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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
to go against / to be contrary to / to violate
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
back to back
to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
back of the hand
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
back of the knife
(idiom) to be crowded together
(lit.) chest sticking to back / (fig.) famished / (of several persons) packed chest to back
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
slouch / stoop / poor posture
to have sex with a prostitute
back-knocking massage
to be hearing impaired
(idiom) arms around each other's shoulders
lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom) / fig. to occupy all key points (military)
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 masturbated by a prostitute
the back of a chair
homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山, a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
(of a garment) backless; halterneck
contrary / opposite
to flog or whip the back
(dialect) to be out of luck
to hunch over / to stoop / to arch one's back (upward)
back (of a human or other vertebrate)
(coll.) to have a stroke of bad luck
(dialect) to be out of luck
harness pad (on draft animal)
nape
to support or oppose
to massage sb's back by pounding it lightly with one's fists
back to back
instep (upper surface of the foot)
to die
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
variant of
HSK 3
to mount a picture / also written 裱褙
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to receive oral sex from a prostitute
German shepherd
to learn by rote
waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build
(formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away


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