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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
to curve / to return / to revolve
HSK 1
to go round a curve / to turn a corner / fig. a new direction
HSK 7-9
cubic curve (geometry)
to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
HSK 6
curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弦* | 弦* | *弦
bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:
HSK 7-9
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
winding road / road curve
quadratic curve (geometry) / conic
radian / arc / curve / curvature
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
quadratic curve / conic section (geometry)
turning point / breaking point / inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)
(math.) elliptic curve
trajectory (of a projectile); ballistic curve
(math.) algebraic curve
corner / bend / curve
curved blade
to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve
(military) curved-trajectory fire / plunging fire
curve fitting
curved / meandering / zigzagging
curved surface / surface
bowed / curved like a bow
magatama (Japanese curved beads)
arc length (the length of a curve segment)
retort / bottle with curved neck
horse's back / (traditional Chinese architecture) roof with a low-slung curved ridgelines and geometric shapes on the upper gable walls at the ends of the roof ridges
decay curves
curve; arc
chord angle (i.e. angle a chord of a curve makes to the tangent)
bend / turn / curve
convex curve
(physics) isentropic curve
arc length / length of a curve segment
(math.) plane curve
curved space
(of a woman) to have nice curves; buxom; shapely
the theory of curves
sword with a curved blade and a long hilt, wielded with both hands
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *渨* | 渨* | *渨
cove / bay / a bend or nook in the hills / the curve of a bow
a geodesic (curve)
principal normal vector (to a space curve)
geodesic / a geodesic (curve)
the torsion (of a space curve)
parametrization by arc length (of a space curve)
binormal vector (to a space curve)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *絃* | 絃* | *絃
variant of / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse


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