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


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