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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
carrying on one's back
to be in a poor light / to do sth with one's back to the light / to stand in one's own light
rear view / figure seen from behind / view of the back (of a person or object)
braces / suspenders / sling (for a rifle) / straps (for a knapsack)
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
instep (upper surface of the foot)
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
panel / back panel
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
swept-back hairstyle
to be in debt / to be saddled with debts
to abandon / to desert / to renounce
a basket carried on the back
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
the back of the human body
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
German shepherd
back of the hand
back of the knife
nape
(idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear
back to back
split-leaf philodendron / Monstera deliciosa
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 support or oppose
bad luck / unlucky
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
in the shade / shady
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to be hearing impaired
breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray / treachery / perfidy
outdated / out of luck
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
dorsal fin
to massage sb's back by pounding it lightly with one's fists
backpack / knapsack / rucksack
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
to stop breathing (as a medical condition) / (fig.) to pass out (in anger) / to have a stroke
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
(formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
with back to the mountain (favored location)
to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
educational background
spine
(bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
historical background
to mount a picture / also written 裱褙
(bird species of China) spotted forktail (Enicurus maculatus)
to hunch over / to stoop / to arch one's back (upward)
harness pad (on draft animal)
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
(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
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
anticline (geology)
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
backpacker
camisole (women's garment)
Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安
hatchback
(of a garment) backless; halterneck
traitor
latissimus dorsi muscle (back of the chest)
behind sb's back; secretly
slouch / stoop / poor posture
to have one's back towards
face to the ground, back to the sky
back to back
(bird species of China) grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum)
(idiom) to be crowded together
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
(bird species of China) green-backed tit (Parus monticolus)
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
(bird species of China) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)
(dialect) to be out of luck
(bird species of China) greater scaup (Aythya marila)
tank top / sleeveless undershirt
(bird species of China) merlin (Falco columbarius)
to flog or whip the back
with one's hands clasped behind one's back
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
high-back chair

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