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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing
HSK 2
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
variant of
HSK 3
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
background; backdrop; context / (fig.) powerful backer / CL: 種|种
HSK 4
knapsack / rucksack / infantry pack / field pack / blanket roll / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
sleeveless garment (vest, waistcoat, singlet, tank top etc) / CL:
HSK 6
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
to go against / to be contrary to / to violate
HSK 7-9
to recite / to repeat from memory
HSK 7-9
to betray
HSK 7-9
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
backpack / knapsack / rucksack
back to back
rear view / figure seen from behind / view of the back (of a person or object)
to be in a poor light / to do sth with one's back to the light / to stand in one's own light
panel / back panel
back (of a human or other vertebrate)
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
braces / suspenders / sling (for a rifle) / straps (for a knapsack)
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
back of the hand
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
to abandon / to desert / to renounce
instep (upper surface of the foot)
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
to massage sb's back by pounding it lightly with one's fists
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
back of the knife
swept-back hairstyle
the back of the human body
to be in debt / to be saddled with debts
horse's back / (traditional Chinese architecture) roof with a low-slung curved ridgelines and geometric shapes on the upper gable walls at the ends of the roof ridges
to be hearing impaired
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
a basket carried on the back
split-leaf philodendron / Monstera deliciosa
carrying on one's back
in the shade / shady
German shepherd
breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray / treachery / perfidy
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
to break faith
bad luck / unlucky
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
(idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear
dorsal fin
to support or oppose
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
outdated / out of luck
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
to stop breathing (as a medical condition) / (fig.) to pass out (in anger) / to have a stroke
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
with back to the mountain (favored location)
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
anticline (geology)
(formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away
spine
camisole (women's garment)
harness pad (on draft animal)
to mount a picture / also written 裱褙
to die
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
high-back chair
lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom) / fig. to occupy all key points (military)
(bird species of China) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
(bird species of China) chestnut bulbul (Hemixos castanonotus)
to backstab
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind / sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face / abbr. to 背殺|背杀
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
with one's hands behind one's back
erhua variant of 倒背手
(bird species of China) plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima)
(lit.) chest sticking to back / (fig.) famished / (of several persons) packed chest to back
(idiom) arms around each other's shoulders
(bird species of China) greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus)
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
(bird species of China) canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
to hunch over / to stoop / to arch one's back (upward)
slouch / stoop / poor posture
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom) / fig. to both be of equal importance / to value both equally
(idiom) to be crowded together
hatchback
educational background
to receive oral sex from a prostitute
to have sex with a prostitute
to be masturbated by a prostitute
back-knocking massage
(bird species of China) barred laughingthrush (Garrulax lunulatus)
(bird species of China) marsh grassbird (Locustella pryeri)
(bird species of China) greater scaup (Aythya marila)

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