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HSK
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strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
HSK 2
(informal) note / CL: 張|张, 個|个
HSK 5
french fries / french fried potatoes / chips
HSK 6
lead story (on the news)
HSK 7-9
IOU / certificate of indebtedness
HSK 7-9
line (in drawing, calligraphy etc) / the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
HSK 7-9
(of a woman) slim / slender / graceful
HSK 7-9
bleak; desolate / (economics) in a slump; sluggish; depressed
HSK 7-9
receipt for a loan / IOU
HSK 7-9
doctrine / dogma / creed / dogmatic
HSK 7-9
Toutiao, personalized content recommendation app (abbr. for 今日頭條|今日头条)
strip
noodles
chain / CL: , 條|条
gold bar
slip of paper
clockwork spring (used to power a watch or windup toy etc) / (attributive) windup; clockwork
entry (in a dictionary)
seal
a law
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin
creed / article of faith
(textiles) sliver / tampon (abbr. for 衛生棉條|卫生棉条)
everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
vermicelli made from mung bean starch etc
brief note
old fox; slick customer
receipt / note acknowledging receipt
(ox etc) tongue (as food) / (dialect) elocution; articulation
willow twig; osier; wicker
IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
leave of absence request (from work or school)
silver bar
lath
travel pass
(wheel) spoke
to procure / to act as pimp
(computing) scroll bar
commandment / precept
wool top, semiprocessed raw wool
ice lolly / popsicle
thong / leather strap / pimp / procurer
receipt
a sawblade
stark naked
strip of lead
rattan
branch / twig / stem
rack (and pinion)
bamboo strip
four of a kind / quads (poker)
steel bar
set of (usually four) hanging scrolls
three of a kind (poker)
report of success from a candidate to the imperial examination (old) / list of deaths
leave of absence request (from work or school) / excuse note / CL: 張|张
(Tw) chicken strips
french fries
paper docket confirming a transaction
the Great Depression (1929-c. 1939)
(slang) to go to the toilet
spicy sticks, a snack food similar to beef jerky but made with flour or dried beancurd instead of meat
to wind up (a watch or other clockwork mechanism)
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
Toutiao, personalized content recommendation app
(computing) progress bar
(used to modify 事情) serious; grave
cutlet
ink stick
moxa stick, moxa roll (TCM)
label / tag
tampon
to wind the spring up tight / (fig.) to gear up; to ready oneself
magnetic stripe
(gaming) health bar
spoke (of wheel)
french fries / (hot) potato chips
drawing (textile industry)
the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915
Tianjin agreement of 1885 between Li Hongzhang 李鴻章|李鸿章 and ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 to pull Qing and Japanese troops out of Korea
toolbar (in computer software)
to write an IOU or promissory note
to defecate (slang)
to hold up a white banner (i.e. to protest)
(slang) to take a dump
entire / whole (fish, road etc)
paling / fence rail
youtiao (deep-fried breadstick) / CL: / slick and sly person
LED strip light
sick note / medical certificate for sick leave
shred
thick-skinned / insensitive
economic depression
menu bar (of a computer application)
regulations
instruction / order / maxim
steel rails
popsicle
(mechanical engineering) rack and pinion


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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