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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *关* | 关* | *关
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve
HSK 1
to comprise / to include / to involve / to incorporate / to consist of
HSK 4
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *引* | 引* | *引
to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 , one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
HSK 4
(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
to involve; to relate to; to concern; to touch upon
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牵* | 牵* | *牵
to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肝* | 肝* | *肝
liver (CL:葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
HSK 6
to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织)
lit. to pull sb into the water / to involve sb in a messy business / to get sb into trouble
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头
(of a domain or area of expertise) to involve significant depth or complexity; to require a great deal of specialized knowledge; to be a real science; to be a fine art
to involve / to drag in
to involve; to implicate / to be interrelated
HSK 7-9
outstanding student / to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality) / to enhance the genetic quality of a population; eugenics
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
public prosecutor; public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution)
opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity
to spread to / to involve / to affect
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *株* | 株* | *株
tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business)
HSK 7-9
to be linked together / to be involved with / to collude / interconnection / involvement / collusion
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缠* | 缠* | *缠
to wind around / to wrap round / to coil / tangle / to involve / to bother / to annoy
HSK 7-9
weekend spouse / relationship involving a sugar-daddy
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
Six-Party Talks (2003–2007) on North Korea's nuclear program, involving China, the US, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia
mass / involving everyone / united / lit. to assemble the multitude
for every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor (idiom) / when settling disputes one should not involve third parties
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
treatment involving the use of tonics to restore the patient's health / reinforcing method (in acupuncture)
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
natural economy (exchange of goods by bartering not involving money)
(movie genre) espionage thriller (typically involving Chinese agents opposing the Japanese in the 1930s and 40s)
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
connection / association / involvement
to remove / to step back from involvement / to disengage
process trade / trade involving assembly
(Indian mythology) battlefield where Asuras 修羅|修罗 fought the gods; (fig.) a scene of cruelty and carnage; (slang) emotionally charged confrontation (esp. one involving a love triangle)
(literary) deeply felt; heartfelt (esp. involving grief or remorse)
to relate (to) / to concern / to involve / connection / relationship
democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)
case involving sex scandal (law)
martial arts involving weapons
dispute involving litigation / legal dispute
compound prescription (involving several medicines)
cyclic hydrocarbon (i.e. involving benzene ring)
to involve / implicated
HSK 7-9
to rent to multiple co-tenants, esp. where the number of tenants exceeds what the dwelling is fit to accommodate (i.e. involving subdivision of rooms etc)
New Fourth Army Incident of 1940, involving fighting between the Nationalists and Communists
the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion
(of a person) learned; erudite; scholarly / (of a topic, practice or domain) to involve a body of deep, specialized knowledge; to require expertise
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *累* | 累* | *累
to accumulate / to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]) / continuous / repeated
aromatic hydrocarbon (i.e. involving benzene ring)
folk festival, esp. involving shrine or image of God
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
twerking, sexually provocative dance involving hip movements while in a low, squatting position
same as 引導|引导 / Dao Yin, Daoist exercises involving breathing, stretching and self-massage
to involve others (in a crime) / guilt by association
three-dimensional road junction (i.e. involving flyover bridges or underpass tunnels) / overpass
folk remedy involving repeatedly pinching the neck, throat, back etc to increase blood flow to the area and relieve inflammation
to involve / to affect
the capping ceremony, a Confucian coming of age ceremony for males dating from pre-Qin times, performed when a boy reaches the age of 20, involving the ritual placing of caps on the head of the young man
(courteous expression) you have made a long and exhausting journey / you will be making a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a faraway place)
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice
to involve / to entangle sb
spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
to ask / to plead / to beg / to involve
anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc
Huarong Road (traditional puzzle involving sliding wooden blocks, loosely based on an episode in Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义)
lit. to pull sb into the water / fig. to involve sb in a messy business / to get sb into trouble
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
fateful accident / inauspicious matter (involving death or casualties)
to be related / to entail / to involve / joint (liability etc)
white glove / (fig.) (slang) intermediary in negotiations; proxy who acts on behalf of an official in corrupt dealings (to keep the official's involvement secret)
to involve others (in a law case)
imperial exam involving writing essay on policy 策論|策论
diathermia (medical treatment involving local heating of body tissues with electric current)
kids' game involving throwing and grabbing
alicyclic hydrocarbon (i.e. involving ring other than benzene ring)
to implicate / to involve


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