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at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)
HSK 1
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  *力* | 力* | *力
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
HSK 3
power; force; strength
HSK 3
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  *兵* | 兵* | *兵
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
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  *挤* | 挤* | *挤
to crowd in / to cram in / to force others aside / to press / to squeeze / to find (time in one's busy schedule)
HSK 5
to compel / to force
HSK 5
to capture; to seize; to occupy by force
HSK 5
power / influence / a force (military, political etc)
HSK 5
army / armed forces / troops / force / unit / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
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  *夺* | 夺* | *夺
to seize / to take away forcibly / to wrest control of / to compete or strive for / to force one's way through / to leave out / to lose
HSK 6
violence / force / violent
HSK 6
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  *逼* | 逼* | *逼
to force (sb to do sth) / to compel / to press for / to extort / to press on towards / to press up to / to close in on / euphemistic variant of
HSK 6
to rob (with force) / bandit / robber / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
to demonstrate (as a protest) / a demonstration / a military show of force
HSK 7-9
to be in effect / in force / current
HSK 7-9
consummate skill / supreme feat / tour-de-force / stunt
HSK 7-9
to force; to compel; to coerce / forced; compulsory / Taiwan pr. [qiang3zhi4]
HSK 7-9
to force; to compel
HSK 7-9
mien / bearing / grace / amorous feelings / flirtatious expressions / local conditions and customs / wind force, direction etc
HSK 7-9
wind force / wind power
HSK 7-9
to do sth by force / Taiwan pr. [qiang3 xing2]
HSK 7-9
to impose / to force upon
HSK 7-9
to do with difficulty / to force sb to do sth / reluctant / barely enough
HSK 7-9
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
to occupy by force / to seize / to dominate
HSK 7-9
to force / to compel / to coerce
HSK 7-9
military force
HSK 7-9
to occupy by force
HSK 7-9
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
dauntless / to summon up courage and determination / using extreme force of will
HSK 7-9
impossible to resist (idiom); an irresistible force
HSK 7-9
main force / main strength of an army
HSK 7-9
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  *劫* | 劫* | *劫
to rob / to plunder / to seize by force / to coerce / calamity / abbr. for kalpa 劫波
HSK 7-9
(physics) inertia / (fig.) force of habit / tendency to do things in the accustomed way / habitual
HSK 7-9
(physics) action force
external force / pressure from outside
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  *掠* | 掠* | *掠
to take over by force / to rob / to plunder / to brush over / to skim / to sweep
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  *强* | 强* | *强
to force / to compel / to strive / to make an effort
magnetic force / magnetic
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  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
gravitation (force) / attraction
newton (SI unit of force)
elasticity / elastic force / spring / rebound / bounce
to coerce / to compel / to force
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  *霸* | 霸* | *霸
hegemon / tyrant / lord / feudal chief / to rule by force / to usurp / (in modern advertising) master
driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse)
to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence
to suppress by armed force / to send a punitive expedition against / to crusade against
torque / turning force / torsion
constant force
armed force
mighty force
to be at odds with / centrifugal (force)
life force / vitality
windstorm / (meteorology) storm (force 11 wind)
to give a hollow laugh / to force a smile / forced laugh / CL: 聲|声
strong or weak / intensity / amount of force or pressure
to subdue / to force to capitulate / to reduce to submission / to soothe
to eliminate (by armed force)
to recover (illegally obtained property) / to seize / to capture / to force sb to hand over sth / to levy
reinforcement / back-up / supporting force
to detain / to hold back by force / to buckle / to hook
wing (of an air force) / sports team representing a combination of entities (e.g. United Korea)
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
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  *迫* | 迫* | *迫
to force / to compel / to approach or go towards / urgent / pressing
many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength / There is safety in numbers.
like a hot knife through butter (idiom) / with irresistible force
Rocket Force, branch of the PLA responsible for tactical and strategic missiles
to recover (stolen property) / to pursue and force sb to give back the spoils
special appointment / special correspondent / task force / sb dispatched on a mission
police force / police officers
labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
torque / turning force
to capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
motivation / moving force / underlying force / agent
promoter / advocate / driving force / pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi)
to force into exile / to be exiled / in exile
to force a plane to land
to force sb to surrender
to meet force with force / painstaking
(in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force
occult force / the power of a God or spirit
repulsion (in electrostatics) / repulsive force
to pretend to look happy / to force oneself to smile
to emerge as a new force to be reckoned with (idiom)
to drive away / to force out / to repel
to force the king or emperor to abdicate
momentum (the force exhibited by a moving body) / (fig.) momentum (capacity for progressive development)
with all one's might / with sudden force / violently / to slam
to use force / to come to blows
to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats
component force (physics)
to order / to force
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  *掯* | 掯* | *掯
to push down / to make things difficult / to take by force

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