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拎

līn

HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

拎 (līn) means "to lift up; to carry in one's hand; Taiwan pr. [līng]". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 拎 means

1. to lift up; to carry in one's hand
2. Taiwan pr. līng

Words starting with 拎

• 拎起līn qǐto pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
• 拎包līn bāohandbag or shopping bag (dialect)
• 拎包党līn bāo dǎng(colloquial) purse snatcher

Characters that look like 拎

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 按ànto press; to push; to leave aside or shelve
• 柏bǎicedar; cypress; Taiwan pr. bó
• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
• 抬táito lift; to raise; (of two or more persons) to carry
• 拴shuānto tie up
• 拾shèto ascend in light steps

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read līn correctly.
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