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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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different / wrong; mistaken / to fall short; to lack / not up to standard; inferior / Taiwan pr. [cha1]
HSK 1
to go on an official or business trip
HSK 5
difference / error / inaccuracy
HSK 7-9
bias / deviation
HSK 7-9
drop in elevation / (fig.) gap (in wages, expectations etc) / disparity
HSK 7-9
to differ
HSK 7-9
contrast; discrepancy
HSK 7-9
(trade or budget) surplus
HSK 7-9
to moonlight / side job
degree of disparity / equal difference
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *差* | 差* | *差
difference; discrepancy / (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction) / (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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to send (on an errand) / (archaic) person sent on such an errand / job; official post
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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determinant (characteristic of a species)
postman; mailman (dated in mainland China)
prices scissor (caught between low income and high prices)
difference in temperature
to not lack
not bad / OK
lucrative job / cushy job
trade surplus
uneven; jagged; snaggletooth; ragged; serrated
(idiom) due to an unexpected turn of events
word for word; verbatim
accurate to perfection (idiom) / precise to the finest detail
imperial envoy
differential (between grades) / salary differential
(astronomy) precession
time difference / time lag / jet lag
trade deficit / adverse trade balance
parallax
labor conscripted to support the military
attendant
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
tolerance (allowed error) / common difference (of an arithmetic series)
official errand / bailiff in a yamen
to report back after completion of one's mission
lit. to go on a long trip / fig. to be sent to the execution ground
(statistics) covariance
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
to be absent-minded / to desert / to abscond from the army / absent without leave (AWOL)
messenger
official business / government workmen / odd-job men
hard task / difficult mission / arduous and unrewarding undertaking / drudgery / grind / chore
momentary slip / false step / ill-considered action
cushy job; pleasant task
adverse trade balance / trade deficit
range (of a set of data) (statistics)
to slip (e.g. of clutch) / slippage / also used of economic indicators, statistical discrepancies etc
range (the difference between the lowest and highest values)
mediocre / rather poor / not specially good
difference in exchange rates in different regions
price difference
phase difference
(numerical analysis) divided differences / (statistics) mean absolute difference
sriracha (loanword)
heterodyne (electronics)
to adjust to a different time zone
so uneducated! / so ignorant!
(optics) aberration
(coll.) extremely poor (in quality); shockingly bad
spherical aberration (optics)
(coll.) squalid / squalor
hairsbreadth difference
single supplement (for a hotel room)
single supplement (for a hotel room)
roughly the same
(math.) mean deviation
annual range (temperature, humidity etc)
underwriting spread
underwriting spread
variance (statistics)
(meteorology) diurnal range (temperature, humidity etc)
(statistics) standard deviation


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