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tuī to push / to cut / to refuse / to reject / to decline / to shirk (responsibility) / to put off / to delay / to push forward / to nominate / to elect / massage
quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals
duàn to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
huá to cut / to slash / to scratch (cut into the surface of sth) / to strike (a match)
中断 zhōng duàn to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
明确 míng què clear-cut; definite; explicit / to clarify; to specify; to make definite
理发 to get a haircut; to have one's hair done / to cut (sb's) hair; to give (sb) a haircut
节省 jié shěng saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
降价 jiàng jià to cut the price / to drive down the price / to get cheaper
qiē to cut; to slice; to carve / (math) tangential
tāng (Cantonese) to butcher; to cut open; to chop up (used in 劏房|㓥房[tang1 fang2])
jiǎn (bound form) scissors or similar tool / to cut as with scissors / (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate / to edit (video, audio etc)
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
to cut / to cut apart
cái to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
一刀切 dāo qiē lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity / one solution fits a diversity of problems / one size fits all
一是一,二是二 shì , èr shì èr lit. one is one, two is two (idiom) / fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut / unequivocal
xiāo to peel with a knife / to pare / to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
披荆斩棘 jīng zhǎn lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom) / fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way / to break through hardships / to blaze a new trail
精简开支 jīng jiǎn kāi zhī to reduce spending / to cut spending
剖腹 pōu to cut open the abdomen / to disembowel / to speak from the heart
截止 jié zhǐ to end; to close / (electricity) cut-off
因噎废食 yīn fèi shí lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
一言以蔽之 yán zhī one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell
停电 tíng diàn to have a power failure / power cut


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