# words

id: 19657703eb7c592f0d7c16719123eb8b6937c497
simplified: 西康省
traditional: 西康省
pinyin: xi1 kang1 sheng3
english:
western Kham/historic province of Tibet in Kham region and west Sichuan, a province of Republic of China 1928-49 with capital Ya'an 雅安[Ya3 an1]


id: fe9e593eb1c758f58f16466893ee9cf5e224bb4f
simplified: 西戎
traditional: 西戎
pinyin: xi1 rong2
english:
the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards/Xionites (Central Asian nomads)


id: be459584c10723b7db83afc048266a498da08cf4
simplified: 西施
traditional: 西施
pinyin: xi1 shi1
english:
Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4] of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu


id: 71104beb9cc660531145d0cb791199c99bf8cc55
simplified: 西昌
traditional: 西昌
pinyin: xi1 chang1
english:
Xichang cosmodrome/Xichang county level city in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan


id: eebf45ed7ac90443edafe5c2ff2cccbb5507321e
simplified: 西昌市
traditional: 西昌市
pinyin: xi1 chang1 shi4
english:
Xichang county level city in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan


id: 5331773ded824b4c0b55950b2862d7bc5f190233
simplified: 西林
traditional: 西林
pinyin: xi1 lin2
english:
Xilin county in Baise 百色[Bai3 se4], Guangxi/Xilin district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 shi4], Heilongjiang


id: 4892a28952ea51e9ad357039b1a36ec905d3a2b6
simplified: 西湖
traditional: 西湖
pinyin: xi1 hu2
english:
Xihu or West lake (place name)/West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang/Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan


id: bc7a64ddc7473ecfbcfa022023f554d58ced39d5
simplified: 西湖区
traditional: 西湖區
pinyin: xi1 hu2 qu1
english:
West lake district (place name)/Xihu district of Hangzhou city 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 shi4], Zhejiang/Xihu district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi


id: 3c439bb9d16b53a25d0aab994f678cb18ab371e7
simplified: 西乌珠穆沁旗
traditional: 西烏珠穆沁旗
pinyin: xi1 wu1 zhu1 mu4 qin4 qi2
english:
West Ujimqin banner or Baruun Üzemchin khoshuu in Xilin Gol league 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 le4 meng2], Inner Mongolia


id: 066ff25141aa6e3902ead48a3173043dfb3ed83d
simplified: 西畴
traditional: 西疇
pinyin: xi1 chou2
english:
Xichou 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[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: 7834c0661251b0d4b7799347578fe6558d78a664
simplified: 西科尔斯基
traditional: 西科爾斯基
pinyin: xi1 ke1 er3 si1 ji1
english:
Sikorski (name)/Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007


id: d45a0527528518cadbace384e577ad9c93d0cc54
simplified: 西藏自治区
traditional: 西藏自治區
pinyin: xi1 zang4 zi4 zhi4 qu1
english:
Tibetan autonomous region, Tibetan: Bod rang skyong ljongs, abbr. 藏[Zang4], capital Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4]


id: 812e681728723b881b031f3aaa7d7ac7cc83e40d
simplified: 西游记
traditional: 西遊記
pinyin: xi1 you2 ji4
english:
Journey to the West, Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature/also called Pilgrimage to the West or Monkey


id: 7c5827d6676b013a26e1616a93641d2a99a23741
simplified: 西门豹
traditional: 西門豹
pinyin: xi1 men2 bao4
english:
Xi Menbao (active around 422 BC), statesman, general and hydraulic engineer of Wei state 魏國|魏国[Wei4 guo2]


id: 3d1ea622f3beb39b842dbe53567e10758801d4bb
simplified: 西魏
traditional: 西魏
pinyin: xi1 wei4
english:
Western Wei of the Northern dynasties (535-557), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏


id: 46d4adec009520e980a22d3db533af2f75a7c382
simplified: 要
traditional: 要
pinyin: yao4
radicalSimplified: 襾
radicalTraditional: 襾
english:
important/vital/to want/to ask for/will/going to (as future auxiliary)/may/must/(used in a comparison) must be/probably/if


id: a5d6e046df4dd1736445785bb4c43815b6102eeb
simplified: 覆巢之下无完卵
traditional: 覆巢之下無完卵
pinyin: fu4 chao2 zhi1 xia4 wu2 wan2 luan3
english:
lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom)/fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed


id: 812ac2bc0df241f730674caf0445aa2adb9b1847
simplified: 覆巢无完卵
traditional: 覆巢無完卵
pinyin: fu4 chao2 wu2 wan2 luan3
english:
lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact/no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)


id: 01a4a9dd4c6d254de0cc5d4ba91e4cdf5e32be2a
simplified: 覆水难收
traditional: 覆水難收
pinyin: fu4 shui3 nan2 shou1
english:
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)/it's no use crying over spilt milk/what's done is done and can't be reversed/the damage is done/once divorced, there's no reuniting


id: c0080cbeffa152c5bb69c945e68df39d18380597
simplified: 见光死
traditional: 見光死
pinyin: jian4 guang1 si3
english:
(lit.) to wither in the light of day/(fig.) the bubble bursts as the reality becomes apparent (esp. of a much-anticipated first meeting with sb)/(of stocks) just as the favorable news is officially published, the stock price falls


id: 41a65c29de4bbf56db38ee2c597bd7ae3fd69de9
simplified: 见利忘义
traditional: 見利忘義
pinyin: jian4 li4 wang4 yi4
english:
to see profit and forget morality (idiom); to act from mercenary considerations/to sell one's soul for gain


id: 5fb0f12aae5369e68f0515d4d6a183242bee57fc
simplified: 见机行事
traditional: 見機行事
pinyin: jian4 ji1 xing2 shi4
english:
see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances/to play it by ear/to use one's discretion


id: 75459e3fc651fe26b2853f997d1721cfa102a7cc
simplified: 见猎心喜
traditional: 見獵心喜
pinyin: jian4 lie4 xin1 xi3
english:
lit. seeing others go hunting, one is excited by memories of the thrill of the hunt (idiom)/fig. seeing others do what one loves to do, one is inspired to try it again


id: 5adf6162a26bea8e4b61b62d045f6abc725e1a6d
simplified: 见异思迁
traditional: 見異思遷
pinyin: jian4 yi4 si1 qian1
english:
to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty/never satisfied with what one has


id: 32074980ef9799795d3e1eb1ad73b50fdb1b29df
simplified: 见义勇为
traditional: 見義勇為
pinyin: jian4 yi4 yong3 wei2
english:
to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth/acting heroically in a just cause


id: b6bc8dfd4d335ca1cb87b522f09695943b883bd1
simplified: 见贤思齐
traditional: 見賢思齊
pinyin: jian4 xian2 si1 qi2
english:
see a worthy, think to imitate (idiom, from Analects); emulate the virtuous/Follow the example of a virtuous and wise teacher.


id: f3781fc5c42cb53c74efa946b7ab2b617653e508
simplified: 见钱眼开
traditional: 見錢眼開
pinyin: jian4 qian2 yan3 kai1
english:
to open one's eyes wide at the sight of profit (idiom); thinking of nothing but personal gain/money-grubbing


id: 1126177b1ae07a94523a99a8c38855e0b2f6b479
simplified: 见风使帆
traditional: 見風使帆
pinyin: jian4 feng1 shi3 fan1
english:
lit. see the wind and set your sails (idiom); fig. to act pragmatically/to be flexible and take advantage of the situation


id: aecb4913734bb4493ba0c7086ad40219906a9131
simplified: 见风使舵
traditional: 見風使舵
pinyin: jian4 feng1 shi3 duo4
english:
lit. see the wind and set the helm (idiom); fig. to act pragmatically/to be flexible and take advantage of the situation


id: f8d3450075657fa61985d51a57ed8d020fbe98c0
simplified: 规矩
traditional: 規矩
pinyin: gui1 ju5
english:
lit. compass and set square/fig. established standard/rule/customs/practices/fig. upright and honest/well-behaved


id: c1566fc7c157aee0030e90e5ca264e690e972f1d
simplified: 亲
traditional: 親
pinyin: qin1
radicalSimplified: 立
radicalTraditional: 見
variants: 榛
english:
parent/one's own (flesh and blood)/relative/related/marriage/bride/close/intimate/in person/first-hand/in favor of/pro-/to kiss/(Internet slang) dear


id: f72b41103b6c96f1da22f0584d5b62ff3dbab136
simplified: 亲和力
traditional: 親和力
pinyin: qin1 he2 li4
english:
(personal) warmth/approachability/accessibility/(in a product) user friendliness/(chemistry) affinity


id: fb3ee91125acd695cc5d2d1cf3424ee88a3c1430
simplified: 觉悟
traditional: 覺悟
pinyin: jue2 wu4
english:
to come to understand/to realize/consciousness/awareness/Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda)


id: 85a90add24f680ede8273135cb10cd159439fd2f
simplified: 觉醒
traditional: 覺醒
pinyin: jue2 xing3
english:
to awaken/to come to realize/awakened to the truth/the truth dawns upon one/scales fall from the eyes/to become aware


id: f023d8362f9f29486182d376479cd33fe3d287f3
simplified: 观后镜
traditional: 觀後鏡
pinyin: guan1 hou4 jing4
english:
mirror showing a view to one's rear (including rearview mirror, side-view mirror, baby view mirror etc)


id: a0347b5b15a0d27ada1c4d382bc31722853a5ade
simplified: 观衅伺隙
traditional: 觀釁伺隙
pinyin: guan1 xin4 si4 xi4
english:
lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom)/fig. to search out one's opponent's weak points/to look for the Achilles' heel


id: 1861709dce3806112a69b5396f4f11c92d74f676
simplified: 角
traditional: 角
pinyin: jue2
radicalSimplified: 角
radicalTraditional: 角
variants: 甪
english:
role (theater)/to compete/ancient three legged wine vessel/third note of pentatonic scale/surname Jue


id: 0ac7885b2feab44dfca87533a55eb16a7a6cde7b
simplified: 解
traditional: 解
pinyin: jie3
radicalSimplified: 角
radicalTraditional: 角
variants: 觧
english:
to divide/to break up/to split/to separate/to dissolve/to solve/to melt/to remove/to untie/to loosen/to open/to emancipate/to explain/to understand/to know/a solution/a dissection


id: 3f0e660c5b619060d0a82abfd96caf8b62247fe7
simplified: 解放
traditional: 解放
pinyin: jie3 fang4
english:
to liberate/to emancipate/liberation/refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949/CL:次[ci4]


id: eeefcf534476f7a63694be338f99925414ada32b
simplified: 解放战争
traditional: 解放戰爭
pinyin: jie3 fang4 zhan4 zheng1
english:
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石


id: fa947c9a91fc899f839c3b7fee1006091fb94333
simplified: 解民倒悬
traditional: 解民倒懸
pinyin: jie3 min2 dao4 xuan2
english:
lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits


id: a2284c979714d40ff209b07732f1e2e316413300
simplified: 解深密经
traditional: 解深密經
pinyin: jie3 shen1 mi4 jing1
english:
Sandhinir mokcana vyuha sutra, a yogic text on awareness and meditation, translated as the Wisdom of Buddha


id: 97e0bbf04a5cf3b4d246f6cc8f6e07844be91b31
simplified: 解脱
traditional: 解脫
pinyin: jie3 tuo1
english:
to untie/to free/to absolve of/to get free of/to extirpate oneself/(Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries


id: 9d70630a604df5b1a221e40d86c3688166e00b69
simplified: 解铃还须系铃人
traditional: 解鈴還須繫鈴人
pinyin: jie3 ling2 hai2 xu1 xi4 ling2 ren2
english:
lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom)/fig. whoever started the trouble should end it


id: c63c375d0a61d06afac3892ff026ef8f86e4744c
simplified: 解除
traditional: 解除
pinyin: jie3 chu2
english:
to remove/to sack/to get rid of/to relieve (sb of their duties)/to free/to lift (an embargo)/to rescind (an agreement)


id: 1a568319ababeb731ab3ee4001a3dab970a7a045
simplified: 觥筹交错
traditional: 觥籌交錯
pinyin: gong1 chou2 jiao1 cuo4
english:
wine goblets and gambling chips lie intertwined/to drink and gamble together in a large group (idiom)/a big (drinking) party


id: d15d11a96a2abfc709500db25b437dda8da16be7
simplified: 触霉头
traditional: 觸霉頭
pinyin: chu4 mei2 tou2
english:
to cause sth unfortunate to happen (to oneself or sb else)/to do sth inauspicious/to have a stroke of bad luck


id: b4cea4a546e77803d48d5b3a6097342a7a8126fa
simplified: 触斗蛮争
traditional: 觸鬥蠻爭
pinyin: chu4 dou4 man2 zheng1
english:
constant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other's throats/struggle for personal gain


id: 10ec0e76157bc2d87e10eb6d55182833c2f03828
simplified: 言不由衷
traditional: 言不由衷
pinyin: yan2 bu4 you2 zhong1
english:
to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek/saying one thing but meaning sth different


id: 1ec13edbe6d250a0b69e0a3d7312176e9461c39a
simplified: 言者无罪，闻者足戒
traditional: 言者無罪，聞者足戒
pinyin: yan2 zhe3 wu2 zui4 , wen2 zhe3 zu2 jie4
english:
don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously


id: 20bcf7f50bade1e8a67f4afdeb0ec8ce80d25796
simplified: 计件工资
traditional: 計件工資
pinyin: ji4 jian4 gong1 zi1
english:
piece rate wage/remuneration based on one's output/opposite: time rate wage 計時工資|计时工资[ji4 shi2 gong1 zi1]


id: ae511630beec57fd451779a3d7abbc5f392c828c
simplified: 计时工资
traditional: 計時工資
pinyin: ji4 shi2 gong1 zi1
english:
time rate wage/remuneration based on one's time and skill/opposite: piece rate wage 計件工資|计件工资[ji4 jian4 gong1 zi1]


id: a1ec0185649fc50924292d3e310d8b897da51029
simplified: 计都
traditional: 計都
pinyin: ji4 du1
english:
concept from Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit Ketu), the opposite point to 羅睺|罗睺[luo2 hou2]/imaginary star presaging disaster


id: 1f9cf12e3e8fc9fc115b9c2723d45311e2d11354
simplified: 讨
traditional: 討
pinyin: tao3
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
to invite/to provoke/to demand or ask for/to send armed forces to suppress/to denounce or condemn/to marry (a woman)/to discuss or study


id: a729e1365127c69692952a6c3fd7702c24f26cfc
simplified: 讨好
traditional: 討好
pinyin: tao3 hao3
english:
to get the desired outcome/to win favor by fawning on sb/to curry favor with/a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor


id: ca8bb63b9bdef3cff490a7621646488c6a654010
simplified: 托洛茨基
traditional: 託洛茨基
pinyin: tuo1 luo4 ci2 ji1
english:
Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940


id: 5a78d42317e0c48782859aa541048a876c583184
simplified: 许仲琳
traditional: 許仲琳
pinyin: xu3 zhong4 lin2
english:
Xu Zhonglin or Chen Zhonglin 陳仲琳|陈仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investure of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星


id: d513c77f494dd9984d2f23b2b0d6b44549e6a07f
simplified: 许慎
traditional: 許慎
pinyin: xu3 shen4
english:
Xu Shen (-147) the compiler of the original Han dynasty dictionary Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字|说文解字[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4]


id: 9bf40a2fb657534402133ceaad0ce6d084607294
simplified: 诈
traditional: 詐
pinyin: zha4
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
variants: 醡
english:
to cheat/to swindle/to pretend/to feign/to draw sb out/to try to extract information by deceit or bluff


id: d81df02cb04b244998aadec0554d82ae8490b173
simplified: 评委
traditional: 評委
pinyin: ping2 wei3
english:
evaluation committee/judging panel/judging panel member/adjudicator/abbr. for 評選委員會委員|评选委员会委员[ping2 xuan3 wei3 yuan2 hui4 wei3 yuan2]


id: a20346d1df88c70c1b626543fcad7d06f4470e1b
simplified: 评头论足
traditional: 評頭論足
pinyin: ping2 tou2 lun4 zu2
english:
lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom); minute criticism of a woman's appearance/fig. to find fault in minor details/to remark upon a person's appearance/nitpicking/overcritical/judgmental


id: b1aa962e3fe229624ac67132384442f1de169184
simplified: 词
traditional: 詞
pinyin: ci2
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
word/statement/speech/lyrics/CL:組|组[zu3],個|个[ge4]/a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝|宋朝[Song4 chao2]/CL:首[shou3]


id: e9c187f73eff391f699142e562077b40677977c7
simplified: 词话
traditional: 詞話
pinyin: ci2 hua4
english:
form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty


id: 2d4ca76def95cdcf637135797c4eb2e58a9fb036
simplified: 词语
traditional: 詞語
pinyin: ci2 yu3
english:
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases)/term (e.g. technical term)/expression


id: a6745b1b89745e91c00db8d193859de278315cf1
simplified: 试读
traditional: 試讀
pinyin: shi4 du2
english:
to read a sample chapter of a book/to subscribe to a publication on a trial basis/to attend classes on a trial basis


id: e985aabf8ff321f13d8ec2648c9349eff6a2bf7c
simplified: 诗经
traditional: 詩經
pinyin: shi1 jing1
english:
Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]


id: 68d8cea9ae5b7be10efb54f28e3545271f452bb3
simplified: 诠释
traditional: 詮釋
pinyin: quan2 shi4
english:
to interpret/to comment and explain/to annotate/to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role)/to decode/interpretation/annotation


id: c8f2e72a9ab95cefda4cc86cc4c5691c6fc61da0
simplified: 话
traditional: 話
pinyin: hua4
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
variants: 䛡
english:
dialect/language/spoken words/speech/talk/words/conversation/what sb said/CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]


id: 659dfc401655ac5d15b3ae2cce671aa476d6223d
simplified: 话又说回来
traditional: 話又說回來
pinyin: hua4 you4 shuo1 hui2 lai5
english:
returning to our main topic,.../that said,.../again,.../in this connection/in passing/nevertheless,.../anyhow


id: 23f7fc47f1b274bebb7150f02856aba8558ec2b6
simplified: 话里套话
traditional: 話裡套話
pinyin: hua4 li3 tao4 hua4
english:
to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information/to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed


id: 4ddf74f4a222d1c32b19627fd9005332a6f6ebfa
simplified: 该
traditional: 該
pinyin: gai1
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
should/ought to/probably/must be/to deserve/to owe/to be sb's turn to do sth/that/the above-mentioned


id: 536feeb3a6b29bd0c3036eda4d33671611de3767
simplified: 认定
traditional: 認定
pinyin: ren4 ding4
english:
to maintain (that sth is true)/to determine (a fact)/determination (of an amount)/of the firm opinion/to believe firmly/to set one's mind on/to identify with


id: 413433f420daa6101f6b92e03e57b173c49fe2f0
simplified: 认识
traditional: 認識
pinyin: ren4 shi5
english:
to know/to recognize/to be familiar with/to get acquainted with sb/knowledge/understanding/awareness/cognition


id: 5084890e5254c5bfa9aa01e9109fed44fb553d16
simplified: 认贼作父
traditional: 認賊作父
pinyin: ren4 zei2 zuo4 fu4
english:
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal/to sell oneself to the enemy


id: faaa57ae6531266095f264d06b8dc8ad208a7d9b
simplified: 认养
traditional: 認養
pinyin: ren4 yang3
english:
to sponsor/to adopt (pledge to give sb or sth one's special attention or support)/to adopt (choose to raise a child or animal as one's own)


id: e85cc772e9d867303a6273b3d1550e5312be51c4
simplified: 语音
traditional: 語音
pinyin: yu3 yin1
english:
speech sounds/pronunciation/colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character/phonetic/audio/voice/(Internet) to voice chat/voice message


id: a0e203e0c3fcee4cf2a84e29d867301a2764d214
simplified: 误人子弟
traditional: 誤人子弟
pinyin: wu4 ren2 zi3 di4
english:
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress/(of media) to propagate errors/to lead people astray


id: 1ee1347a9f332337386ec5cf164022f11c80f482
simplified: 说
traditional: 說
pinyin: shuo1
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
variants: 説
english:
to speak/to say/to explain/to scold/to tell off/a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)


id: f35d0155aa294e7eb3789f4960d5ee3b9b5ac7dc
simplified: 说唱
traditional: 說唱
pinyin: shuo1 chang4
english:
speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] and 相聲|相声[xiang4 sheng5]/(music) rapping


id: ee306ffeb0d140e05cb538e7678bcbc4aca6cfcf
simplified: 说文解字
traditional: 說文解字
pinyin: shuo1 wen2 jie3 zi4
english:
Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎[Xu3 Shen4] in 2nd century


id: b79832fab3da824a105f3ddfabf2e6618dd433ff
simplified: 说明书
traditional: 說明書
pinyin: shuo1 ming2 shu1
english:
(technical) manual/(book of) directions/synopsis (of a play or film)/specification (patent)/CL:本[ben3]


id: 5d3e2b42d0609ca5bd2fa6ebdc399bf03c044857
simplified: 说是一回事，而做又是另外一回事
traditional: 說是一回事，而做又是另外一回事
pinyin: shuo1 shi4 yi1 hui2 shi4 , er2 zuo4 you4 shi4 ling4 wai4 yi1 hui2 shi4
english:
see 說是一回事，做又是另外一回事|说是一回事，做又是另外一回事[shuo1 shi4 yi1 hui2 shi4 , zuo4 you4 shi4 ling4 wai4 yi1 hui2 shi4]


id: cc22b1551755b206e96551526eaf137c9e3a9656
simplified: 说法
traditional: 說法
pinyin: shuo1 fa5
english:
way of speaking/wording/formulation/one's version (of events)/statement/theory/hypothesis/interpretation


id: cd380aa39e5b8de3ad48c2543c077887988b1111
simplified: 课金
traditional: 課金
pinyin: ke4 jin1
english:
tax levied on a conquered people by an army/fee for a divination session/variant of 氪金[ke4 jin1], in-app purchase (gaming)


id: 439ab4864ea244176db57f10d331f859c507ef0f
simplified: 调
traditional: 調
pinyin: diao4
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
to transfer/to move (troops or cadres)/to investigate/to enquire into/accent/view/argument/key (in music)/mode (music)/tune/tone/melody


id: f2daa9cdfe54880d488e251c5cf6697bb5e6c66e
simplified: 调
traditional: 調
pinyin: tiao2
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
to harmonize/to reconcile/to blend/to suit well/to adjust/to regulate/to season (food)/to provoke/to incite


id: f9537bc2f0170882be4c21af7335f8699bfe9d66
simplified: 调休
traditional: 調休
pinyin: tiao2 xiu1
english:
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday/to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday


id: 3dbd1741e8f372eac9196d8343d76b0cd23fa0cb
simplified: 调和
traditional: 調和
pinyin: tiao2 he2
english:
harmonious/to mediate/to reconcile/to compromise/mediation/to mix/to blend/blended/to season/seasoning/to placate


id: 52eec6f1ef5387056f38e2b4d4656084b3921f29
simplified: 调准
traditional: 調準
pinyin: tiao2 zhun3
english:
to adjust to the right value/to tune/to focus (a camera etc)/to set (the date, the time) to the correct value


id: 7308083e69edf72d9eeb77cd24c5d7bcb0b33fa9
simplified: 调理
traditional: 調理
pinyin: tiao2 li3
english:
to nurse one's health/to recuperate/to take care of/to look after/to discipline/to educate/to train/to prepare food/(dialect) to make fun of/(medicine) to opsonize


id: 579f0f85bf1f2bd8b6f9f92645eaad8f8b74cd2f
simplified: 调用
traditional: 調用
pinyin: diao4 yong4
english:
to transfer (for a specific purpose)/to allocate/(computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)


id: 3c5f832f39b93fb59130ada1014f0e1f2cc1c51d
simplified: 调制
traditional: 調製
pinyin: tiao2 zhi4
english:
to concoct by mixing ingredients/to prepare according to a recipe/to make (a salad, a cocktail, cosmetics etc)


id: 1fd12f8f3d745fe50dc8303ca4880109bc5a02ca
simplified: 请安
traditional: 請安
pinyin: qing3 an1
english:
to pay respects/to wish good health/in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1])


id: 4fc3493f6579d2118f856efe3da7e116ec97523f
simplified: 请将不如激将
traditional: 請將不如激將
pinyin: qing3 jiang4 bu4 ru2 ji1 jiang4
english:
lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general/fig. inciting people to action is more effective than dispatching orders


id: ca099b6b354734bed5ed594e6c5d4b87f2fcee2a
simplified: 论
traditional: 論
pinyin: lun4
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
variants: 論
english:
opinion/view/theory/doctrine/to discuss/to talk about/to regard/to consider/per/by the (kilometer, hour etc)


id: d007979b9184fc8f40f54ad113e67d859b233100
simplified: 讳疾忌医
traditional: 諱疾忌醫
pinyin: hui4 ji2 ji4 yi1
english:
hiding a sickness for fear of treatment (idiom); fig. concealing a fault to avoid criticism/to keep one's shortcomings secret/to refuse to listen to advice


id: 0659a8174c40f47d92c46da72ff9fb111f709e6e
simplified: 诸侯
traditional: 諸侯
pinyin: zhu1 hou2
english:
feudal vassal/feudal princes, esp. the monarchs (dukes or princes) of the several vassal states 諸侯國|诸侯国 of Zhou during Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods 11th-5th century BC/subordinate warlord/local official


id: a08cc3e0f960bd3a9b8b5c724ed45fba7c7d4243
simplified: 诸子
traditional: 諸子
pinyin: zhu1 zi3
english:
various sages/refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[ru2] represented by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3], Daoism 道[dao4] by Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3], Mohism 墨[mo4] by Mozi 墨子[Mo4 zi3], Legalism 法[fa3] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3], and numerous others


id: 768937d9fb8a1f7866871f2f3d731fde8693ca3f
simplified: 诸子十家
traditional: 諸子十家
pinyin: zhu1 zi3 shi2 jia1
english:
various sages and ten schools of thought/refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[ru2] represented by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3], Daoism 道[dao4] by Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3], Mohism 墨[mo4] by Mozi 墨子[Mo4 zi3], Legalism 法[fa3] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3], and numerous others


id: 5a75fa971b0e4653b8ee47c45f6e651e24f1a7eb
simplified: 诸子百家
traditional: 諸子百家
pinyin: zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1
english:
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)


id: bd24f1d17cc4b39bf8f9cba69d9552b280ee84f3
simplified: 诸葛亮
traditional: 諸葛亮
pinyin: zhu1 ge3 liang4
english:
Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period/the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius/mastermind


id: 239b36e1a64759082e7a24067f528d9ccf698422
simplified: 诺矩罗
traditional: 諾矩羅
pinyin: nuo4 ju3 luo2
english:
Nuojuluo, monk at start of Tang dynasty, possibly originally immigrant, lived in Qingshen county 青神[Qing1 shen2], Sichuan


id: e2f5b8c00c6b21b8fd8eecb0b7cac59d3bf6ba0c
simplified: 讲
traditional: 講
pinyin: jiang3
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
to speak/to explain/to negotiate/to emphasise/to be particular about/as far as sth is concerned/speech/lecture


id: afa036172e28e1fcfd251b0036d7e92cf2e5cfb3
simplified: 谪
traditional: 謫
pinyin: zhe2
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
variants: 讁
english:
to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China)/to banish or exile/(of immortals) to banish from Heaven/to censure/to blame


id: 08ae2a53d8156fb145e05edf6787456370491cc8
simplified: 证奴
traditional: 證奴
pinyin: zheng4 nu2
english:
"a slave to certificates", sb who does one's utmost to obtain as many certificates as possible so to be more employable


id: ed0fcb16a3778aa9f977bcfb66bf69a02e1ea81e
simplified: 证明
traditional: 證明
pinyin: zheng4 ming2
english:
proof/certificate/identification/testimonial/CL:個|个[ge4]/to prove/to testify/to confirm the truth of


id: bd344d765df8fc84505e47fae9b5bbbf623c87d8
simplified: 证监会
traditional: 證監會
pinyin: zheng4 jian1 hui4
english:
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)/abbr. for 中國證券監督管理委員會|中国证券监督管理委员会[Zhong1 guo2 Zheng4 quan4 Jian1 du1 Guan3 li3 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]


id: 1d78b604774812df2076c772a3dbb57ffa9f2ff8
simplified: 识时务者为俊杰
traditional: 識時務者為俊傑
pinyin: shi2 shi2 wu4 zhe3 wei4 jun4 jie2
english:
Only an outstanding talent can recognize current trends (idiom). A wise man submits to circumstances.


id: 93949d49ff01bc24983ff75160e6920f72a03adc
simplified: 谭嗣同
traditional: 譚嗣同
pinyin: tan2 si4 tong2
english:
Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898


id: 248a6b9900aa45f7d0f427be7e1c919bc033d535
simplified: 谭震林
traditional: 譚震林
pinyin: tan2 zhen4 lin2
english:
Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the Cultural Revolution


id: 6c0164148b3e966d44a7cbfa1ec234ebbc4fc2a0
simplified: 谱写
traditional: 譜寫
pinyin: pu3 xie3
english:
to compose (a piece of music)/(fig.) to create, by one's actions, a narrative (generally one that can be recounted with pride)


id: d3c03087ed91ce52d744375dcef3814252d6bba1
simplified: 警世通言
traditional: 警世通言
pinyin: jing3 shi4 tong1 yan2
english:
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2] published in 1624


id: 2d7e872dc8959b29048cc3c56afc112712fc68f3
simplified: 护国战
traditional: 護國戰
pinyin: hu4 guo2 zhan4
english:
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] as emperor


id: fc2040a0a508f1c3703582bf60bcc48c20c9c248
simplified: 护国运动
traditional: 護國運動
pinyin: hu4 guo2 yun4 dong4
english:
Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] as emperor


id: 483d23e12e6c624388cce01c7d7a44535a6edeaa
simplified: 护法战争
traditional: 護法戰爭
pinyin: hu4 fa3 zhan4 zheng1
english:
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor


id: 0c87c9458df2a2ff04ab6412d36a2d23e8eb45be
simplified: 读破
traditional: 讀破
pinyin: du2 po4
english:
to read extensively and thoroughly/nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. reading [hao4] in compound 愛好|爱好[ai4 hao4] "hobby" in place of [hao3]


id: 97843a3d61e8d46ed713925c32102371e02293a8
simplified: 变文
traditional: 變文
pinyin: bian4 wen2
english:
a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)


id: 24fc15290928a5927a108dd95f092e0f4d40aea6
simplified: 变本加厉
traditional: 變本加厲
pinyin: bian4 ben3 jia1 li4
english:
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming)/to aggravate/to intensify


id: d742145de1f94542559f7e5d2611a094a54b713a
simplified: 变生肘腋
traditional: 變生肘腋
pinyin: bian4 sheng1 zhou3 ye4
english:
lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep/trouble or danger in one's own backyard


id: 94d8115270a5fbf518a57cf2a83fcc7933f3a2b9
simplified: 变脸
traditional: 變臉
pinyin: bian4 lian3
english:
to turn hostile suddenly/face changing, a device of Sichuan Opera, a dramatic change of attitude expressing fright, anger etc


id: 0b71827c1ac660de63a32c978df227149f4c1de6
simplified: 让
traditional: 讓
pinyin: rang4
radicalSimplified: 讠
radicalTraditional: 言
english:
to yield/to permit/to let sb do sth/to have sb do sth/to make sb (feel sad etc)/by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])


id: 93eb71100094f9f41c6cff9fff8f4e6e59a0a43a
simplified: 让畔
traditional: 讓畔
pinyin: rang4 pan4
english:
to be accommodating in negotiating the boundary of one's field/fig. (of farmers in ancient times) to be good-hearted and honest


id: df26fd0e7c6e64fe0ab2d8585ece441872b45395
simplified: 谶纬
traditional: 讖緯
pinyin: chen4 wei3
english:
divination combined with mystical Confucian philosopy, prevalent during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)


id: 99c958d763b38409dcf533e99355b4f3cd712fb2
simplified: 豁然开朗
traditional: 豁然開朗
pinyin: huo4 ran2 kai1 lang3
english:
suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing/fig. everything becomes clear at once/to achieve speedy enlightenment


id: 81589ea9c8fef06ffea57c8f3deea3e855e1ec5f
simplified: 豆满江
traditional: 豆滿江
pinyin: dou4 man3 jiang1
english:
Dumangang, Korean name of Tumen river 圖們江|图们江[Tu2 men2 jiang1] in Jilin province, forming the eastern border between China and North Korea


id: 896e370b2f309b7a2d4ac8f913ba6325987a7d2f
simplified: 豆腐皮
traditional: 豆腐皮
pinyin: dou4 fu5 pi2
english:
tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu)


id: 6ba4d39c8eb882302df1c16e507355d0df32207d
simplified: 竖起
traditional: 豎起
pinyin: shu4 qi3
english:
to erect (a tent etc)/to prick up (one's ears)/to raise (one's eyebrows)/to stick up (one's thumb)/to turn up (one's collar)/(of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)


id: 23375759f1311bb7a1a14da272b0bcd2c0ac8cd8
simplified: 丰沛
traditional: 豐沛
pinyin: feng1 pei4
english:
copious/plentiful (of water)/surging (of waves)/refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3]/fig. majestic


id: 5edd2413336160ecc350229cc8092ece18091a71
simplified: 丰溪
traditional: 豐溪
pinyin: feng1 xi1
english:
Fengxi, common place name/P'unggye in Kilju county, North Hamgyeong province, the North Korean nuclear test site


id: ace1742f44f30a5a13eadb4148656d4756d1c813
simplified: 象山
traditional: 象山
pinyin: xiang4 shan1
english:
Xiangshan district of Guilin city 桂林市[Gui4 lin2 shi4], Guangxi/Xiangshan county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1], Zhejiang


id: a975bca35232267e763e357b8feba4ee7701c57a
simplified: 象形
traditional: 象形
pinyin: xiang4 xing2
english:
pictogram/one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters/Chinese character derived from a picture/sometimes called hieroglyph


id: 664f314943c6e4e320c63cc65f9eb7c941ada94d
simplified: 象形字
traditional: 象形字
pinyin: xiang4 xing2 zi4
english:
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)/Chinese character derived from a picture/sometimes called hieroglyph


id: 2a13d1903560977a15dc624495e2fef4be0eeb20
simplified: 象拔蚌
traditional: 象拔蚌
pinyin: xiang4 ba2 bang4
english:
elephant trunk clam/geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America)


id: 5be01827667f5f9705dfaf3119cd3261335c1274
simplified: 豢养
traditional: 豢養
pinyin: huan4 yang3
english:
to keep (an animal)/to look after the needs of (a person or an animal)/(fig.) to keep (a spy, lackey etc) in one's pay


id: 5cff349191a05a979c24cb537ce34c73936eb3e2
simplified: 豫
traditional: 豫
pinyin: yu4
radicalSimplified: 豕
radicalTraditional: 豕
variants: 予,預
english:
happy/carefree/at one's ease/variant of 預|预[yu4]/old variant of 與|与[yu4]/abbr. for Henan province 河南 in central China


id: 201b59dcd971b47c4ea044bc355c5f11b0ee98d5
simplified: 猪八戒
traditional: 豬八戒
pinyin: zhu1 ba1 jie4
english:
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake/Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation


id: ae690a93c76766a29653999031afd22ef668b847
simplified: 豸
traditional: 豸
pinyin: zhi4
radicalSimplified: 豸
radicalTraditional: 豸
variants: 廌
english:
worm-like invertebrate/mythical animal (see 獬豸[xie4 zhi4])/radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 153)


id: aeebba7bbca4d07d000132ceb601af5f3f5d3b1e
simplified: 豺狼虎豹
traditional: 豺狼虎豹
pinyin: chai2 lang2 hu3 bao4
english:
jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom)/animals who are dangerous to man and cattle/fierce and cruel people


id: fef1ee4d51f1a96fab055836e314d95580153c78
simplified: 貂蝉
traditional: 貂蟬
pinyin: diao1 chan2
english:
Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓[Dong3 Zhuo2] to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布[Lu:3 Bu4]


id: 2a35bd6d6b64419cbb35c4c08777e3ff622c8c75
simplified: 貂裘换酒
traditional: 貂裘換酒
pinyin: diao1 qiu2 huan4 jiu3
english:
lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom)/fig. (of wealthy people) to lead a dissolute and extravagant life


id: 2511887e742f3d94779563e423ebb8e7fcf12aee
simplified: 貉
traditional: 貉
pinyin: he2
radicalSimplified: 豸
radicalTraditional: 豸
variants: 狢
english:
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)/raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki)/also pr. [hao2]


id: b208838d8327d27d679a4e8bd8afc7197c5e33e1
simplified: 貉子
traditional: 貉子
pinyin: hao2 zi5
english:
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)/raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki)/also called 狸


id: a8e61dedbb75f07fc064b93ad2562c336263bd8c
simplified: 貌合心离
traditional: 貌合心離
pinyin: mao4 he2 xin1 li2
english:
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement


id: b986954689dbe86d2d8a142352e415c7ebc0bf4b
simplified: 猫王
traditional: 貓王
pinyin: mao1 wang2
english:
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star/transliterated as 埃爾維斯·普雷斯利|埃尔维斯·普雷斯利[Ai1 er3 wei2 si1 · Pu3 lei2 si1 li4]


id: aff365e4acaf783bcddd358d7ced63c65e0bf84b
simplified: 貔貅
traditional: 貔貅
pinyin: pi2 xiu1
english:
mythical animal that brings luck and wards off evil, having head of a dragon and lion's body, often with hoofs, wings and tail/also written 辟邪/fig. valiant soldier


