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  *床* | 床* | *床
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc
HSK 1
kilogram
HSK 2
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  *念* | 念* | *念
to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿)
HSK 3
blanket; quilt / CL: 條|条,
HSK 3
knapsack / rucksack / infantry pack / field pack / blanket roll / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
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  *拾* | 拾* | *拾
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
HSK 5
HSK 7-9
tank (military vehicle) (loanword)
HSK 7-9
natural sciences
swordsman
full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)
lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
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  *庄* | 庄* | *庄
farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
(department of) ophthalmology
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
general practitioner
sharp and unkind (words)
to select courses
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  *肆* | 肆* | *肆
four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop
Rank (name) / Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), important German historian
guest from afar
Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist)
specialized subject / branch (of medicine) / specialized training school
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  *玖* | 玖* | *玖
black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
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  *壹* | 壹* | *壹
one (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
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  *仟* | 仟* | *仟
thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
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  *伍* | 伍* | *伍
squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
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  *毯* | 毯* | *毯
blanket / rug
capital letters / uppercase letters / block letters / banker's anti-fraud numerals
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
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  *佰* | 佰* | *佰
hundred (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
to engrave
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  *柒* | 柒* | *柒
seven (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
a wooden word-by-word reading
short period of time / a moment
severe / harsh
to carve a seal / a seal
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  *贰* | 贰* | *贰
two (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / to betray
to solicit customers; to tout for customers
broker / agent
electric blanket
blanket
farmhouse / banker (gambling)
(road) tanker truck / (rail) tank car; tank wagon
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  *捌* | 捌* | *捌
eight (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / split
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
to cough without phlegm / a dry cough
maternity department / maternity ward / obstetrics
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  *叁* | 叁* | *叁
three (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
Frank (name)
criminal record / previous convictions
audience; spectators; onlookers
ammunition case
(medicine) anthrax / (horticulture) anthracnose; canker
New York Yankees (US baseball team)
hand-cranked
eggshell
the Franks (Germanic people who arrived in Europe from 600 AD and took over France)
FIT (free independent traveler); individual traveler (as opposed to one who travels with a group)
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
tanker (truck)
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
literary trifles / minor skill
Van Cleef & Arpels (French luxury jewelry company)
lit. a dream of Nanke / fig. dreams of grandeur
parched / dry mouth
male guest at party
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  *陆* | 陆* | *陆
six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
(idiom) to be nothing to write home about
flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom) / highly embellished and ineffectual / fancy but impractical skills / all show and no go / pugilistic wankery
cyclamen (loanword)
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor
Frankfurt, Germany
gossip is a fearful thing (idiom)
bomb crater; shell crater; mine crater
to host a banquet / guest at a banquet
pitfall / pit as animal trap
potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
carving / engraving
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  *鞯* | 鞯* | *鞯
(bound form) saddle blanket
(idiom) a short time; a little while
to teach classes in addition to other duties / to hold several teaching jobs
to flout the law
caustic / biting / piquant / acerbic / vitriolic / acrimonious
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  *韂* | 韂* | *韂
(bound form) saddle blanket
zakat
to encourage and supervise (esp. state officials promoting agriculture)
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  *兛* | 兛* | *兛
kilogram (old) (single-character equivalent of 千克)
with money, you can do anything (idiom) / money talks
(idiom) all over the place / in every nook and cranny / packed to the rafters
to be a blot on the landscape / to dampen spirits / to spoil the fun / to be a wet blanket
Paulson or Powellson (name) / Henry (Hank) Paulson (1946-), US banker, US Treasury Secretary 2006-2009
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  *弎* | 弎* | *弎
archaic variant of 參|叁, banker's anti-fraud numeral three
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  *弍* | 弍* | *弍
archaic variant of 貳|贰, banker's anti-fraud numeral two
encore (loanword)
to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others) / overdoing it / to go overboard
audience
financier; banker
the canines
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)

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