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


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