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HSK
online friend / netizen; Internet user
HSK 1
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
website
HSK 2
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  *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
(computing) node in a network / (commerce) sales outlet / branch / service center / (illustration) screentone / halftone dot
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
network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络
cobweb / spider web
Skynet (nationwide video surveillance system in China)
world wide web / WWW
Internet
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
retina
local area network / LAN
Internet
Internet café (Tw)
network adapter card (computing)
Internet / net / cyber-
computer network
grid / mesh / lattice
(Tw) Internet
fishing net / fishnet
safety net
lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go
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
mesh
(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
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
web series
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
web portal
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
net / fishing net / bird net
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)
to cast a fishing net / (computing) to go offline
network of people with whom one has dealings on the basis of "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen
Ethernet
subnetwork
wire netting / CL:
transport network
cyberspace
network protocol
network
intranet
drift net (fishing)
Internet
to spin a web (spider) / to weave a net (e.g. for fishing)
network administrator
road network
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
network
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
local area network / LAN
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
tennis court
hairnet
snare of love
(telecommunications) fixed network; landline (abbr. for 固定網絡|固定网络)
to walk right into the trap
network management
Internet slang; netspeak; cyberspeak
value added network / VAN
mesh
(network) bridge
to throw a net
it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)
metropolitan area network
dynamic webpage
spider web; cobweb
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)
virtual private network (VPN)
net used to catch fish (or birds etc) / (fig.) the net of justice 法網|法网
network operating system

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