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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *录* | 录* | *录
to carve wood
HSK 3
slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL: 塊|块,
HSK 3
woods / grove / forest
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *签* | 签* | *签
inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
HSK 5
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  *理* | 理* | *理
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *炭* | 炭* | *炭
wood charcoal / coal
HSK 7-9
wood
HSK 7-9
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  *林* | 林* | *林
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood , fire , earth , metal , water
vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *木* | 木* | *木
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *梓* | 梓* | *梓
Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纹* | 纹* | *纹
line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc)
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  *栈* | 栈* | *栈
a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack
(medicine) boil / furuncle / knot (in wood)
fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus); fu ling; tuckahoe
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爿* | 爿* | *爿
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)
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  *巽* | 巽* | *巽
to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing wood and wind // ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樵* | 樵* | *樵
firewood / gather wood
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  *蠡* | 蠡* | *蠡
wood-boring insect
bamboo and wood
to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process
wood shavings / sawdust
rotten wood
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槎* | 槎* | *槎
a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering
Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
woods / grove / forest
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斫* | 斫* | *斫
to chop / to hack / to carve wood
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斫* | 斫* | *斫
to chop / to carve wood
tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
squat block (of stone, wood etc) / ottoman; pouf
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镌* | 镌* | *镌
to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
pine wood / deal / larch
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *札* | 札* | *札
thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague
chopped wood / firewood
mixed (growth of wood)
wood shavings
(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message
flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL: 塊|块,
to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth)
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槁* | 槁* | *槁
dried up (wood) / dead tree
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *桄* | 桄* | *桄
woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鎹* | 鎹* | *鎹
(Japanese kokuji) large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together / pr. kasugai
horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt
woods and ravines / tranquillity of trees and valleys
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枟* | 枟* | *枟
wood streaks
wood turning / woodwork lathe
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丬* | 丬* | *丬
"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of
to engrave (wood or stone) / to carve
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棻* | 棻* | *棻
aromatic wood / perfume / fragrance
mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *锼* | 锼* | *锼
to engrave (metal of wood)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *椮* | 椮* | *椮
lush growth (trees) / fishing using bundled wood (archaic)
numerous and close together / (of hair) luxuriant / (of woods) dense / (of gunfire) intense
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *椫* | 椫* | *椫
(wood)
fork (of a tree) / tool made of forked wood
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *檃* | 檃* | *檃
tool used for shaping wood (old)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *柮* | 柮* | *柮
wood scraps
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槢* | 槢* | *槢
a hard wood
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *榾* | 榾* | *榾
scraps of wood
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卯* | 卯* | *卯
mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) / 4th earthly branch: 5-7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March-4th April), Year of the Rabbit / ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east) / (coll.) to concentrate one's strength (variant of 鉚|铆)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鎸* | 鎸* | *鎸
variant of 鐫|镌, to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal , stone , clay , leather , silk 絲|丝, wood , gourd , bamboo ) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *櫽* | 櫽* | *櫽
tool used for shaping wood (old) / old variant of
to chop wood / to chop down trees
lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
ancient vehicle made of wood and bamboo / CL: 輛|辆
veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
to smoke / to cure over a wood fire
good Chinese wood-oil tree (Aleurites cordata)
incense wood
knot (in wood)
wooden pole / wood (golf club)
to drill wood to make fire
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
woodcut; wood engraving
wenge or wengue (type of wood)
lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
woods and marshes
lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless
a hard wood
can't see the wood for the trees
tiger-head plaque (made of wood and mounted on the front of a yamen 衙門|衙门 during the Qing dynasty as a symbol of authority)
wood alcohol / wood spirit / methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / same as 甲醇
shrubbery / low wood
jigsaw puzzle / wood block puzzle
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer

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