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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拿* | 拿* | *拿
to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as : to mark the following noun as a direct object)
HSK 1
to get / to obtain
HSK 2
to take out / to put out / to provide / to put forward (a proposal) / to come up with (evidence)
HSK 2
to take away
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拿* | 拿* | *拿
old variant of
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拿* | 拿* | *拿
variant of
HSK 1
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power
expert in / good at
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag / (idiom) (of a person) confident of success
Saint Helena
Canada
to pick up
latte (loanword)
(lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control / (dialect) affecting shyness; coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten
the attitude of mechanically borrowing (ideas etc)
the role an actor plays best (idiom) / (fig.) one's specialty / one's forte
to bring to justice
specialty (dish)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
to be unable to lift (sth); to find (sth) too heavy
Panama Canal
in doubt; unsure of sth; unable to decide; indecisive
Naomi (name)
tui na (form of Chinese manual therapy)
(loanword) sauna
HSK 7-9
to arrest / to catch a criminal
Napoleon (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
making things awkward / to cause difficulties / to exert influence / to attract
caffe latte
to do a handstand
to arrest / to capture / to seize / to win (a set, a game etc)
to capture / to apprehend
Panama City
lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted
to arrest / to seize
doughnut (loanword)
to hold power; to be in control
St Helena
Panama
to detain / to apprehend / to capture
Royal Canadian Navy
to provoke
to arrest
to arrest; to capture; to catch
lit. a dog who catches mice / to be meddlesome (idiom)
Book of Jonah
to bring / to fetch / to get
to arrest for punishment
HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
don't know what to do with you (used to express mild exasperation)
Hallasan Mountain or Mount Halla, highest mountain in South Korea
(loanword) dynamite
pretentious / striking a pose
tuna (loanword)
Messina, Sicilian city
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
to throw one's weight around / to put on airs
to put on airs / self-important / high and mighty
Nashon (son of Amminadab)
tuna (loanword)
a sure gain / sth one is sure to obtain
Hannah (biblical figure)
to make a decision / to make up one's mind
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
to hold in one's hand
clutch bag
(dialect) spanner (loanword)
stubborn / inflexible
not presentable / shoddy and too embarrassing to show
Managua, capital of Nicaragua (Tw)
Bonaparte (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Montana, US state
(gaming) to get first blood / (slang) to take (sb's) virginity
(chemistry) (loanword) ammonal
Canadian Pacific Railway
guarana (Paullinia cupana)
to do a handstand
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas
Strait of Messina between Calabria and Sicily
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas (Tw)
Manasseh (son of Hezekiah)
(bird species of China) cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
Amminadab (son of Ram)
paraffin / variant of 石蠟|石蜡


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