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HSK
blackboard / CL: 塊|块, 個|个
HSK 2
boss / business proprietor / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *板* | 板* | *板
board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊|块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闆* | 闆* | *闆
see 老闆|老板, boss
HSK 3
variant of 老闆|老板
HSK 3
floor
HSK 6
clapper-board / auctioneer's hammer / to beat time with clappers
HSK 7-9
to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge
HSK 7-9
slab / board / plank / CL: 張|张, 塊|块
HSK 7-9
slab / (geology) tectonic plate / (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry) / (economic) bloc
HSK 7-9
footrest
Robam (brand)
flyboard
paperboard / board
to suffer beating / fig. to be severely criticized / to take a hammering
daily upper limit on the price of a stock
afterdeck
scooter
drywall saw / plasterboard saw
(slang) Spain
pressed (dried) salted duck
Panmunjom village on the DMZ between North and South Korea
Banqiao or Panchiao city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
road or pavement laid with flagstones
printed circuit board
billboard
pedal (in a car, on a piano etc) / treadle / footstool / footrest / footboard
ceiling
cricket (ball game)
roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus
(computing) clipboard
lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties
writing tablet / clipboard
slab; flat board; (engineering) surface plate / flat; level / (fig.) dull; monotonous / abbr. for 平板電腦|平板电脑 and 平板手機|平板手机
chairs and tables / household furniture
slab / flagstone / slate
rigid / inflexible
motherboard
template / prototype / model / example
accelerator pedal
Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area in the Korean demilitarized zone
template / (architecture) formwork
blood platelet
whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
teppanyaki
(computing) motherboard / (stock market) main board
Banqiao or Panchiao city in Taiwan
fingerboard (of a guitar or violin etc)
skateboard
wooden bench or stool / CL: 張|张, 條|条
steel plate
female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife
copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin
stereotype
cutting board; chopping block
pedal / treadle / (motor scooter) floorboard
handcart / trolley / flatbed truck
wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling / coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
handcart; flatbed cart; flatbed tricycle
cardboard
ski / CL: / snowboard
board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
wooden boards used to press sth together / (medicine) splint
sun visor / sunshade / sunshading board
blackboard bulletin with short news items written on it (can usually be found in factories, schools etc)
slate
plywood
cutting board; chopping board
lath
plate tectonics
soil crusting
model theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution)
solemn
overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square
flight deck
(car, bicycle etc) fender; mudguard; (UK) wing
set square / triangle (for drawing right angles)
daily lower limit on the price of a stock
springboard / jumping-off point / gangplank
palette
spoiler (automotive or aeronautical)
deck (of a boat etc)
stiff / inflexible / also pr. [ai2 ban3]
longboard
to write on the blackboard / writing on the blackboard
rebound (basketball)
tortoise plastron / turtle shell
body / physique / physical condition
jigsaw puzzle / wood block puzzle
bedboard
clapper-board
tangram (traditional Chinese block puzzle)
stiff / dull
to be attacked by both sides in a quarrel / to be caught in the crossfire
washboard
floor with tiled design
blackboard / painted board on which to make temporary notes with brush pen
blackboard or whiteboard eraser
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闆* | 闆* | *闆
to catch sight of in a doorway (old)

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