| | to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal | HSK 3 |
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| | to stand / to set up / to establish / to lay down / to draw up / at once / immediately | HSK 5 |
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| | to expose / to reveal / to lay bare / also pr. [pu4 lu4] | HSK 6 |
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| | to spread / to lay out / to apply (powder, ointment etc) / sufficient (to cover) / enough | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to set up; to arrange; to lay out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to present / to give / to hand over / to hand in / to lay before | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pave (with paving stones) / to lay a road / (fig.) to lay the groundwork (for sth) / to give a present to sb to ensure success | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to arrange / to lay out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to put sth on the bottom / to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime / to lay the foundation / to come last in the rankings | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc) | |
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| | lay hands on / to cover | |
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| | to build by laying bricks or stones | |
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| | to lay out; to exhibit; to display / to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell / old; stale | |
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| | to stock up / to lay in supplies / to hoard (for speculation) / to corner the market in sth | |
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| | to lay in place / to put / to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial | |
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| | to lay mines | |
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| | to lay eggs | |
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| | to lay bare / to come to light | |
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| | vernacular name / lay name (of a priest) | |
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| | can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom) | |
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| | to cut staff / to lay off employees | |
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| | to lay out the corpse | |
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| | to wait for / to lay in | |
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| | to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat | |
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| | to plan / to lay out / to design | |
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| | lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation / to repent and be absolved of one's crimes | |
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| | Lay's (brand) | |
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| | to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline) / to install (wiring, cable) / to construct (road, concrete slab) | |
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| | lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
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| | to set (the tone, a target etc) / to lay down (the beat) | |
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| | to make a bed / to lay bedding | |
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| | to lay down a family fortune / to get rich / to become prosperous | |
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| | to lay bare (actual facts, secrets etc) / to reveal | |
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| | to lay bare in a few words / to expose with a word / to point out bluntly | |
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| | to make a bed / to lay bedding | |
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| | to set level / to lay flat | |
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| | to offer flowers / to lay flowers (as a memorial) | |
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| | to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony) | |
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| | to lay out (an argument) item by item / memorandum to a superior | |
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| | to lay down one's arms / to surrender / to disarm | |
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| | lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
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| | to lay bare in a few words / to expose with a word | |
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| | to lay down a heavy burden | |
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| | to disarm / to lay down one's weapons / to surrender | |
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| | to lay down the pen and take up the sword (idiom) / to join the military (esp. of educated person) | |
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| | to lay an upper beam / (a building's) upper beam / (a bicycle's) top tube | |
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| | to show one's hand / to lay one's cards on the table | |
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| | storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥 | |
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| | to accumulate manure / to lay down compost | |
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| | to dismiss / to lay off | |
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| | to lay equal stress on / to pay equal attention to | |
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| | to pour / to pour down (of rain) / to lay a bet | |
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| | to lay / to place / to put in a certain place | |
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| | to sketch / to draft / to lay the foundation | |
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| | to lay railway track | |
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| | (Buddhism) benefactor (designation of a lay person by a monk) | |
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| | to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down | |
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| | to lay eggs | |
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| | to lay a foundation | |
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| | to lay bricks / bricklaying | |
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| | to puncture / to lay bear or expose (lies etc) | |
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| | a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs | |
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| | lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace | |
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| | to lay down arms | |
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| | to spread out / to display / to lay out a vendor's stall | |
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| | paper on which silkworm lays its eggs | |
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| | lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in | |
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| | to hide from public view / to conceal one's identity / to lay low | |
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| | lay practitioners of Buddhism | |
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| | to lay / to spread out | |
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| | to weave / to lay warp for weaving / silk thread for weaving / variant of 紉|纫, to sew / to stitch / thread | |
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| | to weave / to lay warp for weaving / variant of 紝|纴, silk thread for weaving | |
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| | to lay foundations | |
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| | laying hen | |
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| | to lay down one's life | |
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| | laying hen | |
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| | to lay sth out to dry | |
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| | to lay out one's products / to display | |
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| | to lay (sacrificial offerings) / (bound form) offerings / to confess (Taiwan pr. [gong1]) / confession; statement (Taiwan pr. [gong1]) | |
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| | to lay a finger on sb; to harm sb in the slightest way | |
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| | lit. a weight off one's shoulders / fig. to resign a post / to lay down a burden / to be relieved of a job | |
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| | to arrange / to lay out | |
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| | to lay out a defense | |
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| | to abandon / to lay down | |
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| | to lay one's cards on the table | |
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| | to stack; to lay one on top of another | |
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| | Cai Li Fo, Choy Li Fut, Choy Lay Fut, Choi Lei Fut, Choy Lai Fut, Choy Ley Fut, Choi Lei Faht, Tsai Li Fo, Choi Leih Faht - Martial Art | |
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| | to lay down (a rule, a plan of action) / to draw up / booked out (i.e. already fully booked) | |
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| | (Tw) to set the scene; to lay the groundwork; to pique the interest of one's audience | |
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| | money tree / prostitute / hen that lays golden eggs | |
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| | lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom) / fig. god-forsaken / remote and desolate | |
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| | lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom) / fig. god-forsaken / remote and desolate | |
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