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  *想* | 想* | *想
to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *错* | 错* | *错
mistake / wrong / bad / interlocking / complex / to grind / to polish / to alternate / to stagger / to miss / to let slip / to evade / to inlay with gold or silver
HSK 1
young lady / miss / (slang) prostitute / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *念* | 念* | *念
to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿)
HSK 3
lady / madam / CL: 個|个, / Miss / Ms
HSK 4
to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *误* | 误* | *误
mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly
HSK 6
to make up missed lesson / to reschedule a class
HSK 6
to miss (train, opportunity etc)
HSK 6
to think of / to long for / to miss
HSK 7-9
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity)
HSK 7-9
to omit; to neglect (to do sth) / to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by
to miss narrowly / to let a great opportunity slip
to trip / to miss a step / to slip
to miss / to long for
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *惦* | 惦* | *惦
to think of / to remember / to miss
to miss a line / to confuse two lines
to miss / to long for / to remember with longing / yearning
fault / mistake / to miss (a chance)
to miss an appointment
to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc) / to miss out on (an opportunity) / to fail to gain (victory etc)
(Cantonese) to miss out on sth valuable
(sports) to miss a game (due to injury, suspension etc); to sit out a match
to lose / to miss
(lit.) to face the corner / (fig.) to miss out on sth
to brush past; to pass by (sb) / (fig.) to miss (an opportunity, a danger etc); to have a brush (with death)
to miss an appointment
the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
to fail in observing or supervising / to miss / to let sth slip through
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蹉* | 蹉* | *蹉
to error / to slip / to miss / to err
to overlook / to miss / to omit
to miss / to long for
lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube (idiom); fig. to miss the big picture
lit. to rush at thin air / fig. to miss one's aim / to have nothing to show for one's troubles
to fail to come out on time / to miss a deadline
to miss (bus, train etc)
not miss the farming season / do farm work in the right season
to let sth slip by / to miss an opportunity
to keep thinking of; to miss
(formal) to delay / to miss a deadline / to fail to do sth at the appointed time
to feel anxious about sth / unable to stop thinking about sth / to miss
eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
to miss sb by a narrow chance / to miss an opportunity
to miss (the presence of); to cherish the memory of / aspiration; desire; sth one keeps thinking about / (coll.) keepsake; memento / (coll.) impression (of sb or sth in one's mind)
to miss one's step / (of an investor) to fail to invest before the price rises
to yearn for / to miss
to miss one's step
Michele Monique Reis (1970-) actress, model and former Miss Hong Kong & Miss Chinese International
to miss / to leave out / to omit / to be omitted / to be missing / to slip through / to leak out / to seep away
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *失* | 失* | *失
to lose / to miss / to fail
to miss a plane
Vanda miss joaquim (hybrid orchid), national flower of Singapore
Miss World Beauty Pageant
Miss (loanword)
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
to have a sentimental attachment to (a place) / to miss (one's ancestral home etc) / to be nostalgic about
to miss / to shoot and miss the target / off the mark
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't miss (idiom)
(idiom) to miss very much; to yearn for


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