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| | to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials) | HSK 5 |
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| | to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across | HSK 6 |
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| | a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊 | HSK 6 |
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| | five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc / to dial / to allocate / to set aside (money) / to poke (the fire) / to pluck (a string instrument) / to turn round / classifier: group, batch | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL: 根 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | firecrackers / string of small firecrackers / CL: 枚 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a series of / a string of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument | |
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| | to pierce through / to pass through / to be stringed together / string of 1000 cash | |
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| | ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute | |
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| | lit. warp string in weaving / fig. vertical or north-south lines / to pass through / to cross lengthwise / to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom) | |
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| | erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL: 把 | |
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| | (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off | |
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| | to play (musical instrument, esp. string) | |
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| | to sing and play (plucked string instrument) | |
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| | string (of a stringed instrument) | |
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| | morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument) | |
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| | to pluck (a string) | |
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| | string bean / snap bean / green bean | |
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| | string / thread | |
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| | string music | |
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| | to sing to a string accompaniment / education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times) | |
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| | to pierce through / to string together | |
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| | to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon) | |
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| | huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring | |
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| | sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra | |
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| | yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument) | |
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| | vibrato (of stringed instrument) / trill (in phonetics) | |
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| | a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard | |
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| | money / string of coins | |
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| | string of pearl and jade (idiom); ideal combination / perfect pair | |
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| | qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony / marital harmony | |
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| | string bag / mesh bag / net bag | |
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| | tuning (stringed instrument) / (fig.) to make up one's mind | |
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| | knot (on a rope or string) | |
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| | player of a stringed instrument | |
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| | joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row | |
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| | to measure roughly (with the hand, a stick, string etc) | |
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| | string to tie hair | |
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| | bind up / string together | |
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| | jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京二胡 | |
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| | string / cotton rope | |
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| | ball of string | |
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| | cord / fishing-line / string of coins | |
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| | widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟 qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony | |
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| | (coll.) to reel in (string, yarn etc) by pulling hand over hand or by coiling / to step along / to look into / to pursue (a matter) | |
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| | gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither) | |
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| | a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore) | |
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| | change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction / to dance to a different tune | |
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| | guqin or seven-stringed zither | |
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| | string on which coins are strung | |
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| | string of copper coins (in ancient China) / (fig.) an overly money-oriented person / (zoology) centipede | |
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| | pluck (stringed instrument) | |
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| | string of copper coins / variant of 襁 | |
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| | string / twine / cord | |
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| | variant of 弦 / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse | |
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| | string of cash | |
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| | hard to play (of music for stringed instrument) | |
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| | Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road | |
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| | string instrument | |
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| | string (computing) | |
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| | plucked string or stringed instrument / plucked instrument | |
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| | bow (of a stringed instrument) | |
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| | G-string | |
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| | lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together | |
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| | shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument | |
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| | string processing (computing) | |
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| | jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京胡 | |
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| | two-stringed bowed instrument / also called 墜琴|坠琴 | |
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| | (computing) character string (Tw) | |
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| | Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments | |
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| | string orchestra | |
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| | string theory (physics) | |
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| | string theory (in theoretical physics) | |
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| | string instrument | |
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| | plucked string music | |
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| | plucked string instrument / CL: 件 | |
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| | to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs) | |
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| | hammered string type (of musical instrument) | |
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| | hammered string musical instrument | |
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| | (angling) to play a fish / (kite-flying) to let the string out / (dating) to play the field | |
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| | gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither) | |
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| | fretless (stringed instrument) | |
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| | special correspondent / stringer | |
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| | player of a stringed instrument | |
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| | out of tune / marital discord, cf qin and se 琴瑟, two string instruments as symbol of marital harmony | |
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| | sound producing object (soundboard, vibrating string, membrane etc) | |
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| | string (as in "character string") | |
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| | an elaborate string of references / many quotations | |
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| | man behind the mirror / puppet master / string puller | |
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| | quantum foam (in string theory, and science fiction) | |
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