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HSK
amiable / cordial / close and dear / familiar
HSK 3
everything / every / all
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
to cut; to slice; to carve / (math) tangential
HSK 4
close / familiar / intimate / closely (related) / to foster close ties / to pay close attention
HSK 4
urgent; pressing
HSK 4
feasible / realistic / practical / earnestly / conscientiously
HSK 6
to excise / to cut out (a tumor)
HSK 7-9
to cut
HSK 7-9
to cut off; to sever
HSK 7-9
deeply felt / heartfelt / sincere / honest
HSK 7-9
close-fitting / closest (translation)
HSK 7-9
direct / concerning oneself / personal
HSK 7-9
definite / exact / precise
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters)
eager / impatient
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader
to switch over / to switch modes or data streams / to cut (to a new scene)
apt / appropriate
by no means
section / cross-cut / tangent plane (math.)
to be deeply concerned / to be troubled (by)
(name) Chelsea
lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity / one solution fits a diversity of problems / one size fits all
Rinpoche (Tibetan honorific)
to fit in with / to suit / appropriate
remember at all costs
unrealistic / impractical
(idiom) to disregard all negative considerations; to cast aside all concerns
to avoid as taboo / to avoid by all means
syncopation
urgently / eagerly / worried / (urge sb to) be sure to / it is absolutely essential to (follow the above instruction)
affidavit; written pledge
to slice / slice / thin section of a specimen (for microscopic examination)
to compare notes; to learn from one another
tangent line (geometry)
Rochester
you must not / Please don't... / be sure not to / on no account (do it)
fervent
cutting board; chopping board
to gnash one's teeth (in anger)
stage props
urgency
Lecce (city in Italy)
to keep to the subject
(math.) to inscribe / internally tangent
to demand the highest standards of sb (or oneself) (idiom) / to strive to achieve the best possible results / to be a perfectionist
keenly felt pain / bitter anguish
contact (math.)
meat cleaver
to see everything clearly
circumcision
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
to blame / to reprimand
(medicine) tracheotomy
to feel sb's pulse
(math.) to be tangential to each other
to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words
mournful
eager / impatient / guileless
Winchester (town in south England, capital of former kingdom of Wessex)
vivid / distinct / clear / sincere / honest
a private whisper
earnest / sincere
shear / shearing force
wind shear (meteorology)
cogent; to the point / earnest; conscientious
to cut / cutting / machining
to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter
ardent / eager / earnest
(TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊
to hit the target (esp. in argument); to strike home
cotangent (of angle), written cot θ or ctg θ
incision / notch / slit / gash / margin of a page / trimmed edge (of a page in a book)
slang / argot / private language used as secret code
Qieyun, the first Chinese rime dictionary from 601 AD, containing 11,500 single-character entries
see 反切
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom); arrogant / condescending / supercilious
to look forward eagerly to sth / keenly desired
Cheney (name) / Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008
to gnash one's teeth in anger
mournful
traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
urgent advice / to exhort
(math.) tangent (trigonometric function)
(idiom) sincere; heartfelt
to detest sth or sb to the utmost extreme (idiom)
essential / extremely important
chord angle (i.e. angle a chord of a curve makes to the tangent)
close; near / similar to
rash / hasty
General Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006), Chilean dictator
Pratchett (name)
thoracotomy (medicine)
shearing / shear deformation
bitter hatred / hatred that cuts to the bone
to cut into; to penetrate deeply into (a topic, area etc) / (sports) (soccer etc) to penetrate (the defenses of the opposing team) / (cinema) to cut (to the next scene)
to cut (with scissors or similar tool); to shear / (geology) shear / (computing) to cut (as in "cut-and-paste")
harakiri (formal Japanese: seppuku), a samurai's suicide by disemboweling
to eagerly anticipate

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