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


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