HSK 7–9 vocabulary list

diàn zi

cushion; mat; pad

diāo

to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)

diāo

variant of 雕[diao1], to engrave; to carve; to engrave; shrewd; bird of prey

diāo kè

to carve; to engrave; carving

diāo nàn

to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult; Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]

diāo sù

a statue; a Buddhist image; sculpture; to carve

diāo xiàng

sculpture; (carved) statue; CL:尊[zun1]

diāo xiè

to wither; to wilt; wizened

diào

to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody

diào dù

to dispatch (vehicles, staff etc); to schedule; to manage; dispatcher; scheduler

diào duì

to fall behind; to drop out

diào tóu

to turn one's head; to turn round; to turn about

diào xiāo

to suspend (an agreement); to revoke

diē

dad

diē fú

decline (in value); extent of a drop

dié

variant of 疊|叠[die2]; to pile up; (bound form) repeated; to fold; classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects); classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition

dié

dish; plate

dié qǐ

continuously arising; to arise repeatedly

dīng

surname Ding; male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl

dīng

to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at

dīng zhǔ

to warn repeatedly; to urge; to exhort again and again

dīng zi

nail; snag; saboteur

dǐng duō

at most; at best

dǐng jí

top-notch; first-rate