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  *极* | 极* | *极
extremely / pole (geography, physics) / utmost / top
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挑* | 挑* | *挑
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick
HSK 4
the North Pole; the Arctic Pole / the north magnetic pole
HSK 5
south pole
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杆* | 杆* | *杆
stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撑* | 撑* | *撑
to support / to prop up / to push or move with a pole / to maintain / to open or unfurl / to fill to bursting point / brace / stay / support
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搭* | 搭* | *搭
to put up / to build (scaffolding) / to hang (clothes on a pole) / to connect / to join / to arrange in pairs / to match / to add / to throw in (resources) / to take (boat, train) / variant of
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *担* | 担* | *担
picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole
HSK 7-9
bamboo / bamboo pole
HSK 7-9
carrying pole and the loads on it / burden / task / responsibility / CL:
HSK 7-9
vastly different; poles apart
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杆* | 杆* | *杆
pole / CL: 條|条,
steel pipe / pole (in pole dancing)
positive pole
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杠* | 杠* | *杠
coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole; bar; rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard; criterion / hyphen; dash
surveyor's pole / post (used for a landmark) / (fig.) goal; model; benchmark
electric pole / telephone pole
electric pole / telegraph pole
the two poles / the north and south poles / both ends of sth / electric or magnetic poles
a pole / a prop
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *竿* | 竿* | *竿
pole
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *檩* | 檩* | *檩
cross-beam / ridge-pole
to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
negative pole / cathode
bamboo pole / CL: , 個|个
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桁* | 桁* | *桁
pole plate / purlin (cross-beam in roof) / ridge-pole
lit. set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom) / fig. to get instant results
as different as can be (idiom) / poles apart
to punt / to pole a boat
magnetic pole
to run up (pole vault, javelin, bowling etc) / approach / run-up / (aviation) takeoff run
pole-vaulting
carrying pole / shoulder pole / CL:
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篙* | 篙* | *篙
pole for punting boats
pitchfork / garden fork / restraining pole (used by police) / military fork (of ancient times)
thick bar / solid carrying pole
stick moxibustion / poling (TCM)
a kind of sedan chair, usu. made of bamboo and mounted on a pair of long bamboo poles
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筳* | 筳* | *筳
bamboo pole / spindle
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *篥* | 篥* | *篥
bamboos good for poles / horn
carrying pole and its load
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罱* | 罱* | *罱
a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool
benchmark / pole serving as mark or symbol / pole with a trophy hung on it
iron hook at the end a long pole
laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles
pole-vaulting / also written 撐桿跳|撑杆跳
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箾* | 箾* | *箾
to hit sb with a pole / (archaic) pole held by a dancer
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杗* | 杗* | *杗
ridge-pole in roof
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
poles apart (idiom) / entirely different
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
large steelyard usu. operated by three people – two to lift it using a pole, and one to adjust the counterweight
extreme point / pole / the origin (in polar coordinates)
pole
pole / stick / club / gang of bandits
telephone pole / utility pole
lasso pole / blind man's stick / white stick
(car racing) pole position / (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth)
lasso on long wooden pole
distance marker / pole marking distance on racetrack
vertical banner (for display at exhibitions, advertising hung from poles in the street etc)
pole dancing
well sweep (device for raising and lowering a bucket in a well, using a pivoted pole)
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
(idiom) poles apart; as different as can be
wooden pole / wood (golf club)
electric pole / telephone pole / lamppost / CL:
electric pole / telephone pole / lamppost / CL:
emperor's or general's banner erected on an ivory-tipped pole at a military camp or headquarters (in ancient times)
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀
pole-climbing (as gymnastics or circus act) / climbing pole
pole-vaulting
south and north poles
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
trekking pole
geographic pole / north and south poles
distance between two poles / poles apart
pole vault / also written 撐桿跳高|撑杆跳高
pole of rotation
type of wood used to make punting poles for boats (old)
pulling a lamb and bringing wine on a carrying pole (idiom); fig. to offer elaborate congratulations / to kill the fatted calf
bamboo pole's uppermost tip / (fig.) acme
anode; positive electrode; positive pole
electric trolley pole
high latitude (i.e. near the poles)


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