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HSK
skirt / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腰* | 腰* | *腰
the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch; pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
HSK 4
to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc)
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抹* | 抹* | *抹
to plaster / to go around / to skirt
mini (as in mini-skirt or Mini Cooper) (loanword)
long skirt; full-length skirt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裙* | 裙* | *裙
(bound form) skirt
to wander about / to roam / to move back and forth between (government and academia, two or more countries etc) / to flow through (a circuit, a network, the body) / to skirt (the border of legality) / (of a singer's voice) to move within its range / (of a stock price) to fluctuate within (a range)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撩* | 撩* | *撩
to lift up (sth hanging down) / to raise (hem of skirt) / to pull up (sleeve) / to sprinkle (water with cupped hands)
hem of a skirt / shirt tail
base (of a triangle) / base line / hem line (of skirt)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裳* | 裳* | *裳
lower garment / skirts / petticoats / garments
pleated skirt
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嗖* | 嗖* | *嗖
(onom.) whooshing / swishing / rustle of skirts
waistband of a skirt / (fig.) related to the wife or another female family member
a woman's suit (including a skirt)
Master Dengtu, a famous historical lecherous character / lecher; skirt-chaser
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *襡* | 襡* | *襡
short skirt or tunic
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攐* | 攐* | *攐
variant of , to hold up the hem of clothes / to lift up the skirts
(onom.) whooshing / swishing / rustle of skirts / laughingly
level with one's knees / knee-length (skirt etc) / knee-deep (mud etc)
skirting board
hem (of a skirt)
to bend the rules / to skirt around the issue
pencil skirt
flared skirt
baseboard / skirting board
safety shorts (worn under a skirt or dress to prevent accidental exposure)
pleated skirt
(coll.) womanizer / skirt-chaser
layered skirt


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