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


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