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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *試* | 試* | *試
to test / to try / experiment / examination / test
HSK 1
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *看* | 看* | *看
to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for
HSK 1
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *找* | 找* | *找
to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek / to return / to give change
HSK 1
to make an effort; to try hard; to strive / hard-working; conscientious
HSK 2
good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
HSK 2
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *趕* | 趕* | *趕
to overtake; to catch up with / to hurry; to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until; by (a certain time)
HSK 3
(try to) overcome (hardships etc) / to conquer / to put up with / to endure
HSK 3
to attempt / to try
HSK 5
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勸* | 勸* | *勸
to advise / to urge / to try to persuade / to exhort / to console / to soothe
HSK 5
to try; to attempt / CL:
HSK 5
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嘗* | 嘗* | *嘗
to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once
HSK 5
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
to attempt / to try / attempt / CL: 種|种
HSK 6
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *審* | 審* | *審
to examine / to investigate / carefully / to try (in court)
HSK 7-9
to try sth out / to be on probation
HSK 7-9
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
to explain / to justify / to defend (a point of view etc) / to provide an explanation / to try to defend oneself
HSK 7-9
to try / to make an attempt / to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
HSK 7-9
to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means / to try this, that and the other
HSK 7-9
to show off / to try to be brave
HSK 7-9
to sound out / to probe / to feel out / to try out
HSK 7-9
a trial / to try sb
HSK 7-9
to put effort into sth / to try really hard
HSK 7-9
to analyze / to try to figure out / to try to fathom
HSK 7-9
to try out / to test
HSK 7-9
rolling and crawling / trying frantically to escape (idiom)
HSK 7-9
(used after a verb) give it a go / to do (sth for a bit to give it a try) / one time / once / in a while / all of a sudden / all at once
to rush (to do sth urgent) / to try to be the first / to forestall
one who tries never to offend anybody
making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out / to do one's utmost
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
touchdown / try (sports)
(of a childless couple) to pray for a son / to try to have a child
to mount a psychological attack / to try to demoralize / to try to win over / to try to persuade / (TCM) to fall into a coma or stupor due to an excess of emotion
to try to please
to try one's luck / to leave sth to chance
to try sth out / trial / pilot scheme
friendly one-upmanship / to try to emulate
to try hard to catch up
to examine; to investigate; to try to determine
to try to make one's case using false arguments
one's employment / business / matter that needs to be settled / (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding / trying / troublesome / erhua variant of / CL: , 樁|桩
to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc) / to try in vain
to be eager to give sth a try (idiom)
lit. seeing others go hunting, one is excited by memories of the thrill of the hunt (idiom) / fig. seeing others do what one loves to do, one is inspired to try it again
trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
lit. an ant trying to shake a tree / to overrate oneself (idiom)
to try everything to avoid; to guard against
to resort to tricks / to act in a slippery way / to try to evade (work, responsibility)
to succeed at the first try (idiom) / easy as pie / one can do it at once
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty.
lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight
lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
to try to find out; to trace; to track down
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *詐* | 詐* | *詐
to cheat / to swindle / to pretend / to feign / to draw sb out / to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
to give it a try
to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over
to make inquiries / to try to find out / to pry
to shirk / to try to get off work / to slide on the job
to put effort into sth / to try really hard
to try to cover up in an embarrassing situation / to justify oneself / to find excuses
polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
inquest / trial / interrogation / to try / to interrogate
to try in vain / futile attempt
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攆* | 攆* | *攆
to expel / to oust / (dialect) to chase after / to try to catch up with
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back
(idiom) to try one's very best to persuade sb; to reason with sb in every way possible
to ask for sth and receive it / to try to obtain / to look for and obtain
to try hard to / to strive to
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate one's own strength / also written 蚍蜉撼樹|蚍蜉撼树
lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom) / fig. each tries to outwit the other / deceit and treachery
to try one's luck / to rely on fate
lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy
lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success
no strategy left to try (idiom); at one's wit's end / at the end of one's tether / powerless
to try one's utmost / to strive
to try to score (a goal) / final push (at a critical juncture) / the final leg of sth
a tried and tested medical prescription
to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
to try to survive
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
to try to gain sb's friendship
to deliberate and decide / to try and punish / trial and execution
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
lit. a mantis trying to stop a chariot (idiom) / fig. to overrate oneself and attempt sth impossible / also written 螳臂擋車|螳臂挡车
to play yabao (a gambling game) / (fig.) to gamble on / to take one's chance / to try one's luck
preliminary exam / qualifying exam / first try / preliminary testing
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
to try to rouse oneself but lack the strength (idiom)
to taste (fresh food or a delicacy) / (fig.) to try sth new
lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) / fig. to try to help but end up making things worse
to try to cover up / hiding place
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
to work hard / to try to make a living
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds

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