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  *领* | 领* | *领
neck / collar / to lead / to receive / classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc
HSK 3
to guide / to lead
HSK 3
skill / ability / capability / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
to capture; to seize; to occupy by force
HSK 5
to lead / to command / to head
HSK 5
blue-collar / blue-collar worker
HSK 6
white-collar / white-collar worker
HSK 6
to crane one's neck / to await eagerly / to lead / to show the way
HSK 7-9
to apply (for license, visa etc)
HSK 7-9
main aspects / essentials / gist
HSK 7-9
program (i.e. plan of action) / guiding principle
HSK 7-9
waiting on tiptoes and craning one's neck (idiom) / to look forward eagerly / to long for / also pr. [qiao4 zu2 yin3 ling3]
high-ranking military officer
to claim (as one's property) / to adopt (a child) / to accept (an illegitimate child as one's own)
head; boss; chief
collar / neck
to advertise for the owner of lost property
turndown collar / lapel
crew neck / round neck (of pull-over garment, e.g. T-shirt)
gold collar / high-level senior executive / highly-skilled worker
to lead / to command / commander / officer
head person / leader
I appreciate your kindness (conventional reply to turn down an offer)
to receive
to concentrate on the main points (idiom); to bring out the essentials
to obtain by impersonation / to falsely claim as one's own
to fail to grasp the main points
gray collar / specialist / technical worker / engineer
pink collar / woman working in the service industry
red collar / government worker
shirt collar
action plan / program of action
to withdraw (cash from an ATM)
bottle collar
common program / formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim national plan
Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
lost-and-found
lost and found
collar
to defraud / to obtain by fraud / to embezzle / fraudulent
to apply for (a subsidy, unemployment benefit etc)
(of clothing) V-neck


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