a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
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弓 character breakdown

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Characters with 弓 as component

to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
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to bend / bent / a bend / a turn (in the road etc) / CL:道[dao4]
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to bend / bent / a bend; a turn (in a road etc) / CL:道[dao4]
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non-Han people, esp. to the East of China / barbarians / to wipe out / to exterminate / to tear down / to raze
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body (of a human, esp. the torso) / to bow / (literary) oneself; personally
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to unstring a bow / to slacken / to relax / to loosen
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to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials)
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(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
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to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes
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younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)
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Words with 弓

circular segment
lit. to shoot from both sides (idiom) / fig. to display ambidexterity / to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession / to use both feet equally (football)
bow and crossbow
composite bow (archery)
lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom) / fig. to bluff / to be all talk and no action / false bravado
lit. once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back (idiom) / fig. once you started sth, there's no turning back / to have to finish what one started / to be determined to reach one's goals in spite of setbacks
see 驚弓之鳥|惊弓之鸟[jing1 gong1 zhi1 niao3]
pantograph (transportation)

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