| | foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只 / classifier for kicks | HSK 2 |
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| | stick / club / cudgel / smart / capable / strong / wonderful / classifier for legs of a relay race | HSK 5 |
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| | to cheat / to swindle / to deceive / to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over | HSK 5 |
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| | (bound form) foot; leg / sufficient; ample / as much as; fully | HSK 6 |
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| | to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from / (bound form) distance / spur (on the leg of certain birds: gamecock, pheasant etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous / to overdo it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs | |
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| | lit. legs on a snake / sth superfluous | |
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| | ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs | |
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| | black horse with white legs | |
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| | ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility | |
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| | (dialect) to sprain one's foot or leg due to a sudden impact or landing | |
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| | leg warmer | |
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| | lower leg (from knee to ankle) / shank | |
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| | callus on the hand or foot / upper leg bone of horse or bird / buttocks | |
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| | calf of leg / decay / protect | |
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| | trouser leg | |
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| | heavy horse / horse unable to move because of twisted leg / plodding | |
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| | leg | |
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| | (Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk | |
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| | two legs / both feet | |
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| | to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk / to be mobile (e.g. after an illness) / to visit one another; to socialize / to pay a visit (go to the toilet) | |
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| | to diverge / to open (as legs) | |
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| | lower part of leg | |
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| | lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod / tripartite confrontation or balance of forces | |
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| | one of a sequence of contests (or subdivisions of a contest) between the same two opponents / round (boxing etc) / rally (tennis etc) / frame (billiards etc) / inning / (tennis, soccer etc) rubber or leg / round (of negotiations) | |
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| | leg warmers | |
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| | dog's leg / fig. one who follows a villain / henchman / hired thug | |
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| | leg wrappings / puttee / gaiters / leggings | |
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| | trouser leg | |
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| | manacles and leg-irons / fetters and handcuffs | |
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| | to try to score (a goal) / final push (at a critical juncture) / the final leg of sth | |
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| | (martial arts) horse stance (with legs wide apart, as when riding a horse) | |
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| | golden rooster stands on one leg (tai chi posture) / standing on one leg | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back | |
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| | lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom) / fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position / to not have a leg to stand on | |
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| | legs and feet / ability to walk / strides | |
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| | tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse) | |
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| | calf (back of the leg below the knee) | |
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| | broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg | |
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| | leg vise (torture instrument) | |
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| | one leg over the other (legs crossed) | |
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| | shank (the leg from knee to ankle) / leg (from hip to ankle) / (horse anatomy) pastern | |
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| | walk with one leg | |
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| | lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信 supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. (endure) utter humiliation | |
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| | a kind of wooden desk without legs | |
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| | fetters / leg-irons / shackles | |
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| | dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs | |
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| | leg warmer | |
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| | kettle on legs | |
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| | sides of the lower part of the leg | |
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| | wings of birds / legs of animals | |
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| | fetters / leg-irons | |
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| | a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs | |
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| | calf (of the leg) | |
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| | the leg of a boot or sock | |
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| | calf (lower leg) / (arch.) belly | |
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| | vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine | |
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| | false leg | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | to kick one's legs / leg press (exercise) / (coll.) to kick the bucket | |
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| | lit. the three legs of a tripod / fig. three competing rivals | |
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| | lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM) | |
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| | weakening and close to exhaustion (idiom); in terminal decline / on one's last legs | |
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| | old variant of 騙|骗 / to get on a horse by swinging one leg over | |
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| | to sit kneeling with legs folded underneath the thighs and buttocks resting on the heels | |
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| | (of mules, horses etc) to kick backward / to kick with the hind legs / fig. to flare up in anger / to display defiance | |
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| | to sit with legs dangling | |
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| | legs / both legs / two legs | |
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| | ambulatory leg (of a crab, lobster, spider etc) | |
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| | broken leg | |
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| | leg (aka shaft) of a boot; leg of a sock | |
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| | chicken leg / drumstick / CL: 根 | |
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| | trouser leg opening | |
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| | bow legs; bow-leggedness | |
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| | (dialect) leg | |
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| | (slang) stunning legs / sexy legs | |
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| | sitting with one leg crossed (usu. of Bodhisattva) | |
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| | calf (of the leg) | |
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| | feet and legs in silk stockings (especially in the massage context) | |
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| | to fall and fracture (a leg, vertebra etc) | |
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| | Diplopoda (arthropod class with a pair of legs on each segment, including centipedes and millipedes) | |
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| | crossed leg posture (usu. of Buddha) | |
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| | to cleave / to split open / to spread open (fingers, legs) | |
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| | to hop / to jump on one leg | |
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| | bow legs / bandy legs | |
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| | (coll.) (a person's) long legs | |
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| | to have one's tail between one's legs | |
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| | to tuck one's tail between one's legs / fig. to back down / in a humiliating situation | |
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| | outbound leg (of a bus or train journey etc) | |
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| | hind legs | |
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| | variant of 折線|折线, broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg | |
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| | to stick one leg over the other (when sitting) | |
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| | clothing that exposes the arms and legs (e.g. shorts, sleeveless top); to wear such clothing | |
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| | to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc) | |
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| | to get up on hind legs (esp. of horse) / to stand / to spring up | |
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| | (coll.) skinny legs | |
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