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  *板* | 板* | *板
board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊|块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious
HSK 3
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  *盘* | 盘* | *盘
tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
HSK 4
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  *牌* | 牌* | *牌
signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块) / brand; trademark (CL:個|个) / mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张) / (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌 and 曲牌)
HSK 4
tray / plate / dish / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
HSK 6
license plate
HSK 6
(business) license / vehicle license / car registration / license plate
HSK 7-9
slab / (geology) tectonic plate / (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry) / (economic) bloc
HSK 7-9
lit. to hang up a plate / to open up for business / listed (on stock market)
floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)
slab; flat board; (engineering) surface plate / flat; level / (fig.) dull; monotonous / abbr. for 平板電腦|平板电脑 and 平板手機|平板手机
roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus
to make a plate (printing)
iron panel / hot iron plate for fast grilling (Japanese: teppan)
steel plate
license plate / number plate
silver-plated
copper coin / copper plate / copper clappers (a kind of percussion instrument) / (Tw) coin
the coating of sth that has been chrome-plated or copper-plated etc
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *碟* | 碟* | *碟
dish / plate
nameplate / data plate (on a machine)
desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镀* | 镀* | *镀
to plate (with gold, silver etc) / (prefix) -plated
electric stove / hot plate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钣* | 钣* | *钣
metal plate / sheet of metal
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钵* | 钵* | *钵
small earthenware plate or basin / a monk's alms bowl / Sanskrit paatra
negative / photographic plate
printing plate bearing an image (illustration, photo etc) / print made with such a plate
label; tag; sign; (brass etc) inscribed plate
fruit plate; fruit platter
door plate / house number
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桁* | 桁* | *桁
pole plate / purlin (cross-beam in roof) / ridge-pole
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鍱* | 鍱* | *鍱
thin plates of metal
intaglio printing plate (or a print made with it)
thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
to gold-plate; to gild / (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special
lithographic plate
scale / plate of armor
(photography) negative / photographic plate / (printing) plate / block
to typeset / to make up (printers' plates)
printing plate
cold plate / cold meats
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鋈* | 鋈* | *鋈
-plated / to plate
gold-plating / gilded / gold-plated
large metal plate for making bean curd / metal pot for warming wine
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钸* | 钸* | *钸
metal plate
(baseball) home base; home plate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *柈* | 柈* | *柈
plate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鉼* | 鉼* | *鉼
plate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俴* | 俴* | *俴
short / shallow / thin plate
relief printing plate
to arrange food on a plate / to plate up / food presentation / (watchmaking) balance wheel
silver plate / galactic disc
to plate (with gold, silver etc)
soup plate
dishes / crockery / plates and cups
(baseball) plate appearance (PA)
to submerge / to subduct (of tectonic plates)
printing plate / printed version (of a digital publication) / printing (as in "1st printing" etc)
beef grilled on a hot iron plate
to flatten out (paper, film, metal plates etc)
to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)
plate tectonics
distillation tower / bubble tower / plate column
to obtain a license plate
eggplant served sizzling on a hot iron plate
mouthguard / occlusal splint / dental impression tray / orthodontic plate / denture base / denture
number plate / car license plate / CL: 條|条, 塊|块,
car with fake plates
to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
dapanji or "big plate chicken", a kind of spicy chicken stew originating from Xinjiang
last digit (or last few digits) of a phone number, license plate number etc
vehicle registration plate / license plate
distillation tower / bubble tower / plate column
zone plate
ironclad / an armor-plated battleship
(Tw) heibaiqie, side dish of ingredients selected from a range on display, sliced up and served together on a plate (from Taiwanese 烏白切, Tai-lo pr. [oo-pe̍h-tshiat], where 烏白 means "as one pleases")
relief printing / typography / printing with metal plates
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
continental plates (geology)
plate tectonics
plate girder bridge
plate gauge
a photographic plate
sial rock (containing silicon and aluminium, so comparatively light, making continental plates)
metal plate
fillet beef served sizzling on a hot iron plate
mafic rock (containing magnesium and iron, so comparatively heavy, making oceanic plates)
epiphyseal plate / growth plate (bone)


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