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like a swarm of bees; in droves (used to describe people flocking to do sth)
bird's nest
(fig.) to stir up a hornet's nest
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home
otak, a Malay food
(coll.) spineless coward / wimp / a good-for-nothing
honeycomb; beehive
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
nest
person who harbors criminals / receiver (of stolen goods)
cellular network
(angling) to throw groundbait into an area of water
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胳* | 胳* | *胳
waffle (loanword)
(of workers) to have no work to do / to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)
to brood / to hatch
edible bird's nest
to feel vexed / annoyed / good-for-nothing / stupid and cowardly
armpit / also pr. [ge1 zhi5 wo1] / also written 夾肢窩|夹肢窝
(physiology) areolar tissue; cellular tissue
chicken coop
to sow discord everywhere
internal strife (family, group, etc)
groundbait
Baker's cyst or popliteal cyst (medicine)
eye socket
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
(traditional bedding) quilt wrapped around the body as a tube / (contemporary) bedding; bed cover
(dialect) to move (after being some time in the same place); to move (house)
dimple (on the cheek when smiling)
gamblers' den / illegal casino
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *窝* | 窝* | *窝
nest / pit or hollow on the human body / lair / den / place / to harbor or shelter / to hold in check / to bend / classifier for litters and broods
HSK 7-9
glutinous rice cake with a sweet filling / also written 艾窩窩|艾窝窝
(coll.) to incubate / to brood
lair / den / stronghold
Ögedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan
ant nest
pent-up frustration / petty annoyances
ant nest
Chinese doughnut
popliteal (anatomy) / hollow at the back of the knee
dimple (on the cheek when smiling)
armpit / also written 胳肢窩|胳肢窝
to sow the seeds of discord everywhere (idiom)
(anatomy) ovarian fossa
doghouse; kennel
a kind of a bread
glutinous rice cake with a sweet filling
hexagonal household coal briquette
there's no place like home (idiom)
dimples of Venus / back dimples
comfortable niche
lair; den (of illegal activities)
one's breast / the pit of one's stomach
dimple / heat-sensing facial pit of a snake
aggrieved / dejected / (Tw, southern China) to be moved by a kind gesture etc / to feel gratified / to feel warm inside
Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
thieves' lair
cotton-padded shoes / (old) shoes made of woven grass, padded with feathers
useless weakling
to suffer a snub / to meet with a rebuff
iliac fossa (anatomy) / pelvic basin internal to ilium
to harbor / to shelter
Ögedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan
armpit
temple (on the sides of human head)
the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom) / many a little makes a mickle
variant of 笑窩|笑窝
erhua variant of 被窩|被窝
variant of 酒窩|酒窝


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