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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *還* | 還* | *還
to pay back / to return
HSK 1
to return; to come back
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *後* | 後* | *後
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
to return / to go back
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing
HSK 2
only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
HSK 2
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *背* | 背* | *背
to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder
HSK 3
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 3
to be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to sway / to swing / to move back and forth / to oscillate
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卻* | 卻* | *卻
but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歸* | 歸* | *歸
to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *項* | 項* | *項
back of neck / item / thing / term (in a mathematical formula) / sum (of money) / classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc
HSK 4
to report / to give an account of / to collect information and report back
HSK 4
to regain / to retake / to take back / to withdraw / to revoke
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腰* | 腰* | *腰
waist / lower back / pocket / middle / loins
HSK 4
behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future
HSK 4
in those days; back then; in those years / to be in the prime of life
HSK 5
to return to / to come (or go) back
HSK 5
to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc)
HSK 5
to look back / to review
HSK 5
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *負* | 負* | *負
to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)
HSK 6
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
dealings / contacts / to go back and forth
HSK 6
turning one's back to (sth or sb) / keeping sth secret from (sb) / keeping (one's hands) behind one's back
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *縮* | 縮* | *縮
to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]
HSK 7-9
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
backstage area / behind-the-scenes supporter / (computing) back-end / background
HSK 7-9
incoming telephone call (or telegram) / to phone in; to send in a telegram / to have an instant attraction to sb / (of electricity, after an outage) to come back
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *憋* | 憋* | *憋
to choke / to stifle / to restrain / to hold back / to hold in (urine) / to hold (one's breath)
HSK 7-9
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
to count backwards (from 10 down to 0) / to count down / from the bottom (lines on a page) / from the back (rows of seats)
HSK 7-9
(economics) to reduce / to curtail / to cut back / to tighten / austerity / tightening / crunch
HSK 7-9
lit. to go upstream / to trace sth back to / to date from
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罩* | 罩* | *罩
to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裁* | 裁* | *裁
to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
HSK 7-9
to repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
to pull back / to shrink / to contract / (physiology) systole
HSK 7-9
to sway to and fro / to rock back and forth
HSK 7-9
to bounce / to bounce back / to boomerang / to ricochet / rebound (of stock market etc) / bounce / backlash / negative repercussions
HSK 7-9
to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弓* | 弓* | *弓
a bow (weapon) / CL: 張|张 / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
HSK 7-9
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
to go back and forth; to go to and fro; to do a round trip
HSK 7-9
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to pace back and forth / to dither; to hesitate / (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
to resist / to hold back / to stop / to ward off / to withstand
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to move aside / to get out of the way / to back down / to concede
HSK 7-9
to retreat / to shrink back
HSK 7-9
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馱* | 馱* | *馱
to carry on one's back
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain
HSK 7-9
repayment / to pay back money
HSK 7-9
setback / reverse / check / defeat / frustration / disappointment / to frustrate / to discourage / to set sb back / to blunt / to subdue
HSK 7-9
the back / the reverse side / the wrong side
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unable to hold oneself back; eager to do sth without delay
HSK 7-9
to recollect / to recall (past times) / to look back
to renege / to go back (on a deal) / to back out (of a promise)
to come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
Hōryūji, complex of Buddhist temples near Nara 奈良, Japan, dating back to the Asuka period 飛鳥時代|飞鸟时代 (c. 600)
to travel back and forth / to shuttle
to stop; to pull back
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
to put sth back where it belongs / to return to the original position / to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *徉* | 徉* | *徉
to walk back and forth
to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *荷* | 荷* | *荷
to carry on one's shoulder or back / burden / responsibility
like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings
final part / rear / back end / final segment / the following section / last paragraph
to rove around / to run around in circles / to walk back and forth
to equalize / to level the score / to pull back the advantage
buttocks / bottom / butt / back part
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *繈* | 繈* | *繈
cloth for carrying baby on back
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
to pick up and drop off; to ferry back and forth
the back (human anatomy) / the back part of sth
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
the road back to where one came from
back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
back seat / pillion
to turn back / to reverse

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