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HSK
cannot help / unable to bear
HSK 5
inpatient department
residence; dwelling
HSK 7-9
to stop / to bar the way
to hold up / to hinder / to stall
residence; dwelling; abode
HSK 6
to withstand / to stand up to
(PRC law) residential surveillance / to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance
to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto
housing
HSK 2
to check in (at a hotel etc); to move into (a house)
(verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc) / repeatedly; continuously; constantly
residential area / housing development
residential building / CL: , , 棟|栋
to stop / to halt
to stay in hospital; to be hospitalized
HSK 2
to stay at / lodging / accommodation
HSK 7-9
to administer a monastery Buddhist or Daoist / abbot / head monk
habitation / dwelling place / residence / CL: 處|处
to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical)
to detain / to hold back by force / to buckle / to hook
to grab hold of; to capture
HSK 3
to obstruct
inhabitant
one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf (proverb) / (fig.) one who is unwilling to take risks will not achieve great things
motionless / unable to move
to stop (sb) by calling out to them
to hold on to / to defend / to keep / to guard
residential and commercial
Sumitomo, Japanese company
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. for 住房和城鄉建設部|住房和城乡建设部)
to live / to reside
original inhabitant / indigenous people
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  *住* | 住* | *住
to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
HSK 1
to block up
cannot maintain (sth) / unable to keep / more likely than not / may well
shut up / shut your mouth / stop talking
to let sb down / to be unfair / I'm sorry / pardon me (formal)
current address / place of residence
to be unable to hold back
to manage to suppress / to keep under control
residence / household / to reside
to preserve / to save
to fasten / to bind
to stop / to halt / to cease
to attend boarding school
to stand firm / to stand one's ground (in the face of adversity or pain)
to inhabit
address
HSK 7-9
to provide full board
to hold one's tongue / Shut up!
living area / residential area
hotel guest / tenant
(fig.) (slang) to stick one's nose in other people's affairs (i.e. the scope of other people's business that one concerns oneself with is as wide as an ocean vista)
to refrain / to be able to endure it
resident physician
food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
dumbfounded; stunned
to tether / to tie up / (fig.) to restrict / to keep a hold on
to lodge
house / residence
to board at school
to grip / to hold
to embrace
to be dumbfounded / to be astonished
to press down / to crush down / to restrain (anger) / to keep down (voice)
to get caught (entangled) / to catch (on sth)
to live (somewhere) for free
(Internet slang) can't contain oneself / unable to bear / can't help (doing sth)
to be unable to bear
can't remember
to surround / to gird
indigenous peoples / aborigine
to dwell / to live
to stop / to come to a halt
to brake / to stop / to forbid
to watch sb closely / to breathe down sb's neck / to mark (sports)
the truth will come out eventually; a secret can't be kept forever
(coll.) unable to withstand / cannot bear / can't stand it / no match for
residence permit
to grasp firmly
to hold in one's arms / to embrace
temporary residence permit
lit. shut your mouth, move your legs (motto for losing weight)
to envelop / to wrap / to enclose
to resist / to press against / to brace
unable to brake (stop)
long-term resident / permanent residence / eternalism (permanence of soul, Sanskrit Sassatavada)
to stop / Taiwan pr. [zha3 zhu4]
can't help it / can't bear it
HSK 7-9
to fascinate / to strongly attract / to obsess / to infatuate / to captivate / to enchant
unreliable
to be able to bear / to be able to support
to reside / to dwell / to live in a place / resident in
HSK 4
lit. clothing, food, housing and transportation (idiom) / fig. people's basic needs
HSK 7-9
eternalism (permanence of soul, Sanskrit śāśvata-vāda)
to catch (sth thrown etc) / to receive (sth given) / to accept
ill-founded / groundless
to stand
HSK 2
to grab

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