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HSK
surely / certainly / necessarily / fixed / a certain (extent etc) / given / particular / must
HSK 2
not necessarily / maybe
HSK 2
definite / certain / fixed / to fix (on sth) / to determine / to be sure / to ensure / to make certain / to ascertain / to clinch / to recognize / to confirm / OK (on computer dialog box)
HSK 3
to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota) / regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations
HSK 3
to negate / to deny / to reject / negative (answer) / negation
HSK 3
to draw up; to formulate
HSK 3
to decide (to do something) / to resolve / decision / CL: 個|个, 項|项 / certainly
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *定* | 定* | *定
to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely
HSK 4
steady / stable / stability / to stabilize / to pacify
HSK 4
can't say for sure / maybe
HSK 4
to fix / to fasten / to set rigidly in place / fixed / set / regular
HSK 4
to be certain; to be positive / assuredly; definitely / to give recognition; to affirm / affirmative (answer)
HSK 5
firm / steady / staunch / resolute
HSK 5
to maintain (that sth is true) / to determine (a fact) / determination (of an amount) / of the firm opinion / to believe firmly / to set one's mind on / to identify with
HSK 5
special; specific; designated; particular
HSK 5
to agree on sth (after discussion) / to conclude a bargain / to arrange / to promise / to stipulate / to make an appointment / stipulated (time, amount, quality etc) / an arrangement / a deal / appointment / undertaking / commitment / understanding / engagement / stipulation
HSK 6
to appoint / to assign / to indicate clearly and with certainty / designated
HSK 6
to determine (by measuring or surveying)
HSK 6
to appraise / to identify / to evaluate
HSK 6
to set / to set up / to install / setting / preferences
HSK 7-9
ruling
HSK 7-9
to be bound to / to be sure to
HSK 7-9
to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target
HSK 7-9
to draw up / to draft / to formulate
HSK 7-9
indefinite / indeterminate / (botany) adventitious
HSK 7-9
to schedule in advance
HSK 7-9
stable; calm; settled / to stabilize / Valium; diazepam
HSK 7-9
to restrict to / to limit
HSK 7-9
to judge / to decide / judgment / determination
HSK 7-9
calm / unperturbed / cool
HSK 7-9
to conclude / to determine / to come to a judgment
HSK 7-9
to foreordain / to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably
HSK 7-9
agreement / accord / to reach an agreement
HSK 7-9
to establish / to fix / to settle
HSK 7-9
to assume / to suppose / supposed / so-called / assumption / hypothesis
HSK 7-9
to evaluate / to make one's judgment
HSK 7-9
definition / to delimit
HSK 7-9
to examine sth and make a decision / to screen / to evaluate / to approve
HSK 7-9
to set down (rules) / to institute
to reach an agreement / to agree upon
temporary arrangement / provisional / tentative
transmission control protocol / TCP
to audit and determine / to check and ratify / to appraise and decide / determination / on a deemed basis (taxation) / to deem
to set / to designate / to stipulate / to provide / to draw up / to formulate (rules etc) / stipulation
DNA test; DNA testing
statutory; law-based; legal
to stake out (the boundaries of a property etc) / to demarcate / (engineering etc) to calibrate
a test / determination / to check up on / to examine / to assay
specified (capacity, output etc) / rated (capacity, output etc)
to infer; to consider and come to a judgment / to elect
to demarcate / to survey and determine
communications protocol
to select / to choose / to settle on
to schedule
"Red Poppies", novel by 阿來|阿来
lit. the dust has settled (idiom) / fig. to get sorted out / to be finalized
to agree / to decide after consultation / to come to a compromise
already fixed / set / established
to demarcate / to delimit
to be predestined
decreed by fate (idiom) / destined / fated
to authorize; to designate / (old) to be compiled and published by imperial command
constant
trade agreement
to agree on / to settle on
to stop / to halt / halt! / to hold resolutely (of a view, an aspiration etc)
(idiom) it's a deal / that's settled then
unalterable / certainly / definitely
certain / confident (of some outcome) / calm and unhurried
don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
Nam Dinh, Vietnam
caps lock
to sign (a contract, treaty etc)
to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver / to shilly-shally
Luding county (Tibetan: lcags zam rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
to be seated
to come to a decision / to fix on (a date etc) / to determine / to finalize / to nail down (a deal etc)
to await a decision / to be pending
indecisive (idiom)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Jiading district of northwest Shanghai / final reign name 1208-1224 of South Song emperor Ningzong 寧宗|宁宗
Wuding reign name (543-550) during Eastern Wei of the Northern Dynasties 東魏|东魏 / see 武定縣|武定县
undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down
Guiding county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州, Guizhou
more likely than not / quite possible / on the cards
hypertext transfer protocol / HTTP
to fix / to settle / to wangle
(loanword) binding; to bind (e.g. an account to a mobile phone number)
Zhengding county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
Yongding, county-level city in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian / Yongding district of Zhangjiajie city 張家界市|张家界市, Hunan
to assert / to insist that
titration
certain / to know for sure
to make arbitrary decisions
hypertext transfer protocol / HTTP
Puding county in Anshun 安順|安顺, Guizhou
calm and collected / unperturbed

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