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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *号* | 号* | *号
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
HSK 1
signal
HSK 2
number / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
symbol; mark; sign
HSK 4
parentheses; brackets
HSK 4
model (particular version of a manufactured article) / type (product specification in terms of color, size etc)
HSK 4
slogan / catchphrase / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
name / term of address / title
HSK 5
to call / to appeal
HSK 5
vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
HSK 6
to number / numbering / serial number
HSK 7-9
code name
HSK 7-9
account number; username
HSK 7-9
to register (at a hospital etc) / to send by registered mail
HSK 7-9
to be known as; to be nicknamed / to be purportedly / to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
HSK 7-9
nickname
HSK 7-9
first rate / top rank / number one
HSK 7-9
nickname
HSK 7-9
mark / symbol / notation / seal
HSK 7-9
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *号* | 号* | *号
roar / cry / CL: 個|个
characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number
character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop
ordinal number / serial number / sequence number
(computing) (text file) line number; (data table or spreadsheet) row number / (Tw) unincorporated firm (typically a smaller business such as a sole proprietorship or partnership)
comma (punct.)
question mark (punct.) / unknown factor / unsolved problem / interrogation
tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate
trademark
plus sign + (math.)
asterisk * (punct.)
lottery
document identifier code (typically including an abbreviation for the name of the issuing organization, the date and a serial number)
colon (punct.)
quotation mark (punct.)
double quotes
lot number / batch number
(math.) equals sign =
bugle horn
conch / shell as horn for signaling
book number (esp. ISBN)
license plate / number plate
to dial a telephone number
account number; username
student ID number
minus sign - (math.)
(archaic) title granted to a person / to ban an (online) account
name; title / good reputation
to steal an online account
tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up
desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)
enumeration comma (、) (used to separate words or phrases in a list)
an order (esp. army) / bugle call expressing military order / verbal command
military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose") / flag signal; semaphore
signal
area code
multiplication sign (math.)
grade
secret signal (sign) / countersign / password
to wail / to cry out in distress
dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
radical sign √ (math.)
alarm / alert / warning signal
trombone
official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉, etc)
jacket worn esp. by soldiers in former times, with large insignia on the front and back indicating unit affiliation
exclamation mark (punct.)
semicolon (punct.)
reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)
seat number
percent sign % (punct.)
to take one's seat according to the ticket number / (fig.) to put (things or people) in their right place / to take a general comment as a personal attack
full stop / period (punct.)
to boss people around (idiom)
trumpeter / military bugler
large-sized (of clothes, shoes) / (old) to give an order / (old) to quit one's job in a store
work chant / prison cell / type / sort / mark / sign / signal / (Tw) brokerage firm
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
alias
even number (on a ticket, house etc)
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
medium-sized
(newspaper) extra / special number (of a periodical)
negative value sign - (math.) / minus sign
store / a business
(math.) plus sign (+)
honorific title / form of address reserved for a queen, ancestor, emperor etc
temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor
single quotes
one of the many names of Buddha
to feel sb's pulse
division sign (math.)
tone mark on a Chinese syllable (i.e. accents on ā á ǎ à) / (music) key signature
number in a sequence / ordinal number / serial number
refined appelation / (humor) sb's elegant monicker / (hon.) your esteemed name
to cry piteously / anguished wailing / same as 哀嚎
to blow a brass instrument
number / serial number
(coll.) to slink off
to howl / to yell

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