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plan / project / program / to plan / to map out / CL: 個|个, 項|项
HSK 2
important point; main point; focus / key (project etc) / to focus on; to put the emphasis on
HSK 2
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
prominent / outstanding / to give prominence to / to protrude / to project
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *项* | 项* | *项
back of neck / item / thing / term (in a mathematical formula) / sum (of money) / classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc
HSK 4
engineering / an engineering project / project / undertaking / CL: 個|个, 項|项
HSK 4
item / project / (sports) event / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
HSK 5
practice / to put into practice / to live up to (a promise) / to carry out (a project)
HSK 6
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project
HSK 6
host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor / (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director
HSK 6
option; alternative; choice / to choose a project
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *映* | 映* | *映
to reflect (light) / to shine / to project (an image onto a screen etc)
HSK 7-9
to complete a project
HSK 7-9
an overall plan / to plan an entire project as a whole
HSK 7-9
heart's blood / expenditure (for some project) / meticulous care
HSK 7-9
to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
HSK 7-9
to start (a building project)
HSK 7-9
fist / (of a product, service, project etc) flagship; key; core
HSK 7-9
project duration; construction period
projective geometry / same as 射影幾何|射影几何
to restart (a machine etc); to reactivate (a postponed project etc)
lottery run by China Welfare Lottery, a government agency that uses a portion of the money from ticket sales to fund welfare projects (abbr. for 福利彩票)
to project / a projection
to launch a project
large scale program of lasting importance / project of paramount importance / to think big / annual national audit
capital construction (project) / infrastructure
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
preliminary hearing / interrogation (of a suspect) / preliminary examination (of a project etc)
to supervise; to oversee (e.g. a construction project) / (of a regulatory body) to oversee; to regulate (e.g. financial institutions) / supervisor
water screen (screen formed of sprayed water droplets, used for displaying projected images, for temperature control, or for air purification)
to complete a construction project
Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site / Dujiangyan, county-level city in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan
successfully accomplished (project or goal) / to be highly successful
graduation project
to develop as a government project; to construct under the authority of a commission
lit. to shut oneself away and build a cart (idiom) / fig. to work on a project in isolation, without caring for outside realities
to arrange in order / to compile / to prepare (a budget, project etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *龇* | 龇* | *龇
projecting teeth / to bare one's teeth
(of a project) to be completed
it is essential to (complete a project on time, be thorough etc)
to take care of (a matter); to get (a task) done; to handle (a project) expeditiously
(of a light source) to cast one's light on / to project (an image)
to dig a hole / (fig.) to make things difficult for sb / (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project
project management
specific to a particular stage (of a project etc) / interim (policy etc) / occurring in stages / phased
item / event / project
starting price; base fare (for a taxi trip, construction project etc)
fetus dies in the belly / (fig.) plans or projects failed before being carried out
joint project / partnership
to dismount from a horse / (fig.) to abandon (a project)
Human Genome Project
to cooperate on a great undertaking or joint project
deadline / final time limit (for project)
to plan (a project)
to cooperate in a charity project
(of a project, organization etc) to have begun to take shape
Wikistats, (stats.wikimedia.org), online tool providing statistics for Wikimedia projects
designer / architect (of a project)
to pool resources (for a gift, project etc)
projective geometry
demolition (of buildings for new project)
the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project
Double First-Class University Plan, Chinese government project to develop both a group of Chinese universities and a group of subject disciplines to be world-class by 2050, implemented from 2017
(Tw) (in a research project) co-principal investigator, or co-PI
housing project for low-income urban residents
Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to include the Great Firewall of China 防火長城|防火长城 as a component
projective geometry
a projective transformation
lit. sparrow and swallow's congratulation (idiom); fig. to congratulate sb on completion of a building project / congratulations on your new house!
to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe / refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan's subsequent colonization projects in Asia
jerry-built building project / lit. built on soybean dregs
minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
(Tw) (in a research project) collaborator of the investigator(s)
(idiom) to have made significant contributions to a project or cause
Project Gutenberg
to die naturally with dignity; to pass away peacefully / (of partnerships, projects etc) to end well; to have a good ending
the Apollo project
to finish work / to complete a project
ceremony of capping the roof (to mark the completion of a building project)
project
project manager
to contract for an entire project
projective geometry / same as 射影幾何學|射影几何学
line of project / projection line
project to raise low-lying water for irrigation purposes
person or household that has to be relocated (to make way for a construction project etc)
long table; counter / (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job
demolition of homes / to destroy homes (for new building projects)
(of a construction project etc) unfinished; derailed (due to critical setbacks)
to project singular splendor or radiance / to perform brilliantly
a project of vital and lasting importance
Wikispecies, (species.wikimedia.org), online project to catalog all known species
urban development project
important large scale project
a slogan used in reference to a project to improve greenery in some parts of Northern China


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