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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
Robam (brand)
printed circuit board
billboard
ceiling
roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus
(computing) 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
pedal (in a car, on a piano etc) / treadle / footstool / footrest / footboard
slab / flagstone / slate
rigid / inflexible
motherboard
template / prototype / model / example
accelerator pedal
template / (architecture) formwork
blood platelet
whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
(computing) motherboard / (stock market) main board
backboard
fingerboard (of a guitar or violin etc)
skateboard
steel plate
copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin
cutting board; chopping block
pedal / treadle / (motor scooter) floorboard
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)
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
cardboard
ski / CL: / snowboard
daily upper limit on the price of a stock
wooden boards used to press sth together / (medicine) splint
sun visor / sunshade / sunshading board
plywood
cutting board; chopping board
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
tortoise plastron / turtle shell
body / physique / physical condition
bedboard
clapper-board
tangram (traditional Chinese block puzzle)
afterdeck
washboard
floor with tiled design
blackboard / painted board on which to make temporary notes with brush pen
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闆* | 闆* | *闆
to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
outmoded / old-fashioned / inflexible
castanets (music)
to fall apart / opera section in free rhythm
panel / faceplate
kneading or chopping board
template
waist and back / physique
thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
motherboard
melamine veneer (loanword)
stiff / inflexible / mechanical / stubborn / to cut blocks for printing
sailboard / windsurfing
sampan
particle board / chipboard
to be off the beat / to sound awful (of singing) / (fig.) to wander off the topic / (diving) to step toward the end of the board / approach
washboard / (slang) flat-chested (woman)
sampan / also written 舢舨
allegro
panel / back panel
substrate
loud pedal (on piano) / sustaining pedal
divider; partition
stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) / stand-up paddleboard / blade of a propeller / blade of an oar
solar panel
chopping board; cutting board / CL: 張|张
to edge-join boards with glue to form a panel (woodworking)
moderato
shelf
(writing) tablet
(Tw) (computing) touchpad
slow tempo / adagio
module board
meniscus (anatomy)
snowboard / to snowboard
baseboard / skirting board
short stave of the barrel (which allows the contents to escape) / (fig.) shortcoming; weak point

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