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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挑* | 挑* | *挑
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick
HSK 4
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撑* | 撑* | *撑
to support / to prop up / to push or move with a pole / to maintain / to open or unfurl / to fill to bursting point / brace / stay / support
HSK 6
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搭* | 搭* | *搭
to put up / to build (scaffolding) / to hang (clothes on a pole) / to connect / to join / to arrange in pairs / to match / to add / to throw in (resources) / to take (boat, train) / variant of
HSK 6
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *担* | 担* | *担
picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole
HSK 7-9
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *箾* | 箾* | *箾
to hit sb with a pole / (archaic) pole held by a dancer
surveyor's pole / post (used for a landmark) / (fig.) goal; model; benchmark
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罱* | 罱* | *罱
a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool
lit. set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom) / fig. to get instant results
to punt / to pole a boat
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杠* | 杠* | *杠
coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole; bar; rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard; criterion / hyphen; dash
a pole / a prop
to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
benchmark / pole serving as mark or symbol / pole with a trophy hung on it
a kind of sedan chair, usu. made of bamboo and mounted on a pair of long bamboo poles
iron hook at the end a long pole
large steelyard usu. operated by three people – two to lift it using a pole, and one to adjust the counterweight
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
well sweep (device for raising and lowering a bucket in a well, using a pivoted pole)
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀
emperor's or general's banner erected on an ivory-tipped pole at a military camp or headquarters (in ancient times)
pulling a lamb and bringing wine on a carrying pole (idiom); fig. to offer elaborate congratulations / to kill the fatted calf


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