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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
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 be located at / to be situated at / to lie
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
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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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  *躺* | 躺* | *躺
to recline / to lie down
HSK 4
leisure / relaxation / not working / idle / to enjoy leisure / to lie fallow
HSK 5
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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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  *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
between / intermediate / to lie between
HSK 7-9
lie
HSK 7-9
a full mouth of (sth tangible) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly
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  *介* | 介* | *介
to introduce / to lie between / between / shell / armor
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)
covered in dust / dusty / lying unused for a long time
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  *卧* | 卧* | *卧
to lie / to crouch
HSK 7-9
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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
to lie supine
to tell lies
HSK 7-9
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
to set sth aside / to let sth lie idle / idle / unused
lie
HSK 7-9
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  *诪* | 诪* | *诪
(literary) to curse / to deceive / to lie
to abandon (cultivated fields) / no longer cultivated / to lie waste / wasted / to neglect (one's work or study)
baseless (lie) / without foundation
to lie down
to lie
to discard in the wrong place (cigarette butts etc) / to leave one's things lying around
to mislead the public with rumors (idiom) / to delude the people with lies
to leave farmland to lie fallow
to lie / to tell an untruth
HSK 7-9
to lie stretched out / (neologism, attested by 2021) to opt out of the rat race
(of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor / (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence
a pack of lies (idiom)
to fight counterfeiting / to expose as false / to denounce sb's lies
white lie
a lie / untrue statement / misstatement
to weave; to knit; to plait; to braid / (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc)
low-lying
to lie down / to die
to lie prone
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.
being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom)
random lies and falsehoods
(deprecatory) to lie motionless (asleep, drunk, lazing etc)
time of birth / period of labor / lying-in
to lie down (on one's side)
to crawl; to creep; to lie prostrate
to lie down / to drop to the ground
lying down / to lie prostrate / prone
to be fast asleep / (fig.) to lie dormant; to lie undiscovered
(idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative)
enormous lie / whopper
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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 swallow whole / (fig.) to swallow (lies etc)
to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through)
(idiom) to lie through one's teeth; to talk drivel
to lie on one's back
to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush
HSK 7-9
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
to spy upon / to lie in wait for (an opportunity)
to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth
to deceive others and to deceive oneself / to believe one's own lies
to have a lie-in / to dawdle in bed
to lie idle (of arable land) / fig. rusty because of lack of practice
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
to lurk under water / to immerse oneself in (study etc) / to lie low; to keep a low profile / quiet; reserved; self-possessed
to tell a lie
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  *谎* | 谎* | *谎
lies / to lie
(euphemism) to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place)
the charm lies in what is left unsaid (idiom)
to puncture / to lay bear or expose (lies etc)
to be deeply hidden / to lie deep (in some place)
to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie
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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
to lie down
to take shelter from the wind / to lie low / to stay out of trouble
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom) / fig. to follow whoever is feeding you / to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie
to lie down to sleep with one's clothes on
to turn over (when lying) / (fig.) to free oneself / to emancipate oneself / to bring about a change of one's fortunes
to lie scattered (over an area) / Taiwan pr. [san4 luo4]
rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders
project to raise low-lying water for irrigation purposes
to mislead the public with rumors; to delude the people with lies
(geology) depression / low-lying area
lies / wild talk / to tell lies / to talk nonsense / fantasy (literature)
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  *洼* | 洼* | *洼
depression; low-lying area / low-lying; sunken
Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
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  *偃* | 偃* | *偃
to lie supine / to stop / to fall down
acupuncture point (any point on any meridian) / category of 12 specific acupuncture points near the wrist or ankle, each lying on a different meridian (one of five categories collectively termed 五輸穴|五输穴)
a pack of lies
not to fight back / to take it lying down / to show weakness / to show one's softer side
to leave sth unused / to lie idle
low-lying humid terrain
Lie algebra (math.)
hole; hollow; depression / low-lying

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