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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *提* | 提* | *提
to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid
HSK 2
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
singing voice / fig. original voice of a poet
HSK 3
to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
HSK 6
to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again
HSK 4
mouth shape when speaking or singing
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *和* | 和* | *和
to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence / to join in the singing / to chime in with others
mouth shape when speaking or singing
to stay at / lodging / accommodation
HSK 7-9
singing star / famous singer
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *骗* | 骗* | *骗
to cheat / to swindle / to deceive / to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over
HSK 5
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
singing and dancing (idiom); festive celebrations
leggings
to advance singing loudly (idiom); triumphant progress
to store and retrieve (money, belongings etc) / (computing) to access (data)
desire; longing; appetite; craving
HSK 7-9
to educate; to bring up; to nurture / upbringing; breeding; culture
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *啦* | 啦* | *啦
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc / (phonetic) / (dialect) to chat
leggings (Tw)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姜* | 姜* | *姜
ginger
HSK 7-9
singing and dancing
HSK 7-9
(of a pendulum) to stop swinging / (of work, production, activities etc) to come to a halt / to be suspended / to be canceled / shutdown / (sports) lockout
to excite / to thrill / exciting / thrilling / cliff-hanging
HSK 7-9
(of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult; challenging; demanding
HSK 7-9
(in singing) solo / to solo
HSK 7-9
property / belongings
HSK 7-9
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
familial property / belongings
opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity
to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out / to start digging
hanging one's head dispiritedly (idiom); dejected / crestfallen
HSK 7-9
tenor (singing voice) / a tenor
to stay with sb / to ask for lodging
ginger ale
poem for singing / tune / music / CL: 支
to camp / field lodgings
HSK 7-9
board and lodging / room and board
HSK 7-9
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
hanging lamp
less advanced / underdeveloped / lagging behind / the younger generation / the less experienced ones
karaoke hall / singing hall (venue for concerts of popular songs)
singing voice
to lip-sync (singing)
to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting / (fig.) to snuff out
hanging by a thread / very precarious / almost extinct / (of sound) linger on faintly
(neologism) (slang) (of music, visual style, movement or experiences) powerfully engaging in a way that excites or resonates deeply; electrifying; intense; pulse-pounding
singing skill
speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词 and 相聲|相声 / (music) rapping
leg wrappings / puttee / gaiters / leggings
singing stage / music business (esp. pop music)
hanging decoration
to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)
hangtag; swing tag / hanging sign
one-sided lovesickness; unrequited longing
bid rigging
beautiful / sweet / engaging
to care for / to show concern for / to think longingly (of one's country)
dried ginger
ginger (color)
food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
to move in (to new lodging)
singing style / singing method
to hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
Buddha-like heart (full of compassion) / spirit of Buddha (awakened to reality and no longer clinging to appearances)
weight / pendant / same as 墜胡|坠胡 / ballad singing accompanied by a 墜胡|坠胡
tapestry (used as a wall hanging)
(lit.) as if weeping and complaining (idiom) / (fig.) (of music, singing etc) mournful
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *□* | □* | *□
uptight; obstinate; to awkwardly force oneself to do sth (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [king], often written as ㄍㄧㄥ, no generally accepted hanzi form)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *莘* | 莘* | *莘
Asarum / Wild ginger / also 細辛|细辛
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *跂* | 跂* | *跂
to stand on tiptoe / to sit with feet hanging
Wing Chun / same as 詠春拳|咏春拳 / Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art)
reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
Thai ginger / lesser galangale (Kaempferia galanga)
packing material / lagging / litter
a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
to forge (metal) / forging
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *冕* | 冕* | *冕
crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations / imperial crown
(singing) (coll.) whistle note
Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art)
to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful / (of circumstances) difficult / challenging / (of a budget) tight / (of a man-made thing) makeshift / rough and ready
to grow the intellect / Alpinia oxyphylla, a type of ginger (Chinese medicine)
(idiom) to speak engagingly
fresh ginger
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
"hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *帘* | 帘* | *帘
hanging screen or curtain
to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom)
hanging scroll (calligraphy or painting)
ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撩* | 撩* | *撩
to lift up (sth hanging down) / to raise (hem of skirt) / to pull up (sleeve) / to sprinkle (water with cupped hands)
Asarum forbesii (wild ginger plant)
to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at sth / to persevere / unflagging efforts
shredded ginger
bid rigging / collusive tendering
extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion / (psychology) paranoid
myoga ginger (Zingiber mioga)

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