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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *錄* | 錄* | *錄
diary / record / to hit / to copy
HSK 3
to record / record (written account) / note-taker / record (in sports etc) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to record (sound) / sound recording / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *彔* | 彔* | *彔
to carve wood
HSK 3
variant of 記錄|记录 (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record")
HSK 3
to register / to log in
HSK 4
to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam / to admit (a student) / to hire (a job candidate)
HSK 4
to videotape / to videorecord / video recording / CL: 盤|盘
HSK 6
(tape) recording machine / tape recorder / CL: 臺|台
HSK 6
catalog / table of contents / directory (on computer hard drive) / list / contents
HSK 7-9
newsreel / documentary (film or TV program) / CL:
HSK 7-9
to record (video or audio)
HSK 7-9
memoir
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *錄* | 錄* | *錄
surname Lu
appendix
to videotape / to videorecord
to include (in a collection) / to put together (stories, poems etc) / to record / to employ / to recruit
minimum passing score for admission
the Revelation of St John the divine / the Apocalypse
to record (audio)
camcorder / video recorder / videocassette recorder (Tw) / CL: 臺|台
address book / directory
directory
transcription / to make a copy of a recording
product catalog
recorder
to extract / to excerpt / excerpt
memorandum / aide-memoire / memorandum book
(Tw) videotape; video cassette / CL: 盤|盘
entry (accounting)
to extract / to excerpt / an excerpt
an excerpt / a digest
to put down in writing / to take down notes / transcript / record
bibliography
to hire (an employee) / to accept (a manuscript) for publication
catalog
audio tape / CL: 盤|盘,
to compile; to collect
to input (computer) / to type
roll-call (e.g. at athletics event) / check the record
telnet / rlogin / remote login
answering machine
subdirectory (computing)
to compile (various texts) into book form / a compilation
to make a copy of
to select and edict / to edit extracts
to record / to put down in writing
Xerox (Tw)
to pirate (an audio recording, movie etc) / to bootleg
literary miscellany / varia
Rizhilu or Record of daily study, by early Confucian philosopher Gu Yanwu 顧炎武|顾炎武
to copy out
entry pass for imperial examination
to set a record
radio-tape recorder
to employ by an examination
collect and record
video recorder / VCR
live recording
to take down a confession / Taiwan pr. [lu4gong1]
videotape; video cassette / CL: 盤|盘
to capture data / to record illicitly / data skimming
to assess sb's capabilities and employ him accordingly (idiom); to employ sb competent for the task
to compile and record
admission notice (issued by a university)
name service
bearer of good news (esp. announcing success in imperial examinations)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓|林纾
to burn (a CD or DVD)
to recruit
flight recorder / black box
criminal record
mockumentary
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published from 1964 to about 1976
Baruch (name) / Baruch, disciple of Jeremiah / book of Baruch in the Apocrypha
disk burner
Ming Veritable Records, imperial annals of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty
Qing historical archive, currently 4484 scrolls
variant of 錄像|录像
flight record
record of famous men / anthology of biographies
"Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first forensic science text
dashcam
reverse transcriptase
to record and play (audio, video)
flight recorder / black box
world record
(filmmaking) to prerecord a musical soundtrack to which actors will later synchronize their performance during filming
to set a new record
to record on a CD or DVD / to burn a disc
(molecular biology) reverse transcription
retrovirus
reverse transcription virus / retrovirus
single sign-on (SSO)
to film; to record (a video)
classification of orange trees by 12th century Song dynasty botanist Han Yanzhi 韓彥直|韩彦直
Ming dynasty record (1574) of exploration and foreign relations
offering memorandum (for public stock issue) / publication memorandum
cassette tape

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