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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *别* | 别* | *别
to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc) / (bound form) other; another; different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别, 派別|派别)
HSK 1
cipher; secret code / password; PIN
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *针* | 针* | *针
needle / pin / injection / stitch / CL: ,
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *麻* | 麻* | *麻
generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL: 縷|缕 / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *销* | 销* | *销
to melt (metal) / to cancel; to annul / to sell / to expend; to spend / pin; bolt / to fasten with a pin or bolt
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钉* | 钉* | *钉
to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on
HSK 7-9
to control / to curb / to restrict / to impede / to pin down (enemy troops)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绷* | 绷* | *绷
to draw tight; to stretch taut / to tack (with thread or pin) / (bound form) embroidery hoop / (bound form) woven bed mat
HSK 7-9
lit. as if sitting on pins and needles (idiom) / fig. to be in an uncomfortable situation
pin / safety pin / clip / brooch / CL:
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *栓* | 栓* | *栓
bottle stopper / plug / (gun) bolt / (grenade) pin
ten-pin bowling / bowling ball / (baseball etc) ground ball
fairway (golf) / lane (ten-pin bowling)
firing pin
a peg / a pin / dowel
capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution)
(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
(bird species of China) pin-striped tit-babbler (Mixornis gularis)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *朩* | 朩* | *朩
one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "pin"), an ancient Korean writing system
lead / pin (computer hardware)
dowel / carpenter's pin
pin (ten-pin bowling)
(electronics) pin header; male header
tack / thumbtack / push pin
(electronics) pin socket; female header
clothes pin
(old) chief coffin bearer / (fig.) argumentative person / a kind of bread made with a dough flattened using a rolling pin 槓子|杠子
ten-pin bowling (loanword) / bowling ball
pin tumbler lock / spring lock
pins and needles (in muscle) / paresthesia
rolling pin
fulcrum pin
to roll a ball into the gutter (ten-pin bowling)
pin bearing
(bird species of China) pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura)
(bird species of China) pin-tailed green pigeon (Treron apicauda)
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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