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HSK
keyboard
HSK 5
compact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM / CL: , 張|张
HSK 4
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  *盤* | 盤* | *盤
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
USB flash drive; thumb drive
hard disk
HSK 7-9
USB flash drive
abacus / CL: / plan / scheme
HSK 7-9
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
floppy disk
offer / to make an offer (commerce)
cold plate / cold meats
(of a stock price or market index) currently lower than at the previous day's close
building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent)
middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
(astronomy) astrolabe / (astrology) horoscope / astrological chart
to sell up / to wind up a business
counting one's chickens before they are hatched
(computer) disk
HSK 7-9
a plateful / comprehensive / the full works (e.g. a banquet) / the full price
suction pad / sucker
(finance) to crash / to collapse / crash
meter dial / watch face
USB flash drive; thumb drive
a hand basin
(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
market close
online storage space / cloud file storage
intervertebral disk
(idiom) lacking in social grace and unfit to be a representative
(of a person) objectionable / (of two people) to find each other disagreeable
dashboard / indicator panel
baking tray
cloud storage service
revolving tray on a dining table / lazy Susan
(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)
portable hard drive; external hard drive
across the board / comprehensive / overall / global
(computing) solid-state drive (SSD)
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
pig butchering scam (where the scammer builds trust with the victim over time, "fattening them up," before ultimately "slaughtering" them by taking their money); (esp.) romance scam
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
disk
liquidation
(electronics) pad; land (a connection on a circuit board)
the tray or pan of a steelyard balance
Russian roulette
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
soup plate
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
(bicycle) crankset
lower millstone / tray of a mill
chassis
tray / salver / pallet
Holy Grail
to commence trading (stock market)
telephone dial
capstan
dial (e.g. of a radio etc)
chuck (for a drill etc)
compass
to make a comeback / (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
palette
gramophone / record player
to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business
C drive or default startup drive (computing)
natal chart (astrology)
turntable / gramophone record
platter
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
compass
mixed fruit salad
hand guard (e.g. on saber)
roulette / wheel
(of a stock price or market index) currently higher than at the previous day's close
galactic disc
pelvis (Tw)
to compute on the abacus / (fig.) to calculate / to plan / to scheme
fruit plate; fruit platter
oral sucker (e.g. on bloodsucking parasite)
(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"
sampler platter / appetizer platter
clockface
overall / comprehensive
chuck (for a drill etc)
placenta
derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫進|胡锡进 for doing the CCP's bidding as editor of the "Global Times"
frisbee
sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)
floppy disk
(of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business / (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others / (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around
(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year / (of a business) to be profitable / (of a stock market) to rise / (sport) to win one's first match of a competition
base / foundation / (Tw) (geology) bedrock
(computing) flash drive / thumb drive
twisting and turning
Blu-ray disk, Sony high definition DVD disk
live betting / in-play wagering
millstone
inquiry

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