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  *关* | 关* | *关
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve
HSK 1
related / relevant / pertinent / to be interrelated / (statistics) correlation
HSK 3
customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to have sth to do with / to relate to / related to / to concern / concerning
HSK 6
mechanism; gear / machine-operated / office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body / stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off
HSK 6
unrelated / having nothing to do (with sth else)
HSK 6
public relations
HSK 7-9
to storm a strategic pass / fig. to tackle a key problem
HSK 7-9
to guard a pass / to check on sth
HSK 7-9
closely bound up (idiom); intimately related
HSK 7-9
to cross a barrier / to get through (an ordeal) / to pass (a test) / to reach (a standard)
HSK 7-9
difficulty / crisis
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *关* | 关* | *关
surname Guan
network router / gateway (to Internet or between networks)
Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)
Pianguan county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
to crash through a barrier
area outside a city gate
to share the same interests (idiom) / to be closely related / to be in the same boat
to clear customs / (gaming) to finish (a game, a level, a stage, etc)
Tongguan County in Weinan 渭南, Shaanxi
Yangguan or Southern Pass on the south Silk Road in Gansu, 70 km south of Dunhuang 敦煌
Shanhai Pass in Hebei, at the eastern terminus of the Ming dynasty Great Wall / Shanhaiguan district of Qinhuangdao city 秦皇島市|秦皇岛市, Hebei
Beiguan district of Anyang city 安陽市|安阳市, Henan
end of the year
border station / strategic defensive position on frontier
Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平区
pun / play on words
to declare at customs
to enter a pass / to go through customs
entrance hall; vestibule
the gates of hell
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu
(idiom) to grit one's teeth tightly / (idiom) (fig.) to endure pain or suffering; to bite the bullet
customs clearance
Maguan county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州, Yunnan
Nanguan district of Changchun city 長春市|长春市, Jilin
strategic pass / barrier or mark (i.e. a level considered impressive, usually a round figure such as 10,000) / instrument of torture used to break limbs
jaw / mandibular joint
Pingxing Pass, mountain pass in Shanxi Province
to close the passes / to seal off the country / seclusion (monastic practice, e.g. of Chan Buddhists)
Huguan county in Changzhi 長治|长治, Shanxi
of great concern
matter of life and death
to get away with it / to slip through / to bluff one's way out / Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 guan1]
to make a pun / to have a double meaning / double entendre
vitally important / a matter of life and death
to be of vital interest
to knock at the gate (old) / to make an approach / to invade / to attack the goal (sports)
customs inspection (at frontier)
to be stuck / to feel stuck
inbound customs (international trade)
to concern / on (some topic) / about / concerning / to have importance for
closely related
to follow each other on a social media platform (abbr. for 互相關注|互相关注)
government (viewed as an organization) / institutions of government / government office
positive correlation
legislature
administrative authority / branch of government
public security bureau
negative correlation
main switch
governing body of an autonomous territory
the agency in charge of (e.g. a program); the relevant government body
to solve or overcome (a difficult problem) / to beat (a video game)
to unfollow (on social media etc) (abbr. for 取消關注|取消关注)
judicial authorities
shut-out, container or consigment not carried on the intended vessel or aircraft
(Communist) Party and government organizations
microswitch
pneumatic switch
civil service
half-open, half closed
Jiayu Pass in Gansu, at the western terminus of the Great Wall
abbr. for 國際關係學院|国际关系学院, University of International Relations, Beijing
(Buddhism) to sit in contemplation
a make-or-break matter / a matter of life and death
variant of 叩關|叩关
customs house (in ancient times)
even heroes have a weakness for the charms of a beautiful woman (idiom)
the press / the media
to see through a trick
financial organization
ignition switch


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