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  *走* | 走* | *走
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
HSK 1
to walk; to go on foot / to leave; to depart / (informal) to clear off; to beat it / (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out
HSK 1
to walk past / to pass by
HSK 2
to enter; to step into
HSK 2
to leave; to walk away; to beat it / to move aside
HSK 2
to escape / to flee / to run away
HSK 5
to smuggle / to have an illicit affair
HSK 6
to take away
HSK 6
to approach / to draw near to
HSK 7-9
to leave home / to go off / to run away
HSK 7-9
to walk
HSK 7-9
corridor / aisle / hallway / passageway / veranda
HSK 7-9
to take an indirect route / to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
to go through the motions
HSK 7-9
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about / to hopscotch / also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠
HSK 7-9
to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
HSK 7-9
to attend school as a day student
pavement / sidewalk / path / walk / footpath / aisle
to leak (a secret) / to transpire
to float away; to drift; to be swept off
to go far / to escape to faraway places
to be popular / to be in luck / to have good luck / to develop smoothly
lost / missing / to lose (sb in one's charge) / to get lost / to wander away / to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one's good looks etc) / to lose meaning (in translation)
(coll.) to leave; to beat it
to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk / to be mobile (e.g. after an illness) / to visit one another; to socialize / to pay a visit (go to the toilet)
to drive out / to turn back
to snatch (esp related to a robbery)
bon voyage / Godspeed
(finance) (of the price of a security etc) to open lower than the previous closing price but rise throughout the trading session
to visit / to travel to
to wander off / to stray / to get lost
to arrest
to leak / to flow / to catch on fire
Stay a bit! / Wait a minute! / (to a departing guest) Take care!
absent-minded / one's mind is wandering
(of a watch or clock) to keep time / (physics) propagation time / travel time (of a wave)
to release / to set free / to allow (a person or an animal) to go / to liberate
walking corpse (idiom) / zombie / person who lives only on the material level
to take a risk out of desperation (idiom)
to retire / to remove / to withdraw / to evacuate
hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad)
to have good luck; to be in luck
to be obsessed with sth; to go overboard / (Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation
nowhere to go / at the end of one's tether
to travel extensively
(four-footed) animal / beast
to lose shape / to deform
to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun / (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war
(idiom) to take office; to assume a post
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)
to drive out / to oust
(lit. and fig.) to walk a tightrope
wait and see (who is right)
Heelys (roller shoes with wheels protruding slightly from the heel)
to travel around the country (as itinerant peddler or entertainer)
lit. the brush flows with the fluidity of a dragon or snake (idiom) / fig. (of brushwork, esp for calligraphy) lively; vigorous
to hustle sb away
to run away / to escape / to avoid
to divulge secrets
Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road
to get round fast / to spread like wildfire
smuggled goods
to go off accidentally / to catch fire
to use social connections / to toady to influential people
hunting dog / hound / (fig.) running dog / lackey
to visit relatives
capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution)
to carry
tightrope walking
to get off the main topic / to digress
to slip away / to leave secretly
to walk / to step / pace / traveling (walking with the ball, a foul in basketball)
to take risks / to run risks
(Tw) to wander about; to roam around freely (from Taiwanese 拋拋走, Tai-lo pr. [pha-pha-tsáu])
flying needle and running seam (idiom); skillful needlework
insider contacts / via private channels / to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand)
tightrope walking
out of control / berserk / to go for a long walk
to scamper / to scurry
to fly high and run far (idiom); to leave in a hurry for a distance place
lit. peddlers and carriers / common people / lower class
(of a wife) to visit one's parental home
lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation / to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information
to leave first (courteous expression used to excuse oneself) / (euphemism) to predecease; to die first (e.g. before one's spouse)
not closing properly (of door, window etc)
amateur performance (in theater)
to lose flavor
to avoid a problem by walking away from it / to quit
to ride (a horse) / to go on horseback
to wander about / to roam / to move back and forth between (government and academia, two or more countries etc) / to flow through (a circuit, a network, the body) / to skirt (the border of legality) / (of a singer's voice) to move within its range / (of a stock price) to fluctuate within (a range)
to be off the beat / to sound awful (of singing) / (fig.) to wander off the topic / (diving) to step toward the end of the board / approach
out of shape / to lose shape / to deform
Ratitae (formerly Cursores) flightless birds such as ostriches
to lose color / to fade
to expose oneself / to be completely gone
pawn (i.e. foot soldier) / servant / lackey (of malefactor)
to spread the news (idiom)

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