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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *造* | 造* | *造
to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops
HSK 3
lawful / legitimate / legal
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *应* | 应* | *应
to agree (to do sth) / should / ought to / must / (legal) shall
HSK 4
identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
HSK 4
genuine / legal / see also 盜版|盗版
HSK 5
legal system and institutions
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乙* | 乙* | *乙
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
HSK 5
legal (proceedings) / according to law
HSK 5
to mention; to bring up / (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise / to initiate (legal proceedings)
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *格* | 格* | *格
square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宗* | 宗* | *宗
school / sect / purpose / model / ancestor / clan / to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work) / classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
HSK 7-9
to defend (legal) rights
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *案* | 案* | *案
(legal) case / incident / record / file / table
legal principle / jurisprudence
legal holiday / (euphemism) menstrual leave / menstrual period
law / legal studies
statutory; law-based; legal
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
outer skin / envelope / cover / (legal) seal
legal affairs / in-house legal counsel
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)
legal code / statute
official seal / legally binding seal
judge's desk / complex legal case / contentious issue / koan (Zen Buddhism)
various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism by Mozi 墨子, Legalism by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others
old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949) / (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology ( was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨)
a misjudged legal case / a miscarriage (of justice)
fabricated legal case / frame-up
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
lawsuit / legal case
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to pass judgment on a legal case
to write on sb's behalf / a scrivener (who writes legal documents or letters for others)
a party (in a contract or legal case) / one side / area / region
to consult the archives; to check the records (usually of legal proceedings)
legal person / corporation / see also 自然人
legal fiction
(law) legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)
to drive while above the legal alcohol limit
Jiang Ping (1920-), academic lawyer, writer on ethnicity and legal systems
defendant (in legal case)
Baopuzi, collection of essays by Ge Hong 葛洪 on alchemy, immortality, legalism, society etc
legal responsibility; liability
(formal) to prosecute or punish sb for a crime; to hold sb legally accountable
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to legalize / to make legal / legalization
(table tennis) edge ball / (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
public courtroom accusation (idiom) / legal confrontation / to take sb to court / to sue
unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case)
Political and Legal Affairs Commission (may refer to the national-level Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, responsible for overseeing law enforcement, judicial affairs and domestic security, or a corresponding body at a lower administrative level)
Legal Daily, newspaper published by PRC Ministry of Justice
Legal Evening News, a Beijing-based legal affairs newspaper launched in 2004 and shut down in 2019
collateral damage (both as a legal term, and as a military euphemism)
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
legal net / the long arm of the law
probative value / strength of evidence in legal proof / relevance
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
legally-traded salt (with salt tax paid)
"legal quotient" (LQ), a measure of one's awareness and knowledge of the law and one's standard of honorable conduct
various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism by Mozi 墨子, Legalism by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others
(PRC) China Zhi Gong Party, one of the eight legally recognized minor political parties following the direction of the CCP
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to be weary of war / (fig.) to lose one's desire to continue to fight (sports match, legal battle etc)
to face legal action; to get sued
money settlement (fine or payment to end a legal dispute)
wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) (form of legal entity in China) / abbr. to 外資企業|外资企业
special investigation team (legal or judicial)
legal force (i.e. binding in law)
person who has no understanding of legal matters
dispute involving litigation / legal dispute
a hard legal case to judge
eyewitness (to an incident) / witness (to a legal transaction)
legal fees / costs (of a lawsuit)


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