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  *走* | 走* | *走
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
HSK 1
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  *办* | 办* | *办
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event) / to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise) / (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect) / (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办, admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室)
HSK 2
to come across / to run into / to meet / to hit
HSK 2
to engage in (business etc); to run; to operate
HSK 3
to run / to jog / (military) to march at the double
HSK 3
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  *缺* | 缺* | *缺
deficiency / lack / scarce / vacant post / to run short of
HSK 3
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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head
HSK 4
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  *理* | 理* | *理
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up
HSK 6
to escape / to flee / to run away
HSK 5
(of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course / (fig.) to function; to be in operation / (of a train service etc) to operate; to run / (of a computer) to run
HSK 5
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  *开* | 开* | *开
to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文 / abbr. for 開本|开本, book format
HSK 1
to implement / to carry out / to execute / to run
HSK 5
to meet; to run into; to come across
HSK 4
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  *撞* | 撞* | *撞
to knock against / to bump into / to run into / to meet by accident
HSK 5
to go for a morning run
to go for a nighttime run
to run into / to meet (unexpectedly) / to bump into
HSK 2
to run
HSK 6
to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
to run a school
HSK 6
(dialect) to run a street stall
to touch by mistake; to accidentally activate or trigger; (fig.) to unwittingly run afoul of
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  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")
HSK 6
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about / to hopscotch / also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠
HSK 7-9
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  *跑* | 跑* | *跑
to run / to run away / to escape / to run around (on errands etc) / (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate / (verb complement) away / off
HSK 1
to flee from sth / to run away / to escape
HSK 5
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  *管* | 管* | *管
to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to in ... constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards
HSK 3
the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later
company-owned store; store directly operated by the parent company (as opposed to one run by a franchisee, agent or distributor)
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
to take care of a matter all by oneself / to run the whole show
to run around; to run about aimlessly
to fly high and run far (idiom); to leave in a hurry for a distance place
to run away / to go into exile
to leave home / to go off / to run away
HSK 7-9
privately-run; private (school, hospital etc) / to set up illegally
HSK 7-9
tranquility yields transcendence (idiom); quiet life of profound study / cf Still waters run deep.
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  *逃* | 逃* | *逃
to escape / to run away / to flee
HSK 5
illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade
to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll)
HSK 7-9
Norinco, PRC state-run conglomerate
to flee abroad / to run away / to desert / outflow
to run a street stall
to undertake to do everything by oneself / to run the whole show
to take part in an election / to run for office
HSK 7-9
the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August
(of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse / Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3]
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  *持* | 持* | *持
to hold / to grasp / to support / to maintain / to persevere / to manage / to run (i.e. administer) / to control
HSK 7-9
to come across (sb) / to run into
HSK 7-9
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
to run through / a connecting thread from beginning to end / to link
HSK 7-9
lit. not a common chord (idiom); outstanding / brilliant / out of the common run
national / state-run / public
(idiom) to run neck and neck; to keep pace with; to keep abreast of; on par with one another
home run (baseball)
to be stranded (of ship) / to run aground / fig. to run into difficulties and stop
HSK 7-9
to run into / to come upon / to meet
HSK 7-9
to plunge into / to run headlong into
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  *奔* | 奔* | *奔
to hurry / to rush / to run quickly / to elope
shuttle run
to surge up / to rise / (of tensions etc) to run high
HSK 7-9
public utility / state-run enterprise / public foundation or enterprise, often charitable
to run away / to flee (the country)
to run / to rush about / to be on the go
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
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  *润* | 润* | *润
moist; glossy; sleek / to moisten; to lubricate / to embellish; to enhance / profit; remuneration / (neologism c. 2021) (slang) (loanword from "run") to emigrate (in order to flee adverse conditions)
HSK 7-9
family-run shop
to run a newspaper; to publish a newspaper
to run a street stall
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
to meet / to run into (sb) / to get together (with sb)
to dash (run fast) / to rush / to dart
to break into a run
to run out / to have exhausted
all rivers run into the sea / use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
Friendship Store, PRC state-run store originally intended for foreigners, diplomats etc, specializing in selling imported Western goods and quality Chinese crafts
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
to run for election / to be selected; to be elected
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about
uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
to run into misfortune
walk-off home run
to crush or compact (with a roller) / to run over (with a vehicle) / (fig.) to trounce; to wipe the floor with; to be far superior
to run out of (stock)
to stop screening a movie / to end the run of a movie
to run like crazy; to rush
to start a print run
to inspect / to run through a checklist / to take stock / to audit
to run out / to escape
to scamper / to run around
to run into difficulties / to cause trouble
contrary; opposite; to run counter to
to disobey / to defy an edict / to violate / to go against / to run counter to
to run everything (idiom); to monopolize the whole business / not allow anyone else to have a look in
print run
number of print run
municipal / city / city-run

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