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HSK
background; backdrop; context / (fig.) powerful backer
HSK 4
sleeveless garment (vest, waistcoat, singlet, tank top etc) / CL:
HSK 6
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
knapsack / rucksack / infantry pack / field pack / blanket roll / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
(electronics) backlit screen
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
to recite / to repeat from memory
HSK 7-9
carrying on one's back
with one's hands clasped behind one's back
back to back
backpacker
a basket carried on the back
to betray
HSK 7-9
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
with back to the mountain (favored location)
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
spine
to backstab
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind / sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face / abbr. to 背殺|背杀
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
anticline (geology)
to break faith
lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die
the back of the human body
immoral; unethical
outdated / out of luck
panel / back panel
background check (abbr. for 背景調查|背景调查) / to conduct a background check
swept-back hairstyle
battery case (for a phone)
to have a weight on one's mind / to take on a mental burden
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *揹* | 揹* | *揹
variant of
HSK 3
overalls / dungarees
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind / sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face / abbr. for 背影殺手|背影杀手
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
(HK) backstroke
bad luck / unlucky
background check
to have one's back against / to lean against / to be backed up by (a mountain etc)
to abandon / to desert / to renounce
to turn away / to turn one's back to / (gymnastics etc) backspin
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
to stop breathing (as a medical condition) / (fig.) to pass out (in anger) / to have a stroke
rear view / figure seen from behind / view of the back (of a person or object)
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
in the shade / shady
backpack / knapsack / rucksack
traitor
background blurring (photography)
term used to refer to a person who is not present (e.g. 小姨子) (contrasted with 面稱|面称)
lit. whether one carries it on one's back or in one's arms, it's equally heavy (idiom) / fig. one can't avoid the burden
behind sb's back; secretly
latissimus dorsi muscle (back of the chest)
back / back side
back to back
breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom); to betray / treachery / perfidy
to have direct light blocked; to face away from the light source / (electronics) backlight
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
to score last in an examination
bad luck
to be in debt / to be saddled with debts
backpacking
with back to the mountain and facing the water (favored location)
to have one's back towards
to violate; to go against
braces / suspenders / sling (for a rifle) / straps (for a knapsack)
dorsal fin
variant of 悖謬|悖谬
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
erhua variant of 背影


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