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HSK
characteristic / diagnostic property / distinctive feature / trait
HSK 4
emblem / symbol / token / badge / to symbolize / to signify / to stand for
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *征* | 征* | *征
to invite / to recruit / to levy (taxes) / to draft (troops) / phenomenon / symptom / characteristic sign (used as proof) / evidence
HSK 7-9
to solicit / to seek / to request (opinions, feedback etc) / to petition
HSK 4
to levy (a tax) / to expropriate
HSK 7-9
to collect / to recruit
HSK 7-9
(medical) sign / physical sign
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *徵* | 徵* | *徵
4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音, corresponding to sol
to levy taxes
to levy troops / recruitment
to enlist / to draft / to conscript / to appoint to an official position
to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
clinical characteristic / diagnostic trait
to conscript
to press into service / to impress / to commandeer
to look for a partner
eigenvector (math.)
to recruit
to solicit contributions (to a publication)
Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Ming painter, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
sign / symptom
to seek new friends through personal ads, dating apps etc
to call for entries and select the best / to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc) / to select (the best candidate) / contest / competition
to invite job applications / to recruit
(medicine) indicator / indication
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
to levy (a tax)
tax threshold
characteristic binding
to apply (for a job) / to reply to a job advertisement
eigenvalue (math.) / also written 特徵值|特征值
Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书
to levy an additional (tax or tariff)
to examine the reliability / reliable / credit reporting
symbolism
Lu Zhengxiang (1871-1949), Chinese diplomat and Catholic monk
to conscript / to second (personnel) / to requisition (supplies etc)
Budd-Chiari syndrome
symbolic / emblem / token
Yizheng, a county-level city in Yangzhou City 揚州市|扬州市, Jiangsu
pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
symptom
sexual characteristic
myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
vital signs
symbol; indicator; representation
quotation / citing / to cite / to reference
to start collecting taxes
without proof one can't believe it (idiom)
symptom (of a disease)
to seek out the real nature based on the name (idiom); to judge sth at face value
eigenvalue (math.)
to suspend taxes momentarily / to postpone military draft
soldier (in battle)
to consult; to solicit the opinion of
narrative of long journey / campaign record
levies in kind / grain tax
sign; indication; symptom
(Tw) private investigator; credit bureau
omen / sign (that sth is about to happen) / warning sign
syndrome
modified fifth note of the pentatonic scale
eigenvector (math.) / also written 特徵向量|特征向量
an elaborate string of references / many quotations
(idiom) permeated with beautiful music
a punitive expedition / a requisition
irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
(idiom) permeated with beautiful music
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)


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