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  *床* | 床* | *床
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc
HSK 1
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  *睡* | 睡* | *睡
to sleep / to lie down
HSK 1
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  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit
HSK 2
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  *圆* | 圆* | *圆
circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
HSK 4
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  *躺* | 躺* | *躺
to recline / to lie down
HSK 4
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
HSK 4
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (often used in the negative) to care about
HSK 4
to be located at / to be situated at / to lie
HSK 4
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  *隔* | 隔* | *隔
to separate / to partition / to stand or lie between / at a distance from / after or at an interval of
HSK 4
leisure / relaxation / not working / idle / to enjoy leisure / to lie fallow
HSK 5
to hide / to conceal / to mask / to shelter / to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden) / to hide oneself / to lie low / to nestle / hidden / implicit / private / covert / recessed (lighting)
HSK 6
lie
HSK 7-9
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  *歪* | 歪* | *歪
askew / at a crooked angle / devious / noxious / (coll.) to lie on one's side
HSK 7-9
to tell lies
HSK 7-9
lie
HSK 7-9
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  *卧* | 卧* | *卧
to lie / to crouch
HSK 7-9
to lie / to tell an untruth
HSK 7-9
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  *趴* | 趴* | *趴
to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent
HSK 7-9
between / intermediate / to lie between
HSK 7-9
to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush
HSK 7-9
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  *谎* | 谎* | *谎
lies / to lie
to lie stretched out / (neologism c. 2021) to opt out of the rat race
baseless (lie) / without foundation
lit. storm clouds approach / troubles lie ahead (idiom)
a pack of lies (idiom)
a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth
covered in dust / dusty / lying unused for a long time
to leave sth unused / to lie idle
to fight counterfeiting / to expose as false / to denounce sb's lies
to patch up one's lie (when inconsistencies appear) / to cover (for sb who has lied)
to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie
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  *伏* | 伏* | *伏
to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt
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  *介* | 介* | *介
to introduce / to lie between / between / shell / armor
to lie scattered (over an area) / Taiwan pr. [san4 luo4]
to lie
Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国 / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋 (3rd century AD)
to weave; to knit; to plait; to braid / (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc)
to lie in bed / bedridden / bed
low-lying ground; depression
to lie prostrate
to take shelter from the wind / to lie low / to stay out of trouble
to lie supine
to curl up / to lie with knees drawn up / to huddle up
to turn over (when lying) / (fig.) to free oneself / to emancipate oneself / to bring about a change of one's fortunes
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  *狙* | 狙* | *狙
macaque / to spy / to lie in ambush
to expose / to unmask / to see through (a lie etc)
to vanish without trace (idiom) / to lie low
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  *偃* | 偃* | *偃
to lie supine / to stop / to fall down
to crawl; to creep; to lie prostrate
rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders
hole; hollow; depression / low-lying
to deceive others and to deceive oneself / to believe one's own lies
(of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor / (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
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  *寝* | 寝* | *寝
(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop; to cease
to puncture / to lay bear or expose (lies etc)
to be fast asleep / (fig.) to lie dormant; to lie undiscovered
to take holidays in rotation / to stagger employees' days off / (agriculture) to lie fallow in rotation
to lie rigid and motionless
to lie down / to die
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
low-lying
to abandon (cultivated fields) / no longer cultivated / to lie waste / wasted / to neglect (one's work or study)
to lie on one's side
(idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative)
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
to lie down
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  *诳* | 诳* | *诳
to deceive; to dupe / falsehood; lie / (dialect) to amuse
to lie down
to be deeply hidden / to lie deep (in some place)
a full mouth of (sth tangible) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly
to lie prone
(euphemism) to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place)
to tell lies; to talk nonsense / lies; nonsense
mastery of study lies in diligence (idiom). You can only master a subject by assiduous study. / Excellence in work is only possible with diligence. / Practice makes perfect.
foundation / grounding / background / what lies at the bottom of sth / root / cause
to lie down / to drop to the ground
time of birth / period of labor / lying-in
to lie down on a bed / (physiology) implantation (attachment of a blastocyst to the lining of the uterus) / (of an oyster larva) to attach to a substrate / (fig.) to take root / to become established
to spy upon / to lie in wait for (an opportunity)
to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)
a full mouth of (sth physical) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc)
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  *洼* | 洼* | *洼
depression; low-lying area / low-lying; sunken
wine goblets and gambling chips lie intertwined / to drink and gamble together in a large group (idiom) / a big (drinking) party
to hide / to lie low
to mislead the public with rumors (idiom) / to delude the people with lies
a lie; a falsehood
to lurk under water / to immerse oneself in (study etc) / to lie low; to keep a low profile / quiet; reserved; self-possessed
to lie idle (of arable land) / fig. rusty because of lack of practice
to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through)
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
to lie down / to drop dead
to tell a lie
to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse
to lie down to sleep with one's clothes on
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  *诪* | 诪* | *诪
(literary) to curse / to deceive / to lie
falsehood / lies / fabrication
to refrain / to give up evil (temporarily) / to cover one's traces / to lie low / to retire (from view)
to pass on errors or lies (idiom); the propagation of misconceptions
to lie prostrate

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