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  *架* | 架* | *架
to support / frame / rack / framework / classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc
HSK 3
to quarrel / to have a row / quarrel / CL: 頓|顿
HSK 3
clothes hanger / clothes rack
HSK 3
bookshelf / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to fight / to scuffle / to come to blows / CL: 場|场
HSK 5
(construction) frame / (fig.) framework
HSK 7-9
to kidnap / to abduct / to hijack / a kidnapping / abduction / staking
HSK 7-9
bracket
bike rack / bicycle frame
to try to stop a fight / to intervene in a fight
roof beam / rafters
music stand
rack
easel
trestle; support; stand; frame / (medicine) stent / to prop up / to resist; to withstand (an enemy attack etc)
pen rack / pen-holder
to coerce by invoking moral obligations (duty, sacrifice, reciprocation etc); to lay a guilt trip on sb
overhead / elevated (walkway, highway etc) / elevated road
height restriction barrier
cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure
tripod / derrick crane
scaffolding
framework / skeleton
open shelves (in self-service store or user access library)
stretcher / litter / bier
to resist; to ward off; to hold one's own
to mediate in a quarrel / to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down
eyeglasses frame / CL: / mirror support
scaffolding
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
(aviation) landing gear; undercarriage
(dialect) height of a house
a building / the frame of a building / roof beam / truss
gallows / gibbet
to put goods on shelves / (of a product) to be available for sale
continental shelf
continental shelf
lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
to fall apart / exhaustion
structure
tripod; stand
a sawhorse
bracket
truss (weight-bearing construction of cross-beams)
stove stand; grate (supporting a pot over the stove) / grate (in a fireplace) / oven rack
shelf for goods / shop shelf
candlestick holder / candlestand / candelabra
trellis / scaffolding
(of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle / (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal)
picture frame
clothes drying rack
roof rack
grill (of a cooker etc)
hurdle
(medicine) vascular stent; stent (used to keep a blood vessel open)
gibbet / hanging post
trestle / X-shaped frame
ledge
Snickers (candy bar)
group scuffle / gang fight
to take down from the shelves (e.g. a contaminated product)
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)
to scuffle / to come to blows
rigid frame
to collapse / to come to grief
inkstand
(electronics) lead frame
luggage carrier (bicycle)
trestle
a coordinate frame
dish rack
Shennongjialin, directly administered forestry reserve in east Hubei
cytoskeleton (of a cell)
a quarrel in which third parties get involved
luggage rack
cart / barrow / frame / chassis
a sawframe
bipod (supporting a machine gun etc)


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