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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奶* | 奶* | *奶
breast / milk / to breastfeed
HSK 1
cow's milk / CL: ,
HSK 1
milk tea
HSK 3
milk cow / dairy cow
HSK 6
powdered milk
HSK 6
soy milk
HSK 7-9
to forget and not bear recriminations (idiom); to let bygones be bygones / There is no point in crying over spilt milk.
coconut milk
butter tea (Tibetan, Mongolian etc drink derived from milk)
fresh milk
(coll.) milk / (coll.) breast / booby / tit
deciduous tooth / milk tooth / baby tooth
to suck the breast (for milk)
soybean milk / fermented bean curd
non-staple foods / (Tw) solids (food for infants other than breast milk and formula)
milk vetch / plant genus Astragalus / huangqi 黃芪|黄芪, Astragalus membranaceus (used in TCM)
to milk
almond tofu; almond jelly (dessert made with apricot kernel milk, sugar and agar)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *酪* | 酪* | *酪
(bound form) semi-solid food made from milk (junket, cheese etc) / (bound form) fruit jelly; sweet paste made with crushed nuts / Taiwan pr. [luo4]
to remove fat / to skim (milk)
huangqi / milk vetch root (used in TCM) / Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus mongholicus
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) / it's no use crying over spilt milk / what's done is done and can't be reversed / the damage is done / once divorced, there's no reuniting
milk
(literary) to feed an infant breast milk
casein (milk protein)
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
malt milk extract
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
breast milk
lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom) / fig. to follow whoever is feeding you / to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie
cream / milk fat
breast milk
to grow replacement teeth (zoology) / to grow permanent teeth in place of milk teeth
casein (milk protein)
to condense milk (by evaporation) / condensed milk
to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry
cow's milk
(milk) to turn sour / (meat, fish) to go off
deciduous tooth / milk tooth / baby tooth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *齔* | 齔* | *齔
to replace the milk teeth
sheep's milk
grouting / (of grain) to be in the milk / to form a vesicle (medicine)
milk from a woman's breast / milk (used in the names of dishes to indicate white sauce)
Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *湩* | 湩* | *湩
milk / sound of a drum
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *齠* | 齠* | *齠
shed the milk teeth / young
to produce (graduates, breast milk, toxic waste, creative ideas etc) / output
to produce milk; to lactate / to promote lactation
pearl milk tea / tapioca milk tea / bubble milk tea
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乳* | 乳* | *乳
(bound form) breast / (bound form) milk / (bound form) newborn; suckling
douzhi, fermented drink made from ground mung beans / soy milk
soy milk
coconut milk
abbr. for pearl milk tea 珍珠奶茶
dental transition (from milk teeth to adult teeth)
rice milk
formula (milk)
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
to add water (or other liquid) to (another ingredient such as powdered milk or tea leaves) / to infuse (tea)
(medicine) to unblock breastmilk flow (of a nursing mother with clogged milk ducts)
condensed milk
pure milk
to suckle / to pump breast milk with a breast pump
(milk)shake (loanword)
engorged breasts; rock-hard breasts (resulting from postnatal milk accumulation or complications from breast implants)
milk cabbage (aka "white bok choy" and various other names), a variety of bok choy
Quickly, tapioca milk tea franchise
lit. to beat milk / to churn (to make butter) / milk foamer (for cappuccino)
contaminated milk (esp. milk products adulterated with melamine in a 2008 scandal in China) / (slang) a jinx effect from praising or supporting sb too much
unsweetened soy milk; plain soy milk
teh tarik, an Indian-style tea with milk
carton (e.g. for milk or juice) / Tetra Pak
reconstituted milk
deciduous tooth / milk tooth / baby tooth / also written 乳齒|乳齿
(loanword) au lait; with milk
breast milk substitute
contaminated milk powder (milk powder adulterated with melamine in a 2008 scandal in China)
fruit medley in coconut milk – a chilled dessert consisting of assorted fresh fruits served in sweetened coconut milk, yogurt or fruit syrup
to reconstitute (a powdered beverage) by adding water, milk etc
bubble milk tea (Tw) / Boba milk tea / tapioca milk tea / see also 珍珠奶茶
general term for milk packaged for the consumer, including long-life (UHT) milk, pasteurized milk and reconstituted milk
spilt water / (fig.) sth that can not be retrieved / spilt milk
Nestlé Milo (chocolate-flavored powder added to milk or water)
Gong Cha, international franchise selling Taiwan-style milk tea and smoothies etc, established in Kaohsiung in 2006
reconstituted milk (Tw)
butter sculpture (Tibetan art form using paint derived from milk products)
Yakult (Japanese brand of fermented milk drink)
kumis / horse milk wine


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