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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
to cut; to slice; to carve / (math) tangential
HSK 4
feasible / realistic / practical / earnestly / conscientiously
HSK 6
direct / concerning oneself / personal
HSK 7-9
remember at all costs
close; near / similar to
to hit the target (esp. in argument); to strike home
to look forward eagerly to sth / keenly desired
to cut
HSK 7-9
to cut off; to sever
HSK 7-9
to excise / to cut out (a tumor)
HSK 7-9
by no means
traditional Xinjiang sweet walnut cake
keenly felt pain / bitter anguish
to cut into; to penetrate deeply into (a topic, area etc) / (sports) (soccer etc) to penetrate (the defenses of the opposing team) / (cinema) to cut (to the next scene)
(name) Chelsea
to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter
Charterhouse public school (UK)
to hit the target and do real damage (idiom) / fig. to hit where it hurts / fig. to hit home / an argument that hits the nail on the head
to slice / slice / thin section of a specimen (for microscopic examination)
feasible
osculation (higher order tangency)
Chernobyl
you must not / Please don't... / be sure not to / on no account (do it)
lit. cutting and polishing (idiom) / fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
to compare notes; to learn from one another
to indicate the phonetic value of a word using other words
tangent line (geometry)
incisor tooth
incision / notch / slit / gash / margin of a page / trimmed edge (of a page in a book)
slang / argot / private language used as secret code
to keep to the subject
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters)
to switch over / to switch modes or data streams / to cut (to a new scene)
section / cross-cut / tangent plane (math.)
cutter / knife
practical / corresponding to reality / geared to practical situations
harakiri (formal Japanese: seppuku), a samurai's suicide by disemboweling
a private whisper
to gnash one's teeth (in anger)
tangent vector
Cheney (name) / Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008
urgent advice / to exhort
contact (math.)
to fit in with / to suit / appropriate
slide examination / microscopic examination of thin section of specimen as part of biopsy
essential / extremely important
to cut up (into pieces) / to slice / to carve / to dice / to shred
bitter hatred / hatred that cuts to the bone
to cut / cutting / machining
to hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home / to hit the nail on the head (in an argument)
stage props
meat cleaver
(TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊
to feel sb's pulse
tangent direction
space of sections (math.)
syncopation
to cut into pieces
chip (golf shot)
impassioned / fiercely
to eagerly anticipate
sharp pain
to blame / to reprimand
shear (physics)
to avoid as taboo / to avoid by all means
affidavit; written pledge
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Cuban Revolution leader
Cheddar (cheese)
to detest sth or sb to the utmost extreme (idiom)
urgently / eagerly / worried / (urge sb to) be sure to / it is absolutely essential to (follow the above instruction)
to chop
urgent
Qieyun, the first Chinese rime dictionary from 601 AD, containing 11,500 single-character entries
see 反切
cutting board; chopping board
tangent plane (to a surface)
tangential velocity
tangential force


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