id: 261cfd4fba65587f75901829fc879ed6b939081c
simplified: 贝·布托
traditional: 貝·佈托
pinyin: bei4 · bu4 tuo1
english:
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996


id: 9debe0732f121128282eacf2254c74267ff02fd1
simplified: 贝克
traditional: 貝克
pinyin: bei4 ke4
english:
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq)/abbr. for 貝克勒爾|贝克勒尔[bei4 ke4 le4 er3]/Baker or Becker (name)


id: ad295ea8208c4f0704d53dc3c6d1986670fb5385
simplified: 贝多
traditional: 貝多
pinyin: bei4 duo1
english:
pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras


id: 7a1e316888ec1be363a7f6252f8f1eb157d68fd0
simplified: 贝卢斯科尼
traditional: 貝盧斯科尼
pinyin: bei4 lu2 si1 ke1 ni2
english:
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011


id: 6c51e16786ecb7076a103e6c9e61062bc4ab482a
simplified: 贝叶
traditional: 貝葉
pinyin: bei4 ye4
english:
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras


id: ce75b43942958eaefdf1b0316ed7a7dead0260af
simplified: 贞德
traditional: 貞德
pinyin: zhen1 de2
english:
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English/also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan


id: 304c6d52f1a3f5e3fdcac55bf9f10c19d4520bbf
simplified: 贞丰
traditional: 貞豐
pinyin: zhen1 feng1
english:
Zhenfeng county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: 0d1c1bddc1536da3f62cda76e1d9566ae0bff966
simplified: 财阀
traditional: 財閥
pinyin: cai2 fa2
english:
plutocracy/monopolistic corporation, esp. prewar Japanese zaibatsu/Korean chaebol/plutocrat/tycoon/oligarch/financial magnate


id: e0dc05842d196fd7d4c543c291ce04c76c5eb66e
simplified: 贡嘎
traditional: 貢嘎
pinyin: gong4 ga2
english:
Gonggar county, Tibetan: Gong dkar rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: f3b8922768ea091058dbe558e71b111e713fe38a
simplified: 贡士
traditional: 貢士
pinyin: gong4 shi4
english:
(old) candidate who has successfully passed the first grades of the examination system, but not yet the court examination (殿試|殿试[dian4 shi4])


id: 408446b52dbd7835277950e55f2a073182add1a7
simplified: 贡山
traditional: 貢山
pinyin: gong4 shan1
english:
Gongshan Derung and Nu autonomous county in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture 怒江傈僳族自治州[Nu4 jiang1 Li4 su4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1] in northwest Yunnan


id: a69ccb93b4884512f499228b849f1918586b31ef
simplified: 贡山独龙族怒族自治县
traditional: 貢山獨龍族怒族自治縣
pinyin: gong4 shan1 du2 long2 zu2 nu4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Gongshan Derung and Nu autonomous county in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture 怒江傈僳族自治州[Nu4 jiang1 Li4 su4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] in northwest Yunnan


id: de05ebb08c3bd6922cf12a7516d58e679b1ad2ff
simplified: 贡茶
traditional: 貢茶
pinyin: gong4 cha2
english:
Gong Cha, international franchise selling Taiwan-style milk tea and smoothies etc, established in Kaohsiung in 2006


id: d825a146f1a15a6bbc652a2efa5bced75a885739
simplified: 贫下中农
traditional: 貧下中農
pinyin: pin2 xia4 zhong1 nong2
english:
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)


id: 53d10049db4dbd5fdf72a15e72ee67eaaf065ed6
simplified: 贪生怕死
traditional: 貪生怕死
pinyin: tan1 sheng1 pa4 si3
english:
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly/clinging abjectly to life/only interested in saving one's neck


id: 17f4cc4bd3954751a1b131cb6fc18127c01bea37
simplified: 贵南
traditional: 貴南
pinyin: gui4 nan2
english:
Guinan county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: e8b47a1847120d02cc6205bb2debc98defaa692a
simplified: 贵圈真乱
traditional: 貴圈真亂
pinyin: gui4 quan1 zhen1 luan4
english:
(slang, jocular, neologism c. 2006, used esp. in relation to public figures) the things you and your friends get up to (misbehavior, scandals etc) leave me shaking my head


id: 3b1974821e49c9f321276b08fba0ffeb354ff2c1
simplified: 贵州
traditional: 貴州
pinyin: gui4 zhou1
english:
Guizhou province (Kweichow) in south central China, abbr. to 黔[Qian2] or 貴|贵[Gui4], capital Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]


id: a0248fdde5365ce250b76b34362a0384c4ab44f7
simplified: 贵德
traditional: 貴德
pinyin: gui4 de2
english:
Guide county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 35c7c9f4a0e0dcc86d5e75bd495f71016fcbb878
simplified: 贵贱
traditional: 貴賤
pinyin: gui4 jian4
english:
noble and lowly/high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism


id: ecdaed6eca7b6db6b9482c442911aff669ed6770
simplified: 买帐
traditional: 買帳
pinyin: mai3 zhang4
english:
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative)/to accept (a version of events)/to buy it


id: 2ddf980a801425593b7a91a2f54db94f16bcb2e3
simplified: 买空卖空
traditional: 買空賣空
pinyin: mai3 kong1 mai4 kong1
english:
to speculate/to play the market/(fig.) to sell hot air/to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator


id: 84f993d76e30dfc6b7620203e01cf8faf54b190e
simplified: 买路钱
traditional: 買路錢
pinyin: mai3 lu4 qian2
english:
money extorted as a right of passage/illegal toll/(old) paper money thrown along the way of a funeral procession


id: f8af7afc5dfdd18705d58a504706fe4b5e9eec02
simplified: 费曼
traditional: 費曼
pinyin: fei4 man4
english:
Feinman or Feynman (name)/Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate together with TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō and Julian Schwinger


id: 0ac62a2185525032d91395f47cda912697976a54
simplified: 费神
traditional: 費神
pinyin: fei4 shen2
english:
to spend effort/to take trouble/May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request)/Please would you mind...?


id: 3807cb4990d3d04c6cd0727b8a5326decf83a41e
simplified: 贴
traditional: 貼
pinyin: tie1
radicalSimplified: 贝
radicalTraditional: 貝
english:
to stick/to paste/to post (e.g. on a blog)/to keep close to/to fit snugly/to subsidize/allowance (e.g. money for food or housing)/sticker/classifier for sticking plaster: strip


id: 4fe871d6e4633113a4fc0ce3c4a54938723a44b4
simplified: 贺龙
traditional: 賀龍
pinyin: he4 long2
english:
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution


id: 4944391d6ab837c53006f205e8ce74727696a57c
simplified: 资治通鉴
traditional: 資治通鑒
pinyin: zi1 zhi4 tong1 jian4
english:
A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls


id: 31ae9b8c53daa34eea04df181bad7a79f921241f
simplified: 资源
traditional: 資源
pinyin: zi1 yuan2
english:
natural resource (such as water or minerals)/resource (such as manpower or tourism)/Ziyuan county in Guilin 桂林[Gui4 lin2], Guangxi


id: 2522572545d3dc4cb998486f54fdd37f56cebe8b
simplified: 资阳
traditional: 資陽
pinyin: zi1 yang2
english:
Ziyang prefecture level city in Sichuan/Ziyang district of Yiyang city 益陽市|益阳市[Yi4 yang2 shi4], Hunan


id: 26a4c6993d75c0d9619c05ec2f83acd208b6f7a5
simplified: 贾宝玉
traditional: 賈寶玉
pinyin: jia3 bao3 yu4
english:
Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵|薛宝钗


id: 29e3d12823fcdf32888473c3fd83a5d060c206d2
simplified: 贾思勰
traditional: 賈思勰
pinyin: jia3 si1 xie2
english:
Jia Sixie, sixth century writer and author of agricultural encyclopedia Essential skill to benefit the people 齊民要術|齐民要术[Qi2 min2 Yao4 shu4]


id: 8c3003743d1d7ce52ad430f546ae9f1956b739d6
simplified: 贾第虫病
traditional: 賈第蟲病
pinyin: jia3 di4 chong2 bing4
english:
Giardiasis, a form of gastro-enteritis caused by infection of gut by Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite


id: c9313e5ecc0cc0849049249c49146d0e80bdd13d
simplified: 赏
traditional: 賞
pinyin: shang3
radicalSimplified: 贝
radicalTraditional: 貝
english:
to bestow (a reward)/to give (to an inferior)/to hand down/a reward (bestowed by a superior)/to appreciate (beauty)


id: b59322f2a1214da5f99ca34bad94ed96b244d886
simplified: 赔上
traditional: 賠上
pinyin: pei2 shang4
english:
to pay for sth with the loss of (one's health etc)/to have sth come at the cost of (one's reputation etc)


id: b32cc64548a8c7758177baf5c7838ec466b105a0
simplified: 赔了夫人又折兵
traditional: 賠了夫人又折兵
pinyin: pei2 le5 fu1 ren2 you4 zhe2 bing1
english:
having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)/to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy


id: 7fb539885900d7922c86eff01691a2dc431f9985
simplified: 卖命
traditional: 賣命
pinyin: mai4 ming4
english:
to throw one's life in for/to haplessly give one's life for/to sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group/to pour in one's utmost effort/to shed one's last ounce of strength for


id: b2a5ea1830a09e2fa040935500eababf9d073640
simplified: 赋闲
traditional: 賦閒
pinyin: fu4 xian2
english:
to stay idle at home/to have resigned from office/to be unemployed/to have been fired/to be on a sabbatical


id: fe3eae91aaa89fd72242cc5da409e22896c8a743
simplified: 质子
traditional: 質子
pinyin: zhi4 zi3
english:
proton (positively charged nuclear particle)/a prince sent to be held as a hostage in a neighbouring state in ancient China


id: e7c42a493ddef7c80c4fcde982b8d5220a565a2a
simplified: 赖
traditional: 賴
pinyin: lai4
radicalSimplified: 贝
radicalTraditional: 貝
variants: 頼
english:
to depend on/to hang on in a place/bad/to renege (on promise)/to disclaim/to rat (on debts)/rascally/to blame/to put the blame on/surname Lai


id: c88e8bbbf1f5135d9e3494b1183f3e343b9b4aff
simplified: 赖昌星
traditional: 賴昌星
pinyin: lai4 chang1 xing1
english:
Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008


id: 1bcbbc9cc62f693d799b0d8a63296ae09a2c7d95
simplified: 赛先生
traditional: 賽先生
pinyin: sai4 xian1 sheng5
english:
"Mr Science", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动[Wu3 si4 Yun4 dong4]/abbr. for 賽因斯|赛因斯[sai4 yin1 si1]/see also 德先生[De2 xian1 sheng5]


id: 9f2c1f049d68dc36b8ab4813181faa486cc0d71a
simplified: 赛珍珠
traditional: 賽珍珠
pinyin: sai4 zhen1 zhu1
english:
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate


id: 60b58e2e3f78e9fe95fddda29b0f35abfea1979c
simplified: 赣
traditional: 贛
pinyin: gan4
radicalSimplified: 贝
radicalTraditional: 貝
english:
abbr. for Jiangxi Province 江西省[Jiang1 xi1 Sheng3]/Gan River in Jiangxi Province 江西省[Jiang1 xi1 Sheng3]


id: 65a784a483f66c129d9f073ad6c3eb994e31c60a
simplified: 赤壁
traditional: 赤壁
pinyin: chi4 bi4
english:
Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei/Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208


id: cd449c3b65888dc8ff268a5fc8ca6e383bc81f73
simplified: 赤壁之战
traditional: 赤壁之戰
pinyin: chi4 bi4 zhi1 zhan4
english:
Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu/famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义


id: dd748565c3b8e612c27a480276dc18adaa2609b4
simplified: 赤壁市
traditional: 赤壁市
pinyin: chi4 bi4 shi4
english:
Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei/Chibi or Redcliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Redcliff of 208


id: cde093309667d976b7d1498c48241bdf428493d1
simplified: 赫德
traditional: 赫德
pinyin: he4 de2
english:
Hart or Herd (name)/Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office


id: 380e532ab22c534b071a39deb1734a1aa693d33d
simplified: 赫胥黎
traditional: 赫胥黎
pinyin: he4 xu1 li2
english:
Huxley (name)/Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin/Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist


id: 6fe5d22e56538ef47e3dff6be06d22776033fadb
simplified: 赫兹
traditional: 赫茲
pinyin: he4 zi1
english:
hertz (Hz), unit of frequency/Hertz (name)/Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist and meteorologist, pioneer of electromagnetic radiation


id: a850e46b19a2a403517456eb8b90c04ceec6df02
simplified: 走
traditional: 走
pinyin: zou3
radicalSimplified: 走
radicalTraditional: 走
variants: 赱
english:
to walk/to go/to run/to move (of vehicle)/to visit/to leave/to go away/to die (euph.)/from/through/away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3])/to change (shape, form, meaning)


id: 2ced7b7b4c6b1528c2637454c39a06dfed3b2884
simplified: 走内线
traditional: 走內線
pinyin: zou3 nei4 xian4
english:
insider contacts/via private channels/to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand)


id: 22ad4888de6c728c7e0a4c206e0056f231e172d0
simplified: 走动
traditional: 走動
pinyin: zou3 dong4
english:
to walk around/to move about/to stretch one's legs/to go for a walk/to be mobile (e.g. after an illness)/to visit one another/to pay a visit (go to the toilet)


id: 3784c5c413729e7a128431680597fbeed60090ee
simplified: 走向
traditional: 走向
pinyin: zou3 xiang4
english:
direction/strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology)/inclination/trend/to move towards/to head for


id: aac666d7a1b21e0504b207d95ce375946d45f6c7
simplified: 走失
traditional: 走失
pinyin: zou3 shi1
english:
lost/missing/to lose (sb in one's charge)/to get lost/to wander away/to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one's good looks etc)/to lose meaning (in translation)


id: c359f226f2b6e000d9364bbc504f60646b8d90b4
simplified: 走后门
traditional: 走後門
pinyin: zou3 hou4 men2
english:
lit. to enter by the back door/fig. to gain influence by pull or unofficial channels/back door or under the counter connections


id: 880f80e556f3857a23182628b3a11bd335034fe6
simplified: 走心
traditional: 走心
pinyin: zou3 xin1
english:
to take care/to be mindful/(Internet slang) to be moved by sth/poignant/to have deep feelings for sb/to lose one's heart to sb


id: 0305c7da1de63139e70c9ffe42af39accfd6af3b
simplified: 走板
traditional: 走板
pinyin: zou3 ban3
english:
to be off the beat/to sound awful (of singing)/(fig.) to wander off the topic/(diving) to step toward the end of the board/approach


id: 84e666c4fea67852ce55bf1ed0e0a55a912d1ad0
simplified: 走火入魔
traditional: 走火入魔
pinyin: zou3 huo3 ru4 mo2
english:
to be obsessed with sth/to go overboard/(Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation


id: b0b7aaaafee3a1f479acaa9fadde83e674c5cf34
simplified: 走为上
traditional: 走為上
pinyin: zou3 wei2 shang4
english:
If everything else fails, retreat. (idiom)/see also 三十六計，走為上策|三十六计，走为上策[san1 shi2 liu4 ji4 , zou3 wei2 shang4 ce4]


id: 1f9647d96e1a2fc24758f4c8267301f3b95d6fee
simplified: 走资派
traditional: 走資派
pinyin: zou3 zi1 pai4
english:
capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution)


id: 7dd8efff0fbdad9f1b31cdc8a4da4fe45ec08b5b
simplified: 走马上任
traditional: 走馬上任
pinyin: zou3 ma3 shang4 ren4
english:
to ride to take up an official appointment (idiom); to take on a job with alacrity/to undertake a task


id: ad66e15d7172a145b31ea540674711f713e6f4d2
simplified: 走马灯
traditional: 走馬燈
pinyin: zou3 ma3 deng1
english:
lantern with carousel of paper horses, rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节/fig. constant busy circulation of people


id: d2fe86a2837b3b6f7467bbdaf17c6ae271c8448c
simplified: 走马看花
traditional: 走馬看花
pinyin: zou3 ma3 kan4 hua1
english:
lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation/to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information


id: db8b490479080a8a63c7515504988612ead8e5cb
simplified: 走马观花
traditional: 走馬觀花
pinyin: zou3 ma3 guan1 hua1
english:
lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); a fleeting glance in passing/fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation/to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information


id: daa48a5d5958c89b74ad3410115acd49b2a3c609
simplified: 起
traditional: 起
pinyin: qi3
radicalSimplified: 走
radicalTraditional: 走
english:
to rise/to raise/to get up/to set out/to start/to appear/to launch/to initiate (action)/to draft/to establish/to get (from a depot or counter)/verb suffix, to start/starting from (a time, place, price etc)/classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance/classifier for groups: batch, group


id: a5f17406c61b954a6d99b4a7da88c55ffe0fd869
simplified: 起来
traditional: 起來
pinyin: qi5 lai5
english:
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state/indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4])/indicating completion/(after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment/also pr. [qi3 lai5]


id: 995f7d2cbd7e2328296f8487556d567b9bf661fd
simplified: 起居作息
traditional: 起居作息
pinyin: qi3 ju1 zuo4 xi1
english:
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom)/fig. everyday life/daily routine/to go about one's daily life


id: 4254490f25d17f0524e45278ec49575504f8c2d9
simplified: 超前
traditional: 超前
pinyin: chao1 qian2
english:
to be ahead of one's time/to surpass or outdo one's predecessors/to be ahead of the pack/to take the lead/advanced


id: 95a495ee5fcdebb380b7da09d59eb0383507acf6
simplified: 越
traditional: 越
pinyin: yue4
radicalSimplified: 走
radicalTraditional: 走
english:
to exceed/to climb over/to surpass/the more... the more/generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods/abbr. for Vietnam 越南


id: 223ae9e35e5ddb5bd335c16630349f235939a708
simplified: 越俎代庖
traditional: 越俎代庖
pinyin: yue4 zu3 dai4 pao2
english:
lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs/to take matters into one's own hands


id: c0a95af24e7ef46f671835377b411faa76e39f54
simplified: 越西
traditional: 越西
pinyin: yue4 xi1
english:
Yuexi county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan


id: 0df7e13cb3d0491ee93813a22ee1fe413c3fc8ac
simplified: 越飞
traditional: 越飛
pinyin: yue4 fei1
english:
Adolph Abramovich Joffe (1883-1927), Soviet and Comintern diplomat and spy in 1922-23 in Republican China


id: d28569853375e01d8f2e143f474b1d85ff517774
simplified: 赶
traditional: 趕
pinyin: gan3
radicalSimplified: 走
radicalTraditional: 走
variants: 趕,赶
english:
to overtake/to catch up with/to hurry/to rush/to try to catch (the bus etc)/to drive (cattle etc) forward/to drive (sb) away/to avail oneself of (an opportunity)/until


id: e569228bd8e3bf542ee913491649f354f0db99d1
simplified: 赵
traditional: 趙
pinyin: zhao4
radicalSimplified: 走
radicalTraditional: 走
english:
to surpass (old)/surname Zhao/one of the seven states during the Warring States Period (476-220 BC)/the Former Zhao 前趙 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms


id: 8dbc327f5395bf55843bf443fcc8c718566b48ee
simplified: 赵州桥
traditional: 趙州橋
pinyin: zhao4 zhou1 qiao2
english:
Zhaozhou Bridge over Xiao River 洨河[Xiao2 He2] in Zhao county 趙縣|赵县[Zhao4 Xian4], Shijiazhuang, Hebei, dating back to the Sui dynasty 隋代[Sui2 dai4] (581-617) and the world's oldest extant stone arch bridge


id: f5f97102d03e8145f7ebbbdd13b76089004129b8
simplified: 赵括
traditional: 趙括
pinyin: zhao4 kuo4
english:
Zhao Kuo (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國|赵国, who famously led an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC/also called Ma Fuzi 馬服子|马服子


id: d0bb6a2edaff85c4c054967b0357855ebdaddebb
simplified: 赵乐际
traditional: 趙樂際
pinyin: zhao4 le4 ji4
english:
Zhao Leji (1957-), member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection


id: 5f1396648cdc3c3626671b23050632f99afbedd2
simplified: 赵紫阳
traditional: 趙紫陽
pinyin: zhao4 zi3 yang2
english:
Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then


id: ae446e87466a85612f588fb7e33a16e0586c92ac
simplified: 赵翼
traditional: 趙翼
pinyin: zhao4 yi4
english:
Zhao Yi (1727-1814), Qing dynasty poet and historian, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家


id: 9e0fd66ab196d1c21366bdb4fe2bbd8f3aa8a25c
simplified: 赵高
traditional: 趙高
pinyin: zhao4 gao1
english:
Zhao Gao (?-207 BC), one of the most vile, corrupt and powerful eunuchs in Chinese history, responsible for the fall of Qin Dynasty


id: 03aa7d91012e49168d9df19d6237b732066c9ded
simplified: 趋之若鹜
traditional: 趨之若鶩
pinyin: qu1 zhi1 ruo4 wu4
english:
to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable/an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase


id: 3e2a4d19c427e4916475e57544881bba8dca9ac8
simplified: 足岁
traditional: 足歲
pinyin: zu2 sui4
english:
method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/see also 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]


id: 9ed83216ae14b405574b089ea2662e3aee5cea79
simplified: 趴
traditional: 趴
pinyin: pa1
radicalSimplified: ⻊
radicalTraditional: 足
english:
to lie on one's stomach/to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc)/(Taiwan) percent


id: 44d1c91ed34730eb9b53bd2e6b3f49e2707ed421
simplified: 跌破
traditional: 跌破
pinyin: die1 po4
english:
(of a market index etc) to fall below (a given level)/to be injured or damaged as a result of a fall


id: ccaf83026e56fd15ff21bd70d2729c06b90a294c
simplified: 跑
traditional: 跑
pinyin: pao3
radicalSimplified: ⻊
radicalTraditional: 足
english:
to run/to run away/to escape/to run around (on errands etc)/(of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate/(verb complement) away/off


id: 828c4c824a52eb2e6f51c017976cafdd7dc2b7ae
simplified: 跑了和尚，跑不了寺
traditional: 跑了和尚，跑不了寺
pinyin: pao3 le5 he2 shang4 , pao3 bu4 liao3 si4
english:
the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom)/you can run this time, but you'll have to come back/I'll get you sooner or later


id: 054b4edd8f02c7aa5239439ce908c125d43f9f70
simplified: 跟
traditional: 跟
pinyin: gen1
radicalSimplified: ⻊
radicalTraditional: 足
english:
heel/to follow closely/to go with/(of a woman) to marry sb/with/compared with/to/towards/and (joining two nouns)


id: 8fb66ff43763f64a105edeaa0039846526f479a6
simplified: 路氹
traditional: 路氹
pinyin: lu4 dang4
english:
Cotai, portmanteau term referring to the islands of 路環|路环[Lu4 huan2] (Coloane) and 氹仔[Dang4 zai3] (Taipa) in Macau/the strip of reclaimed land between Coloane and Taipa/the island formed by Coloane, Taipa and the reclaimed land between them


id: 9a58d6b869c29f7fa71de26ddcbb76ac17170f40
simplified: 路见不平，拔刀相助
traditional: 路見不平，拔刀相助
pinyin: lu4 jian4 bu4 ping2 , ba2 dao1 xiang1 zhu4
english:
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom)/fig. to rush to the rescue/to play the white knight


id: 0470ecea347af270c034092c953c218bdf1eb076
simplified: 路遥知马力，日久见人心
traditional: 路遙知馬力，日久見人心
pinyin: lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4 , ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1
english:
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true heart (proverb)


id: 061ec95b329d3da091cc85a6697e2bdd2fedb216
simplified: 路霸
traditional: 路霸
pinyin: lu4 ba4
english:
brigand/(modern) uncivil driver/road hog/(PRC) person who sets up an illegal toll/(Tw) person who uses a part of the street as their private parking place


id: bbdfb85ecd4bca82becd88384cb593035d93c8f2
simplified: 跳出火坑
traditional: 跳出火坑
pinyin: tiao4 chu1 huo3 keng1
english:
lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell/to free oneself from a life of torture


id: 9cfa6fbd8ffe1b57fc996d90613cffbc5c4882ec
simplified: 跳水
traditional: 跳水
pinyin: tiao4 shui3
english:
to dive (into water)/(sports) diving/to commit suicide by jumping into water/(fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically


id: 1b4f96adbeaff2d6e95c01f080d794d6db33d380
simplified: 跳进黄河洗不清
traditional: 跳進黃河洗不清
pinyin: tiao4 jin4 huang2 he2 xi3 bu4 qing1
english:
lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean/fig. to become inexorably mixed up/mired in controversy/in deep trouble


id: 0b1997e650bcaaff860a869d356d0bc4315227e2
simplified: 踏青
traditional: 踏青
pinyin: ta4 qing1
english:
lit. tread the green; go for a walk in the spring (when the grass has turned green)/spring hike season around Qingming festival 清明, 4th-6th April


id: 5ad65d1530f3f2a2a4819c6234f708b9ee767c52
simplified: 踩线
traditional: 踩線
pinyin: cai3 xian4
english:
to scout for a tour operator/to reconnoiter a potential tour itinerary/(tennis) to commit a foot fault


id: 61c5eb39a424ff48b508b9443bd883dc7f784e6b
simplified: 蹉跎
traditional: 蹉跎
pinyin: cuo1 tuo2
english:
(literary) to slip/(of looks etc) to fade away/(of time) to slip away/to squander (time, opportunities)/to dillydally


id: 6b9f815fffeb5e11015e55019d71c9d787c4062f
simplified: 蹭车
traditional: 蹭車
pinyin: ceng4 che1
english:
(coll.) to ride in sb else's car to save money/to ride on a train or bus without buying a ticket (fare-dodging)


id: 78e4f50b931e9754c8afddee85371ea20499df01
simplified: 蹲点
traditional: 蹲點
pinyin: dun1 dian3
english:
(of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience/(dialect) taking a crap


id: 6f6c680cb3932eedb1bc25357bc9b0fa18541acf
simplified: 跃然纸上
traditional: 躍然紙上
pinyin: yue4 ran2 zhi3 shang4
english:
to appear vividly on paper (idiom); to show forth vividly (in writing, painting etc)/to stand out markedly


id: 542c6255e97634d5b09148faf123207a7764570c
simplified: 蹑足
traditional: 躡足
pinyin: nie4 zu2
english:
to walk on tiptoe/to step on sb's foot/to join (a trade, profession etc)/to associate with (a certain group of people)


id: c08149d4a838824f21b2f567c52d0cb87d63ea8b
simplified: 蹿房越脊
traditional: 躥房越脊
pinyin: cuan1 fang2 yue4 ji3
english:
lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)


id: f787f8620f0ab4e5984fed6b2d5dadd63ba39a9b
simplified: 身
traditional: 身
pinyin: shen1
radicalSimplified: 身
radicalTraditional: 身
english:
body/life/oneself/personally/one's morality and conduct/the main part of a structure or body/pregnant/classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset/Kangxi radical 158


id: e726b7540310b5681dd54f28990c96c031ae399e
simplified: 身不由己
traditional: 身不由己
pinyin: shen1 bu4 you2 ji3
english:
without the freedom to act independently (idiom); involuntary/not of one's own volition/in spite of oneself


id: 33d81504a978d20f97e92d57998b91948f96fc6e
simplified: 身价
traditional: 身價
pinyin: shen1 jia4
english:
social status/price of a slave/price of a person (a sportsman etc)/worth/value (of stocks, valuables etc)


id: 07d60b95c91993a8158cdfe994de0dd9f14ef1f1
simplified: 身在曹营心在汉
traditional: 身在曹營心在漢
pinyin: shen1 zai4 cao2 ying2 xin1 zai4 han4
english:
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom)/to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else


id: 953f595fdcb1ce6125790ab9ce4594ea096b39b6
simplified: 身处
traditional: 身處
pinyin: shen1 chu3
english:
in (some place)/to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc)/to find oneself in/placed in/surrounded by


id: d553d8ef6d03d0461251aa946223a4cbac349f21
simplified: 躲得过初一，躲不过十五
traditional: 躲得過初一，躲不過十五
pinyin: duo3 de5 guo4 chu1 yi1 , duo3 bu4 guo4 shi2 wu3
english:
lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom)/fig. you can't put it off forever/sooner or later you'll have to deal with it


id: 6a64f49ddb804af074b3d1f341d75c17bb930b94
simplified: 躺枪
traditional: 躺槍
pinyin: tang3 qiang1
english:
(Internet slang) to get unjustly ridiculed, attacked, implicated in sth etc while just being present/abbr. for 躺著也中槍|躺着也中枪[tang3 zhe5 ye3 zhong4 qiang1]


id: de78da867f37fffab945d6340f75ecb7642e917c
simplified: 躺着也中枪
traditional: 躺著也中槍
pinyin: tang3 zhe5 ye3 zhong4 qiang1
english:
(lit.) to get shot even when lying down/(fig.) to get unjustly ridiculed, attacked, implicated in sth etc while just being present (Internet slang)/abbr. to 躺槍|躺枪[tang3 qiang1]


id: 823ee1d7f26161f7b1f5b64a8f8d91e0e837b91e
simplified: 车到山前必有路
traditional: 車到山前必有路
pinyin: che1 dao4 shan1 qian2 bi4 you3 lu4
english:
lit. When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through. (idiom)/fig. Everything will turn out for the best./Let's worry about it when it happens./It will be all right on the night./cf couplet 車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直|车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直


id: 4a79ead3846b3d03394dcaa327be1d02a01f9a0d
simplified: 车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直
traditional: 車到山前必有路，船到橋頭自然直
pinyin: che1 dao4 shan1 qian2 bi4 you3 lu4 , chuan2 dao4 qiao2 tou2 zi4 ran2 zhi2
english:
lit. When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through and when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current. (idiom)/fig. Everything will turn out for the best./Let's worry about it when it happens./It will be all right on the night.


id: 2fccd4e319e10847d50b78cec9a5653683635de3
simplified: 车斗
traditional: 車斗
pinyin: che1 dou3
english:
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads/dump box (of a dump truck)/bucket (of a front loader)/wheelbarrow


id: 64633d5a80669a88ef9a353b3be7a93abc415c4d
simplified: 车裂
traditional: 車裂
pinyin: che1 lie4
english:
to tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)/to tear limb from limb


id: a31ed1aa669c0f332e6b5fca7bf9dff43246e27a
simplified: 车轮饼
traditional: 車輪餅
pinyin: che1 lun2 bing3
english:
imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)


id: 179e2def74301fe6e19711aedf0c61d1fb910faf
simplified: 军训
traditional: 軍訓
pinyin: jun1 xun4
english:
military practice, esp. for reservists or new recruits/military training as a (sometimes compulsory) subject in schools and colleges/drill


id: e1f87a09e5e0554d774a7ce0eadfe1f12dbade17
simplified: 轩辕
traditional: 軒轅
pinyin: xuan1 yuan2
english:
two-character surname Xuanyuan/Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4]


id: ee2c676bf1343871fd8b5635b403832f5aa34d80
simplified: 较劲
traditional: 較勁
pinyin: jiao4 jin4
english:
to match one's strength with/to compete/more competitive/to set oneself against sb/disobliging/to make a special effort


id: 488b217a0ff816728fb04ceadf7f8e01afa31922
simplified: 载入
traditional: 載入
pinyin: zai3 ru4
english:
to load into/to record/to write into/to enter (data)/to go into (the records)/to go down (in history)


id: 5d95930d3e61ebf1581d61e518262191d10ba7f4
simplified: 载道
traditional: 載道
pinyin: zai4 dao4
english:
to fill the road (also fig. clamor, cries of complaint)/to communicate a moral/to convey the Way/to express (idea, preference, complaint)


id: e05fdb050174705836bcf14a24365a63f121b8d1
simplified: 辅仁大学
traditional: 輔仁大學
pinyin: fu3 ren2 da4 xue2
english:
Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking (from 1925), forerunner of Beijing Normal University 北京師範大學|北京师范大学/Fu Jen Catholic University in New Taipei City, Taiwan


id: 9f6e2e3563b5f81b0ae5bf51cab3363d9b53f575
simplified: 轻
traditional: 輕
pinyin: qing1
radicalSimplified: 车
radicalTraditional: 車
english:
light/easy/gentle/soft/reckless/unimportant/frivolous/small in number/unstressed/neutral/to disparage


id: 1ce7305984e19db23a0c1b19e954e290a278137f
simplified: 轻型轨道交通
traditional: 輕型軌道交通
pinyin: qing1 xing2 gui3 dao4 jiao1 tong1
english:
light rail/transit system (underground, at street level or elevated)/streetcar/metro/abbr. to 輕軌|轻轨[qing1 gui3]


id: 639bf0ed9f8b7d5c7cede91ff5c5342b9eca8839
simplified: 轻车熟路
traditional: 輕車熟路
pinyin: qing1 che1 shu2 lu4
english:
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom)/fig. to do sth routinely and with ease/a walk in the park


id: f4f75733092068e0c17bbd6b317f13bd20aa3c4c
simplified: 轻车简从
traditional: 輕車簡從
pinyin: qing1 che1 jian3 cong2
english:
(of an official) to travel with little luggage and just a small escort/to travel without ostentation


id: 05b27b9434caa77eb938396c355aaf4085d5bbee
simplified: 轻轨
traditional: 輕軌
pinyin: qing1 gui3
english:
light rail/transit system (underground, at street level or elevated)/streetcar/metro/abbr. for 輕型軌道交通|轻型轨道交通[qing1 xing2 gui3 dao4 jiao1 tong1]


id: aecde4b9a8dbd1fb1d8eaeba5766b22bf553c335
simplified: 轻重主次
traditional: 輕重主次
pinyin: qing1 zhong4 zhu3 ci4
english:
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point)/lacking a sense of perspective/to put the cart before the horse


id: 6e63c5df124e16888ccbc0b84506b55c493f9512
simplified: 轻重倒置
traditional: 輕重倒置
pinyin: qing1 zhong4 dao4 zhi4
english:
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important)/lacking a sense of perspective/to put the cart before the horse


id: a50f39d48c3d152fb9c50d3be2d63bf609bd0530
simplified: 轻重缓急
traditional: 輕重緩急
pinyin: qing1 zhong4 huan3 ji2
english:
slight or important, urgent or non-urgent (idiom); to deal with important matters first/sense of priority


id: 9a254ea2da926a300860a329b003d7be014f4598
simplified: 辈
traditional: 輩
pinyin: bei4
radicalSimplified: 非
radicalTraditional: 車
variants: 軰
english:
lifetime/generation/group of people/class/classifier for generations/(literary) classifier for people


id: a429759403bb7b8724ee9a80150b9aa70af8f56e
simplified: 轮
traditional: 輪
pinyin: lun2
radicalSimplified: 车
radicalTraditional: 車
variants: 輪
english:
wheel/disk/ring/steamship/to take turns/to rotate/by turn/classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn


id: d58cc0db23c1fbecc91724c83be7f0dba30b8de7
simplified: 轮台
traditional: 輪台
pinyin: lun2 tai2
english:
Bügür nahiyisi or Luntai county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: 1a178bf55386a65d28e58f31c272a6749e054024
simplified: 轮台古城
traditional: 輪台古城
pinyin: lun2 tai2 gu3 cheng2
english:
ruins of Luntai city, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang


id: 848026b1d8cdd520de2c2bcc77eb319302f4eace
simplified: 轮回
traditional: 輪迴
pinyin: lun2 hui2
english:
to reincarnate/reincarnation (Buddhism)/(of the seasons etc) to follow each other cyclically/cycle/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: 8bfe98e84f006c0ba2a87b5d8e452693119d4dfa
simplified: 转
traditional: 轉
pinyin: zhuan4
radicalSimplified: 车
radicalTraditional: 車
variants: 転
english:
to revolve/to turn/to circle about/to walk about/classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm/classifier for repeated actions


id: 929185fabc0bb643ad24f917db03c1e5b4ce6f28
simplified: 转圈
traditional: 轉圈
pinyin: zhuan4 quan1
english:
to rotate/to twirl/to run around/to encircle/rotation/(coll.) to speak indirectly/to beat about the bush


id: 552d3a034ab756c1afc3c8e6f988238713c1d8c4
simplified: 转嫁
traditional: 轉嫁
pinyin: zhuan3 jia4
english:
to remarry (of widow)/to pass on (blame, cost, obligation, unpleasant consequence etc)/to transfer (blame, guilt)/to pass the buck


id: 2064591b35b45048c6ded57cd61f415e33412fd7
simplified: 转战千里
traditional: 轉戰千里
pinyin: zhuan3 zhan4 qian1 li3
english:
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country/never-ending struggle


id: faf275fbfaf1445f04900d3c67ffd9e2a6f7bb16
simplified: 转注
traditional: 轉注
pinyin: zhuan3 zhu4
english:
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)/character with meanings influenced by other words/sometimes called mutually explanatory character


id: 567c7d624049040555d7db3cac82565dcd1d017f
simplified: 转发
traditional: 轉發
pinyin: zhuan3 fa1
english:
to transmit/to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data)/to pass on/to republish (an article from another publication)


id: b4cc97b320fa67a4b5858fec053eab01fd442069
simplified: 转科
traditional: 轉科
pinyin: zhuan3 ke1
english:
to change major (at college)/to take up a new specialist subject/to transfer to a different medical department


id: 0b64947a4f19cf6185003dacdff6622162efc929
simplified: 转移
traditional: 轉移
pinyin: zhuan3 yi2
english:
to shift/to divert or distract (attention etc)/to change/to transform/metastasis (medicine)/to evacuate (people)


id: 790a8c61d7d5edd7ae85170d00a1bcb5f340e11c
simplified: 转移支付
traditional: 轉移支付
pinyin: zhuan3 yi2 zhi1 fu4
english:
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)


