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HSK
housing
HSK 2
to stay in hospital; to be hospitalized
HSK 2
cannot help / unable to bear
HSK 5
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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 grab hold of; to capture
HSK 3
residence; dwelling; abode
HSK 6
to stand
HSK 2
to remember / to bear in mind / to learn by heart
HSK 1
to reside / to dwell / to live in a place / resident in
HSK 4
to stay at / lodging / accommodation
HSK 7-9
inpatient department
to hold up / to hinder / to stall
to surround / to gird
to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto
residential area / housing development
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
address
HSK 7-9
household / inhabitant / householder
HSK 7-9
to stop / to halt
residence; dwelling
HSK 7-9
(PRC law) residential surveillance / to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance
to administer a monastery Buddhist or Daoist / abbot / head monk
to press down / to crush down / to restrain (anger) / to keep down (voice)
to inhabit
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
inhabitant
resident physician
motionless / unable to move
to stop (sb) by calling out to them
to hold on to / to defend / to keep / to guard
can't help it / can't bear it
HSK 7-9
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
to block up
lit. clothing, food, housing and transportation (idiom) / fig. people's basic needs
HSK 7-9
cannot maintain (sth) / unable to keep / more likely than not / may well
shut up / shut your mouth / stop talking
current address / place of residence
to be unable to hold back
residence / household / to reside
to preserve / to save
to stop / to halt / to cease
to stop / to bar the way
to stand firm / to stand one's ground (in the face of adversity or pain)
to provide full board
to hold one's tongue / Shut up!
unable to brake (stop)
living area
living area / residential area
hotel guest / tenant
to refrain / to be able to endure it
to dominate / to control / to subdue / to crush
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 withstand / to stand up to
to be dumbfounded / to be astonished
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. to 住建部)
to live (somewhere) for free
to clamp down; to suppress
indigenous peoples / aborigine
residence permit
(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)
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
to brake / to stop / to forbid
to watch sb closely / to breathe down sb's neck / to mark (sports)
to entangle / to hinder / to impede movement
to fasten / to bind
residential building / CL: , , 棟|栋
to stop / to come to a halt
(coll.) unable to withstand / cannot bear / can't stand it / no match for
to grasp firmly
to envelop / to wrap / to enclose
to resist / to press against / to brace
long-term resident / permanent residence / eternalism (permanence of soul, Sanskrit Sassatavada)
to stop / Taiwan pr. [zha3 zhu4]
unoccupied
(Internet slang) can't contain oneself / unable to bear / can't help (doing sth)
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 stump sb with a question
to baffle; to stump
to catch (sth thrown etc) / to receive (sth given) / to accept
to stay calm / to keep one's composure
the truth will come out eventually; a secret can't be kept forever
to hook onto / to hitch onto / to catch onto
to grab
to lose one's cool / to get impatient / unable to remain calm
to let sb down / to be unfair / I'm sorry / pardon me (formal)

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