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HSK
background; backdrop; context / (fig.) powerful backer / CL: 種|种
HSK 4
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
knapsack / rucksack / infantry pack / field pack / blanket roll / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to go against / to be contrary to / to violate
HSK 7-9
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
(bird species of China) black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
educational background
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
to recite / to repeat from memory
HSK 7-9
carrying on one's back
with one's hands clasped behind one's back
tank top / sleeveless undershirt
back to back
backpacker
back of the hand
a basket carried on the back
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
to betray
HSK 7-9
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
with one's hands behind one's back
with back to the mountain (favored location)
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
spine
(idiom) to be attacked from the front and rear
back of the knife
(idiom) to be crowded together
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
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
anticline (geology)
to break faith
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
the back of the human body
camisole (women's garment)
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
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
immoral; unethical
outdated / out of luck
panel / back panel
background check (abbr. for 背景調查|背景调查) / to conduct a background check
swept-back hairstyle
(bird species of China) common flameback (Dinopium javanense)
split-leaf philodendron / Monstera deliciosa
hatchback
instep (upper surface of the foot)
battery case (for a phone)
(coll.) to have a stroke of bad luck
to have a weight on one's mind / to take on a mental burden
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *揹* | 揹* | *揹
variant of
HSK 3
to have sex with a prostitute
back-knocking massage
(bird species of China) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
to be hearing impaired
(idiom) arms around each other's shoulders
overalls / dungarees
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind / sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face / abbr. for 背影殺手|背影杀手
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
to be masturbated by a prostitute
(bird species of China) Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides)
(HK) backstroke
bad luck / unlucky
nape
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
the back of a chair
background check
(bird species of China) Blanford's snowfinch (Pyrgilauda blanfordi)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed forktail (Enicurus schistaceus)
to have one's back against / to lean against / to be backed up by (a mountain etc)
to abandon / to desert / to renounce
(of a garment) backless; halterneck
(bird species of China) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
(dialect) to be out of luck
(bird species of China) canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
(bird species of China) common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
contrary / opposite
to turn away / to turn one's back to / (gymnastics etc) backspin
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
(bird species of China) ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis)
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
(bird species of China) black-tailed crake (Zapornia bicolor)
BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
to stop breathing (as a medical condition) / (fig.) to pass out (in anger) / to have a stroke
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
to flog or whip the back
(bird species of China) spotted forktail (Enicurus maculatus)
(bird species of China) von Schrenck's bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus)

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