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  *号* | 号* | *号
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
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  *角* | 角* | *角
angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
horn (automobile etc) / loudspeaker / brass wind instrument / trumpet / suona 鎖吶|锁呐
HSK 7-9
Mizongyi, Mizong, My Jhong Law Horn - "Lost Track Fist" (Chinese Martial Art)
lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent / first sign of emerging talent / budding genius
lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom) / fig. few and far between
cow horn
steam whistle / ship horn
to wrestle / (fig.) to lock horns; to tussle; to wrangle / Taiwan pr. [jiao3li4]
Zolotoy Rog or Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok (famous for its pollution)
French horn
English horn
antler / deer horn / abatis
hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one
horn
to blow one's own horn (idiom)
lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom) / fig. to be diligent in one's studies
to boast / to blow one's own horn
rhinoceros horn, reputed to confer telepathic powers / fig. mutual sensitivity / tacit exchange of romantic feelings / a meeting of minds
lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
conch / shell as horn for signaling
bugle horn
(arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
Horn of Africa
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  *楅* | 楅* | *楅
ox yoke placed on the horns
to sound the horn / to honk
traditional hairstyle for children, with two pointy braids, giving it a horn-like appearance
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
to take the bull by the horns (idiom)
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  *觱* | 觱* | *觱
fever / tartar horn
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs
vuvuzela (horn) (loanword)
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  *虬* | 虬* | *虬
young dragon with horns
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  *觭* | 觭* | *觭
odd / one horn up and one horn down
to push with the forehead / to lock horns / to be at loggerheads
lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
bow decorated with animal horns
lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs / same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖
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  *觷* | 觷* | *觷
to polish horn
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  *虒* | 虒* | *虒
amphibious animal with one horn
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *觥* | 觥* | *觥
big / cup made of horn / horn wine container
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  *觡* | 觡* | *觡
horns / antlers
vuvuzela (horn blown by sports fans)
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  *犄* | 犄* | *犄
ox-horns / wing of an army
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  *觺* | 觺* | *觺
(of animal horn) sharp
lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom) / fig. to cross swords with / to lock horns
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  *篥* | 篥* | *篥
bamboos good for poles / horn
(arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
lit. qilin's horn, phoenix's mouth (idiom) / fig. rara avis / rarity
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  *磋* | 磋* | *磋
(old) to polish bones, horns, ivory etc into tools / (bound form) to deliberate; to consult
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  *螭* | 螭* | *螭
dragon with horns not yet grown (in myth or heraldry) / variant of

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