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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
  *周* | 周* | *周
to make a circuit / to circle / circle / circumference / lap / cycle / complete / all / all over / thorough / to help financially
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *圈* | 圈* | *圈
circle; ring; loop (CL:個|个) / classifier for loops, orbits, laps of race etc / to surround; to circle
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *圆* | 圆* | *圆
circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *转* | 转* | *转
to revolve / to turn / to circle about / to walk about / classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm / classifier for repeated actions
HSK 6
to cycle / to circulate / circle / loop
HSK 6
to rotate (about an axis) / to revolve / to turn / to move in a circle / to gyrate
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *框* | 框* | *框
frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1]
HSK 7-9
to surround / to circle / to revolve around
HSK 7-9
circle / ring / (social) circle
HSK 7-9
malignant / wicked / vicious (circle) / producing evil / rapid (decline) / runaway (inflation)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坛* | 坛* | *坛
altar / platform; rostrum / (bound form) (sporting, literary etc) circles; world
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兜* | 兜* | *兜
pocket / bag / to wrap up or hold in a bag / to move in a circle / to canvas or solicit / to take responsibility for / to disclose in detail / combat armor (old)
HSK 7-9
to circle in the air / to soar
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
martial arts (social) circles
arc (segment of a circle)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *旋* | 旋* | *旋
to revolve / a loop / a circle
all walks of life; all social circles
circumference; circle
to circle; to wheel; to go around
to draw a circle / cliques / circles
to stand in a circle and watch
circle
moviedom / the world of movies / film circles
lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle
the national emblem of the PRC (a red circle containing the five stars of the PRC flag over Tiananmen 天安門|天安门)
to sit in a circle / seated around (a narrator)
center of circle
ring (any circular object) / (math.) annulus / (Tw) traffic circle; rotary
a frame; a circle / set pattern; convention; restriction
sporting circles / the world of sport
great circle (in spherical geometry)
vicious circle
academic world / academic circles / academia
Arctic Circle
literary circles
ring road / circle line (e.g. rail or subway)
to mark a text with dots and circles / to punctuate
to highlight sth by drawing a circle around it / (fig.) to designate; to delineate
circumscribed circle (of a polygon)
to go round and round / running around in circles / fig. frantically busy
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *圜* | 圜* | *圜
circle / encircle
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *圜* | 圜* | *圜
circle / round
vicious circle / (abnormal) phenomenon
traffic circle; rotary; roundabout / to travel around an island
political circles
political and government circles
soccer circles / soccer world
music circles / music world
to spiral / to circle / to go around / to hover / to orbit
to have friendly relationships / circle of friends
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) / fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
painting world / painting circles
moviedom / the world of movies / film circles
poetry circles / poetry world
member of a monarch's inner ministerial circle (old)
abbr. for 中國文學藝術界聯合會|中国文学艺术界联合会, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC)
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
art circles / art world
the press / journalistic circles / the journalists
martial arts circles
the world of Chinese opera / theatrical circles
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *璚* | 璚* | *璚
half-circle jade ring
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餟* | 餟* | *餟
circle shrines and make sacrifices
among insiders; within the community (of publishers, cyclists or cosplayers etc); (esp.) in show business circles
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抟* | 抟* | *抟
to roll up into a ball with one's hands (variant of 團|团) / (literary) to circle; to wheel
dark circles (under one's eyes) / black eye
academic circles / academia
concentric circles / circular ripples
academic world / academic circles / academia
to encircle / to go around / to circle / to beat about the bush
moviedom / the world of movies / film circles
lit. the end comes back to the start (idiom); the wheel comes full circle
abbr. for 中國文學藝術界聯合會|中国文学艺术界联合会, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC)
crop circle
beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
to have dark circles under one's eyes / to have eyes like a panda
world of science / scientific circles
meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere
to rove around / to run around in circles / to walk back and forth
sports circles / the sporting world
government circle / political circle
China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC) / abbr. to 文聯|文联
(astronomy) diurnal circle
to go around in circles / to make a detour / (fig.) to beat about the bush
(math.) the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (π)
cosmetic contact lens / big eye contact lens / circle contact lens
banking circles / the world of finance
continuously circling one another / to buzz around
to form a circle, ring or loop
Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge)
great circle (in spherical geometry)
(Tw) cosmetic contact lens / big eye contact lens / circle contact lens
Stonehenge stone circle
Stonehenge stone circle
baseball circles / baseball world
to draw a circle
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
Stonehenge / Salisbury stone circle

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