id: bde961f7661d3495b1e1e996d9db42a51fc52258
simplified: 转运
traditional: 轉運
pinyin: zhuan3 yun4
english:
to forward goods/to ship/to distribute/transshipment/a lucky break/change of fortune (for the better)


id: a6ebce53fc34fb1904b8a435b54c8f7b7d987337
simplified: 辛
traditional: 辛
pinyin: xin1
radicalSimplified: 辛
radicalTraditional: 辛
english:
(of taste) hot or pungent/hard/laborious/suffering/eighth in order/eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]/letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 285°/octa/surname Xin


id: 59b25a4b2d19ee0d4a4828b4c9e708892ee9936f
simplified: 辛丑
traditional: 辛丑
pinyin: xin1 chou3
english:
thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021/cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising


id: 70201ea519f486dcce3650dabfcd35aa577120d9
simplified: 辛丑条约
traditional: 辛丑條約
pinyin: xin1 chou3 tiao2 yue1
english:
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising


id: a2aed2fe0607f0819b149a41dc9a08937c71f243
simplified: 辛亥
traditional: 辛亥
pinyin: xin1 hai4
english:
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031/cf 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], Xinhai Revolution of 1911


id: ef0303cb6e4fe00ef1e562e3ab1b9abe0e643776
simplified: 辜负
traditional: 辜負
pinyin: gu1 fu4
english:
to fail to live up (to expectations)/unworthy (of trust)/to let down/to betray (hopes)/to disappoint


id: 35860a94264e5b1c25913e03a9a7f90f7008dec1
simplified: 辜鸿铭
traditional: 辜鴻銘
pinyin: gu1 hong2 ming2
english:
Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views


id: 6f0777d5e1125974b5f5dcee4cee65c62786c0c3
simplified: 辣妹子
traditional: 辣妹子
pinyin: la4 mei4 zi5
english:
sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)


id: 2ce1dfd3a066dca26a562314afef4250d128d993
simplified: 辣条
traditional: 辣條
pinyin: la4 tiao2
english:
spicy sticks, a snack food similar to beef jerky but made with flour or dried beancurd instead of meat


id: 60d9597b3ee1f3806d0ef186de1858ea6444ff13
simplified: 辫子
traditional: 辮子
pinyin: bian4 zi5
english:
plait/braid/pigtail/a mistake or shortcoming that may be exploited by an opponent/handle/CL:根[gen1],條|条[tiao2]


id: aa401bb4e36b8864758975803ba03bd51d6e9626
simplified: 辩机
traditional: 辯機
pinyin: bian4 ji1
english:
Bianji (c. 620-648), Tang dynasty buddhist monk and disciple of 玄奘[Xuan2 zang4], author and translator of Great Tang Records on the Western Regions 大唐西域記|大唐西域记[Da4 Tang2 Xi1 yu4 Ji4]


id: 0255eabdf01770e0f49940cba9fb9d986dd11910
simplified: 辩解
traditional: 辯解
pinyin: bian4 jie3
english:
to explain/to justify/to defend (a point of view etc)/to provide an explanation/to try to defend oneself


id: e4ebf0d8ada90c232886fc5c8a3bed97df7173a4
simplified: 辰
traditional: 辰
pinyin: chen2
radicalSimplified: 辰
radicalTraditional: 辰
variants: 辰
english:
5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon/ancient Chinese compass point: 120°


id: dcc036c5a8c1d47e97cb088b3f0a25ebe828e3dd
simplified: 辱
traditional: 辱
pinyin: ru3
radicalSimplified: 辰
radicalTraditional: 辰
english:
disgrace/dishonor/to insult/to bring disgrace or humiliation to/to be indebted to/self-deprecating/Taiwan pr. [ru4]


id: d3d711ff53050d1114be98eb6f91d9c41874e707
simplified: 农村家庭联产承包责任制
traditional: 農村家庭聯產承包責任制
pinyin: nong2 cun1 jia1 ting2 lian2 chan3 cheng2 bao1 ze2 ren4 zhi4
english:
rural household contract responsibility system, PRC government policy linking rural income to productivity


id: c11cac74d68abb5c928bd3fcd0552aa1b72392ff
simplified: 迂回曲折
traditional: 迂回曲折
pinyin: yu1 hui2 qu1 zhe2
english:
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere/going around in circles


id: 7e5668e18aef3ca32661a3e533d0e6500c4e0a44
simplified: 迎来送往
traditional: 迎來送往
pinyin: ying2 lai2 song4 wang3
english:
lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom); busy entertaining guests/all time taken over with social niceties


id: 2591013aee6e5b3d26377d64985660b8915375c5
simplified: 迎亲
traditional: 迎親
pinyin: ying2 qin1
english:
(of the groom's family) to send a bridal sedan chair 花轎|花轿 to fetch the bride/to send a party to escort the bride to the groom's house


id: 6addf703978eeff92af67c7f4380a8319d0c2693
simplified: 近代
traditional: 近代
pinyin: jin4 dai4
english:
the not-very-distant past/modern times, excluding recent decades/(in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)/capitalist times (pre-1949)


id: aff6dddf8eec38ed2f645703b3e077eb53f97073
simplified: 近代史
traditional: 近代史
pinyin: jin4 dai4 shi3
english:
modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century)


id: 354bb953cad1d447802eeff35143f3ba3ae8cf5c
simplified: 近朱者赤，近墨者黑
traditional: 近朱者赤，近墨者黑
pinyin: jin4 zhu1 zhe3 chi4 , jin4 mo4 zhe3 hei1
english:
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom)/you are the product of your environment


id: 784dab0742de9a17e9314f1d21cd20a13a7f3cd1
simplified: 近水楼台先得月
traditional: 近水樓臺先得月
pinyin: jin4 shui3 lou2 tai2 xian1 de2 yue4
english:
the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first (idiom)/to benefit from intimacy with an influential person


id: af357c8ff6f5da3a669c2896ee0573b2322f1b62
simplified: 近畿地方
traditional: 近畿地方
pinyin: jin4 ji1 di4 fang1
english:
Kinki chihō, region of Japan around the old capital Kyōto, including Kyōto prefecture 京都府[Jing1 du1 fu3], Ōsaka prefecture 大阪府[Da4 ban3 fu3], Shiga prefecture 滋賀縣|滋贺县[Zi1 he4 xian4], Nara prefecture 奈良縣|奈良县[Nai4 liang2 xian4], Mi'e prefecture 三重縣|三重县[San1 chong2 xian4], Wakayama prefecture 和歌山縣|和歌山县[He2 ge1 shan1 xian4], Hyōgo prefecture 兵庫縣|兵库县[Bing1 ku4 xian4]


id: 1c7df7ad1e65e3f81b8c71fcc5af89a8909fd3cf
simplified: 近卫文麿
traditional: 近衛文麿
pinyin: jin4 wei4 wen2 mo3
english:
Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 1937-1939 and 1940-1941


id: dfbebca468267d6c0f71513fafeabfc0eed4c6c3
simplified: 返券黄牛
traditional: 返券黃牛
pinyin: fan3 quan4 huang2 niu2
english:
"shopping coupon scalper", sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit


id: e5380a741e440047ade1fa2aebf7c4a1a9af0e3d
simplified: 迪庆藏族自治州
traditional: 迪慶藏族自治州
pinyin: di2 qing4 zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1
english:
Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture, northwest Yunnan, capital Jiantang 建塘鎮|建塘镇[Jian4 tang2 zhen4]


id: 14f3ad3dcff938d9552416741bebdee0d20ab674
simplified: 迪戈·加西亚岛
traditional: 迪戈·加西亞島
pinyin: di2 ge1 · jia1 xi1 ya4 dao3
english:
Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chago archipelago 查戈斯群島|查戈斯群岛[Cha2 ge1 si1 Qun2 dao3]


id: 86141bb6947e6f86cf7e40f1b1d300aeecb15974
simplified: 迪斯雷利
traditional: 迪斯雷利
pinyin: di2 si1 lei2 li4
english:
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880


id: 6ee5aee380a117f5ecdd0f030a825c7fc8a7f9ea
simplified: 迭部
traditional: 迭部
pinyin: die2 bu4
english:
Têwo or Diebu county in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: 36a53aacaabdec61d308a4416d83e252c048b270
simplified: 退场
traditional: 退場
pinyin: tui4 chang3
english:
to leave a place where some event is taking place/(of an actor) to exit/(sports) to leave the field/(of an audience) to leave


id: 42639af65af49babefddfa174e0506afa91be8de
simplified: 退步
traditional: 退步
pinyin: tui4 bu4
english:
to do less well than before/to make a concession/setback/backward step/leeway/room to maneuver/fallback


id: 6fa7aae551978cc1ad55719aa376e6e6f71c188f
simplified: 退避三舍
traditional: 退避三捨
pinyin: tui4 bi4 san1 she4
english:
lit. to retreat three day's march (idiom); fig. to give way in the face of superior strength/a strategic withdrawal


id: 0390eaaa8b1535e9fbc10680d0b2f1133c7ab55f
simplified: 逃之夭夭
traditional: 逃之夭夭
pinyin: tao2 zhi1 yao1 yao1
english:
to escape without trace (idiom); to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime)/to show a clean pair of heels


id: dac780ecc9cb78f8d141d55c28f3a5d487e84f0c
simplified: 逆来顺受
traditional: 逆來順受
pinyin: ni4 lai2 shun4 shou4
english:
to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it/to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc


id: b1225704ccf25969d49e4fd5ab441534af490b3c
simplified: 逆断层
traditional: 逆斷層
pinyin: ni4 duan4 ceng2
english:
reverse fault (geology)/compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees


id: c3f8697df4e5c0bfed86e2467fd544fefccc9cef
simplified: 逆流
traditional: 逆流
pinyin: ni4 liu2
english:
against the stream/adverse current/a countercurrent/fig. reactionary tendency/to go against the trend


id: e890fa0f6f9de85f6f46e4d42a8c37278fb614ef
simplified: 逍遥法外
traditional: 逍遙法外
pinyin: xiao1 yao2 fa3 wai4
english:
unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution/getting away with it (e.g. crimes)/still at large


id: 94fa94ccac6774539b33cd7a130c518d849d88cb
simplified: 透气
traditional: 透氣
pinyin: tou4 qi4
english:
to flow freely (of air)/to ventilate/to breathe (of fabric etc)/to take a breath of fresh air/to divulge


id: 1305f61d2531b309f417d917c0a5fc756dcd1bcd
simplified: 逐客令
traditional: 逐客令
pinyin: zhu2 ke4 ling4
english:
the First Emperor's order to expel foreigners/(fig.) notice to leave/words or behavior intended at turning visitors out


id: 03d17a5fd4144975ab0dda5ff509cfbf08731fda
simplified: 逗
traditional: 逗
pinyin: dou4
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
to stay/to stop/to tease (play with)/amusing/short pause in reading aloud, equivalent to comma (also written 讀|读[dou4])


id: 8d67c3b1e459bd019889a132dbddf86b7e85934d
simplified: 逗哏
traditional: 逗哏
pinyin: dou4 gen2
english:
lead comic/leading role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4 kou3 xiang4 sheng1]/to joke/to play the fool/to provoke laughter


id: fbeaddd0aa27643a60c3065f5d443645c9026aa2
simplified: 这山望着那山高
traditional: 這山望著那山高
pinyin: zhe4 shan1 wang4 zhe5 na4 shan1 gao1
english:
lit. the next mountain looks taller (idiom); fig. not satisfied with one's current position/the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence


id: e3d783ad97d74a9fef2ed214f19fe043a5309404
simplified: 通
traditional: 通
pinyin: tong1
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
to go through/to know well/(suffix) expert/to connect/to communicate/open/to clear/classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc


id: 0e318b90bbe0f69af3c60646907bf47177316915
simplified: 通
traditional: 通
pinyin: tong4
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)


id: 135a604aec09fdbaf26fb7d36f89a216029332b5
simplified: 通州
traditional: 通州
pinyin: tong1 zhou1
english:
Tongzhou district east of Beijing, formerly Tong county/Tongzhou county level city in Nantong 南通[Nan2 tong1], Jiangsu


id: 859f02a690247891fcf2b1fa42f8b4e77aaaf582
simplified: 通识课程
traditional: 通識課程
pinyin: tong1 shi2 ke4 cheng2
english:
general course/general education course/core course/general curriculum/general education curriculum/core curriculum


id: a8406076d8415f7dbe899238cd00e6f769b362c7
simplified: 通车
traditional: 通車
pinyin: tong1 che1
english:
to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc)/(of a locality) to have a transportation service/(Tw) to commute


id: d033b6ceb143d5be0ae81fdd727983c53ae71f08
simplified: 通过
traditional: 通過
pinyin: tong1 guo4
english:
by means of/through/via/to pass through/to get through/to adopt/to pass (a bill or inspection etc)/to switch over


id: cc63e92630da75a995860df984f418dd33f03a27
simplified: 通道
traditional: 通道
pinyin: tong1 dao4
english:
(communications) channel/thoroughfare/passage/Tongdao Dong autonomous county in Huaihua 懷化|怀化[Huai2 hua4], Hunan


id: 451d86acf08a8822f773627e3e937c73271ce963
simplified: 通电
traditional: 通電
pinyin: tong1 dian4
english:
to set up an electric circuit/to electrify/to switch on/to be connected to an electricity grid/open telegram


id: d449e6ec0010bd180798d4394d7974370385d81a
simplified: 造
traditional: 造
pinyin: zao4
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
to make/to build/to manufacture/to invent/to fabricate/to go to/party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement)/crop/classifier for crops


id: 26760812cb6742a9d51db95e27ca8a0170a5d24c
simplified: 逢
traditional: 逢
pinyin: feng2
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
to meet by chance/to come across/(of a calendar event) to come along/(of an event) to fall on (a particular day)/to fawn upon


id: 021ee8ebcc7b1df241ef0b8eaed64feec94a4558
simplified: 逢场作戏
traditional: 逢場作戲
pinyin: feng2 chang3 zuo4 xi4
english:
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun/to play along according to local conditions


id: 2b71fb8d7b9a29ebde5cb4364ebcfdf3689b54c3
simplified: 连
traditional: 連
pinyin: lian2
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
variants: 連
english:
to link/to join/to connect/continuously/in succession/including/(used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even/company (military)/surname Lian


id: 364bbee5752dadfd7ee8a4f7468bf80776f14c1a
simplified: 连写
traditional: 連寫
pinyin: lian2 xie3
english:
to write without lifting one's pen from the paper/(in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)


id: 0d965dcb078ff820449cb76eec3a4316fbfa7175
simplified: 连横
traditional: 連橫
pinyin: lian2 heng2
english:
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)


id: ed6bd1f797a5d40056f6c961db70bd2538e60dc5
simplified: 连江
traditional: 連江
pinyin: lian2 jiang1
english:
Lianjiang county in Fuzhou 福州[Fu2 zhou1], Fujian/Lienchiang county of Taiwan, i.e. the Matsu Islands 馬祖列島|马祖列岛[Ma3 zu3 Lie4 dao3]


id: a3aef8896768106a2c2f88605587635b3edc759a
simplified: 连珠
traditional: 連珠
pinyin: lian2 zhu1
english:
joined as a string of pearls/in rapid succession/alignment/Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row


id: c65c64edade2b0c4552cbc02f7e6049fa1b74c6c
simplified: 连绵
traditional: 連綿
pinyin: lian2 mian2
english:
continuous/unbroken/uninterrupted/extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)


id: c3433a40820434cb76e690a3cbecda764fa43741
simplified: 连线
traditional: 連線
pinyin: lian2 xian4
english:
electrical lead/connecting line/(Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc)/to go online/connection/(congressional) caucus


id: 734c6fd539a62d350bece3e6d2bed895b715c5f6
simplified: 连连看
traditional: 連連看
pinyin: lian2 lian2 kan4
english:
pattern matching (puzzle game)/matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)


id: f884ff3df1c3c43c3a7c706583c4527ba0122ed4
simplified: 连镳并轸
traditional: 連鑣並軫
pinyin: lian2 biao1 bing4 zhen3
english:
lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another/running neck and neck


id: 24895e7f37ebd227136ee916555117432d977690
simplified: 连麦
traditional: 連麥
pinyin: lian2 mai4
english:
(of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology


id: f123bd737345a711f8e380fa141d3ae5bb40ebe8
simplified: 周期表
traditional: 週期表
pinyin: zhou1 qi1 biao3
english:
periodic table (chemistry)/abbr. of 元素週期表|元素周期表[yuan2 su4 zhou1 qi1 biao3], periodic table of the elements


id: a8ecee992e4a666710d50ae94113dc490b080189
simplified: 进
traditional: 進
pinyin: jin4
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
to go forward/to advance/to go in/to enter/to put in/to submit/to take in/to admit/(math.) base of a number system/classifier for sections in a building or residential compound


id: 0a731742b3c4c39d5fa210f34ff4a17b1fbe453d
simplified: 进退不得
traditional: 進退不得
pinyin: jin4 tui4 bu4 de2
english:
can't advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver/stalled/in a dilemma/stuck in a difficult position


id: e9a7e6d6ce3f1aad05cf6b298f828b01935ef14a
simplified: 进退两难
traditional: 進退兩難
pinyin: jin4 tui4 liang3 nan2
english:
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma/trapped/in an impossible situation


id: 99de208fd852654d2154f706ac857a255c4ae185
simplified: 进道若蜷
traditional: 進道若蜷
pinyin: jin4 dao4 ruo4 quan2
english:
entering the Way, you seem to coil back (Laozi 老子, the Book of Dao 道德经, Chap. 14)/progress in the Dao can seem illusory


id: a367631510686f74c4b011d0ace0fbca679a575b
simplified: 进门
traditional: 進門
pinyin: jin4 men2
english:
to enter a door/to go in/to learn the basics of a subject/to join one's husband's household upon marriage


id: fad2fad740e36a58b3d71c0ff4a0c7688377f6d7
simplified: 逼
traditional: 逼
pinyin: bi1
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
variants: 偪
english:
to force (sb to do sth)/to compel/to press for/to extort/to press on towards/to press up to/to close in on/euphemistic variant of 屄[bi1]


id: c82c0f1fdf93c9e0a9abb3ec4787f1aec8fbec63
simplified: 游说
traditional: 遊說
pinyin: you2 shui4
english:
to lobby/to campaign/to promote (an idea, a product)/(old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)


id: fa9779c3e758c35a30928e581523a7a650982e50
simplified: 运算法则
traditional: 運算法則
pinyin: yun4 suan4 fa3 ze2
english:
rules of calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)/algorithm/fig. to scheme/to calculate (i.e. plot)


id: 4c529ed86a2444ae1ee15f035150255b37ec5fd2
simplified: 运筹帷幄之中，决胜千里之外
traditional: 運籌帷幄之中，決勝千里之外
pinyin: yun4 chou2 wei2 wo4 zhi1 zhong1 , jue2 sheng4 qian1 li3 zhi1 wai4
english:
a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)


id: dda2fe646b5241cd46d7fff9e904ad82cd03f92d
simplified: 运行
traditional: 運行
pinyin: yun4 xing2
english:
to move along one's course (of celestial bodies etc)/(fig.) to function/to be in operation/(of a train service etc) to operate/to run/(of a computer) to run


id: a7f1ff6af7d4b2b9b1f275d0de5c2ce77d0191cb
simplified: 过
traditional: 過
pinyin: guo4
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
variants: 過,过
english:
to cross/to go over/to pass (time)/to celebrate (a holiday)/to live/to get along/excessively/too-/surname Guo


id: ff2b860642554d648b822a7706729708d8fcd453
simplified: 过五关斩六将
traditional: 過五關斬六將
pinyin: guo4 wu3 guan1 zhan3 liu4 jiang4
english:
lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom)/fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)


id: 37ef3d0e66962e269f1bcb2ccd0e0d18b33e5273
simplified: 过劳肥
traditional: 過勞肥
pinyin: guo4 lao2 fei2
english:
overweight from overwork (the supposition that white collar workers become fat as a consequence of factors associated with being under pressure at work, including irregular diet, lack of exercise and inadequate rest)


id: 753d9b77771acd26de22dd01191c4e3470eda4be
simplified: 过庭录
traditional: 過庭錄
pinyin: guo4 ting2 lu4
english:
lit. Notes on passing the hall, historical jottings by 12th century Southern Song poet Fan Gongcheng 範公偁|范公偁, containing moral instructions derived from great men of Song dynasty


id: 412a0b0f74f0937706e7c6512495a37bc82a8411
simplified: 过得去
traditional: 過得去
pinyin: guo4 de2 qu4
english:
lit. can pass through (an opening)/fig. can get by (in life)/tolerably well/not too bad/How are you getting by?/How's life?


id: 47ae435bf68211ee6743e1f5b396f2a892951615
simplified: 过河拆桥
traditional: 過河拆橋
pinyin: guo4 he2 chai1 qiao2
english:
lit. to destroy the bridge after crossing the river (idiom)/fig. to abandon one's benefactor upon achieving one's goal


id: 910cd099dea2c103425848fdb8e8366199ce67e7
simplified: 过街老鼠
traditional: 過街老鼠
pinyin: guo4 jie1 lao3 shu3
english:
sb or sth detested by all/target of scorn/anathema/cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打[lao3 shu3 guo4 jie1 , ren2 ren2 han3 da3]


id: a30ea65df1e5d42c8d1b99eca138bc52bbb7db06
simplified: 过关斩将
traditional: 過關斬將
pinyin: guo4 guan1 zhan3 jiang4
english:
to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom)/abbr. for 過五關斬六將|过五关斩六将[guo4 wu3 guan1 zhan3 liu4 jiang4]


id: cad7575d7028ebf46c68c5d649fc5ce961f31955
simplified: 遏止
traditional: 遏止
pinyin: e4 zhi3
english:
to hold back/to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance)/to resist/esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc


id: ef287fd9c172905fec1fc7c6d7120c63d8f211d3
simplified: 道
traditional: 道
pinyin: dao4
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
english:
road/path/CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]/principle/truth/morality/reason/skill/method/Dao (of Daoism)/to say/to speak/to talk/classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process/(old) administrative division (similar to province in Tang times)


id: cf6292472d58c384ebdfec6d21cc36870b477569
simplified: 道之所存，师之所存
traditional: 道之所存，師之所存
pinyin: dao4 zhi1 suo3 cun2 , shi1 zhi1 suo3 cun2
english:
If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈)./We should learn from one who knows the way.


id: eeeed40758fd532ece48e0c8b23673f169ce83ad
simplified: 道孚
traditional: 道孚
pinyin: dao4 fu2
english:
Dawu county (Tibetan: rta 'u rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)


id: f6441f7847cc1ad340899b5e86b1aa6032c582da
simplified: 道学
traditional: 道學
pinyin: dao4 xue2
english:
Confucian study of ethics/study of Daoism/school for Daoism in Tang and Song times/Daoist magic/another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism


id: 42eb8c13e3e15e6ef885370d61ecf7b63dc34d22
simplified: 道家
traditional: 道家
pinyin: dao4 jia1
english:
Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 庄子 (369-286 BC)


id: f23d26624c021e0aac4e2b09271a4da6b5526493
simplified: 道山学海
traditional: 道山學海
pinyin: dao4 shan1 xue2 hai3
english:
mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas/ars longa, vita brevis


id: 4057c7a3852087a49400b202c36ee44ec4b656ce
simplified: 道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟
traditional: 道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟
pinyin: dao4 ge2 la1 si1 · mai4 ke4 a1 se4
english:
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war


id: 7d83f641b429111143e3086e4dc814815a45ba98
simplified: 道高益安，势高益危
traditional: 道高益安，勢高益危
pinyin: dao4 gao1 yi4 an1 , shi4 gao1 yi4 wei1
english:
More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).


id: de5f5d15fbcb32e5febb100acb8e370148918323
simplified: 达日
traditional: 達日
pinyin: da2 ri4
english:
Darlag or Dari county (Tibetan: dar lag rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州[Guo3 luo4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: df561a9b82593295b6ce59fb936dc79ac2ce9359
simplified: 达尔文
traditional: 達爾文
pinyin: da2 er3 wen2
english:
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist and author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源[Wu3 zhong3 Qi3 yuan2]/Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia) 北領地|北领地[Bei3 Ling3 di4]


id: 79556389ae91e42c1df0176207c7374f6ca8d7db
simplified: 达茂旗
traditional: 達茂旗
pinyin: da2 mao4 qi2
english:
Darhan Muming'an united banner in Baotou 包頭|包头[Bao1 tou2], Inner Mongolia/abbr. for 達爾罕茂明安聯合旗|达尔罕茂明安联合旗[Da2 er3 han3 Mao4 ming2 an1 lian2 he2 qi2]


id: 88d10c0b481630be84d51e7f34ae7f9aedacaa6b
simplified: 违利赴名
traditional: 違利赴名
pinyin: wei2 li4 fu4 ming2
english:
to renounce profit and seek fame (idiom); to abandon greed for reputation/to choose fame over fortune


id: 67136edfafbe46e73f975192fbfc51f4433f2f39
simplified: 远劳
traditional: 遠勞
pinyin: yuan3 lao2
english:
you have made a long and exhausting journey (套语 polite talk)/you will make a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a far away place)


id: a51bb1ee1536cfdd087af5f077e37e406fb4ad1c
simplified: 远志
traditional: 遠志
pinyin: yuan3 zhi4
english:
far-reaching ambition/lofty ideal/milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia), with roots used in Chinese medicine


id: 19a4b7fb9d366ab8d3e78f776e57338a39d516aa
simplified: 远日点
traditional: 遠日點
pinyin: yuan3 ri4 dian3
english:
aphelion, the furthest point of a planet in elliptic orbit to the sun/opposite: perihelion 近日點|近日点[jin4 ri4 dian3]/higher apsis


id: 8c5190aaa13fb9b1c5761ba028ea711fd42a909a
simplified: 远期
traditional: 遠期
pinyin: yuan3 qi1
english:
long-term/at a fixed date in the future (e.g. for repayment)/abbr. for 遠期合約|远期合约[yuan3 qi1 he2 yue1]


id: 811c7db6d374d1a43e55410cd71b632fd3fc5483
simplified: 远水不解近渴
traditional: 遠水不解近渴
pinyin: yuan3 shui3 bu4 jie3 jin4 ke3
english:
lit. distant water does not cure present thirst; fig. urgent need/a slow remedy does not address immediate needs


id: b1b21b76d643e6bd64631d8ea48a1bc059cdda8b
simplified: 远水救不了近火
traditional: 遠水救不了近火
pinyin: yuan3 shui3 jiu4 bu5 liao3 jin4 huo3
english:
water in a distant place is of little use in putting out a fire right here/(fig.) a slow remedy does not address the current emergency


id: 117e7a8b798903ed1b2b55f3a7ba23778d3a809c
simplified: 远亲不如近邻
traditional: 遠親不如近鄰
pinyin: yuan3 qin1 bu4 ru2 jin4 lin2
english:
A relative afar is less use than a close neighbor (idiom). Take whatever help is on hand, even from strangers.


id: c18c5fa5151cc8106a3dbd90d80ba232ce994f07
simplified: 遮天蔽日
traditional: 遮天蔽日
pinyin: zhe1 tian1 bi4 ri4
english:
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering/omnipresent/of universal importance


id: d7ee8330d22317e1707ee4291ff74e156c2d99cc
simplified: 遵化县
traditional: 遵化縣
pinyin: zun1 hua4 xian4
english:
Zunhua County in Tangshan 唐山[Tang2 shan1], Hebei, with the Eastern Qing tombs/Zunhua county level city


id: 85c40b801cec2cfc0eacb9b486ce2fddd402a177
simplified: 绕
traditional: 遶
pinyin: rao4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 辵
variants: 繞
english:
variant of 繞|绕[rao4], to rotate around/to spiral/to move around/to go round (an obstacle)/to by-pass/to make a detour


id: 44adbc959250fd94cf9a55b34fdf22c0ca5105d9
simplified: 遗民
traditional: 遺民
pinyin: yi2 min2
english:
(lit.) leftover men/(fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty/surviving members of an ethnic group


id: 93811acaa6556f85c5840ef1a18885baac5dcac2
simplified: 辽史
traditional: 遼史
pinyin: liao2 shi3
english:
History of the Liao Dynasty, twenty first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 116 scrolls


id: 508f8314b1e72f57c4c93b970c7b88c29e484426
simplified: 辽东
traditional: 遼東
pinyin: liao2 dong1
english:
Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea/east and south of Liaoning province/east of Liao river 遼河|辽河


id: 79ecf67e18288fb0850b867dd18582803647f87e
simplified: 辽沈战役
traditional: 遼瀋戰役
pinyin: liao2 shen3 zhan4 yi4
english:
Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War


id: f09b19d600e77ed7b331891a396dd72c92b7be2c
simplified: 辽金
traditional: 遼金
pinyin: liao2 jin1
english:
Liao and Jin dynasties, namely: Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125) and Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)


id: 5037f66a33f2973ba9e984fcd201ec6286fc700e
simplified: 避重就轻
traditional: 避重就輕
pinyin: bi4 zhong4 jiu4 qing1
english:
to avoid the important and dwell on the trivial/to keep silent about major charges while admitting minor ones


id: 1188198dd6b276a161ec536e61f3a06e0d432da7
simplified: 还
traditional: 還
pinyin: hai2
radicalSimplified: 辵
radicalTraditional: 辵
variants: 還,还
english:
still/still in progress/still more/yet/even more/in addition/fairly/passably (good)/as early as/even/also/else


id: bb9630653ea5beddb66bf0d1ac77e1536470dfc2
simplified: 还乡女
traditional: 還鄉女
pinyin: huan2 xiang1 nu:3
english:
(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families


id: 3ae3470935fc3b9db6571d290f8720dd148b9bce
simplified: 边币
traditional: 邊幣
pinyin: bian1 bi4
english:
Border Region currency, issued by the Communist Border Region governments during the War against Japan and the War of Liberation


id: eb1821abbeaef17b14eb3416a81d421549e5aaa2
simplified: 边缘人
traditional: 邊緣人
pinyin: bian1 yuan2 ren2
english:
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society)/marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)


id: dfcb810ff82594bccb9c816814d986bbb7ca6674
simplified: 邕
traditional: 邕
pinyin: yong1
radicalSimplified: 邑
radicalTraditional: 邑
variants: 雍,ꪝ
english:
city surrounded by a moat/old variant of 雍[yong1]/old variant of 壅[yong1]/Yong river (Guangxi)/Nanning (Guangxi)


id: 431fe936d81231cb99b5408a8b3bc2bec4b1ac21
simplified: 那个
traditional: 那個
pinyin: na4 ge5
english:
that one/that thing/that (as opposed to this)/(used before a verb or adjective for emphasis)/(used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word)/(used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc)/(euph.) menstruation/sex/also pr. [nei4 ge5]


id: c6a05d7440c69ff885540ab6c85de8f259983c85
simplified: 那曲县
traditional: 那曲縣
pinyin: na3 qu1 xian4
english:
Nagchu county, Tibetan: Nag chu rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: 7e78229e4105ea3e5354bc376bf56aa3740f26b2
simplified: 那木巴尔·恩赫巴亚尔
traditional: 那木巴爾·恩赫巴亞爾
pinyin: na3 mu4 ba1 er3 · en1 he4 ba1 ya4 er3
english:
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician, president of Mongolia 2005-2009


id: cfe9d6b84b8761c1c0c5011e03d95819e15e544c
simplified: 邪气
traditional: 邪氣
pinyin: xie2 qi4
english:
evil influence/unhealthy trend/pathogeny (cause of disease) in TCM/as opposed to vital energy 正氣|正气[zheng4 qi4]


id: fcda0e1492b984585b712d12c138719b7a95e3ef
simplified: 邯郸学步
traditional: 邯鄲學步
pinyin: han2 dan1 xue2 bu4
english:
to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom)/slavishly copying others, one risks becoming a caricature


id: 722a0e6befc95277bf7e413501dc1bc612f0bf5b
simplified: 邱吉尔
traditional: 邱吉爾
pinyin: qiu1 ji2 er3
english:
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955/surname Churchill


id: a535f5725e4ddfbbd16744ab2b9807d4d512e145
simplified: 邵飘萍
traditional: 邵飄萍
pinyin: shao4 piao1 ping2
english:
Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報|京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖|张作霖


id: 2647dfc3376a727eada7e479c5f527232dcf5af7
simplified: 郢书燕说
traditional: 郢書燕說
pinyin: ying3 shu1 yan1 shuo1
english:
lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it/fig. to misinterpret the original meaning/to pile up errors/refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"


id: 8056462ea3026f49cbb758afe751fdf8dd40b774
simplified: 部
traditional: 部
pinyin: bu4
radicalSimplified: 邑
radicalTraditional: 邑
variants: 卩
english:
ministry/department/section/part/division/troops/board/classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc


id: 9a27e2a79555e67829b1c2ef59f011107ffbb95c
simplified: 部长
traditional: 部長
pinyin: bu4 zhang3
english:
head of a (government etc) department/section chief/section head/secretary/minister/CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]


id: 62e5f90d88e275285f5a49799ce2f86fac7d25ee
simplified: 郭小川
traditional: 郭小川
pinyin: guo1 xiao3 chuan1
english:
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution


id: edf026244474ac416b66ba8dc22cbeb7abe10f08
simplified: 郭松焘
traditional: 郭松燾
pinyin: guo1 song1 dao4
english:
Guo Songdao or Kuo Sun-tao (1818-1891), China's first imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK and France


id: 43d16990178ba2bb7f820f5e49001b67bb4c1800
simplified: 郭泉
traditional: 郭泉
pinyin: guo1 quan2
english:
Guo Quan, formerly Professor of Nanjing Normal University, sacked after founding New People's Party of China 中國新民黨|中国新民党


id: 2d5a63957faff5e8e2e23975c04e2534f7f99faf
simplified: 郭茂倩
traditional: 郭茂倩
pinyin: guo1 mao4 qian4
english:
Guo Maoqian (11th century), Song dynasty editor of the Collection of Yuefu Songs and Ballads 樂府詩集|乐府诗集[Yue4 fu3 Shi1 ji2]


id: e502dce9fc15f18f5c3e30d25c82620c8b1ada37
simplified: 邮品
traditional: 郵品
pinyin: you2 pin3
english:
items issued by a postal service and collected by philatelists (stamps, postcards, first day covers etc)


id: e70b06ccfa05249fe7054924d207365bfad1aed6
simplified: 都市传奇
traditional: 都市傳奇
pinyin: du1 shi4 chuan2 qi2
english:
urban legend (translation of recent Western term)/story or theory circulated as true/same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇


id: 5fc13d399d438d36f3fc164777e816818d827851
simplified: 都会传奇
traditional: 都會傳奇
pinyin: du1 hui4 chuan2 qi2
english:
urban legend (translation of recent Western term)/story or theory circulated as true/same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇


id: 3c99681938a76359e171bc9f44ff165abcb7afcd
simplified: 都江堰
traditional: 都江堰
pinyin: du1 jiang1 yan4
english:
Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site/Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1], Sichuan


id: 10a0aad4fc8bfd7c884c6376e562e8786be8f3a3
simplified: 都督
traditional: 都督
pinyin: du1 du1
english:
(army) commander-in-chief (archaic)/provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)


id: 81b5890f1f2cda06b6e2314eac79d980ac08b8b0
simplified: 都兰
traditional: 都蘭
pinyin: du1 lan2
english:
Dulan county in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 1a5a1457b2039afbbd1cee1d7a843b02c8259559
simplified: 乡城
traditional: 鄉城
pinyin: xiang1 cheng2
english:
Xiangcheng county (Tibetan: phyag 'phreng rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)


id: 8b2b6228495ead1061faef87eeb658d2c9a868d9
simplified: 邹
traditional: 鄒
pinyin: zou1
radicalSimplified: 邑
radicalTraditional: 邑
english:
surname Zou/vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong Province


id: c19bac9365893c09ede845f8d38da0e6ef6b2e0b
simplified: 鄙视链
traditional: 鄙視鏈
pinyin: bi3 shi4 lian4
english:
a ranking of items in a particular category, with the most highly regarded on top (neologism c. 2012, coined by analogy with 食物鏈|食物链[shi2 wu4 lian4], food chain)


id: f8ef42482f0a94c2bfa8a90084cf3ac986dde92d
simplified: 邓世昌
traditional: 鄧世昌
pinyin: deng4 shi4 chang1
english:
Deng Shichang (1849-1894), Qing dynasty naval specialist, founded naval dockyards and two naval colleges, died heroically in action against the Japanese


id: f7196f3983e92080a22d15dad5731ff96fbe9713
simplified: 邓小平
traditional: 鄧小平
pinyin: deng4 xiao3 ping2
english:
Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"


id: 6fcf6afba64ae23c320d2190c0785a70d2c39978
simplified: 邓小平理论
traditional: 鄧小平理論
pinyin: deng4 xiao3 ping2 li3 lun4
english:
Deng Xiaoping Theory/Dengism/the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control


id: aafec6e18f05e06de4a009a656c4b9d3bc12c880
simplified: 邓拓
traditional: 鄧拓
pinyin: deng4 tuo4
english:
Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution/wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨


id: a03bcd78d2ee4094d6e1f4f3a6a3d41132beb5e0
simplified: 郑光祖
traditional: 鄭光祖
pinyin: zheng4 guang1 zu3
english:
Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家


id: 6d03c8af97198d67ff56114773d2c6100144d260
simplified: 郑码
traditional: 鄭碼
pinyin: zheng4 ma3
english:
Zheng coding/original Chinese character coding based on component shapes, created by Zheng Yili 鄭易里|郑易里[Zheng4 Yi4 li3], underlying most stroke-based Chinese input methods/also called common coding 字根通用碼|字根通用码[zi4 gen1 tong1 yong4 ma3]


