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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *码* | 码* | *码
(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事 "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
HSK 7-9
to consider / to weigh (a matter) / to balance (pros and cons)
HSK 7-9
to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
HSK 7-9
(accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts / (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *锤* | 锤* | *锤
hammer / to hammer into shape / weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance) / to strike with a hammer
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抵* | 抵* | *抵
to press against; to support; to prop up / to resist; to withstand / to be equal to; to match / to balance; to offset / to mortgage / to make up for; to compensate for / to arrive at; to reach / to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
to borrow or lend money / debit and credit items on a balance sheet
to owe a debt / balance due / debts
to check and balance (power) / checks and balances
to balance up / to offset / to counterbalance
(idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power
lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod / tripartite confrontation or balance of forces
to reduce the balance sheet
receiving party / recipient / debit side (of balance sheet), as opposed to credit side 付方
to make even / to balance / (fig.) to be even / to call it quits
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
to shift resources into areas of need / to inject funds / to balance resources
to expand the balance sheet
(accounting) to balance the books
credit side (of a balance sheet), as opposed to 收方
egg balancing (activity popular in China at Lichun 立春 etc) / to stand an egg on its broad end
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
balance due / small balance still to pay / final remaining debt
to break even / balance between income and expenditure
(accounting) to strike a balance / to reverse an entry / to write off
to perform a jar juggling and balancing act


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