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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *起* | 起* | *起
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *台* | 台* | *台
desk; table; counter
HSK 3
sales counter dedicated to a certain kind of product (e.g. alcohol)
HSK 7-9
sales counter; front desk; bar / (of financial trading, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)
HSK 7-9
to compete with / to vie with / to counter
HSK 7-9
long table; counter / (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job
to counter accusations / to protest / to remonstrate / to retort / to plead / to demur / a plea (of not guilty) / a defense (against an allegation) / to enter a plea to a charge (in a law court)
counter for the display of goods / (Tw) container (for freight transport)
front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拂* | 拂* | *拂
to flick / to brush off / (of a breeze) to brush lightly over / (literary) to run counter to
heel (part of a foot) / heel (of a sock) / counter (the part of a shoe that cups the back of one's heel) / followed by (used in describing a format, such as "filename followed by file extension")
cash register / check out counter
display counter / stand / booth
contrary; opposite; to run counter to
teller; counter clerk
platform scale / (dialect) counter scale; bench scale
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
(Tw) to combat (bullying, money laundering etc) / to counter
to counter narcotics trafficking / drug enforcement
(coll.) numeral / counter; chip; token / (old) ready money; cash / standard weight (used on a balance scale)
to disobey / to defy an edict / to violate / to go against / to run counter to
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
counter scale; bench scale
sales counter / inquiry desk
counter of a bar (pub)
counter / register
NASDAQ / National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter
kitchen counter (generally including sink, food preparation area and gas range) (Tw)
chip; counter
checkout counter; cashier's desk
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
kiosk / snack counter / retail department or section inside a larger business
over-the-counter drug; OTC drug
checkout counter / cashier's desk
a small-minded person / a bean-counter
counter
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
to run counter to
Geiger counter
to open the back door / fig. under the counter / to do a secret or dishonest deal / to let sth in by the back door
noodle stall or counter
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
to counter (a stroke in fencing)
to take countermeasures against / to hit back / to counter
equatorial counter current
Jang Song-taek (1946-2013), brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il 金正日, uncle and mentor of Kim Jong-un 金正恩, in 2013 accused of being a counter-revolutionary and executed
nuclear counter strike
counter scale
check-in counter
additional ticket desk / stand-by counter
to counter every move / to be full of tricks
counter
(web counter) hits
equatorial counter current
to prevent / to combat / to counter
money counter and counterfeit detection machine


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