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HSK
phonetic component of a Chinese character (e.g. the component in )
rest (music)
not in harmony
quaver / eighth note
inconsistent / not in agreement with / not agree or tally with / not conform to
character (computing)
wildcard character (computing)
crotchet (music)
(music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
indicator
minim (music)
to match / to tally
(computing) placeholder
(computing) escape character
operator (computing)
(music) tuplet
(computing) "carriage return" character (ASCII code 13)
page break
drive letter (letter assigned to a disk drive or partition) (computing)
hyphen
amulet; protective talisman; charm
a Daoist talisman
dieresis / umlaut / diacritical mark separating two adjacent syllables
(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
mnemonic symbol; mnemonic code
semantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component in )
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surname Fu
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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 )
non-Latin characters
good luck charm
undecipherable handwriting / scribblings / (fig.) hypocritical talk
universal resource locator (URL), i.e. webaddress
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
start frame delimiter (SFD)
delimiter (computing)


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