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


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