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HSK
to attack / to batter / (of waves) to pound against / shock / impact
HSK 6
to wave / to beckon
HSK 5
wave
HSK 6
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  *阵* | 阵* | *阵
disposition of troops / wave / spate / burst / spell / short period of time / classifier for events or states of short duration
HSK 4
(of water, people, thoughts etc) to surge; to well up and flow; to move in waves
sea wave
HSK 6
(loanword) ether (hypothetical medium that transmits light waves)
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
to lift; to raise (a lid etc) / (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc) / (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
HSK 7-9
cold wave / CL:
wave form
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  *漰* | 漰* | *漰
noise of dashing waves
natural curls; natural wave
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  *浪* | 浪* | *浪
wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble
HSK 7-9
sinusoidal (shaped like a sine wave)
electromagnetic wave
wave of enthusiasm; craze; upsurge
HSK 7-9
to gesticulate while talking (idiom) / to explain by waving one's hands / to criticize or give orders summarily
HSK 7-9
up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
HSK 7-9
copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖 / fig. majestic
to brandish / to wave sth
(military) human wave attack
young guard / young and vigorous group with new ideas / new wave
billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
HSK 7-9
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  *淜* | 淜* | *淜
roar of dashing waves
to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
HSK 7-9
half-period of a wave motion / alternation
modulated wave (elec.)
ultra short wave (radio) / UHF
brain wave / EEG
wave / (water) ripple
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
lit. without wind there cannot be waves (idiom); there must be a reason / no smoke without fire
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  *波* | 波* | *波
wave / ripple / storm / surge
radio wave (astronomy)
radio wave
lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom) / fig. the new is constantly replacing the old / each new generation excels the previous / (of things) to be constantly evolving
raging waves / stormy waves
wave / tides
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  *挥* | 挥* | *挥
to wave / to brandish / to command / to conduct / to scatter / to disperse
HSK 7-9
great waves / billows
HSK 7-9
before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
to wave sth / to brandish
wave band
sound wave
sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
light wave
seismic wave
to drift / to wave / to float on the waves / to flutter in the wind
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  *抡* | 抡* | *抡
to swing (one's arms, a heavy object) / to wave (a sword, one's fists) / to fling (money)
HSK 7-9
to wave / to flutter / to fly
lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom) / fig. to show off one's erudition / a person who does so
wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics
phase (waves)
traveling wave tube (electronics)
standing wave
to beat against the shore (of waves)
to wave goodbye / (fig.) to say goodbye to / to bid farewell to
wave-shaped
ocean wave / billows
shock wave / blast wave
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave
wave
polarized wave
shock wave
to move as in a dance / to wave (some implement) / to flourish / (of eyes, hands etc) to dance / to flutter
frequency of carrier wave
polarization (of waves)
gravitational wave
violent wave / fierce billow / fig. depraved force
ultrasound / ultrasonic wave
wind and waves; rough waters / (fig.) hardship
HSK 7-9
density wave
to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire
to wave flags and shout battle cries (idiom); to egg sb on / to give support to
to wiggle / to squirm / peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
carrier wave
Maxwell (name) / James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
fundamental (wave)
a plane wave
transverse wave
natural curls; natural wave
force of seismic wave
Korean Wave, aka Hallyu (the increase in international interest in South Korea and its popular culture since the 1990s)
tempest / wave (of popular sentiment etc) / craze or fad
to trend / to get popular quickly / sudden heat wave (weather)
lines formed by waves on a beach
wave crest
lit. to ride the wind and crest the waves / to be ambitious and unafraid (idiom)
sound wave
medium wave (radio frequency range)
to wave (one's hand)
(literary) to come in quick succession / wave after wave
to finalize (a design etc) / stereotype / permanent wave or perm (hairdressing)
to gesticulate while talking (idiom); to explain by waving one's hands / to criticize or give orders summarily / also written 指手畫腳|指手画脚
wave front
wave equation (math. physics)
seismic wave
heat wave
where the wind and the waves are the fiercest / at the heart of the struggle

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