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criss-crossed (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Hengzhou, a county-level city in Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市, Guangxi
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
to span / to stretch across / to travel across
to cut across / cross-sectional / transverse
beam
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *横* | 横* | *横
horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *横* | 横* | *横
harsh and unreasonable / unexpected
HSK 7-9
side street / crossroad
(idiom) to come to the fore in spectacular fashion; to emerge from obscurity to achieve great success
to be full of wit and humor
imperious / peremptory
to cross / to pass over / to traverse / trans-
to make easy money / to make a fortune / to line one's pockets
to sweep away / to sweep across
to rob sb of sth they cherish (idiom)
yokozuna
brimming over with talent (esp. literary) / brilliant
crosswalk; pedestrian crossing
crosswalk / pedestrian crossing with zebra stripes
easy money / windfall / ill-gotten gains / undeserved fortune / illegal profit
to blame unscrupulously
to scowl fiercely / to glare
(idiom) spiced with wit / very witty
horizontal tablet (for an inscription)
to explain sth over and over again / to repeat
horizontal scroll / banner / streamer
to cut across / a horizontal cut
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home
to cross / to traverse
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7-9
brutal / violent
diaphragm (anatomy)
to be overflowing with tears (idiom)
(idiom) to barge through, jostling and elbowing; to charge around; to rampage
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy
diaphragm (anatomy)
cross-section
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
slogan banner
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
to cross (a body of water)
endlessly interesting (idiom) / very witty
violently / flagrantly
to go on the rampage / to riot / to run amuck
horizontal coordinate / abscissa
lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
horizontal section
to scowl and stare down / to defy
to butt in / to interfere / to make things difficult
stroke in Chinese characters
to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly
striated muscle
fierce-looking
to oppress / to rule as a despot / to tyrannize
in disorder / in a tremendous mess
corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle)
rolling motion (of a boat)
transverse wave
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
Yokohama, Japan
to traverse
Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay)
coarse and arrogant / always in the right
arrogant / overbearing
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
unexpected calamity
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
crosswise pattern
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
side street / road branching from the main street
old and decrepit / proud of one's age and experience (idiom)
rude and unreasonable
horizontal section
to concentrate one's eyebrows / to frown / to scowl
Hengshan township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
(bird species of China) spotted owlet (Athene brama)
banner / horizontal slogan or advertisement
to recline
anyway
(of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
surly and unreasoning / bullying / tyrannical
probably / most likely
lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes / to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
to criss-cross / to run unhindered across the whole country
(table tennis) shakehand grip
total annihilation
transverse vibration
Yokohama, major port city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县, Japan
firmness of determination
tears and mucus flowing profusely / sniveling / in a tragic state
bar / horizontal bar
horizontal setting (printing)
tabula (horizontal floor of polyp)
cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides), esp. grown as bonsai
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