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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摆* | 摆* | *摆
to arrange / to exhibit / to move to and fro / a pendulum
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摆* | 摆* | *摆
hem (at the bottom of a garment)
HSK 4
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
to set up; to arrange; to lay out
HSK 7-9
to be fair / to be impartial / to settle (a matter etc)
HSK 7-9
ornament / decorative item / (fig.) sth that is merely for show
HSK 7-9
ferry
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
to wave one's hand / to gesture with one's hand (beckoning, waving good-bye etc) / to swing one's arms
to move back and forth / to fiddle with
to parade one's wealth / to be ostentatious and extravagant
pendulum clock
to put on airs / to be ostentatious
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
to assume / to adopt (a look, pose, manner etc) / to bring out for display
to show clearly
knickknack / ornament / decorative item
to take a staged photograph
to spread over an area
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
cycloid
malaria
to swing / to sway
to swing / to sway
shuttle bus / feeder bus
to run a street stall
to do sth for show / to keep up appearances
to break out of a crisis
present the facts and reason things out
to mess sth up / to screw up
to play tricks on / to make a fool of
to arrange / to order about / to manipulate
to set up a vendor's stall in the street
to set up a stall / (fig.) to maintain a large staff and organization
to put on airs / to assume great airs
lit. to arrange a shelf of flowers / superficial display (idiom)
decorative items / ornaments
erhua variant of 擺譜|摆谱
hawking / street vending
balance (of a watch or clock) / balance wheel
to pose (for a picture)
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
(dialect) to chat; to gossip; to spin a yarn


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