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HSK
woods / grove / forest
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
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  *录* | 录* | *录
to carve wood
HSK 3
slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL: 塊|块,
HSK 3
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  *签* | 签* | *签
inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
HSK 5
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  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
wood
HSK 7-9
dense wood
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  *炭* | 炭* | *炭
wood charcoal / coal
HSK 7-9
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood , fire , earth , metal , water
lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees
to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering
fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL: 塊|块,
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
pine wood / deal / larch
to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
woods / grove / forest
can't see the wood for the trees
(idiom) to take to the woods to become an outlaw
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
to drill wood to make fire
lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless
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  *槎* | 槎* | *槎
a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew
methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
wood shavings
wood turning / woodwork lathe
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine
mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon)
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
chopped wood / firewood
(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer
red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
wood shavings / sawdust
engraving knife; carving knife (for wood, stone etc)
lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
shrubbery / low wood
woods and ravines / tranquillity of trees and valleys
bamboo and wood
vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
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  *木* | 木* | *木
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纹* | 纹* | *纹
line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc)
numerous and close together / (of hair) luxuriant / (of woods) dense / (of gunfire) intense
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  *栈* | 栈* | *栈
a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack
rotten wood
woods and marshes
to chop wood / to chop down trees
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
woodcut; wood engraving
wood jade (type of petrified wood)
Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus); fu ling; tuckahoe
incense wood
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  *蠡* | 蠡* | *蠡
wood-boring insect
squat block (of stone, wood etc) / ottoman; pouf
(bird species of China) wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
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  *榾* | 榾* | *榾
scraps of wood
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
wenge or wengue (type of wood)
fork (of a tree) / tool made of forked wood
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer
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  *槢* | 槢* | *槢
a hard wood
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *椮* | 椮* | *椮
lush growth (trees) / fishing using bundled wood (archaic)
vascular cambium (layer of tissue responsible for growth inside wood)
earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
jigsaw puzzle; wood block puzzle
to smoke / to cure over a wood fire
(bird species of China) common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
mixed (growth of wood)
(photography, filmmaking) to set up the lighting; to illuminate a scene / to polish; to buff; to give luster to (a surface, esp. stone, wood, metal etc)
knot (in wood)
veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)
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  *巽* | 巽* | *巽
to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing wood and wind // ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
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  *斫* | 斫* | *斫
to chop / to hack / to carve wood
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  *斫* | 斫* | *斫
to chop / to carve wood
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  *槁* | 槁* | *槁
dried up (wood) / dead tree
veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
(bird species of China) brown wood owl (Strix leptogrammica)
sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
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  *锼* | 锼* | *锼
to engrave (metal of wood)
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  *桄* | 桄* | *桄
woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
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  *梓* | 梓* | *梓
Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks
(medicine) boil / furuncle / knot (in wood)
horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt
(bird species of China) Sichuan wood owl (Strix davidi)
ancient vehicle made of wood and bamboo / CL: 輛|辆
insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth)
(bird species of China) ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)
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  *丬* | 丬* | *丬
"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of
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  *鎹* | 鎹* | *鎹
(Japanese kokuji) large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together / pr. kasugai

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