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HSK
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *擺* | 擺* | *擺
to arrange / to exhibit / to move to and fro / a pendulum
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *襬* | 襬* | *襬
hem (at the bottom of a garment)
HSK 4
to set up; to arrange; to lay out
HSK 7-9
to sway / to wobble / to waver
HSK 7-9
ornament / decorative item / (fig.) sth that is merely for show
HSK 7-9
to be fair / to be impartial / to settle (a matter etc)
HSK 7-9
simple pendulum (physics)
Foucault's pendulum
(of a pendulum) to stop swinging / (of work, production, activities etc) to come to a halt / to be suspended / to be canceled / shutdown / (sports) lockout
to wave one's hand / to gesture with one's hand (beckoning, waving good-bye etc) / to swing one's arms
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
hem of a skirt / shirt tail
ferry
to move back and forth / to fiddle with
to strut / swaggering
evident / clear / undoubted
to play tricks on / to make a fool of
to put on airs / to be ostentatious
to parade one's wealth / to be ostentatious and extravagant
pendulum clock
to twist and sway (one's body)
balance (of a watch or clock) / balance wheel
to mess sth up / to screw up
swing (genre of jazz music)
swing (dance)
malaria
to put on airs / to assume great airs
hawking / street vending
pendulum
(dialect) to chat; to gossip; to spin a yarn
to set up a stall / (fig.) to maintain a large staff and organization
to do sth for show / to keep up appearances
to assume / to adopt (a look, pose, manner etc) / to bring out for display
to spread over an area
to nod one's head and wag one's tail (idiom) / to be well pleased with oneself / to have a lighthearted air
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
to show clearly
to take a staged photograph
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
double pendulum (math.)
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
erhua variant of 擺譜|摆谱
swaggering / staggering / waddling
to swing / to sway
to swing / to sway
(dialect) last time
to run a street stall
yawing (of a boat)
hem (of a skirt)
to pose (for a picture)
variant of 裙襬|裙摆
indecisive / wavering
swing state (US politics)
present the facts and reason things out
to arrange / to order about / to manipulate
to set up a vendor's stall in the street
shuttle bus / feeder bus
cycloid
to break out of a crisis
lit. to arrange a shelf of flowers / superficial display (idiom)
decorative items / ornaments
knickknack / ornament / decorative item
(idiom) to sway from side to side; unsteady / (idiom) indecisive; hesitant
to display (goods) / to dispose of
(coll.) to show off


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