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HSK
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
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
back to back
back of the hand
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
instep (upper surface of the foot)
(coll.) to have a stroke of bad luck
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
to be hearing impaired
(idiom) arms around each other's shoulders
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
to be masturbated by a prostitute
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
(of a garment) backless; halterneck
(dialect) to be out of luck
to sweat profusely (idiom) / drenched in sweat
contrary / opposite
hunchbacked / stooping / hunchback
to flog or whip the back
homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山, a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
to hunch over / to stoop / to arch one's back (upward)
back (of a human or other vertebrate)
(formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away
harness pad (on draft animal)
to support or oppose
to massage sb's back by pounding it lightly with one's fists
back to back
to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to die
to mount a picture / also written 裱褙
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
slouch / stoop / poor posture
lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom) / fig. to occupy all key points (military)
(dialect) to be out of luck
(lit.) chest sticking to back / (fig.) famished / (of several persons) packed chest to back


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