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outdated / out of luck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

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