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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拿* | 拿* | *拿
to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as : to mark the following noun as a direct object)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拏* | 拏* | *拏
variant of
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *㧱* | 㧱* | *㧱
old variant of
HSK 1
to get / to obtain
HSK 2
to take out / to put out / to provide / to put forward (a proposal) / to come up with (evidence)
HSK 2
to take away
HSK 6
expert in / good at
HSK 7-9
sauna (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Canada / Canadian
to arrest / to capture / to seize / to win (a set, a game etc)
Book of Jonah
Montana, US state
Saint Helena
Panama
Napoleon (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
to throw one's weight around / to put on airs
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
(lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control / (dialect) affecting shyness; coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten
to put on airs / self-important / high and mighty
tui na (form of Chinese manual therapy)
to make a decision / to make up one's mind
(idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag / (idiom) (of a person) confident of success
the role an actor plays best (idiom) / (fig.) one's specialty / one's forte
not presentable / shoddy and too embarrassing to show
specialty (dish)
Panama City
Montana, US state
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) / fig. to take what comes / to meet gains or losses with equanimity
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas
pretentious / striking a pose
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
a sure gain / sth one is sure to obtain
Bonaparte (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
(dialect) spanner (loanword)
Panama Canal
to arrest for punishment
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
to arrest / to catch a criminal
the attitude of mechanically borrowing (ideas etc)
to capture / to apprehend
Naomi (name)
Managua, capital of Nicaragua (Tw)
to arrest / to seize
to do a handstand
to hold power; to be in control
making things awkward / to cause difficulties / to exert influence / to attract
to arrest
to arrest; to capture; to catch
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
lit. a dog who catches mice / to be meddlesome (idiom)
tuna (loanword)
to provoke
in doubt; unsure of sth; unable to decide; indecisive
caffe latte
to detain / to apprehend / to capture
tuna (loanword)
St Helena
to bring to justice
to hold in one's hand
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas (Tw)
clutch bag
Amminadab (son of Ram)
guarana (Paullinia cupana)
Strait of Messina between Calabria and Sicily
(bird species of China) cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power
Messina, Sicilian city
to pick up
to do a handstand
stubborn / inflexible
(loanword) dynamite
Canadian Pacific Railway
HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
Royal Canadian Navy
lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted
Hannah (biblical figure)
doughnut (loanword)
paraffin / variant of 石蠟|石蜡
(gaming) to get first blood / (slang) to take (sb's) virginity
to be unable to lift (sth); to find (sth) too heavy
don't know what to do with you (used to express mild exasperation)
to bring / to fetch / to get
latte (loanword)
Nashon (son of Amminadab)
Hallasan Mountain or Mount Halla, highest mountain in South Korea
Manasseh (son of Hezekiah)
(chemistry) ammonal (loanword)


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