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HSK
to duplicate / to make a copy of / to copy / to reproduce / to clone
HSK 4
to restrict / to limit / to confine / restriction / limit / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to research and manufacture; to research and to develop
HSK 4
to control
HSK 5
legal system and institutions
HSK 5
machine-processed; machine-made
HSK 5
mechanism
HSK 5
to weave; to plait / to compile; to put together (a lesson plan, budget etc)
HSK 6
to establish (a unit or department) / authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *製* | 製* | *製
to manufacture / to make
HSK 7-9
to control / to curb / to restrict / to impede / to pin down (enemy troops)
HSK 7-9
to force; to compel; to coerce / forced; compulsory / Taiwan pr. [qiang3zhi4]
HSK 7-9
to record (video or audio)
HSK 7-9
to suppress / to inhibit / to stifle
HSK 7-9
to resist / to boycott / to refuse (to cooperate) / to reject / resistance / refusal
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *制* | 制* | *制
system / to control / to regulate / variant of 製|制
HSK 7-9
specially made; custom-made
HSK 7-9
to restrain / to control / restraint / self-control
HSK 7-9
autocracy / dictatorship
HSK 7-9
to copy / to imitate / to make by imitating a model
HSK 7-9
to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain
HSK 7-9
to inhibit / to keep down / to suppress
HSK 7-9
system / organization
HSK 7-9
deregulation
made of steel / steel (bar, screw, product etc)
to control / to restrict / to prohibit / prohibition / restriction
wooden
to split the bill; to go Dutch
private ownership of property
to refine / to extract
self-made / improvised / homemade / handmade
to modulate; modulation
custom-made; made-to-order / to have sth custom made
to draw; to draft (a map, blueprint, diagram, illustration etc)
monarchy
organizational structure
to reorganize / to restructure
to concoct / to invent / to fabricate / to produce / to process / processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
metric system
limitless / unrestricted
automatic control
to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)
(chemistry) to refine
to maintain self-control / self-control
old system / weights and measures of former times
to suppress; to muzzle; to gag
educational system / length of schooling
daylight saving time
to compound (medicines etc) / to prepare (by mixing ingredients) / to concoct
to control / to restrict / to moderate / to temper / moderation / sobriety / to administer
decimal
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / fig. to follow a set pattern
system of constitutional government / (attributive) constitutional
to brew (beer, soy sauce etc); to make (wine, vinegar etc); to distill (spirits)
to produce (a TV show etc)
federal / federal system
hexadecimal
one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
to control
ownership of the means of production (in Marxism) / system of ownership
to gather and process (herbs etc) / (of a reporter) to gather material and put together (a recorded news item)
well-field system
constitutional monarchy
rolling steel
to formulate; to institute; to create
credit system / grading system (in schools, universities etc)
to exploit sb's point of weakness to force them to do one's bidding
parliamentary system
life tenure
octal
democratic centralism
presidential system
hundred mark system
to go into mourning for one's parents
system of job responsibility
to try out a new product (or manufacturing process) / prototype / trial product
the civil service system / the bureaucratic system
refined
the feudal system / system of enfeoffment
to concoct by mixing ingredients; to prepare according to a recipe; to make (a salad, a cocktail, cosmetics etc)
binary system (math.)
to tailor / to make clothes
International System of Units
two-party system
to smoke; to cure over a fire
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / to follow the same plan
to be controlled (by sb) / to suffer under a yoke
prefabricated / precut / to prefabricate
currency system
patriarchal system
to rule / to dominate
Chinese units of measurement
full-time (schooling, work etc)
Bao Daizhi, "Edict Attendant Bao", fictional name used for Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
bicameralism / bicameral legislative system
eight grade wage scale (system)
military system
form / shape / structure / design
to make by hand / handmade
Medium Access Control / MAC

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