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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搬* | 搬* | *搬
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
HSK 3
to work a shift / on duty
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *移* | 移* | *移
to move / to shift / to change / to alter / to remove
HSK 4
to shift to an earlier date / to do sth ahead of time / in advance
HSK 3
to change / to transform / shift / transformation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
(idiom) four-part structure of a composition: introduction, elucidation, pivot (shift in perspective), synthesis; (fig.) coherent structural progression in writing, narrative, or any unfolding process
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盘* | 盘* | *盘
tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫁* | 嫁* | *嫁
(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
HSK 7-9
to shift; to relocate; to transfer / (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) / (medicine) to metastasize
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挪* | 挪* | *挪
to shift / to move
HSK 7-9
shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation
HSK 7-9
(of time) to elapse; to pass / (of a situation) to develop; to evolve / to shift; to slide; to move smoothly and continuously along a surface
HSK 7-9
to shift; to alter / unusual change; abnormal move
to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom)
night shift
HSK 7-9
to shift (funds) / to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another / to embezzle / to misappropriate
to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
to take over (from those working the previous shift) / to take over (in a leadership role etc) / to succeed sb
HSK 7-9
to avoid (esp. responsibility); to shift (the blame); to pass the buck
HSK 7-9
time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
HSK 7-9
gear lever / stick shift
three-shift system (work rostering)
to change shift
automatic transmission / auto gear shift
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love
to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
to change speed / to shift gear / variable-speed
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
(coll.) row of vendor stalls; street stall area / (Tw) gear shift; gear selector; transmission control (in cars or motorcycles)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迁* | 迁* | *迁
to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote
HSK 7-9
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
day shift
to avoid responsibility; to shift the responsibility onto others / (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement)
(neologism c. 2017) to shift the blame; to pass the buck
early shift; morning work shift
to shift one's eyes / (fig.) to shift one's attention / to divert attention
red shift (astronomy)
to move (sth) aside / to step aside / to move over (when sitting on a bench) / to shift (one's gaze)
to change shifts / to work in turns
manual gear change / shift stick
night shift
to change shift / the next work shift / to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) / to take over the job
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *委* | 委* | *委
to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly
to arrange (shifts, runs, classes etc) in order
preschool group for kids aged three or less / (Tw) work shift starting around daybreak
to move troops to / (fig.) to move to / to shift to
to impute / to shift the blame onto someone else
to shift resources into areas of need / to inject funds / to balance resources
to move / to shift
to shift / shift / translocation / displacement / (medicine) dislocation
to move / to shift / to move out of the way / to divert (money etc) to a different purpose
graveyard shift; late night shift
to wander / to shift around / to waver / to vacillate
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
to work one's shift
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迻* | 迻* | *迻
to shift / to transfer
to transfer / to move / to shift
(sports) bye; to get a bye / (of an employee) to be not scheduled at work for a period of time (when working shifts)
shift working
to change over to; to shift to; to switch to
to shift from one hand to the other / to change hands (of merchandise)
half-day (or double-shift) school
flowing; shifting / fluidity; mobility / liquidity (of funds)
change of affection, shift of love (idiom); to change one's feelings to another love / to fall in love with sb else
to move out (vacate) / to shift sth out
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
to change positions / to shift one's ground
gear shift
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
blue shift (astronomy)
evening shift; early night shift
day shift
two shift system (in schools)
to shift / to transfer
day shift


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