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to go online / to connect to the Internet / (of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet / (tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net
HSK 1
online
HSK 1
online friend / netizen; Internet user
HSK 1
website
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *網* | 網* | *網
net / network
HSK 2
tennis / tennis ball / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
Internet
HSK 3
website / web address / URL
HSK 4
network (computing, telecommunications, transport etc)
HSK 4
web page
HSK 6
Internet café
HSK 6
netizen; Internet user; online community member
HSK 7-9
electricity grid; power grid / electrified wire netting
HSK 7-9
to connect (or be connected) to a network; to network
HSK 7-9
branch; service outlet (of a bank, retail store etc) / (printing) halftone dot / (computing) network node
HSK 7-9
web portal
lace bug / Tingidae
global network / Internet
network protocol
Cable Network News (CNN)
network design / network plan
network diameter
online customer
network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络
mesh
US Open (tennis tournament)
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
rough endoplasmic reticulum
to sell online
world wide web / WWW
Internet addiction / net addiction / web addiction
lacrosse
fishing net / fishnet
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator (abbr. for 網絡特工|网络特工)
cobweb / spider web
computer network / Internet
VoIP (Voice over IP) (computing) / to speak with others over the Internet
flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
subnet mask (computing)
dragnet / trawl / trawlnet
Skynet (nationwide video surveillance system in China)
rack
Internet
dynamic webpage
Australian Open (tennis tournament)
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
digital network
retina
drift net (fishing)
IPTV (PRC media network)
Internet
Internet café (Tw)
network adapter card (computing)
Internet / net / cyber-
computer network
grid / mesh / lattice
network
web series
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator
network administrator
World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网
(Tw) Internet
virtual private network (VPN)
telephone network
French Open (tennis tournament)
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
string bag / mesh bag / net bag
(printing) screen
network router / gateway (to Internet or between networks)
neural network
(of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net / (of a tennis ball) to hit the net / (of a criminal) to be captured
community worker employed under China's grid-based governance system, responsible for patrolling neighborhoods, collecting information, mediating disputes and assisting residents
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
Taobao Marketplace, a Chinese website for online shopping
Internet police (abbr. for 網絡警察|网络警察)
large though its mesh may be, no criminal can slip through the wide net of justice
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
intranet
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / (computing) to seal off a network
ChinaNews (China News Service)
legal net / the long arm of the law
net (for ball games)
seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen
Ethernet
subnetwork
wire netting / CL:
transport network
cyberspace
network
intranet
Internet
to spin a web (spider) / to weave a net (e.g. for fishing)
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / to block
wide area network / WAN
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
wide area network / WAN
World Wide Web (WWW)
spy network
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net

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