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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闲* | 闲* | *闲
idle / unoccupied / leisure
HSK 5
leisure / relaxation / not working / idle / to enjoy leisure / to lie fallow
HSK 5
mid-level
(automotive) idling; idle speed
wantonly / without restraint (of enemy or malefactor) / unbridled
HSK 7-9
to chatter idly / to gossip / to boast or brag
HSK 7-9
to talk big; to brag; to shoot off one's mouth / (dialect) to chat idly
HSK 7-9
(dialect) to talk nonsense / to chat idly
laid back; leisurely / (of resources: workers, funds etc) unused; idle
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to ridicule / to tease / to mock / idle talk / chitchat
HSK 7-9
wanton / unbridled / presumptuous / impudent
HSK 7-9
unwilling to remain lonely or idle / unwilling to be left out
to set sth aside / to let sth lie idle / idle / unused
idle / lazy
HSK 7-9
(chemistry) liquid-liquid extraction (aka solvent extraction); to extract
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *侃* | 侃* | *侃
upright and honest / cheerful / to chat idly / to boast / to talk smoothly
candidly sharing confidences
rampant / unbridled / arrogant / aggressive
to idle / to waste time
to have nothing to do / to idle one's time away (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to hang up (a phone) / to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a game in one's stead etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *消* | 消* | *消
to diminish; to subside / to consume; to reduce / to idle away (the time) / (after 不 or 只 or 何 etc) to need; to require; to take
HSK 7-9
to chat / idle gossip
to wander / to roam about / to loaf about / to be idle
to be idle
not paying attention to anything (idiom); to idle time away
a wild horse that refuses to be bridled (a metaphor for sth that runs wild)
unimportant / perfunctory / indifferent / (of conversation) idly
lazybones / idle bum
idle / free time / leisure
to idle on the job
to talk idly about important matters (idiom) / to set the world to rights / to pass judgment on everything
idle; leisurely; laid-back / Taiwan pr. [shu1san4]
without restraint / unbridled / reckless
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC
Coventry, city in the West Midlands, England
mess hall for mid-level cadres / cf. 大灶
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衔* | 衔* | *衔
bit (of a bridle) / to hold in the mouth / to harbor (feelings) / to link / to accept / rank / title
idleness
prattle / idle chit-chat
leisure; spare time / (of a person) free; unoccupied / (of equipment, rooms etc) unused; idle; vacant
to spend one's leisure time / to idle away the time
(coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly
absolutely unrestrained / unbridled / without the slightest scruple
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
to lie idle (of arable land) / fig. rusty because of lack of practice
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闲* | 闲* | *闲
enclosure / (variant of 閒|闲) idle / unoccupied / leisure
HSK 5
to wear down / to sap / to whittle away / to while away / to idle away
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *羁* | 羁* | *羁
bridle / halter / to restrain / to detain / to lodge / inn
to make idle remarks about a woman's appearance (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缰* | 缰* | *缰
bridle / reins / halter
gossip / idle chat
cannot stand by idly and watch / unable to put up with it any longer
floating capital / idle fund / hot money
ordinary / common / unimportant / idly / for no reason
to stay idle at home / to have resigned from office / to be unemployed / to have been fired / to be on a sabbatical
lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom) / to wait idly for opportunities / to trust to chance rather than show initiative
HSK 7-9
not to do anything productive / to idle away one's time
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幩* | 幩* | *幩
ornamental tassel on bridle
idle fellow / lazybones
lit. the river that divides Chu and Han / fig. a line that divides rival territories / the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard
sth that people like to chat about / topic of idle conversation
idle person; idler / person who has no legitimate reason to be in a certain place
idle / leisurely
to stand idly
a bridle path
arrogant idler / self-centered show-off
to idle about
bridle
to sit around / to sit idly
to leave unused; to leave idle; to lie idle
idle / free time / leisure
to have money and time / to be part of the leisure class / the idle rich
to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
cannot stand by idly and watch / unable to put up with it any longer / see 看不過去|看不过去
to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle
large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged)
idle gossip
to say candidly / to acknowledge frankly
to avoid external disturbance in order to idle
idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor
to stick onto / stalemate / gridlock / to agglutinate
West Midlands, UK county, capital Birmingham 伯明翰
(literary) idle; unemployed / (literary) (of writing) leisurely and verbose
(dialect) idler / loafer
Lester or Leicester (name) / Leicester, English city in East Midlands
lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you / (fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success / also written 無心插柳柳成蔭|无心插柳柳成荫
(Tw) (slang) to pass time idly / to chill / to hang out
loafer / idler / bum
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *靮* | 靮* | *靮
reins / bridle
(literary) reckless / unbridled / self-indulgent / conceited / overly pleased with oneself
slack / idle
to chat / idle talk
greed for bribes knows no bounds (idiom); unbridled corruption
to chat idly
at leisure / idle / to have nothing to do
(of one's time) idle; unoccupied
to chat idly (Tw)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鞚* | 鞚* | *鞚
(literary) bridle (of a horse)

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