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HSK
symbol; mark; sign
HSK 4
in accordance with; to agree with; to conform to; to meet (a requirement) / (physics) coincidence
HSK 4
punctuation / a punctuation mark
drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
Vladivostok (Russian port city) (Chinese name: 海參崴|海参崴)
token
to comply with a standard / standards-compliant
(music) tuplet
rest (music)
Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)
not in harmony
quaver / eighth note
inconsistent / not in agreement with / not agree or tally with / not conform to
the name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation
character (computing)
amulet; protective talisman; charm
wildcard character (computing)
writing symbol
optical character recognition (OCR)
crotchet (music)
phonetic component of a Chinese character (e.g. the component in )
(music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
indicator
universal resource locator (URL), i.e. webaddress
minim (music)
good luck charm
string (computing)
to match / to tally
(computing) placeholder
operator (computing)
mnemonic symbol; mnemonic code
(computing) "carriage return" character (ASCII code 13)
rune
amulet / protective talisman / charm
semiotics / semiology
string (as in "character string")
Württemberg, region of southwest Germany, former state around Stuttgart 斯圖加特|斯图加特
same sign, joint aim (idiom); fig. completely compatible / identical
apostrophe, as used in pinyin orthography (i.e. to mark a boundary between two syllables, as in "dàng'àn" 檔案|档案)
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan) / Bopomofo / abbr. to 注音一式
talisman in the form of a painting of symbols thought to have magical powers (also called 符籙|符箓) / to invoke the magical power of such a talisman / a tiger tally 虎符 sent with great urgency
dieresis / umlaut / diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables
unsigned (i.e. the absolute value, regardless of plus or minus sign)
Baden-Württemberg, southwest German state, capital Stuttgart 斯圖加特|斯图加特
(idiom) to say one thing and do another
tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)
see 虎符
(computing) escape character
undecipherable handwriting / scribblings / (fig.) hypocritical talk
semantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component in )
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  *符* | 符* | *符
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  *符* | 符* | *符
mark / sign / talisman / to seal / to correspond to / tally / symbol / written charm / to coincide
semantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component in )
a charm to protect against evil spirits
non-Latin characters
apostrophe
token ring (computing)
universal character set UCS
(Taoism) talisman in the form of a painting of symbols thought to have magical powers
prime symbol (′) (math., linguistics etc)
a talisman or lucky charm
double prime symbol (″) (math., linguistics etc)
(of one's words) to be in accord with reality (idiom)
start frame delimiter (SFD)
hyphen
a Daoist talisman
page break
hyphen
charm / amulet (religious object conferring blessing)
delimiter (computing)
synoptic gospels (i.e. Matthew, Mark and Luke, with similar accounts and chronology)


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