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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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different / wrong; mistaken / to fall short; to lack / not up to standard; inferior / Taiwan pr. [cha1]
HSK 1
difference / error / inaccuracy
HSK 7-9
to go on an official or business trip
HSK 5
prices scissor (caught between low income and high prices)
to not lack
not bad / OK
to report back after completion of one's mission
(idiom) word for word; verbatim; without a single mistake or omission
(statistics) standard deviation
drop in elevation / (fig.) gap (in wages, expectations etc) / disparity
HSK 7-9
information asymmetry; information gap (esp. a difference in access to information that can be exploited for profit)
to adjust to a different time zone
variance (statistics)
price difference
so uneducated! / so ignorant!
contrast; discrepancy
HSK 7-9
sriracha (loanword)
to differ
HSK 7-9
(trade or budget) surplus
HSK 7-9
official business / government workmen / odd-job men
time difference / time lag / jet lag
bias / deviation
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *差* | 差* | *差
difference; discrepancy / (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction) / (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *差* | 差* | *差
to send (on an errand) / (archaic) person sent on such an errand / job; official post
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *差* | 差* | *差
trade deficit / adverse trade balance
to be absent-minded / to desert / to abscond from the army / absent without leave (AWOL)
lucrative job / cushy job
(statistics) covariance
hairsbreadth difference
range (the difference between the lowest and highest values)
mediocre / rather poor / not specially good
to moonlight / side job
(numerical analysis) divided differences / (statistics) mean absolute difference
(optics) aberration
postman; mailman (dated in mainland China)
adverse trade balance / trade deficit
uneven; jagged; snaggletooth; ragged; serrated
trade surplus
messenger
phase difference
tolerance (allowed error) / common difference (of an arithmetic series)
official errand / bailiff in a yamen
to slip (e.g. of clutch) / slippage / also used of economic indicators, statistical discrepancies etc
labor conscripted to support the military
difference in exchange rates in different regions
differential (between grades) / salary differential
roughly the same
(coll.) extremely poor (in quality); shockingly bad
(math.) mean deviation
hard task / difficult mission / arduous and unrewarding undertaking / drudgery / grind / chore
(old) to be taken out to be executed
single supplement (for a hotel room)
underwriting spread
range (of a set of data) (statistics)
accurate to perfection (idiom) / precise to the finest detail
(meteorology) diurnal range (temperature, humidity etc)
momentary slip / false step / ill-considered action
determinant (characteristic of a species)
heterodyne (electronics)
underwriting spread
single supplement (for a hotel room)
difference in temperature
degree of disparity / equal difference
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
annual range (temperature, humidity etc)
(coll.) squalid / squalor
(astronomy) precession
attendant
spherical aberration (optics)
(idiom) due to an unexpected turn of events
cushy job; pleasant task
imperial envoy
parallax


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