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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *着* | 着* | *着
aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
HSK 1
to catch and hold on / to continue / to go on to do sth / to follow / to carry on / then / after that / subsequently / to proceed / to ensue / in turn / in one's turn
HSK 2
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
to catch fire
HSK 4
famous / noted / well-known / celebrated
HSK 4
to worry; to feel anxious / to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry / Taiwan pr. [zhao1ji2]
HSK 4
to fall asleep
HSK 4
outstanding / notable / remarkable / statistically significant
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *着* | 着* | *着
to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in
HSK 4
along with / in the wake of / following
HSK 5
to signify / to mean / to imply
HSK 5
to have / to possess
HSK 5
not need / have no use for
HSK 5
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
to be able to use; useable; to have a use for / (in a question) to be necessary to
HSK 6
near
HSK 6
to go along / to follow
HSK 6
attire; clothes; dress
HSK 7-9
to be strongly attached to / to be dedicated / to cling to / (Buddhism) attachment
HSK 7-9
to put effort into sth / to try really hard
HSK 7-9
to have one's eyes on (a goal) / having sth in mind / to concentrate
HSK 7-9
based on... / in conformance with.. / taking as one's main principle
HSK 7-9
towards / facing (sb or sth) / (coll.) to side with / to favor
HSK 7-9
monograph / specialized text
HSK 7-9
in front of / in the presence of
HSK 7-9
towards
HSK 7-9
to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3]
HSK 7-9
masterpiece
HSK 7-9
relying on / on the basis of
HSK 7-9
to follow / following / along
HSK 7-9
whereabouts / place to settle / reliable source (of funds etc) / (of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb / settlement / solution
HSK 7-9
to be fascinated / to be captivated
HSK 7-9
to put one's hand to it / to start out on a task / to set out
HSK 7-9
steady / calm and collected / not nervous
HSK 7-9
to put emphasis on; to stress
HSK 7-9
immediately afterwards / shortly after that
HSK 7-9
truly / indeed / severely / harshly
HSK 7-9
to play games / to joke around / to play a joke on sb
HSK 7-9
to describe (in writing, applying ink)
translated work
treatise; study
to follow after / immediately afterwards
obsessed / bewitched / enchanted / as if possessed
smart clothes / particular about one's dress
whispering in sb's ear
landing / touchdown / to land / to touch down
sorption (generic term for absorption, adsorption, diffusion, precipitation etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *著* | 著* | *著
to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding
carrying on one's back
to compile / to write
outstanding / eminent / brilliant
clothes
to pout
to pretend not to know (idiom)
original work (not translation or abridged)
to wear
(aviation) soft landing / (economics) soft landing
let (one) have his way / as (one) pleases / at (one's) will
to record / to put down in writing
auxiliary showing sth happened in the past
monumental (literary) work
to catch cold / Taiwan pr. [zhao1 liang2]
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
(dialect) (implying sudden realization) so / after all
writing / to write / to compile
lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one's whole body and soul into a book
not worthwhile
to get dressed
in order to / because of / for the sake of
to take it easy
to be unable to reach
(idiom) to examine tiny clues to know general trends; to deduce the whole story from small traces
to write jointly / to co-author
(aviation) hard landing / (economics) hard landing
(HK) swimsuit (loanword from Japanese "mizugi")
to have no right or ability to interfere in sth / it's none of your business!
to succeed by a lucky stroke
to stick onto / stalemate / gridlock / to agglutinate
to adhere; to stick together; to bond; to agglutinate
to lie down on a bed / (physiology) implantation (attachment of a blastocyst to the lining of the uterus) / (of an oyster larva) to attach to a substrate / (fig.) to take root / to become established
relevant / to the point / has sth to do with the matter (also used with negative)
notorious / infamous / egregious (bandits)
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
to pull a long face / to wear a mournful expression
to have a taut face / to pull a long face / to look displeased
ignition point (temperature) / combustion point
to put pen to paper
to write a book advancing one's theory (idiom)
to be widely known as
to put effort into sth / to try really hard
to be considered outstanding or special; to be reckoned with; notable
alarmed / panicking
adhesion / adhesive force
to be a step ahead of the opponent (idiom) / to outsmart one's opponent
lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation) / to bring back the dead / once it starts, everything goes well
not to the point / wide of the mark / neither here nor there / irrelevant
alive
posthumous work (of a writer)
agglutinative language (e.g. Turkish and Japanese)

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