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


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