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


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