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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *算* | 算* | *算
to calculate; to figure out / to include; to count in / to count; to be valid; to carry weight / to regard as; to consider (to be ...)
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *指* | 指* | *指
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end
HSK 3
statistics / to count / to add up
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *数* | 数* | *数
to count / to count as; to regard as / to enumerate; to list
HSK 2
to count steps taken while walking or running
to not calculate / to not count / to not be considered (as) / to have no weight
HSK 7-9
to count down / countdown
HSK 7-9
lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time / making every second count
HSK 7-9
to count the number of seconds (between two events)
stroke-count character index; table for looking up characters by number of strokes
to count on / to rely on
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刨* | 刨* | *刨
to dig / to excavate / (coll.) to exclude / not to count / to deduct / to subtract
HSK 7-9
to count on; to hope for / prospect; hope
HSK 7-9
valid / counting (as valid)
earl / count / earldom or countship (old)
(idiom) too many to count; innumerable
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *计* | 计* | *计
to calculate / to compute / to count / to regard as important / to plan / ruse / meter / gauge
HSK 7-9
to count as number one (idiom); second to none / outstanding
to be valid; to count / authentic
to enumerate / to count (one by one)
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless / innumerable
number of written characters; number of words; word count
to count on one's fingers
to count backwards (from 10 down to 0) / to count down / from the bottom (lines on a page) / from the back (rows of seats)
HSK 7-9
can be counted or regarded as / to be able to tell or answer / to deserve mention
to count / to itemize
to exclude / not including sth (when counting or listing) / except for
HSK 7-9
to count on one's fingers
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筹* | 筹* | *筹
chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket / to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds) / resource; way; means
HSK 7-9
to count and check / to tally / points (collected in some bonus scheme etc)
order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke , Marquis , Count , Viscount , Baron
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose / every moment counts
number off! (command in military drill) / count off!
sperm concentration, often called sperm count
Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
to open ballot boxes / to count votes / to make out a voucher or invoice etc / to write out a receipt
to count with one's fingers / on the spot calculation
counting one's chickens before they are hatched
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
to count all of them
(medicine) blood routine examination; full blood count; complete blood count
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
(lit.) a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold (idiom) / (fig.) a promise that can be counted on
population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) / registered residence / residence permit / (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account
to count / reckoning
(idiom) what lowly people think counts for little
count of votes
(lit.) can be counted on one's fingers (idiom) / (fig.) very few
can't manage to count / too many to count
to count / to enumerate exactly
to count down the remaining seconds (e.g. in games, rocket launches, New Year's Eve) / (of a boxing referee) to administer the count following a knock-down, starting from "one"
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
to know how to count and do sums / numerate / numeracy
to count / to reckon
to count out (a sum of money etc)
not count as
to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board); to count beads / (fig.) to budget; to plan (an investment)
to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score / not many; only a few
(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in , like houses)
too many to count / very many / innumerable
five orders of feudal nobility, namely: Duke , Marquis , Count , Viscount , Baron
number of votes / poll count
to do an inventory count
to check (items) / to count and verify
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
(medicine) blood count; hemogram
background count
hall where convicts are counted and verified
stroke count (number of brushstrokes of a Chinese character)
to count numbers / to keep to one's word / to hold (i.e. to remain valid) / to count (i.e. to be important)
byte count
(lit.) too numerous to record on bamboo slips (idiom) / (fig.) (of crimes or misdeeds) innumerable; beyond counting
method of counting (e.g. decimal or Roman numbers)
slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
(of sb's words) to count / can be trusted
lit. small abacus / fig. selfish calculations / bean-counting
lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom) / fig. innumerable (crimes)
does not count for anything / of no account
to count votes
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
(literary) to hope for; to count on / (literary) to expect; to anticipate (esp. in negative expressions)
(textiles) thread count
can be counted as
to count one's prayer beads and chant Buddha's name (idiom)


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