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HSK
compact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM / CL: , 張|张
HSK 4
keyboard
HSK 5
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tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
HSK 4
tray / plate / dish / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
C drive or default startup drive (computing)
USB flash drive; thumb drive
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
CD or DVD drive / abbr. to 光驅|光驱
hard disk
HSK 7-9
chessboard layout / (fig.) overall situation
Panshan county in Panjin 盤錦|盘锦, Liaoning
going around a mountain
lit. to put everything out including the tray / to reveal everything / to make a clean breast of it all
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
(sports) to dribble
meter dial / watch face
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
dashboard / indicator panel
to plot / to scheme / to calculate
HSK 7-9
One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
sampler platter / appetizer platter
suction pad / sucker
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
portable hard drive; external hard drive
to make an inventory / to take stock
abrasive disk / sanding disk
(computing) solid-state drive (SSD)
to suspend trading (stock market)
twisted / spiral / uneven stones
tray / salver / pallet
online storage space / cloud file storage
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
placenta
the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard / fixed opinion / solid idea / decisive plan
to compute on the abacus / (fig.) to calculate / to plan / to scheme
across the board / comprehensive / overall / global
(finance) (of a fund manager, high-wealth individual etc) to make large trades (in stocks, futures etc) / (fashion, movies etc) (of an industry heavyweight) to make a play in the market
frisbee
closing price (of share, commodity etc)
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
overall / comprehensive
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
coiled / entwined / tortuous
(of a stock price or market index) currently lower than at the previous day's close
keyboard warrior
lower millstone / tray of a mill
USB flash drive
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
lit. coiled dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent
Russian roulette
fruit plate; fruit platter
sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)
travel expenses / fare / traveling allowance
(of a person) objectionable / (of two people) to find each other disagreeable
turntable / rotary (traffic)
opening exchange rate
Panlong district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
compass
dial (e.g. of a radio etc)
cloud storage service
oral sucker (e.g. on bloodsucking parasite)
to interrogate and get to the bottom of sth
to coil hair into a bun / hair worn in bun / turban / hair ornament / to interrogate
USB flash drive; thumb drive
dapanji or "big plate chicken", a kind of spicy chicken stew originating from Xinjiang
counting one's chickens before they are hatched
(share trading) mid-cap
to carry out gymnastic tricks on horizontal bar
gramophone / record player
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
to coil (around sth) / to twine / to weave (basketwork)
roulette
Liupan Mountains, mountain range in northern China
to occupy illegally / to seize (territory) / to entrench (oneself)
a plateful / comprehensive / the full works (e.g. a banquet) / the full price
turntable / gramophone record
building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent)
to spiral / to circle / to go around / to hover / to orbit
intervertebral disk
(finance) to crash / to collapse / crash
(loanword) penicillin
Panjin, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
to interrogate / to question (at a roadblock)
(of a dog) to hold a frisbee in its mouth / (fig.) derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫進|胡锡进 for doing the CCP's bidding as editor of the "Global Times"
disk drive
the tray or pan of a steelyard balance
to twine / to coil
money for a voyage; travel expenses
mixed fruit salad
to commence trading (stock market)
(computer) disk
HSK 7-9
market close
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
(political party's) voter base / (musician's) fan base / (a business's) customer base / the funds necessary for a venture / foundation on which sth's existence depends / bedrock (in the figurative sense)
to exploit / to practice usury

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