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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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *頭* | 頭* | *頭
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
hair (on the head)
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *禿* | 禿* | *禿
bald (lacking hair or feathers) / barren; bare; denuded / blunt (lacking a point) / (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something
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
  *縷* | 縷* | *縷
strand / thread / detailed / in detail / classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)
HSK 7-9
clip / hair fastener / checkpoint
HSK 7-9
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
numerous and close together / (of hair) luxuriant / (of woods) dense / (of gunfire) intense
closely cropped hair; crew cut / (of people) common; ordinary
blond / blonde / fair-haired
lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious / nitpick
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髮* | 髮* | *髮
hair / Taiwan pr. [fa3]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬢* | 鬢* | *鬢
temples / hair on the temples
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毫* | 毫* | *毫
hair / drawing brush / (in the) least / one thousandth / currency unit, 0.1 yuan
to wash one's hair / to have a shampoo
hair salon / hairdresser's shop / CL: , 間|间
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皓* | 皓* | *皓
(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)
curly hair / to curl hair
hair dryer
to dye one's hair / rinse / tint
(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)
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)
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
hair
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抿* | 抿* | *抿
to smooth hair with a wet brush / (of a mouth, wing etc) to close lightly / to sip
white or gray hair / CL:
hair worn in a bun or coil
to part one's hair in the middle
silver hair; gray hair
pubic hair
hair dye / rinse / tint
hair clip
armpit hair
hair stylist
black hair
to lose one's hair / hair loss; alopecia
hair cream
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乍* | 乍* | *乍
at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling
nose hair
hair follicle
to lose hair or feathers / to molt / depilation / to shave
(idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking
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)
bangs / fringe (hair)
fur / fur clothing / skin and hair / superficial / superficial knowledge
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撮* | 撮* | *撮
classifier for hair or grass: tuft / Taiwan pr. [cuo4]
one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit / an iota
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *茬* | 茬* | *茬
stubble (crop residue) / stubble (hair growth) / classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop / sth just said or mentioned
hair conditioner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撏* | 撏* | *撏
to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
hair mousse (loanword)
cape / shawl / (of long hair) to trail over one's shoulders
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
bald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc)
separately / severally / parted hair
not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules / meticulous / not one hair out of place
to haggle over every ounce / (fig.) to fuss over minor matters / to split hairs
hair clip
a hair / the slightest
beautiful hair
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs
with dishevelled hair (idiom) / with one's hair down
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
string to tie hair
old and gray-haired
hair gel
lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom) / fig. seething in anger / raise one's hackles
burning hot / fiery / to have one's hair permed with hot curling tongs
lit. pulling a single hair makes the whole body move (idiom) / fig. a small change in one part can affect the whole system
hair on the temples
hair dryer
to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
a woman's beautiful, thick hair
to comb one's hair
messy hair and dirty face / bad appearance
hair restorer / hair regrowth tonic
lit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom) / fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather
matted (of straw or hair) / unkempt / overgrown / scraggly / thatch
(literary) children's hairstyle with hair tied into a bun on both sides of the head; (fig.) childhood
bun (of hair) / topknot
hair hanging down (child's hairstyle) / (fig.) young child; early childhood
(to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth (idiom) / in a critical state / on the brink of crisis / very close (to happening) / Taiwan pr. [jian4 bu4 rong2 fa3]
to clip hair / to have a haircut
to coil hair into a bun / hair worn in bun / turban / hair ornament / to interrogate
frost and snow / (fig.) snowy white (hair) / adversity
(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
body hair
child
a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毳* | 毳* | *毳
crisp / brittle / fine animal hair
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髻* | 髻* | *髻
hair rolled up in a bun, topknot
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬘* | 鬘* | *鬘
(of woman's hair) beautiful / flower garland worn as an ornament
to cut one's hair (as part of a minority ritual or in order to become a monk)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬗* | 鬗* | *鬗
head ornaments / pretty hair
hair on the temples

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