id: 401c65c54c68aa6c19a7429f6ec2c81675ded250
simplified: 邻家
traditional: 鄰家
pinyin: lin2 jia1
english:
next-door neighbor/neighboring household/adjacent country (short for 鄰接的國家|邻接的国家[lin2 jie1 de5 guo2 jia1])


id: 0589659e61f647d7a0819bffa89e105071ac8fec
simplified: 鄵
traditional: 鄵
pinyin: cao4
radicalSimplified: 邑
radicalTraditional: 邑
english:
ancient place name (between present-day Xinzheng County 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4] and Lushan County 魯山|鲁山[Lu3 shan1], Henan)


id: 071b12d777eabb543a3ae2a9891ed2db6c4f6895
simplified: 酉
traditional: 酉
pinyin: you3
radicalSimplified: 酉
radicalTraditional: 酉
variants: 丣,酋
english:
10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster/ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)


id: cc4d182cd4b68bb65f8d98b05011d671cf92a26d
simplified: 酋长
traditional: 酋長
pinyin: qiu2 zhang3
english:
headman (of primitive people)/tribal chief/used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir


id: 3f3d07386a257229ac8a7d08f0fef72b29463438
simplified: 配合
traditional: 配合
pinyin: pei4 he2
english:
matching/fitting in with/compatible with/to correspond/to fit/to conform to/rapport/to coordinate with/to act in concert with/to cooperate/to become man and wife/to combine parts of machine


id: 077861243c181eb37c8728df859d65eace9cd365
simplified: 配角
traditional: 配角
pinyin: pei4 jue2
english:
supporting role (in play, film etc)/minor role/to play a secondary role (in business etc)/to play second fiddle


id: 31ed0d2f932f8c6332b1715dee1bc8b83795b10b
simplified: 酒
traditional: 酒
pinyin: jiu3
radicalSimplified: 酉
radicalTraditional: 酉
english:
wine (esp. rice wine)/liquor/spirits/alcoholic beverage/CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]


id: 6df85c44890b104d4c6fc366328325a1fd381bbd
simplified: 酒不醉人人自醉，色不迷人人自迷
traditional: 酒不醉人人自醉，色不迷人人自迷
pinyin: jiu3 bu4 zui4 ren2 ren2 zi4 zui4 , se4 bu4 mi2 ren2 ren2 zi4 mi2
english:
wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust


id: 053abf8192530b6a4045b884f8bfde5b61e500a9
simplified: 酸
traditional: 酸
pinyin: suan1
radicalSimplified: 酉
radicalTraditional: 酉
english:
sour/tart/sick at heart/grieved/sore/aching/pedantic/impractical/to make sarcastic remarks about sb/an acid


id: 4393ac306ede5256009feaecf5e59dd202e63cbb
simplified: 醉翁之意不在酒
traditional: 醉翁之意不在酒
pinyin: zui4 weng1 zhi1 yi4 bu4 zai4 jiu3
english:
wine-lover's heart is not in the cup (idiom); a drinker not really interested in alcohol/having an ulterior motive/to have other things in mind/with an ax to grind/accomplishing something besides what one set out to do


id: ee7043d66b866b1d71d9fa036efac88f202ae853
simplified: 醍醐
traditional: 醍醐
pinyin: ti2 hu2
english:
refined cream cheese/fig. crème de la crème/nirvana/Buddha nature/Buddhist truth/broth/flawless personal character


id: e2cdfcea0010e4af0b3d9b26d9eafa9e8cbad595
simplified: 醍醐灌顶
traditional: 醍醐灌頂
pinyin: ti2 hu2 guan4 ding3
english:
lit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom); fig. to enlighten people with perfect wisdom/flawless Buddhist teaching


id: 3a8a4bc2b9fcadfa21c2f3ca7c472754b768e174
simplified: 醒世恒言
traditional: 醒世恆言
pinyin: xing3 shi4 heng2 yan2
english:
Stories to Awaken the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2] published in 1627


id: 4e3a0ea64224d4cf7d6bebfd56f2ae91b9bcb932
simplified: 酝酿
traditional: 醞釀
pinyin: yun4 niang4
english:
(of alcohol) to ferment/(of a crisis) to be brewing/to mull over (an issue)/to hold exploratory discussions


id: 260b6b1c89e1a9f9be5509a314d9c9a5a837b5ff
simplified: 医药分离
traditional: 醫藥分離
pinyin: yi1 yao4 fen1 li2
english:
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医[yi3 yao4 yang3 yi1]


id: 735f3b27a8cf00b9d05a8b2d620cd596b1af65a5
simplified: 医闹
traditional: 醫鬧
pinyin: yi1 nao4
english:
(neologism c. 2013) organized disruption of healthcare facilities or verbal and physical abuse of medical staff, by an aggrieved patient or proxies such as family members or hired thugs, typically aimed at obtaining compensation


id: 4e982b05c82da4ffa14c3390dbf5d94c92843909
simplified: 酿
traditional: 釀
pinyin: niang4
radicalSimplified: 酉
radicalTraditional: 酉
variants: 醸
english:
to ferment/to brew/to make honey (of bees)/to lead to/to form gradually/wine/stuffed vegetables (cooking method)


id: e6770979d14cce568f3f711105a2c9b116cb6ab0
simplified: 释名
traditional: 釋名
pinyin: shi4 ming2
english:
"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning


id: 3d728bb8df16bb38c723dd59823188c96da27697
simplified: 释义
traditional: 釋義
pinyin: shi4 yi4
english:
the meaning of sth/an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases/definition/an interpretation (of doctrine)/religious doctrine


id: 5d5a7458e092ed40f665fc93a09fff4e5f123ef9
simplified: 释迦佛
traditional: 釋迦佛
pinyin: shi4 jia1 fo2
english:
Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)/Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism


id: d12b492910e40bc3fd2e0724f071bca9f1bd8e19
simplified: 释迦牟尼
traditional: 釋迦牟尼
pinyin: shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2
english:
Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism/Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)


id: 7985d405aa977757241a82e2066c0cb58736f828
simplified: 里
traditional: 里
pinyin: li3
radicalSimplified: 里
radicalTraditional: 里
variants: 裏
english:
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m/neighborhood/ancient administrative unit of 25 families/(Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels/Li (surname)


id: d06c01a5881b1c3cde8966140e518d3c1e5687d7
simplified: 里人
traditional: 里人
pinyin: li3 ren2
english:
person from the same village, town or province/peasant (derog.)/(of a school of thought etc) follower


id: f36271302de39020f50df831be222cd34ef368e9
simplified: 里克特
traditional: 里克特
pinyin: li3 ke4 te4
english:
Richter (name)/Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named


id: e52ba1b6b5e57baa895d7f71dfa71a764fa12b7b
simplified: 里弄
traditional: 里弄
pinyin: li3 long4
english:
lanes and alleys/neighborhood/lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families


id: 891fc42d47932ae22e9d15237e39282c655dc6d7
simplified: 里瓦几亚条约
traditional: 里瓦幾亞條約
pinyin: li3 wa3 ji1 ya4 tiao2 yue1
english:
Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)


id: 2ec74c288031b583902571b976e6d19e07e8b589
simplified: 里约
traditional: 里約
pinyin: li3 yue1
english:
agreement between the residents of a 里[li3], an administrative district under a city or town (Taiwan)/Rio/abbr. for 里約熱內盧|里约热内卢[Li3 yue1 re4 nei4 lu2]


id: f10566736e7a77183914f566d25f2638a792a71e
simplified: 重出江湖
traditional: 重出江湖
pinyin: chong2 chu1 jiang1 hu2
english:
(of a person) to return to the fray after a period of inactivity/to jump back into the thick of things/(of sth that was once popular) to be resurrected/to make a comeback


id: 28118adc03c084629a6156a3181c85eec9930b67
simplified: 重庆
traditional: 重慶
pinyin: chong2 qing4
english:
Chongqing city (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝[Yu2]


id: 063c519bcac7c7c92287ac700a013efaa409a997
simplified: 重挫
traditional: 重挫
pinyin: zhong4 cuo4
english:
devastating setback/slump (in stock market etc)/crushing defeat/to cause a serious setback/to plummet


id: 0d68fa1e8a324c4c3a7836fe3f7eecec385050d2
simplified: 重整旗鼓
traditional: 重整旗鼓
pinyin: chong2 zheng3 qi2 gu3
english:
lit. to reorganize flags and drums (idiom); to regroup after a setback/to prepare for new initiatives/to attempt a comeback


id: f005c5c82d96a0ca60e19179052d56e305ed7df3
simplified: 重文轻武
traditional: 重文輕武
pinyin: zhong4 wen2 qing1 wu3
english:
to value letters and belittle arms (idiom); to stress civil matters and neglect the military/to prefer the pen to the sword


id: 782a48bb0d4a3d05052c068698f4e2cd4a9c50ea
simplified: 重叠
traditional: 重疊
pinyin: chong2 die2
english:
to overlap/to superimpose/to telescope/to run together/to duplicate/one over another/superposition/an overlap/redundancy/reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)


id: 6da77720892f1f91d1e6b176a48365548de5e45a
simplified: 重译
traditional: 重譯
pinyin: chong2 yi4
english:
to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation)/to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors)


id: bd86f2665f44e1c4c1098d91ef1b719b0e524bd0
simplified: 野叟曝言
traditional: 野叟曝言
pinyin: ye3 sou3 pu4 yan2
english:
Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠[Xia4 Jing4 qu2]


id: 84dfde3b6038022106e1a93a25cd7d261940a83c
simplified: 野天鹅
traditional: 野天鵝
pinyin: ye3 tian1 e2
english:
Wild Swans, family autobiography by British-Chinese writer Jung Chang 張戎|张戎[Zhang1 Rong2]/alternative title 鴻|鸿, after the author's original name 張二鴻|张二鸿[Zhang1 Er4 hong2]


id: 665fc2811fb145ef1ffed799a2f5ea1459866dae
simplified: 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生
traditional: 野火燒不盡，春風吹又生
pinyin: ye3 huo3 shao1 bu4 jin4 , chun1 feng1 chui1 you4 sheng1
english:
lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb)/fig. cannot be easily eliminated/abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风[ye3 huo3 chun1 feng1]


id: 0fb06711b20c6380044299ca3f8b310a303b4025
simplified: 量
traditional: 量
pinyin: liang4
radicalSimplified: 里
radicalTraditional: 里
variants: 量
english:
capacity/quantity/amount/to estimate/abbr. for 量詞|量词[liang4 ci2], classifier (in Chinese grammar)/measure word


id: 4269c9873611dc23b04faea81d55707b3c5ffe95
simplified: 量入为出
traditional: 量入為出
pinyin: liang4 ru4 wei2 chu1
english:
to assess one's income and spend accordingly (idiom); to live within one's means/You can only spend what you earn.


id: aa18ff31e25ee327cafe9fec16d9a48529e60500
simplified: 量力而为
traditional: 量力而為
pinyin: liang4 li4 er2 wei2
english:
to weigh one's abilities and act accordingly/to act according to one's means/to cut one's coat according to one's cloth


id: 748da26df36a79003e12bdc5c8bd08713103f50c
simplified: 量力而行
traditional: 量力而行
pinyin: liang4 li4 er2 xing2
english:
to assess one's capabilities and act accordingly (idiom); to act within one's competence/One does what one can.


id: e15a3a48484a18119e6641c2ea553344eac8cefd
simplified: 量体裁衣
traditional: 量體裁衣
pinyin: liang2 ti3 cai2 yi1
english:
lit. measure the body then tailor the suit (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances/To live within one's means.


id: 1fd21de72e84c43962de3ef89198597553b5c403
simplified: 厘
traditional: 釐
pinyin: li2
radicalSimplified: 厂
radicalTraditional: 里
variants: 釐,厘
english:
one hundredth/centi-/Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀[Ai1]


id: 3f1da757c9653ce4e2a48ea22b4690df47956b8e
simplified: 金
traditional: 金
pinyin: jin1
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
variants: 钅,釒
english:
gold/chemical element Au/generic term for lustrous and ductile metals/money/golden/highly respected/one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]/surname Jin/surname Kim (Korean)/Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)


id: 0fcdaa7df60dd49cc494323a878ae11a93186104
simplified: 金代
traditional: 金代
pinyin: jin1 dai4
english:
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真[Nu:3 zhen1] people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty


id: 9f581770bf6bd25857e598bc2dd551f79b8e38bb
simplified: 金刚
traditional: 金剛
pinyin: jin1 gang1
english:
diamond/(used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon)/guardian deity (in Buddhist iconography)/King Kong


id: 2aa8ed6e688ff4ffe3ede408843bc633df11dc78
simplified: 金史
traditional: 金史
pinyin: jin1 shi3
english:
History of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, twenty second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 135 scrolls


id: ce088c7a2030cf5bfe0a389b2abf4a5a4cee1bd9
simplified: 金国汗
traditional: 金國汗
pinyin: jin1 guo2 han2
english:
the Later Jin dynasty (from 1616-)/the Manchu khanate or kingdom that took over as the Qing dynasty in 1644


id: 96762a9be98a428858c4691e0a23bfd79b969daf
simplified: 金城镇
traditional: 金城鎮
pinyin: jin1 cheng2 zhen4
english:
Jincheng (common place name)/Chincheng town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县[Jin1 men2 xian4] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan


id: cfd2dba5f3e3dbf9aa9a5be751356636a75a7d2e
simplified: 金大中
traditional: 金大中
pinyin: jin1 da4 zhong1
english:
Kim Dae-jung (1926-2009), South Korea politician, president 1998-2003, Nobel peace prize laureate 2000


id: ace55aac0dbbeab2843af002bb7f273a3d22b305
simplified: 金富轼
traditional: 金富軾
pinyin: jin1 fu4 shi4
english:
Kim Busik (1075-1151), court historian of the Korean Georyo dynasty 高麗|高丽[Gao1 li2], compiler of History of Three Kingdoms 三國史記|三国史记[San1 guo2 shi3 ji4]


id: 46af16a478a58029da676a04a1fbd74a09a2c43a
simplified: 金山
traditional: 金山
pinyin: jin1 shan1
english:
Jinshan suburban district of Shanghai/Jinshan or Chinshan township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan


id: 8c4af32bedb69f490a1e739099baf183b52242a3
simplified: 金川
traditional: 金川
pinyin: jin1 chuan1
english:
Jinchuan county (Tibetan: chu chen rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan


id: 418fde88d3b82da0f0d29a6faa7193220727f2aa
simplified: 金平县
traditional: 金平縣
pinyin: jin1 ping2 xian4
english:
Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州[Hong2 he2 Ha1 ni2 zu2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: 4271416eb137662d3628742b26b1f7740db35122
simplified: 金庸
traditional: 金庸
pinyin: jin1 yong1
english:
Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2] novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy


id: ce144f6df22897180978c264facb857d3966588d
simplified: 金枝玉叶
traditional: 金枝玉葉
pinyin: jin1 zhi1 yu4 ye4
english:
golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty


id: e2cbc57e5729747489d129b4a0d8cfa35514d88e
simplified: 金正恩
traditional: 金正恩
pinyin: jin1 zheng4 en1
english:
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4], supreme leader of North Korea from 2011


id: 3126198ef5c2d8f3a87ff31091480a8482516900
simplified: 金毛狗
traditional: 金毛狗
pinyin: jin1 mao2 gou3
english:
golden retriever (dog breed)/Cibotium barometz, Asian tropical tree fern with hairy fronds (used in TCM)


id: 873d05f87fd31e9d320d8ab399ce782f87f14f9c
simplified: 金永南
traditional: 金永南
pinyin: jin1 yong3 nan2
english:
Kim Yong-nam (1928-), North Korean politician, foreign minister 1983-1998 and president of Supreme people's assembly from 1998 (nominal head of state and described as deputy leader)


id: 2bb5686af7f5aa678632698cf3a1ffd750f271eb
simplified: 金沙
traditional: 金沙
pinyin: jin1 sha1
english:
Jinsha county in Bijie prefecture 畢節地區|毕节地区[Bi4 jie2 di4 qu1], Guizhou/Chinsha town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县[Jin1 men2 xian4] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan


id: 6a59cbeefa0d91ad87b61fd44a5d120407048bf3
simplified: 金湖
traditional: 金湖
pinyin: jin1 hu2
english:
Jinhu county in Huai'an 淮安[Huai2 an1], Jiangsu/Chinhu town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县[Jin1 men2 xian4] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan


id: 026762f72eccf125b303a5e157c3f6bc1d27c930
simplified: 金乌西坠，玉兔东升
traditional: 金烏西墜，玉兔東昇
pinyin: jin1 wu1 xi1 zhui4 , yu4 tu4 dong1 sheng1
english:
lit. the golden bird of the sun sets in the west, the jade hare of the moon rises in the east/fig. at sunset


id: ec4923c0cde5c7eb01cd3d0ee83ddc7753deb5fd
simplified: 金瓜石
traditional: 金瓜石
pinyin: jin1 gua1 shi2
english:
Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945)


id: c62cfc9ec49e55b8c3d393e7aa0bfcff3546bc36
simplified: 金瓶梅
traditional: 金瓶梅
pinyin: jin1 ping2 mei2
english:
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content


id: d28033655b46b190b09ff33f5b358c180cf9d35f
simplified: 金田村
traditional: 金田村
pinyin: jin1 tian2 cun1
english:
Jintian village in Guiping county 桂平[Gui4 ping2], Gveigangj or Guigang prefecture 貴港|贵港[Gui4 gang3], Guangxi, starting point of the Taiping Tianguo 太平天國|太平天国[Tai4 ping2 Tian1 guo2] rebellion in 1851


id: 05bdbe2dac092aecb40ab331d24c600e27335fbd
simplified: 金盾工程
traditional: 金盾工程
pinyin: jin1 dun4 gong1 cheng2
english:
Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to include the Great Firewall of China 防火長城|防火长城[Fang2 huo3 Chang2 cheng2] as a component


id: e2372a592db3962689030e88852ede49ec8e9c17
simplified: 金童玉女
traditional: 金童玉女
pinyin: jin1 tong2 yu4 nu:3
english:
lit. golden boys and jade maidens (idiom)/attendants of the Daoist immortals/fig. lovely young children/a golden couple/(of a couple who are in the public eye) a lovely young couple


id: 94f241191c28a97330d589b831e0972da52e7303
simplified: 金丝燕
traditional: 金絲燕
pinyin: jin1 si1 yan4
english:
Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup


id: a454b7d5c24e73f7b77ffc09ee201e20fc578c4e
simplified: 金蝉脱壳
traditional: 金蟬脫殼
pinyin: jin1 chan2 tuo1 qiao4
english:
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell/a crafty escape plan


id: ced5d52ccff1aca844de89348432bfe6c5c0565d
simplified: 金衡
traditional: 金衡
pinyin: jin1 heng2
english:
troy weight, system of weights for precious metals and gemstones based on the 12-ounce pound (or 5,760 grains)


id: 4ca64b113c1c41c69e2d72dab9e8ab53012e06d1
simplified: 金针菇
traditional: 金針菇
pinyin: jin1 zhen1 gu1
english:
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes, Japanese えのき茸 enokitake), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white/abbr. to 金菇


id: 26a5b5ae3c4ba7bd97b3da69bd389d819e41a7b3
simplified: 金银岛
traditional: 金銀島
pinyin: jin1 yin2 dao3
english:
Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson 羅伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森|罗伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森[Luo2 bo2 te4 · Lu4 yi4 si1 · Si1 di4 wen2 sen1]


id: fbf1e73e8238b908e88ada42a10758d6016ac035
simplified: 金门
traditional: 金門
pinyin: jin1 men2
english:
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan/Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quan2 zhou1], Fujian, PRC


id: 3f5ec3490d65610faf2401056c971d0c87b40106
simplified: 金门县
traditional: 金門縣
pinyin: jin1 men2 xian4
english:
Kinmen County, Taiwan (the Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast)/Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quan2 zhou1], Fujian


id: 757582d9d900fc8ffa7c6f07fecb163d5fb45005
simplified: 金阁寺
traditional: 金閣寺
pinyin: jin1 ge2 si4
english:
Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan/informal name of Buddhist temple Rokuonji 鹿苑寺[Lu4 yuan4 si4]


id: 3625df9dae916491e0070a2576c467683edbcfc9
simplified: 金阳
traditional: 金陽
pinyin: jin1 yang2
english:
Jinyang county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan


id: 7bd10a3feed490a43833b92ece50b74fdec540f8
simplified: 钉
traditional: 釘
pinyin: ding4
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points/to nail/to pin/to staple/to sew on


id: 0ae1e782ef485766fb3f2291d7c238d90e117137
simplified: 钓鱼岛
traditional: 釣魚島
pinyin: diao4 yu2 dao3
english:
Senkaku Islands (administered by Japan as part of Okinawa prefecture)/Diaoyu Islands/Pinnacle Islands


id: af8cc4f0436e420741a3001736cf55656425ed1e
simplified: 钓鱼台
traditional: 釣魚臺
pinyin: diao4 yu2 tai2
english:
Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands between Taiwan and Okinawa (administered by Japan), also known as the Pinnacle Islands


id: 23761ebbd84f1138fa79fed8812490ec57d4f8e8
simplified: 铉
traditional: 鉉
pinyin: xuan4
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
stick-like implement inserted into the handles of a tripod cauldron in ancient times in order to lift the cauldron/commonly used in Korean names, transcribed as "hyun"


id: 82f9fdbb8dd0420ca1a22e3a6d31a1ad36a3c3f0
simplified: 钳
traditional: 鉗
pinyin: qian2
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
variants: 箝,鉆
english:
pincers/pliers/tongs/claw (of animal)/to grasp with pincers/to pinch/to clamp/to restrain/to restrict/to gag


id: 6ccb1a35ef4d3749e4db634e58f39021907b0b95
simplified: 𫟷
traditional: 鉝
pinyin: li4
english:
livermorium (chemistry)/(old) (Italian) lira (loanword)/(archaic) type of food vessel used in Funan 扶南[Fu2 nan2]


id: 3b705b92ed051174667e459dbce264f0de4d533a
simplified: 银川市
traditional: 銀川市
pinyin: yin2 chuan1 shi4
english:
Yinchuan city, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]


id: 6fd65750257be814526ec285375d34c32cc48618
simplified: 银海
traditional: 銀海
pinyin: yin2 hai3
english:
moviedom/the world of movies/film circles/Yinhai district of Beihai city 北海市[Bei3 hai3 shi4], Guangxi


id: 6e076ddf7abbc92e528933846deb4aa735d721e2
simplified: 银监会
traditional: 銀監會
pinyin: yin2 jian1 hui4
english:
China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), abbr. for 中國銀行業監督管理委員會|中国银行业监督管理委员会[Zhong1 guo2 Yin2 hang2 ye4 Jian1 du1 Guan3 li3 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]


id: dc264933a626622ea127a7af5f716c912d641c87
simplified: 银阁寺
traditional: 銀閣寺
pinyin: yin2 ge2 si4
english:
Ginkakuji or Silver pavilion in northeast Kyōto 京都, Japan/officially called Jishōji 慈照寺[Ci2 zhao4 si4]


id: 9b79a58da622de8d02e71f02cb35bf2393209462
simplified: 银点
traditional: 銀點
pinyin: yin2 dian3
english:
the silver point/the melting point of silver 962°C used as a calibration point in some temperature scales


id: 8fefd3c50b4e5dbeade76e3821dac6671c253402
simplified: 铜锤花脸
traditional: 銅錘花臉
pinyin: tong2 chui2 hua1 lian3
english:
(Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified as a jing 淨|净[jing4] role


id: 3643d392fd5632762f4455a5e091bb725b75063b
simplified: 铭心刻骨
traditional: 銘心刻骨
pinyin: ming2 xin1 ke4 gu3
english:
engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives/undying gratitude


id: 13651220fa9a60bcc7f6e3b0587f919ea4d5d9bd
simplified: 铺设
traditional: 鋪設
pinyin: pu1 she4
english:
to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline)/to install (wiring, cable)/to construct (road, concrete slab)


id: 3044f527e8e372fd5ed1309c1a68ccd924267e28
simplified: 钢铁学院
traditional: 鋼鐵學院
pinyin: gang1 tie3 xue2 yuan4
english:
Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (the former name of 北京科技大學|北京科技大学[Bei3 jing1 Ke1 ji4 Da4 xue2], University of Science and Technology Beijing)


id: 8fcffd99048cd01afae76c49d42dd134fa7e2ffa
simplified: 录取
traditional: 錄取
pinyin: lu4 qu3
english:
to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam/to admit (a student)/to hire (a job candidate)


id: db77b82f19081f022a3edd4db536567ca4228e3c
simplified: 锕系元素
traditional: 錒系元素
pinyin: a1 xi4 yuan2 su4
english:
actinoids (rare earth series), namely: actinium Ac89 錒|锕[a1], thorium Th90 釷|钍[tu3], protoactinium Pa91 鏷|镤[pu2], uranium U92 鈾|铀[you2], neptunium Ne93 鎿|镎[na2], plutonium Pu94 鈈|钚[bu4], americium Am95 鎇|镅[mei2], curium Cm96 鋦|锔[ju2], berkelium Bk97 錇|锫[pei2], californium Cf98 鐦|锎[kai1], einsteinium Es99 鎄|锿[ai1], fermium Fm100 鐨|镄[fei4], mendelevium Md101 鍆|钔[men2], nobelium No102 鍩|锘[nuo4], lawrencium Lr103 鐒|铹[lao2]


id: b0e7bcfade68d2609f6c3514481cc82abdae5640
simplified: 锭
traditional: 錠
pinyin: ding4
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
(weaving) spindle/ingot/pressed cake of medicine etc/classifier for: gold and silver ingots, ink sticks


id: 1e2839da80fc49e463bced06def0442ef2d2edba
simplified: 钱塘
traditional: 錢塘
pinyin: qian2 tang2
english:
Qiantang River that loops around Hangzhou 杭州[Hang2 zhou1] in Zhejiang Province 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]


id: 4d35779fd659219d80429a5a88a4b0bce3f792bb
simplified: 钱钟书
traditional: 錢鐘書
pinyin: qian2 zhong1 shu1
english:
Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), literary academic and novelist, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城


id: 8e2a3b1111e00b023ce14b721673049148bc9e56
simplified: 锦囊妙计
traditional: 錦囊妙計
pinyin: jin3 nang2 miao4 ji4
english:
brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom); bag of tricks/fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag)


id: 89c480b585b4fb085dfd69683d846a2386e5b31c
simplified: 锦屏
traditional: 錦屏
pinyin: jin3 ping2
english:
Jinping county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: 148c71cf3849ff025ec6119b0b8a3f845fda3ea9
simplified: 锦西
traditional: 錦西
pinyin: jin3 xi1
english:
Jinxi town, now part of Nanpiao district 南票[Nan2 piao4] of Huludao city 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市[Hu2 lu2 dao3 shi4], Liaoning


id: 9d400c3f10f160e3d2db26e582621f8cff1b5c5f
simplified: 锦西县
traditional: 錦西縣
pinyin: jin3 xi1 xian4
english:
former Jinxi county, now part of Nanpiao district 南票[Nan2 piao4] of Huludao city 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市[Hu2 lu2 dao3 shi4], Liaoning


id: c831420b67d4cef60e1a71121ee99e75285cd799
simplified: 错
traditional: 錯
pinyin: cuo4
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
mistake/wrong/bad/interlocking/complex/to grind/to polish/to alternate/to stagger/to miss/to let slip/to evade/to inlay with gold or silver/surname Cuo


id: daab74056e230000a9d7ddd0b63f5b6efa408045
simplified: 错位
traditional: 錯位
pinyin: cuo4 wei4
english:
to misplace/displacement (e.g. of broken bones)/out of alignment/faulty contact/erroneous judgment/inversion (medical, e.g. breach delivery)


id: 3f49e0023d93f755f512dc3090657330dbdbad48
simplified: 锻炼
traditional: 鍛鍊
pinyin: duan4 lian4
english:
to toughen/to temper/to engage in physical exercise/to work out/(fig.) to develop one's skills/to train oneself


id: df449eb0005ba89d525f543a801e112d81a2332b
simplified: 锲而不舍
traditional: 鍥而不捨
pinyin: qie4 er2 bu4 she3
english:
to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at sth/to persevere/unflagging efforts


id: 40ac2e3352dc09fac0236cbeaedbcbfce405bb1f
simplified: 钟繇
traditional: 鍾繇
pinyin: zhong1 yao2
english:
Zhong Yao (151-230), minister of Cao Wei 曹魏[Cao2 Wei4] and noted calligrapher, said to have developed the regular script 楷書|楷书[kai3 shu1]


id: e0b7a00197d0e743550772c9d6a517452bf0a2c9
simplified: 钟馗
traditional: 鍾馗
pinyin: zhong1 kui2
english:
Zhong Kui (mythological figure, supposed to drive away evil spirits)/(fig.) a person with the courage to fight against evil


id: b34e086de596f77dabc0afb687d1fa17687ac916
simplified: 鎋
traditional: 鎋
pinyin: xia2
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
variants: 轄
english:
variant of 轄|辖, to govern/to control/having jurisdiction over/linchpin of a wheel (archaic)/noise of a barrow


id: 14d04aa7346b750e7bef03af97253198f5535e4f
simplified: 锁定
traditional: 鎖定
pinyin: suo3 ding4
english:
to lock (a door)/to close with a latch/to lock into place/a lock/a latch/to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten)/to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection)/to focus attention on/to target


id: 83af86d07e14e7c9624f6a3b57b421f6bf810dac
simplified: 镇
traditional: 鎮
pinyin: zhen4
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
to press down/to calm/to subdue/to suppress/to guard/garrison/small town/to cool or chill (food or drinks)


id: ab58b560ec58406aaa968725d79ba6e916f62058
simplified: 镇远
traditional: 鎮遠
pinyin: zhen4 yuan3
english:
Zhenyuan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: 6c6b3aa0980db37625109698cb553fbdf6a82bb9
simplified: 链
traditional: 鏈
pinyin: lian4
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
chain/cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m)/chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m)/to chain/to enchain


id: d51f76502ebc845a3d9ddbfcfe9756c06635e1a4
simplified: 镜花水月
traditional: 鏡花水月
pinyin: jing4 hua1 shui3 yue4
english:
lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom)/fig. an unrealistic rosy view/viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles/also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花


id: ae0e70d14aca226402586e79edcbf9ba1095125a
simplified: 镜花缘
traditional: 鏡花緣
pinyin: jing4 hua1 yuan2
english:
Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍[Li3 Ru3 zhen1]


id: eae93faf3626601422eb4108af7c78c4d59cae5a
simplified: 钟山
traditional: 鐘山
pinyin: zhong1 shan1
english:
Zhongshan district of Liupanshui city 六盤水市|六盘水市[Liu4 pan2 shui3 shi4], Guizhou/Zhongshan county in Hezhou 賀州|贺州[He4 zhou1], Guangxi


id: 4760fa76b34ef811b2317585a9f6094377b8216b
simplified: 钟楼
traditional: 鐘樓
pinyin: zhong1 lou2
english:
bell tower/campanile/clock tower/Bell Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc/Zhonglou district of Changzhou city 常州市[Chang2 zhou1 shi4], Jiangsu


id: 69330f4e8b0a162d93ca3f37a26b44d8107416ea
simplified: 铁
traditional: 鐵
pinyin: tie3
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
variants: 鉄,銕
english:
iron (metal)/arms/weapons/hard/strong/violent/unshakeable/determined/close/tight (slang)/surname Tie


id: de4a4b469518f42030f15a423c347a622e5307a6
simplified: 铁幕
traditional: 鐵幕
pinyin: tie3 mu4
english:
Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (in Taiwan, 鐵幕 was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain)


id: bedec6c4f8ac7110aacb3db61f6241e448ff01ea
simplified: 铁打的衙门，流水的官
traditional: 鐵打的衙門，流水的官
pinyin: tie3 da3 de5 ya2 men5 , liu2 shui3 de5 guan1
english:
lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)/fig. government officials come and go


id: 33176aa357c2429c9a26535ae92865582fdae34a
simplified: 铁托
traditional: 鐵托
pinyin: tie3 tuo1
english:
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav military and communist political leader, president of Yugoslavia 1945-1980


id: 20f98d0b5cd572021ea850cf2c08e11a33a838fd
simplified: 铁东区
traditional: 鐵東區
pinyin: tie3 dong1 qu1
english:
Tiedong district of Siping city 四平市, Jilin/Tiedong district of Anshan city 鞍山市[An1 shan1 shi4], Liaoning


id: bcb83c1c330143a94a296797ffa2d5c0fcaa7770
simplified: 铁血宰相
traditional: 鐵血宰相
pinyin: tie3 xue4 zai3 xiang4
english:
Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-president of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890


id: dbe08950a1c0ab710057fbc24d137aab9b3808a8
simplified: 铁道部
traditional: 鐵道部
pinyin: tie3 dao4 bu4
english:
Ministry of Railways (MOR), disbanded in 2013 with its regulatory functions taken over by the Ministry of Transport 交通運輸部|交通运输部[Jiao1 tong1 Yun4 shu1 bu4]


id: ac80cde69a0db0f82b926d5d8b58d82337f87631
simplified: 铁达尼号
traditional: 鐵達尼號
pinyin: tie3 da2 ni2 hao4
english:
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912 (Taiwan)/PRC equivalent: 泰坦尼克號|泰坦尼克号[Tai4 tan3 ni2 ke4 Hao4]


id: 1884e262438abe8ec0d05179b16befff133c7108
simplified: 铛铛车
traditional: 鐺鐺車
pinyin: dang1 dang1 che1
english:
(coll.) tram, especially Beijing trams during period of operation 1924-1956/also written 噹噹車|当当车[dang1 dang1 che1]


id: 76dfbdd517a411516f376cd161ff37c9ff93e144
simplified: 鉴往知来
traditional: 鑒往知來
pinyin: jian4 wang3 zhi1 lai2
english:
to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs); studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come


id: 51f4bf0529230fb320e3e9c4b021a56a946be19f
simplified: 鉴真
traditional: 鑒真
pinyin: jian4 zhen1
english:
Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism


id: fe3c780d7ad24d81097b2b2cc80e48f34088a65d
simplified: 鉴真和尚
traditional: 鑒真和尚
pinyin: jian4 zhen1 he2 shang5
english:
Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism


id: aeab90ef62a9e0c84b8cecc00466aa8eddafb7fe
simplified: 镧系元素
traditional: 鑭系元素
pinyin: lan2 xi4 yuan2 su4
english:
lanthanoid (rare earth series), namely: lanthanum La57 鑭|镧[lan2], cerium Ce58 鈰|铈[shi4], praseodymium Pr59 鐠|镨[pu3], neodymium Nd60 釹|钕[nu:3], promethium Pm61 鉕|钷[po3], samarium Sm62 釤|钐[shan1], europium Eu63 銪|铕[you3], gadolinium Gd64 釓|钆[ga2], terbium Tb65 鋱|铽[te4], dysprosium Dy66 鏑|镝[di1], holmium Ho67 鈥|钬[huo3], erbium Er68 鉺|铒[er3], thulium Tm69 銩|铥[diu1], ytterbium Yb70 鐿|镱[yi4], lutetium Lu71 鑥|镥[lu3]


id: 449f69d0a12ef517af1c5be2ceac393c8e296283
simplified: 镶黄旗
traditional: 鑲黃旗
pinyin: xiang1 huang2 qi2
english:
Bordered Yellow banner or Hövööt Shar khoshuu in Xilin Gol league 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 le4 meng2], Inner Mongolia


id: c35fb0096f6291c65930e6e1b69394cfd857a2ac
simplified: 镩
traditional: 鑹
pinyin: cuan1
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
english:
ice spud (aka ice chisel) with a pointy tip/to break a hole in ice (for ice fishing etc) using an ice spud


id: 814ccd9bc43cdd6ddd9b737bec7e7c069bf4319b
simplified: 钻
traditional: 鑽
pinyin: zuan1
radicalSimplified: 金
radicalTraditional: 金
variants: 鉆,鑚
english:
to drill/to bore/to get into/to make one's way into/to enter (a hole)/to thread one's way through/to study intensively/to dig into/to curry favor for personal gain


id: ddd04785f78fa1d266da1b8a0e342e9733e9ee39
simplified: 钻坚仰高
traditional: 鑽堅仰高
pinyin: zuan1 jian1 yang3 gao1
english:
lit. looking up to it, it gets higher; boring into it, it gets harder (idiom) (from Analects)/fig. to delve deeply into one's studies/meticulous and diligent study


id: 3b00e0039b576fcc003a567be76b7e9fa289eabb
simplified: 钻牛角
traditional: 鑽牛角
pinyin: zuan1 niu2 jiao3
english:
lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem/to bash one's head against a brick wall/a wild goose chase/a blind alley/to split hairs/same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖


id: c8340adc441af3e510135d82f09f4b6666e2c038
simplified: 钻牛角尖
traditional: 鑽牛角尖
pinyin: zuan1 niu2 jiao3 jian1
english:
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem/to bash one's head against a brick wall/a wild goose chase/a blind alley/to split hairs


id: caf0549c89e4d86188ce81284803b8231402e7f2
simplified: 钻空子
traditional: 鑽空子
pinyin: zuan1 kong4 zi5
english:
lit. to drill a hole/to take advantage of a loophole/to exploit an advantage/to seize the opportunity (esp. to do sth bad)


id: e1c9af13dd9cb719a274b30b354b1baa81458df6
simplified: 钻谋
traditional: 鑽謀
pinyin: zuan1 mou2
english:
to use influence to get what one wants/to find a way through (esp. corrupt)/to succeed by means fair or foul


