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HSK
(raw) material / data / (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job
HSK 4
teaching material / CL:
HSK 3
subject matter
HSK 5
raw and semifinished materials
HSK 7-9
stature / build (height and weight) / figure
HSK 4
wood
HSK 7-9
source material (in literature and art)
HSK 7-9
equipment / material
HSK 7-9
(food) ingredient
composite material
principal or main material (engineering)
medicinal ingredient
HSK 7-9
reference material / source documents
coffin / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best / also written 人盡其才|人尽其才
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect / (of a tree) to grow to full size / to become useful for timber
lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom) / fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
(idiom) to teach in accordance with the student's aptitude; to tailor instruction to the individual student
volume (of timber)
bar / rod
to draw on local resources / using materials at hand
building materials
idiot
substrate
evidence of material seen and heard / oral testimony
(of a person) short in stature
great talent / rare capability / person of outstanding ability
negative example / sth that teaches one what not to do
to collect material
(idiom) to use a talented person in a role far beneath their ability; a waste of talent
texture of timber / quality of material / material (that sth is made of)
steel (as raw material) / steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc
plywood
materials science
wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling / coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
worthless / good-for-nothing
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *材* | 材* | *材
material / timber / ability / aptitude / a capable individual / coffin (old)
abrasive / grinding material
bio-materials
student of great ability
fissionable material
extruded profile
materials science
log
capability / capable person
pith / central core (of tree)
good timber / sound material / fig. able person / sound chap
(forestry) to log; to skid; to yard
coffin
sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
medium (art) (Tw)
outstandingly talented person
variant of 人才
talent
person of limited capacity
consumables / to consume raw materials
untalented / I / me (humble) / also written 不才
fissionable material
radioactive material
Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it
geezer with one foot in the grave (used jokingly or as an imprecation)
variant of 大材小用
variant of 蠢材


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