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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
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
to levy (a tax) / to expropriate
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *徵* | 徵* | *徵
4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音, corresponding to sol
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)
to solicit contributions (to a publication)
sign; indication; symptom
to enlist / to draft / to conscript / to appoint to an official position
pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
to consult; to solicit the opinion of
to levy troops / recruitment
(Tw) private investigator; credit bureau
to seek new friends through personal ads, dating apps etc
to start collecting taxes
to levy taxes
to invite job applications / to recruit
sign / symptom
to conscript / to second (personnel) / to requisition (supplies etc)
symbol; indicator; representation
to look for a partner
a punitive expedition / a requisition
symbolism
sexual characteristic
to suspend taxes momentarily / to postpone military draft
symbolic / emblem / token
to conscript
symptom (of a disease)
levies in kind / grain tax
soldier (in battle)
symptom
Yizheng, county-level city in Yangzhou 揚州市|扬州市, Jiangsu
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)
modified fifth note of the pentatonic scale
to recruit
to seek out the real nature based on the name (idiom); to judge sth at face value
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
vital signs
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
(idiom) permeated with beautiful music
(idiom) permeated with beautiful music
Budd-Chiari syndrome
quotation / citing / to cite / to reference
(medicine) indicator / indication
Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Ming painter, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
eigenvalue (math.) / also written 特徵值|特征值
characteristic binding
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)
syndrome
an elaborate string of references / many quotations
irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
clinical characteristic / diagnostic trait
Lu Zhengxiang (1871-1949), Chinese diplomat and Catholic monk
myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)


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