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HSK
to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
HSK 7-9
to flourish then decline / rise and fall
weak / feeble
HSK 7-9
to weaken / to attenuate
HSK 7-9
organ failure / exhaustion / prostration (medicine)
HSK 7-9
unfailing / never-ending
prosperity and decline (of a kingdom) / rise and fall
(physics) half-life
radioactive decay
to decline / to die out / decline and fall
to fall / to drop / to decline / to deteriorate / to go downhill
optical attenuation
national decline
psychasthenia / obsessive-compulsive disorder
radioactive decay
recession (in economics)
weakening and close to exhaustion (idiom); in terminal decline / on one's last legs
decaying / decrepit / aged and crumbling
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
to decline / to wane / to decay / to deteriorate
(economic) recession
heart failure
to express pessimistic views about (sth)
nervous exhaustion; neurasthenia; mental breakdown (often used to describe what is now understood to be clinical depression)
unfailing / never weakening / enduring / unstoppable
decay heat
decay chain
decay curves
old and weak (idiom)
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  *衰* | 衰* | *衰
(bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
to decline; to wane / weakened; enfeebled; in decline
from prosperity to decline / at its peak before the decline
to treat a debility according to its nature
aged; decrepit
uninspired / dejected / discouraged
decline in fortunes
to age prematurely
to age prematurely / premature senescence
loser / jerk
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衰* | 衰* | *衰
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