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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枝* | 枝* | *枝
branch / classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
HSK 6
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  *棍* | 棍* | *棍
stick; rod; truncheon / scoundrel; villain
HSK 7-9
stick; rod
HSK 7-9
surveyor's rod / staff / staff gauge / rear sight
iron rod / zealous / die-hard
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杠* | 杠* | *杠
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
bar / rod
bacillus (any rod-shaped bacteria)
fishing rod / CL:
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杖* | 杖* | *杖
a staff / a rod / cane / walking stick / to flog with a stick (old)
fishing rod
push rod or tappet (mechanics) / putter (golf) / to putt (golf)
iron club / steel rod
rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)
(idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back
(mining) drill rod; drill steel
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
rowboat; small boat / oar; paddle / thin rod used to control a curtain etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *籊* | 籊* | *籊
long bamboo (for fishing rod)
fishing rod
iron pillar / iron rod
ferrocerium rod / fire steel
silicon rod
lightning rod
rod used for flogging offenders
three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom) / spare the rod, spoil the child
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
staff; rod
dipstick / oil measuring rod
zhangtou wooden rod puppetry
rod mill
measuring rod / dipstick
fishing rod
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
(nuclear energy) spent fuel rods
nunchaku (weapon with two rods joined by a short chain, used in martial arts)
dipstick / measuring rod
control rods
dipstick / oil measuring rod
metal rod
fishing rod / CL:


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