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light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
pickleball
to add water (or other liquid) to (another ingredient such as powdered milk or tea leaves) / to infuse (tea)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泡* | 泡* | *泡
bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions
HSK 6
citron (Citrus medica) / grapefruit
to coax and pester (idiom) / to wheedle / to cajole
to dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill / to malinger
(idiom) to come to nothing
to steep / to soak / to immerse
HSK 7-9
cream puff (loanword) / profiterole
bubble / blister (in metal) / (of beverages) sparkling / carbonated
HSK 7-9
foam / (soap) bubble / (economic) bubble
HSK 7-9
to procrastinate / to shilly-shally and waste time
expanded polystyrene (EPS) / styrofoam
instant noodles / (Tw) pirated software
lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / to follow the same plan
bubble economy
to soak the feet
to produce foam / (of a beverage) fizzy / sparkling
to infuse / to soak in water
(coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing / to dawdle; to stall / (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
foaming agent / blowing agent
to reconstitute (dried mushrooms, seaweed etc)
kimchi
(lit.) froth and shadows / (fig.) illusion; mirage
effervescent tablet
(idiom) to come to nothing
light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest
to make tea
bubble-gum
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
styrofoam
loose socks / baggy socks
to spend time in a bar (alcohol, Internet etc) / to go clubbing
to pick up girls / to play around with girls / to chase after girls
(Buddhism) illusion / pipe dream
to marinade
pickled cabbage
kimchi
soap bubble
bubble / blister
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泡* | 泡* | *泡
puffed; swollen; spongy / small lake (esp. in place names) / classifier for urine or feces
(dialect) bladder
honest and trustworthy (idiom)
foam (material)
(coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight)
meat and bread soup (a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine)
housing bubble
bubble wrap
sparkling wine
bubble bath lotion
bubble wrap
light but bulky goods
bubble gum
follicle
small lake / pond
light bulb
to sauté / bubbles that appear in the oil when deep-frying
baking powder
pickled pepper
seersucker (cotton cloth with pattern of dimples)
to soak in a spa or hot spring
(biology) blastocyst
ovarian follicle / Taiwan pr. [luan3 pao4]
distillation tower / bubble tower / plate column
Paulownia (genus)
reticulated foam
vesicles
to bubble / to fizz / to effervesce
swim bladder (of a fish)
eddy / whirlpool
(slang) South Korea
to bubble / to foam / to blister / to sprout boils (on one's body) / sparkling (wine etc)
to emit bubbles / to bubble / to foam (with rage) / to seethe
to infuse; to brew (a herbal remedy or beverage)
swine vesicular disease (SVD)
vesicle
vacuole (biology)
soft in the head / brainless / dumb
pustule / pussy pimple / same as 膿包|脓包
to bathe / to immerse oneself in a warm bath
bubble bath
pulmonary alveolus
bubbles
blister (caused by burns)
cystic fibrosis
(biology) blastodermic vesicle
friction blister
variant of 娘炮


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