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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
to strap tightly / to bind
HSK 7-9
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Valletta, capital of Malta (Tw)
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
to force sb to give up (a drug) / to enforce abstinence / to break drug dependence
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
to tighten
Caribbean Sea
Keller or Köhler (name) / Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head of the IMF 2000-2004, president of Germany 2004-2010
Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune
Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Tw)
Saint Helena
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
variant of 多普勒
to order / to force
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
to draw the outline of / to outline / to sketch / to delineate contours of / to give a brief account of
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Cyprus (Tw)
Rockefeller
to blackmail / to extort
Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Oregon
Taylor (name)
Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
to guide a horse with the reins / to rein in a horse
Palestine
(Tw) Dresden, capital of Saxony, Germany
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom) / fig. to act in the nick of time
Oregon
Whistler (name)
Leningrad, former name (1923–1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡
lux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!
Gilles (name)
Xilingol, league in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
to strangle or throttle to death
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy / Naples
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Mahler (name) / Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer
Chrysler (car manufacturer)
Altay, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) / abbr. to 貝克|贝克
Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Palermo, Italy
to strangle
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Sophocles (496–406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus Rex
thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar / Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
to coerce / to force / to press sb into doing sth
Drøbak (city in Akershus, Norway)
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
Maitreya Bodhisattva
mule shoes (loanword)
Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵 (319-350)
St Helena
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
portobello mushroom
Caribbean
Le Havre (French town)
to throttle / to strangle
Zwolle (Netherlands)
ransomware (computing)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher
Kaliningrad Oblast
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
Palestinian National Authority
Maitreya / the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories
Kyzyl, capital of Tuva 圖瓦|图瓦
Qizilsu or Kizilsu River in Xinjiang
Lillehammer (city in Norway)
Association of Caribbean States
Kaliningrad, town on Baltic now in Russian republic / formerly Königsberg, capital of East Prussia
wagon (yoked to beast of burden)

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