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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *号* | 号* | *号
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
signal
HSK 2
symbol; mark; sign
HSK 4
number / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
slogan / catchphrase / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
model (particular version of a manufactured article) / type (product specification in terms of color, size etc)
HSK 4
to call / to appeal
HSK 5
nickname
HSK 7-9
(coll.) to defecate; to poop
parentheses; brackets
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *号* | 号* | *号
roar / cry / CL: 個|个
second best person / second-rate person
first day of the month / toilet / (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)
code name
HSK 7-9
to be known as; to be nicknamed / to be purportedly / to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
HSK 7-9
D size battery
dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
to howl / to yell
signal light / car indicator
exclamation mark (punct.)
large-sized (of clothes, shoes) / (old) to give an order / (old) to quit one's job in a store
punctuation / a punctuation mark
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
HSK 7-9
reveille
(music) tuba / (of clothes, print etc) large size; large format / (polite) your (given) name / (coll.) number two; poop; to defecate
AAA battery (Taiwan equivalent: 四號電池|四号电池)
plus sign + (math.)
nickname
HSK 7-9
I.D. number
to dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill / to malinger
official account (on a social networking platform)
name / term of address / title
HSK 5
digital signal
colon (punct.)
double quotes
door number / (Tw) mobile phone number
mark / symbol / notation / seal
HSK 7-9
exclamation mark ! (punct.)
braces; curly brackets { }
(Tw) postal code; ZIP code
the fifth / fifth day of a month
name; title / good reputation
vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
HSK 6
Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)
multiplication sign (math.)
to register (at a hospital etc) / to send by registered mail
HSK 7-9
signal processing
reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)
number plate / car license plate / CL: 條|条, 塊|块,
driver (golf)
trumpet / small size (clothes etc) / (coll.) a number one; a piss / (humble) our store / alternate account (for an Internet forum etc)
account number; account; username
HSK 7-9
first rate / top rank / number one
HSK 7-9
signal
Chinese guillemet 《》(punct. used for names of books etc)
store / a business
last digit (or last few digits) of a phone number, license plate number etc
bugle
square brackets [ ]
(of clothes, containers etc) extra-large
C size battery (PRC) (Taiwan equivalent: 二號電池|二号电池) / AA battery (Tw) (PRC equivalent: 五號電池|五号电池)
inequality sign (≠, < , ≤, >, ≥)
telephone signal
braces / curly brackets { }
four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)
to take one's seat according to the ticket number / (fig.) to put (things or people) in their right place / to take a general comment as a personal attack
full stop / period (punct.)
to have the power to rally supporters
Space Shuttle Discovery
account number; account; username
seat number
registered letter
percent sign % (punct.)
(math.) equals sign =
to bawl / to wail / to cry
to number / numbering / serial number
HSK 7-9
tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up
CRH-series high-speed trains operated by China Railway
book number (esp. ISBN)
round brackets; parentheses ( )
(punctuation) ellipsis
number sign # (punctuation) / hash symbol / pound sign
Kosmos, series of earth-orbit satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia
work chant / prison cell / type / sort / mark / sign / signal / (Tw) brokerage firm
even number (on a ticket, house etc)
Kitty Hawk (US aircraft carrier)
square brackets [ ]
Soyuz (union), Russian spacecraft series
AA battery (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 三號電池|三号电池
(Tw) companies; businesses
HMS Consort, Royal Navy destroyer involved in 1949 Amethyst incident on Changjiang
quotation mark (punct.)
part number / material code
hospital gown
parentheses; round brackets ( )
lit. order like a mountain / a military order is inviolable / strict discipline
medium-sized
to cry out loud without tears
writing symbol
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912

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