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apex / crown of the head / top / roof / most / to carry on the head / to push to the top / to go against / to replace / to substitute / to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc) / (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile / classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc
HSK 4
roof
HSK 7-9
top of the head
HSK 7-9
peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)
HSK 7-9
hilltop
HSK 7-9
at most / at best
HSK 7-9
to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
HSK 7-9
top-notch; first-rate
HSK 7-9
housetop / roof
roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus
top of a building
dome light (of a taxi etc) / ceiling light (in a room) / interior light (of a car) / light on the top of a mast etc
summit; peak
set-top box
roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex
peak / summit / fig. high point / masterpiece
summit / peak / (math.) vertex
(lit. and fig.) summit; peak / extremely; utterly
dome
jack (for lifting weight)
to reach the upper limit
to withstand / to stand up to
lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom)
tip-top / excellent / first-rate
ceiling / awning (under ceiling)
bald head
to talk back / to answer back
lit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom); fig. to enlighten people with perfect wisdom / flawless Buddhist teaching
one's immediate superior
Pingdingshan, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省
to assume sb's name and take his place (idiom); to impersonate / to pose under a false name
out-and-out / thoroughly
to come directly towards one / top / immediate (superior)
to take the blame for sb else / to compensate for one's crime / to get charges dropped (by paying money etc)
thimble
pillar / backbone
dome / vault / domed roof
to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business
to prostrate oneself in worship (idiom) / (fig.) to worship / to bow down to
to face into the wind / against the wind / fig. against the law
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
pointed object / cusp / pinnacle / steeple
to be of use
highly intelligent; brilliant
(typesetting) to not indent / to set the text flush with the left (or top) margin
(bird species of China) red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)
to rub one's head and heels (idiom); to slave for the benefit of others / to wear oneself out for the general good
parietal lobe
to replace
an arched roof / a dome / a vault
to take the blame / to be a scapegoat / to carry the can
on top of / at the summit
summit / crest
zenith
highly intelligent; brilliant
parietal bone (top of the scull)
(mining) roof fall / to have the roof cave in
to contradict (elders or superiors)
to do a handstand
useful / fitting
to take over sb else's job / to substitute for
terminal bud (growing at the tip of a plant)
angle to the vertical / angle (between two lines or two planes)
top quark (particle physics)
angle at apex / summit angle / cusp
to prostrate oneself / to kneel and bow the head (in submission, supplication, worship etc)
cap badge (official sign of rank in Qing dynasty)
(bird species of China) Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
topping (mining)
to pretend to be sb else
to push with the forehead / to lock horns / to be at loggerheads
Kanting township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
(lit. and fig.) to get to the top
to support the family business (idiom)
flat roof
screw jack
canopy / roof / ceiling
furnace top
roof rack
(bird species of China) pied wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)
car roof
to be balding / to be thinning on top
(Tw) to hand over (a business etc) for an agreed price
highest level of specification (for a product)
top bar / crown bar
Kanting township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
(bird species of China) common linnet (Linaria cannabina)
see 丁克
top floor / the top of a building
(dialect) each one; every one
suspended ceiling; false ceiling / to install a (decorative) suspended ceiling
Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
to do a handstand
Jade Emperor Peak on Mt Tai in Shandong
coot
goldcrest (Regulus satrapa)
bucking bar (metal bar fixing the tail of a rivet as it is driven)
top / top side / top surface
lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual

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