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HSK
characteristic / diagnostic property / distinctive feature / trait
HSK 4
to solicit / to seek / to request (opinions, feedback etc) / to petition
HSK 4
to conquer / to subdue / to vanquish
HSK 4
emblem / symbol / token / badge / to symbolize / to signify / to stand for
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *徵* | 徵* | *徵
to invite / to recruit / to levy (taxes) / to draft (troops) / phenomenon / symptom / characteristic sign (used as proof) / evidence
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *征* | 征* | *征
journey / trip / expedition / to go on long campaign / to attack
HSK 7-9
to levy (a tax) / to expropriate
HSK 7-9
expedition / long journey
HSK 7-9
to collect / to recruit
HSK 7-9
to examine the reliability / reliable / credit reporting
Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书
an expedition, esp. military / march to remote regions
to apply (for a job) / to reply to a job advertisement
omen / sign (that sth is about to happen) / warning sign
to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
campaign; expedition
to solicit contributions (to a publication)
Long March (retreat of the Red Army 1934-1935)
sign; indication; symptom
to enlist / to draft / to conscript / to appoint to an official position
to consult; to solicit the opinion of
to go into battle / to campaign (military)
expeditionary force / army on a distant expedition
to levy troops / recruitment
(Tw) private investigator; credit bureau
to seek new friends through personal ads, dating apps etc
conqueror
to start collecting taxes
to levy taxes
to invite job applications / to recruit
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
sign / symptom
to conscript / to second (personnel) / to requisition (supplies etc)
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
symbol; indicator; representation
to look for a partner
a punitive expedition / a requisition
the dust of a long journey
symbolism
traveler's clothing / military uniform
garrison
to take to the field oneself (of emperor) / to take part in person in an expedition
punitive expedition to the north
sexual characteristic
the Crusades / crusaders' eastern expedition
the emperor leads his troops into battle (idiom) / to take part personally in an expedition
to suspend taxes momentarily / to postpone military draft
journey / expedition / voyage
symbolic / emblem / token
to conscript
symptom (of a disease)
to go on or send a punitive expedition
levies in kind / grain tax
punitive expedition to the east
soldier (in battle)
to go on a personal punitive expedition
symptom
traveler's clothing / by extension, traveler
traveler (on a long journey) / participant in an expedition / garrison soldier / new recruit
to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
to extort taxes
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
by force / to conquer by force of arms / power
long journey / trek / course of an expedition
to go on a punitive expedition
night journey / punitive expedition by night
to mount a punitive expedition against bandits
Yizheng, county-level city in Yangzhou 揚州市|扬州市, Jiangsu
customs levy / customs post charging import duties
punitive expedition to the south
horse capable of long expedition / army horse
to hurry forward on an expedition / to drive fast
traveler / soldier on expedition / soldier taking part in battle
to win without a fight (idiom)
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
to call for entries and select the best / to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc) / to select (the best candidate) / contest / competition
without proof one can't believe it (idiom)
to act on one's own / to fight alone
pennant used on expedition / war pennant
horses and wagons for an expedition / vehicles and horses used in battle
to recruit
Taipei Revenue Service (tax office)
autumn levy (tax on harvest)
scared / badly frightened
expedition ship
to seek out the real nature based on the name (idiom); to judge sth at face value
to requisition land
punitive expedition to the west
war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
to levy an additional (tax or tariff)
(medical) sign / physical sign
narrative of long journey / campaign record
eigenvector (math.)
eigenvector (math.) / also written 特徵向量|特征向量
eigenvalue (math.)
tax threshold
to press into service / to impress / to commandeer

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