id: 1e7c11882c0b805c0eb6733ac411f1c3fa11a49b
simplified: 长坂坡七进七出
traditional: 長坂坡七進七出
pinyin: chang2 ban3 po1 qi1 jin4 qi1 chu1
english:
famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云 charges seven times through the ranks of Cao Cao's armies


id: 3897c09b7e34307bbb152636031e3b23f41c3d31
simplified: 长寿
traditional: 長壽
pinyin: chang2 shou4
english:
longevity/ability to live long/long lived/Changshou suburban district of Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan


id: bf9d9dd53e309a24f3d29dabd0f038f241785813
simplified: 长安
traditional: 長安
pinyin: chang2 an1
english:
Chang'an (ancient name of Xi'an 西安[Xi1 an1]) capital of China during Tang Dynasty 唐朝[Tang2 chao2]/now 長安區|长安区[Chang2 an1 Qu1], a district of Xi'an


id: 0698dfba5925febf4fde9d51de151f7645343514
simplified: 长安区
traditional: 長安區
pinyin: chang2 an1 qu1
english:
Chang'an District of Xi’an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi/Chang'an District of Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei


id: a7e6f9056a34b1cc67f3c8d1c7721bb490998b02
simplified: 长官
traditional: 長官
pinyin: zhang3 guan1
english:
senior official/senior officer/commanding officer/CL:位[wei4]/sir (term of address for senior officer)


id: 08db05f5236e5ea3f4e0c259fcfe487e8f85f476
simplified: 长平
traditional: 長平
pinyin: chang2 ping2
english:
Changping, place name in Gaoping County 高平縣|高平县, southern Shanxi, the scene of the great battle of 262-260 BC between Qin and Zhao


id: 2c1dd4246bb9de8a1364d374019b8876b918d7a2
simplified: 长平之战
traditional: 長平之戰
pinyin: chang2 ping2 zhi1 zhan4
english:
battle of Changping of 260 BC, at which the Qin army 秦軍|秦军[Qin2 jun1] encircled and annihilated a Zhao army of 400,000


id: 16b4e55c65063b88fa9789601553f7dbc0b008f0
simplified: 长廊
traditional: 長廊
pinyin: chang2 lang2
english:
promenade/long hallway/Long Corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing 北京頤和園|北京颐和园[Bei3 jing1 Yi2 he2 yuan2]


id: 6f5cfc2cbf3100b2ae097d8135d9d2487b1015f8
simplified: 长乐
traditional: 長樂
pinyin: chang2 le4
english:
Changle county level city in Fuzhou 福州[Fu2 zhou1], Fujian/Princess Changle of Western Wei of the Northern dynasties 西魏[Xi1 Wei4], given in marriage c. 545 to Bumin Khan 土門|土门[Tu3 men2]


id: 81513a4896421a1fca064f032e2d28c41f5d153e
simplified: 长乐公主
traditional: 長樂公主
pinyin: chang2 le4 gong1 zhu3
english:
Princess Changle of Western Wei of the Northern dynasties 西魏[Xi1 Wei4], given in marriage c. 545 to Bumin Khan 土門|土门[Tu3 men2]


id: cc614d68560213f69bd01eaebe86ebf17e9cd7f9
simplified: 长江三峡
traditional: 長江三峽
pinyin: chang2 jiang1 san1 xia2
english:
Three Gorges or Yangtze Gorges, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽|瞿塘峡[Qu2 tang2 Xia2], Wuxia Gorge 巫峽|巫峡[Wu1 Xia2] and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽|西陵峡[Xi1 ling2 Xia2]


id: 856d7e956b8fd4c5ed2961cb3f99ded3510f24bf
simplified: 长江后浪推前浪
traditional: 長江後浪推前浪
pinyin: chang2 jiang1 hou4 lang4 tui1 qian2 lang4
english:
lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom)/fig. the new is constantly replacing the old/each new generation excels the previous/(of things) to be constantly evolving


id: 6c3a16122881e43d9062ca897f8906f2a4bea99d
simplified: 长治
traditional: 長治
pinyin: chang2 zhi4
english:
Changzhi prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1]/Changchih township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan


id: 8b18c781124df90ebc344b604a034f0060197b8c
simplified: 长白山
traditional: 長白山
pinyin: chang2 bai2 shan1
english:
Changbai or Baekdu mountains 白頭山|白头山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology


id: 1d9d658439588a9bd960574afdd6d0ce5199f155
simplified: 长阳县
traditional: 長陽縣
pinyin: chang2 yang2 xian4
english:
Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei (abbr. for 長陽土家族自治縣|长阳土家族自治县[Chang2 yang2 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4])


id: 0423069074697edc6efb92713e214433bee6f487
simplified: 长驱直入
traditional: 長驅直入
pinyin: chang2 qu1 zhi2 ru4
english:
to march straight in unchallenged (military) (idiom)/(fig.) to push deep into the heart of sth/to flood in


id: 35a57fe26d6f5fa659f371e7b85fdce8d3d17983
simplified: 门
traditional: 門
pinyin: men2
radicalSimplified: 门
radicalTraditional: 門
variants: 門,门
english:
gate/door/CL:扇[shan4]/gateway/doorway/CL:個|个[ge4]/opening/valve/switch/way to do something/knack/family/house/(religious) sect/school (of thought)/class/category/phylum or division (taxonomy)/classifier for large guns/classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology/(suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)/surname Men


id: f6b2ab6be7cc3f671c0162e2a157c2785e19267d
simplified: 门子
traditional: 門子
pinyin: men2 zi5
english:
door/doorman (old)/hanger-on of an aristocrat/social influence/pull/classifier for relatives, marriages etc


id: 00b28200518c4c982c35cfb6d32942a7dfb3a670
simplified: 门户开放
traditional: 門戶開放
pinyin: men2 hu4 kai1 fang4
english:
open door policy/Egyptian President Sadat's infitah policy towards investment and relations with Israel


id: 74168ad77f5e99378b04d8a8583e8ba2dd391766
simplified: 门源
traditional: 門源
pinyin: men2 yuan2
english:
Menyuan Hui autonomous county in Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hai3 bei3 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: f7570fc2cb10a43ed7e8c31343fd4640d9287b08
simplified: 门当户对
traditional: 門當戶對
pinyin: men2 dang1 hu4 dui4
english:
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom)/(of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match


id: f55c161bd7eb27d398237ba7fdb0e993bf8784fc
simplified: 闪
traditional: 閃
pinyin: shan3
radicalSimplified: 门
radicalTraditional: 門
english:
to dodge/to duck out of the way/to beat it/shaken (by a fall)/to sprain/to pull a muscle/lightning/spark/a flash/to flash (across one's mind)/to leave behind/(Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine/surname Shan


id: 97a7fd31b12066f2e5194fe8878b591a383a5171
simplified: 闪灵
traditional: 閃靈
pinyin: shan3 ling2
english:
The Shining (1980 Stanley Kubrick film from Stephen King's 1977 novel)/ChthoniC (Taiwanese metal band)


id: 416b627dc22d0e89213432aa5ecbf9cc29a3f767
simplified: 闭合
traditional: 閉合
pinyin: bi4 he2
english:
to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel)/to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit)/closed-loop


id: de546f5d11ec9feb3dd9c17c85340e3f7fa93902
simplified: 闭月羞花
traditional: 閉月羞花
pinyin: bi4 yue4 xiu1 hua1
english:
lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom)/fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world


id: 02dfa2abc8ad52b1c687e7b3a44864309ad788d9
simplified: 闭门造车
traditional: 閉門造車
pinyin: bi4 men2 zao4 che1
english:
lit. to build a cart behind closed doors/to be overly subjective and disregard the outside world (idiom)


id: cade9b82ef6d6fab095ed099ff3d4b1a2021f66e
simplified: 开
traditional: 開
pinyin: kai1
radicalSimplified: 廾
radicalTraditional: 門
variants: 幵
english:
to open/to start/to turn on/to boil/to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)/to operate (a vehicle)/carat (gold)/abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]/abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format


id: 9fdde5468f7256b7a1efd996c126c867ed5d0d8c
simplified: 开元
traditional: 開元
pinyin: kai1 yuan2
english:
Tang emperor Xuanzong's 唐玄宗[Tang2 Xuan2 zong1] reign name used during the Kaiyuan era (713-741), a peak of Tang prosperity


id: 74b960555308c14b975052d3a61d550cd9d11ee5
simplified: 开光
traditional: 開光
pinyin: kai1 guang1
english:
eye-opening ceremony for a religious idol (Buddhism)/to consecrate/to bless/transparent/translucent/haircut/shaving the head or face (humorous)/a method of decoration/first light (astronomy)


id: f74728fc621f594e3d79843b7574ea5a6ea6792f
simplified: 开刀
traditional: 開刀
pinyin: kai1 dao1
english:
(of a surgeon) to perform an operation/(of a patient) to have an operation/to decapitate/to behead/to single out as a point of attack


id: e27090388a3c8a1d1ebb3d2ed9cc4ede0737d218
simplified: 开国元勋
traditional: 開國元勛
pinyin: kai1 guo2 yuan2 xun1
english:
variant of 開國元勳|开国元勋, founding figure (of country or dynasty)/founding father/fig. also used of company, school etc


id: 4c71dc6149cbb57f3e9dc5adad3ae5cbada07744
simplified: 开国功臣
traditional: 開國功臣
pinyin: kai1 guo2 gong1 chen2
english:
outstanding founding minister (title given to reward loyal general or vassal of new dynasty or state)


id: 3f12492ca02c0f0de07ec57a9650c70469f2b325
simplified: 开城
traditional: 開城
pinyin: kai1 cheng2
english:
Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies


id: 938ba895ed21911ec1030ce33df99fddefc48335
simplified: 开封
traditional: 開封
pinyin: kai1 feng1
english:
Kaifeng prefecture-level city in Henan, old capital of Northern Song, former provincial capital of Henan/old name Bianliang 汴梁


id: c609f6c7ca42940fea3bf5ac808c28e93c80c33e
simplified: 开平
traditional: 開平
pinyin: kai1 ping2
english:
Kaiping county level city in Jiangmen 江門|江门, Guangdong/Kaiping district of Tangshan city 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 shi4], Hebei


id: 240bd7cdb886b6b57c931c02b3b46ab402af8ca2
simplified: 开弓不放箭
traditional: 開弓不放箭
pinyin: kai1 gong1 bu4 fang4 jian4
english:
lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom)/fig. to bluff/to be all talk and no action/false bravado


id: 7fca01958595b8482d66f0e363442a5479fc75bf
simplified: 开弓没有回头箭
traditional: 開弓沒有回頭箭
pinyin: kai1 gong1 mei2 you3 hui2 tou2 jian4
english:
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


id: 4c2bb968e9389ccaf20ed8c405d1805ff9df151d
simplified: 开后门
traditional: 開後門
pinyin: kai1 hou4 men2
english:
to open the back door/fig. under the counter/to do a secret or dishonest deal/to let sth in by the back door


id: 6fa224a5fb6dd04163111a49b194e0fae88d5ee6
simplified: 开打
traditional: 開打
pinyin: kai1 da3
english:
(of a sports competition or match) to commence/(of a war or battle) to break out/to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera)/to brawl/to come to blows


id: 60374b73bd4fdbfbab1bc23cc4f89436306f82d3
simplified: 开拍
traditional: 開拍
pinyin: kai1 pai1
english:
to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc)/to start the bidding (auction)/to start a trading session (stock market)


id: fc68a1b34bcd4cabface26836d5ec574d8026697
simplified: 开拓
traditional: 開拓
pinyin: kai1 tuo4
english:
to break new ground (for agriculture)/to open up (a new seam)/to develop (border regions)/fig. to open up (new horizons)


id: 825611b20b461f44e75cef41cb0f6ca848ee01f8
simplified: 开放
traditional: 開放
pinyin: kai1 fang4
english:
to bloom/to open/to be open (to the public)/to open up (to the outside)/to be open-minded/unrestrained by convention/unconstrained in one's sexuality


id: 42bd5306beb38978e693f504bc11f834633de7c9
simplified: 开服
traditional: 開服
pinyin: kai1 fu2
english:
to start the servers (for an online game, typically after the system has been shut down for maintenance, upgrade etc)


id: 910d6b974b9301aff91d624848e1a2671f5e4eb9
simplified: 开机
traditional: 開機
pinyin: kai1 ji1
english:
to start an engine/to boot up (a computer)/to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete/to begin shooting a film or TV show


id: 2d75eacab9af6a26059fb86c0f79374052612926
simplified: 开源节流
traditional: 開源節流
pinyin: kai1 yuan2 jie2 liu2
english:
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending/to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure


id: 362219a12bbba9175bd121a58ce39f0d4bb1a3f5
simplified: 开漳圣王
traditional: 開漳聖王
pinyin: kai1 zhang1 sheng4 wang2
english:
Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou, posthumous title of Tang dynasty general Chen Yuanguang (657-711) 陳元光|陈元光[Chen2 Yuan2 guang1]


id: 2eb7d7ec04143f8365b888dc9c2e159f44f5a846
simplified: 开红盘
traditional: 開紅盤
pinyin: kai1 hong2 pan2
english:
(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year/(of a business) to be profitable/(of a stock market) to rise/(sport) to win one's first match of a competition


id: f9361243edda0174bcf4d4baad26f8c5592ef635
simplified: 开诚布公
traditional: 開誠布公
pinyin: kai1 cheng2 bu4 gong1
english:
lit. deal sincerely and fairly (idiom); frank and open-minded/plain speaking/Let's talk frankly and openly between ourselves./to put one's cards on the table


id: 37d2d01ceef743dbf9460df04523b803b9e5aa30
simplified: 开黑店
traditional: 開黑店
pinyin: kai1 hei1 dian4
english:
lit. to open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction)/fig. to carry out a scam/to run a protection racket/daylight robbery


id: 7af2a76d6865ef5e95f0056353e8ed8149282e50
simplified: 闲居
traditional: 閑居
pinyin: xian2 ju1
english:
to lead a quiet and peaceful life in retirement/to stay home with nothing to do/to lead a solitary life


id: 0ecb0c025e1c7d9017d33842f17352c9f67ef431
simplified: 闲章
traditional: 閑章
pinyin: xian2 zhang1
english:
recreative seal, bearing not the owner's name but a well-known verse or such, and used for artistic purposes on paintings etc


id: 743acb2cc2eebccb66d48357cc43f67d3bf66f7f
simplified: 间
traditional: 間
pinyin: jian1
radicalSimplified: 门
radicalTraditional: 門
variants: 閒
english:
between/among/within a definite time or space/room/section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars/classifier for rooms


id: f7f536da2e28391e7e4f0fa076a3d024f4f86434
simplified: 间不容发
traditional: 間不容髮
pinyin: jian1 bu4 rong2 fa4
english:
(to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth (idiom)/in a critical state/on the brink of crisis/very close (to happening)/Taiwan pr. [jian4 bu4 rong2 fa3]


id: 280c4c8b17ea0a9849aa0df5f3284b86de537699
simplified: 闸口
traditional: 閘口
pinyin: zha2 kou3
english:
open sluice gate/(toll) station/boarding gate (airport etc)/(fig.) gateway (access point)/area in the Shangcheng district of Hangzhou


id: 2614f5e9ab6c6721a58a59c0fc149d6108340e3c
simplified: 阆风
traditional: 閬風
pinyin: lang2 feng1
english:
Langfeng Mountain/same as Langyuan 閬苑|阆苑[Lang4 yuan4] paradise, home of the immortals in verse and legends


id: 72564ba6784413c10e9539024ddb56af359f2d42
simplified: 阅微草堂笔记
traditional: 閱微草堂筆記
pinyin: yue4 wei1 cao3 tang2 bi3 ji4
english:
Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀|纪昀[Ji4 Yun2], novel of the supernatural/The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny


id: ac53ebb9d02dd1f1824e5ba6effa46e25e70655d
simplified: 阎王好见，小鬼难当
traditional: 閻王好見，小鬼難當
pinyin: yan2 wang2 hao3 jian4 , xiao3 gui3 nan2 dang1
english:
lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)


id: 6d4044f1b90d789f36c9c26e8efe4ae457c0f5e6
simplified: 阕
traditional: 闋
pinyin: que4
radicalSimplified: 门
radicalTraditional: 門
english:
(literary) to end/to stop/one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词[ci2]/classifier for songs or ci poems


id: 4c2ec0d1fc3eb7cc922003c0b99b0cd8aff973a1
simplified: 闯王
traditional: 闖王
pinyin: chuang3 wang2
english:
Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645)


id: b7a0272873f3fa14a4078173ac0ff0ee61a3e710
simplified: 闯王陵
traditional: 闖王陵
pinyin: chuang3 wang2 ling2
english:
mausoleum to late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (who styled himself Chuang Wang): one in Jiugongshan 九宫山 nature reserve, Tongshan county, Xianning prefecture, Hubei, and another in Shimen 石门, Changde 常德, Hunan, built starting in 1980


id: e9de2555c20e0c87685b96fa7b6cb5e369232654
simplified: 闯红灯
traditional: 闖紅燈
pinyin: chuang3 hong2 deng1
english:
to run a red light/failing to stop at a red traffic light/(slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating


id: 1d7e6762c534f4ad46432ffa61dd36be5ca2b9e1
simplified: 关山
traditional: 關山
pinyin: guan1 shan1
english:
fortresses and mountains (along the Great Wall)/one's hometown/Guanshan or Kuanshan town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan


id: f00b4eb6fa161ea384286d3671c5e708cb9c1337
simplified: 关东煮
traditional: 關東煮
pinyin: guan1 dong1 zhu3
english:
oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth


id: cf590a55bb2cb6ff35b3bf2de3f7016b683fda4c
simplified: 关汉卿
traditional: 關漢卿
pinyin: guan1 han4 qing1
english:
Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家


id: 559f77b8f6edc987cbf5c535f771122ecfb054cf
simplified: 关羽
traditional: 關羽
pinyin: guan1 yu3
english:
Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty/posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama


id: 0b0e7df1f887e8b421b07f04b49bc95777760794
simplified: 关西
traditional: 關西
pinyin: guan1 xi1
english:
Kansai region, Japan/Guanxi or Kuanhsi town in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan


id: 4dbff55f1afcb97d74a8aec37f03a7874cc1763d
simplified: 关防
traditional: 關防
pinyin: guan1 fang2
english:
security measures (esp. border security)/official seal (esp. military seal during Qing and Ming times)


id: 7c12134214f2a064cda57d41f57ff795b23d6115
simplified: 阜康
traditional: 阜康
pinyin: fu4 kang1
english:
Fukang county level city in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: c03a88001001b2aa08ba4e788b7989c8cf577488
simplified: 阮
traditional: 阮
pinyin: ruan3
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
variants: 阮
english:
ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute/surname Ruan/small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of modern-day Gansu Province


id: 9b43d31be201b63ea6d3860b718df3fe2ed5f562
simplified: 阮安
traditional: 阮安
pinyin: ruan3 an1
english:
Nguyen An (1381-1453), aka Ruan An, Vietnamese architect and engineer, principal designer of the Forbidden City


id: 2d6499e77867e43a87e46f34ebb8180d0f3e8c47
simplified: 防不胜防
traditional: 防不勝防
pinyin: fang2 bu4 sheng4 fang2
english:
you can't guard against it (idiom)/impossible to defend effectively/not much one can do about it/It can't be prevented.


id: c96496876188e0de73be011c1262d753c02479f6
simplified: 防城各族自治县
traditional: 防城各族自治縣
pinyin: fang2 cheng2 ge4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Fangcheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County in Guangxi (temporary name during 1950s for Fangcheng district 防城區|防城区[Fang2 cheng2 qu1] of Fangchenggang city)


id: d867f5154e154797ca744597f845696b7f95e1ea
simplified: 防毒
traditional: 防毒
pinyin: fang2 du2
english:
defense against poison/defense against poison gas/anti-narcotics measures/defense against computer viruses


id: 2bd7327a4deecc8436afef80b8fa987673898b78
simplified: 阿
traditional: 阿
pinyin: a1
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
variants: 啊
english:
prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity/used in transliteration/also pr. [a4]/abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]


id: 856031040f38cc9c505930beff3112f1e5f3786b
simplified: 阿Q
traditional: 阿Q
pinyin: a1 q
english:
Ah Q, antihero of Lu Xun's influential 1921 novella The True Story of Ah Q 阿Q正傳|阿Q正传[A1 Q Zheng4 zhuan4]


id: 2ff62db5dd569ad4381fa473276f0d25d3dd5b7a
simplified: 阿不来提·阿不都热西提
traditional: 阿不來提·阿不都熱西提
pinyin: a1 bu4 lai2 ti2 · a1 bu4 du1 re4 xi1 ti2
english:
Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference


id: da310ba1fa78d30d945b60580a690adda4b88047
simplified: 阿伊莎
traditional: 阿伊莎
pinyin: a1 yi1 sha1
english:
Ayshe, Aise or Ayesha (name)/Aishah bint Abi Bakr (c. 614-678), youngest wife of prophet Mohamed 穆罕默德[Mu4 han3 mo4 de2]


id: b6a429e1a5ac810c9ec6cf44c290bc67ec937cb2
simplified: 阿来
traditional: 阿來
pinyin: a1 lai2
english:
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[Chen2 ai1 luo4 ding4] "Red Poppies"


id: fb340bc843b728ae90d00a8e9ac1f7a574de8006
simplified: 阿依莎
traditional: 阿依莎
pinyin: a1 yi1 sha1
english:
Ayshe, Aise or Ayesha (name)/Aishah bint Abi Bakr (c. 614-678), youngest wife of prophet Mohamed 穆罕默德[Mu4 han3 mo4 de2]/also written 阿伊莎


id: b016360c616c7cc6e46419b612b6b49d73546448
simplified: 阿公
traditional: 阿公
pinyin: a1 gong1
english:
(old) grandfather/polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law/(Taiwanese) grandfather


id: 016169a50a8b415ea726080cb01b89ba418d7ca3
simplified: 阿合奇
traditional: 阿合奇
pinyin: a1 he2 qi2
english:
Aqchi Nahiyisi or Aheqi county in Kizilsu Kirghiz autonomous prefecture 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州, Xinjiang


id: bb868bcf0ab5754e7d52c020688a52034c1efcce
simplified: 阿图什
traditional: 阿圖什
pinyin: a1 tu2 shi2
english:
Atush or Artux city and county in Qizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州/Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang


id: 5221a59aa44365a90b55636e35bc9205a36d0f46
simplified: 阿图什市
traditional: 阿圖什市
pinyin: a1 tu2 shi2 shi4
english:
Atush or Artux city in Qizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州/Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang


id: 2c9d0f23e57bb304265e62f75c14fe04a4979e22
simplified: 阿坝
traditional: 阿壩
pinyin: a1 ba4
english:
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇[Ma3 er3 kang1 zhen4]/also Ngawa county


id: 8257d37936ce855bd74bf72f1c3b717797a98cf0
simplified: 阿坝州
traditional: 阿壩州
pinyin: a1 ba4 zhou1
english:
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇[Ma3 er3 kang1 zhen4]


id: 151b4d3431b94dfacc2e825a7aee79e71b0b17c4
simplified: 阿坝县
traditional: 阿壩縣
pinyin: a1 ba4 xian4
english:
Ngawa county (Tibetan: rnga ba rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan


id: 2d5445026a7d9386f1b1167a48d764764f4df86d
simplified: 阿多诺
traditional: 阿多諾
pinyin: a1 duo1 nuo4
english:
surname Adorno/Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno 狄奧多·阿多諾|狄奥多·阿多诺[Di2 ao4 duo1 · A1 duo1 nuo4] (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer


id: 71276a4876391e20055f5cd4c8d23990e57aa816
simplified: 阿姆河
traditional: 阿姆河
pinyin: a1 mu3 he2
english:
Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan/formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers


id: 80d000004fb056c88b7aec9ceb3ae644b29f703a
simplified: 阿姨
traditional: 阿姨
pinyin: a1 yi2
english:
maternal aunt/step-mother/childcare worker/nursemaid/woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child)/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: b22ff2df15a4b6dac7387367315d0f85ba1bc963
simplified: 阿巴嘎旗
traditional: 阿巴嘎旗
pinyin: a1 ba1 ga1 qi2
english:
Abag banner or Avga khoshuu in Xilin Gol league 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 le4 meng2], Inner Mongolia


id: bfcf3897733b78d15e0bc0e01ae01f0a40125feb
simplified: 阿巴斯
traditional: 阿巴斯
pinyin: a1 ba1 si1
english:
Abbas (name)/Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005


id: 3b5f23a995f0eb746f1c0a6a9229d4a156797906
simplified: 阿弥陀佛
traditional: 阿彌陀佛
pinyin: e1 mi2 tuo2 fo2
english:
Amitabha Buddha/the Buddha of the Western paradise/may the lord Buddha preserve us!/merciful Buddha!


id: ae3f153eb4b50567765cfb33d4b8c8205ba5bf80
simplified: 阿房宫
traditional: 阿房宮
pinyin: e1 fang2 gong1
english:
Efang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]/also pr. [E1 pang2 Gong1]


id: a49a891e959fc4f4620c40dec36ee04fa8a700d2
simplified: 阿拉伯国家联盟
traditional: 阿拉伯國家聯盟
pinyin: a1 la1 bo2 guo2 jia1 lian2 meng2
english:
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States


id: 948f1c690fd9b3d70d413e64b367ec97bded584b
simplified: 阿拉善右旗
traditional: 阿拉善右旗
pinyin: a1 la1 shan4 you4 qi2
english:
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)


id: f864c8281af0a814c987ec571da40a32d579c7a7
simplified: 阿拉善左旗
traditional: 阿拉善左旗
pinyin: a1 la1 shan4 zuo3 qi2
english:
Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Züün khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)


id: f3eed9d9092d6c32ff865925a34f187d5fdcf018
simplified: 阿拉法特
traditional: 阿拉法特
pinyin: a1 la1 fa3 te4
english:
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特[Ya4 xi1 er3 · A1 la1 fa3 te4]


id: bab951424d7d23923a8fb3f675a7efa07751f781
simplified: 阿斗
traditional: 阿斗
pinyin: a1 dou3
english:
A-dou, nickname of Liu Chan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263/fig. weak and inept person


id: 88af851eabc98f801a9cf92081e42fa4bef29e8b
simplified: 阿斯图里亚斯
traditional: 阿斯圖里亞斯
pinyin: a1 si1 tu2 li3 ya4 si1
english:
Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay/ancient Spanish kingdom from which the reconquista was based


id: e86fd4f5345c10fa49abe3ca74f3951cbdfa2a53
simplified: 阿旺曲培
traditional: 阿旺曲培
pinyin: a1 wang4 qu1 pei2
english:
Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US


id: d4d3dc6a00791ce099e9cbdfdf4e89c080b6f9bc
simplified: 阿普尔顿
traditional: 阿普爾頓
pinyin: a1 pu3 er3 dun4
english:
Appleton (name)/Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere


id: 2449b03c95daeff93343ab7827e56de10d6ad672
simplified: 阿尔坎塔拉
traditional: 阿爾坎塔拉
pinyin: a1 er3 kan3 ta3 la1
english:
Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain/Alcantara, Brazil space launch site


id: 15fc122cf0680c18b3d4bec064f5565de90f2618
simplified: 阿尔山
traditional: 阿爾山
pinyin: a1 er3 shan1
english:
Arxan county level city, Mongolian Rashaant xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia


id: 64fe72e3cc16f0e2afcabf380a53aea2e485aa42
simplified: 阿尔都塞
traditional: 阿爾都塞
pinyin: a1 er3 dou1 sai1
english:
surname Althusser/Louis Pierre Althusser 路易·皮埃爾·阿爾都塞|路易·皮埃尔·阿尔都塞[Lu4 yi4 · Pi2 ai1 er3 · A1 er3 dou1 sai1] (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher


id: af77fbf5b6832ad2ccf8ccb0080f8817670db74c
simplified: 阿的平
traditional: 阿的平
pinyin: a1 di4 ping2
english:
atabrine or quinacrine, used as antimalarial drug and antibiotic against intestinal parasite giardiasis


id: 5062187a427201a5cabce6fb801da60061c2f7f8
simplified: 阿罗汉
traditional: 阿羅漢
pinyin: a1 luo2 han4
english:
arhat (Sanskrit)/a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism)


id: ef4d8e9925acce8300909ad668a251a64a72ecb4
simplified: 阿育王
traditional: 阿育王
pinyin: a1 yu4 wang2
english:
Ashoka (304-232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty 孔雀王朝[Kong3 que4 Wang2 chao2], ruled 273-232 BC


id: 8c8bfc5cadd96e18e91b89718f34a1c1fee873d5
simplified: 阿芙乐尔号
traditional: 阿芙樂爾號
pinyin: a1 fu2 le4 er3 hao4
english:
Russian cruiser Aurora, firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography


id: 932a1f8ec0d18e0187bd5897662b11f0861844e5
simplified: 阿诺·施瓦辛格
traditional: 阿諾·施瓦辛格
pinyin: a1 nuo4 · shi1 wa3 xin1 ge2
english:
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011/also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格[A1 nuo4 de2 · Shi1 wa3 xin1 ge2]


id: 4fa727fc2bac9541840e6dadf6a12349a18a35c4
simplified: 阿赫蒂萨里
traditional: 阿赫蒂薩里
pinyin: a1 he4 di4 sa4 li3
english:
Martti Ahtisaari (1937-), Finnish diplomat and politician, veteran peace negotiator and 2008 Nobel peace laureate


id: f2099d7fd161613af9132bbc2187c8c422291743
simplified: 阿道司·赫胥黎
traditional: 阿道司·赫胥黎
pinyin: a1 dao4 si1 · he4 xu1 li4
english:
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave New World 美麗新世界|美丽新世界[Mei3 li4 Xin1 Shi4 jie4]


id: 4306557420247b85fb9d490d3f8d3cb2f68ced26
simplified: 阿里
traditional: 阿里
pinyin: a1 li3
english:
Ali (proper name)/Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (c. 600-661), cousin, aid and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德, the fourth Caliph 哈里發|哈里发 of Islam, reigned 656-661, and the first Imam 伊瑪目|伊玛目 of Shia Islam/Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga' ris


id: 114e88e735167462f0be6efb33eafed6cc03e818
simplified: 阿里山
traditional: 阿里山
pinyin: a1 li3 shan1
english:
Alishan, mountain range in Taiwan/Alishan township in Chiayi county 嘉義縣|嘉义县[Jia1 yi4 xian4], west Taiwan


id: d4377dc3c37711beb2d4f72de040c50533c55683
simplified: 阿里山乡
traditional: 阿里山鄉
pinyin: a1 li3 shan1 xiang1
english:
Alishan township in Chiayi county 嘉義縣|嘉义县[Jia1 yi4 xian4], within the Alishan Range, south-central Taiwan


id: ed95b12f2674d03d64c3489ce79e9aa88d289ec1
simplified: 阿里郎
traditional: 阿里郎
pinyin: a1 li3 lang2
english:
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty/Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites


id: fcffc1fbb18b681231dc1181ec1fd6181dbfa08e
simplified: 陀思妥也夫斯基
traditional: 陀思妥也夫斯基
pinyin: tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye3 fu1 si1 ji1
english:
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zui4 yu3 Fa2]/also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1]


id: b32354acf1d71a19aa132e40f94253ff67329e35
simplified: 陀思妥耶夫斯基
traditional: 陀思妥耶夫斯基
pinyin: tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1
english:
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zui4 yu3 Fa2]


id: 4d866c2d5f0e27e7233b590ccb593211bbc76c8a
simplified: 附小
traditional: 附小
pinyin: fu4 xiao3
english:
subsidiary primary school (originally attached to an institute, university etc)/abbreviation of 附屬小學|附属小学


id: 61fc7cd9ddec787d8660592f5f06dda53e786237
simplified: 附带
traditional: 附帶
pinyin: fu4 dai4
english:
supplementary/incidentally/in parentheses/by chance/in passing/additionally/secondary/subsidiary/to attach


id: 577dd6102d9b9de56b486391b427cf1b8ae8c490
simplified: 附庸风雅
traditional: 附庸風雅
pinyin: fu4 yong1 feng1 ya3
english:
(of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti/to pose as a culture lover/to be a culture snob/having pretensions to culture


id: dab6317bd8a2cd85c0fe620b3f2d0e18993fe502
simplified: 附会
traditional: 附會
pinyin: fu4 hui4
english:
to add parallels and interpretations (to a story etc)/to develop and embellish/to interpret (often in a strained manner)


id: 8cf59355465ade6548eff4d325d9532baae2c300
simplified: 陌陌
traditional: 陌陌
pinyin: mo4 mo4
english:
Momo, GPS-based app for messaging, and potentially meeting up with, other Momo users (typically, strangers) in one's vicinity, launched in 2011


id: 88f21176c69cc068ce0dfbfd78b0973653cc1835
simplified: 降压
traditional: 降壓
pinyin: jiang4 ya1
english:
to reduce the pressure (of a fluid)/to lower one's blood pressure/to lower (or step down) the voltage


id: 7d23e4e1b1a2f3a34f3564800001bab62b03723b
simplified: 陕北
traditional: 陝北
pinyin: shan3 bei3
english:
Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地


id: 04b6bce857ca5b31349d2b857a75259490cbea94
simplified: 院试
traditional: 院試
pinyin: yuan4 shi4
english:
the last of the three entry-level exams in the imperial examination system of Ming and Qing dynasties


id: cfe092f1ff2d704b9fa08e18216ad1edd1325a76
simplified: 院长
traditional: 院長
pinyin: yuan4 zhang3
english:
the head of an institution whose name ends in 院[yuan4]/chair of a board/president of a university/department head/dean/premier of the Republic of China/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: 0636c40ff72ea3fb136d47f73402418180861e18
simplified: 阵
traditional: 陣
pinyin: zhen4
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
variants: 踬,陳
english:
disposition of troops/wave/spate/burst/spell/short period of time/classifier for events or states of short duration


id: 487412a56687f75349d83ca7b0329f490d5c49a8
simplified: 陪衬
traditional: 陪襯
pinyin: pei2 chen4
english:
to enhance by contrast/to set off/to serve as a background in order to bring out the subject with greater brilliance/to serve as a prop/a foil


id: 71960d7362ed2492aa328877ba17ecd8a846322c
simplified: 陪读
traditional: 陪讀
pinyin: pei2 du2
english:
to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas/to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together


id: f864909643b09442d115e638eab8fcfbba129bcf
simplified: 阴
traditional: 陰
pinyin: yin1
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
variants: 陰,阴,隂
english:
overcast (weather)/cloudy/shady/Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang)/negative (electric.)/feminine/moon/implicit/hidden/genitalia/surname Yin


id: c682e74bcc02c17c6720eb1fbe62ce0d80ca68f7
simplified: 阴阳合同
traditional: 陰陽合同
pinyin: yin1 yang2 he2 tong2
english:
a deal where the parties collude to sign an under-the-table "yin contract" 陰合同|阴合同 as well as an ostensibly genuine "yang contract" 陽合同|阳合同 in order to deceive authorities


id: 12563758b2b323cc8e04b7e3ac20eb2ed7de5c97
simplified: 阴魂不散
traditional: 陰魂不散
pinyin: yin1 hun2 bu4 san4
english:
lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom)/fig. the influence still lingers on/the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive


id: a7907caf1afd090fdb063bfac96b6f400801187d
simplified: 陈
traditional: 陳
pinyin: chen2
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
variants: 陣
english:
to lay out/to exhibit/to display/to narrate/to state/to explain/to tell/old/stale/surname Chen/vassal state during the Spring and Autumn Period 770-475 BC/Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589)


id: cd275c00c2091a3ff4615a3812a86f9e04a46398
simplified: 陈仲琳
traditional: 陳仲琳
pinyin: chen2 zhong4 lin2
english:
Xu Zhonglin or Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investure of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星


id: 0577e65c781cba8d058900be3314b694ff5ec1df
simplified: 陈元光
traditional: 陳元光
pinyin: chen2 yuan2 guang1
english:
Chen Yuanguang (657-711), Tang dynasty general with posthumous title 開漳聖王|开漳圣王[Kai1 zhang1 sheng4 wang2], i.e. Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian


id: 54fd5ff0a9c18137d938e86331e6692416ec724c
simplified: 陈忱
traditional: 陳忱
pinyin: chen2 chen2
english:
Chen Chen (1613-1670), novelist and poet at the Ming-Qing transition, author of Water Margin sequel 水滸後傳|水浒后传


id: e51aca901d01824f7daf33d09b6e23ca7ecdb144
simplified: 陈书
traditional: 陳書
pinyin: chen2 shu1
english:
History of Chen of the Southern Dynasties, ninth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉[Yao2 Si1 lian2] in 636 during Tang dynasty, 36 scrolls


id: 910cbac7c8b2ad697453c95598e81c537cb5d3d9
simplified: 陈毅
traditional: 陳毅
pinyin: chen2 yi4
english:
Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972


id: 3e655ddd859da948936d2a929a1cf9d97f34b863
simplified: 陈水扁
traditional: 陳水扁
pinyin: chen2 shui3 bian3
english:
Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨|民进党 politician, president of the Republic of China 2000-2008


id: 713a3a29f07d7405d90e81c3c8830f196606ac97
simplified: 陈炯明
traditional: 陳炯明
pinyin: chen2 jiong3 ming2
english:
Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong


id: 5557078dcfd51f5a7d1ec80a3649b2011a53055e
simplified: 陈独秀
traditional: 陳獨秀
pinyin: chen2 du2 xiu4
english:
Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), Chinese Marxist and leading communist, blamed for the failures of Chinese communism from 1927, posthumously rehabilitated


