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  *块* | 块* | *块
lump; chunk; piece / classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
HSK 1
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  *碎* | 碎* | *碎
(transitive or intransitive) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble / broken; fragmentary; scattered / garrulous
HSK 5
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  *入* | 入* | *入
to enter; to go into / to join; to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时) / abbr. for 入聲|入声 / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese "iri")
HSK 6
to smash to pieces / to shatter
HSK 7-9
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  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
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  *瓣* | 瓣* | *瓣
petal / segment / clove (of garlic) / piece / section / fragment / valve / lamella / classifier for pieces, segments etc
fragmentary; piecemeal; in bits and pieces / sporadic; scattered
(of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition
minced meat sauce / (fig.) mincemeat / a person cut to pieces
to cut into pieces
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
to pound into pieces / to mash
smashed up; broken into pieces; thoroughly mashed; pulpy
fragments; bits and pieces
in pieces
the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket / lapel
to shatter; to smash; to break into pieces
to crush to pieces
to collapse and fall apart (idiom); to break up / falling to pieces
opera highlights performed as independent pieces
lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom) / fig. grief-stricken
(idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)
to crush / to crumble into pieces
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant
fine powder / broken pieces
(idiom) to assemble from bits and pieces; to combine items from disparate sources
scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one / divide and conquer
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  *蔸* | 蔸* | *蔸
root and lower stem of certain plants / classifier for pieces and clumps
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  *鎹* | 鎹* | *鎹
(Japanese kokuji) large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together / pr. kasugai
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  *镦* | 镦* | *镦
upsetting (forged pieces)
bits and pieces / scattered fragments
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
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  *锔* | 锔* | *锔
to mend by stapling or cramping broken pieces together
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  *胾* | 胾* | *胾
cut meat into pieces / diced meat
lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom) / fig. only odd bits and pieces
to smash to pieces
to tear up / to tear to pieces
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant
Xian Xinghai (1905-1945), violinist and composer, known for patriotic wartime pieces, including Yellow River Oratorio 黃河大合唱|黄河大合唱
to fall and smash into pieces
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  *磬* | 磬* | *磬
chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone
to cut up (into pieces) / to slice / to carve / to dice / to shred
hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
to clear up the mess / to pick up the pieces
field of blood / battlefield / hateful place / Aceldama (field bought by Judas Iscariot with his 30 pieces of silver in Matthew 27:7)
(onom.) chaotic or dynamic noises (pattering, crashing, rustling, clattering, sobbing etc) / smashed to pieces; completely routed
to cut the corpse of a criminal into pieces
leftover bits and pieces (of industrial, material)
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  *仕* | 仕* | *仕
to serve as an official / an official / the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将
checkers (board and pieces for go 圍棋|围棋 or Chinese chess 象棋 etc)
lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主|乐昌公主 (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom) / fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship
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  *溃* | 溃* | *溃
(bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike / (bound form) to break through (a military encirclement) / (bound form) to be routed; to be overrun; to fall to pieces / (bound form) to fester; to ulcerate
(idiom) to cut up sb's body into thousands of pieces (a hyperbolic threat)
to disintegrate / to shatter into small pieces
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
(idiom) to lose one's head / to panic / to go to pieces
scrap / bits and pieces left over
to do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
bit and pieces / small odds and ends


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