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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
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *揹* | 揹* | *揹
variant of
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
to recite / to repeat from memory
HSK 7-9
to betray
HSK 7-9
to go against / to be contrary to / to violate
HSK 7-9
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
rear view / figure seen from behind / view of the back (of a person or object)
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
to be in a poor light / to do sth with one's back to the light / to stand in one's own light
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
instep (upper surface of the foot)
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
spine
braces / suspenders / sling (for a rifle) / straps (for a knapsack)
panel / back panel
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
backpack / knapsack / rucksack
back of the knife
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
back of the hand
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
to violate; to go against
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
to abandon / to desert / to renounce
high-back chair
to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
the back of the human body
(idiom) arms around each other's shoulders
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
(formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away
breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray / treachery / perfidy
outdated / out of luck
back to back
to hunch over / to stoop / to arch one's back (upward)
to stop breathing (as a medical condition) / (fig.) to pass out (in anger) / to have a stroke
a basket carried on the back
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build
back (of a human or other vertebrate)
(idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear
in the shade / shady
contrary / opposite
harness pad (on draft animal)
dorsal fin
behind sb's back
to be hearing impaired
latissimus dorsi muscle (back of the chest)
to have a weight on one's mind / to take on a mental burden
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
tank top / sleeveless undershirt
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
to break faith
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
to massage sb's back by pounding it lightly with one's fists
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to support or oppose
(idiom) to be crowded together
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to flog or whip the back
to score last in an examination
Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom) / fig. to occupy all key points (military)
with one's hands behind one's back
back / back side
variant of 悖謬|悖谬
in violation of contract and good faith
with back to the mountain (favored location)
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
anticline (geology)
to mount a picture / also written 裱褙
to be in debt / to be saddled with debts
German shepherd
hatchback
(of a garment) backless; halterneck
slouch / stoop / poor posture
homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山, a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
the back of a chair
to backstab
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
camisole (women's garment)
(bird species of China) greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus)
(bird species of China) canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
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

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