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


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