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HSK
photograph / picture / CL: 張|张, ,
HSK 2
to take care of / to show consideration / to attend to / to look after
HSK 2
to take a photograph
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *照* | 照* | *照
according to / in accordance with / to shine / to illuminate / to reflect / to look at (one's reflection) / to take (a photo) / photo / as requested / as before
HSK 3
as before / (same) as usual / in the same manner / still / nevertheless
HSK 6
lighting / illumination / to light up / to illuminate
HSK 7-9
as before / as in the past
as usual
HSK 7-9
to illuminate / to light up / lighting
according to reason / usually / in the normal course of events / to attend to
to look after / to provide for
as a rule / as usual / usually
HSK 7-9
to shine / to illuminate
HSK 6
glare / dazzling
normally / ordinarily speaking
to tend / to take care of sb
HSK 7-9
to meet face-to-face
to accept without question / to take sth at face value
to copy word for word
to copy / to imitate
care / treatment (e.g. nursing care) / to look after
to shine on / to light up / to irradiate
a wooden word-by-word reading
camera / CL: , ,
directly / straight / straight ahead / straightforward
to do as instructed / to comply
to look after / to attend to / to have in care
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炤* | 炤* | *炤
variant of / to shine / to illuminate
HSK 3
lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation
to follow the rules / to do as instructed / to play by the book / to comply with a request
HSK 7-9
a diplomatic note / letter of understanding or concern exchanged between governments
phototypesetting / photocomposition
to look in the mirror
according to the regulations
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
phototypesetting / photocomposition
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
to publish unaltered
to pay as charged
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
to shine / to illuminate
level of illumination / (physics) illuminance
seeing that
request granted (formal usage in old document) / to aim (gun)
flare; star shell
a photographic plate
on schedule
magic mirror for revealing goblins / fig. way of seeing through a conspiracy
approved for distribution / to provide (wages etc) as usual (e.g. while an employee is on maternity leave)
photo studio
(Internet slang) flattering photo (pun on 照片) / photoshopped picture
to take an X-ray
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly
to correlate with / to correspond to
to look after / to take care of / to attend to
variant of 照相
variant of 照相機|照相机 / camera


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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