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

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