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HSK
to distribute / to assign / to allocate / to partition (a hard drive)
HSK 3
specialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose) / specially; specifically (for a particular purpose) / (of institutions, personnel etc) designated or assigned for a specific task; special
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *任* | 任* | *任
to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *划* | 划* | *划
to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character
HSK 4
to appoint / to assign / to indicate clearly and with certainty / designated
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
special duty / assigned full time to a task
HSK 7-9
to assign / to entrust (a task) / to give / to bestow
HSK 7-9
proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic
HSK 7-9
to distribute / distribution / to assign (sb) to a job
to supervise (troops) / to appoint (officers) / to select and assign
drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
to assign / to appoint / assignment
to assign (a task to sb)
to include (in a list etc) / to assign (to a class, a work unit etc)
(computing, math.) to assign (a value) / assignment
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
to place in a certain position / to assign to a job / to plant / resettlement (old)
to assign / to allocate / to transfer (money to an account)
to dispatch / to assign / a dispatch
to charge (an entity) with (a task) / to assign (sb) the task of
to send / to assign / to appoint / servants of an official / official messenger
to assign (to a class) / to classify as / to include
(law) residential surveillance at a designated location (PRC legal measure confining suspects to government-assigned residences under continuous monitoring) (abbr. for 指定居所監視居住|指定居所监视居住)
(Tw) to divide up an area / to assign a spot; to allocate a seat / one's assigned spot
to set apart / to assign sb to a job
to appoint / to assign
to assign (a task to different people) / to allocate
reserved seat; assigned seat


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