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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
to strap tightly / to bind
HSK 7-9
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
Caribbean Sea
Grenoble (French town)
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
Taylor (name)
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
to blackmail / to extort
Saint Helena
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
Altay, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Palestine
to order / to force
to draw the outline of / to outline / to sketch / to delineate contours of / to give a brief account of
Keller or Köhler (name) / Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head of the IMF 2000-2004, president of Germany 2004-2010
Cyprus (Tw)
Oregon
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
to guide a horse with the reins / to rein in a horse
(Tw) Dresden, capital of Saxony, Germany
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom) / fig. to act in the nick of time
Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Tw)
to tighten
to tighten one's belt / to live more frugally
Oregon
Whistler (name)
Leningrad, former name (1923-1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡
to force sb to give up (a drug) / to enforce abstinence / to break drug dependence
to kidnap for ransom
lux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!
Gilles (name)
Xilingol, league in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
to strangle or throttle to death
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy / Naples
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Mahler (name) / Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer
Chrysler (car manufacturer)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) / abbr. to 貝克|贝克
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Rockefeller
to strangle
Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Palermo, Italy
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King
Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar / Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
Salem, capital of Oregon / Salem, city in Massachusets / Salem, city in India
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Shule, oasis state in central Asia (near modern Kashgar) at different historical periods
Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
to coerce / to force / to press sb into doing sth
Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
Drøbak (city in Akershus, Norway)
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Maitreya Bodhisattva
mule shoes (loanword)
Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵 (319-350)
St Helena
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州
portobello mushroom
Caribbean
Le Havre (French town)
to throttle / to strangle
Zwolle (Netherlands)
ransomware (computing)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher
Kaliningrad Oblast
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
the Doppler effect
Palestinian National Authority
Maitreya / the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Valletta, capital of Malta (Tw)
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河

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