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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *跨* | 跨* | *跨
to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span
HSK 6
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)
HSK 7-9
overall length / span
HSK 7-9
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幽* | 幽* | *幽
remote / hidden away / secluded / serene / peaceful / to imprison / in superstition indicates the underworld / ancient district spanning Liaonang and Hebei provinces
to span / to stretch across / to travel across
natural life span
long life / life span
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
span / horizontal distance between vertical supports
to start but not finish (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拃* | 拃* | *拃
span (unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand) / to span (measure with one's hand)
span (architecture)
(Tw) span (architecture) / time span
Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing
arm span
length of life / life span
interregional / spanning two or more PRC provinces
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
spanning tree (in graph theory)
memory span
reading span


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