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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坏* | 坏* | *坏
bad / spoiled / broken / to break down / (suffix) to the utmost
HSK 1
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  *残* | 残* | *残
to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *惯* | 惯* | *惯
accustomed to / used to / indulge / to spoil (a child)
HSK 7-9
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  *宠* | 宠* | *宠
to love / to pamper / to spoil / to favor
HSK 7-9
light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to spoil things; to dampen spirits / to feel deflated; to be dispirited
HSK 7-9
to pamper / to coddle / to spoil
HSK 7-9
to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雷* | 雷* | *雷
thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷 land mine / (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
(Internet slang) spoiled city girl from a rich family
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
to act like a spoiled child / to throw a tantrum / to act coquettishly
unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar
to ruin / to spoil / to break
spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal / crumbs from the feast
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
to indulge / to spoil
to spoil / to pamper / to dote on
to mix; to blend / (fig.) to spoil; to mess up things / (fig.) to run around with (sb); to get involved with; to mix (with other people)
pampered and spoiled since childhood
to indulge (a child) / to pamper / to spoil
to waste / to spoil / to destroy / to insult grievously
to rot / to spoil / (fig.) to become corrupted
to spoil (a child etc)
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
spoilt and naive
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纰* | 纰* | *纰
error / carelessness / spoiled silk
to spoil one's appetite / fig. to get fed up with sth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *軭* | 軭* | *軭
to spoil (Cant.) / to ruin / to warp (car wheel)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *溺* | 溺* | *溺
to drown / to indulge / addicted to / to spoil (a child)
to be a blot on the landscape / to dampen spirits / to spoil the fun / to be a wet blanket
to spoil / to indulge sb (usu. a child)
plot leak / spoiler
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
(literary) (of food) spoiled; sour; gone off
to mess (sth) up / to foul up / to spoil
to spoil (a child)
to step on a mine / (fig.) to inadvertently do sth that has an unpleasant result / (fig.) to be accidentally exposed to a spoiler
(of a P2P lending platform) to collapse / (Tw) (slang) to reveal plot details / spoiler
child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child
to spoil / to mess up
to fade / (fig.) to lose luster / (of an event etc) to be spoiled / (coinage) to become debased
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)
to be an eyesore / (fig.) to spoil the fun / to be a wet blanket
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
spoiler (automotive)
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) / spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
to spoil; to indulge
empennage (of an aircraft); fletching (of an arrow); fins (of a missile, rocket etc); rear spoiler (of a car)
spoiler (automotive or aeronautical)
to disfigure / to spoil the beauty of
(Tw) to reveal a spoiler
to waste; to spoil / to ruin; to wreck / to insult; to humiliate / to defile (a woman); to rape / also pr. [zao1ta5]


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