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  *铁* | 铁* | *铁
iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang)
HSK 3
weapon / arms / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
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  *兵* | 兵* | *兵
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *缴* | 缴* | *缴
to hand in; to hand over; to pay / to capture (weapons); to seize
HSK 7-9
apparatus / instrument / equipment / weapon
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弓* | 弓* | *弓
a bow (weapon) / CL: 張|张 / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
HSK 7-9
(card games) trump card / (fig.) ace; star player; top performer; best asset; secret weapon
HSK 7-9
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  *祭* | 祭* | *祭
to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival
HSK 7-9
household dish, implement or furniture / domestic animal / (coll.) guy / chap / weapon
HSK 7-9
weapons of war / arms
HSK 7-9
nuclear weapon
HSK 7-9
sharp knife / knife (weapon)
defensive weapon
(Cantonese) iron pipe (weapon)
nuclear weapons test
Buddha's teaching / Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc / (Daoism) magic weapon / talisman / fig. specially effective device / magic wand
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鞭* | 鞭* | *鞭
whip or lash / to flog / to whip / conductor's baton / segmented iron weapon (old) / penis (of animal, served as food)
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  *梃* | 梃* | *梃
a club (weapon)
diamond / (used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon) / guardian deity (in Buddhist iconography)
weapons and ammunition / munitions / arms
weaponry / weapons / arms
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镖* | 镖* | *镖
dart-like throwing weapon / goods sent under the protection of an armed escort
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  *戎* | 戎* | *戎
generic term for weapons (old) / army (matters) / military affairs
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  *仗* | 仗* | *仗
weaponry / to hold (a weapon) / to wield / to rely on / to depend on / war / battle
iron and blood; (fig.) weapons and war; bloody conflict / (of a person) iron-willed and ready to die
sharp weapon / effective implement / outstandingly able individual
sword and spear / weapons
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *锏* | 锏* | *锏
ancient weapon like a long solid metal truncheon
embargo / export ban (e.g. on weapons)
(of a perpetrator, victim, weapon, sum of money etc) to be involved in the case
to attack with a bladed weapon
to fire (a weapon) in rapid succession
(bladed) weapons
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  *械* | 械* | *械
appliance / tool / weapon / shackles / also pr. [jie4]
darts (game) / dart (weapon shaped like a spearhead)
to disarm / (of an enemy) to lay down one's weapons; to surrender
a poison / a toxic agent / poison gas / a chemical weapon
weapons / arms / fighting / war
club (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip) / (flower) bud
magical object / object symbolic of imperial power / fine weapon / very useful tool
lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters
mace (weapon) / (Chinese opera) "tongchui" (painted face role) (abbr. for 銅錘花臉|铜锤花脸)
arms / weapons
mace (weapon)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挝* | 挝* | *挝
ancient weapon with a tip shaped like a hand or claw / old variant of / to strike; to beat
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  *櫜* | 櫜* | *櫜
weapon case
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镋* | 镋* | *镋
ancient weapon resembling a pitchfork
concealed weapon
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钑* | 钑* | *钑
(literary) small halberd with an iron handle, used as a weapon or agricultural tool / (literary) to inlay / Taiwan pr. [se4]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *梲* | 梲* | *梲
club (weapon) / small pillar
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *柲* | 柲* | *柲
weapon handle of bamboo strips
deadly weapon
golden cudgel, weapon wielded by Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
blunt instrument (used as a weapon)
(martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting / (Daoism) a magical pair of wheels on which one can stand to ride at great speed, used by Nezha 哪吒 / (fig.) never-ending treadmill
self-loading (weapon, tape deck etc)
radiological weapon
Taser (electroshock weapon)
ancient weapon with a tip like a grappling hook, thrown at enemy combatants in order to capture them
conventional weapon
to renounce nuclear weapons
nuclear weapons reduction (abbr. for 裁減核武器|裁减核武器) / disarmament
ancient spear-like weapon with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
mortar (weapon) / Taiwan pr. [po4 ji2 pao4]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戟* | 戟* | *戟
halberd / long-handled weapon with pointed tip and crescent blade / combined spear and battle-ax
(of new weapons or equipment) to enter service (with a military unit); to be commissioned
ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
(idiom) melee combat weapons of ancient China, such as swords, spears and halberds
fusion weapon / thermonuclear weapon
nuclear weapon
light weapon
to brandish (a figurative weapon, i.e. some measure intended to deal with the situation); to resort to (some tactic)
biological weapon
nuclear weapon states
tactical nuclear weapons
SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) / riot police / abbr. for 特種警察|特种警察
The Nine-Toothed Rake (weapon of Zhu Bajie 豬八戒|猪八戒)
biological weapon (using germs)
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship
weapon system
Taser (electroshock weapon)
meteor hammer (ancient weapon consisting of two iron balls connected by a chain)
biological weapon
three-section staff (old-style weapon)
no first use (policy for nuclear weapons) / NFU
nunchaku (weapon with two rods joined by a short chain, used in martial arts)
lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner / fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices / hoist with his own petard
lethal weapon / murder weapon
advanced weapon
martial arts involving weapons
murder weapon (i.e. knife)
chemical weapon
chemical weapon / abbr. for 化學武器|化学武器
atomic weapon
weapon of mass destruction
Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
(of a bladed weapon etc) to gleam coldly
weapons and armor
strategic nuclear weapon

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