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the South Pole / the south magnetic pole
HSK 5
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  *極* | 極* | *極
extremely / pole (geography, physics) / utmost / top
HSK 4
the North Pole / the north magnetic pole
HSK 5
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  *撐* | 撐* | *撐
to support / to prop up / to push or move with a pole / to maintain / to open or unfurl / to fill to bursting point / brace / stay / support
HSK 6
anode; positive electrode; positive pole
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  *挑* | 挑* | *挑
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick
HSK 4
bamboo pole (used to punt a boat)
bamboo pole
HSK 7-9
as different as can be (idiom) / poles apart
(idiom) poles apart; as different as can be
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  *桿* | 桿* | *桿
stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns
HSK 6
pole
south and north poles
carrying pole and the loads on it / burden / task / responsibility / CL:
HSK 7-9
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  *槓* | 槓* | *槓
coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole; bar; rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard; criterion / hyphen; dash
positive electrode; positive pole; anode
vastly different; poles apart
HSK 7-9
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  *搭* | 搭* | *搭
to put up / to build (scaffolding) / to hang (clothes on a pole) / to connect / to join / to arrange in pairs / to match / to add / to throw in (resources) / to take (boat, train) / variant of
HSK 6
to punt / to pole a boat
the two poles / the north and south poles / both ends of sth / electric or magnetic poles
distance between two poles / poles apart
pole dancing
pole used for punting a boat
thick bar / solid carrying pole
extreme point / pole / the origin (in polar coordinates)
negative pole / cathode
pole for punting boats / pole for drying clothes in the sun
surveyor's pole / post (used for a landmark) / (fig.) goal; model; benchmark
a pole / a prop
distance marker / pole marking distance on racetrack
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  *擔* | 擔* | *擔
picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole
HSK 7-9
steel pipe / pole (in pole dancing)
to run up (pole vault, javelin, bowling etc) / approach / run-up / (aviation) takeoff run
pole-vaulting
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
high latitude (i.e. near the poles)
poles apart (idiom) / entirely different
lit. set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom) / fig. to get instant results
telephone pole / utility pole
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
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  *桁* | 桁* | *桁
pole plate / purlin (cross-beam in roof) / ridge-pole
pitchfork / garden fork / restraining pole (used by police) / military fork (of ancient times)
geographic pole / north and south poles
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  *杆* | 杆* | *杆
pole / CL: 條|条,
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀
(car racing) pole position / (obstetrics) cephalic presentation (i.e. head-first birth)
benchmark / pole serving as mark or symbol / pole with a trophy hung on it
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  *筳* | 筳* | *筳
bamboo pole / spindle
stick moxibustion / poling (TCM)
lasso pole / blind man's stick / white stick
pole-vaulting / also written 撐桿跳|撑杆跳
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  *杗* | 杗* | *杗
ridge-pole in roof
laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles
vertical banner (for display at exhibitions, advertising hung from poles in the street etc)
trekking pole
electric trolley pole
pole / stick / club / gang of bandits
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
pole of rotation
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  *篙* | 篙* | *篙
pole for punting boats
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  *罱* | 罱* | *罱
a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool
electric pole / telephone pole
pole-vaulting
a kind of sedan chair, usu. made of bamboo and mounted on a pair of long bamboo poles
emperor's or general's banner erected on an ivory-tipped pole at a military camp or headquarters (in ancient times)
to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
bamboo pole's uppermost tip / (fig.) acme
pole vault / also written 撐桿跳高|撑杆跳高
bamboo pole / CL: , 個|个
carrying pole and its load
electric pole / telephone pole / lamppost / CL:
carrying pole / shoulder pole / CL:
iron hook at the end a long pole
pole-climbing (as gymnastics or circus act) / climbing pole
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  *檁* | 檁* | *檁
cross-beam / ridge-pole
magnetic pole
lasso on long wooden pole
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  *竿* | 竿* | *竿
pole
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  *箾* | 箾* | *箾
to hit sb with a pole / (archaic) pole held by a dancer
pulling a lamb and bringing wine on a carrying pole (idiom); fig. to offer elaborate congratulations / to kill the fatted calf
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  *篥* | 篥* | *篥
bamboos good for poles / horn
electric pole / telegraph pole
large steelyard usu. operated by three people – two to lift it using a pole, and one to adjust the counterweight
electric pole / telephone pole / lamppost / CL:
type of wood used to make punting poles for boats (old)
well sweep (device for raising and lowering a bucket in a well, using a pivoted pole)
wooden pole / wood (golf club)


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