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HSK
to call / to dial
HSK 6
to get through to sb on the phone
HSK 7-9
to allocate funds / appropriation
HSK 7-9
to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people / to tell tales / to make mischief
to provoke / to tease
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  *撥* | 撥* | *撥
to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc / to dial / to allocate / to set aside (money) / to poke (the fire) / to pluck (a string instrument) / to turn round / classifier: group, batch
HSK 7-9
(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
to dial a telephone number
to give instructions / to give advice
to assign / to allocate / to transfer (money to an account)
appropriate sum of money
to stir / to prod / to poke / to move sideways / to strum (on a guitar etc)
to push aside / to part / to brush away
lit. to dispel the clouds and see the sun (idiom); fig. to restore justice
dial tone
pizzicato
to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc) / to fiddle with / to stir up
dial-up (Internet connection)
to sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between
to find time to do sth in the midst of pressing affairs
to set right / to correct
to turn / to turn around / to transfer (funds etc)
lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort
telephone dial
to make time
to incite disharmony / to instigate
to pull out / to allocate (funds) / to dial
plucked string music
bring order out of chaos / set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder
plectrum
rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)
group of people
to pluck (a string)
appropriation
plucked string instrument / CL:
plucked string or stringed instrument / plucked instrument
poker
to sow discord / to provoke
plectrum
to send (products) / to allocate / to commit (funds) / to channel (goods)
to sow discord
dial-up connection / dial-up networking


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