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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *張* | 張* | *張
to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes
HSK 3
to advocate / to stand for / view / position / stand / proposition / viewpoint / assertion / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained / in short supply / scarce / CL: 陣|阵
HSK 3
to exaggerate / overstated; exaggerated / hyperbole / (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous
HSK 7-9
to post (a notice) / to advertise
HSK 7-9
expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden
HSK 7-9
to open a business / first transaction of a business day
HSK 7-9
flustered / agitated
HSK 7-9
to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around
HSK 7-9
to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue) / to promote
HSK 7-9
to be decorated with lanterns and colored banners (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to display ostentatiously / to bring out into the open / to make public / to spread around / flamboyant / brash
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *張* | 張* | *張
surname Zhang
Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist
paper
to open up / to spread / to extend
rampant / unbridled / arrogant / aggressive
tension
varicose veins
Zhangdian District of Zibo city 淄博市, Shandong
to hang up (a picture, banner, mosquito net etc)
to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc) / to gape / to start talking (esp. to make a request)
to look around / to peep (through a crack) / to peer at / to throw a look at
flustered; in a panic
to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request) / to gape
Zhangwan district of Shiyan city 十堰市, Hubei
lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility / at daggers drawn
to bare fangs and brandish claws (idiom); to make threatening gestures
openly and without fear / brazenly
Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry / (dialect) wolf
to take care of / to raise money / to attend to (guests, customers etc)
to relax and expand / (physiology) diastole
(idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
Angela Chang (1982-), Taiwanese pop singer and actress
Zhangjiakou, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省
quietly / without ostentation
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
ostentation / extravagance
agape and tongue-tied (idiom); at a loss for words / gaping and speechless
(printing) proof; specimen page / sample photograph / (fashion design) pattern sheet
diastolic blood pressure
Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War
extravagance and waste (idiom)
(of a shop) to close down; to go out of business
alarmed / flustered
Zhangjiajie, prefecture-level city in Hunan Province 湖南省
Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty
Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938
brash / insolent / frantic
recalcitrant / unreasonable / peevish
Chamberlain (name) / Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), US basketball player
Zhangdian District of Zibo city 淄博市, Shandong
to make public / to disclose
Zhangwan district of Shiyan city 十堰市, Hubei
if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom) / take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves / (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered
surface tension
lit. to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
Zhangbei county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei
Zhang Sengyou (active c. 490-540), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家
Zhangye, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省
to spread one's voice wide (idiom); wide publicity
Zhanjiachuan Huizu autonomous county in Gansu
panic-stricken (idiom) / to be in a flustered state / also written 張惶失措|张惶失措
to open one's eyes wide
(idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself
Zhangbei county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei
Zhangjiagang, county-level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州, Jiangsu
(idiom) to launch an all-out attack / to roundly condemn; to castigate
any Tom, Dick or Harry; anyone
lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head / to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom) / to confuse one thing with another
seafloor spreading (geology)
to put on an act (idiom); to pose / to show theatrical affectation / to indulge in histrionics
to put on an act (idiom); to pose / to show theatrical affectation / to indulge in histrionics
Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine
out of one's mind
remittent fever
Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书
Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention
A-Mei, aka Gulilai Amit (1972-), aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer
Leslie Cheung (1956-2003), Hong Kong singer and actor
Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han
sola bill of exchange (international trade)
Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Zhang Heng (78-139) great Han dynasty astronomer and mathematician
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
Zhang Xun (1854-1923), Qing loyalist general who attempted to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi 溥儀|溥仪 to the throne in the Manchu Restoration of 1917 張勳復辟|张勋复辟
Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
Maggie Cheung (1964-), Hong Kong actress
Cecilia Cheung (1980-), Hong Kong actress and pop singer
flyer / leaflet / single-sheet (map etc)
tension and relaxation
hypertension / excessive stress
Jacky Cheung or Hok Yau Jacky (1961-), Cantopop and film star
Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress

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