray hair / CL:
hair
hairdressing / to give sb's hair a cut or other beauty treatment / beautiful hair
to wash one's hair / to have a shampoo
to lose one's hair / hair loss; alopecia
hair on the temples
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait)
long-wool (sheep etc) / long-haired (dog etc)
to grow hair / to become mildewed
hair ends
curly hair / to curl hair
lost / missing / to lose (sb in one's charge) / to get lost / to wander away / to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one's good looks etc) / to lose meaning (in translation)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皓* | 皓* | *皓
(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)
long hair
hair salon / hairdresser's shop / CL: , 間|间
(literary) gray hair
frost and snow / (fig.) snowy white (hair) / adversity
to curl (hair) / to crimp / to roll up / curly
beautiful hair
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬓* | 鬓* | *鬓
temples / hair on the temples
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髻* | 髻* | *髻
hair rolled up in a bun, topknot
matted (of straw or hair) / unkempt / overgrown / scraggly / thatch
hair worn in a bun or coil
hairy fellow / foreigner / Russian (derog.) / bandit (old) / tuft of fine hair
hair gel
to dye one's hair / rinse / tint
to haggle over every ounce / (fig.) to fuss over minor matters / to split hairs
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拢* | 拢* | *拢
to gather together; to collect / to approach; to draw near to / to add; to sum up / to comb (hair)
overgrown / unkempt (of hair)
closely cropped hair; crew cut / (of people) common; ordinary
(male hair style) crew cut / butch cut
sideburns / temples / hair on the temples
to comb one's hair
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
to coil hair into a bun / hair worn in bun / turban / hair ornament / to interrogate
pubic hair
cape / shawl / (of long hair) to trail over one's shoulders
bald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc)
(in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age
old and gray-haired
hair clip
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬟* | 鬟* | *鬟
a knot of hair on top of head
black hair
a hair / the slightest
straight hair
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毫* | 毫* | *毫
hair / drawing brush / (in the) least / one thousandth / currency unit, 0.1 yuan
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
a woman's beautiful, thick hair
separately / severally / parted hair
child
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髦* | 髦* | *髦
bang (hair) / fashionable / mane
lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom) / fig. seething in anger / raise one's hackles
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
hair and beard
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬃* | 鬃* | *鬃
disheveled hair / horse's mane
string to tie hair
one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit / an iota
fine hair grown by animals (or down grown by birds) in the fall / (fig.) sth barely discernible / the slightest thing / the minutest detail
hair clippers
with dishevelled hair (idiom) / with one's hair down
hair / soft hair / down
messy hair and dirty face / bad appearance
light tan (color) / camel-hair color
hair (on the head)
Pantene (hair products brand)
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抿* | 抿* | *抿
to smooth hair with a wet brush / (of a mouth, wing etc) to close lightly / to sip
hair on the temples
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬘* | 鬘* | *鬘
(of woman's hair) beautiful / flower garland worn as an ornament
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毳* | 毳* | *毳
crisp / brittle / fine animal hair
(coll.) flashlight / (Tw) stun baton / (Tw) hair iron; hair tongs
to lose hair or feathers / to molt / depilation / to shave
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挦* | 挦* | *挦
to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
(of a bride-to-be) to remove facial hair and trim hairline (old) / to carve a face
(Tw) (coll.) to be driven crazy (with frustration, stress, anger etc); to tear one's hair out; to freak out

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