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HSK
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
Internet
HSK 3
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  *網* | 網* | *網
net / network
HSK 2
to connect (or be connected) to a network; to network
HSK 7-9
(math.) lattice
Taobao Marketplace, a Chinese website for online shopping
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
Ethernet
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
official website (abbr. for 官方網站|官方网站)
Xinhua News Network
to cast a fishing net / (computing) to go offline
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
ChinaNews (China News Service)
to net sth / to catch sth with a net
World Wide Web (WWW)
news agency
safety net
China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局|中国地震局
(Tw) public switched telephone network (PSTN)
Wimbledon Championships (tennis) / abbr. for 溫布爾登網球公開賽|温布尔登网球公开赛
intranet
(computing) public network / wide area network / Internet
Sohu, Chinese web portal and online media company
snare of love
the Internet outside the GFW 防火長城|防火长城
(telecommunications) fixed network; landline (abbr. for 固定網絡|固定网络)
world wide web / WWW
to fall in love
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
French Open (tennis tournament)
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
the entire Internet
intranet
lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts
Australian Open (tennis tournament)
Cable Network News (CNN)
local area network (LAN)
website of China News Service 中國新聞社|中国新闻社 (chinanews.com)
to throw a net
digital network
Cable Network News (CNN)
razor wire
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
Douban, PRC social networking website
China Education and Research Network (CERNET) / abbr. to 中國教育網|中国教育网
subnetwork
electricity grid; power grid / electrified wire netting
HSK 7-9
Skynet (nationwide video surveillance system in China)
wide area network / WAN
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
Internet
mesh laundry bag (for keeping garments separate from others in the washing machine)
endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
metropolitan area network
silk screen / screen (printing)
hairnet
razor wire
to fall into the net of justice (idiom); finally arrested
Web portal / (enterprise) portal
purse-seine net (fishing)
to spin a web (spider) / to weave a net (e.g. for fishing)
transport network
US Open (tennis tournament)
network of people with whom one has dealings on the basis of "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / (computing) to seal off a network
net / fishing net / bird net
road network
neural network
spider web; cobweb
(of a public figure, streamer, influencer etc) to quit social media
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
net (for ball games)
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (computing)
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
to cut off access to the Internet; to shut down the Internet
neural net
IPTV (PRC media network)
legal net / the long arm of the law
fishing net / fishnet
cobweb / spider web
Renren (Chinese social networking website)
seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen
dragnet / trawl / trawlnet
(coll.) to use sb else's Internet connection (with or without permission)
telephone network
Internet of things (IoT)
smooth endoplasmic reticulum
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / to block
filter / a sieve
dip net
ezTravel, Taiwanese travel agency
drift net (fishing)
(computing) Dark Web
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
base net (in geodetic survey)
(textiles) knotless netting

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