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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吊* | 吊* | *吊
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拱* | 拱* | *拱
to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弓* | 弓* | *弓
a bow (weapon) / CL: 張|张 / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
HSK 7-9
arch of the foot
constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *郎* | 郎* | *郎
(arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth
husband (arch.)
fingerprint / the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *荧* | 荧* | *荧
a glimmer / glimmering / twinkling / fluorescence / phosphorescence / perplexed / dazzled and confused / planet Mars (arch.)
arch bridge
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闺* | 闺* | *闺
small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women
memorial arch
states of south China in different historical periods / proverbially perpetual arch-enemies
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蛊* | 蛊* | *蛊
arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite
arched door
arch
mortal enemy / arch-enemy
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *荐* | 荐* | *荐
to recommend / to offer sacrifice (arch.) / grass / straw mat
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聿* | 聿* | *聿
(arch. introductory particle) / then / and then
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *褶* | 褶* | *褶
(arch.) court dress
triumphal arch
baby / small child / (arch.) slave among ethnic minorities
warm color (arch.) / esp. yellow, orange or red
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衅* | 衅* | *衅
quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
Zhaozhou Bridge over Xiao River 洨河 in Zhao county 趙縣|赵县, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, dating back to the Sui dynasty 隋代 (581-617) and the world's oldest extant stone arch bridge
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *祃* | 祃* | *祃
(arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弮* | 弮* | *弮
crossbow (arch.)
short spear (arch.) / fig. trickery
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *帹* | 帹* | *帹
man's headband (arch.)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *帹* | 帹* | *帹
kerchief covering head (arch.)
triforium (gallery of arches above side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church)
mounted scout (arch.)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蓠* | 蓠* | *蓠
red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori / arch. used for vanilla-like herb
an arched roof / a dome / a vault
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鹥* | 鹥* | *鹥
wigeon (Anas penelope, a Eurasian duck) / seagull (arch.)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *臑* | 臑* | *臑
biceps (in Chinese medicine) / (arch.) forelimbs of livestock animal
letter / wooden writing strips (arch.) / general term for letters and documents
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胻* | 胻* | *胻
calf (lower leg) / (arch.) belly
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *誙* | 誙* | *誙
(arch.) definitely / sure!
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鍴* | 鍴* | *鍴
(arch.) drinking goblet
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蚈* | 蚈* | *蚈
(arch.) firefly
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鑅* | 鑅* | *鑅
(onom.) for sound of bell (arch.)
enemy (idiom); opponent / arch-enemy
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *䓕* | 䓕* | *䓕
(arch.) type of grass
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铏* | 铏* | *铏
soup cauldron / (arch.) sacrificial tripod with two handles and a lid / old variant of
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舋* | 舋* | *舋
variant of 釁|衅 / quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
honorific term for one's deceased father / (arch.) great-great-grandfather
visceral arch (gill-bearing arch or its vestigial crease on sides of neck of vertebrates)
employment agent (arch.) / job broker
an arch dam
ice arch
to hunch over / to stoop / to arch one's back (upward)
cheek bone / zygomatic arch (anatomy)
arch-enemy / sworn enemy
blind arch / false arch
arch / vault / arched
comet (arch.)
a spandrel (wall filling the shoulder between two neighboring arches)
tendon arch (anatomy)
arch (of a foot)
comet (arch.)
high-arched feet
arched / vaulted / dome-shaped
arch-criminal / master criminal
arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
Seventeen-Arch Bridge in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园, Beijing
semiarch / half arch
kerchief covering head (arch.)
to arch one's body and fling one's head back
to straighten one's back / to arch one's back
(arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
(arch.) precious stone
(arch.) large stone / boulder / hard
a rib of an arch
job agency (arch.) / employment shop
memorial arch in honor of a chaste widow
(arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot
double arched bridge


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