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muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition / complete shambles / a total mess
HSK 7-9
paint
to paint / to smear / to apply (makeup etc) / to doodle / to erase / to obliterate
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
Dangtu, a county in Ma'anshan City 馬鞍山市|马鞍山市, Anhui
painted ornament / livery (on airline or company vehicle)
Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
anoint
to offer one's life in sacrifice
confused / vague / indistinct / muddle-headed / mixed up / in a daze
protective layer / coating
ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land
coating agent / finishing agent
mudflat
the common people in a miserable state
(idiom) to put on makeup / (idiom) to prettify
correction fluid
to smear / to daub / to plaster / to apply (ointment)
dotard
muddled accounts / a mess of bookkeeping
extreme distress / in utter misery
muddled / silly / confused
HSK 7-9
smear (medical sample); microscope slide
graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble
tideland reclamation
muddleheaded / careless
(idiom) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment; every man has a fool in his sleeve
muddy water in a pool or pond
spread (for putting on bread etc)
to obliterate (some words, or part of a picture etc) using correction fluid, ink, paint etc / to paint out / to paint over
to daub / to scribble (graffiti)
to apply paint, veneer etc / to plaster over / decorative coating / finish / veneer
unclear / not straightforward / (of drinking water) lukewarm / tepid
to coat / to mask / to plaster over
blunderer / bungler
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涂* | 涂* | *涂
to apply (paint etc) / to smear / to daub / to blot out / to scribble / to scrawl / (literary) mud / street
HSK 7-9
to pretend to not know / to play dumb
tidal marsh / shoal / shallows
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涂* | 涂* | *涂
surname Tu
Mt Tu in Zhejiang
mudskipper (amphibious fish)
people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
path / road
a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc
to grease / to oil / to baste (cookery)
confused / muddled / stupid / dumb
blunderer / bungler / also written 糊塗蟲|糊涂虫
to pretend not to know (idiom)
to edit (a text); to revise (a manuscript)
painter / artist
pasting table (for wallpapering)
to smear; to deface
to alter (text) / to change by painting over / to correct (with correction fluid)
variant of 塗鴉|涂鸦 / graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble
variant of 糊塗|糊涂
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涂* | 涂* | *涂
variant of
HSK 7-9


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