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HSK
to polish; to burnish; to shine
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磨* | 磨* | *磨
to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist
HSK 6
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
to torment; to torture
HSK 7-9
torture and cruel treatment
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
dawdling / to waste time
lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)
to wear down / to sap / to whittle away / to while away / to idle away
to mill / to grind / grinding stone
milling / to grind / to polish by grinding / to abrade / whetstone / pestle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磨* | 磨* | *磨
grindstone / to grind / to turn round
karma (loanword)
electric mill (for grinding wheat etc)
grindstone
rotary grindstone
to ponder / to mull over / to think through / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]
HSK 7-9
wear resistant
(of a donkey etc) to turn a millstone / (fig.) to do laborious and monotonous work
to polish and rub / (fig.) to torment; to torture / (fig.) to engage in discussion to hone an idea or skill
freshly ground
to carve and polish (jade) / to polish and refine a literary work
to torment / to torture
sluggish / delaying


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