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  *干* | 干* | *干
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
HSK 1
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  *树* | 树* | *树
tree / CL: / to cultivate / to set up
HSK 1
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  *棵* | 棵* | *棵
classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
HSK 4
tree leaves
HSK 4
pine / pine tree / CL:
HSK 4
peach tree / CL:
HSK 5
fruit tree / CL:
HSK 6
shade of a tree / Taiwan pr. [shu4yin4]
HSK 7-9
tree
HSK 7-9
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)
HSK 7-9
the tip of a tree; treetop
HSK 7-9
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
HSK 7-9
cypress tree / Taiwan pr. [bo2 shu4]
HSK 7-9
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  *标* | 标* | *标
mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units
HSK 7-9
poplar tree / various trees of genus Populus
HSK 7-9
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  *株* | 株* | *株
tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business)
HSK 7-9
lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom) / to wait idly for opportunities / to trust to chance rather than show initiative
HSK 7-9
dragon tree / Dracaena (botany)
Chinese toon (Toona sinensis), deciduous tree whose young leaves are used as a vegetable
Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) / tree rhododendron (Rhododendron delavayi)
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  *榛* | 榛* | *榛
(bound form) hazelnut tree (Corylus heterophylla)
(of a tree) to bear fruit
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  *柘* | 柘* | *柘
a thorny tree / sugarcane / Cudrania triloba / three-bristle cudrania (Cudrania tricuspidata) / Chinese mulberry (Cudrania)
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
orange (tree and fruit)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
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  *榈* | 榈* | *榈
palm tree
tree trunk
dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
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  *杜* | 杜* | *杜
birchleaf pear (tree) / to stop / to prevent / to restrict
roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex
pear tree
Indian coral tree / sunshine tree / tiger's claw / Erythrina variegata (botany)
alder tree (genus Alnus)
legendary tree that sheds coins when shaken / (fig.) source of easy money
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  *木* | 木* | *木
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
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  *梓* | 梓* | *梓
Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks
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  *楩* | 楩* | *楩
(tree)
almond tree / almond / flat peach
sutra written on leaves of pattra palm tree
to plant trees
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) / fig. can't see the forest for the trees
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  *橙* | 橙* | *橙
orange tree / orange (color)
dragon's blood (bright red tree resin)
tree, esp. with recognizable trunk (as opposed to 灌木, bush or shrub)
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
withered tree
orange tree
jadeite / tree kingfisher
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桑* | 桑* | *桑
(bound form) mulberry tree
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樾* | 樾* | *樾
shade of trees
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  *荆* | 荆* | *荆
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus) / alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國|楚国
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  *桐* | 桐* | *桐
tree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
arboreal / tree-dwelling
jujube tree / date tree / Zizyphus vulgaris / CL:
to unlawfully fell trees
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  *荫* | 荫* | *荫
(bound form) shade (of a tree)
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  *苑* | 苑* | *苑
(literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park / (literary) center (of arts, literature etc)
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  *楷* | 楷* | *楷
Chinese pistachio tree (Pistacia chinensis)
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
kapok (tree)
wutong (Firmiana platanifolia) / Chinese parasol tree
forest / forest tree
(of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky
tree species
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枞* | 枞* | *枞
fir tree
loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica) / loquat fruit
genealogy / family tree
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扦* | 扦* | *扦
short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槎* | 槎* | *槎
a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew
tree stump
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
the shade (of a tree)
tree bark
pomelo tree (Citrus maxima or C. grandis) / shaddock / oriental grapefruit
palm tree
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *榔* | 榔* | *榔
tall tree (archaic)
lineage / genealogy / family tree
to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering
tree roots
willow tree / poplar and willow / name of traditional tune
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棪* | 棪* | *棪
(tree)
needle-leaved (tree)
broad-leaved (tree)
eucommia (a kind of rubber tree)
apricot tree
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
Chinese eaglewood; agarwood tree; lignum aloes (Aquilaria agallocha)
tree resin / gum
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
larch tree (Pinus larix) / deciduous pine tree
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瘿* | 瘿* | *瘿
goiter / knob on tree
cedar tree / cedarwood
pine tree
tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
Tallow tree / Sapium sebiferum
branch / limb (of a tree)
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees
tea tree / Camellia sinensis

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