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online
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 friend / netizen; Internet user
HSK 1
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net / network
HSK 2
website
HSK 2
tennis / tennis ball / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
Internet
HSK 3
network (computing, telecommunications, transport etc)
HSK 4
website / web address / URL
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
lit. the wind cannot be caught in a net / to waste one's effort (idiom)
Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)
mesh / netting
lace bug / Tingidae
NetEase
China Netcom (CNC), former telecommunication service provider in PRC
Internet
lacrosse
network router / gateway (to Internet or between networks)
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
network adapter card (computing)
Internet
Simple Network Management Protocol / SNMP
Wimbledon Championships (tennis) / abbr. for 溫布爾登網球公開賽|温布尔登网球公开赛
Internet celebrity; influencer / (attributive) popular on the Internet
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
grid / mesh / lattice
online shop
online banking / abbr. for 網上銀行|网上银行
purse-seine net (fishing)
network
official website (abbr. for 官方網站|官方网站)
dynamic webpage
Netscape
ezTravel, Taiwanese travel agency
to walk right into the trap
online love affair / cyberdate / Internet dating
road network
network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络
online game (abbr. for 網絡遊戲|网络游戏)
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
Internet shopping / to purchase online
network application
silk screen / screen (printing)
snare of love
to throw a net
spider web; cobweb
network management / webmaster
seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen
mesh
app-based taxi
French Open (tennis tournament)
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
Internet / net / cyber-
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
net / fishing net / bird net
to spin a web (spider) / to weave a net (e.g. for fishing)
retina (anatomy)
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
fishnet stockings
Skynet (nationwide video surveillance system in China)
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net
net cage (fish farming)
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
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)
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
large though its mesh may be, no criminal can slip through the wide net of justice
community worker employed under China's grid-based governance system, responsible for patrolling neighborhoods, collecting information, mediating disputes and assisting residents
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / to block
blog / weblog / same as 博客
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
netted veins / reticulated veins (of a leaf etc) / stockwork (geology)
Internet
(finance) online lending (or borrowing)
to leave the net open on three sides (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
variant of 漁網|渔网
Internet addict
net used to catch fish (or birds etc) / (fig.) the net of justice 法網|法网
Internet addiction / net addiction / web addiction
(printing) screen
model for online fashion sites etc
string bag / mesh bag / net bag
Taobao Marketplace, a Chinese website for online shopping
subnetwork
web series
(of an activity) off-line (not done over the Internet)
Internet café (Tw)
(of video clips, rumors etc) to circulate on the Internet
the entire Internet
hairnet
cyberspace
online storage space / cloud file storage
to make money online

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