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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *困* | 困* | *困
to trap / to surround / hard-pressed / stranded / destitute
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *困* | 困* | *困
sleepy / tired
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲲* | 鲲* | *鲲
fry (newly hatched fish) / legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捆* | 捆* | *捆
a bunch / to tie together / bundle
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坤* | 坤* | *坤
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
Jeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts led by Bruce Lee 李小龍|李小龙
Yu Shyi-kun (1948-) Taiwanese politician
kun 鯤|鲲 and peng 鵬|鹏, mythological beasts / peng, a gigantic bird transformed from the kun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *锟* | 锟* | *锟
steel sword
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *昆* | 昆* | *昆
used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑 / (also used for transliteration)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *昆* | 昆* | *昆
descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *壸* | 壸* | *壸
palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阃* | 阃* | *阃
threshold / inner appartments / woman / wife (honorific)
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读. For example, has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *梱* | 梱* | *梱
movable door sill
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *琨* | 琨* | *琨
(jade)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *菎* | 菎* | *菎
beautiful jade / bamboo
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裍* | 裍* | *裍
a border or band on the edge of a dress
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *悃* | 悃* | *悃
sincere
Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *稛* | 稛* | *稛
full
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鹍* | 鹍* | *鹍
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堃* | 堃* | *堃
surname Kun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *騉* | 騉* | *騉
fine horse
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裈* | 裈* | *裈
pants (old)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焜* | 焜* | *焜
brilliant
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晜* | 晜* | *晜
descendant / elder brother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捆* | 捆* | *捆
variant of
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髡* | 髡* | *髡
scalping / to make the head bald (as corporal punishment)
a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读. For example, has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裩* | 裩* | *裩
variant of 褌|裈
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坤* | 坤* | *坤
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *昆* | 昆* | *昆
variant of 崑|昆
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瑻* | 瑻* | *瑻
old variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *醌* | 醌* | *醌
quinone (chemistry)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髠* | 髠* | *髠
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堃* | 堃* | *堃
variant of (mainly used in given names)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髨* | 髨* | *髨
old variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *熴* | 熴* | *熴
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鶤* | 鶤* | *鶤
variant of 鵾|鹍


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