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  *取* | 取* | *取
to take / to get / to choose / to fetch
HSK 2
to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action) / to take
HSK 3
to fight for / to strive for / to win over
HSK 3
to gain; to get; to acquire
HSK 4
to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam / to admit (a student) / to hire (a job candidate)
HSK 4
to receive; to draw; to get
HSK 6
to receive / to collect
HSK 6
to hear (news); to listen to
HSK 6
to seize / to capture / to wrest control of
HSK 6
to ask / to demand
HSK 7-9
to steal (usu. private information, intellectual property etc)
HSK 7-9
to absorb / to draw (a lesson, insight etc) / to assimilate
HSK 7-9
to obtain (sth) in exchange / to exchange (sth) for (sth else)
HSK 7-9
to seize
to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull
random access (memory)
to store and retrieve (money, belongings etc) / (computing) to access (data)
to gain profit (by underhand means) / to exploit / see also 謀取|谋取
to beat easily / to gain an easy victory
to absorb (nutrients etc) / to assimilate / intake / to take a photograph of (a scene)
to be on the waiting list (for admission to a school)
to pick / to select / to take / to capture (data) / to acquire / to pick up (a signal)
to choose
to withdraw (money) / to collect (left luggage) / to extract / to refine
to show initiative / to be a go-getter / to push forward with one's agenda
to take by ruse / to outwit / to outsmart
(chemistry) liquid-liquid extraction (aka solvent extraction); to extract
desirable; worth having / (of a suggestion etc) commendable; worthy
to accept / to receive
to extract / to remove / to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
to pass an entrance exam / to be admitted to
to pick up / to collect
to draw; to derive; to absorb
to gain by cheating
to help oneself to (food) / to invite (trouble) / to court (disaster)
to seek / to strive for / to obtain / see also 牟取
to dredge up; to scoop up from the water / to fish for; to gain (by improper means)
to hunt / (fig.) to seek (fame etc)
to pluck / to take
to steal (including identity theft, credit card fraud or theft of computer account) / to misappropriate
to cut off a section of sth
to win (favors, confidence etc)
(literary) to choose between rejecting and accepting
to withdraw (money)
to acquire fraudulently / an illegal exchange
(idiom) to have only oneself to blame; to bring trouble through one's own actions
to swindle / to defraud
to plunder / to pillage / to loot
to not even take a penny (as a bribe)
to attack and seize
to seize / to capture / to grab
sure
to accept or reject
to make a profit / to earn a packet
to ask for / to demand
proactive
to give for free
to capture
(literary) to extort / to take as bribe
to seek / to seek out
(computing) cache (loanword) (Tw)
to seek after / to strive for
to borrow
to cut off
(computing) client pull
to steal
connective / conjunction
to take sth without permission
to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering / ever victorious / nothing they can't do
to ladle out / to scoop up
to extract / to squeeze out (juice etc) / (fig.) to exploit
(chemistry) to produce
to obtain (information from an archive etc)
(of a computer etc) to read (data)


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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