id: d02e26892fe2f41943ef6d35b8ecd6c5672338ad
simplified: 陈云林
traditional: 陳雲林
pinyin: chen2 yun2 lin2
english:
Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会[Hai3 xia2 Liang3 an4 Guan1 xi5 Xie2 hui4] (2008-2013)


id: a4019ad9e039128965e52683d85fc24884a18c5e
simplified: 陈香梅
traditional: 陳香梅
pinyin: chen2 xiang1 mei2
english:
Chen Xiangmei (1925-2018), a.k.a. Anna Chennault, born in Beijing, US Republican Party politician, wife of Claire Lee Chennault 陳納德|陈纳德[Chen2 na4 de2]


id: 517985e87c86f277e4ef62a8a7c79d129e7dcc43
simplified: 陵水
traditional: 陵水
pinyin: ling2 shui3
english:
Lingshui Lizu Autonomous County, Hainan/abbr. for 陵水黎族自治縣|陵水黎族自治县[Ling2 shui3 Li2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]


id: 58c8ff4702d333b0e52521115ecccf39af71597e
simplified: 陶乐
traditional: 陶樂
pinyin: tao2 le4
english:
former Taole county, now in Pingluo county 平羅縣|平罗县[Ping2 luo2 xian4], Shizuishan 石嘴山[Shi2 zui3 shan1], Ningxia


id: db6e2378916f953e5cd44d57fac97335ed6072ff
simplified: 陷
traditional: 陷
pinyin: xian4
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
variants: 陥
english:
pitfall/trap/to get stuck/to sink/to cave in/to frame (false charge)/to capture (a city in battle)/to fall (to the enemy)/defect


id: e52da249d182ca60f7be47e94549b0ee829ac9c2
simplified: 陆克文
traditional: 陸克文
pinyin: lu4 ke4 wen2
english:
Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician, proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013


id: fcda8e29f5c6689cd14dfb19470618cc8e097590
simplified: 陆荣廷
traditional: 陸榮廷
pinyin: lu4 rong2 ting2
english:
Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction


id: f1e1f18aa37552f2c5d4e3dc9843189e95b9410b
simplified: 陆西星
traditional: 陸西星
pinyin: lu4 xi1 xing1
english:
Lu Xixing (1520-c. 1601), Ming Daoist author, to whom the fantasy novel Investure of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳


id: a37ac155a1cb5ce5a9f1ec4cd5e8a9972e7f394a
simplified: 阳奉阴违
traditional: 陽奉陰違
pinyin: yang2 feng4 yin1 wei2
english:
outward devotion but inner opposition (idiom); to pay lip service/to agree overtly, but oppose in secret


id: 60311c87d2654479126165f1e29a7cd327ea470c
simplified: 隆格尔
traditional: 隆格爾
pinyin: long2 ge2 er3
english:
former Lunggar county 1983-1999 occupying parts of Zhongba county 仲巴縣|仲巴县[Zhong4 ba1 xian4], Ngari prefecture, Tibet


id: 7fd736ea2d7a30aa5a41f6e153f1fbf2998a7715
simplified: 隋书
traditional: 隋書
pinyin: sui2 shu1
english:
History of the Sui Dynasty, thirteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Wei Zheng 魏徵|魏征[Wei4 Zheng1] in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 85 scrolls


id: 5e5948612cf9b24365395f610f82303117464bce
simplified: 隋炀帝
traditional: 隋煬帝
pinyin: sui2 yang2 di4
english:
Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618


id: 151d137ec57f89dbda780940f3ae0d3ab024b193
simplified: 隒
traditional: 隒
pinyin: yan3
radicalSimplified: 阜
radicalTraditional: 阜
english:
the appearance of a mountain, as if two pots were standing one upon the other/the steep bank of a stream a rough mountain path


id: f43b8d7fc2ed884fb64e97d6584cbbf56dc4f5fe
simplified: 隔壁老王
traditional: 隔壁老王
pinyin: ge2 bi4 lao3 wang2
english:
Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)


id: be2c5d7343b99657fca417dca9af19d3366bcf2b
simplified: 隔岸观火
traditional: 隔岸觀火
pinyin: ge2 an4 guan1 huo3
english:
to watch the fires burning across the river/to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)


id: f974d4bb33a4f486cc9c1662d9723aa1ae79d8f4
simplified: 随风倒舵
traditional: 隨風倒舵
pinyin: sui2 feng1 dao3 duo4
english:
to trim one's sails with the wind/to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances (idiom)


id: d5188809efcc1816c8899637263c47c62fc7b338
simplified: 隐生宙
traditional: 隱生宙
pinyin: yin3 sheng1 zhou4
english:
Cryptozoic/geological eon before the appearance of abundant fossils/hidden life, as opposed to Phanerozoic


id: db515d52a48fadc51450c31a99cdce4a189f2d0b
simplified: 隐花植物
traditional: 隱花植物
pinyin: yin3 hua1 zhi2 wu4
english:
Cryptogamae/cryptogamous plant (botany)/plants such as algae 藻類|藻类[zao3 lei4], moss 苔蘚|苔藓[tai2 xian3] and fern 蕨類|蕨类[jue2 lei4] that reproduce by spores 孢子[bao1 zi3] in place of flowers


id: 9b2345f73d026dbadde82328c4a0ddbf8c4bfc82
simplified: 隐藏
traditional: 隱藏
pinyin: yin3 cang2
english:
to hide/to conceal/to mask/to shelter/to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden)/to hide oneself/to lie low/to nestle/hidden/implicit/private/covert/recessed (lighting)


id: 50bfee96fd6f905fd1bc3fd7fbf4790d66a88c56
simplified: 陇川
traditional: 隴川
pinyin: long3 chuan1
english:
Longchuan county in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣族景颇族自治州[De2 hong2 Dai3 zu2 Jing3 po1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: adce7210408812fdb9c43b9c5d174f8670def912
simplified: 只字不提
traditional: 隻字不提
pinyin: zhi1 zi4 bu4 ti2
english:
not to mention (idiom); to say not one word/fig. to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic)/to censor


id: 2b10e056a7e180671a45628fcf894ba5ca4f1afb
simplified: 雅各宾派
traditional: 雅各賓派
pinyin: ya3 ge4 bin1 pai4
english:
Jacobin club, French revolutionary party that played a leading role in the reign of terror 1791-1794


id: 98a3dfe9d5d10559bb93ad7481fa988cc4dd3a15
simplified: 雅拉神山
traditional: 雅拉神山
pinyin: ya3 la1 shen2 shan1
english:
Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[Dao4 fu2 xian4], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan


id: 100e4a77ada23ec94c53f2a3e3f76d8c1b21efea
simplified: 雅乐
traditional: 雅樂
pinyin: ya3 yue4
english:
formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou/Korean a'ak/Japanese gagaku


id: 31d289375e28f958f464d771826f61e43e4e5a81
simplified: 雅歌
traditional: 雅歌
pinyin: ya3 ge1
english:
part of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经/a song/a poem set to elegant music/a refined chant/the biblical Song of Solomon


id: f3413de1c13988c89572403f84759f1569803de5
simplified: 雅正
traditional: 雅正
pinyin: ya3 zheng4
english:
correct (literary)/upright/(hon.) Please point out my shortcomings./I await your esteemed corrections.


id: 37da7452165a47c60054baa7d6588e444668c469
simplified: 雅江
traditional: 雅江
pinyin: ya3 jiang1
english:
Yajiang county (Tibetan: nyag chu rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)


id: d23e335d46d58420605f6fd8ba4dc422eec1cc15
simplified: 雅江县
traditional: 雅江縣
pinyin: ya3 jiang1 xian4
english:
Yajiang county (Tibetan: nyag chu rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)


id: 95a611469e7370674830e9ae18b247cbdef3abf2
simplified: 雅鲁藏布大峡谷
traditional: 雅魯藏布大峽谷
pinyin: ya3 lu3 zang4 bu4 da4 xia2 gu3
english:
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)


id: 55b609f856e3ba9167bf141560a959189a40dd9f
simplified: 集宁
traditional: 集寧
pinyin: ji2 ning2
english:
Jining district or Zhining raion of Ulaanchab city 烏蘭察布市|乌兰察布市[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4 shi4], Inner Mongolia


id: ed2e893fdd68311c6251625380445e9d2abdac2e
simplified: 集思广益
traditional: 集思廣益
pinyin: ji2 si1 guang3 yi4
english:
collecting opinions is of wide benefit (idiom); to pool wisdom for mutual benefit/to profit from widespread suggestions


id: 20287321930e0e6506326bff7f795e34b3b55ef4
simplified: 集腋成裘
traditional: 集腋成裘
pinyin: ji2 ye4 cheng2 qiu2
english:
many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big/many a mickle makes a muckle


id: d6939663bf11b98f0856da5f933877b48c1be3f1
simplified: 双十节
traditional: 雙十節
pinyin: shuang1 shi2 jie2
english:
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义[Wu3 chang1 Qi3 yi4] of October 10th, 1911/(Taiwan) National Day


id: e7727211692c3f6d61957d0107fc4088f5d12c94
simplified: 双喜
traditional: 雙喜
pinyin: shuang1 xi3
english:
double happiness/the combined symmetric character 囍 (similar to 喜喜) as symbol of good luck, esp. marriage


id: 0510fe930d942430a7639a0fe072932b5393e5c4
simplified: 双子叶
traditional: 雙子葉
pinyin: shuang1 zi3 ye4
english:
dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants)


id: 93de21fcf05cbee6a610b4d6111a601f3dca1b1c
simplified: 双峰
traditional: 雙峰
pinyin: shuang1 feng1
english:
boobies/Shuangfeng county in Loudi 婁底|娄底[Lou2 di3], Hunan/(Tw) Twin Peaks, US television drama series 1990-1991


id: 157b13976e0c5847426f0074fb459248c72ea108
simplified: 双柏
traditional: 雙柏
pinyin: shuang1 bai3
english:
Shuangbai county in Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture 楚雄彞族自治州|楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: dcc9a0f447d7e83f1e9426b97a35e20b769cd82f
simplified: 双桥区
traditional: 雙橋區
pinyin: shuang1 qiao2 qu1
english:
Shuangqia suburban district of Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan/Shuangqia district of Chengde city 承德市[Cheng2 de2 shi4], Hebei


id: 0cc8d9c4b4635d4fc5308afb8b6f5f438b68b939
simplified: 双氯芬酸钠
traditional: 雙氯芬酸鈉
pinyin: shuang1 lu:4 fen1 suan1 na4
english:
diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller/also called voltaren 扶他林


id: ffeda9c1e46ea1b7be84c1fec3603b1d990dd406
simplified: 双湖
traditional: 雙湖
pinyin: shuang1 hu2
english:
two lakes/Shuanghu special district, Tibetan: Mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: 2179df4c6ff214d9093bbd7cbb35de14f154d49c
simplified: 双湖特别区
traditional: 雙湖特別區
pinyin: shuang1 hu2 te4 bie2 qu1
english:
Shuanghu special district, Tibetan: Mtsho gnyis don gcod khru'u, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: 51122340431ad15955435b855b1b95dba8b678e7
simplified: 双管齐下
traditional: 雙管齊下
pinyin: shuang1 guan3 qi2 xia4
english:
lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time/to attack one problem from two angles at the same time


id: 7041721e54fbbf90ca4f8ada82b37b84a56d6546
simplified: 双簧
traditional: 雙簧
pinyin: shuang1 huang2
english:
a form or theatrical double act, popular since Qing times, with one player seated stage front and acting out the poem or song of the second player hidden at the back (also written 雙黄|双黄)/double reed (as used in oboe or bassoon)/an oboe or bassoon


id: c44f98938b322f7b57a47f2eaab41be460a81b60
simplified: 双规
traditional: 雙規
pinyin: shuang1 gui1
english:
shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace


id: b429b3f038ba1edce6e2239db344686b19cf04e4
simplified: 双鸭山
traditional: 雙鴨山
pinyin: shuang1 ya1 shan1
english:
Shuangyashan prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China


id: ab22c59dc0a9b1362030cbafc42329eb6c8cf6cd
simplified: 双龙大裂谷
traditional: 雙龍大裂谷
pinyin: shuang1 long2 da4 lie4 gu3
english:
Shuanglong ravine in Mt Xiong'er national geological park 熊耳山[Xiong2 er3 shan1], Zaozhuang 棗莊|枣庄[Zao3 zhuang1], Shandong


id: cab8d652a128ec73ab947de7e58ce9378e3e390b
simplified: 雚菌
traditional: 雚菌
pinyin: huan2 jun1
english:
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)


id: 395c57af0decffdec7411015988d8619ad9e6960
simplified: 杂多
traditional: 雜多
pinyin: za2 duo1
english:
Zadoi county (Tibetan: rdza stod rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州|玉树藏族自治州[Yu4 shu4 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: acf71c92e22ab3d3bf5b29860ed68cc1044ff884
simplified: 杂家
traditional: 雜家
pinyin: za2 jia1
english:
Miscellaneous School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocate was Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦[Lu:3 Bu4 wei2]


id: b83fb27eea6113a267cc8ce103ca804c8b934cb1
simplified: 杂处
traditional: 雜處
pinyin: za2 chu3
english:
(of disparate elements) to mix in with one another/(of diverse groups of people) to live in the same area/to coexist


id: 7f9d6436736a156ed8e8b3c5faa36c6a7a180d80
simplified: 鸡同鸭讲
traditional: 雞同鴨講
pinyin: ji1 tong2 ya1 jiang3
english:
lit. chicken speaking with duck/fig. talking without communicating/people not understanding each other


id: f8c7787b1d6a9e2cc9839ecab6415db1746d01b7
simplified: 鸡掰
traditional: 雞掰
pinyin: ji1 bai1
english:
(Taiwanese) cunt (Minnan: tsi-bai)/(slang, used as an intensifier) fucking/fucked up/to fuck around with


id: ab5da9e921dbc362748a4348f00adf7edc161093
simplified: 鸡汤
traditional: 雞湯
pinyin: ji1 tang1
english:
chicken stock/chicken soup/(fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)


id: 2a6af849147199c1caf6249149e4d58d7adffbbd
simplified: 鸡犬升天
traditional: 雞犬升天
pinyin: ji1 quan3 sheng1 tian1
english:
lit. poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)/fig. to ride on sb else's success/Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too/Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it


id: 8da860b7682ecf7b2a61431fe4af8530eb527e25
simplified: 鸡肋
traditional: 雞肋
pinyin: ji1 lei4
english:
chicken ribs/sth of little value or interest/sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant to give up/to be physically weak


id: 69e960456c35f50d93ce7acd9457cf32b2f78466
simplified: 离
traditional: 離
pinyin: li2
radicalSimplified: 禸
radicalTraditional: 隹
variants: 離,離,离
english:
to leave/to part from/to be away from/(in giving distances) from/without (sth)/independent of/one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire/☲/surname Li


id: 1cbce4a4dbdfda4fd3ada377bfbb41fdc2883a78
simplified: 难兄难弟
traditional: 難兄難弟
pinyin: nan2 xiong1 nan2 di4
english:
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom)/fig. one is just as bad as the other


id: 42d1d45a59fb5ad2163a15c41461caf2cf60fcf5
simplified: 难为
traditional: 難為
pinyin: nan2 wei5
english:
to bother/to press sb, usu. to do sth/it's a tough job/sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)


id: 5378d58020f70a1318fde26cdc471c102e5ad5a8
simplified: 难经
traditional: 難經
pinyin: nan4 jing1
english:
Classic on Medical Problems, c. 1st century AD/abbr. for 黃帝八十一難經|黄帝八十一难经[Huang2 di4 Ba1 shi2 yi1 Nan4 jing1]


id: 828abbee052369cdacb8d2b8c2a349a330a1662b
simplified: 雨后春笋
traditional: 雨後春筍
pinyin: yu3 hou4 chun1 sun3
english:
lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth/many new things emerge in rapid succession


id: 942c58daad5a7d8996adcef5b9c72a8c8a6e6afc
simplified: 雨过天晴
traditional: 雨過天晴
pinyin: yu3 guo4 tian1 qing2
english:
sky clears after rain/new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom)/every cloud has a silver lining (idiom)/see also 雨過天青|雨过天青[yu3 guo4 tian1 qing1]


id: 27706b3561a20035979f343092547e1d865575b5
simplified: 雨过天青
traditional: 雨過天青
pinyin: yu3 guo4 tian1 qing1
english:
sky clears after rain/new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom)/every cloud has a silver lining (idiom)/see also 雨過天晴|雨过天晴[yu3 guo4 tian1 qing2]


id: b23e3ff1a6c34be77eb31de3cc7960f33f1336dd
simplified: 雪
traditional: 雪
pinyin: xue3
radicalSimplified: 雨
radicalTraditional: 雨
english:
snow/snowfall/CL:場|场[chang2]/to have the appearance of snow/to wipe away, off or out/to clean/surname Xue


id: 0884b1091672eb74b8f72ad6ce077cff539e44f9
simplified: 雪山太子
traditional: 雪山太子
pinyin: xue3 shan1 tai4 zi3
english:
Meri snow mountains in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di2 qing4 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan/also written 梅里雪山[Mei2 li3 xue3 shan1]


id: b9c2a4ad4957644ba0d5e50a8651186dae486590
simplified: 雪泥鸿爪
traditional: 雪泥鴻爪
pinyin: xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3
english:
a goose's footprint in the snow/vestiges of the past (idiom)/the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)


id: 9fa7fe2c52b046c179d737dd91342a36aa766c36
simplified: 云南
traditional: 雲南
pinyin: yun2 nan2
english:
Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[dian1] or 雲|云, capital Kunming 昆明


id: 2702f093f36fac595ac3d1c4a175cd892fc896b7
simplified: 云南省
traditional: 雲南省
pinyin: yun2 nan2 sheng3
english:
Yunnan Province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[Dian1] or 雲|云[Yun2], capital Kunming 昆明[Kun1 ming2]


id: 24a101762d407b65b5fbefc02c04c70ce4a8a7b6
simplified: 云散风流
traditional: 雲散風流
pinyin: yun2 san4 feng1 liu2
english:
lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down/people disperse home/things return to normal


id: 7d46c5c77f9167d91d23701d6581750369829433
simplified: 云窗雾槛
traditional: 雲窗霧檻
pinyin: yun2 chuang1 wu4 kan3
english:
cloud around the window, mist on the threshold (idiom); tall building with the windows in the clouds


id: 012de7bb8c2dcfcf6446067984eef2810b35c390
simplified: 云贵高原
traditional: 雲貴高原
pinyin: yun2 gui4 gao1 yuan2
english:
Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, west of Guangxi and southern margins of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan


id: 3cdaead878df535c181b84d3b71191b73b89eb66
simplified: 云龙
traditional: 雲龍
pinyin: yun2 long2
english:
Yunlong district of Xuzhou city 徐州市[Xu2 zhou1 shi4], Jiangsu/Yunlong county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: 945c2b65577f90eaa8c99946102fd4579f5c55b8
simplified: 零
traditional: 零
pinyin: ling2
radicalSimplified: 雨
radicalTraditional: 雨
variants: 零
english:
zero/nought/zero sign/fractional/fragmentary/odd (of numbers)/(placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)/fraction/(in mathematics) remainder (after division)/extra/to wither and fall/to wither


id: 1799a5e11b663b2f001f4e0a692b1018674a5957
simplified: 零声母
traditional: 零聲母
pinyin: ling2 sheng1 mu3
english:
absence of initial consonant/a Chinese syllable having no initial consonant (starting directly with the medial vowel)


id: b7d410a54a0626983d7c4abd01b08f107554a38b
simplified: 雷大雨小
traditional: 雷大雨小
pinyin: lei2 da4 yu3 xiao3
english:
lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action/his bark is worse than his bite


id: 5df8ef9fc367d5223913138d0d2398c526588462
simplified: 雷山
traditional: 雷山
pinyin: lei2 shan1
english:
Leishan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: 175d6a68d312ed2eca98febfce16198ff5d413ce
simplified: 雷打不动
traditional: 雷打不動
pinyin: lei2 da3 bu4 dong4
english:
not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable/to adhere rigidly to regulations/will go ahead whatever happens (of an arrangement or plan)


id: a7f5ea95b66b731e62de5ecab7e3370807a694e6
simplified: 雷波
traditional: 雷波
pinyin: lei2 bo1
english:
Leibo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan


id: 88833ea4eddfd1fd8a35a467aa2576d0a2cc95af
simplified: 雷声大，雨点小
traditional: 雷聲大，雨點小
pinyin: lei2 sheng1 da4 , yu3 dian3 xiao3
english:
loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom); a lot of talk, but no action/action speaks louder than words/his bite is worse than his bark


id: aab86275cfe076e43e1d52aeea4d30ed88432b97
simplified: 雷锋
traditional: 雷鋒
pinyin: lei2 feng1
english:
Lei Feng (1940-1962), made into a model of altruism and dedication to the Party by propaganda from 1963 onwards


id: 3bb3ec69788c15d8c89341aa7710aa12babf9cf3
simplified: 电传
traditional: 電傳
pinyin: dian4 chuan2
english:
to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc)/a message transmitted using electronic means/telex/teleprinter


id: fac3f8bdab1af27ae38c045e844b50433bc1ecfd
simplified: 电访
traditional: 電訪
pinyin: dian4 fang3
english:
(Tw) to make a telephone call (generally as a representative of a company, school or agency etc, to an individual, often for the purpose of conducting a survey) (abbr. for 電話訪問|电话访问)


id: 182fc59006427d2b7cbb87175ea2e30d2d1f7dee
simplified: 震
traditional: 震
pinyin: zhen4
radicalSimplified: 雨
radicalTraditional: 雨
english:
to shake/to vibrate/to jolt/to quake/excited/shocked/one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder/☳


id: 0098c29a55e3d9cc5882a6844d7dfea31610b8ab
simplified: 震古烁今
traditional: 震古爍今
pinyin: zhen4 gu3 shuo4 jin1
english:
shaking the old and illuminating the new (idiom); surpassing the ancients and dazzling contemporaries/glorious and world-shattering


id: 3901689f2baecff16b8c776a3371a7a43f26a071
simplified: 霍城
traditional: 霍城
pinyin: huo4 cheng2
english:
Huocheng county or Qorghas nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: b0772c1e9bc244ef66ea16c06a223a86885364f5
simplified: 霍夫曼
traditional: 霍夫曼
pinyin: huo4 fu1 man4
english:
Hofmann or Hoffman (name)/August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist/Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor


id: 0297b4335b8d582218a56c296fa5f943ab44fb99
simplified: 霍尔布鲁克
traditional: 霍爾布魯克
pinyin: huo4 er3 bu4 lu3 ke4
english:
Holbrook (name)/Richard C.A. Holbrooke (1941-2010), US diplomat, influential in brokering 1995 Dayton Bosnian peace deal, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009


id: 9768be03b868dfa419e4661cb8b261975a583ae4
simplified: 霓裳
traditional: 霓裳
pinyin: ni2 chang2
english:
nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1]/Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲[Ni2 chang2 yu3 yi1 qu1] or 霓裳羽衣舞[Ni2 chang2 yu3 yi1 wu3]


id: 42d6cf7a964cfd1d92669f152ab641c33e3c37e5
simplified: 露台
traditional: 露臺
pinyin: lu4 tai2
english:
balcony/patio/flat roof/terrace/deck (unroofed platform)/outdoor stage/ancient imperial celestial observation terrace


id: 4c7c1457eee3f01ead53c883b5b03a79f35d3b6f
simplified: 霸机
traditional: 霸機
pinyin: ba4 ji1
english:
(of passengers) to stage a sit-in after the plane has landed (as a protest against bad service etc) (Tw)


id: e7689e2189109cab901ef4d0a01940d27f81f508
simplified: 霸王别姬
traditional: 霸王別姬
pinyin: ba4 wang2 bie2 ji1
english:
The Conqueror Bids Farewell to His Favorite Concubine (tragic opera by Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳[Mei2 Lan2 fang1])/Farewell My Concubine (1993 film by Chen Kaige)


id: 790e712f22c50bfe07feddf104e4628213edc077
simplified: 霸道
traditional: 霸道
pinyin: ba4 dao4
english:
the Way of the Hegemon/abbr. for 霸王之道/despotic rule/rule by might/evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道/overbearing/tyranny/(of liquor, medicine etc) strong/potent


id: b539a0e2d19b9aef56d339d5999a45977c86e22d
simplified: 灵渠
traditional: 靈渠
pinyin: ling2 qu2
english:
Lingqu canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安, Guanxi, build in 214 BC to join Changjiang 長江|长江 with Pearl River 珠江


id: 18fb3d5d1e564de8d22acfec66e42ca3d0bd0413
simplified: 灵犀
traditional: 靈犀
pinyin: ling2 xi1
english:
rhinoceros horn, reputed to confer telepathic powers/fig. mutual sensitivity/tacit exchange of romantic feelings/a meeting of minds


id: 487ffb0236c7bfcfe01f62021e2fd089836f33fd
simplified: 灵雀寺
traditional: 靈雀寺
pinyin: ling2 qiao3 si4
english:
Nyitso Monastery in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[Dao4 fu2 xian4], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan


id: 61fcfd034dd72f3ecf0429056c7b931be9dc9887
simplified: 青
traditional: 青
pinyin: qing1
radicalSimplified: 青
radicalTraditional: 青
variants: 靑
english:
nature's color/green or blue/greenish black/youth/young (of people)/abbr. for 青海[Qing1 hai3], Qinghai Province


id: 2e87895d7c3e9e843d328a34bff0f258ac3cd4bd
simplified: 青出于蓝而胜于蓝
traditional: 青出於藍而勝於藍
pinyin: qing1 chu1 yu2 lan2 er2 sheng4 yu2 lan2
english:
lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom)/fig. the student surpasses the master


id: d139b265b338e0c43beed29f9850bd6c4053f886
simplified: 青山
traditional: 青山
pinyin: qing1 shan1
english:
green hills/(the good) life/Qingshan district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 shi4], Hubei/Qingshan district of Baotou city 包頭市|包头市[Bao1 tou2 shi4], Inner Mongolia


id: 8134cef4f9d29098f8ca21d6677de1a84991e828
simplified: 青山区
traditional: 青山區
pinyin: qing1 shan1 qu1
english:
Qingshan district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 shi4], Hubei/Qingshan district of Baotou city 包頭市|包头市[Bao1 tou2 shi4], Inner Mongolia


id: 17cae92ac8cace9ad307efb3a8c6d669eecc3d34
simplified: 青梅竹马
traditional: 青梅竹馬
pinyin: qing1 mei2 zhu2 ma3
english:
lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom)/fig. innocent children's games/childhood sweethearts/a couple who grew up as childhood friends


id: d3417d2f5b51dff8d73efb01e8d7b95aaae0ec7f
simplified: 青黄不接
traditional: 青黃不接
pinyin: qing1 huang2 bu4 jie1
english:
lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop/temporary deficit in manpower or resources/unable to make ends meet


id: cd48b0e846b3718006bb280590d63338aea44633
simplified: 青龙
traditional: 青龍
pinyin: qing1 long2
english:
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙[Dong1 fang1 Qing1 long2] or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙[Dong1 fang1 Cang1 long2]/(slang) man without pubic hair


id: c364c55336f050da13d65257ed32f62a94521134
simplified: 靖国神社
traditional: 靖國神社
pinyin: jing4 guo2 shen2 she4
english:
Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals


id: 4a77d8518bb6a52b62ca530c6490d007acaf86b7
simplified: 靓号
traditional: 靚號
pinyin: liang4 hao4
english:
desirable number (for one's telephone, licence plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)


id: a67ece2e1aef385a2b82869092642a6c760fe739
simplified: 静坐不能
traditional: 靜坐不能
pinyin: jing4 zuo4 bu4 neng2
english:
akathisia (condition of restlessness, a side-effect of neuroleptic antipsychotic drug)/unable to sit still/hyperactivity/restlessness


id: cbbb11bc53c917386d332f772566fa42a791f155
simplified: 静山
traditional: 靜山
pinyin: jing4 shan1
english:
Cheng San (precinct in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore)/Cheng Shan GRC, formerly (until the 1997 elections) a group representation constituency (electoral division) in Singapore


id: 760a4263b6e54504e3246444780369f646843cae
simplified: 非
traditional: 非
pinyin: fei1
radicalSimplified: 非
radicalTraditional: 非
english:
to not be/not/wrong/incorrect/non-/un-/in-/to reproach or blame/(colloquial) to insist on/simply must/abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa


id: edaf7848776e20942bc4b39671a25c1b99deea77
simplified: 靠
traditional: 靠
pinyin: kao4
radicalSimplified: 非
radicalTraditional: 非
english:
to lean against or on/to stand by the side of/to come near to/to depend on/to trust/to fuck (vulgar)/traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)


id: 4d0f27c4b609cca5dbcac70319b6938480db80c7
simplified: 靠北
traditional: 靠北
pinyin: kao4 bei3
english:
(lit.) to cry over one's dad's death (from Taiwanese 哭爸, POJ pr. [khàu-pē])/(slang) (Tw) to rattle on/to carp/stop whining!/shut the hell up!/fuck!/damn!


id: e66e96961c6f00275410b600cf1047170575eadf
simplified: 靠山吃山，靠水吃水
traditional: 靠山吃山，靠水吃水
pinyin: kao4 shan1 chi1 shan1 , kao4 shui3 chi1 shui3
english:
lit. the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea (idiom)/fig. to make the best use of local resources/to exploit one's position to advance oneself/to find one's niche/to live off the land


id: 8c85f3807d300c15a7a28dc6e47f54b7e8cfb8c5
simplified: 靠腰
traditional: 靠腰
pinyin: kao4 yao1
english:
(lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese 哭枵, POJ pr. [khàu-iau])/(slang) (Tw) to whine/shut the hell up!/fuck!/damn!


id: 47e30f07706bb71e22798a61cb46e20feef3ef2e
simplified: 靡不有初，鲜克有终
traditional: 靡不有初，鮮克有終
pinyin: mi3 bu4 you3 chu1 , xian3 ke4 you3 zhong1
english:
almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle


id: 86cc041faa459a1785d9b8c04e95d7fcb120629e
simplified: 面向
traditional: 面嚮
pinyin: mian4 xiang4
english:
to face/to turn towards/to incline to/geared towards/catering for/-oriented/facial feature/appearance/aspect/facet


id: 7b02e0ad10e3d2f370c04b02cb60a38191fc4eb6
simplified: 面壁
traditional: 面壁
pinyin: mian4 bi4
english:
to face the wall/to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism)/(fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc


id: 8cde12b640bc6d58d3724539ed730219b528b8ef
simplified: 面壁思过
traditional: 面壁思過
pinyin: mian4 bi4 si1 guo4
english:
to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds/to stand in the corner (punishment)/(fig.) to examine one's conscience


id: 125caa78f39e5a562683cd2eb2c5443df8141227
simplified: 面子
traditional: 面子
pinyin: mian4 zi5
english:
outer surface/outside/honor/reputation/face (as in "losing face")/self-respect/feelings/(medicinal) powder


id: e4e5fe386088911f917a3ab75c47d9232fbd102f
simplified: 革兰氏
traditional: 革蘭氏
pinyin: ge2 lan2 shi4
english:
Mr Gram/Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法


id: 6774aa31714d9f40439af747f8258211031f0556
simplified: 革面洗心
traditional: 革面洗心
pinyin: ge2 mian4 xi3 xin1
english:
lit. to renew one's face and wash one's heart (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways/to turn over a new leaf


id: 67c4d1bec40c124331649871c96b482a4eaebdda
simplified: 鞍点
traditional: 鞍點
pinyin: an1 dian3
english:
saddle point (math.), a critical point of a function of several variables that is neither a maximum nor a minimum


id: 8fb7abae23c2d3f4544afec11cfebfa56f369d1b
simplified: 巩留
traditional: 鞏留
pinyin: gong3 liu2
english:
Gongliu county or Toqquztara nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: 0b5dc471128a97e0ba05be454d93402de53ea495
simplified: 鞠躬尽力
traditional: 鞠躬盡力
pinyin: ju1 gong1 jin4 li4
english:
to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost/same as 鞠躬盡瘁|鞠躬尽瘁[ju1 gong1 jin4 cui4]


id: 8a46b2be1f67d527236f135067fc869cc351e4eb
simplified: 鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已
traditional: 鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已
pinyin: ju1 gong1 jin4 cui4 , si3 er2 hou4 yi3
english:
to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one's whole life/with every breath in one's body, unto one's dying day


id: 81562e419240bfdad7c185779a6b713f10c0434d
simplified: 鞭
traditional: 鞭
pinyin: bian1
radicalSimplified: 革
radicalTraditional: 革
english:
whip or lash/to flog/to whip/conductor's baton/segmented iron weapon (old)/penis (of animal, served as food)


id: 029b6d1d5bc2377ad13e0cd0ae970522ef0bca57
simplified: 韦格纳
traditional: 韋格納
pinyin: wei2 ge2 na4
english:
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift/also written 魏格納|魏格纳


id: 6720a15f0e0d334785ac417a255822d68cc49ee0
simplified: 韩
traditional: 韓
pinyin: han2
radicalSimplified: 韦
radicalTraditional: 韋
english:
Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄/Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897/Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國|大韩民国/surname Han


id: 45b1ad2460ed27f268889d0d44567354992c4415
simplified: 韩国
traditional: 韓國
pinyin: han2 guo2
english:
South Korea (Republic of Korea)/Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄[zhan4 guo2 qi1 xiong2]/Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897


id: 6a49f823c2a73aa5610c11d0d967b736beabe3fc
simplified: 韩复榘
traditional: 韓復榘
pinyin: han2 fu4 ju3
english:
Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2] after he abandoned Ji'nan to the Japanese


id: f4e12c514a68d6e6f41c6e3b81b92c6377b74a91
simplified: 韩愈
traditional: 韓愈
pinyin: han2 yu4
english:
Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 and neoclassical 復古|复古 movements


id: dc6f727d13c8b7ad219752373fd5bcb45fcdafc8
simplified: 韩爱晶
traditional: 韓愛晶
pinyin: han2 ai4 jing1
english:
Han Aijing (1945-), notorious red guard leader during Cultural Revolution, spent 15 years in prison for imprisoning and torturing political leaders


id: 16a58eb7f955f4aec6f454210d4af826bb52956a
simplified: 韩邦庆
traditional: 韓邦慶
pinyin: han2 bang1 qing4
english:
Han Bangqing (1856-1894), writer and publisher of experimental literary journal in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular, author of novel 海上花列傳|海上花列传


id: 13aafff292b2d8ac2bd1d7fe573cf1d721935bb4
simplified: 韩非
traditional: 韓非
pinyin: han2 fei1
english:
Han Fei, also known as Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3] (c. 280-233 BC), Legalist philosopher of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)


id: c5e4d5cd5146f803275b3566a54f8bfb62b847ed
simplified: 韩非子
traditional: 韓非子
pinyin: han2 fei1 zi3
english:
Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非|韩非[Han2 Fei1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)


id: 13b4d7f08f84b10465b80537dc0715622cb0407c
simplified: 韬略
traditional: 韜略
pinyin: tao1 lu:e4
english:
military strategy/military tactics/originally refers to military classics Six Secret Teachings 六韜|六韬[Liu4 tao1] and Three Strategies 三略[San1 lu:e4]


id: f2110c6cf5f2eeb0898c6f1e605aea459d853718
simplified: 韭菜
traditional: 韭菜
pinyin: jiu3 cai4
english:
garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives/(fig.) retail investors who lose their money to more experienced operators (i.e. they are "harvested" like garlic chives)


id: 0499f4cece7b273e8f34c57a3ba7c2a22425e894
simplified: 音译
traditional: 音譯
pinyin: yin1 yi4
english:
transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)/characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)/transcription (linguistics)/to transcribe phonetic symbols


id: 4147ab50e02b57d1f2049d3199388b92a223976b
simplified: 音韵
traditional: 音韻
pinyin: yin1 yun4
english:
music/rhyme and rhythm/initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character/phoneme


id: 586c33a031c2841ec090c3fa78ac3bb076972bf8
simplified: 韵
traditional: 韻
pinyin: yun4
radicalSimplified: 音
radicalTraditional: 音
variants: 韻,韵
english:
beautiful sound/appeal/charm/vowel/rhyme/in Chinese phonetics, the medial and final sound of a syllable (i.e. excluding the initial consonant)


id: 48e6aa8b76712d58c42a3c851e8ac637a83029ff
simplified: 韵尾
traditional: 韻尾
pinyin: yun4 wei3
english:
the rhyming part of a syllable/in a Chinese syllable, the medial vowel plus final consonant (if any)


id: 3271ff140be7268b56277beff042482d566ca886
simplified: 韵书
traditional: 韻書
pinyin: yun4 shu1
english:
rhyming dictionary/traditional Chinese phonetic dictionary with words ordered first by four tones 四聲|四声 then rhyme 韻|韵 (i.e. medial consonant and final)


id: 48648cc45ebe8bf701301ce25fa94ab3bc613f39
simplified: 韵母
traditional: 韻母
pinyin: yun4 mu3
english:
medial and final of a Chinese syllable (excluding initial consonant and tone)/the rhyming part of a Chinese syllable/rhyme/vowel/character used in traditional phonetics to indicate value of rhyme/final sound/phoneme


id: eddd85f754ebe3dcd6cc8aaba2307d3e2b404ee4
simplified: 顶
traditional: 頂
pinyin: ding3
radicalSimplified: 页
radicalTraditional: 頁
variants: 頑
english:
apex/crown of the head/top/roof/most/to carry on the head/to push to the top/to go against/to replace/to substitute/to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc)/(slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile/classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc


