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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *條* | 條* | *條
strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辦* | 辦* | *辦
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event) / to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise) / (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *科* | 科* | *科
branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *準* | 準* | *準
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *法* | 法* | *法
law / method / way / to emulate / (Buddhism) dharma / (abbr. for 法家) the Legalists / (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉)
HSK 4
HSK 4
rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *守* | 守* | *守
to guard / to defend / to keep watch / to abide by the law / to observe (rules or ritual) / nearby / adjoining
HSK 4
court of law / court
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灋* | 灋* | *灋
old variant of / law
HSK 4
(law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement / (sports) to referee / (sports) umpire; referee; judge
HSK 5
to violate (a law)
HSK 5
legal (proceedings) / according to law
HSK 5
illegal / to break the law
HSK 5
law and order / public security
HSK 5
court of law
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
criminal law
HSK 7-9
clause (of contract or law) / CL: 項|项
HSK 7-9
judgment (by a court of law) / to pass judgment on / to sentence
HSK 7-9
to enforce a law / law enforcement
HSK 7-9
to commit an offense / to violate the law / excuse me! (formal) / see also 得罪
HSK 7-9
precious mineral deposits / hidden treasure / (fig.) treasure / (Buddhism) the treasure of Buddha's law
HSK 7-9
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
HSK 7-9
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
error / fault / (law) negligence / delinquency
HSK 7-9
innocent / innocence / not guilty (law)
HSK 7-9
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
to beat up / to come to blows / battery (law)
HSK 7-9
to inspect / (law) to prosecute / to investigate
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
to issue / to proclaim / to enact (laws, decrees etc)
HSK 7-9
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra
to deliver / to serve notice (law)
civil law
homicide (law)
law and government; law and politics
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翁* | 翁* | *翁
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *典* | 典* | *典
canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn
to enact laws / to legislate / legislation
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *律* | 律* | *律
law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媳* | 媳* | *媳
daughter-in-law
to lift restrictions (such as curfew or martial law)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倩* | 倩* | *倩
pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old)
escaped criminal; fugitive from the law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
bill / proposed law
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
timeliness / period of viability or validity / (law) prescription; limitation / (metallurgy) aging
to make a formal request / formal request / to make a claim (law)
to implement the law / to perform sorcery
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor / evildoer / to perpetrate outrages
natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect)
to play fast and loose with the law / to game the system / (leisure) rules of the game / way of doing an activity / (tourism) way of experiencing a place
basic law (constitutional document)
people's court (of law) / people's tribunal
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *親* | 親* | *親
parents-in-law of one's offspring
statutory; law-based; legal
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婿* | 婿* | *婿
son-in-law / husband
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *庭* | 庭* | *庭
main hall / front courtyard / law court
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
intellectual property rights (law)
creditor's rights (law)
law / rule / code
to repeal (a law) / to put an end to / abolition / annulled
corporations law; company law; corporate law
to keep the law / to protect Buddha's teachings / protector of Buddhist law (i.e. temple donor)
natural person (law) / see also 法人
to appeal / an appeal (law)
to abide by the law
law and order
to execute / the law
law / legal studies
procedural law
rules / regulations / constitution / statute / articles of association (of company) / articles of incorporation / charter (of a corporation) / by-laws
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
to amend a law
to lodge an accusation / accusation (law)
wanted criminal / fugitive (from the law)
to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)
(law) second instance; second trial
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
international law
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
daughter-in-law
nonfeasance / omission (law)
wife's mother; mother-in-law
to shelter; to protect; to provide refuge / (law) asylum
husband's younger brother / brother-in-law
tax code / tax law
daughter-in-law
a law
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
equal status / equal treatment / parity (under the law) / equity / reciprocity
public law

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