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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
compact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM / CL: , 張|张
HSK 4
keyboard
HSK 5
hard disk
HSK 7-9
abacus / CL: / plan / scheme
HSK 7-9
(computer) disk
HSK 7-9
to plot / to scheme / to calculate
HSK 7-9
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
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
to interrogate, leaving sb speechless
chassis
counting one's chickens before they are hatched
pachinko
Panlong district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
disk
to coil hair into a bun / hair worn in bun / turban / hair ornament / to interrogate
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
meter dial / watch face
compass
(electronics) pad; land (a connection on a circuit board)
drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
(finance) to crash / to collapse / crash
building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent)
chessboard
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
the tray or pan of a steelyard balance
roulette / wheel
(share trading) mid-cap
to commence trading (stock market)
Yingpan, common place name ("army camp") / place near Jintian village 金田村 in Guangxi where the Taiping Tianguo rebels took their oaths in 1851 / place in Xinfeng county 新豐縣|新丰县 traditional camping place of brigands / Yingpan township, place name / Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi / Yingpan township in Yunnan / (many others)
military camp / nomadic camp
to interrogate
capstan
overall / comprehensive
USB flash drive
natal chart (astrology)
fruit plate; fruit platter
suction pad / sucker
lower millstone / tray of a mill
(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
to coil (around sth) / to twine / to weave (basketwork)
(of a stock price or market index) currently higher than at the previous day's close
telephone dial
dapanji or "big plate chicken", a kind of spicy chicken stew originating from Xinjiang
to sit cross-legged / to sit in the lotus position
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
frisbee
liquidation
to interrogate / to cross-examine / to inquire
to sit cross-legged (as in the lotus position)
floppy disk
USB flash drive; thumb drive
to occupy illegally / to seize (territory) / to entrench (oneself)
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
Liupan Mountains, mountain range in northern China
cross-legged
lit. like a sheet of loose sand / fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
to twine / to coil
money for a voyage; travel expenses
variant of 表盤|表盘 / watch face
to pace / to linger / to stay over / to spiral / to hover
sampler platter / appetizer platter
to spiral / to circle / to go around / to hover / to orbit
across the board / comprehensive / overall / global
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
CD or DVD drive / abbr. to 光驅|光驱
sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)
(loanword) penicillin
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
to interrogate / to question (at a roadblock)
cold plate / cold meats
to take stock / to make an inventory
Panshan county in Panjin 盤錦|盘锦, Liaoning
going around a mountain
the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard / fixed opinion / solid idea / decisive plan
soup plate
millstone
cups and dishes in complete disorder (idiom); after a riotous drinking party
to sell up / to wind up a business
intertwined (of tree roots or branches) / fig. an intricate matter
twining mountain road
turntable / gramophone record
incense coil
spiral staircase
to exploit / to practice usury
to play around with / to fidget / to fondle
to cross-examine (law)
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
twisting path / tortuous road
variant of 磐石

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