id: b734c9f7dc4a7a141e205c46b0a0e0af78d1e3b4
simplified: 顶灯
traditional: 頂燈
pinyin: ding3 deng1
english:
dome light (of a taxi etc)/ceiling light (in a room)/interior light (of a car)/light on the top of a mast etc


id: f368989d179359eb72e2a2b37eabd12d69909a0e
simplified: 顶罪
traditional: 頂罪
pinyin: ding3 zui4
english:
to take the blame for sb else/to compensate for one's crime/to get charges dropped (by paying money etc)


id: 98f11d3a086fbb7ad18ef92a9ce0ac457d5acbb7
simplified: 顷
traditional: 頃
pinyin: qing3
radicalSimplified: 页
radicalTraditional: 頁
english:
unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩[mu3] or 6.67 hectares/a short while/a little while ago/circa. (for approximate dates)


id: cc5adeab34339d1fab808f06b1ad193c104dbd43
simplified: 项
traditional: 項
pinyin: xiang4
radicalSimplified: 页
radicalTraditional: 頁
english:
back of neck/item/thing/term (in a mathematical formula)/sum (of money)/classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc/surname Xiang


id: 4fd22f1b7b4759672771f10b11b58c6e06564b07
simplified: 项英
traditional: 項英
pinyin: xiang4 ying1
english:
Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍, killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事变


id: f7a2eed8b93a274e4a97b41c84e50583b87de778
simplified: 项庄舞剑
traditional: 項莊舞劍
pinyin: xiang4 zhuang1 wu3 jian4
english:
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] (idiom, refers to plot to kill Liu Bang during Feast at Hongmen 鴻門宴|鸿门宴[Hong2 men2 Yan4] in 206 BC)/fig. an elaborate deception hiding malicious intent


id: 879fe92b37abdb72b860fddb5ab7e5590e5c606d
simplified: 项庄舞剑，意在沛公
traditional: 項莊舞劍，意在沛公
pinyin: xiang4 zhuang1 wu3 jian4 , yi4 zai4 pei4 gong1
english:
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] (idiom); refers to 206 BC plot to murder Liu Bang, aka Duke of Pei 沛公[Pei4 gong1] and the future Han emperor, during a sword dance at Feast at Hongmen 鴻門宴|鸿门宴[Hong2 men2 Yan4]/an elaborate deception to hide malicious intent


id: d1b0faf94b08c6fdcdf73573d5f9676a2f4fe961
simplified: 顺手牵羊
traditional: 順手牽羊
pinyin: shun4 shou3 qian1 yang2
english:
lit. to lead away a goat in passing (idiom); to steal sth under cover of an emergency/to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain


id: 0b3e76341121d4be87013162ff3c37d2302c3ce1
simplified: 顺水推舟
traditional: 順水推舟
pinyin: shun4 shui3 tui1 zhou1
english:
lit. to push the boat with the current/fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit


id: f60faa232766ffa91a907ff3eca9af8d96200f82
simplified: 顺产
traditional: 順產
pinyin: shun4 chan3
english:
to give birth without complications/easy childbirth/safe delivery/natural birth (without surgical operation)


id: d0276b665043686fe3442cbd992f38334f40487b
simplified: 顺风车
traditional: 順風車
pinyin: shun4 feng1 che1
english:
vehicle that gives one a free ride/(fig.) (ride on sb's) coattails/(take advantage of) an opportunity


id: 2a4fde77cf4bc142438ad05ac0eba9c11486e918
simplified: 须弥
traditional: 須彌
pinyin: xu1 mi2
english:
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition/Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues


id: 6fc269ee32861b20b8cb2a52a53389d1124839bc
simplified: 顿
traditional: 頓
pinyin: dun4
radicalSimplified: 页
radicalTraditional: 頁
english:
to stop/to pause/to arrange/to lay out/to kowtow/to stamp (one's foot)/at once/classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal


id: 7306a05a52f83c7fdceb83fcde2aaa988c5b1f3d
simplified: 顿挫
traditional: 頓挫
pinyin: dun4 cuo4
english:
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes/a cadence/punctuated by a transition/with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)


id: 40cbc8d35e44b4aed85d73e7392c02571680e552
simplified: 领导小组
traditional: 領導小組
pinyin: ling3 dao3 xiao3 zu3
english:
leading small group (LSG), a CPC body that exercises general oversight on matters relating to a specific area (LSG for foreign affairs 外事工作, LSG for comprehensively deepening reforms 全面深化改革 etc)/aka central leading group


id: 03cf1b7407d541879bd50a999be6fc0232194aa4
simplified: 领盒饭
traditional: 領盒飯
pinyin: ling3 he2 fan4
english:
(coll.) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies)


id: f72a735aa1b376514c272587559f3d6bf78ebb85
simplified: 颐指气使
traditional: 頤指氣使
pinyin: yi2 zhi3 qi4 shi3
english:
lit. to order people by pointing the chin (idiom); to signal orders by facial gesture/arrogant and bossy


id: b462a35a4964b3b07427d9b6af9a1543ad7be830
simplified: 头
traditional: 頭
pinyin: tou2
radicalSimplified: 大
radicalTraditional: 頁
english:
head/hair style/the top/end/beginning or end/a stub/remnant/chief/boss/side/aspect/first/leading/classifier for pigs or livestock/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: 53490070706df4c9e34f7f3fbe2aaa86eac80475
simplified: 头家
traditional: 頭家
pinyin: tou2 jia1
english:
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings/banker (gambling)/preceding player (in a game)/(dialect) boss/proprietor


id: 50d0ad49d6dac350edea0526bc285294ef2e8aae
simplified: 头屯河
traditional: 頭屯河
pinyin: tou2 tun2 he2
english:
Toutunhe district (Uighur: Tudungxaba Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 Shi4], Xinjiang


id: 90a3e1b0c92eb71834fe5d5e036ff8a280e8811f
simplified: 头巾
traditional: 頭巾
pinyin: tou2 jin1
english:
cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times/headscarf (typically worn by women)/kerchief/turban


id: 00b43d6084fd236589c88239fb320b34c17c37b1
simplified: 头悬梁，锥刺股
traditional: 頭懸梁，錐刺股
pinyin: tou2 xuan2 liang2 , zhui1 ci4 gu3
english:
lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)/fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly


id: d3a8205701ef888a4768ddea2c353d8ad889559b
simplified: 头痛医头，脚痛医脚
traditional: 頭痛醫頭，腳痛醫腳
pinyin: tou2 tong4 yi1 tou2 , jiao3 tong4 yi1 jiao3
english:
to treat the symptoms rather than getting to the root of the problem (proverb)/reactive (rather than proactive)


id: cf9652e76aa239af646216e6ff70376cf6b6de82
simplified: 头香
traditional: 頭香
pinyin: tou2 xiang1
english:
the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities)/(slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc


id: 7d051f1121618d80e153e928dce010c4e92ea90a
simplified: 头发胡子一把抓
traditional: 頭髮鬍子一把抓
pinyin: tou2 fa5 hu2 zi5 yi1 ba3 zhua1
english:
lit. hair and beard all in one stroke/fig. to handle different things by the same method/one method to solve all problems/one size fits all


id: aac2d0b14bfd9d39cfba74d1d16c38ca29e08e3b
simplified: 题
traditional: 題
pinyin: ti2
radicalSimplified: 页
radicalTraditional: 頁
english:
topic/problem for discussion/exam question/subject/to inscribe/to mention/CL:個|个[ge4],道[dao4]/surname Ti


id: dc31004fd207c3e78fb682fcdfe14069e02b3eff
simplified: 题序
traditional: 題序
pinyin: ti2 xu4
english:
to compose a preface (or introductory remarks, etc)/question (or section) order (on an exam paper)/question (or section) number


id: 7eb57082dc0138db3d7632a6bd4055519c6235b7
simplified: 题诗
traditional: 題詩
pinyin: ti2 shi1
english:
to inscribe a poem (often, composed on the spot) on a painting, fan or ceramic bowl etc as a work of calligraphy/an inscribed poem


id: 52ab4e678a4bf2f6e46c9afa160db0e1a6c5bb55
simplified: 额勒贝格·道尔吉
traditional: 額勒貝格·道爾吉
pinyin: e2 le4 bei4 ge2 · dao4 er3 ji2
english:
Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009


id: f6d5e297c12d48fa14ce9bb78567a6135992c232
simplified: 额尔古纳
traditional: 額爾古納
pinyin: e2 er3 gu3 na4
english:
Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia


id: ee6075d4b5affe2c68c40b10f1215f651efdd51c
simplified: 额尔古纳右旗
traditional: 額爾古納右旗
pinyin: e2 er3 gu3 na4 you4 qi2
english:
former Ergun Right banner, now in Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia


id: 9b9de6474abd3a105d1617c92d286482180120e1
simplified: 额尔古纳左旗
traditional: 額爾古納左旗
pinyin: e2 er3 gu3 na4 zuo3 qi2
english:
former Ergun Left banner, now in Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia


id: e6b99917b69d46f1827a9a27c606a19a83580de7
simplified: 额尔古纳河
traditional: 額爾古納河
pinyin: e2 er3 gu3 na4 he2
english:
Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]


id: 195db6634abca19a1451235a82d9fadf5cbb06df
simplified: 额尔齐斯河
traditional: 額爾齊斯河
pinyin: e2 er3 qi2 si1 he2
english:
Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean


id: 310284fdf1d58f67e4972a0060fb863538ba0b00
simplified: 额菲尔士
traditional: 額菲爾士
pinyin: e2 fei1 er3 shi4
english:
Everest (name)/Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843/transliteration refers to Mt Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan)/Nepalese: Sagarmatha


id: 77a97b6964f61570328b7388324dbc7282f54832
simplified: 颛顼
traditional: 顓頊
pinyin: zhuan1 xu1
english:
Zhuan Xu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4], trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC


id: b8f08ef5e2bcf3120334e8b2699cc1fcf5436659
simplified: 颠倒黑白
traditional: 顛倒黑白
pinyin: dian1 dao3 hei1 bai2
english:
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately/to misrepresent the facts/to invert right and wrong


id: 7067f2c8e21833eaba683728bc089f9023f17d92
simplified: 颠覆
traditional: 顛覆
pinyin: dian1 fu4
english:
to topple (i.e. knock over)/to capsize/fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion)/to undermine/to subvert


id: db148cb6d4bea4bb7c567e9cb823ebf1de05ed63
simplified: 颠覆国家罪
traditional: 顛覆國家罪
pinyin: dian1 fu4 guo2 jia1 zui4
english:
crime of incitement to overthrow the state/abbr. for 煽動顛覆國家政權|煽动颠覆国家政权[shan1 dong4 dian1 fu4 guo2 jia1 zheng4 quan2]


id: 69e5752d0d823f45eb62fd0e13d30f8c67057fd8
simplified: 类书
traditional: 類書
pinyin: lei4 shu1
english:
reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China)


id: 47d6746a34d3a7b83b0bc92d914bb80d765c6da6
simplified: 类篇
traditional: 類篇
pinyin: lei4 pian1
english:
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] et al in 11th century


id: 26738e89fab73bbcd6382d221e69fc893824326f
simplified: 顾恺之
traditional: 顧愷之
pinyin: gu4 kai3 zhi1
english:
Gu Kaizhi or Ku K'aichih (346-407), famous painter of Eastern Jin dynasty, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家


id: ef6fd1b945a87121d72ebebe7786a0547f9f468c
simplified: 顾此失彼
traditional: 顧此失彼
pinyin: gu4 ci3 shi1 bi3
english:
lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom)/fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once/cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other


id: 427d94fce9878423b2945abf5888c7c137b04438
simplified: 顾炎武
traditional: 顧炎武
pinyin: gu4 yan2 wu3
english:
Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录


id: c37eac046a2d6dac7d579f71c836d4455aeef575
simplified: 顾野王
traditional: 顧野王
pinyin: gu4 ye3 wang2
english:
Gu Yewang (519-581), historian and an interpreter of classical texts, editor of Yupian 玉篇[Yu4 pian1]


id: 0aedd3e6ad874bbb3920059aaccc06d2d915c7c4
simplified: 风中烛，瓦上霜
traditional: 風中燭，瓦上霜
pinyin: feng1 zhong1 zhu2 , wa3 shang4 shuang1
english:
lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom)/fig. (of sb's life) feeble/hanging on a thread


id: de2e4eb578013c21e4ee2b16e650b7611a160520
simplified: 风向
traditional: 風向
pinyin: feng1 xiang4
english:
wind direction/the way the wind is blowing/fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones)/how things are developing/course of events


id: 46e6f13b2164350814b1f32b967f190ad9d2001e
simplified: 风城
traditional: 風城
pinyin: feng1 cheng2
english:
The Windy City, nickname for Chicago 芝加哥[Zhi1 jia1 ge1], Wellington, New Zealand 惠靈頓|惠灵顿[Hui4 ling2 dun4] and Hsinchu, Taiwan 新竹[Xin1 zhu2]


id: dbfd904f36750b38f263f39f893f034364d83cc9
simplified: 风平浪静
traditional: 風平浪靜
pinyin: feng1 ping2 lang4 jing4
english:
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment/all is quiet/a dead calm (at sea)


id: 4806acdbb5623b083de288edea940e88bd29b91a
simplified: 风恬浪静
traditional: 風恬浪靜
pinyin: feng1 tian2 lang4 jing4
english:
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment/All is quiet./a dead calm (at sea)


id: a7ad33bffc58339a35f52e98cc2dbf2e52d0b58f
simplified: 风情
traditional: 風情
pinyin: feng1 qing2
english:
mien/bearing/grace/amorous feelings/flirtatious expressions/local conditions and customs/wind force, direction etc


id: 2294e94d977062feabb027c008c2888619f39743
simplified: 风流
traditional: 風流
pinyin: feng1 liu2
english:
distinguished and accomplished/outstanding/talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle/romantic/dissolute/loose


id: 3724542ddea1dbca448eca01feeaf6fc31b42835
simplified: 风流债
traditional: 風流債
pinyin: feng1 liu2 zhai4
english:
lit. love debt/fig. moral obligation in consequence of a love affair/karmic consequences of a love affair


id: 41871460c42f99853efd7e6fd08f63ce0feceaa4
simplified: 风流云散
traditional: 風流雲散
pinyin: feng1 liu2 yun2 san4
english:
lit. dispersed by wind and scattered like clouds (idiom); fig. scattered far and wide (of friends and relatives)


id: cf175732f8e2a82bd22891ad98d000b902eafcf9
simplified: 风花雪月
traditional: 風花雪月
pinyin: feng1 hua1 xue3 yue4
english:
wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance/love affair/romance is in the air/dissipated life


id: 278130a7814784120e63e581e70159617928860b
simplified: 风头
traditional: 風頭
pinyin: feng1 tou2
english:
wind direction/the way the wind blows/fig. trend/direction of events/how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself)/public opinion (concerning one's actions)/publicity (usually derog.)/limelight


id: 5387da7d8584c05e625fe2ee667b2c9dffd76369
simplified: 飞挝
traditional: 飛撾
pinyin: fei1 wo1
english:
ancient weapon with a tip like a grappling hook, thrown at enemy combatants in order to capture them


id: b1756218c3b725cdd119b1701ab76d86e6d3c236
simplified: 飞虎队
traditional: 飛虎隊
pinyin: fei1 hu3 dui4
english:
Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two/Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit


id: 9ef928241dbb7cc39f295d4f536f92d704b3afd1
simplified: 食不厌精，脍不厌细
traditional: 食不厭精，膾不厭細
pinyin: shi2 bu4 yan4 jing1 , kuai4 bu4 yan4 xi4
english:
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects)/fig. to be fastidious about one's food


id: bf486455e01436843e7e761a618ec608fa47d6ba
simplified: 食之无味，弃之可惜
traditional: 食之無味，棄之可惜
pinyin: shi2 zhi1 wu2 wei4 , qi4 zhi1 ke3 xi1
english:
lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom)/fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them


id: a42a5ff7caefecde17913953dd50eabccf9d5b07
simplified: 食古不化
traditional: 食古不化
pinyin: shi2 gu3 bu4 hua4
english:
to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom)/to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject


id: e7296435ded02ba90d2b89d93b7fc05b2ff41bc0
simplified: 食火鸡
traditional: 食火雞
pinyin: shi2 huo3 ji1
english:
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea/CL:隻|只[zhi1]


id: f9b271eb7ee8cd73d2302a94d77895f9868bdb39
simplified: 食玉炊桂
traditional: 食玉炊桂
pinyin: shi2 yu4 chui1 gui4
english:
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)/the cost of living is very high


id: c38d009bfbcdb4f9a07c6d027638f74dff860b20
simplified: 食肉寝皮
traditional: 食肉寢皮
pinyin: shi2 rou4 qin3 pi2
english:
to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb/implacable hatred/to have sb's guts for garters


id: 7c152731eb269f892c48d7814f73b193ce4d30d6
simplified: 饥不择食
traditional: 飢不擇食
pinyin: ji1 bu4 ze2 shi2
english:
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers/When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.


id: f1f3abacf3bf6084d4990c1518211421b475fa6f
simplified: 饭团
traditional: 飯糰
pinyin: fan4 tuan2
english:
rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings)/onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball)


id: dc7d1ce104ac8c3d3279849da0a47ec65e2eaecf
simplified: 饮水思源
traditional: 飲水思源
pinyin: yin3 shui3 si1 yuan2
english:
lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring/Don't forget where your happiness come from./Be grateful for all your blessings!


id: 1de090f183d8909a7f167c55c603685e9f9aa2d0
simplified: 饮鸩止渴
traditional: 飲鴆止渴
pinyin: yin3 zhen4 zhi3 ke3
english:
lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom)/fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse


id: 69468dfa35d1cc02723fafcd6b620878a4124a50
simplified: 饰
traditional: 飾
pinyin: shi4
radicalSimplified: 饣
radicalTraditional: 食
variants: 餙
english:
decoration/ornament/to decorate/to adorn/to hide/to conceal (a fault)/excuse (to hide a fault)/to play a role (in opera)/to impersonate


id: 93893fc9afef3bce9692fdde6c5d06eb15c8e85f
simplified: 养兵千日，用兵一时
traditional: 養兵千日，用兵一時
pinyin: yang3 bing1 qian1 ri4 , yong4 bing1 yi1 shi2
english:
lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off


id: 2c1aadb0423dd4b21928edaf969836651a23d56d
simplified: 养兵千日，用在一朝
traditional: 養兵千日，用在一朝
pinyin: yang3 bing1 qian1 ri4 , yong4 zai4 yi1 zhao1
english:
lit. train an army for a thousand days to use it for one morning (idiom)/fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off


id: 03374f80c174385c7110bec713d211e3b75318d0
simplified: 养活
traditional: 養活
pinyin: yang3 huo5
english:
to provide for/to keep (animals, a family etc)/to raise animals/to feed and clothe/support/the necessities of life/to give birth


id: 72f7f8da12fe1d24a096ab566df26717954ab881
simplified: 养痈贻患
traditional: 養癰貽患
pinyin: yang3 yong1 yi2 huan4
english:
lit. to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity (idiom); tolerating budding evil can only lead to disaster/to cherish a viper in one's bosom


id: 72345aea67d0bfe8de003acaaa79e6ca085cad22
simplified: 养虎伤身
traditional: 養虎傷身
pinyin: yang3 hu3 shang1 shen1
english:
Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later/to cherish a snake in one's bosom


id: c5c6c9345ff18e981c06501c118ab79babecebb3
simplified: 余
traditional: 餘
pinyin: yu2
radicalSimplified: 人
radicalTraditional: 食
variants: 予
english:
extra/surplus/remaining/remainder after division/(following numerical value) or more/in excess of (some number)/residue (math.)/after/I/me


id: bae2ab6a140a550dca0555c414071419e29a3a8e
simplified: 余勇可贾
traditional: 餘勇可賈
pinyin: yu2 yong3 ke3 gu3
english:
lit. spare valor for sale (idiom); fig. after former successes, still ready for more work/not resting on one's laurels


id: d0a6bd9d59fd958d81e7b40010c5643136716c81
simplified: 馆
traditional: 館
pinyin: guan3
radicalSimplified: 饣
radicalTraditional: 食
variants: 館,舘
english:
building/shop/term for certain service establishments/embassy or consulate/schoolroom (old)/CL:家[jia1]


id: 7bd55b92413e49cab2f559302580e2f1e2143f3c
simplified: 饧
traditional: 餳
pinyin: xing2
radicalSimplified: 饣
radicalTraditional: 食
english:
maltose syrup/molasses/heavy (eyelids)/drowsy-eyed/listless/(of dough, candy etc) to soften/to become soft and sticky


id: 1e55d35c5e3bcc55622d021678262b7598b7ed65
simplified: 饶
traditional: 饒
pinyin: rao2
radicalSimplified: 饣
radicalTraditional: 食
english:
rich/abundant/exuberant/to add for free/to throw in as bonus/to spare/to forgive/despite/although/surname Rao


id: e349dd6911302be29de57832735d6ad983e669f8
simplified: 饕餮
traditional: 饕餮
pinyin: tao1 tie4
english:
ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king/zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes/gluttonous/sumptuous (banquet)


id: 62adf915f7dfb982bd6d395bba59ebf20ab536b6
simplified: 首善之区
traditional: 首善之區
pinyin: shou3 shan4 zhi1 qu1
english:
the finest place in the nation (often used in reference to the capital city)/also written 首善之地[shou3 shan4 zhi1 di4]


id: c97834cbd5c3d3275a5a31ef5da381c4805d6121
simplified: 首映
traditional: 首映
pinyin: shou3 ying4
english:
to premiere (a movie or TV show)/premiere (of a movie)/first-run (movie)/to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room)


id: bc56e11b4ad7ccbbb1dee01977460a7a0ab3c85c
simplified: 香
traditional: 香
pinyin: xiang1
radicalSimplified: 香
radicalTraditional: 香
english:
fragrant/sweet smelling/aromatic/savory or appetizing/(to eat) with relish/(of sleep) sound/perfume or spice/joss or incense stick/CL:根[gen1]


id: 49800fa600d6861da807611fdc6ef6493c4e938e
simplified: 香格里拉
traditional: 香格里拉
pinyin: xiang1 ge2 li3 la1
english:
Shangri-La (mythical location)/Shangri-La town and county in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di2 qing4 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Yunnan/formerly Gyeltang or Gyalthang, Chinese 中甸[Zhong1 dian4] in Tibetan province of Kham


id: 3c936b22fd15ea4bc6ea8b9d22caff2121e020d9
simplified: 香格里拉县
traditional: 香格里拉縣
pinyin: xiang1 ge2 li3 la1 xian4
english:
Shangri-La county in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di2 qing4 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Yunnan/formerly Gyeltang or Gyalthang, Chinese 中甸[Zhong1 dian4] in Tibetan province of Kham


id: 21469804f6fe09ab5914da3ff4faa8a763ecebb0
simplified: 香草
traditional: 香草
pinyin: xiang1 cao3
english:
aromatic herb/vanilla/alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei/(fig.) loyal and dependable person (old)


id: 5e9969aff9f8f5dbbc9f087465a6c95f073dd61c
simplified: 香蕉人
traditional: 香蕉人
pinyin: xiang1 jiao1 ren2
english:
banana person (yellow outside, white inside)/mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans/Westernized person of Asian appearance


id: 61bd3c9af1ff303b4fa131649372c8294bcc48da
simplified: 香车宝马
traditional: 香車寶馬
pinyin: xiang1 che1 bao3 ma3
english:
magnificent carriage and precious horses (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle/ostentatious display of luxury


id: 862fcf38cac00d290287e9ca9df331c6b05efeb2
simplified: 马
traditional: 馬
pinyin: ma3
radicalSimplified: 马
radicalTraditional: 馬
english:
horse/CL:匹[pi3]/horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess/knight in Western chess/surname Ma/abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]


id: 182c0c8b606b4242d9ad430ae3b783f53113d3bc
simplified: 马三家
traditional: 馬三家
pinyin: ma3 san1 jia1
english:
Masanjia town in Yuhong District 于洪區|于洪区[Yu2 hong2 Qu1] in Liaoning, known for its labor camp where Falun Gong practitioners etc are believed to have been detained and tortured


id: dcc2db4abf7d354bc09a03f7a5f585b81c8dbace
simplified: 马克·吐温
traditional: 馬克·吐溫
pinyin: ma3 ke4 · tu3 wen1
english:
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克貝利·芬歷險記|哈克贝利·芬历险记[Ha1 ke4 bei4 li4 · Fen1 Li4 xian3 Ji4]


id: c3c50eb9fc47bc42ac9ee8daad719e58f3227080
simplified: 马卡龙
traditional: 馬卡龍
pinyin: ma3 ka3 long2
english:
macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells (loanword)


id: 8fd3521c166326d83744b01a4e6b2446aa9440ab
simplified: 马可波罗
traditional: 馬可波羅
pinyin: ma3 ke3 bo1 luo2
english:
Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)


id: f2e37f7e2a54cfa97d747f1a9ae670eeec59e932
simplified: 马噶尔尼
traditional: 馬噶爾尼
pinyin: ma3 ga2 er3 ni2
english:
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793/Paul McCartney, former Beatle


id: 1113e5e5b339bd9262cb32e23d32002fc16f854d
simplified: 马尾
traditional: 馬尾
pinyin: ma3 wei3
english:
ponytail (hairstyle)/horse's tail/slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants)/Mawei district of Fuzhou city 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 shi4], Fujian


id: f23baf367ba995f36780eeead3775c50672907a2
simplified: 马尾水师学堂
traditional: 馬尾水師學堂
pinyin: ma3 wei3 shui3 shi1 xue2 tang2
english:
Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福州船政學堂|福州船政学堂, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty


id: 50e85b3f4faec4b8aa58dc0240defc9e5d917f50
simplified: 马恩列斯
traditional: 馬恩列斯
pinyin: ma3 en1 lie4 si1
english:
abbr. for Marx 馬克思|马克思[Ma3 ke4 si1], Engels 恩格斯[En1 ge2 si1], Lenin 列寧|列宁[Lie4 ning2] and Stalin 斯大林[Si1 da4 lin2]


id: 09cad9cd466dbc8b474974e8029254572e4f0593
simplified: 马服子
traditional: 馬服子
pinyin: ma3 fu2 zi3
english:
Ma Fuzi (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國|赵国, who famously led an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC/also called Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括


id: 6cd78a07be4901ca0575feab4dfdc3141e70c3df
simplified: 马歇尔
traditional: 馬歇爾
pinyin: ma3 xie1 er3
english:
Marshall (name)/George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate


id: 61ab48c5b36d7502e2884b5ad48f30572a6b7806
simplified: 马无夜草不肥，人无外快不富
traditional: 馬無夜草不肥，人無外快不富
pinyin: ma3 wu2 ye4 cao3 bu4 fei2 , ren2 wu2 wai4 kuai4 bu4 fu4
english:
a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom)


id: 8e585a7fa15b915050761652de7180992c83dbbd
simplified: 马尔康
traditional: 馬爾康
pinyin: ma3 er3 kang1
english:
Barkam town (Tibetan: 'bar khams), capital of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan


id: 4300d39fae8ee7ac93921980207631a6c5ab4cd7
simplified: 马尔康县
traditional: 馬爾康縣
pinyin: ma3 er3 kang1 xian4
english:
Barkam county (Tibetan: 'bar khams rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan


id: cb4ce41f596910cb066217f87b2f959f10b06992
simplified: 马尔贾
traditional: 馬爾賈
pinyin: ma3 er3 jia3
english:
Marja (also spelled Marjah or Marjeh), agricultural district in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan


id: eebb5cd48f4ebd3176418404cdb43df0e79a593b
simplified: 马致远
traditional: 馬致遠
pinyin: ma3 zhi4 yuan3
english:
Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1]


id: 40aaa8096edb40e7c311f24e26da4d23e6496cc2
simplified: 马英九
traditional: 馬英九
pinyin: ma3 ying1 jiu3
english:
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016


id: 7f420b81f02fe28a995de691ed726c72985fc8d3
simplified: 马苏德
traditional: 馬蘇德
pinyin: ma3 su1 de2
english:
Massoud (name)/Ahmed Shah Massoud (1953-2001), Tajik Afghan engineer, military man and anti-Taleban leader


id: 595a7d4733ac728cab946b3106fe3a907eef16ab
simplified: 马兰
traditional: 馬蘭
pinyin: ma3 lan2
english:
Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: 8d6570718628682c5185c4100489332bb6c5b01c
simplified: 马关
traditional: 馬關
pinyin: ma3 guan1
english:
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[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: 14af71d74132f199e82ec3c90f78114d91910186
simplified: 马关条约
traditional: 馬關條約
pinyin: ma3 guan1 tiao2 yue1
english:
Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争[Jia3 wu3 Zhan4 zheng1]


id: 2049b60bd6f232a9c28b3b428ef213f5c3e88467
simplified: 冯梦龙
traditional: 馮夢龍
pinyin: feng2 meng4 long2
english:
Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說|古今小说[Gu3 jin1 Xiao3 shuo1]


id: 43414e3e7cbe5ea765e09d480037d13738b4fab7
simplified: 冯德英
traditional: 馮德英
pinyin: feng2 de2 ying1
english:
Feng Deying (1935-), socialist realist novelist, author of Bitter cauliflower 苦菜花[ku3 cai4 hua1] (1954)


id: 7b37117d331dde1f3d0db705e87b900045607848
simplified: 冯武
traditional: 馮武
pinyin: feng2 wu3
english:
Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition/also called 馮竇伯|冯窦伯[Feng2 Dou4 bo2]


id: b26d9ed781b1b40d4e490672e40bd40ecbef6834
simplified: 冯窦伯
traditional: 馮竇伯
pinyin: feng2 dou4 bo2
english:
Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition/also called 馮武|冯武[Feng2 Wu3]


id: 2c17d94a807f5d1781eabd81e817bd96843039a2
simplified: 冯骥才
traditional: 馮驥才
pinyin: feng2 ji4 cai2
english:
Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人


id: bc95c57233538cb6dced044eb6169e4a02154ee4
simplified: 驾
traditional: 駕
pinyin: jia4
radicalSimplified: 马
radicalTraditional: 馬
english:
to harness/to draw (a cart etc)/to drive/to pilot/to sail/to ride/your good self/prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞)/surname Jia


id: 32bf5b17cae710f8158b7dcc4709aea227975a96
simplified: 驾轻就熟
traditional: 駕輕就熟
pinyin: jia4 qing1 jiu4 shu2
english:
lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy/a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back


id: af05c4695d678ed59bb781e236313420644bbc07
simplified: 骈
traditional: 駢
pinyin: pian2
radicalSimplified: 马
radicalTraditional: 馬
variants: 騈
english:
(of a pair of horses) to pull side by side/to be side by side/to be fused together/parallel (literary style)/surname Pian


id: c26edc0309a0e4e4daf406978992f47ff2960d00
simplified: 骑行
traditional: 騎行
pinyin: qi2 xing2
english:
to ride (a bicycle, horse, motorbike etc)/cycling/horseback riding/motorbike riding/a ride/CL:次[ci4]


id: 0799dccce4f8dcb5b309cbeb8f5cb2eb5555a9cb
simplified: 骐麟
traditional: 騏驎
pinyin: qi2 lin2
english:
variant of 麒麟[qi2 lin2]/qilin (mythical Chinese animal)/kylin/Chinese unicorn/commonly mistranslated as giraffe


id: 4f321c180729630ba6704c0573c2c96a138af6e3
simplified: 骚
traditional: 騷
pinyin: sao1
radicalSimplified: 马
radicalTraditional: 馬
english:
trouble/disturbance/rumpus/flirty/coquettish/abbr. for 離騷|离骚[Li2 Sao1]/literary writings/smell of urine/foul smell/male (animal) (dialect)


id: cd3d81d603878473e5bb16816e8fb3a2e7588260
simplified: 驱动
traditional: 驅動
pinyin: qu1 dong4
english:
to drive/to propel/drive (vehicle wheel)/drive mechanism (tape or disk)/device driver (computing software)


id: 1b482c65654732fc61667dac942eb9c53df5a338
simplified: 惊弓之鸟
traditional: 驚弓之鳥
pinyin: jing1 gong1 zhi1 niao3
english:
lit. a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow (idiom)/fig. sb who frightens easily, due to past experiences


id: 18d4efbaf007a5f5f72d4b113cadeecfc7785ad8
simplified: 惊风
traditional: 驚風
pinyin: jing1 feng1
english:
infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)


id: 01e228b8277ebac61d68724cb59d76fb1e3721ce
simplified: 骊姬之乱
traditional: 驪姬之亂
pinyin: li2 ji1 zhi1 luan4
english:
Li Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1]


id: 3017a52b6b1999659badade991c8ec9f21af414a
simplified: 骨鲠在喉
traditional: 骨鯁在喉
pinyin: gu3 geng3 zai4 hou2
english:
fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. to feel obliged to speak out candidly/sth on one's mind


id: e724684c2b0b50c2a4016d6444676178346da481
simplified: 体面
traditional: 體面
pinyin: ti3 mian4
english:
dignity/face (as in "losing face")/honorable/creditable/(of sb's appearance) presentable/respectable


id: 992ba33eeca0157940bdeea1fcfa9a3b5d480349
simplified: 高不成低不就
traditional: 高不成低不就
pinyin: gao1 bu4 cheng2 di1 bu4 jiu4
english:
can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one


id: fa6795e0c8b65831e3cf1dbeeb6cb210cd80b4be
simplified: 高仙芝
traditional: 高仙芝
pinyin: gao1 xian1 zhi1
english:
Gao Xianzhi or Go Seonji (c. 702-756), Tang dynasty general of Goguryeo 高句麗|高句丽[Gao1 gou1 li2] extraction, active in Central Asia


id: c74021435bebe3c10f5ad8b0248ee0db32df0dc7
simplified: 高位
traditional: 高位
pinyin: gao1 wei4
english:
high position/eminent status/top job/raised position/upper (limbs)/a high (i.e. local maximum)/high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc


id: bbf9734e7b84ecdb4f5489f20369daa086d8731d
simplified: 高低
traditional: 高低
pinyin: gao1 di1
english:
height/altitude (aviation)/pitch (music)/ups and downs (success or failure)/whether sth is right or wrong/comparative strength, weight, depth, stature/(spoken interjection) anyway, whatever/eventually, in the end


id: 6ea29cd72fdbd9a157f85525f742054095413fbb
simplified: 高压氧
traditional: 高壓氧
pinyin: gao1 ya1 yang3
english:
hyperbaric oxygen/hyperbaric oxygenation/also abbr. for 高壓氧治療|高压氧治疗[gao1 ya1 yang3 zhi4 liao2], hyperbaric therapy


id: 720687b12f25f5e54c55417af8ec9a90537b376d
simplified: 高宗
traditional: 高宗
pinyin: gao1 zong1
english:
Gaozong Emperor, Temple name of the tenth Song Emperor Zhao Gou 趙構|赵构[Zhao4 Gou4] (1107-1187 AD), reigned (1127-1162 AD)


id: 7800809ae3213687c019c231c7cef5c0f1ffc4d2
simplified: 高德纳
traditional: 高德納
pinyin: gao1 de2 na4
english:
the Chinese name of American computer scientist Donald Knuth (1938-), adopted prior to his visit to China in 1977


id: 3324a0c78fce871fd93d6fe7dad218f4ae18272c
simplified: 高村正彦
traditional: 高村正彥
pinyin: gao1 cun1 zheng4 yan4
english:
KOMURA Masahiko (1942-), Japanese politician, foreign minister from 1998, minister of defense from 2007


id: 1308c02b3d4efe99869e263e97c26efd5485c95b
simplified: 高考
traditional: 高考
pinyin: gao1 kao3
english:
college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試|普通高等学校招生全国统一考试[Pu3 tong1 Gao1 deng3 Xue2 xiao4 Zhao1 sheng1 Quan2 guo2 Tong3 yi1 Kao3 shi4])/(Tw) entrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公務人員高等考試|公务人员高等考试)


id: f93d246ebfd956a7ee5fab9d6258ddd9ac5b2304
simplified: 高达
traditional: 高達
pinyin: gao1 da2
english:
to attain/to reach up to/Gundam, Japanese animation franchise/Jean-Luc Godard (1930-), French-Swiss film director


id: 8623887c86c682698f254391937370e80d7a67f1
simplified: 高阳
traditional: 高陽
pinyin: gao1 yang2
english:
Gaoyang county in Baoding 保定[Bao3 ding4], Hebei/common name, e.g. Gao Yang (1926-1992), Taiwanese historical novelist


id: 7177fdea51c66052f0995629dcc075f8f78f4202
simplified: 斗牛士之歌
traditional: 鬥牛士之歌
pinyin: dou4 niu2 shi4 zhi1 ge1
english:
Toreador Song (Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre), famous aria from opera Carmen 卡門|卡门 by Georges Bizet


id: 5b04765740995429d46b3f31434de2563b3de60f
simplified: 闹
traditional: 鬧
pinyin: nao4
radicalSimplified: 门
radicalTraditional: 鬥
variants: 閙
english:
noisy/cacophonous/to make noise/to disturb/to vent (feelings)/to fall ill/to have an attack (of sickness)/to go in (for some activity)/to joke


id: 9f75b6269639872b82117f4c21df8037b15a849f
simplified: 闹洞房
traditional: 鬧洞房
pinyin: nao4 dong4 fang2
english:
disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)


id: 6d61d7de4c5675d97d6ddd058cfe1ed28f3412a5
simplified: 鬲
traditional: 鬲
pinyin: li4
radicalSimplified: 鬲
radicalTraditional: 鬲
english:
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs


id: 8594aaae74ce60766da925b82c32272b30a0dfa9
simplified: 鬼
traditional: 鬼
pinyin: gui3
radicalSimplified: 鬼
radicalTraditional: 鬼
english:
ghost/demon/terrible/damnable/clever/sly/crafty/(suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc)/one of the 28 constellations


id: 178ded7bdf6687890229ad406c2d76a28502f69e
simplified: 鬼使神差
traditional: 鬼使神差
pinyin: gui3 shi3 shen2 chai1
english:
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation/curious coincidence


id: 9fad6a3772c0155db3d2f02e71562bb5fed5b9c6
simplified: 魁星
traditional: 魁星
pinyin: kui2 xing1
english:
stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the rectangular body of the dipper/Kuixing, Daoist God of fate


id: 06e8e266f67254298042bf865a1f79b94b306587
simplified: 魂飞魄散
traditional: 魂飛魄散
pinyin: hun2 fei1 po4 san4
english:
lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom)/fig. to be frightened stiff/spooked out of one's mind/terror-stricken


id: 33096f85fa5c0308dacee479e4fd69b14476767f
simplified: 魏
traditional: 魏
pinyin: wei4
radicalSimplified: 鬼
radicalTraditional: 鬼
variants: 巍
english:
tower over a palace gateway (old)/surname Wei/name of vassal state of Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States/Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms from the fall of the Han/the Wei dynasty 221-265/Wei prefecture and Wei county at different historical periods


id: cc2e264de5d96fea404d23fcfc345b02796c4dc9
simplified: 魏京生
traditional: 魏京生
pinyin: wei4 jing1 sheng1
english:
Wei Jingsheng (1950-), Beijing-based Chinese dissident, imprisoned 1978-1993 and 1995-1997, released to the US in 1997


id: 7a1f6041dc183a4d82ceace2bf7613a5e6c3fde8
simplified: 魏国
traditional: 魏國
pinyin: wei4 guo2
english:
Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄/Wei State or Cao Wei 曹魏 (220-265), the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms


id: a27361bfd2c6d221ce999e9c9365981b16eace9c
simplified: 魏巍
traditional: 魏巍
pinyin: wei4 wei1
english:
Wei Wei (1920-2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The East 東方|东方 about the Korean war


id: e7d83e926c751a50e049b89643ef2640bd6ac438
simplified: 魏征
traditional: 魏徵
pinyin: wei4 zheng1
english:
Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书


id: ca10cea14afa231df76e27d813f031da1f61501e
simplified: 魏收
traditional: 魏收
pinyin: wei4 shou1
english:
Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏書|魏书[Wei4 shu1]


id: fa85cb425f1c315dfc0da9d57693eb6bf0ff6d10
simplified: 魏书
traditional: 魏書
pinyin: wei4 shu1
english:
History of Wei of the Northern Dynasties, tenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Wei Shou 魏收[Wei4 Shou1] in 554 during Northern Qi Dynasty 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], 114 scrolls


id: bbf45073a5581492b3533796a595c111daf7ce9e
simplified: 魏格纳
traditional: 魏格納
pinyin: wei4 ge2 na4
english:
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift


id: 3137c2808f96a7264607517839af14190004ee58
simplified: 鱼沉雁杳
traditional: 魚沉雁杳
pinyin: yu2 chen2 yan4 yao3
english:
lit. the fish sinks, the goose vanishes into the distance (idiom); a letter does not arrive/lost in transmission


id: ccdd1702e1b64a9672c8e131769a1901798b5952
simplified: 鱼与熊掌
traditional: 魚與熊掌
pinyin: yu2 yu3 xiong2 zhang3
english:
lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other/you can't always get everything you want/you can't have your cake and eat it


id: 709e91722c8b66bfcb69c045bf9c4515ba2ed054
simplified: 鱼香
traditional: 魚香
pinyin: yu2 xiang1
english:
yuxiang, a seasoning of Chinese cuisine that typically contains garlic, scallions, ginger, sugar, salt, chili peppers etc (Although "yuxiang" literally means "fish fragrance", it contains no seafood.)


