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to go online / to connect to the Internet / (of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet / (tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net
HSK 1
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  *网* | 网* | *网
net / network
HSK 2
Internet
HSK 3
to connect (or be connected) to a network; to network
HSK 7-9
electricity grid; power grid / electrified wire netting
HSK 7-9
official website (abbr. for 官方網站|官方网站)
silk screen / screen (printing)
net (for ball games)
Wimbledon Championships (tennis) / abbr. for 溫布爾登網球公開賽|温布尔登网球公开赛
fishing net / fishnet
seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / (computing) to seal off a network
(of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net / (of a tennis ball) to hit the net / (of a criminal) to be captured
snare of love
to throw a net
spider web; cobweb
Australian Open (tennis tournament)
French Open (tennis tournament)
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
to walk right into the trap
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
dragnet / trawl / trawlnet
lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts
net / fishing net / bird net
to spin a web (spider) / to weave a net (e.g. for fishing)
Skynet (nationwide video surveillance system in China)
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / to block
variant of 漁網|渔网
Taobao Marketplace, a Chinese website for online shopping
the entire Internet
hairnet
Ethernet
cobweb / spider web
website of China News Service 中國新聞社|中国新闻社 (chinanews.com)
filter / a sieve
ChinaNews (China News Service)
(coll.) to use sb else's Internet connection (with or without permission)
news agency
(computing) public network / wide area network / Internet
Xinhua News Network
local area network (LAN)
to cut off access to the Internet; to shut down the Internet
safety net
the Internet outside the GFW 防火長城|防火长城
wide area network / WAN
Renren (Chinese social networking website)
Sohu, Chinese web portal and online media company
World Wide Web (WWW)
network of people with whom one has dealings on the basis of "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局|中国地震局
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
IPTV (PRC media network)
(telecommunications) fixed network; landline (abbr. for 固定網絡|固定网络)
to fall in love
world wide web / WWW
US Open (tennis tournament)
computer network / Internet
intranet
China Education and Research Network (CERNET) / abbr. to 中國教育網|中国教育网
road network
legal net / the long arm of the law
(math.) lattice
Cable Network News (CNN)
to cast a fishing net / (computing) to go offline
token ring network
metropolitan area network
to net sth / to catch sth with a net
drift net (fishing)
neural net
transport network
smooth endoplasmic reticulum
endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
public switched telephone network (PSTN)
Internet
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
dip net
spy network
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报
Web portal / (enterprise) portal
intranet
(Tw) public switched telephone network (PSTN)
razor wire
razor wire
base net (in geodetic survey)
subnetwork
network
digital network
ezTravel, Taiwanese travel agency
Star network
(computing) Dark Web
Cable Network News (CNN)
mesh laundry bag (for keeping garments separate from others in the washing machine)
purse-seine net (fishing)
(textiles) knotless netting
Internet of things (IoT)
neural network
flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law

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