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mortise and tenon (slot and tab forming a carpenter's joint)
carpet / rug
HSK 7-9
carpenter
HSK 7-9
red carpet
red carpet
woodwork / carpentry / woodworker / carpenter
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刨* | 刨* | *刨
carpenter's plane / to plane (woodwork) / to shave off / to peel (with a potato peeler etc)
a set square (carpenter's tool)
carpet bombing
a prayer mat / a carpet for kneeling
to take drastic measures to deal with a situation / to pull the carpet from under sb
to enjoy the present (idiom); to live happily with no thought for the future / make merry while you can / carpe diem
to report only the good news, not the bad news / to hold back unpleasant news / to sweep bad news under the carpet
T-square / set square (carpenter's tool)
inked line / carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline) / to install (wiring, cable) / to construct (road, concrete slab)
to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb
dowel / carpenter's pin
a set square (carpenter's tool)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *矩* | 矩* | *矩
carpenter's square / rule / regulation / pattern / to carve
carpet slippers
lit. carpenter's straight line marker / same as 墨斗 / fig. rules / rules and regulations
wood moth / carpenter moth / CL: 隻|只
carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)


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