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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
number / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
model (particular version of a manufactured article) / type (product specification in terms of color, size etc)
HSK 4
parentheses; brackets
HSK 4
symbol; mark; sign
HSK 4
slogan / catchphrase / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
name / term of address / title
HSK 5
to call / to appeal
HSK 5
vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
HSK 6
code name
HSK 7-9
to number / numbering / serial number
HSK 7-9
account number; account; username
HSK 7-9
to register (at a hospital etc) / to send by registered mail
HSK 7-9
to be known as; to be nicknamed / to be purportedly / to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
HSK 7-9
nickname
HSK 7-9
mark / symbol / notation / seal
HSK 7-9
nickname
HSK 7-9
first rate / top rank / number one
HSK 7-9
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
HSK 7-9
characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number
character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop
official account (on a social networking platform)
round brackets; parentheses ( )
identifier
multiplication sign (math.)
tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate
to wail / to cry out in distress
tracking number (of a package shipment)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *号* | 号* | *号
roar / cry / CL: 個|个
Space Shuttle Endeavor
ordinal number / serial number / sequence number
number of military unit
D size battery
(computing) (text file) line number; (data table or spreadsheet) row number / (Tw) unincorporated firm (typically a smaller business such as a sole proprietorship or partnership)
the fifth / fifth day of a month
(coll.) to slink off
to boss people around (idiom)
comma (punct.)
question mark (punct.) / unknown factor / unsolved problem / interrogation
trademark
asterisk * (punct.)
number sign # (punctuation) / hash symbol / pound sign
colon (punct.)
quotation mark (punct.)
double quotes
lot number / batch number
(math.) equals sign =
book number (esp. ISBN)
to dial a telephone number
account number; account; username
student ID number
minus sign - (math.)
2nd day of the month
(archaic) title granted to a person / to ban an (online) account
Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the PLA Navy (commissioned in 2012)
to steal an online account
tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up
enumeration comma (、) (used to separate words or phrases in a list)
bugle horn
nickname
an order (esp. army) / bugle call expressing military order / verbal command
document identifier code (typically including an abbreviation for the name of the issuing organization, the date and a serial number)
area code
grade
secret signal (sign) / countersign / password
desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)
dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
radical sign √ (math.)
alarm / alert / warning signal
trombone
exclamation mark (punct.)
semicolon (punct.)
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)
telephone dial
seat number
percent sign % (punct.)
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.)
(Tw) companies; businesses
trumpeter / military bugler
large-sized (of clothes, shoes) / (old) to give an order / (old) to quit one's job in a store
to bawl / to wail / to cry
work chant / prison cell / type / sort / mark / sign / signal / (Tw) brokerage firm
even number (on a ticket, house etc)
license plate / number plate
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
plus or minus sign ± (math.)
refined appelation / (humor) sb's elegant monicker / (hon.) your esteemed name
military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose") / flag signal; semaphore
medium-sized
(newspaper) extra / special number (of a periodical)
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉, etc)
negative value sign - (math.) / minus sign
casualties / wounded soldiers
honorific title / form of address reserved for a queen, ancestor, emperor etc
single quotes
one of the many names of Buddha

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