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  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
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  *氣* | 氣* | *氣
gas; air / smell / weather / to make angry; to annoy; to get angry / vital energy; qi
HSK 2
to broadcast / to air (a TV program etc)
HSK 3
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  *被* | 被* | *被
quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example)
HSK 3
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  *沖* | 沖* | *沖
(of water) to dash against / to mix with water / to infuse / to rinse / to flush / to develop (a film) / to rise in the air / to clash / to collide with
HSK 4
to import / imported / entrance / inlet (for the intake of air, water etc)
HSK 4
to flow freely (of air) / to ventilate / to breathe (of fabric etc) / to take a breath of fresh air / to divulge
HSK 7-9
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  *飄* | 飄* | *飄
to float (in the air); to flutter; to waft / complacent; frivolous / weak; shaky; wobbly
HSK 7-9
to circle in the air / to soar
HSK 7-9
to pervade / to fill the air / diffuse / everywhere present / about to inundate (water) / permeated by (smoke) / filled with (dust) / to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
HSK 7-9
to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters / condescending / to go about with one's nose in the air
HSK 7-9
lit. to eat in the open air and sleep outdoors (idiom) / fig. to rough it
HSK 7-9
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  *曝* | 曝* | *曝
to air / to sun
to waft (through the air); to drift
to vanish like smoke in thin air / to disappear
baleful look / inauspicious influence / (of a tire, balloon etc) to leak air
to allow in fresh air / to allow a prisoner out for exercise / to give out information
to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying
to travel a great distance by sea or air / voyage / long-haul flight
to rustle in the air / to rustle / to sough / bleak / desolate / chilly
to float (in the air etc) / suspension
to catch the wind / to go for a spin in the fresh air
air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
to fly up / to dance in the air (of snowflakes, flower petals etc)
a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal) / blast (in blast furnace) / bellows / to draw air using bellows
to leak (of air) / to go flat (of a tire) / to vent one's anger
to swirl in the air (of thickly falling snowflakes, flower petals etc) / to flutter about
to float in the air / swiftly / nimbly / easy and relaxed
to pump air (into sth); to inflate
lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new
(agriculture) to begin sowing / (of a radio or TV station) to start broadcasting / (of a radio or TV station) to start to air (a program)
to hold one's breath / to feel suffocated (for lack of air) / choked with bottled-up resentment
out of breath (idiom) / to gasp for air
(of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)
the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom) / to clear up / to vanish into thin air
(idiom) to freely air one's views / to be heard far and wide / to attract a lot of attention
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晾* | 晾* | *晾
to dry in the air / (fig.) to cold-shoulder
to leak air or gas
to hang in the air / suspended in midair / (fig.) uncertain
MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
cold air / a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
to soar / to rise high into the air
air-to-surface (missile)
to let air pass through; to ventilate
(of a vapor etc) to rise / to hang in the air
to make an air raid
to fly magically through the air
lit. to rush at thin air / fig. to miss one's aim / to have nothing to show for one's troubles
(of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
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  *坲* | 坲* | *坲
(of dust) to rise in the air
to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark
to expose (to the air, light etc) / to leave uncovered / exposure
to accept the new / to take fresh (air) / fig. to accept new members (to reinvigorate the party) / new blood
ground-to-air missile
(literary) (of a sound, fragrance etc) to fill the air
joyfully satisfied / to be immensely proud of oneself / proudly / an air of complacency
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
to nod one's head and wag one's tail (idiom) / to be well pleased with oneself / to have a lighthearted air
to talk officiously / to assume the air of a functionary / to talk in official jargon
air-to-air missile
to linger; to swirl around (in the air, in one's mind etc)
to assume (an air of)
to enjoy the cool air
to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
a kind of shuttlecock used to play games in which it is kept in the air without using the hands, primarily by kicking / game played with such a shuttlecock
(literary) to gaze in the air
to spurt steam (or air etc)
to talk officiously / to assume the air of a functionary / to talk in official jargon
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *㫰* | 㫰* | *㫰
(dialect) to dry (sth) in the sun; to dry (sth) in the air
to feel the penetrating chill of cold air
air-to-surface missile
to air-cool
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
weather phenomenon characterized by condensation of warm moist air on cool surfaces during the transition from winter to spring in Southern China
air-to-air missile
central air conditioning / (fig.) (neologism) ladies' man (contrasted with 暖男, a guy who is attentive to his partner rather than to all and sundry)
high-to-medium-altitude air defense (HIMAD)
warm clothes such as padded jacket to be worn in air conditioning (esp. in Hong Kong)
to blow air (into)
ordinary mail (as opposed to air mail etc)
to draw air out
air pipe / bamboo air pipe used to aerate granary
Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
to puff up / to swell up / to inflate / to blow air into sth / (fig.) to encourage / to support
to relocate a piece of equipment (air conditioner etc)
to float in the air
air-to-surface (missile)


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