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| | finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end | HSK 3 |
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| | to guard against / to exhort / to admonish or warn / to give up or stop doing sth / Buddhist monastic discipline / ring (for a finger) | HSK 5 |
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| | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | HSK 5 |
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| | to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed) / to carve; to cut / to study meticulously / stingy; miserly / to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (finger) ring | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rub or roll between the hands or fingers / to twist | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hold between the thumb and fingers / to pinch / to mold (using the fingers) / to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.) / to join together / to fabricate (a story, a report, etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger | HSK 7-9 |
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| | guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers | |
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| | (music) fingering / (TCM) manipulation of acupuncture needles / (keyboard) typing technique / (dance) hand movements / (painting) finger method | |
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| | index finger / (literary) mouths to feed | |
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| | middle finger | |
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| | (literary) to wipe away (tears) / to press with one's fingers / to soak | |
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| | (finger) ring | |
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| | fingerprint / the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers | |
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| | to play Chinese finger-guessing game | |
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| | to cover up; to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack | |
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| | to press (with one's hand or finger) | |
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| | index finger | |
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| | to stretch fingers out | |
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| | fingertip / finger | |
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| | little finger | |
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| | (coll.) while doing it; on the way through / (coll.) immediately; at once / (of a touch screen) responsive to the user's finger movements | |
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| | to gesticulate / to point out / to point the finger of blame | |
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| | to snap one's fingers / (fig.) in a flash; in an instant | |
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| | lit. can be counted on one's fingers (idiom) / fig. very few | |
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| | to nip / to grasp with the fingers / to fiddle with / Taiwan pr. [nian2] | |
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| | to put one's hands behind one's head, fingers interlaced / to hold one's head in one's hands (in dismay, fright etc) / to cover one's head with one's hands (for protection) | |
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| | ring finger | |
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| | to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc) | |
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| | index finger | |
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| | to press (with one's finger or hand) | |
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| | to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers | |
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| | hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended) | |
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| | to smooth or arrange sth using one's fingers / to stroke | |
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| | the five fingers of one's hand | |
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| | circular finger movement (in playing plucked instrument) / strumming | |
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| | stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling | |
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| | thieving / light-fingered / prone to stealing | |
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| | to count on one's fingers | |
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| | springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate | |
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| | to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action / abbr. for 染指於鼎|染指于鼎 | |
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| | to cleave / to split open / to spread open (fingers, legs) | |
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| | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / (onom.) for the sound of the wind | |
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| | (bound form) finger ring / Taiwan pr. [liu2] | |
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| | fingerprint / finger mark / thumbprint | |
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| | to twirl (in the fingers) | |
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| | lit. with calluses on hands and feet (idiom) / fig. to work one's fingers to the bone | |
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| | to count on one's fingers | |
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| | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨 | |
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| | to enjoy (the benefit of sth) without lifting a finger; to sit back and enjoy (favorable circumstances) | |
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| | lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action | |
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| | little finger / pinkie | |
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| | sticks used for squeezing the fingers (old form of torture) | |
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| | to count with one's fingers / on the spot calculation | |
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| | finger-guessing game / rock-paper-scissors game / morra | |
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| | to squeeze the fingers (old form of torture) | |
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| | (dialect) finger ring | |
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| | finger-guessing game | |
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| | to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences / to get one's fingers burnt | |
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| | petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing | |
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| | as the arm moves the finger (idiom) / freely and effortlessly / to have perfect command of | |
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| | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨 | |
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| | finger-guessing game | |
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| | lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth | |
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| | okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers | |
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| | to finger-rape; digital rape | |
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| | to win without needing to even lift a finger / victory presented on a platter | |
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| | index finger | |
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| | a snap of the fingers / a short moment / in a flash / in the twinkling of an eye | |
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| | okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers | |
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| | to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy | |
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| | (saying) people don't get up early unless there is some benefit in doing so / won't lift a finger unless there's something in it for oneself | |
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| | finger ring (dialect) | |
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| | a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash / in the twinkling of an eye | |
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| | (palmistry) fate line; career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger) / (slang) cleavage | |
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| | to lay a finger on sb; to harm sb in the slightest way | |
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| | (finger) ring | |
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| | hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers) | |
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| | to cross little fingers (between children) as a promise | |
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| | squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture) | |
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| | to give the middle finger | |
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| | fat finger error (finance) | |
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| | the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers | |
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| | brachydactylism (genetic abnormality of short or missing fingers) | |
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| | to give the middle finger | |
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| | antipinch (e.g. preventing catching fingers in automatic car windows) | |
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| | okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers | |
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