id: 73b965926d5b400741a8e12da79d4f1d7881cb11
simplified: 鱼丽
traditional: 魚麗
pinyin: yu2 li4
english:
"fish" battle formation in ancient times: chariots in front, infantry behind/The Fish Enter the Trap (title of Ode 170 in the Shijing)


id: ad1a3416f370bacec1a0e31c1bd44cf1217d06c8
simplified: 鲁
traditional: 魯
pinyin: lu3
radicalSimplified: 鱼
radicalTraditional: 魚
variants: 魯
english:
crass/stupid/rude/surname Lu/Shandong Province 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3]/vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066-221 BC) in modern day Shandong Province


id: c4a3615ae4c1f4348480d6f05f7d8d8f397c25a3
simplified: 鲜花插在牛粪上
traditional: 鮮花插在牛糞上
pinyin: xian1 hua1 cha1 zai4 niu2 fen4 shang4
english:
lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure/fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)


id: f90234c39ddc35d54c10ab09c07e6bd267562430
simplified: 鲲鹏
traditional: 鯤鵬
pinyin: kun1 peng2
english:
kun 鯤|鲲[kun1] and peng 鵬|鹏[Peng2], mythological beasts/peng, a gigantic bird transformed from the kun


id: 02dda92bd817d66b9eb5d44f70241334b0104b10
simplified: 鲲鹏展翅
traditional: 鯤鵬展翅
pinyin: kun1 peng2 zhan3 chi4
english:
lit. the giant Peng bird spreads its wings and begins to fly/displaying awesome power and momentum at the outset/to have the world at one's feet


id: 1f2e38fbbac5747b72f1f3ce4c88230132ceb33b
simplified: 鸟不拉屎，鸡不生蛋
traditional: 鳥不拉屎，雞不生蛋
pinyin: niao3 bu4 la1 shi3 , ji1 bu4 sheng1 dan4
english:
lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom)/fig. god-forsaken/remote and desolate


id: fbd52f45e785812753a41b4443f2bbd6f65aab87
simplified: 鸟不生蛋，狗不拉屎
traditional: 鳥不生蛋，狗不拉屎
pinyin: niao3 bu4 sheng1 dan4 , gou3 bu4 la1 shi3
english:
lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom)/fig. god-forsaken/remote and desolate


id: c938ea2ea8edfae28fcd4325d59758c7bdeef786
simplified: 鸟尽弓藏
traditional: 鳥盡弓藏
pinyin: niao3 jin4 gong1 cang2
english:
lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose


id: 3767848894d2738ba837d9560b2c6d894ef912b1
simplified: 鸟虫书
traditional: 鳥蟲書
pinyin: niao3 chong2 shu1
english:
bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆书, but with characters decorated as birds and insects


id: eba9b594e5781da7767584c579caff299d1ec2c8
simplified: 鸠山
traditional: 鳩山
pinyin: jiu1 shan1
english:
Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name/Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister from 2009


id: 57b40d404879295614151c67b6905f7cc871a1f4
simplified: 凤凰
traditional: 鳳凰
pinyin: feng4 huang2
english:
phoenix/Fenghuang county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]


id: f5c91faa2ce8deb1483137a5eabb8de8546d9b46
simplified: 凤凰古城
traditional: 鳳凰古城
pinyin: feng4 huang2 gu3 cheng2
english:
Fenghuang Ancient Town, in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan, added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2008 in the Cultural category


id: 043834c711116d097ec793232b2c65427c62db2e
simplified: 凤凰男
traditional: 鳳凰男
pinyin: feng4 huang2 nan2
english:
(Internet slang) guy who grew up in the countryside and gained a foothold in the city through hard work


id: d0b09d92e11763fcd1570b2be94c0018c7079807
simplified: 凤凰县
traditional: 鳳凰縣
pinyin: feng4 huang2 xian4
english:
Fenghuang county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]


id: 250f3e09fc520b69693bf4481c6c8ecbc48ef565
simplified: 凤眼
traditional: 鳳眼
pinyin: feng4 yan3
english:
elegant, almond-shaped eyes with the inner canthus pointing down and the outer canthus up, like the eye of a phoenix


id: f4679af929322746685daac068c45c91b897a38a
simplified: 鸦雀无声
traditional: 鴉雀無聲
pinyin: ya1 que4 wu2 sheng1
english:
lit. crow and peacock make no sound/absolute silence (idiom); not a single voice can be heard/absolute silence


id: 1393e9b60b0c208fbf7d5828c92dcdbffb7fa37b
simplified: 鸳鸯
traditional: 鴛鴦
pinyin: yuan1 yang1
english:
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)/(fig.) affectionate couple/happily married couple


id: 60d520123cd1aad1ebbaf17958fbf78180499234
simplified: 鸳鸯蝴蝶
traditional: 鴛鴦蝴蝶
pinyin: yuan1 yang5 hu2 die2
english:
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)/derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900


id: d72c8e559ae9669f9a527457bfeee0fbf5930459
simplified: 鸳鸯蝴蝶派
traditional: 鴛鴦蝴蝶派
pinyin: yuan1 yang5 hu2 die2 pai4
english:
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists


id: 7cec74870eb8ddf25757af0863121afcb248797e
simplified: 鸳鸯锅
traditional: 鴛鴦鍋
pinyin: yuan1 yang5 guo1
english:
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)


id: 556869d32a8da6edf1590dacc98f22edd5c9821b
simplified: 鸿毛泰山
traditional: 鴻毛泰山
pinyin: hong2 mao2 tai4 shan1
english:
lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)/fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another


id: 3a094995109103a042c341d13456c29e185d051f
simplified: 鸿毛泰岱
traditional: 鴻毛泰岱
pinyin: hong2 mao2 tai4 dai4
english:
light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another


id: 2ed158599f46e701dbc67e80ab0e77bfd4969dfa
simplified: 鸿沟
traditional: 鴻溝
pinyin: hong2 gou1
english:
(fig.) gulf/chasm/wide gap/(originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 and Han 漢|汉


id: f9a9856bd1e4efd4141374d2add0666abf457c5c
simplified: 鸿门宴
traditional: 鴻門宴
pinyin: hong2 men2 yan4
english:
Feast at Hongmen/(fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest/refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3]


id: 164fb0a9cf321fad874fa137e6c2c3080180a24c
simplified: 鹊桥
traditional: 鵲橋
pinyin: que4 qiao2
english:
magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed an annual meeting


id: a66b60ca13381c237ef028f56a877270f734e1fb
simplified: 鶤
traditional: 鶤
pinyin: kun1
radicalSimplified: 鸟
radicalTraditional: 鳥
english:
variant of 鵾|鹍, large bird, possibly related to crane or swan (archaic)/mythical monstrous bird, cf Sinbad's roc


id: 9c1d8d4c2fafc95fdbe869187647c6092231f45b
simplified: 鹤山
traditional: 鶴山
pinyin: he4 shan1
english:
Heshan district of Hebi city 鶴壁市|鹤壁市[He4 bi4 shi4], Henan/Heshan county level city in Jiangmen 江門|江门, Guangdong


id: 763f8ca7cb4c6273f6cdc5ef7fc96c0d671e855a
simplified: 鹤峰
traditional: 鶴峰
pinyin: he4 feng1
english:
Hefeng county in Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei


id: 2737c6f790b3a30525af8a8da521352b9efb500a
simplified: 鹇
traditional: 鷴
pinyin: xian2
radicalSimplified: 鸟
radicalTraditional: 鳥
english:
silver pheasant (Phasianus nycthemerus)/silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade


id: 40228e5bcaca5c6183d03f7d802fce31ee22797a
simplified: 鹬蚌相争
traditional: 鷸蚌相爭
pinyin: yu4 bang4 xiang1 zheng1
english:
lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both) (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party


id: de5f6c083f7b08acb0bb7f7359a30842379e72b0
simplified: 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利
traditional: 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利
pinyin: yu4 bang4 xiang1 zheng1 , yu2 weng1 de2 li4
english:
lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party


id: 227d577a3bff5b85b9d20642bf4890447191bd57
simplified: 鸾飘凤泊
traditional: 鸞飄鳳泊
pinyin: luan2 piao1 feng4 bo2
english:
lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom)/fig. bold, graceful calligraphy/married couple separated from each other/talented person not given the opportunity to fulfill his potential


id: 65fc5db1f6f3c8102b1a3d19cf7850f39de03c22
simplified: 卤代烃
traditional: 鹵代烴
pinyin: lu3 dai4 ting1
english:
haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)


id: d9d3076ca3bafc11b1265199ab4b87275d70b2b5
simplified: 咸水妹
traditional: 鹹水妹
pinyin: xian2 shui3 mei4
english:
(dialect) prostitute from Guangdong (esp. one in Shanghai before the Revolution) (loanword from "handsome maid")


id: a237139f5c0207152b9c297655b6343c2b48a47d
simplified: 碱土金属
traditional: 鹼土金屬
pinyin: jian3 tu3 jin1 shu3
english:
alkaline earth (i.e. beryllium Be 鈹|铍, magnesium Mg 鎂|镁, calcium Ca 鈣|钙, strontium Sr 鍶|锶, barium Ba 鋇|钡 and radium Ra 鐳|镭)


id: fd6923e5988d0e654f4f903aa6a635265237fc69
simplified: 盐井
traditional: 鹽井
pinyin: yan2 jing3
english:
Yanjing, common place name/former county 1983-1999, now part of Markam county 芒康縣|芒康县[Mang2 kang1 xian4] in Chamdo prefecture, Tibet


id: 4dfdbc8f8c373c24da3d41c0934d8a57f6ff4882
simplified: 盐井县
traditional: 鹽井縣
pinyin: yan2 jing3 xian4
english:
Yanjing former county (1917-1917), now part of Markam county 芒康縣|芒康县[Mang2 kang1 xian4] in Chamdo prefecture, Tibet


id: 4052e07e221d0a36a068d98c0883483d7d2c0f73
simplified: 盐源
traditional: 鹽源
pinyin: yan2 yuan2
english:
Yanyuan county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan


id: 6d8dfa929055d9b5f863d860dcaa331a79d0be3d
simplified: 鹿死谁手
traditional: 鹿死誰手
pinyin: lu4 si3 shei2 shou3
english:
to whom the deer falls (idiom); the one to emerge victor (i.e. to seize the empire)/prize winner/champion


id: d86c34ae11baf5e235f48c035e412e6bcfca807e
simplified: 鹿苑寺
traditional: 鹿苑寺
pinyin: lu4 yuan4 si4
english:
Rokuonji in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan/the formal name of Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion 金閣寺|金阁寺[Jin1 ge2 si4] as Buddhist temple


id: a9d1c176aa52777cb40a92d2a71d6b30bb417c41
simplified: 麋鹿
traditional: 麋鹿
pinyin: mi2 lu4
english:
Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), species of deer native to China that is critically endangered


id: 7e2050f8e26a9cd1c5d4bd45b9b8decb96365360
simplified: 丽水
traditional: 麗水
pinyin: li2 shui3
english:
Lishui prefecture-level city in Zhejiang/Yeosu city in South Jeolla province, Korea, the site of World Expo 2012


id: 66dc3480a52937f8b844a3d675f34edeb6978bef
simplified: 麦克斯韦
traditional: 麥克斯韋
pinyin: mai4 ke4 si1 wei2
english:
Maxwell (name)/James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves


id: 923a2962ffcd999f6a3f41e85f36fe3b85a0f4bf
simplified: 麦克米兰
traditional: 麥克米蘭
pinyin: mai4 ke4 mi3 lan2
english:
McMillan or MacMillan (name)/Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963


id: 041eafe2f7b3d865fd2d5db7dde0102647479843
simplified: 麻
traditional: 麻
pinyin: ma2
radicalSimplified: 麻
radicalTraditional: 麻
variants: 菻,蔴
english:
generic name for hemp, flax etc/hemp or flax fiber for textile materials/sesame/CL:縷|缕[lu:3]/(of materials) rough or coarse/pocked/pitted/to have pins and needles or tingling/to feel numb/surname Ma


id: 560f5b13d3fbbfb900e104f765d32b4326bedad2
simplified: 麻栗坡
traditional: 麻栗坡
pinyin: ma2 li4 po1
english:
Malipo 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[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: 312ec65e342d81419dc2b6099780abe54696f586
simplified: 麻江
traditional: 麻江
pinyin: ma2 jiang1
english:
Majiang county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: be38edbfb8e07f2e7248996f0dfcc97e656a5f11
simplified: 麻花
traditional: 麻花
pinyin: ma2 hua1
english:
fried dough twist (crisp snack food made by deep-frying plaited dough)/worn out or worn smooth (of clothes)


id: 71d7890f9383c4625f62189fdcc58608681ff290
simplified: 麻雀虽小，五脏俱全
traditional: 麻雀雖小，五臟俱全
pinyin: ma2 que4 sui1 xiao3 , wu3 zang4 ju4 quan2
english:
The sparrow may be small but all its vital organs are there (idiom)./small but complete in every detail


id: 838cf4c217365c054ae921a53d828d8c46bb62e6
simplified: 黄以静
traditional: 黃以靜
pinyin: huang2 yi3 jing4
english:
Wong Yee Ching or Flossie Wong-Staal (1947-) Hong Kong American virologist, joint discoverer of the HIV AIDS virus


id: 88ec0677e8acb43d4f96d030ce4ade3a55d46fb3
simplified: 黄光裕
traditional: 黃光裕
pinyin: huang2 guang1 yu4
english:
Huang Guang'yu (1969-), PRC entrepreneur and millionaire, founder of Guo mei or Gome electronics 國美電器|国美电器[Guo2 mei3 dian4 qi4]


id: 07fa6afd309af7527fcca68b8a3cdb8c1c0808d4
simplified: 黄克强
traditional: 黃克強
pinyin: huang2 ke4 qiang2
english:
pseudonym of Huang Xing 黃興|黄兴[Huang2 Xing1], one of the heroes of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4]


id: 4de2e7ccd376362a9e4ce51adf8be89d2b799223
simplified: 黄山
traditional: 黃山
pinyin: huang2 shan1
english:
Mt Huang/Yellow mountains/Huangshan prefecture-level city centered around Huangshan Mountains in south Anhui


id: 505251702b2430487720bf3f4859a3a61e174e37
simplified: 黄平
traditional: 黃平
pinyin: huang2 ping2
english:
Huangping county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: e2a63a4abda26273cb8d9a5012f014610f1427ce
simplified: 黄海道
traditional: 黃海道
pinyin: huang2 hai3 dao4
english:
former Hwanghae Province of northwest Korea, divided into North and South Hwanghae Province of North Korea in 1954


id: 32214dfb37faab10088a901c98d9ac57e429b691
simplified: 黄石公
traditional: 黃石公
pinyin: huang2 shi2 gong1
english:
Huang Shigong, also known as Xia Huanggong 夏黃公|夏黄公[Xia4 Huang2 gong1] (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] and purported author


id: 87665cf9222ad34493af8aa2270b97fd93dc10a8
simplified: 黄石公三略
traditional: 黃石公三略
pinyin: huang2 shi2 gong1 san1 lu:e4
english:
“Three Strategies of Huang Shigong”, also known as Taigong Bingfa 太公兵法[Tai4 gong1 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], variously attributed to Jiang Ziya 姜子牙|姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2], Huang Shigong 黃石公|黄石公[Huang2 Shi2 gong1] or an anonymous author


id: c71e6273b84dced5ee36b6ccb5955f2ff4cfd2e3
simplified: 黄祸
traditional: 黃禍
pinyin: huang2 huo4
english:
yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)/Yellow Peril, political novel by Wang Lixiong 王力雄[Wang2 Li4 xiong2]


id: 3046b95cea8fbcb8ea92d02aeda05525a4a54cee
simplified: 黄兴
traditional: 黃興
pinyin: huang2 xing1
english:
Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], murdered in Shanghai in 1916


id: a5763642dca11fa69abcfa852960b19603403d4a
simplified: 黄花
traditional: 黃花
pinyin: huang2 hua1
english:
yellow flowers (of various types)/chrysanthemum/cauliflower/(yellow) daylily/a young virgin (boy or girl)


id: 05a1aefd8f357f2a0ffa55677cb1c3e9e1b364cc
simplified: 黄花岗起义
traditional: 黃花崗起義
pinyin: huang2 hua1 gang3 qi3 yi4
english:
Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911 in Guangzhou, one a long series of unsuccessful uprisings of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party


id: 0cb3f138c113dfeefe1073ffeeaf32334c9f6d76
simplified: 黄遵宪
traditional: 黃遵憲
pinyin: huang2 zun1 xian4
english:
Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A Record of Japan 日本國誌|日本国志[Ri4 ben3 Guo2 zhi4], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan


id: 528dd9213eac4db6ce832b0038df72a61a686714
simplified: 黄金海岸
traditional: 黃金海岸
pinyin: huang2 jin1 hai3 an4
english:
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)


id: 8e26a9f39129a1ecb3dc466c704bc427ea0efcdf
simplified: 黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣
traditional: 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴
pinyin: huang2 zhong1 hui3 qi4 wa3 fu3 lei2 ming2
english:
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells/good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)


id: 28cd1d2f44145dfdc6a8edc8f751c93704700f23
simplified: 黄鹤楼
traditional: 黃鶴樓
pinyin: huang2 he4 lou2
english:
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985/favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes/Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return'/one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi


id: 4ae0f719062062b700623f03e983ec97ca3dd680
simplified: 黎
traditional: 黎
pinyin: li2
radicalSimplified: 黍
radicalTraditional: 黍
variants: 黎
english:
(literary) black/dark/many/multitude/Li ethnic group of Hainan Province/surname Li/abbr. for Lebanon 黎巴嫩[Li2 ba1 nen4]


id: 0efb69b961497f2ee7ead8d3d6e0b77ee7f49d0b
simplified: 黎平
traditional: 黎平
pinyin: li2 ping2
english:
Liping county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: 57cff4e3c113b2dbf0720164c7bc84d7fd44538c
simplified: 黑
traditional: 黑
pinyin: hei1
radicalSimplified: 黑
radicalTraditional: 黑
variants: 黒
english:
black/dark/sinister/secret/shady/illegal/to hide (sth) away/to vilify/(loanword) to hack (computing)/abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]


id: c91fc477ada5612e7f0f1bf8882f87d11870338d
simplified: 黑五类
traditional: 黑五類
pinyin: hei1 wu3 lei4
english:
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists


id: b6c06a04721d0e242d57768455ed8ea0da4089ec
simplified: 黑店
traditional: 黑店
pinyin: hei1 dian4
english:
lit. inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction)/fig. a scam/protection racket/daylight robbery


id: 8b1497ec86045d4cea35fef9811396abacbe2190
simplified: 黑心
traditional: 黑心
pinyin: hei1 xin1
english:
ruthless and lacking in conscience/vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy/black core (flaw in pottery)


id: 28db9d11de3fd8e554a15c5547eecc9bfe5cf8a6
simplified: 黑旋风
traditional: 黑旋風
pinyin: hei1 xuan4 feng1
english:
Black Whirlwind, nickname of 李逵[Li3 Kui2], known for his fearsome behavior in combat and his dark complexion


id: 5a82603558e4cc9ed94e9ef6482cbde208a7a9a5
simplified: 黑板报
traditional: 黑板報
pinyin: hei1 ban3 bao4
english:
blackboard bulletin with short news items written on it (can usually be found in factories, schools etc)


id: 46ad46fd5f3e003d3a5b73beefdc5fd11f373ef5
simplified: 黑水
traditional: 黑水
pinyin: hei1 shui3
english:
Heishui county (Tibetan: khro chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan


id: c539e71529e3d1f3ecadd137f4b0dc78b442cc5f
simplified: 黑水城
traditional: 黑水城
pinyin: hei1 shui3 cheng2
english:
ruins of Heishui Town of Xixia 西夏[Xi1 Xia4] people, in Ejin Banner 額濟納旗|额济纳旗[E2 ji4 na4 Qi2], Alxa League 阿拉善盟[A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia


id: b8dcc20f2265f1a36367795dd5ea1f5a85e81678
simplified: 黑白无常
traditional: 黑白無常
pinyin: hei1 bai2 wu2 chang2
english:
Two deities, one short, one tall, chained together at the ankle, responsible for rewarding the good and punishing the bad


id: 2045c75d42671908eb4cb60d470ffbe579923124
simplified: 黑瞎子岛
traditional: 黑瞎子島
pinyin: hei1 xia1 zi5 dao3
english:
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk/Heixiazi (black blind man) Island


id: a2e702010cf87a47dbe267b1e67cfd58dcfc6806
simplified: 黑籍冤魂
traditional: 黑籍冤魂
pinyin: hei1 ji2 yuan1 hun2
english:
Black Register of Lost Souls, long novel by Peng Yangou 彭養鷗|彭养鸥 about the destructive influence of opium, published in 1897 and 1909


id: 1c35fd7706d3f69923781e7b1c81d4247d906397
simplified: 黑龙江
traditional: 黑龍江
pinyin: hei1 long2 jiang1
english:
Heilongjiang province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑, capital Harbin 哈尔滨/Heilongjiang river forming the border between northeast China and Russia/Amur river


id: 0799c9c34f17de30245aa652ebb7034377ee9e16
simplified: 黑龙江省
traditional: 黑龍江省
pinyin: hei1 long2 jiang1 sheng3
english:
Heilongjiang Province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑, capital Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1]


id: 0455c0e8e87403f1a2611fe85dde676f53670a05
simplified: 黔南州
traditional: 黔南州
pinyin: qian2 nan2 zhou1
english:
Qiannan, abbr. for Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州, Guizhou, capital Duyun city 都勻市


id: 631344a94cd8cf105d75f036b4675a05cfdbc432
simplified: 黔东南州
traditional: 黔東南州
pinyin: qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1
english:
Qiandongnan, abbr. for Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州, Guizhou, capital Kaili city 凱里市|凯里市


id: e706ee01685d4216cd32344e369fda89a16ec224
simplified: 黔西南州
traditional: 黔西南州
pinyin: qian2 xi1 nan2 zhou1
english:
Qianxinan, abbr. for Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州, Guizhou, capital Xing'yi city 興義市|兴义市


id: 408fb9ccba3ecb80899e07297d4c6bace4952853
simplified: 默契
traditional: 默契
pinyin: mo4 qi4
english:
tacit understanding/mutual understanding/rapport/connected at a deep level with each other/(of team members) well coordinated/tight


id: bf34aa222bb9b1217830db5024d040b1cfa0b5fd
simplified: 点
traditional: 點
pinyin: dian3
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 黑
variants: 點,奌,点
english:
point/dot/drop/speck/o'clock/point (in space or time)/to draw a dot/to check on a list/to choose/to order (food in a restaurant)/to touch briefly/to hint/to light/to ignite/to pour a liquid drop by drop/(old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更[geng1]/dot stroke in Chinese characters/classifier for items


id: 8a62f0c8c2c2cd765a054b608cab12406307fe75
simplified: 点睛
traditional: 點睛
pinyin: dian3 jing1
english:
to dot in the eyes/fig. to add finishing touch/abbr. for idiom 畫龍點睛|画龙点睛, to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes/the crucial point that brings the subject to life


id: 938545cdec98f6cd5022975a70c5cb4253343a1f
simplified: 点睛之笔
traditional: 點睛之筆
pinyin: dian3 jing1 zhi1 bi3
english:
the brush stroke that dots in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch/the crucial point that brings the subject to life/a few words to clinch the point


id: 58d407bb1900bb21e19cf0d42586f6e77895169e
simplified: 党同伐异
traditional: 黨同伐異
pinyin: dang3 tong2 fa2 yi4
english:
to be narrowly partisan/to unite with those of the same views but alienate those with different views


id: e639fbebf931932518af229d4902e8bc52b2fcf7
simplified: 党项
traditional: 黨項
pinyin: dang3 xiang4
english:
Tangut branch of the Qiang 羌 ethnic group/ancient ethnic group who made up the Xixia dynasty 西夏 1038-1227


id: a59c0f2779d74ec638809d0658a2b7b8e45f5960
simplified: 鼎
traditional: 鼎
pinyin: ding3
radicalSimplified: 鼎
radicalTraditional: 鼎
variants: ꔂ
english:
ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs/pot (dialect)/to enter upon a period of (classical)/Kangxi radical 206/one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes


id: bcb283a02126e9c96b8fa867693221407c3169a3
simplified: 鼎铛玉石
traditional: 鼎鐺玉石
pinyin: ding3 cheng1 yu4 shi2
english:
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material/casting pearls before swine


id: d626f4de9443a42405cf2c596a48dc9545cf3524
simplified: 鼓楼区
traditional: 鼓樓區
pinyin: gu3 lou2 qu1
english:
Drumtower city district (various)/Gulou district of Nanjing City 南京市[Nan2 jing1 shi4], Jiangsu/Gulou or Drumtower district of Fuzhou city 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 shi4], Fujian


id: 3908c6234756a51b757a4bf74000f583d70ca76b
simplified: 鼓盆
traditional: 鼓盆
pinyin: gu3 pen2
english:
lit. to drum on a bowl/refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife/fig. grief for a lost wife


id: f16e220fd70ae677a853b1691751f4572c823006
simplified: 鼓盆之戚
traditional: 鼓盆之戚
pinyin: gu3 pen2 zhi1 qi1
english:
drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife)/fig. grief for a lost wife


id: cc4bdf3911c9b1f1238fae99b86c08639f9fb8d2
simplified: 鼓风
traditional: 鼓風
pinyin: gu3 feng1
english:
a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal)/blast (in blast furnace)/bellows/to draw air using bellows


id: aca87d72e95bd50fd782c787c5b1a7a8284e8603
simplified: 齐
traditional: 齊
pinyin: qi2
radicalSimplified: 齐
radicalTraditional: 齊
variants: 齊,亝,斉,斋,齋,齐
english:
neat/even/level with/identical/simultaneous/all together/to even sth out/(name of states and dynasties at several different periods)/surname Qi


id: bf5b98a1eb046b1982da316a9873b42fc119a841
simplified: 齐人之福
traditional: 齊人之福
pinyin: qi2 ren2 zhi1 fu2
english:
lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom)/fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners/the life of a pasha


id: 70a3a5439c7fec67d37c5a3a23052247a440b228
simplified: 齐天大圣
traditional: 齊天大聖
pinyin: qi2 tian1 da4 sheng4
english:
Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空[Sun1 Wu4 kong1] in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]


id: 900542ebb669ecd65e8e61624f8a3395e31dc6ff
simplified: 齐书
traditional: 齊書
pinyin: qi2 shu1
english:
History of Qi of the Southern Dynasties, seventh of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Xiao Zixian 蕭子顯|萧子显[Xiao1 Zi3 xian3] in 537 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁[Nan2 chao2 Liang2], 59 scrolls/usually 南齊書|南齐书[Nan2 Qi2 shu1] to distinguish from Northern Qi


id: edd2dc117b0c0bae48d5b016e66448d492a3b04b
simplified: 齐民要术
traditional: 齊民要術
pinyin: qi2 min2 yao4 shu4
english:
Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈思勰|贾思勰[Jia3 Si1 xie2]


id: c14b9ad12dfa3b0995022894a4d2807dec60d648
simplified: 齐头式
traditional: 齊頭式
pinyin: qi2 tou2 shi4
english:
treating everyone the same, regardless of individual differences/one-size-fits-all approach/(typesetting) block paragraphs (no indenting, and blank space between each paragraph)


id: d01356f80d939809a085a051b0ccea6267bdfa68
simplified: 齐齐哈尔
traditional: 齊齊哈爾
pinyin: qi2 qi2 ha1 er3
english:
Qiqihar prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China


id: 5b0291c6a69db6b2b08b70817c9b5156a96891eb
simplified: 龙井
traditional: 龍井
pinyin: long2 jing3
english:
Longjing county level city in Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州|延边朝鲜族自治州, Jilin/Lungching township in Taichung county 臺中縣|台中县[Tai2 zhong1 xian4], Taiwan/also Longjing tea 龍井茶|龙井茶


id: 83995dc84d2b0c017c55c3c49fd446764d33dcbc
simplified: 龙山
traditional: 龍山
pinyin: long2 shan1
english:
Dragon mountain/Longshan district of Liaoyuan city 遼源市|辽源市, Jilin/Longshan county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]


id: 79395953f3e3cdb6edacce8bac1fbc81f533d617
simplified: 龙山县
traditional: 龍山縣
pinyin: long2 shan1 xian4
english:
Longshan county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]


id: 62ca79f352184d1381bfdafe7f49361dd5de5583
simplified: 龙泉
traditional: 龍泉
pinyin: long2 quan2
english:
Longquanyi district of Chengdu city 成都市[Cheng2 du1 shi4], Sichuan/Longquan county level city in Lishui 麗水|丽水[Li2 shui3], Zhejiang


id: bb940e803cd6169d69073c5158784ea9e77e6060
simplified: 龙潭
traditional: 龍潭
pinyin: long2 tan2
english:
dragon pool/dragon pond/see also 龍潭|龙潭[Long2 tan2]/Longtan district of Jilin city 吉林市, Jilin province/see also 龍潭|龙潭[long2 tan2]/Longtan or Lungtan township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan


id: 47ea55bd49c5a91e6b9af98e66321b2635ddd23b
simplified: 龙潭沟
traditional: 龍潭溝
pinyin: long2 tan2 gou1
english:
Longtan Ravine, scenic area in Xixia county 西峽縣|西峡县[Xi1 xia2 xian4], Nanyang 南陽|南阳[Nan2 yang2], Henan


id: c0e06e7bb068d19ca7018116f13f733cfe4c7e46
simplified: 龙生九子
traditional: 龍生九子
pinyin: long2 sheng1 jiu3 zi3
english:
lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters/good and bad intermingled/It takes all sorts to make a world.


id: 65e3e767ddd84e5793aa46fa9c7895822e26c57a
simplified: 龙生龙，凤生凤
traditional: 龍生龍，鳳生鳳
pinyin: long2 sheng1 long2 , feng4 sheng1 feng4
english:
lit. dragon births dragon, phoenix births phoenix (idiom)/fig. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree


id: 4e9ce8ed55e41395277a810b4ff7499ee58c10fd
simplified: 龙羊峡
traditional: 龍羊峽
pinyin: long2 yang2 xia2
english:
Longyangxia canyon on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Gonghe county 共和縣|共和县[Gong4 he2 xian4] in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai


id: 4d0e70cf9fb4b2c1b628b67dfca6d04fc6df7e36
simplified: 龙华
traditional: 龍華
pinyin: long2 hua2
english:
Longhua, name of numerous entities, notably Longhua Temple 龍華寺|龙华寺 in Shanghai and Longhua District of Haikou City 海口市[Hai3 kou3 Shi4], Hainan


id: 11de8a8f27b5452c2f2bcf0909c11903ab4c487e
simplified: 龙门
traditional: 龍門
pinyin: long2 men2
english:
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州[Hui4 zhou1], Guangdong/mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon


id: 4048af85bc64e4f187c099cdc16594547840468d
simplified: 龙门山
traditional: 龍門山
pinyin: long2 men2 shan1
english:
Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line/Mt Longmen in Shandong/Mt Longmen in Henan


id: dc7d9cd43905a50f551fb0c0dd6962a06748f0a7
simplified: 龙门山断层
traditional: 龍門山斷層
pinyin: long2 men2 shan1 duan4 ceng2
english:
Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin


id: 22875f1415a9eeb53358a62cffd860b6d381f5b2
simplified: 龙头
traditional: 龍頭
pinyin: long2 tou2
english:
faucet/water tap/bicycle handle bar/chief (esp. of gang)/boss/decision maker/(market) leader (of companies)/front end of mud-flow/figurehead on prow of dragon boat 龍船|龙船


id: 663e37d943788dde5207c1bdb0c847fb62209535
simplified: 龙凤呈祥
traditional: 龍鳳呈祥
pinyin: long2 feng4 cheng2 xiang2
english:
the dragon and phoenix are symbols of good fortune (idiom)/auspicious/decorated with auspicious symbols such as the dragon and the phoenix


id: 82cc465bd0400cdef0f782779211f79967ca90a6
simplified: 龙龛手鉴
traditional: 龍龕手鑑
pinyin: long2 kan1 shou3 jian4
english:
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical


id: 831f636b0600ab5cf1868315f2e2da6ab82c0da6
simplified: 庞培
traditional: 龐培
pinyin: pang2 pei2
english:
Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79/Pompey (Roman general)


id: ae1673356f459451374f05e971d7d44748228e11
simplified: 庞德
traditional: 龐德
pinyin: pang2 de2
english:
Pang De (-219), general of Cao Wei at the start of the Three Kingdoms period, victor over Guan Yu 關羽|关羽/Pound (name)/Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet and translator


id: 3850effd8300de57e28b4db889560ebc8f7c2887
simplified: 庞涓
traditional: 龐涓
pinyin: pang2 juan1
english:
Pang Juan (-342 BC), military leader and political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)


id: 3eb3482cb458a44b7c7304e9d41c80c33928f7e3
simplified: 龟笑鳖无尾
traditional: 龜笑鱉無尾
pinyin: gui1 xiao4 bie1 wu2 wei3
english:
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom)/fig. the pot calling the kettle black


id: f9276352f8fe300822e183bf7a52f77a4853e3e6
simplified: 龟船
traditional: 龜船
pinyin: gui1 chuan2
english:
"turtle ship", armored warship used by Koreans in fighting the Japanese during the Imjin war of 1592-1598 壬辰倭亂|壬辰倭乱[ren2 chen2 wo1 luan4]


id: 2e6f63e11ea36cad75bb23e79c27f70e4eabf15f
simplified: 龟苓膏
traditional: 龜苓膏
pinyin: gui1 ling2 gao1
english:
turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs/a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert


id: caaa368a32016c289d60dfd69be62167b197cca8
simplified: 龟兹
traditional: 龜茲
pinyin: qiu1 ci2
english:
ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang


