# words

id: 78a5c9a524c2b346885d812178b70dc2dcf09dda
simplified: 武定县
traditional: 武定縣
pinyin: wu3 ding4 xian4
english:
Wuding 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: 0549780bf3226312b442cc47bd58ff8246a5a924
simplified: 武昌起义
traditional: 武昌起義
pinyin: wu3 chang1 qi3 yi4
english:
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty


id: 6cd20d9509d84cd9a85ee03b882327081c082c94
simplified: 武松
traditional: 武松
pinyin: wu3 song1
english:
Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan po 梁山泊 in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传, whose exploits including killing a tiger with his bare hands


id: 231c1dc811c7e114a029150cbde5ec58031dde6e
simplified: 武经七书
traditional: 武經七書
pinyin: wu3 jing1 qi1 shu1
english:
Seven Military Classics of ancient China viz "Six Secret Strategic Teachings" 六韜|六韬[Liu4 tao1], "Methods of Sima" 司馬法|司马法[Si1 ma3 Fa3], "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], "Wuzi" 吳子|吴子[Wu2 zi3], "Wei Liaozi" 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5], "Three Strategies of Huang Shigong" 黃石公三略|黄石公三略[Huang2 Shi2 gong1 San1 lu:e4] and "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李衛公問對|唐太宗李卫公问对[Tang2 Tai4 zong1 Li3 Wei4 Gong1 Wen4 dui4]


id: 5bbefe013d0a7183ebf13a6330b8f38af15e8864
simplified: 武经总要
traditional: 武經總要
pinyin: wu3 jing1 zong3 yao4
english:
"Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques", book published in 1044 during the Northern Song Dynasty


id: bfe0c93dfc0971b9d0e6000b4b89c3f732ff8525
simplified: 武术
traditional: 武術
pinyin: wu3 shu4
english:
military skill or technique (in former times)/all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development)/self-defense/tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage)/also called kungfu 功夫/CL:種|种[zhong3]


id: 155eb24e18c048609a46a3406c1dcded6dc09e71
simplified: 歧路灯
traditional: 歧路燈
pinyin: qi2 lu4 deng1
english:
Lamp in the Side Street, novel by Qing dynasty writer Li Lüyuan 李綠園|李绿园[Li3 Lu:4 yuan2]/also written 岐路燈|岐路灯


id: ce067924c21cb5074bf5bc4d1ad8f78aae225d18
simplified: 历任
traditional: 歷任
pinyin: li4 ren4
english:
(of one person) to hold the successive posts of/(of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)


id: d4d2d2d006000fc1d874e3372fd6f9b1afce45f9
simplified: 归
traditional: 歸
pinyin: gui1
radicalSimplified: 彐
radicalTraditional: 止
variants: 歸,帰,归
english:
to return/to go back to/to give back to/(of a responsibility) to be taken care of by/to belong to/to gather together/(used between two identical verbs) despite/to marry (of a woman) (old)/division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor/surname Gui


id: 1f3ea54c8ffc75a26ece33d72e1cfed920c115e7
simplified: 归位
traditional: 歸位
pinyin: gui1 wei4
english:
to put sth back where it belongs/to return to the original position/to return to one's seat (in a classroom)


id: c2da70a55c9593af274c0c481d42a954c442c980
simplified: 归口
traditional: 歸口
pinyin: gui1 kou3
english:
to return to one's original trade/to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority/(the) relevant (department in charge of sth)


id: 123849ceaf21e7dbd56c4d7d49a90745ca4cbcfd
simplified: 归属
traditional: 歸屬
pinyin: gui1 shu3
english:
to belong to/to be affiliated to/to fall under the jurisdiction of/a place where one feels that one belongs/one's final destination (where one need look no further)


id: e0b0d4434c7293d5646cb257072f45900abb0627
simplified: 死亡笔记
traditional: 死亡筆記
pinyin: si3 wang2 bi3 ji4
english:
Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大场鸫[Da4 chang3 Dong1] (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健[Xiao3 tian2 Jian4]


id: e9bca17e612762d6f035332522034f57b63ecee3
simplified: 死宅
traditional: 死宅
pinyin: si3 zhai2
english:
die-hard otaku (sb who hardly ever emerges from their home, where they play games, watch movies etc)


id: baad62a05f12640a88b4301c1795207763be5599
simplified: 死心
traditional: 死心
pinyin: si3 xin1
english:
to give up/to admit failure/to drop the matter/to reconcile oneself to loss/to have no more illusions about


id: fe4fa71c8c1d1e9647e618b1bd62102d8ba72a4f
simplified: 死有余辜
traditional: 死有餘辜
pinyin: si3 you3 yu2 gu1
english:
death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead


id: 3aa4932b15ccdcbb2a6f1ce3aeca7416138ae593
simplified: 死灰复燃
traditional: 死灰復燃
pinyin: si3 hui1 fu4 ran2
english:
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence/sth malevolent returns to haunt one


id: 5da2915c01e4ad5c2f84301ea376674034bb7ae0
simplified: 死神
traditional: 死神
pinyin: si3 shen2
english:
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die/(fig.) death


id: 85d7dcf2e95fc32a7f906a9fcc5e8928b0db6474
simplified: 死缓
traditional: 死緩
pinyin: si3 huan3
english:
deferred death sentence/commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)


id: de8b38fec0c30d3c337f218eb18258032133f2ff
simplified: 死马当活马医
traditional: 死馬當活馬醫
pinyin: si3 ma3 dang4 huo2 ma3 yi1
english:
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom)/fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation


id: 611ad65b57eba3468b18ba1cc35b2c09ca125880
simplified: 残
traditional: 殘
pinyin: can2
radicalSimplified: 歹
radicalTraditional: 歹
english:
to destroy/to spoil/to ruin/to injure/cruel/oppressive/savage/brutal/incomplete/disabled/to remain/to survive/remnant/surplus


id: 5ac4549606dd05d4733eb45e165ebcad7d862715
simplified: 殚精极虑
traditional: 殫精極慮
pinyin: dan1 jing1 ji2 lu:4
english:
to exhaust one's thoughts and ingenuity (idiom); to think sth through thoroughly/to rack one's brains/to leave no stone unturned


id: 77c893ae6d01e22953feba28a9fdb55cb5c30873
simplified: 段
traditional: 段
pinyin: duan4
radicalSimplified: 殳
radicalTraditional: 殳
english:
paragraph/section/segment/stage (of a process)/classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc/surname Duan


id: e92fcc58bd96242cce825d7ad4b12796e212516a
simplified: 段玉裁
traditional: 段玉裁
pinyin: duan4 yu4 cai2
english:
Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說文解字註|说文解字注[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4 Zhu4]


id: 7f0cc50bae2b7eda507dbbea6ee7af565d748241
simplified: 段祺瑞
traditional: 段祺瑞
pinyin: duan4 qi2 rui4
english:
Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord


id: d55a7442ec5d185c2216f9314326f43db83ec986
simplified: 殷
traditional: 殷
pinyin: yin1
radicalSimplified: 殳
radicalTraditional: 殳
english:
flourishing/abundant/earnest/hospitable/surname Yin/dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province


id: 9efdbf01d8b9c634cf30e205b63b735299f34e9f
simplified: 杀一儆百
traditional: 殺一儆百
pinyin: sha1 yi1 jing3 bai3
english:
lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres


id: 2b97371111b2c5cd94f9d68858ca3ed07717fd28
simplified: 杀人不过头点地
traditional: 殺人不過頭點地
pinyin: sha1 ren2 bu4 guo4 tou2 dian3 di4
english:
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously/a fuss about nothing/nothing to write home about


id: fb642f31d16d0328dbf33abf11672fd956e36a19
simplified: 杀人如麻
traditional: 殺人如麻
pinyin: sha1 ren2 ru2 ma2
english:
to kill people like scything flax (idiom); human life as grass/a politician acting with total disregard for the life of his countrymen


id: edba47609afd050b39d61767b182d3d933c4ddcd
simplified: 杀进杀出
traditional: 殺進殺出
pinyin: sha1 jin4 sha1 chu1
english:
to execute a lightning raid/(investment) to buy, then quickly sell/(tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay


id: 8576aa723b7640fa749deae65fe2939975a5eef6
simplified: 杀鸡儆猴
traditional: 殺雞儆猴
pinyin: sha1 ji1 jing3 hou2
english:
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom)/fig. to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres


id: 79dbbe6cfd8e4eabe985255f068b13a62e4b3b61
simplified: 杀鸡吓猴
traditional: 殺雞嚇猴
pinyin: sha1 ji1 xia4 hou2
english:
lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres


id: 5d7d7ff3c9898b4dd11ca764840c20962a94b50b
simplified: 杀鸡给猴看
traditional: 殺雞給猴看
pinyin: sha1 ji1 gei3 hou2 kan4
english:
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others


id: 937773361a10e7400942893715ba62536902753f
simplified: 杀鸡警猴
traditional: 殺雞警猴
pinyin: sha1 ji1 jing3 hou2
english:
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres


id: fa7ae3acc91d8181b52786cd5bdb5179f651635a
simplified: 杀青
traditional: 殺青
pinyin: sha1 qing1
english:
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc)/to finalize/to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)


id: b6c274bcb3d628f22118cfc1b4a884d84e34a7a6
simplified: 杀马特
traditional: 殺馬特
pinyin: sha1 ma3 te4
english:
Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy make-up, flamboyant costumes, piercings etc (loanword from "smart")


id: f7e8dcfa486b500cb39fdd91a4d3ee925bd32d7c
simplified: 母体
traditional: 母體
pinyin: mu3 ti3
english:
(zoology, medicine) mother's body/(chemistry etc) parent/matrix/(statistics) population/parent population


id: 56806b5c5a136b9867ce13aa91f03581293baeee
simplified: 毒奶
traditional: 毒奶
pinyin: du2 nai3
english:
poisoned milk/contaminated milk/refers to 2008 PRC scandal involving milk products adulterated with melamine 三聚氰胺[san1 ju4 qing2 an4]


id: 983018a120f52c91c35204abf1fe4a2f1e6d172b
simplified: 毒奶粉
traditional: 毒奶粉
pinyin: du2 nai3 fen3
english:
poisoned milk powder/refers to 2008 PRC scandal involving milk powder adulterated with melamine 三聚氰胺[san1 ju4 qing2 an4]


id: 412e2a209cfa49e444382afbcfbf6dda3012b9d4
simplified: 比
traditional: 比
pinyin: bi3
radicalSimplified: 比
radicalTraditional: 比
english:
(particle used for comparison and "-er than")/to compare/to contrast/to gesture (with hands)/ratio/Belgium/Belgian/abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]


id: eb4cf1593dd1b2936a7b82de3bc5bccc8dc29004
simplified: 比划
traditional: 比劃
pinyin: bi3 hua5
english:
to gesture/to gesticulate/to practice the moves of a martial art by imitating the teacher/to fight/to come to blows


id: b9f8549bea59f1856d6d8ddc9d9a351340d29c53
simplified: 比如县
traditional: 比如縣
pinyin: bi3 ru2 xian4
english:
Biru county, Tibetan: 'Bri ru rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: 134126e5cb889323cacc6beddbbef2b22453f30c
simplified: 比烂
traditional: 比爛
pinyin: bi3 lan4
english:
to compare two unsatisfactory things/to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism)/whataboutery


id: 0cd8a0384e314a44b96a6bc96482ac356cabf4e6
simplified: 比翼双飞
traditional: 比翼雙飛
pinyin: bi3 yi4 shuang1 fei1
english:
lit. a pair of birds flying close together (idiom)/fig. two hearts beating as one/name of a sweet and sour chicken wing dish


id: 8edb4a75ea006e761748608d3ca0dded2b6d6399
simplified: 毗耶娑
traditional: 毗耶娑
pinyin: pi2 ye1 suo1
english:
Vyasa, Indian sage and scribe, supposed author of epic 摩訶婆羅多|摩诃婆罗多[Mo2 he1 po2 luo2 duo1] and a major figure in it


id: 2c9109fc9192f08953efdf8ec81d2df21d3a1654
simplified: 毛
traditional: 毛
pinyin: mao2
radicalSimplified: 毛
radicalTraditional: 毛
english:
hair/feather/down/wool/mildew/mold/coarse or semifinished/young/raw/careless/unthinking/nervous/scared/(of currency) to devalue or depreciate/classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])/surname Mao


id: 012d69d0f901b1c232b57ecae326b23cf8f5a861
simplified: 毛出在羊身上
traditional: 毛出在羊身上
pinyin: mao2 chu1 zai4 yang2 shen1 shang4
english:
lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid./Nothing comes for free.


id: 02d7f33eb4df537bb971b57ed2d8a07e61a4ca01
simplified: 毛遂
traditional: 毛遂
pinyin: mao2 sui4
english:
Mao Sui (third century BC), who proverbially offered his services to the King of Chu 楚, see 毛遂自薦|毛遂自荐[Mao2 Sui4 zi4 jian4]


id: 5f42b7fefc2a0175ddab87ad9ef9a01ea6bda705
simplified: 毛遂自荐
traditional: 毛遂自薦
pinyin: mao2 sui4 zi4 jian4
english:
Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states)


id: 5ecf0a80c2e0a7c7ea37fb3e9a3dda502863c666
simplified: 毛邓三
traditional: 毛鄧三
pinyin: mao2 deng4 san1
english:
Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory & the Three Represents/abbr. for 毛澤東思想|毛泽东思想[Mao2 Ze2 dong1 Si1 xiang3], 鄧小平理論|邓小平理论[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2 Li3 lun4] and 三個代表|三个代表[San1 ge4 Dai4 biao3]


id: dc0584dcdcfb8f74b00f116bbab161ee8fda9e49
simplified: 毛锥
traditional: 毛錐
pinyin: mao2 zhui1
english:
writing brush (old)/Castanopsis fordii, a species of evergreen tree common in the south of China whose calybia (nuts) resemble the tip of a writing brush


id: 87d5772c32bb72ab2e88f5e9cc426a4608841c96
simplified: 毫无效果
traditional: 毫無效果
pinyin: hao2 wu2 xiao4 guo3
english:
to no avail/achieving nothing/totally ineffective/to have no effect/to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)


id: b919b3a99944cd007c6c4b0b81006e0fe8c679e9
simplified: 民不聊生
traditional: 民不聊生
pinyin: min2 bu4 liao2 sheng1
english:
The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])/no way of getting by


id: 969f6142fab16e824f078a36c0345e648d4e1d30
simplified: 民主革命
traditional: 民主革命
pinyin: min2 zhu3 ge2 ming4
english:
democratic revolution/bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)


id: c0cc0ba577c6a299808840b71af7f1bf63c3cfa0
simplified: 民以食为天
traditional: 民以食為天
pinyin: min2 yi3 shi2 wei2 tian1
english:
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need./Food first, ethical niceties second


id: e759d0e488dadcd5edf101bb3ca649cc5554a5d0
simplified: 民国
traditional: 民國
pinyin: min2 guo2
english:
Republic of China (1912-1949)/used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)


id: a3545d74cc0ff74cffb1e5d2651655e2068c3127
simplified: 民国通俗演义
traditional: 民國通俗演義
pinyin: min2 guo2 tong1 su2 yan3 yi4
english:
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父


id: 821a547945ff401c466ff93cc42b2f2a23956f9b
simplified: 民建联
traditional: 民建聯
pinyin: min2 jian4 lian2
english:
abbr. for 民主建港協進聯盟|民主建港协进联盟, Democratic alliance for the betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), Hong Kong pro-Beijing party


id: 446068ab1b74284d4b67ec69bd8fcd9a566bcffc
simplified: 民族主义
traditional: 民族主義
pinyin: min2 zu2 zhu3 yi4
english:
nationalism/national self-determination/principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers)/racism


id: 3b1492082be939dcf4b864eb73ec1c0382fd9b8b
simplified: 民权主义
traditional: 民權主義
pinyin: min2 quan2 zhu3 yi4
english:
democracy/civil liberties/principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)


id: 9137f19688b8a3606042355f1128fbf7f173c26e
simplified: 民生主义
traditional: 民生主義
pinyin: min2 sheng1 zhu3 yi4
english:
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)


id: 49ce5685aab5f6fe39cedca2a14199f71ac8d0ea
simplified: 民脂民膏
traditional: 民脂民膏
pinyin: min2 zhi1 min2 gao1
english:
lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)/the people's blood, sweat and tears


id: 7dabe3135eb0562c1552cf3edd01aabcc8c73d9e
simplified: 氕
traditional: 氕
pinyin: pie1
radicalSimplified: 气
radicalTraditional: 气
english:
protium 1H/light hydrogen, the most common isotope of hydrogen, having no neutron, so atomic weight 1


id: 16c51be477ce017faaf99a8fcf6f8760bda1446b
simplified: 氘
traditional: 氘
pinyin: dao1
radicalSimplified: 气
radicalTraditional: 气
english:
deuterium 2H/heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so atomic weight 2


id: f6eb1ac3f6f64ff3459a951ec463948a3e637495
simplified: 气化
traditional: 氣化
pinyin: qi4 hua4
english:
to vaporize/evaporation/carburetion/氣|气[qi4] transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath)/unvoicing of voiced consonant


id: 156daf559ca749ab59bed927f0a200574f331de4
simplified: 气管炎
traditional: 氣管炎
pinyin: qi4 guan3 yan2
english:
bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus)/henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得严 used in comic theater)


id: c76844f7635aa0d330c9baa534722c149f976100
simplified: 气量
traditional: 氣量
pinyin: qi4 liang4
english:
(lit. quantity of spirit)/moral character/degree of forbearance/broad-mindedness or otherwise/tolerance/magnanimity


id: 3f69904700c4fe2fb2caeb3f46501bc66ce245a4
simplified: 水
traditional: 水
pinyin: shui3
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 氵
english:
water/river/liquid/beverage/additional charges or income/(of clothes) classifier for number of washes/surname Shui


id: 7db2bee807ead98a12bc2eb35af6f0f60dbdb0da
simplified: 水仙
traditional: 水仙
pinyin: shui3 xian1
english:
narcissus/daffodil/legendary aquatic immortal/refers to those buried at sea/person who wanders abroad and does not return


id: b3f3a65e851b4b4437cc72e8489c78a5e69e9f67
simplified: 水到渠成
traditional: 水到渠成
pinyin: shui3 dao4 qu2 cheng2
english:
lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom)/fig. when conditions are right, success will follow naturally


id: add82b02b330c22f56f4c18478819556e0926fa3
simplified: 水客
traditional: 水客
pinyin: shui3 ke4
english:
smuggler, esp. of electronic goods from Macao or Hong Kong to Guangdong/boatman/fisherman/itinerant trader


id: b702afe50ab3f8d96999464c0b0429926fe6d67a
simplified: 水幕
traditional: 水幕
pinyin: shui3 mu4
english:
water screen (screen formed of sprayed water droplets, used for displaying projected images, for temperature control, or for air purification)


id: 9f19eb04503a4b8d94269498d23237504090284b
simplified: 水性
traditional: 水性
pinyin: shui3 xing4
english:
swimming ability/characteristics of a body of water (depth, currents etc)/aqueous/water-based (paint etc)


id: 0d7572a969a902d973bcccce5d53908d5fc59e29
simplified: 水滴石穿
traditional: 水滴石穿
pinyin: shui3 di1 shi2 chuan1
english:
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success/You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up./Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty.


id: ce64700636dba89c4f4d9d411455d6a8e9dc259f
simplified: 水浒传
traditional: 水滸傳
pinyin: shui3 hu3 zhuan4
english:
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵[Shi1 Nai4 an1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature


id: 32228623ef7b0e72341f66b7a28c399d26ca6316
simplified: 水浒全传
traditional: 水滸全傳
pinyin: shui3 hu3 quan2 zhuan4
english:
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature/also written 水滸傳|水浒传


id: f84d36dfc70e219a504fe2cfb2625604fa273b0c
simplified: 水涨船高
traditional: 水漲船高
pinyin: shui3 zhang3 chuan2 gao1
english:
the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend/to develop according to the situation


id: 93c272c92e3e9a09be89d1b3d36518b86feffa64
simplified: 水磨沟
traditional: 水磨溝
pinyin: shui3 mo4 gou1
english:
Shuimogou district (Uighur: Shuymogu Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 Shi4], Xinjiang


id: 899adbcf3a4bd160661bd7ba2fcf1832e3445faa
simplified: 水立方
traditional: 水立方
pinyin: shui3 li4 fang1
english:
Water Cube, nickname of Beijing National Aquatics Center 北京國家游泳中心|北京国家游泳中心, swimming venue of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games


id: 3d44c2328dfad07e509056a61908f47a6ffd4fec
simplified: 水罐
traditional: 水罐
pinyin: shui3 guan4
english:
container for holding and pouring water (or other liquid): jug, pitcher, clay jar, jerry can, water bottle etc


id: 0cb78b65173bfa4933fdba1188f5ab809e6d5007
simplified: 水能载舟，亦能覆舟
traditional: 水能載舟，亦能覆舟
pinyin: shui3 neng2 zai4 zhou1 , yi4 neng2 fu4 zhou1
english:
lit. water may keep the boat afloat but may also sink it (proverb)/fig. the people can support a regime or overturn it/if sth is used properly, one can benefit from it, otherwise it can do harm/things can be double-edged


id: e18d862cc1b8ebbacb7d66acc6188c53f32b66dc
simplified: 水灵
traditional: 水靈
pinyin: shui3 ling2
english:
(of fruit etc) fresh/(of a person etc) full of life/healthy-looking/(of eyes) moist and bright/lustrous


id: e7203b4f10b0a4e494a24f1e939b41f937d0f47b
simplified: 氵
traditional: 氵
pinyin: shui3
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 水
english:
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 没, 法, 流 etc/see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]


id: 384b1eb4400d9b5f8a683b38527f7e9b1f708c87
simplified: 永不生锈的螺丝钉
traditional: 永不生銹的螺絲釘
pinyin: yong3 bu4 sheng1 xiu4 de5 luo2 si1 ding1
english:
a "screw that never rusts" — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1], to whom the metaphor is attributed


id: fc74c701b861e26ff311332b7b3301108d71fc34
simplified: 永仁
traditional: 永仁
pinyin: yong3 ren2
english:
Yongren 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: 8ee6000251018ba803e3067c37c5355ff0dd1ccd
simplified: 永安
traditional: 永安
pinyin: yong3 an1
english:
Yong'an county level city in Sanming 三明[San1 ming2], Fujian/Yong'an or Yung'an township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan


id: c5e34c266cf6f1a46722ed6262208f11bd8f5808
simplified: 永定
traditional: 永定
pinyin: yong3 ding4
english:
Yongding county level city in Longyan 龍岩|龙岩, Fujian/Yongding district of Zhangjiajie city 張家界市|张家界市[Zhang1 jia1 jie4 shi4], Hunan


id: 86940995834eb7bb7bc7b4beab6cc4b49cddd942
simplified: 永定门
traditional: 永定門
pinyin: yong3 ding4 men2
english:
Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005


id: 24bc5b540d91d93471e9771dd402db22ce4331ce
simplified: 永康
traditional: 永康
pinyin: yong3 kang1
english:
Yongkang county level city in Jinhua 金華|金华[Jin1 hua2], Zhejiang/Yungkang city in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan


id: 73d42ed5401862ac9138296c5ee304d2944225ee
simplified: 永昌
traditional: 永昌
pinyin: yong3 chang1
english:
Yongchang county in Jinchang 金昌[Jin1 chang1], Gansu 甘肅|甘肃[Gan1 su4]/ancient prefecture in Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2], modern Baoshan 保山[Bao3 shan1]


id: f63497b15671bcb47d91d1ff594f8c41a31559c5
simplified: 永乐
traditional: 永樂
pinyin: yong3 le4
english:
Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣[Zhu1 Di4] (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, Temple name 明成祖[Ming2 Cheng2 zu3]


id: 08e4b9328cb4b59771daeb8a91b90ff1e5100e9d
simplified: 永靖
traditional: 永靖
pinyin: yong3 jing4
english:
Yongjing county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu/Yungching township in Changhua county 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 xian4], Taiwan


id: a17e2f797383d8821fceeff3725561057d9f7706
simplified: 永靖县
traditional: 永靖縣
pinyin: yong3 jing4 xian4
english:
Yongjing county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: 885a4757fe229cb9a39438cf4421e9d8e7c41870
simplified: 永顺
traditional: 永順
pinyin: yong3 shun4
english:
Yongshun 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: f6ea1ba5443df528b7f59d766d7e2aa98a0ff3d1
simplified: 求好心切
traditional: 求好心切
pinyin: qiu2 hao3 xin1 qie4
english:
to demand the highest standards of sb (or oneself) (idiom)/to strive to achieve the best possible results/to be a perfectionist


id: 38abe47425d3af7679b64cb54d35f1c22a33839a
simplified: 求死愿望
traditional: 求死願望
pinyin: qiu2 si3 yuan4 wang4
english:
death wish (translated from English)/Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson is translated as 猛龍怪客|猛龙怪客[Meng3 long2 guai4 ke4]


id: eac75ecd442ac71829002c24482da1513ab83813
simplified: 求田问舍
traditional: 求田問舍
pinyin: qiu2 tian2 wen4 she4
english:
lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom)/fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life


id: 1139dc33d8dea6449b234f9bba2f3b1423f5117f
simplified: 汗
traditional: 汗
pinyin: han4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
perspiration/sweat/CL:滴[di1],頭|头[tou2],身[shen1]/to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc) (Internet slang used as an interjection)


id: 4fa8307eaa29fe16588211526f1a2156267883e0
simplified: 汗牛充栋
traditional: 汗牛充棟
pinyin: han4 niu2 chong1 dong4
english:
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books


id: 101ad932b11cfe7ffaad6d74381b1a627b816ab6
simplified: 江北
traditional: 江北
pinyin: jiang1 bei3
english:
Jiangbei district of central Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan/Chongqing's main airport/Jiangbei district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市[Ning2 bo1 shi4], Zhejiang


id: f79dad99ec710a83a655636f5d8e3f79010e5f56
simplified: 江南
traditional: 江南
pinyin: jiang1 nan2
english:
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river/south of the lower reaches of Changjiang/often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces/a province during Qing times/in literature, refers to the sunny south/Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)


id: 89f9b46cc0b845cf2bb3ab03875606acefb6b22c
simplified: 江南四大才子
traditional: 江南四大才子
pinyin: jiang1 nan2 si4 da4 cai2 zi3
english:
Four great southern talents of the Ming, namely: Tang Bohu 唐伯虎, Zhu Zhishan 祝枝山, Wen Zhengming 文徵明|文征明 and Xu Zhenqing 徐禎卿|徐祯卿


id: ee494f30d1c8e754c95fabfd5eb0198362c2e589
simplified: 江南省
traditional: 江南省
pinyin: jiang1 nan2 sheng3
english:
name of Qing dynasty province covering south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces, with capital at Nanjing


id: 7466ba9316c1b9433cca5a54e2e8309a6f0b865c
simplified: 江原道
traditional: 江原道
pinyin: jiang1 yuan2 dao4
english:
Gangwon Province of Korea during Joseon Dynasty/Kangwon province of North Korea/Gangwon province in northeast South Korea, capital Chuncheon 春川[Chun1 chuan1]


id: a8596ab3a5f56daee5cfa71bd1fb7dde2a78bb6f
simplified: 江山
traditional: 江山
pinyin: jiang1 shan1
english:
rivers and mountains/landscape/country/Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qu2 zhou1], Zhejiang


id: 9d2c4f6e31551e81e58126e8fee1ac8b5fa7d704
simplified: 江山易改，本性难移
traditional: 江山易改，本性難移
pinyin: jiang1 shan1 yi4 gai3 , ben3 xing4 nan2 yi2
english:
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)/you can't change who you are/Can the leopard change his spots?


id: 3754a299c8e5f7111503004e75e286d5c40b024c
simplified: 江湖
traditional: 江湖
pinyin: jiang1 hu2
english:
rivers and lakes/all corners of the country/remote areas to which hermits retreat/section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law/the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2])/(in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc/demimonde/(in modern times) triads/secret gangster societies/underworld


id: 5ca3ff847387b0695ad9b2de73848e8889f8f89d
simplified: 江郎才尽
traditional: 江郎才盡
pinyin: jiang1 lang2 cai2 jin4
english:
Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)/fig. to have used up one's creative powers/to have writer's block


id: e85e5145f44ea7beded1ac1e8a8f081f9cd5d5a6
simplified: 汪汪
traditional: 汪汪
pinyin: wang1 wang1
english:
gleaming with tears/woof woof (sound of a dog barking)/(literary) (of a body of water) broad and deep


id: 7e9a95fa33b70383f70b210914ca1e205a02034f
simplified: 汪道涵
traditional: 汪道涵
pinyin: wang1 dao4 han2
english:
Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits


id: 453468e0d0264eb5f49f178ee23723785b33cf1f
simplified: 汶
traditional: 汶
pinyin: wen4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川)/classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國|齐国


id: e8e344fcc18ef2aa106b0e6433c8c9394248d218
simplified: 汶上
traditional: 汶上
pinyin: wen4 shang4
english:
Wenshang County in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong/classically, upper reaches of Wen River in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國|齐国[Qi2 guo2]


id: be31375a22f4d74cf65bff5b77345c3dae5dd6d9
simplified: 汶川
traditional: 汶川
pinyin: wen4 chuan1
english:
Wenchuan county (Tibetan: wun khron 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: ebf7697022ef8b92f2cc891bc34270814f4a1b2c
simplified: 沃伦·巴菲特
traditional: 沃倫·巴菲特
pinyin: wo4 lun2 · ba1 fei1 te4
english:
Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway


id: f7ccc5da4a0ec6bff934c99175f6ba103eff3d9a
simplified: 沅江
traditional: 沅江
pinyin: yuan2 jiang1
english:
river in Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖/Yuanjiang county level city in Yiyang 益陽|益阳[Yi4 yang2], Hunan


id: 8621ff246f27a36dc87ac76a5453254d587353cc
simplified: 沈复
traditional: 沈復
pinyin: shen3 fu4
english:
Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six records of a floating life 浮生六記|浮生六记[fu2 sheng1 liu4 ji4]


id: 13ab65f05675c3ebc4fc5560100b429d7ec96536
simplified: 沈括
traditional: 沈括
pinyin: shen3 kuo4
english:
Shen Kuo (1031-1095), Chinese polymath, scientist and statesman of Song dynasty, author of Dream Pool Essays 夢溪筆談|梦溪笔谈[Meng4 Xi1 Bi3 tan2]


id: 7cb797d4312c259cdbe724c985eef8b880634445
simplified: 沈莹
traditional: 沈瑩
pinyin: shen3 ying2
english:
Shen Ying of Wu, governor (268-280) of coastal province of Wu and compiler of Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer 臨海水土誌|临海水土志


id: 8d89d765663637870d2681bb944efc85900152a8
simplified: 沈约
traditional: 沈約
pinyin: shen3 yue1
english:
Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书


id: 34d3bb4da8f0a12fae82c334182d8136992f0c84
simplified: 沈葆祯
traditional: 沈葆禎
pinyin: shen3 bao3 zhen1
english:
Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政學堂|船政学堂[Chuan2 zheng4 Xue2 tang2] in 1866


id: bc6c0cbf9798f2f017a34c6330630ffb7d513131
simplified: 沉浮
traditional: 沉浮
pinyin: chen2 fu2
english:
lit. sinking and floating/to bob up and down on water/ebb and flow/fig. rise and fall/ups and downs of fortune/vicissitudes


id: 328cc67e05d434765b16e13d8b90e3ac0c39b43d
simplified: 沉湎酒色
traditional: 沉湎酒色
pinyin: chen2 mian3 jiu3 se4
english:
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women/an incorrigible drunkard and lecher


id: 4663b2d7d2d039f828aa83229e10d9d7f33a3ba5
simplified: 沉潜
traditional: 沉潛
pinyin: chen2 qian2
english:
to lurk under water/to immerse oneself in (study etc)/to lie low/to keep a low profile/quiet/reserved/self-possessed


id: c50cea6c0982062f093575e8a8cae96ea31ace82
simplified: 沉鱼落雁
traditional: 沉魚落雁
pinyin: chen2 yu2 luo4 yan4
english:
lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts


id: c703fd801cf6a7a9598014f5c8bbe4a96d618a95
simplified: 没事
traditional: 沒事
pinyin: mei2 shi4
english:
it's not important/it's nothing/never mind/to have nothing to do/to be free/to be all right (out of danger or trouble)


id: 6c9659548b65092e87f823d2344df62671ebc859
simplified: 没齿不忘
traditional: 沒齒不忘
pinyin: mo4 chi3 bu4 wang4
english:
lit. will not be forgotten even after one's teeth fall out/to remember as long as one lives/unforgettable (idiom)


id: 3804368908ce76ff168c010a6938dae511bfa22b
simplified: 没齿难忘
traditional: 沒齒難忘
pinyin: mo4 chi3 nan2 wang4
english:
hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives/undying gratitude


id: f556d7d560b83722bbc705e89bba1642a06944a3
simplified: 冲
traditional: 沖
pinyin: chong1
radicalSimplified: 冫
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 沖,盅,冲
english:
(of water) to dash against/to mix with water/to infuse/to rinse/to flush/to develop (a film)/to rise in the air/to clash/to collide with


id: 2a0ac215b0e20d3c5c3a3ec2f1dd5f260792152f
simplified: 冲昏头脑
traditional: 沖昏頭腦
pinyin: chong1 hun1 tou2 nao3
english:
lit. to be muddled in the brain (idiom); fig. excited and unable to act rationally/to go to one's head


id: 6dcc7bfff64f31ab1a3585b07c75908cb36b739c
simplified: 冲泡
traditional: 沖泡
pinyin: chong1 pao4
english:
to add water (or other liquid) to (another ingredient such as powdered milk or tea leaves)/to infuse (tea)


id: c093757b37bb2ca1d8dd8b581516a6c492af1b43
simplified: 沙丁胺醇
traditional: 沙丁胺醇
pinyin: sha1 ding1 an4 chun2
english:
salbutamol (a beta 2 agonist used in treating asthma)/also known as albuterol, proventil and ventolin


id: 8d2ca6a953f5fffacc7d30c27b5ac606e28a97ae
simplified: 沙依巴克
traditional: 沙依巴克
pinyin: sha1 yi1 ba1 ke4
english:
Saybagh district (Uighur: Saybagh Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 Shi4], Xinjiang


id: 8cb418566161a3bfeddfa2e9be36f415deecece8
simplified: 沙湾
traditional: 沙灣
pinyin: sha1 wan1
english:
Shawan district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市[Le4 shan1 shi4], Sichuan/Shawan county or Saven nahisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[Ta3 cheng2 di4 qu1], Xinjiang


id: d53b78bf7c58823e8ab7709da471e8461c231f64
simplified: 沙琪玛
traditional: 沙琪瑪
pinyin: sha1 qi2 ma3
english:
sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut into blocks


id: 536bf8c048f836beb396566804bdeb5e843776a8
simplified: 沙发
traditional: 沙發
pinyin: sha1 fa1
english:
sofa (loanword)/CL:條|条[tiao2],張|张[zhang1]/(Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post


id: b7bd42a2c8a223dec47b945efca1df156b9e3fa2
simplified: 沙盘
traditional: 沙盤
pinyin: sha1 pan2
english:
sand table (military)/3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc)/sand tray (on which to write characters)


id: c14fad610d3d569bb472a5f32b13b5ef9a660828
simplified: 沙盘推演
traditional: 沙盤推演
pinyin: sha1 pan2 tui1 yan3
english:
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)/to rehearse a planned action or activity/to conduct a dry run


id: 0d5bf425acb4bc1a2cc1746e9d1c5150b0026ed2
simplified: 沱茶
traditional: 沱茶
pinyin: tuo2 cha2
english:
a cake of tea, commonly Pu'er tea 普洱茶[Pu3 er3 cha2], compacted into a bowl or nest shape/dome shaped tea-brick/caked tea


id: 771ae850af4e13b8850eb92984aef39d31ac6d69
simplified: 河北
traditional: 河北
pinyin: he2 bei3
english:
Hebei province (Hopeh) in north China surrounding Beijing, short name 冀, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1]


id: fbf2eaf530f10dfb9671ff5e99c7313bd39bf437
simplified: 河北省
traditional: 河北省
pinyin: he2 bei3 sheng3
english:
Hebei Province (Hopeh) in north China surrounding Beijing, short name 冀[Ji4], capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1]


id: 7447f27dd77c7125e4a5fa37762b2eea2e127340
simplified: 河南县
traditional: 河南縣
pinyin: he2 nan2 xian4
english:
He'nan Mengguzu autonomous county in Qinghai/in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huang2 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 81b1d17dcb9fd9c57de0fffdade6f549e93220cb
simplified: 河南蒙古族自治县
traditional: 河南蒙古族自治縣
pinyin: he2 nan2 meng2 gu3 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
He'nan Mengguzu autonomous county in Qinghai/in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huang2 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: bf9813d26b419543d0ab6dc779aa740579889fc8
simplified: 河口瑶族自治县
traditional: 河口瑤族自治縣
pinyin: he2 kou3 yao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Hekou Yaozu 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: be8743c2f9408727573db04a253de442c6293ca4
simplified: 河东区
traditional: 河東區
pinyin: he2 dong1 qu1
english:
Hedong district of Tianjin municipality 天津市[Tian1 jin1 shi4]/Hedong district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市[Lin2 yi2 shi4], Shandong


id: 11fd0534c27e7d56a77aa7fa72bad2af63822082
simplified: 河殇
traditional: 河殤
pinyin: he2 shang1
english:
River Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the Beijing Spring democracy movement of 1980s


id: 7378fd855da0b96f951fdc4dac86025ff6d2e810
simplified: 河水不犯井水
traditional: 河水不犯井水
pinyin: he2 shui3 bu4 fan4 jing3 shui3
english:
lit. river water does not interfere with well water (idiom); Do not interfere with one another./Mind your own business.


id: 22d13cff4c2c6901b7893f03aadcbba6e8ad805f
simplified: 河蟹
traditional: 河蟹
pinyin: he2 xie4
english:
river crab/Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧|和谐[he2 xie2], which is blocked by the great firewall of China)


id: f2ef990aaa80f7d1587a54ecc7fad2037ad69d38
simplified: 河西走廊
traditional: 河西走廊
pinyin: he2 xi1 zou3 lang2
english:
Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road


id: bc9a009d0c059efbe47fb9fe3dcd568c6203a337
simplified: 油症
traditional: 油症
pinyin: you2 zheng4
english:
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)


id: 8a0d6b668ba301ccf3ac2909c5e549a97225a6da
simplified: 治
traditional: 治
pinyin: zhi4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to rule/to govern/to manage/to control/to harness (a river)/to treat (a disease)/to wipe out (a pest)/to punish/to research


id: c5b72fcede0238a45a065484048a2f74d476d66e
simplified: 治保
traditional: 治保
pinyin: zhi4 bao3
english:
law enforcement and protection of the public (as provided in the PRC by local security committees 治保會|治保会)


id: 17a54b9ab5b1a184f292fcca6fe52377ed8897fb
simplified: 治外法权
traditional: 治外法權
pinyin: zhi4 wai4 fa3 quan2
english:
diplomatic immunity/(history) extraterritoriality, the rights (under unequal treaties) of a foreigner to live in China outside Chinese jurisdiction


id: b8f969cc97cbe024d32b1a097603d69faa0bc1ff
simplified: 治多
traditional: 治多
pinyin: zhi4 duo1
english:
Zhidoi county (Tibetan: 'bri 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: 4c7e4712b4a34fe7713279788e2cbc643c50b8f2
simplified: 治大国若烹小鲜
traditional: 治大國若烹小鮮
pinyin: zhi4 da4 guo2 ruo4 peng1 xiao3 xian1
english:
ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom)/effective government requires minimal intervention


id: 50431917ab4bc5b1ae23c72c2d6fe08c357cf946
simplified: 沾唇
traditional: 沾唇
pinyin: zhan1 chun2
english:
to moisten one's lips/to sip (wine, tea etc)/esp. used with negatives: never touch a drop of the stuff


id: 31b05e2b7fed968d67a7c66348c673f522c862e7
simplified: 沾花惹草
traditional: 沾花惹草
pinyin: zhan1 hua1 re3 cao3
english:
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)/to womanize/to frequent brothels/to sow one's wild oats


id: bbc821b5f18fa4864f924d43160cd15a51fc3502
simplified: 沿
traditional: 沿
pinyin: yan2
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
along/to follow (a line, tradition etc)/to carry on/to trim (a border with braid, tape etc)/border/edge


id: 3308d269db56d826a82caf2c060aff195e953bda
simplified: 泄
traditional: 泄
pinyin: xie4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 洩,渫
english:
to leak (of water or gas)/to drip/to drain/to discharge/to leak out/to divulge (secrets)/to give vent (to anger, spite etc)/to disperse/to reduce


id: a9790530236a0cdd52f16d8605d20b61a378273a
simplified: 法商
traditional: 法商
pinyin: fa3 shang1
english:
"legal quotient" (LQ), a measure of one's awareness and knowledge of the law and one's standard of honorable conduct


id: db125b952bf874439508eb2ae43ade6349072c17
simplified: 法定代表人
traditional: 法定代表人
pinyin: fa3 ding4 dai4 biao3 ren2
english:
(law) legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)


id: 8d1ab647c56c5909fd848a68f6ba146a53a8e837
simplified: 法家
traditional: 法家
pinyin: fa3 jia1
english:
Legalist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Han Fei 韓非|韩非[Han2 Fei1] and Li Si 李斯[Li3 Si1], later adopted by Shang Yang 商鞅[Shang1 Yang1] whose reforms helped establish the supremacy of the Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin1 dai4] (221-207 BC)


id: 54f13160864c3ee93d9c2d2ff61929b162bc0fd3
simplified: 法宝
traditional: 法寶
pinyin: fa3 bao3
english:
Buddha's teaching/Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc/(Daoism) magic weapon/talisman/fig. specially effective device/magic wand


id: 8d3e089e642949bc285f5343352e55234c92e82a
simplified: 法拉第
traditional: 法拉第
pinyin: fa3 la1 di4
english:
Faraday (name)/Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity


id: 931991ed21c2b71f062207bd31baae2df0cea798
simplified: 法网
traditional: 法網
pinyin: fa3 wang3
english:
the net of justice/rigorous process of the law/the long arm of the law/French Open (tennis tournament)


id: e1b894e2bf4af5069b81837ba32551a893ffe538
simplified: 法耶德
traditional: 法耶德
pinyin: fa3 ye1 de2
english:
Fayed (name)/Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (1933-), controversial Egyptian-born businessman and philanthropist, owner of Harrods (London) and Fulham football club


id: 0ece7979e65a4af5744c6f78b5fc45e5c422a65b
simplified: 法兰西斯·斐迪南
traditional: 法蘭西斯·斐迪南
pinyin: fa3 lan2 xi1 si1 · fei3 di2 nan2
english:
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I


id: 559ccd1d9be4bf288994d29228a2a2178b733ed5
simplified: 法衣
traditional: 法衣
pinyin: fa3 yi1
english:
robe of a Buddhist priest/ceremonial garment of a Daoist priest/robe of a judge, nun, priest etc/cassock/vestment


id: ff66ac8ad005805ccb7f5bb2b417a5123e3cee0a
simplified: 法隆寺
traditional: 法隆寺
pinyin: fa3 long1 si4
english:
Hōryūji, complex of Buddhist temples near Nara 奈良, Japan, dating back to the Asuka period 飛鳥時代|飞鸟时代 (c. 600)


id: 30f8b0463f1218c54fede8f9ab6ca22ba88c3e96
simplified: 泗水
traditional: 泗水
pinyin: si4 shui3
english:
Sishui County in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong/Surabaya, capital of East Java province of Indonesia


id: 7caad499a89646ba967c7e75df08099b36cd64d2
simplified: 泛珠三角
traditional: 泛珠三角
pinyin: fan4 zhu1 san1 jiao3
english:
Pan-Pearl River delta/The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta/South China


id: 5ea0d3cae131bdc011c24356ca59c1710a3758fa
simplified: 泡
traditional: 泡
pinyin: pao4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 箔
english:
bubble/foam/blister (i.e. skin bubble)/to soak/to steep/to infuse/to dawdle/to shilly-shally/to hang about/to pick up (a girl)/to get off with (a sexual partner)/classifier for occurrences of an action/classifier for number of infusions


id: c83953d3bc31959134407c24b6583fa1fdd0d04a
simplified: 泡汤
traditional: 泡湯
pinyin: pao4 tang1
english:
to dawdle/to go slow deliberately/to fizzle out/to have all one's hopes dashed/(Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring


id: 97d640f0e4cb0cba15c319337f5b1250297671e4
simplified: 波茨坦会议
traditional: 波茨坦會議
pinyin: bo1 ci2 tan3 hui4 yi4
english:
Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee


id: a9f5d20b7ac0e98a4a3e4c48b622d24925d9ab84
simplified: 波阳
traditional: 波陽
pinyin: bo1 yang2
english:
Boyang county, former name of Poyang county 鄱陽縣|鄱阳县[Po2 yang2 xian4] in Shangrao 上饒|上饶[Shang4 rao2], Jiangxi


id: 8926649b21aafaca381f1ea1b35043652e9c1ec6
simplified: 泥菩萨过江，自身难保
traditional: 泥菩薩過江，自身難保
pinyin: ni2 pu2 sa4 guo4 jiang1 , zi4 shen1 nan2 bao3
english:
like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety/unable to save oneself, let alone others


id: 67c77cc19f8ea1086a429e4f2140c38ef544c62a
simplified: 注
traditional: 注
pinyin: zhu4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to inject/to pour into/to concentrate/to pay attention/stake (gambling)/classifier for sums of money/variant of 註|注[zhu4]


id: cf7113a120aa250662acc48b5e3406ee9e7649e4
simplified: 注音
traditional: 注音
pinyin: zhu4 yin1
english:
Annotated Sounds, a phonetic transliteration for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan/also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ


id: ed71946938da9b642b5ac623471ebe061aa5470b
simplified: 注音一式
traditional: 注音一式
pinyin: zhu4 yin1 yi1 shi4
english:
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1/Bopomofo/abbr. for 國語注音符號第一式|国语注音符号第一式[Guo2 yu3 zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4 di4 yi1 shi4]


id: b0491570089df7ab8a6642779084e27cba3237eb
simplified: 注音符号
traditional: 注音符號
pinyin: zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4
english:
Zhuyin Fuhao, phonetic transliteration system for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ


id: 47b62e67ec0b9bc173c1d7eb75c24e4db76f8f0a
simplified: 泰安
traditional: 泰安
pinyin: tai4 an1
english:
Tai'an city prefecture level city in Shandong/Tai'an township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan


id: ecce2c56f46a1b80ac0dc7d31059fffd1fcc3da8
simplified: 泰山
traditional: 泰山
pinyin: tai4 shan1
english:
Tarzan (fictional character reared by apes in the jungle)/Taishan township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan/Mt Tai in Shandong, eastern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]


id: bb88afbad89fe159e810c08830f68911c9b43313
simplified: 泰米尔纳德
traditional: 泰米爾納德
pinyin: tai4 mi3 er3 na4 de2
english:
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4]/formerly Madras state 馬德拉斯邦|马德拉斯邦[Ma3 de2 la1 si1 bang1]


id: b735c85647cb53ff5776925005f65359d4657212
simplified: 洗地
traditional: 洗地
pinyin: xi3 di4
english:
to clean the floor/(Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor/(fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing/to defend (a wrongdoer)/(coll.) to carpet-bomb


id: adf21293935b8dadef9184b0847417d8dd742020
simplified: 洗心革面
traditional: 洗心革面
pinyin: xi3 xin1 ge2 mian4
english:
lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways/to turn over a new leaf


id: 0b93860d3be1cff9ddcfa50d390190ad84b81ecf
simplified: 洛阳纸贵
traditional: 洛陽紙貴
pinyin: luo4 yang2 zhi3 gui4
english:
lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)/fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes


id: 9c04a52a6636b518c3a7462416757ca852bd4bdb
simplified: 津塔
traditional: 津塔
pinyin: jin1 ta3
english:
Jin Tower/abbr. for 天津環球金融中心|天津环球金融中心[Tian1 jin1 Huan2 qiu2 Jin1 rong2 Zhong1 xin1] Tianjin World Financial Center, skyscraper a.k.a. the Tianjin Tower


id: b65c8da6917a436c0e974b6a2a29ed9ec1af15a5
simplified: 泄气
traditional: 洩氣
pinyin: xie4 qi4
english:
to leak (gas)/to be discouraged/to despair/(disparaging) pathetic/to vent one's anger/(of a tire) to be flat


id: 539fd5b25197e2dcaa2ad58ec57965293c19be72
simplified: 洪博培
traditional: 洪博培
pinyin: hong2 bo2 pei2
english:
Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-) Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, US Ambassador to China since August 2009


id: 7c1741676e109075a2b1313a551aed3718693276
simplified: 洪武
traditional: 洪武
pinyin: hong2 wu3
english:
Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1] (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, Temple name 明太祖[Ming2 Tai4 zu3]


id: 2021045e7f3b2a4ab2694180adca510afa446e7f
simplified: 洪水猛兽
traditional: 洪水猛獸
pinyin: hong2 shui3 meng3 shou4
english:
lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom)/fig. great scourges/extremely dangerous or threatening things


id: 7d02245f4eaa6decf9ec85e9254dc993b41daa3b
simplified: 洪江
traditional: 洪江
pinyin: hong2 jiang1
english:
Hongjiang county level city in Huaihua 懷化|怀化[Huai2 hua4], Hunan/Hongjiang district of Huaihua city 懷化市|怀化市[Huai2 hua4 shi4], Hunan


id: f8e31d73c6a7e3243ea09aa4f33478950c10daf3
simplified: 洪熙
traditional: 洪熙
pinyin: hong2 xi1
english:
Hongxi Emperor, reign name of fourth Ming emperor Zhu Gaochi 朱高熾|朱高炽[Zhu1 Gao1 chi4] (1378-1425), reigned (1424-1425), Temple name 明仁宗[Ming2 Ren2 zong1]


id: e3840772167f7186ffd86ac25b819fd99a3ad0ab
simplified: 洪秀全
traditional: 洪秀全
pinyin: hong2 xiu4 quan2
english:
Hong Xiuquan or Hung Hsiu-ch'üan (1814-1864), leader of the Taiping rebellion or Taiping Heavenly Kingdom


id: 3d654621086c040716d4a7cf50c7d0fdd5871762
simplified: 活动
traditional: 活動
pinyin: huo2 dong4
english:
to exercise/to move about/to operate/to use connections (personal influence)/loose/shaky/active/movable/activity/campaign/maneuver/behavior/CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]


id: 61bd77645550762d19e2a0a977c012926073e185
simplified: 活用
traditional: 活用
pinyin: huo2 yong4
english:
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly/to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)


id: e6fed66a2720dbe153ba7dfcd38af8a31a711969
simplified: 派
traditional: 派
pinyin: pai4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
clique/school/group/faction/to dispatch/to send/to assign/to appoint/pi (Greek letter Ππ)/the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926/(loanword) pie


id: cddb15b159d980275c7273967bb0961163a7c498
simplified: 流
traditional: 流
pinyin: liu2
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 流
english:
to flow/to disseminate/to circulate or spread/to move or drift/to degenerate/to banish or send into exile/stream of water or sth resembling one/class, rate or grade


id: d4860d8aec40f345e498be95d79c4c056a6eeadf
simplified: 流失
traditional: 流失
pinyin: liu2 shi1
english:
(of soil etc) to wash away/to be eroded/(fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere/to fail to be retained


id: 2103e1f8d42d35fe88c995670f8432c047f222e4
simplified: 流水不腐，户枢不蠹
traditional: 流水不腐，戶樞不蠹
pinyin: liu2 shui3 bu4 fu3 , hu4 shu1 bu4 du4
english:
lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom)/fig. constant activity prevents decay


id: 9c161b559bc92c6c935f062c4220ba5b06b800a1
simplified: 流球
traditional: 流球
pinyin: liu2 qiu2
english:
variant of 琉球[Liu2 qiu2], Ryūkyū, e.g. the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan


id: 28896af68ec2a3cf2ab381d4eb027c1c9087c375
simplified: 流窜
traditional: 流竄
pinyin: liu2 cuan4
english:
to roam all over the place/to go into every nook and corner/to infiltrate/(of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run/to flee and try to hide


id: d850d898e24f1c7ea910501352f7fbdc56b40ef5
simplified: 流行
traditional: 流行
pinyin: liu2 xing2
english:
(of a contagious disease etc) to spread/to propagate/(of a style of clothing, song etc) popular/fashionable


id: 0af41f256775da83a6674699290b6c9f4f68e0c0
simplified: 流露
traditional: 流露
pinyin: liu2 lu4
english:
to reveal (indirectly, implicitly)/to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc


id: b0d480f2bed4d4fb8c58fc66153feab63dd9ea2c
simplified: 浜
traditional: 浜
pinyin: bin1
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 濱
english:
Japanese variant of 濱|滨[bin1]/used in Japanese place names such as Yokohama 橫浜|横浜[Heng2 bin1] with phonetic value hama


id: 50e8608f9734a68b5cbc8146690f9120057702ce
simplified: 浣
traditional: 浣
pinyin: huan4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 澣
english:
to wash/to rinse/any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty)/Taiwan pr. [huan3]/also pr. [wan3]


id: 005faa147c7a49e9ab7695bf638a61eb79609deb
simplified: 浣纱记
traditional: 浣紗記
pinyin: huan4 sha1 ji4
english:
Huansahji or Washing the Silken Gauze, Yuan and Ming saga reworked by 梁辰魚|梁辰鱼 from History of the Southern States Wu and Yue, 吳越春秋|吴越春秋, a popular opera subject


id: 7af5215068a1398d3c972fcf1ecb38af27068790
simplified: 浩繁
traditional: 浩繁
pinyin: hao4 fan2
english:
vast/voluminous/many and varied/numerous/extensive amount of/exhaustive/heavy (expenditure)/arduous/strenuous/exhausting/draining/burdensome


id: 3b0b7e34d23f2c152717219c76486fd289cc94c0
simplified: 浪卡子
traditional: 浪卡子
pinyin: lang4 ka3 zi3
english:
Nagarzê county, Tibetan: Sna dkar rtse rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: 67f1b64091796db366ec6c0151750692ad31e6e3
simplified: 浮
traditional: 浮
pinyin: fu2
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to float/superficial/floating/unstable/movable/provisional/temporary/transient/impetuous/hollow/inflated/to exceed/superfluous/excessive/surplus


id: 7b463a0cb09fcfebd957a4596b8ccd35afe04b2c
simplified: 浮现
traditional: 浮現
pinyin: fu2 xian4
english:
to appear before one's eyes/to come into view/to float into appearance/to come back (of images from the past)/to emerge/it emerges/it occurs (to me that..)


id: 461e7d94a8063df3d056fd0817b61f27245408f1
simplified: 浮生六记
traditional: 浮生六記
pinyin: fu2 sheng1 liu4 ji4
english:
Six records of a floating life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复[Shen3 Fu4], published 1808


id: a6416fabd395ecacbdcd5abe62a8d8d44b8b5b3c
simplified: 海上奇书
traditional: 海上奇書
pinyin: hai3 shang4 qi2 shu1
english:
literary journal published in 1892-93 by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆 featuring serialized novels in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular


id: bd87c6376cacf823cab2138811dca0fb3a9137da
simplified: 海上花列传
traditional: 海上花列傳
pinyin: hai3 shang4 hua1 lie4 zhuan4
english:
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆[Han2 Bang1 qing4], long novel of lower life in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular/translated into Putonghua as 海上花 by Iris Chang


id: 41af7ce3be76e6c580d4d88cedb0417091eb0d6a
simplified: 海伦·凯勒
traditional: 海倫·凱勒
pinyin: hai3 lun2 · kai3 le1
english:
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)


id: b27ad1fa0c3635fc462ec2d3ae137e7e6f456a28
simplified: 海协会
traditional: 海協會
pinyin: hai3 xie2 hui4
english:
Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS)/abbr. for 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会[Hai3 xia2 Liang3 an4 Guan1 xi5 Xie2 hui4]


id: 1ecbfd8ba2c4a12410b83c6e72f96b253baabe5a
simplified: 海南
traditional: 海南
pinyin: hai3 nan2
english:
Hainan Province, in the South China Sea, short name 瓊|琼[Qiong2], capital Haikou 海口/Hainan Island/Hainan District of Wuhai City 烏海市|乌海市[Wu1 hai3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia/Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: c3ee388c29944ae74b95bdec765597ef41b86694
simplified: 海印寺
traditional: 海印寺
pinyin: hai3 yin4 si4
english:
Haeinsa in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea, the repository of Tripitaka Koreana 高麗大藏經|高丽大藏经[Gao1 li2 da4 zang4 jing1], a World Heritage site


id: 6ce2d0acdcba85930ddbc85f7c12cb013ccaba4b
simplified: 海口
traditional: 海口
pinyin: hai3 kou3
english:
estuary/coastal inlet/river mouth/seaport/see also 誇海口|夸海口[kua1 hai3 kou3]/Haikou prefecture-level city and capital of Hainan Province 海南省[Hai3 nan2 Sheng3]


id: c059f17bae4e11f6d6b3c16b7f5e3a59cf35d056
simplified: 海基会
traditional: 海基會
pinyin: hai3 ji1 hui4
english:
Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), semi-official organization established by the ROC government in Taiwan


id: af2f6dbdb2948be239326500013db82c0489b583
simplified: 海州
traditional: 海州
pinyin: hai3 zhou1
english:
Haizhou district of Lianyungang city 連雲港市|连云港市[Lian2 yun2 gang3 shi4], Jiangsu/Haizhou district of Fuxin city 阜新市[Fu4 xin1 shi4], Liaoning


id: d6b270a1f8cd24fc3c102b224e34af43d1b33990
simplified: 海待
traditional: 海待
pinyin: hai3 dai4
english:
student who has returned from overseas but is yet to find a job (pun on 海帶|海带[hai3 dai4])/cf. 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1]


id: 34fc70535a656dfb5c23c6383f565f1846b14d73
simplified: 海拉尔
traditional: 海拉爾
pinyin: hai3 la1 er3
english:
Hailar district, Mongolian Xailar raion, of Hulunbuir city 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 shi4], Inner Mongolia


id: de6ed4c71ed4d25467e015dfdb0039d1884c848c
simplified: 海晏
traditional: 海晏
pinyin: hai3 yan4
english:
Haiyan county in Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hai3 bei3 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: f66d5b056507b787eae10f139440aaf1e00b3d24
simplified: 海归
traditional: 海歸
pinyin: hai3 gui1
english:
sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1])/to return to China after a period of study or work overseas


id: 1c02562a074f4f52fd39fd565cdb33ab67b41709
simplified: 海淀
traditional: 海澱
pinyin: hai3 dian4
english:
Haidian inner district of northeast Beijing, includes Peking University, Tsinghua University 清華大學|清华大学[Qing1 hua2 da4 xue2] and Zhongguancun 中關村|中关村[Zhong1 guan1 cun1]


id: 831d26c659e45be6788e8763466a2e59fca79a11
simplified: 海瑞
traditional: 海瑞
pinyin: hai3 rui4
english:
Hairui township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan/Hai Rui (1514-1587), Ming politician, famous for honesty and integrity


id: 6e96635ce5116d0acfa3fe30692bbc5050d3316a
simplified: 海绵
traditional: 海綿
pinyin: hai3 mian2
english:
sponge (zoology)/sponge (piece of absorbent material, either natural or made from plastic etc)/foam rubber


id: dcff38f7e09446381624ee7c9f174b3222a75e8d
simplified: 海西
traditional: 海西
pinyin: hai3 xi1
english:
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) in Qinghai


id: a011aaa62d5d9a74a9689218ce682095f35ce960
simplified: 海选
traditional: 海選
pinyin: hai3 xuan3
english:
direct, winner-takes-all system of election in use for village committees/preselection for a competition


id: fc401d6f0957d99bf4b24845c8872d8ab5931389
simplified: 海阔天空
traditional: 海闊天空
pinyin: hai3 kuo4 tian1 kong1
english:
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas/the whole wide world/chatting about everything under the sun


id: ec36c8d8472d7e3228f03174339c4613f4e172e8
simplified: 海青天
traditional: 海青天
pinyin: hai3 qing1 tian1
english:
popular nickname of Hai Rui 海瑞[Hai3 Rui4] (1514-1587), Ming politician, famous for honesty and integrity


id: 51a8683ae974f9f897156b20d46598577eaee3b2
simplified: 消愁解闷
traditional: 消愁解悶
pinyin: xiao1 chou2 jie3 men4
english:
lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom/to dispel depression or melancholy/to relieve stress/a relaxing pass-time


id: 9ef80317b5e306a99145649093809b75c7a2cb43
simplified: 消渴
traditional: 消渴
pinyin: xiao1 ke3
english:
condition characterized by thirst, hunger, frequent urination and weight loss, identified in TCM with type 2 diabetes


id: a57a0671d740b29e24033798f2f2d59c75b9a182
simplified: 涮
traditional: 涮
pinyin: shuan4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to rinse/to trick/to fool sb/to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)


id: 196bf6851c89879290811e39539beeef5bf7af29
simplified: 涮锅子
traditional: 涮鍋子
pinyin: shuan4 guo1 zi5
english:
hot pot/a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces


id: dc066f774f8799d3469b84f5f2fe710fdc2965a3
simplified: 液态奶
traditional: 液態奶
pinyin: ye4 tai4 nai3
english:
general term for milk packaged for the consumer, including long-life (UHT) milk, pasteurized milk and reconstituted milk


id: 89c6ffe9688d38b2baac3496e9a4d618a8b3e6c2
simplified: 凉
traditional: 涼
pinyin: liang2
radicalSimplified: 冫
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 涼,凉,凉
english:
cool/cold/the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)


id: cd3cca31f6ed3ef694ab2a5f25c0bffecac529c6
simplified: 淋漓尽致
traditional: 淋漓盡致
pinyin: lin2 li2 jin4 zhi4
english:
lit. extreme saturation (idiom)/fig. vividly and thoroughly/in great detail/without restraint/(of a performance) brilliant


id: 425b501b4506d776913b71ba602ab19d8bc08b13
simplified: 淘汰
traditional: 淘汰
pinyin: tao2 tai4
english:
to wash out/elimination (by selection)/natural selection/to knock out (in a competition)/to die out/to phase out


id: ca743d6b21682b04489d366b3c3bedf2383389c6
simplified: 淡化
traditional: 淡化
pinyin: dan4 hua4
english:
to water down/to play down/to trivialize/to weaken/to become dull with time/to desalinate/desalination


id: 7004df46aafe9c9589f4642cfdc1782723a38c12
simplified: 淡水
traditional: 淡水
pinyin: dan4 shui3
english:
potable water (water with low salt content)/fresh water/Danshui or Tanshui town in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan


id: 0520abf74b88acbbe248d3b85b0ae3769696cc34
simplified: 净土
traditional: 淨土
pinyin: jing4 tu3
english:
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)


id: 146a71cf8f9a1a102e9742515ab9348c69f81c9a
simplified: 淫羊藿
traditional: 淫羊藿
pinyin: yin2 yang2 huo4
english:
Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac/also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to resemble crushed goat's testicles)


id: b10b368d19fc9376ea1b6d0ec330b10eb6ebd19a
simplified: 淮河
traditional: 淮河
pinyin: huai2 he2
english:
Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2] and the Changjiang 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1]


id: 70192b250e7487ca2650b63cc6d423eb969adf3d
simplified: 淮海
traditional: 淮海
pinyin: huai2 hai3
english:
Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州[Xu2 zhou1], including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces


id: d1b6ff213d248aa666eb91c87281b02fd5bdcac8
simplified: 淮海战役
traditional: 淮海戰役
pinyin: huai2 hai3 zhan4 yi4
english:
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war


id: bb134075cec3f8f2eb87cea1dab1245fb12645fd
simplified: 深不可测
traditional: 深不可測
pinyin: shen1 bu4 ke3 ce4
english:
deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths/incomprehensible/enigmatic and impossible to predict


id: 375feb7c383e8ad8ebf0767979fa8cdf3e95e41a
simplified: 深入浅出
traditional: 深入淺出
pinyin: shen1 ru4 qian3 chu1
english:
to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom)/(of language) simple and easy to understand


id: b9511c2dec7e5f1c1d9aabfb5e36bce2c8968c24
simplified: 深蓝
traditional: 深藍
pinyin: shen1 lan2
english:
dark blue/Deep Blue, chess-playing computer, first to defeat reigning world champion, developed by IBM (1985-1997)


id: 9b4d360baa274be867847f8931d811c3c45d2639
simplified: 深藏若虚
traditional: 深藏若虛
pinyin: shen1 cang2 ruo4 xu1
english:
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents/to hide one's light under a bushel


id: d9cb8b241e69cc11da08d89104303653f8adc78a
simplified: 混
traditional: 混
pinyin: hun4
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to mix/to mingle/muddled/to drift along/to muddle along/to pass for/to get along with sb/thoughtless/reckless


id: ac256e4522857b56484abc955ef93272afba14a9
simplified: 混水摸鱼
traditional: 混水摸魚
pinyin: hun2 shui3 mo1 yu2
english:
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain/also written 渾水摸魚|浑水摸鱼


id: 7f94d3ec9b71721b102a4a28b02d77c3e2031383
simplified: 浅尝辄止
traditional: 淺嘗輒止
pinyin: qian3 chang2 zhe2 zhi3
english:
to dabble and stop (idiom); to dip into/to attempt half-heartedly/content with a smattering of knowledge


id: 6f4f83ab04e39226742defdf77070aa49018a87e
simplified: 浅尝辄止
traditional: 淺嚐輒止
pinyin: qian3 chang2 zhe2 zhi3
english:
to dabble and stop (idiom); to dip into/to attempt half-heartedly/content with a smattering of knowledge/also written 淺嘗輒止|浅尝辄止


id: ca4afff3e8af644308a33fa1f37e7a6eb8b28429
simplified: 浅草
traditional: 淺草
pinyin: qian3 cao3
english:
Asakusa, district of Tokyo with an atmosphere of old Japan, famous for the 7th century Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji


id: 67206628f73feaca985af353ea1d27be56f89546
simplified: 清
traditional: 清
pinyin: qing1
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 淸
english:
clear/distinct/quiet/just and honest/pure/to settle or clear up/to clean up or purge/Qing or Ch'ing dynasty of imperial China (1644-1911)/surname Qing


id: 4209254471487728c80cf86b2f18eba7242c4823
simplified: 清史列传
traditional: 清史列傳
pinyin: qing1 shi3 lie4 zhuan4
english:
Biographic History of Qing Dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls


id: 3e7154416fa1aaadfa311149dacd186eaf224289
simplified: 清史稿
traditional: 清史稿
pinyin: qing1 shi3 gao3
english:
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, sometimes listed as number 25 or 26 of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Zhao Erxun 趙爾巽|赵尔巽[Zhao4 Er3 xun4] in 1927 during the Northern Warlords period, 536 scrolls


id: f46c1a3cd8353a2b737a7156022946e976ae5e7e
simplified: 清太宗
traditional: 清太宗
pinyin: qing1 tai4 zong1
english:
posthumous title of Hung Taiji 皇太極|皇太极 (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor


id: dfe07794b9c4357cfd228d7f5cfd6a066cd138b0
simplified: 清太祖
traditional: 清太祖
pinyin: qing1 tai4 zu3
english:
posthumous title of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤 (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 (from 1616)


id: 0c8393d6d86c15030249e7c41b09627514c95fc7
simplified: 清明
traditional: 清明
pinyin: qing1 ming2
english:
clear and bright/sober and calm/(of a government or administration) well ordered/Qingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气[er4 shi2 si4 jie2 qi5] 5th-19th April/Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)


id: f628cb20a68971cfe15d8c31f27f5f42d51ffda4
simplified: 清明节
traditional: 清明節
pinyin: qing1 ming2 jie2
english:
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)


id: c7ef17cbe7520f13132883755a0f4612868f7e00
simplified: 清水
traditional: 清水
pinyin: qing1 shui3
english:
fresh water/drinking water/clear water/Qingshui (place name)/Shimizu (Japanese surname and place name)


id: 20c8b7d478652385cadde9b06505310c58744fa5
simplified: 清河区
traditional: 清河區
pinyin: qing1 he2 qu1
english:
Qinghe district of Tieling city 鐵嶺市|铁岭市, Liaoning/Qinghe district of Huai'an city 淮安市[Huai2 an1 shi4], Jiangsu


id: 3cfbb692828c869300ed3958f0aa027ce8ad6087
simplified: 清脆
traditional: 清脆
pinyin: qing1 cui4
english:
sharp and clear/crisp/melodious/ringing/tinkling/silvery (of sound)/fragile/frail/also written 輕脆|轻脆


id: a05a8dc26518bd42caa23adf7d35e9e85847ebca
simplified: 清风明月
traditional: 清風明月
pinyin: qing1 feng1 ming2 yue4
english:
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom)/fig. peaceful and clear night/(allusively) living a solitary and quiet life


id: 52e01a46b773a1738a6cf2efd60c45580e5251ae
simplified: 减损
traditional: 減損
pinyin: jian3 sun3
english:
to impair/to degrade/to decrease/to reduce/to weaken/to detract from/impairment (e.g. of financial assets)


id: e407d781869ce1c26249df2096337b31e9e8e7c6
simplified: 渝
traditional: 渝
pinyin: yu2
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
short name for Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4]/old name of Jialing river 嘉陵江[Jia1 ling2 jiang1] in Sichuan


id: 8b2c3ce235ea98aea4bf910c0cae33c45f562026
simplified: 渝水
traditional: 渝水
pinyin: yu2 shui3
english:
old name of Jialing River 嘉陵江 in Sichuan through Chongqing/Yushui district of Xinyu city 新餘市 新余市, Jiangxi


id: e69a9aa98648ba789b0a2e76dccfb7778c6628d9
simplified: 渠
traditional: 渠
pinyin: qu2
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
big/stream or canal/drain/ditch/CL:條|条[tiao2]/him (dialect)/outer rim of a carriage wheel (old)/surname Qu


id: bea2b567ac49653d79d1aca1f40cdb5bf495899a
simplified: 渤海
traditional: 渤海
pinyin: bo2 hai3
english:
Bohai Sea, or Bo Hai, between Liaoning and Shandong/Parhae, Korean kingdom in Manchuria and Siberia 698-926


id: 0d59715245a2d6f1000f95748feb834c6da1cb14
simplified: 渤澥桑田
traditional: 渤澥桑田
pinyin: bo2 xie4 sang1 tian2
english:
lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes/life's vicissitudes


id: 60abfdec9e017371428056b3b5ab35407eb4e1b2
simplified: 渲染
traditional: 渲染
pinyin: xuan4 ran3
english:
rendering (computing)/to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting)/to exaggerate/to embellish


id: 240112ffc13befafcb40fba8a7be118bfea726a0
simplified: 浑身解数
traditional: 渾身解數
pinyin: hun2 shen1 xie4 shu4
english:
to give it your all/to go at it with all you've got/to throw your whole weight behind it/also pr. [hun2 shen1 jie3 shu4]


id: 1a706b0082044e7b8cd034cdf1edf44a47285286
simplified: 湖口
traditional: 湖口
pinyin: hu2 kou3
english:
Hukou County in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi/Hukou township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 Xian4], northwest Taiwan


id: ba5190ae8075aed4e30b12e4fdbe9d4f5a95f48d
simplified: 湘桂运河
traditional: 湘桂運河
pinyin: xiang1 gui4 yun4 he2
english:
Hunan-Guanxi canal, another name for Lingqu 靈渠|灵渠[Ling2 qu2] canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安[Xing1 an1], Guanxi


id: dd704a55eba42e41d2914a49dca96df81ee1ed83
simplified: 湘西
traditional: 湘西
pinyin: xiang1 xi1
english:
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]/western Hunan


id: 567e528f4603c9d2dd4d8b54c59aff973bf1d4eb
simplified: 湟水
traditional: 湟水
pinyin: huang2 shui3
english:
Huangshui River, upper reaches of the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2], flowing through Qinghai and Gansu


id: af539f60555d967807510caf655880e626508b49
simplified: 汤
traditional: 湯
pinyin: tang1
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
soup/hot or boiling water/decoction of medicinal herbs/water in which sth has been boiled/surname Tang


id: ab4c2110bf62c37b282c948119f7bf8bae1a41d1
simplified: 汤武革命
traditional: 湯武革命
pinyin: tang1 wu3 ge2 ming4
english:
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤[Shang1 Tang1], of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]


id: a0c1a10c609d2c50462331a2c70bd6bea96d0358
simplified: 汤玉麟
traditional: 湯玉麟
pinyin: tang1 yu4 lin2
english:
Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth


id: 4e50c6d1af552fecf82fd68b7024bcd9393b75f8
simplified: 汤种
traditional: 湯種
pinyin: tang1 zhong3
english:
water roux (aka tangzhong), a gelatinous paste made by heating a mixture of flour and water, used in breadmaking to produce a softer, fluffier loaf (loanword from Japanese 湯種 yudane)


id: 4835a9710e629f5000faab38651456d926bd63e5
simplified: 源赖朝
traditional: 源賴朝
pinyin: yuan2 lai4 chao2
english:
MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府[Lian2 cang1 mu4 fu3]


id: 5e83741c4a1aa963bb0343b4699f0126020ea35c
simplified: 源远流长
traditional: 源遠流長
pinyin: yuan2 yuan3 liu2 chang2
english:
lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom); fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past/a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then


id: 179f1ed8a11b5e12cd099230d69a16dcfd968f70
simplified: 溜须拍马
traditional: 溜鬚拍馬
pinyin: liu1 xu1 pai1 ma3
english:
to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants/to toady/boot-licking


id: 9f45b418074fba57445cdfc1fb2e6d28e27fb55d
simplified: 溥仪
traditional: 溥儀
pinyin: pu3 yi2
english:
Puyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor


id: fba670c7367e8eae93f61bc029841bda29a02dde
simplified: 溪湖
traditional: 溪湖
pinyin: xi1 hu2
english:
Xihu district of Benxi city 本溪市[Ben3 xi1 shi4], Liaoning/Hsihu town in Changhua county 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 xian4], Taiwan


id: 95682431ce1012784711dc5bc81163cfbb4d389a
simplified: 溪黄草
traditional: 溪黃草
pinyin: xi1 huang2 cao3
english:
Rabdosia lophanthoides (no common name), herb plant of Lamiaceae family (together with mint and lavender), used in TCM


id: b8d21d0cc6c386e0c7301cf5b9d67524b43ec3d1
simplified: 温
traditional: 溫
pinyin: wen1
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
variants: 溫,温
english:
warm/lukewarm/temperature/to warm up/mild/soft/tender/to review (a lesson etc)/fever (TCM)/old variant of 瘟[wen1]/surname Wen


id: d53a201f088444a722cc4b12f09eec4fdfea5d15
simplified: 温故知新
traditional: 溫故知新
pinyin: wen1 gu4 zhi1 xin1
english:
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)/to recall the past to understand the future


id: fd0c9686e61ecf6bc0fea11388680eb1a92138b2
simplified: 温泉
traditional: 溫泉
pinyin: wen1 quan2
english:
hot spring/spa/onsen/Arishang Nahiyisi or Wenquan county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang


id: d54a2d2a2297dcb0e4d993d5e3e9bd81732a30d9
simplified: 温泉县
traditional: 溫泉縣
pinyin: wen1 quan2 xian4
english:
Arishang Nahiyisi or Wenquan county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang


id: 6ca6b6a712ca450ae30c887c697ae8c2093caefa
simplified: 温网
traditional: 溫網
pinyin: wen1 wang3
english:
Wimbledon Championships (tennis)/abbr. for 溫布爾登網球公開賽|温布尔登网球公开赛[Wen1 bu4 er3 deng1 Wang3 qiu2 Gong1 kai1 sai4]


id: 4b68218a6a04514af3b3708753165e0681d6f8df
simplified: 溵
traditional: 溵
pinyin: yin1
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture


id: daab0a30980fd672d275f898261f04d807e5e254
simplified: 溶血病
traditional: 溶血病
pinyin: rong2 xue4 bing4
english:
hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)


id: 37e533a88794d39e7d28c51d5bc0198dbaff0449
simplified: 滑稽
traditional: 滑稽
pinyin: hua2 ji1
english:
comical/funny/amusing/old pr. [gu3 ji1]/huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang


id: 75ab3fd82786ca8b74a47363dcc6ec7585538c4c
simplified: 滕王阁
traditional: 滕王閣
pinyin: teng2 wang2 ge2
english:
Tengwang Tower in Nanchang, Jiangxi/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 Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼[Huang2 he4 Lou2] in Wuhan, Hubei


id: 5a832396b9334206c857c4f30b59f2f2db9347a3
simplified: 滚刀块
traditional: 滾刀塊
pinyin: gun3 dao1 kuai4
english:
chunks obtained by repeatedly cutting a vegetable diagonally and rotating the vegetable after each cut


id: 8158b2eb151e1c6ebb57d35070ec8cc260e5cd8d
simplified: 滚动
traditional: 滾動
pinyin: gun3 dong4
english:
to roll/(to do sth) in a loop/to scroll (computing)/to progressively expand (economics)/to rumble (of thunder)


id: 7694fb77a4c1e3f285a89201ec69c42e673ed3f7
simplified: 滚瓜烂熟
traditional: 滾瓜爛熟
pinyin: gun3 gua1 lan4 shu2
english:
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently/to know sth inside out/to know sth by heart


id: 9c66a70950e7b00b73e9b053e73c7ae494c3ec52
simplified: 满
traditional: 滿
pinyin: man3
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to fill/full/filled/packed/fully/completely/quite/to reach the limit/to satisfy/satisfied/contented/Manchu ethnic group


id: 580520ed9c9851c050f04b4e10eaa95f54ee9ce4
simplified: 满不在乎
traditional: 滿不在乎
pinyin: man3 bu4 zai4 hu5
english:
not in the least concerned (idiom)/reckless/couldn't give a damn about it/unperturbed/couldn't care less/harum scarum


id: 4ee53bd66fe4bfcf62934c0ecb7301b73079c4fc
simplified: 满口
traditional: 滿口
pinyin: man3 kou3
english:
a full mouth of (sth physical)/to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc)/(to agree etc) unreservedly


id: 92d86a039d7093bb70318c1042aab20f98fea547
simplified: 满嘴
traditional: 滿嘴
pinyin: man3 zui3
english:
a full mouth of (sth physical)/to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc)


id: d6283d934b92130c6d1b90ac3bff672a2965d038
simplified: 满地找牙
traditional: 滿地找牙
pinyin: man3 di4 zhao3 ya2
english:
to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor/(fig.) to get beaten up badly/to beat the crap out of (sb)


id: 6e44fa1abec5b96c28fabf558fc77c0e8920451a
simplified: 满洲里
traditional: 滿洲里
pinyin: man3 zhou1 li3
english:
Manzhouli county level city, Mongolian Manzhuur xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia


id: 2c08dbf83d9df6f0c1e00a45580a3a8ebdb16901
simplified: 满目琳琅
traditional: 滿目琳琅
pinyin: man3 mu4 lin2 lang2
english:
lit. to fill one's eyes with glittering jewels/a literary masterpiece or sb of extraordinary talent (idiom)


id: 3c6b7c0bfdf07b90d42f1cd1deff5a2f8099432a
simplified: 漏电
traditional: 漏電
pinyin: lou4 dian4
english:
to leak electricity/(fig.) (coll.) to unintentionally arouse romantic interest (by being solicitous etc)/cf. 放電|放电[fang4 dian4]


id: 11013f8530507b52ce940117f2ff490e8779756d
simplified: 演出
traditional: 演出
pinyin: yan3 chu1
english:
to act (in a play)/to perform/to put on (a performance)/performance/concert/show/CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]


id: 2dc2976e0a289123b46c4053c897aa8e8733bb18
simplified: 演绎
traditional: 演繹
pinyin: yan3 yi4
english:
(of a story etc) to unfold/to play out/to develop (a technique etc)/to enact/(logic) to deduce/to infer


id: 5c33282b64f137e22c242c423810674c23abac00
simplified: 汉他病毒
traditional: 漢他病毒
pinyin: han4 ta1 bing4 du2
english:
Hantavirus (a family deadly rodent-borne viruses) responsible for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome or cardiopulmonary syndrome


id: e8771e37a83fe9fd508f0a992ec4f25de3590f15
simplified: 汉元帝
traditional: 漢元帝
pinyin: han4 yuan2 di4
english:
Yuan Emperor, reign name of Han Dynasty emperor Liu Shi 劉奭|刘奭[Liu2 Shi4], (74-33 BC), reigned 48-33 BC


id: baec1498589352be5289ea2e658614ec6edba8d7
simplified: 汉学
traditional: 漢學
pinyin: han4 xue2
english:
sinology/Chinese studies (in foreign schools)/Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics


id: 9a2e48dd0e8ff07864fbdb52791f182172bae73e
simplified: 汉文帝
traditional: 漢文帝
pinyin: han4 wen2 di4
english:
Emperor Wen of Han (202-157 BC), fourth Han emperor, personal name Liu Heng 劉恆|刘恒[Liu2 Heng2], reigned 180-157 BC


id: fd62369dc93e75c82958fddcebdfe52352de99f6
simplified: 汉沽
traditional: 漢沽
pinyin: han4 gu1
english:
Hangu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区[Bin1 hai3 xin1 qu1]


id: a60a22e99669fe605f53c45542fa9dfb128c455f
simplified: 汉献帝
traditional: 漢獻帝
pinyin: han4 xian4 di4
english:
Emperor Xian of Han (181-234), the final Han emperor, set up by Dong Zhuo 董卓, reigned 189-220, forced to abdicate 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕


id: b4e2b437b5198a2761c840aad7314e5c670a7522
simplified: 汉语大字典
traditional: 漢語大字典
pinyin: han4 yu3 da4 zi4 dian3
english:
Hanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678 (and later 60,370) entries, first published between 1986-1990


id: cb65ecd6d33b808f48c762c6be7fd2de1020c2fe
simplified: 汉语大词典
traditional: 漢語大詞典
pinyin: han4 yu3 da4 ci2 dian3
english:
Hanyu Da Cidian, the most comprehensive Chinese dictionary with over 375,000 word entries, first published between 1986-1994


id: 30a7e7fe94388214e6ba6168d95d908803d8439b
simplified: 汉贼不两立
traditional: 漢賊不兩立
pinyin: han4 zei2 bu4 liang3 li4
english:
lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] and Cao Wei 曹魏[Cao2 Wei4] cannot coexist (idiom)/fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky/(former KMT slogan against CPC) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"


id: c258dde9776d471b91bf3a52bca4aa5297557354
simplified: 漤
traditional: 漤
pinyin: lan3
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste/to marinate in salt etc/to pickle


id: 2269355c2665573aba3e427e6d44742cf6c43c3a
simplified: 漫山遍野
traditional: 漫山遍野
pinyin: man4 shan1 bian4 ye3
english:
lit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom)/fig. as far as the eye can see/covering everything/omnipresent


id: 98dc479826859a5e1887cb01e2d4b566a922bb39
simplified: 漫无边际
traditional: 漫無邊際
pinyin: man4 wu2 bian1 ji4
english:
extremely vast/boundless/limitless/digressing/discursive/going off on tangents/straying far off topic


id: 65065c1e3db49795a944160771314e313b41bb90
simplified: 漾濞彝族自治县
traditional: 漾濞彞族自治縣
pinyin: yang4 bi4 yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Yangbi Yizu Autonomous County in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: fadf912dc1c6c4e558852d20149f150dfc85a4a6
simplified: 洁身自好
traditional: 潔身自好
pinyin: jie2 shen1 zi4 hao4
english:
clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality/to shun evil influence/to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble/to keep one's hands clean


id: 35e5524bf5a5a789b9857db33ea51576e0ea12a2
simplified: 潘岳
traditional: 潘岳
pinyin: pan1 yue4
english:
Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安[Pan1 An1], famous handsome and elegant writer from the Western Jin dynasty


id: 220ddc9301bc0a4b46fe70967ad8cad4b554d533
simplified: 潘金莲
traditional: 潘金蓮
pinyin: pan1 jin1 lian2
english:
Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅


id: 7e5b29eb0ccf4345c469aa892fed5d665f87a6f6
simplified: 潜规则
traditional: 潛規則
pinyin: qian2 gui1 ze2
english:
unspoken rules (usually ones that codify improper behaviors such as leveraging guanxi to get favorable treatment, or coercing employees for sexual favors)


id: f72c3c8717e05997dab87eaa482f4b26415fcb8a
simplified: 潞西
traditional: 潞西
pinyin: lu4 xi1
english:
Luxi city in Yunnan, capital of 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 in west Yunnan


id: 5580237f7914ce24225f0298b308a3faec23594d
simplified: 潮州
traditional: 潮州
pinyin: chao2 zhou1
english:
Chaozhou prefecture-level city in Guangdong 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 sheng3]/Chaochou town in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan


id: 76a8c5950cca9829c106dca676e5e7233b452ea2
simplified: 潮洲
traditional: 潮洲
pinyin: chao2 zhou1
english:
Chaozhou or Teochew, a town near Guangdong, with famous cuisine/Chaozhou, variant of Minnan dialect 閩南語|闽南语[Min3 nan2 yu3] spoken in east Guangdong


id: ea5ca96266463dd7e6de7942e4ddf0500bbe2f87
simplified: 澄清
traditional: 澄清
pinyin: deng4 qing1
english:
to settle (of liquid)/to become clear (by precipitation of impurities)/precipitate (chemistry)/to put in order/to quell disturbances


id: e340beb46948ee31e2ebcae4bd036479bd8019b6
simplified: 澡身浴德
traditional: 澡身浴德
pinyin: zao3 shen1 yu4 de2
english:
to bathe the body and cleanse virtue (idiom); to improve oneself by meditation/cleanliness is next to godliness


id: f0ab2aad5b9e6da1e3c4cf3d9bf618ec5c79e19a
simplified: 泽库
traditional: 澤庫
pinyin: ze2 ku4
english:
Zeku county in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huang2 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 912fc26d6fc029809c60ca318d57081c3e238306
simplified: 泽当镇
traditional: 澤當鎮
pinyin: ze2 dang1 zhen4
english:
Zêdang town in Nêdong county 乃東縣|乃东县[Nai3 dong1 xian4], Tibet, capital of Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1]


id: 2628a9f7442d8120542546d305833135eaef88b3
simplified: 激将法
traditional: 激將法
pinyin: ji1 jiang4 fa3
english:
indirect, psychological method of getting sb to do as one wishes (e.g. questioning whether they are up to the task)


id: cdf2d8f9020beb7a724cb0962365c80843d372b7
simplified: 浓度
traditional: 濃度
pinyin: nong2 du4
english:
concentration (percentage of dissolved material in a solution)/consistency/thickness/density/viscosity


id: 4ff0ce847bc743729bea5fd09ae6fe5d4385d827
simplified: 济
traditional: 濟
pinyin: ji3
radicalSimplified: 水
radicalTraditional: 水
english:
only used in 濟濟|济济[ji3 ji3]/used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]/surname Ji


id: f6b591ecb3618124b34013ad168fa310094fd6dd
simplified: 济水
traditional: 濟水
pinyin: ji3 shui3
english:
Ji River, former river of north-eastern China which disappeared after the Yellow River flooded in 1852


id: 4f7b633e370af804b8ac2891828f07a8ebec3cff
simplified: 滥竽
traditional: 濫竽
pinyin: lan4 yu2
english:
indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification)/see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]


id: 59e6e560210d636a3d70da12ac8873be2676deb8
simplified: 滥竽充数
traditional: 濫竽充數
pinyin: lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4
english:
lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products/to masquerade as having an ability/token member of a group


id: c952aa18a2ead13bf432401ae6747f6b81e43494
simplified: 滨海
traditional: 濱海
pinyin: bin1 hai3
english:
coastal/bordering the sea/Binhai (place name)/Binhai New District, subprovincial district of Tianjin/Binhai county in Yancheng 鹽城|盐城[Yan2 cheng2], Jiangsu/fictitious city Binhai in political satire


id: 3f90e0c78bcdb498ef5f93a35367817a9e774cc8
simplified: 沈阳
traditional: 瀋陽
pinyin: shen3 yang2
english:
Shenyang subprovincial city and capital of Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China/old names include Fengtian 奉天, Shengjing 盛京 and Mukden


id: 9f00c47be7e6cf7d96ec693a6e6a1d3f5240976f
simplified: 沈阳故宫
traditional: 瀋陽故宮
pinyin: shen3 yang2 gu4 gong1
english:
Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum


id: 69597cb673506344bae94ba253b36faa4d3de036
simplified: 泸定
traditional: 瀘定
pinyin: lu2 ding4
english:
Luding county (Tibetan: lcags zam 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: ac4edd2ea2429a9c325edd615cd10d137e5c499d
simplified: 泸定桥
traditional: 瀘定橋
pinyin: lu2 ding4 qiao2
english:
Luding Bridge over Dadu river 大渡河[Da4 du4 he2] in Sichuan, built by Kangxi in 1706, linking Luding county Sichuan Luding county 瀘定縣|泸定县[Lu2 ding4 xian4] with Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]


id: 829e1dd6f4961ba12350bb7c13628c2d0275869f
simplified: 泸水
traditional: 瀘水
pinyin: lu2 shui3
english:
Lushui 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: eb2d2b8008ebe063362eb001cbc8595307b58d82
simplified: 泸溪
traditional: 瀘溪
pinyin: lu2 xi1
english:
Luxi 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: 2d08a9b80c502ceb2d04fb50c269634711a322f5
simplified: 瀛洲
traditional: 瀛洲
pinyin: ying2 zhou1
english:
Yingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and source of elixir of immortality


id: caedd21c6553d8156d3b15500c85350ba27dc411
simplified: 瀛台
traditional: 瀛臺
pinyin: ying2 tai2
english:
Ocean platform in Zhongnanhai 中南海[Zhong1 nan2 hai3] surrounded by water on three sides, recreation area for imperial wives and concubines, more recently for communist top brass


id: 7691da02299196ac28613ca0bea9900da0a995b0
simplified: 澜沧江
traditional: 瀾滄江
pinyin: lan2 cang1 jiang1
english:
Lancang River of Qinghai and Yunnan, the upper reaches of Mekong River 湄公河[Mei2 gong1 He2] of Southeast Asia


id: 54a0467c289444e723638c61cb6fdf283196c402
simplified: 灌水
traditional: 灌水
pinyin: guan4 shui3
english:
to irrigate/to pour water into/to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping)/to cook the books/to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums


id: f3a7eb48fa17145fba0a790e5ae2505c4a445de8
simplified: 火
traditional: 火
pinyin: huo3
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 灬
english:
fire/urgent/ammunition/fiery or flaming/internal heat (Chinese medicine)/hot (popular)/classifier for military units (old)/surname Huo


id: ac666c9a8da38dad7858a80ad802b5e743f91d8c
simplified: 火上加油
traditional: 火上加油
pinyin: huo3 shang4 jia1 you2
english:
to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation/to enrage people and make matters worse


id: 19f15b388c13cece882590ab0cfae504e2948a94
simplified: 火上浇油
traditional: 火上澆油
pinyin: huo3 shang4 jiao1 you2
english:
to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation/to enrage people and make matters worse


id: 39e14f257262d0ec0d428440364b5f8922fb619d
simplified: 火星文
traditional: 火星文
pinyin: huo3 xing1 wen2
english:
lit. Martian language/fig. Internet slang used to communicate secret messages that the general public or government can't understand


id: b19185ef075c46783c210b5d20fb00464c212146
simplified: 火焰山
traditional: 火焰山
pinyin: huo3 yan4 shan1
english:
Mountain of Flames of legend/fig. insurmountable obstacle/Mountain of Flames in Turpan depression in Xinjiang


id: 41ec045f8d1f5be800d5b12543e458fbed0737e4
simplified: 灰飞烟灭
traditional: 灰飛煙滅
pinyin: hui1 fei1 yan1 mie4
english:
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)/fig. to be annihilated/to vanish in a puff of smoke


id: 47ab0a98b6d6fa97ebdc60524f7cff293965d092
simplified: 灶神星
traditional: 灶神星
pinyin: zao4 shen2 xing1
english:
Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers


id: 3d66cedb528d9318bfcd305b2a906829e5cc3934
simplified: 灾变说
traditional: 災變說
pinyin: zai1 bian4 shuo1
english:
catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)


id: 93ce850cd683c99d665da8dec02113354076c2b7
simplified: 灾变论
traditional: 災變論
pinyin: zai1 bian4 lun4
english:
catastrophism/the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood


id: 1765790951a718d267440a6dd2d572a3859d2b51
simplified: 炎帝
traditional: 炎帝
pinyin: yan2 di4
english:
Flame Emperors (c. 2000 BC), legendary dynasty descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God


id: e2a32661e479bda1efeb0fac2f17e708e435c8a3
simplified: 炙手可热
traditional: 炙手可熱
pinyin: zhi4 shou3 ke3 re4
english:
lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom)/fig. arrogance of the powerful/a mighty figure no-one dares approach/hot (exciting or in favor)


id: c925e3ea94448407e1d6a314064def36d5c83300
simplified: 炸两
traditional: 炸兩
pinyin: zha2 liang3
english:
(Cantonese cuisine) zhaliang, rice noodle rolls 腸粉|肠粉[chang2 fen3] stuffed with youtiao 油條|油条[you2 tiao2]


id: 2d2df91e90f78852d23dcc35fc2c07af18a15d1d
simplified: 炸弹之父
traditional: 炸彈之父
pinyin: zha4 dan4 zhi1 fu4
english:
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb


id: ff171502991f80690be0220b4a253acc4f08ceec
simplified: 炸酱面
traditional: 炸醬麵
pinyin: zha2 jiang4 mian4
english:
zha jiang mian: ground pork simmered with salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce) over thick wheat noodles


id: 4a1f68b2b8a76b00507c7b35921e29448f8838d1
simplified: 为
traditional: 為
pinyin: wei2
radicalSimplified: 丶
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 為,爲
english:
as (in the capacity of)/to take sth as/to act as/to serve as/to behave as/to become/to be/to do/by (in the passive voice)


id: ee5749de9c5621aa08b15f545706c4f78a6b60df
simplified: 为仁不富
traditional: 為仁不富
pinyin: wei2 ren2 bu4 fu4
english:
the rich man cannot be benevolent (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).


id: 4d6c66056d33866e1bcf9293dbef2b59b245d8e5
simplified: 为富不仁
traditional: 為富不仁
pinyin: wei2 fu4 bu4 ren2
english:
the benevolent man cannot be rich (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).


id: b104b31fa0bd0eee75e0a2c22ae65d0b0923214f
simplified: 为富不仁，为仁不富
traditional: 為富不仁，為仁不富
pinyin: wei2 fu4 bu4 ren2 , wei2 ren2 bu4 fu4
english:
the benevolent man cannot be rich and vice versa (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).


id: b5fc78d24996d37e4b66479b46b02990d9ec54eb
simplified: 为德不卒
traditional: 為德不卒
pinyin: wei2 de2 bu4 zu2
english:
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through/lack of sticking power/short attention span


id: 3a063bad752afdfe72e251e035c1d19e9a276f94
simplified: 为止
traditional: 為止
pinyin: wei2 zhi3
english:
until/(used in combination with words like 到[dao4] or 至[zhi4] in constructs of the form 到...為止|到...为止)


id: 8d53b1fbf3ff163d487e137e5deeddbafaeff36e
simplified: 为难
traditional: 為難
pinyin: wei2 nan2
english:
to feel embarrassed or awkward/to make things difficult (for someone)/to find things difficult (to do or manage)


id: 12fdf0e93606379c7e30f783c401f54c92e420f9
simplified: 乌什塔拉
traditional: 烏什塔拉
pinyin: wu1 shi2 ta3 la1
english:
Wushitala Hui village 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: 9a5aba2508ff0287b0ed81955744e6eab59d0cf8
simplified: 乌拉特
traditional: 烏拉特
pinyin: wu1 la1 te4
english:
Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia/also Urat Front, Center and Rear banners


id: e75122666fd1c713e4a297c00d728672921fac8d
simplified: 乌苏里斯克
traditional: 烏蘇里斯克
pinyin: wu1 su1 li3 si1 ke4
english:
Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region/previous names include 雙城子|双城子[Shuang1 cheng2 zi5] and Voroshilov 伏羅希洛夫|伏罗希洛夫


id: e8f4750b4e13546be18ede6156c51818108f68d0
simplified: 乌兰
traditional: 烏蘭
pinyin: wu1 lan2
english:
Wulan 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: 6ebdba31ec5f1619a3f21148e91344a48a2ef83f
simplified: 乌兰浩特
traditional: 烏蘭浩特
pinyin: wu1 lan2 hao4 te4
english:
Wulanhaote county level city, Mongolian Ulaan xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia


id: 40f03fa066d114d0acb91702870f50022243b305
simplified: 乌鲁克恰提
traditional: 烏魯克恰提
pinyin: wu1 lu3 ke4 qia4 ti2
english:
Wuqia county in Xinjiang/name of county in Xinjiang from early 20th century now called Wuqia 烏恰縣|乌恰县


id: 4b38d886dee76712ab2c402abb39ba71620de6dc
simplified: 乌鲁木齐
traditional: 烏魯木齊
pinyin: wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2
english:
Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China


id: 276342f7f5a1add7a1e97b63aa36e7356308428e
simplified: 乌鲁木齐市
traditional: 烏魯木齊市
pinyin: wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 shi4
english:
Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区[Xin1 jiang1 Wei2 wu2 er3 Zi4 zhi4 qu1] in west China


id: ad7a8002a7be491e1856e40735c5b22be28f8415
simplified: 乌鲁汝
traditional: 烏魯汝
pinyin: wu1 lu3 ru3
english:
Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site/also known as Ayers Rock


id: da4156ecd85e9d4c1352cb17c87675ee91a65df9
simplified: 乌龙球
traditional: 烏龍球
pinyin: wu1 long2 qiu2
english:
own goal (football)/a goal in a sports match where the player accidentally puts the ball into his own goal


id: a629da255dccb59726026db2e3f1dedf2fed415c
simplified: 烘托
traditional: 烘托
pinyin: hong1 tuo1
english:
background (of a painting)/backdrop/a foil (to set off something to advantage)/to offset (something to advantage)


id: 9e653cbf2c468816c9d91c468cbee6f6afab872d
simplified: 烘云托月
traditional: 烘雲托月
pinyin: hong1 yun2 tuo1 yue4
english:
lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil/a contrasting character to a main hero


id: 96bc60fec607f10edaa844223e724ec2b09de02f
simplified: 烝
traditional: 烝
pinyin: zheng1
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 蒸
english:
multitudinous/the masses/to present (to sb)/to rise/to advance/to progress/archaic variant of 蒸[zheng1]


id: dff9e63164bac0df59b8d0fd323f2d5f878ebe01
simplified: 焉耆回族自治县
traditional: 焉耆回族自治縣
pinyin: yan1 qi2 hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Yanqi Hui Autonomous 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: a300b51fe459b9359c2e7e5c80d6a3ebf62d1ef1
simplified: 焉耆县
traditional: 焉耆縣
pinyin: yan1 qi2 xian4
english:
Yenji Xuyzu aptonom nahiyisi or Yanqi Hui autonomous 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: a85a9609e23962efebba9f9556a184813a74faa4
simplified: 焌
traditional: 焌
pinyin: qu1
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
english:
to extinguish a burning object/to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette)/to stir-fry/to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food


id: a12ec6b366e674f320aa2f901dd8d9f2a3a73e16
simplified: 焚书坑儒
traditional: 焚書坑儒
pinyin: fen2 shu1 keng1 ru2
english:
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])


id: 39349624975ba638e80dc90da7ee6acfb85c15a6
simplified: 焚琴煮鹤
traditional: 焚琴煮鶴
pinyin: fen2 qin2 zhu3 he4
english:
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes/fig. to waste valuable resources/to destroy wantonly beautiful things


id: 084edce6c7ef1b50342e753e7916b325c270c30e
simplified: 无事不登三宝殿
traditional: 無事不登三寶殿
pinyin: wu2 shi4 bu4 deng1 san1 bao3 dian4
english:
lit. One doesn't visit a temple without a cause. (idiom)/fig. to visit sb with an ulterior motive (esp. to ask for sth)/having a hidden agenda


id: 48ed6a78d7ef273fe0a323108369a102d4178649
simplified: 无厘头
traditional: 無厘頭
pinyin: wu2 li2 tou2
english:
silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century


id: c259bd99f68d668984e856809d7cb496050b8fd6
simplified: 无坚不摧
traditional: 無堅不摧
pinyin: wu2 jian1 bu4 cui1
english:
no stronghold one cannot overcome (idiom); to conquer every obstacle/nothing one can't do/to carry everything before one


id: 2a0d7a7f8fab10e9f2d0ca8f0fb0711bf3371f49
simplified: 无奈
traditional: 無奈
pinyin: wu2 nai4
english:
helpless/without choice/for lack of better option/grudgingly/willy-nilly/nolens volens/abbr. for 無可奈何|无可奈何[wu2 ke3 nai4 he2]


id: 578239cf07d5d59f4379cd388cf85acfcb3de857
simplified: 无常
traditional: 無常
pinyin: wu2 chang2
english:
variable/changeable/fickle/impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya)/ghost taking away the soul after death/to pass away/to die


id: 1798dc04c0f999218c87d1b2048323c42b825ac3
simplified: 无心插柳柳成阴
traditional: 無心插柳柳成陰
pinyin: wu2 xin1 cha1 liu3 liu3 cheng2 yin1
english:
lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you/(fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success/also written 無心插柳柳成蔭|无心插柳柳成荫


id: 696961818cb0422df097cbbeeb789b09f82b425a
simplified: 无期
traditional: 無期
pinyin: wu2 qi1
english:
unspecified period/in the indefinite future/no fixed time/indefinite sentence (i.e. life imprisonment)


id: c023e6e8c1515b8badd8eb58b77ca311ab567bd0
simplified: 无极
traditional: 無極
pinyin: wu2 ji2
english:
everlasting/unbounded/Wuji county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊地區|石家庄地区[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 di4 qu1], Hebei/The Promise (name of film by Chen Kaige)


id: 94594ba39225a0a9aa711395c373821a4c799e7f
simplified: 无为
traditional: 無為
pinyin: wu2 wei2
english:
the Daoist doctrine of inaction/let things take their own course/laissez-faire/Wuwei county in Chaohu 巢湖[Chao2 hu2], Anhui


id: 048e57aae07c4e58d24c5962d1546d55fbd149dd
simplified: 无疾而终
traditional: 無疾而終
pinyin: wu2 ji2 er2 zhong1
english:
to die peacefully/(fig.) to result in failure (without any outside interference)/to come to nothing/to fizzle out


id: fdb465239e8c625c92824ec71c25b7f2c06c8b42
simplified: 无病自灸
traditional: 無病自灸
pinyin: wu2 bing4 zi4 jiu3
english:
lit. to prescribe moxibustion for oneself when not ill; to cause oneself trouble with superfluous action


id: 94963e8ab4c328ed0b4875cb097eb5af475e88bc
simplified: 无的放矢
traditional: 無的放矢
pinyin: wu2 di4 fang4 shi3
english:
to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking/firing blindly/to shoot in the air/a shot in the dark


id: 82a99bbc52430c4d3bc331276d2f9532fcbc9196
simplified: 无缘
traditional: 無緣
pinyin: wu2 yuan2
english:
to have no opportunity/no way (of doing sth)/no chance/no connection/not placed (in a competition)/(in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc


id: 7a75fac1133e32f6b7d24ec9d4bae6aae1753077
simplified: 无记名
traditional: 無記名
pinyin: wu2 ji4 ming2
english:
(of a document) not bearing a name/unregistered (financial securities etc)/bearer (bond)/secret (ballot etc)/anonymous/unattributed (remarks)/(of a check) payable to the bearer


id: b675b5904ea3cdac1abd36f91f7878ed40e62e02
simplified: 无量寿
traditional: 無量壽
pinyin: wu2 liang4 shou4
english:
boundless life (expression of good wishes)/Amitayus, the Buddha of measureless life, good fortune and wisdom


id: 2b59703355ef907ac3d6cc219d2cd35dcb7c4806
simplified: 无颜见江东父老
traditional: 無顏見江東父老
pinyin: wu2 yan2 jian4 jiang1 dong1 fu4 lao3
english:
(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)


id: 0cb89437323d6fd2f4528fb229d488271476342e
simplified: 焦头烂额
traditional: 焦頭爛額
pinyin: jiao1 tou2 lan4 e2
english:
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom)/fig. hard-pressed/under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)


id: bf4843890e70ba2e1a8d4db4e243b53ef9c13f97
simplified: 炼丹八卦炉
traditional: 煉丹八卦爐
pinyin: lian4 dan1 ba1 gua4 lu2
english:
eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality/symbol of the alchemist's art/Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble


id: e97cfcbf27513eae51deff2b0b71d036fc403962
simplified: 烟
traditional: 煙
pinyin: yan1
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 完,菸,煙,烟
english:
cigarette or pipe tobacco/CL:根[gen1]/smoke/mist/vapour/CL:縷|缕[lu:3]/tobacco plant/(of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke


id: 1251653f08b7587bff1fa194e0f0ccc972b4dad0
simplified: 煞有介事
traditional: 煞有介事
pinyin: sha4 you3 jie4 shi4
english:
to make a show of being very much in earnest (idiom)/to act as if one is taking things very seriously


id: 1e064fd1b1d17a03a5671522e3255921ed61fe04
simplified: 照
traditional: 照
pinyin: zhao4
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 炤
english:
according to/in accordance with/to shine/to illuminate/to reflect/to look at (one's reflection)/to take (a photo)/photo/as requested/as before


id: 0882babe47cd1b99ef43476c69d6362928484a20
simplified: 照发
traditional: 照發
pinyin: zhao4 fa1
english:
approved for distribution/to provide (wages etc) as usual (e.g. while an employee is on maternity leave)


id: 9790dca433b454f609893535d9f71d0b4fc56b79
simplified: 照猫画虎
traditional: 照貓畫虎
pinyin: zhao4 mao1 hua4 hu3
english:
lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject/uninspired imitation


id: c970a28dfdc39f52593dcfe50b17b104a8a23812
simplified: 熄
traditional: 熄
pinyin: xi1
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
english:
to extinguish/to put out (fire)/to quench/to stop burning/to go out (of fire, lamp etc)/to come to an end/to wither away/to die out/Taiwan pr. [xi2]


id: 8bf9682eb8f2af46695acda890262e974eeaaab4
simplified: 荧
traditional: 熒
pinyin: ying2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 火
english:
a glimmer/glimmering/twinkling/fluorescence/phosphorescence/perplexed/dazzled and confused/planet Mars (arch.)


id: 7b6ee9cad74483ead616fc154daa21460ffc3ef7
simplified: 炝
traditional: 熗
pinyin: qiang4
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
english:
to stir-fry then cook with sauce and water/to boil food briefly then dress with soy etc/to choke/to irritate (throat etc)


id: 6deaca42db4e05cedaa0491238017b4a8b4a1989
simplified: 熟地
traditional: 熟地
pinyin: shu2 di4
english:
cultivated land/in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)


id: c2b4c302dd7244238040c680a2e220c8215dc5ca
simplified: 𬉼
traditional: 熰
pinyin: ou3
english:
copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood/half alight/to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects


id: 09eca0a88f3d3d40f0ac0e5e150e43bb674f1ef7
simplified: 热比亚
traditional: 熱比亞
pinyin: re4 bi3 ya4
english:
Rabiye or Rebiya (name)/Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress


id: c80c5b7f16957a1d91c18d485f9cec9d2575df94
simplified: 热比亚·卡德尔
traditional: 熱比亞·卡德爾
pinyin: re4 bi3 ya4 · ka3 de2 er3
english:
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress


id: 94a2cd84e8d1f600ee3fbb1d930878aebc526849
simplified: 热河
traditional: 熱河
pinyin: re4 he2
english:
Rehe, Qing dynasty province abolished in 1955 and divided among Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia/refers to the Qing imperial resort at Chengde/see also 避暑山莊|避暑山庄[bi4 shu3 shan1 zhuang1] (history)


id: 3bdc5877653638f3f3fc276b02916e763f5ff09c
simplified: 热炒热卖
traditional: 熱炒熱賣
pinyin: re4 chao3 re4 mai4
english:
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned/enthusiasm of the new convert


id: 1c3f9a5f63c3bec045e7fec8aa6d42653d1e46e2
simplified: 热脸贴冷屁股
traditional: 熱臉貼冷屁股
pinyin: re4 lian3 tie1 leng3 pi4 gu5
english:
to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom)/to be snubbed despite showing good intentions


id: f7990c67b68a0d9b29b6eb46d75604b95e06216f
simplified: 灯会
traditional: 燈會
pinyin: deng1 hui4
english:
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance


id: a1159e005861a75f96bcca2b7908ceb521a4015b
simplified: 灯泡
traditional: 燈泡
pinyin: deng1 pao4
english:
light bulb/see also 電燈泡|电灯泡[dian4 deng1 pao4]/third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang)/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: 625075a99fa2e8d509c05ec360b016e26d7f55f0
simplified: 灯头
traditional: 燈頭
pinyin: deng1 tou2
english:
electric light socket/burner (component of a kerosene lamp)/light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)


id: f0221ec39eece582936c9452a4fe0a447f908f3f
simplified: 烧
traditional: 燒
pinyin: shao1
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 簫
english:
to burn/to cook/to stew/to bake/to roast/to heat/to boil (tea, water etc)/fever/to run a temperature/(coll.) to let things go to one's head


id: ff253850ae91e5bf3fe26903c46319485b23639e
simplified: 烧炭
traditional: 燒炭
pinyin: shao1 tan4
english:
to manufacture charcoal/to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)


id: 46d8222e72706c92ee68905c1870d9cb6c107030
simplified: 燕
traditional: 燕
pinyin: yan1
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
variants: 鷰
english:
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning/north Hebei/the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436)/surname Yan


id: bd9230713a972e4c9bb77691d72e6f31abd01b5a
simplified: 燕国
traditional: 燕國
pinyin: yan1 guo2
english:
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning/north Hebei/the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436)


id: c0d7aaff8aec84db439431270aa1bbfbd3005c29
simplified: 燕赵
traditional: 燕趙
pinyin: yan1 zhao4
english:
Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi/beautiful women/women dancers and singers


id: 27e9868bacf5d4a716163c1f83b4b6ca90b62b1a
simplified: 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志
traditional: 燕雀安知鴻鵠之志
pinyin: yan4 que4 an1 zhi1 hong2 hu2 zhi1 zhi4
english:
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)/fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?


id: f6dcce9f33a4561f8023cfae61aab1a96e1a3101
simplified: 燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志
traditional: 燕雀焉知鴻鵠之志
pinyin: yan4 que4 yan1 zhi1 hong2 gu3 zhi1 zhi4
english:
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?


id: 77490ea9073a673cb8b79a606cfad778d5729dd8
simplified: 燕雀相贺
traditional: 燕雀相賀
pinyin: yan4 que4 xiang4 he4
english:
lit. sparrow and swallow's congratulation (idiom); fig. to congratulate sb on completion of a building project/congratulations on your new house!


id: a0c63a344f8cc0e1b733431e23c1f7fc7dc0072e
simplified: 燕雀处堂
traditional: 燕雀處堂
pinyin: yan4 que4 chu4 tang2
english:
lit. a caged bird in a pavilion (idiom); fig. to lose vigilance by comfortable living/unaware of the disasters ahead/a fool's paradise


id: ae1f84735fb7e38743c99dab904dfc354307cf8c
simplified: 烫
traditional: 燙
pinyin: tang4
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
english:
to scald/to burn (by scalding)/to blanch (cooking)/to heat (sth) up in hot water/to perm/to iron/scalding hot


id: 30d8c3559c7523ee681c7c72853c5c6c7ca56f5e
simplified: 营盘
traditional: 營盤
pinyin: ying2 pan2
english:
military camp/nomadic camp/Yingpan, common place name ("army camp")/place near Jintian village 金田村[Jin1 tian2 cun1] in Guangxi where the Taiping Tianguo rebels took their oaths in 1851/place in Xinfeng county 新豐縣|新丰县[Xin1 feng1 Xian4] traditional camping place of brigands/Yingpan township, place name/Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi/Yingpan township in Yunnan/(many others)


id: 53dc43a58b72320f73659b963f56907d3bf57ff7
simplified: 营盘镇
traditional: 營盤鎮
pinyin: ying2 pan2 zhen4
english:
Yingpan township, place name/Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi/Yingpan township in Yunnan/(many others)


id: 2122669f29c9e5d32ea3d510c28537bea9060ace
simplified: 爆炒
traditional: 爆炒
pinyin: bao4 chao3
english:
to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame/to conduct a media blitz/to manipulate a stock market through large-scale buying and selling


id: 50edb8891610b79ee7fd6b4425435d0e7a36f628
simplified: 炉火纯青
traditional: 爐火純青
pinyin: lu2 huo3 chun2 qing1
english:
lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom)/fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection


id: 04176c5dcb602bb4f8ae6b2af199a1bc185a4e3e
simplified: 炉霍
traditional: 爐霍
pinyin: lu2 huo4
english:
Luhuo county (Tibetan: brag 'go 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: 9aabce8a4d9f048fbb1af129ab1b6f9f8f5e1911
simplified: 烂
traditional: 爛
pinyin: lan4
radicalSimplified: 火
radicalTraditional: 火
english:
soft/mushy/well-cooked and soft/to rot/to decompose/rotten/worn out/chaotic/messy/utterly/thoroughly/crappy/bad


id: 4e3b0c1af63bcbec6e3f08b8ce90f8a8a7d1c8c3
simplified: 争名夺利
traditional: 爭名奪利
pinyin: zheng1 ming2 duo2 li4
english:
to fight for fame, grab profit (idiom); scrambling for fame and wealth/only interested in personal gain


id: 3aa14057386b856378974d2ca861084f2450501b
simplified: 争面子
traditional: 爭面子
pinyin: zheng1 mian4 zi5
english:
to do (sb) proud/to be a credit to (one's school etc)/to make oneself look good/to build up one's image


id: 1925f0258abcf4a3e752941ef9a47b49be61d40d
simplified: 爰
traditional: 爰
pinyin: yuan2
radicalSimplified: 爪
radicalTraditional: 爪
english:
therefore/consequently/thus/hence/thereupon/it follows that/where?/to change (into)/ancient unit of weight and money/surname Yuan


id: 0ab27ee3f1b412ef4dedaa876a1824625974c390
simplified: 为
traditional: 爲
pinyin: wei2
radicalSimplified: 丶
radicalTraditional: 爪
variants: 為
english:
variant of 為|为[wei2]/as (i.e. in the capacity of)/to take sth as/to act as/to serve as/to behave as/to become/to be/to do


id: e8bc4e04e7c8d7c822737460d1a4235fbeefc237
simplified: 爵位
traditional: 爵位
pinyin: jue2 wei4
english:
order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke 公[gong1], Marquis 侯[hou2], Count 伯[bo2], Viscount 子[zi3], Baron 男[nan2]


id: 79ee8b4a461fc43b3e43c7df4743cf9fe81a06a2
simplified: 尔虞我诈
traditional: 爾虞我詐
pinyin: er3 yu2 wo3 zha4
english:
lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. mutual deception/each tries to outwit the other/dog eats dog and devil take the hindmost


id: 8c3885fb45b0258f1fb14285b3ee63efe8514911
simplified: 尔雅
traditional: 爾雅
pinyin: er3 ya3
english:
"Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts


id: e292d0eba1f6951cb96f7c94bf54994d2678a0e3
simplified: 墙头草
traditional: 牆頭草
pinyin: qiang2 tou2 cao3
english:
sb who goes whichever way the wind blows/sb with no mind of one's own/easily swayed person/opportunist


id: 6eb230249154dd1f92c915ce1090ea1f8513e9ea
simplified: 片
traditional: 片
pinyin: pian4
radicalSimplified: 片
radicalTraditional: 片
english:
thin piece/flake/a slice/film/TV play/to slice/to carve thin/partial/incomplete/one-sided/classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water/classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc/used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc


id: eee5d60e8f960e068a542d2b5ebd63e997f335e5
simplified: 版面
traditional: 版面
pinyin: ban3 mian4
english:
page of a publication (e.g. newspaper or website)/printing space (reserved for some content)/page layout


id: f0026052e984f38435e7ccab83f8d2ddcc5f5a67
simplified: 牙克石
traditional: 牙克石
pinyin: ya2 ke4 shi2
english:
Yakeshi county level city, Mongolian Yagshi xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia


id: 8fece42f4e26bfe879c531abaca79f3d2e191f02
simplified: 牙旗
traditional: 牙旗
pinyin: ya2 qi2
english:
emperor's or general's banner erected on an ivory-tipped pole at a military camp or headquarters (in ancient times)


id: ac1b7fc33cb907b47d3c9a639f16b9e9dc94c52f
simplified: 牛腩
traditional: 牛腩
pinyin: niu2 nan3
english:
brisket (esp. Cantonese)/belly beef/spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs/erroneously translated as sirloin


id: 46e9eb12d943fb4999c300b88e8a350c1d99647e
simplified: 牛郎
traditional: 牛郎
pinyin: niu2 lang2
english:
cowherd boy/(slang) male prostitute/Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女/Altair (star)


id: 28ce3fa448b3eb0258e954c4f4a9f26d6dfcb9e7
simplified: 牛顿
traditional: 牛頓
pinyin: niu2 dun4
english:
newton (SI unit of force)/Newton (name)/Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist


id: 7a9fad98eb62f18178c7987d5df3722bb7ec4aff
simplified: 牛头
traditional: 牛頭
pinyin: niu2 tou2
english:
ox head/ox-head shaped wine vessel/Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology


id: 31f0e6909406c5763a8d9fab7cc715b977d445f9
simplified: 牛骥同槽
traditional: 牛驥同槽
pinyin: niu2 ji4 tong2 cao2
english:
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike/also written 牛驥同皂|牛骥同皂[niu2 ji4 tong2 zao4]


id: 0229ec6245f24abdfe3b33e99ff7b4544f4b041b
simplified: 牝鸡司晨
traditional: 牝雞司晨
pinyin: pin4 ji1 si1 chen2
english:
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority/women meddle in politics/The female wears the trousers.


id: 7829d897bfd3d3ae59fb493aa81e71b72461912c
simplified: 牟定
traditional: 牟定
pinyin: mou2 ding4
english:
Mouding 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: 8769c20602bd020c334a0f71317f11f0f359bb7a
simplified: 牡丹
traditional: 牡丹
pinyin: mu3 dan5
english:
tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)/Mudan District of Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong/Mutan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan


id: 052f882b8c45e7cbb696d4f2eda73613ce82d98b
simplified: 牡丹江
traditional: 牡丹江
pinyin: mu3 dan5 jiang1
english:
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China


id: 25d1416d23efd22e7c92cf82641c722eabd16c35
simplified: 牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶
traditional: 牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶
pinyin: mu3 dan5 sui1 hao3 , quan2 zhang4 lu:4 ye4 fu2
english:
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.


id: 7c45fac008ed424530659f8460db878eee55341a
simplified: 牢笼
traditional: 牢籠
pinyin: lao2 long2
english:
cage/trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)/fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)/shackles (of past misconceptions)/to trap/to shackle


id: 8f1f3b07258ec98e9ca357fee094a85b6dbd8c0a
simplified: 物以类聚，人以群分
traditional: 物以類聚，人以群分
pinyin: wu4 yi3 lei4 ju4 , ren2 yi3 qun2 fen1
english:
Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.


id: 3e2d74b31652721f987ecb24e74b45a0f92c28cb
simplified: 物色
traditional: 物色
pinyin: wu4 se4
english:
to look for/to seek/to choose/color of object/color of fleece (of domestic animal)/to see/to notice/all kinds of things/odds and ends


id: 8d4764e214a0287418e12d0e8326850332fb7103
simplified: 物质文明和精神文明
traditional: 物質文明和精神文明
pinyin: wu4 zhi4 wen2 ming2 he2 jing1 shen2 wen2 ming2
english:
material and spiritual culture/matter and mind/material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)


id: dcd39c139321c2d888b206abbbef4f4ff80548e7
simplified: 特克斯河
traditional: 特克斯河
pinyin: te4 ke4 si1 he2
english:
Tekes River in southeast Kazakhstan and northwest China, a tributary of the Ili River 伊犁河[Yi1 li2 He2]


id: f557e8d44f19831c97a2e561dfea2308a18125cf
simplified: 特克斯县
traditional: 特克斯縣
pinyin: te4 ke4 si1 xian4
english:
Tekes County 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: 49c3fc3613bfc720980bf47be2826251d6f071a4
simplified: 特别行政区
traditional: 特別行政區
pinyin: te4 bie2 xing2 zheng4 qu1
english:
special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门/refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government/refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia


id: 557da8c8f9776ce23fcde7d3fb000dab046b2517
simplified: 特首
traditional: 特首
pinyin: te4 shou3
english:
chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao)/abbr. for 特別行政區首席執行官|特别行政区首席执行官


id: c7e52e7098686b4e77bf782fc89bbb25eedee8c3
simplified: 牵一发而动全身
traditional: 牽一髮而動全身
pinyin: qian1 yi1 fa4 er2 dong4 quan2 shen1
english:
lit. pull one hair and the whole body moves/fig. a slight change will affect everything else/the butterfly effect


id: f17b15fed1ce2eaabdc0291f6f49c12bebf02ac3
simplified: 牵牛
traditional: 牽牛
pinyin: qian1 niu2
english:
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)/Altair (star)/Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女


id: f4093a13f39592b5f5353cc60ea9ae51cafe60cd
simplified: 牵羊担酒
traditional: 牽羊擔酒
pinyin: qian1 yang2 dan1 jiu3
english:
pulling a lamb and bringing wine on a carrying pole (idiom); fig. to offer elaborate congratulations/to kill the fatted calf


id: 9521d2d412136ea01f14fbe9a11946e871bb9df0
simplified: 牵头
traditional: 牽頭
pinyin: qian1 tou2
english:
to lead (an animal by the head)/to take the lead/to coordinate (a combined operation)/to mediate/a go-between (e.g. marriage broker)


id: c300c336c5e94ce0591e613608c4cb425aa9b33e
simplified: 犁靬
traditional: 犁靬
pinyin: li2 jian1
english:
Han dynasty name for countries in far West/may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire


id: 0f2f6692fcee1fd174609f937e4c3994ecd02089
simplified: 犒劳
traditional: 犒勞
pinyin: kao4 lao2
english:
to reward with food and drink/to feast (sb)/presents of food etc made to troops/Taiwan pr. [kao4 lao4]


id: 0cbd993b196064d12f5b92a6ceb87b421c35d4bc
simplified: 状元
traditional: 狀元
pinyin: zhuang4 yuan2
english:
top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)/see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]/top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]/(fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field/leading light


id: edeee427113390c6b8fc6635a0294a2a0ad9bff8
simplified: 狄
traditional: 狄
pinyin: di2
radicalSimplified: 犬
radicalTraditional: 犬
english:
low ranking public official (old)/surname Di/generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)


id: abffa206dbe16231cc1744d01b6974ff6d0d8046
simplified: 狄仁杰
traditional: 狄仁傑
pinyin: di2 ren2 jie2
english:
Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends/master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案[Di2 gong1 an4] translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩[Gao1 Luo2 pei4]


id: 23750d8d2cc4b28b0ebf1679da8c6d962c14f996
simplified: 狄公案
traditional: 狄公案
pinyin: di2 gong1 an4
english:
Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰[Di2 Ren2 jie2] as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee


id: 7b1721580401893e32d4d3b475336dd4bcf8122a
simplified: 狄奥多·阿多诺
traditional: 狄奧多·阿多諾
pinyin: di2 ao4 duo1 · a1 duo1 nuo4
english:
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer


id: 702172a4ab2ab0539383bb6d43c8dc2b28ac22ec
simplified: 狐假虎威
traditional: 狐假虎威
pinyin: hu2 jia3 hu3 wei1
english:
lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people


id: 0a229281ec2d2da18cc52654797bc414303adf63
simplified: 狐狸尾巴
traditional: 狐狸尾巴
pinyin: hu2 li5 wei3 ba5
english:
lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions/to reveal one's evil nature/evidence that reveals the villain


id: b448013e235a0e262c67298a46fdf0912ee9c209
simplified: 狗尾续貂
traditional: 狗尾續貂
pinyin: gou3 wei3 xu4 diao1
english:
lit. to use a dog's tail as a substitute for sable fur (idiom)/fig. a worthless sequel to a masterpiece


id: 82bd9ffd9e33467c1450bb33d2b098fbc3ab5fcb
simplified: 狗粮
traditional: 狗糧
pinyin: gou3 liang2
english:
dog food/(Internet slang) public display of affection (term used by singles 單身狗|单身狗[dan1 shen1 gou3] forced to "eat" it)


id: f15cdf983a7fe1711d2483332f3933ae1f84a06a
simplified: 狡兔三窟
traditional: 狡兔三窟
pinyin: jiao3 tu4 san1 ku1
english:
lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows/a sly individual has more than one plan to fall back on (idiom)


id: 19ba605c2ff90c6df568908902ee81d395b44fe0
simplified: 猴子偷桃
traditional: 猴子偷桃
pinyin: hou2 zi5 tou1 tao2
english:
"monkey steals the peach" (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and seizing his testicles with the other/(coll.) grabbing sb by the balls


id: 862fe9e02dd782174aa0b781d1008356e1b7b3c4
simplified: 猴王
traditional: 猴王
pinyin: hou2 wang2
english:
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]


id: 453768d7e0e77a1a9af3e1c56c4e4e3492634c5b
simplified: 狮子山
traditional: 獅子山
pinyin: shi1 zi5 shan1
english:
Sierra Leone (Tw)/Shizishan or Lion Mountain/Shizishan district of Tongling city 銅陵市|铜陵市[Tong2 ling2 shi4], Anhui


id: 122c9bdce7b871bc5f231c9a42639c12cc544436
simplified: 狮尾狒
traditional: 獅尾狒
pinyin: shi1 wei3 fei4
english:
gelada (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian herbivorous monkey similar to baboon/also written 吉爾達|吉尔达[ji2 er3 da2]


id: 0297de21858e4dfce7046a3d485d2db0b722e28c
simplified: 独占鳌头
traditional: 獨佔鰲頭
pinyin: du2 zhan4 ao2 tou2
english:
to come first in triennial palace examinations (idiom, refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successful candidate in the imperial examinations was entitled to stand)/to be the champion/to be the very best in any field


id: ea14ee4f0a1232f5d539d34d83581c5b9f50a7fb
simplified: 独尊
traditional: 獨尊
pinyin: du2 zun1
english:
to revere as sole orthodoxy/to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc)/to be dominant


id: c443e66d745a6a6ad6a3951defb9241c3cee03d7
simplified: 独山子
traditional: 獨山子
pinyin: du2 shan1 zi3
english:
Dushanzi district (Uighur: Maytagh Rayoni) of Qaramay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市[Ke4 la1 ma3 yi1 shi4], Xinjiang


id: 140efffa0893de754d716e4e6154288f24b979fd
simplified: 独立自主
traditional: 獨立自主
pinyin: du2 li4 zi4 zhu3
english:
independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination/to act independently/to maintain control over one's own affairs


id: 7e5d3982801f7dbd395904a89e85c0370e458d50
simplified: 独霸一方
traditional: 獨霸一方
pinyin: du2 ba4 yi1 fang1
english:
to exercise sole hegemony (idiom); to dominate a whole area (market, resources etc)/to hold as one's personal fiefdom


id: 14da66faf7e95e27857f15ae703412c3bb625af6
simplified: 独龙江
traditional: 獨龍江
pinyin: du2 long2 jiang1
english:
Dulong river in northwest Yunnan on border with Myanmar, tributary of Salween or Nujiang 怒江, sometimes referred to as number four of Three parallel rivers 三江並流|三江并流, wildlife protection unit


id: 2f55fc7858aee36f0a652921ec31ed32d5d4f4f6
simplified: 猃狁
traditional: 獫狁
pinyin: xian3 yun3
english:
Zhou Dynasty term for a northern nomadic tribe later called the Xiongnu 匈奴[Xiong1 nu2] in the Qin and Han Dynasties


id: 73833998e00a327ed3a59a298fd018749efe557e
simplified: 兽脚亚目
traditional: 獸腳亞目
pinyin: shou4 jiao3 ya4 mu4
english:
suborder Theropoda (beast-footed dinosaur group) within order Saurischia containing carnivorous dinosaurs


id: 0756daf004d62eae71d4f67301ebac4beb6947b8
simplified: 兽脚类恐龙
traditional: 獸腳類恐龍
pinyin: shou4 jiao3 lei4 kong3 long2
english:
theropod (beast-footed dinosaur group)/suborder Theropoda within order Saurischia containing carnivorous dinosaurs


id: 6b99af25d7fad607fab877e7d6577938e49188d2
simplified: 兽术
traditional: 獸術
pinyin: shou4 shu4
english:
animal training/skill with animals/shoushu - "Animal skill" or "Beast-fist" - Martial Art (esp. fictional)


id: d818024ca1dc85f5dc26fe6acc0514fb9e11c940
simplified: 献殷勤
traditional: 獻殷勤
pinyin: xian4 yin1 qin2
english:
to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc)/to fawn upon (an influential politician etc)/to court sb's favor/to ingratiate oneself


id: b81f9d8fde7d3871b317beeee6422b4cb48f7ee4
simplified: 献身
traditional: 獻身
pinyin: xian4 shen1
english:
to commit one's energy to/to devote oneself to/to sacrifice one's life for/(coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to


id: 0bb4ee00aad492b88acd02cf6d8b7e075d8d8ba7
simplified: 玄学
traditional: 玄學
pinyin: xuan2 xue2
english:
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals/translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)


id: d3fbe5695513c883c5c5bfb2bda4435d1f2fd09e
simplified: 玄武门之变
traditional: 玄武門之變
pinyin: xuan2 wu3 men2 zhi1 bian4
english:
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗


id: c6ec78a154fde9344ee6f7a700e20762da9ce928
simplified: 玉人吹箫
traditional: 玉人吹簫
pinyin: yu4 ren2 chui1 xiao1
english:
virtuoso piper wins a beauty/the xiao 箫 (mouth organ) virtuoso 萧史 won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公


id: 0a89c9b10dc16bad3f3e759da6a08bd2724a389c
simplified: 玉女
traditional: 玉女
pinyin: yu4 nu:3
english:
beautiful woman/fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals/(polite) sb else's daughter/Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM


id: 8ef824135f7887868cd133511609adfa693a31a5
simplified: 玉树县
traditional: 玉樹縣
pinyin: yu4 shu4 xian4
english:
Yushu county (Tibetan: yus hru'u 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: db2b4910bf822da153a1eac28feba29d852d0cee
simplified: 玉门关
traditional: 玉門關
pinyin: yu4 men2 guan1
english:
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu


id: 6eaa92b0d9b23514c74abfd021817b261fe46a1d
simplified: 王丹
traditional: 王丹
pinyin: wang2 dan1
english:
Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989


id: bbd59a0536a25b373e174cb82014e70ee2f87032
simplified: 王五
traditional: 王五
pinyin: wang2 wu3
english:
Wang Wu, name for an unspecified person, third of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四[Li3 Si4], 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry


id: fdc7d67866d8c35b00f1dd16583a63b0349153b2
simplified: 王叔文
traditional: 王叔文
pinyin: wang2 shu1 wen2
english:
Wang Shuwen (735-806), famous Tang dynasty scholar, Go player and politician, a leader of failed Yongzhen Reform 永貞革新|永贞革新[Yong3 zhen1 Ge2 xin1] of 805


id: 4575253c5557ff6e3c398535eda0f82474543597
simplified: 王家瑞
traditional: 王家瑞
pinyin: wang2 jia1 rui4
english:
Wang Jiarui (1949-), PRC politician and diplomat, from 2006 head of CPC central committee's external affairs department 對外聯絡部|对外联络部[dui4 wai4 lian2 luo4 bu4]


id: 5279ba1b6b8f08aa0b5f2632bf760b18422239e0
simplified: 王导
traditional: 王導
pinyin: wang2 dao3
english:
Wang Dao (276-339), powerful official of Jin dynasty and brother of general Wang Dun 王敦, regent of Jin from 325


id: 322334b55f9f2cc2f9f585708127ea77374fd193
simplified: 王希孟
traditional: 王希孟
pinyin: wang2 xi1 meng4
english:
Wang Ximeng (c. 1096-c. 1119), Song artist, probably teenage prodigy who died young, painter of Thousand Miles of Landscape 千里江山


id: ebb109e76a0bce652da5cb19ab16626cd6936c61
simplified: 王建民
traditional: 王建民
pinyin: wang2 jian4 min2
english:
Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball


id: 7bb1832f687dcf4f294cc0207b93a27533439206
simplified: 王敦
traditional: 王敦
pinyin: wang2 dun1
english:
Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導|王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324


id: c2521f03b9e94530eedf836c85f91e04a6f5a054
simplified: 王明
traditional: 王明
pinyin: wang2 ming2
english:
Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956


id: dc9b862c405c587a5b1f9bf66710a36f21c9edd7
simplified: 王昭君
traditional: 王昭君
pinyin: wang2 zhao1 jun1
english:
Wang Zhaojun (52-19 BC), famous beauty at the court of Han emperor Yuan 漢元帝|汉元帝[Han4 Yuan2 di4], one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3]


id: 4bba940cd5e3c55f511d391f4423896dda9df352
simplified: 王杨卢骆
traditional: 王楊盧駱
pinyin: wang2 yang2 lu2 luo4
english:
abbr. for Wang Bo 王勃[Wang2 Bo2], Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯[Yang2 Jiong3], Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻[Lu2 Zhao4 lin2], and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王[Luo4 Bin1 wang2], the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang


id: be2fcf5c4be6b00a71972b5e91134233ac728247
simplified: 王码
traditional: 王碼
pinyin: wang2 ma3
english:
Wang code, same as 五筆字型|五笔字型[wu3 bi3 zi4 xing2], five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民[Wang2 Yong3 min2] in 1983


id: eba6db43e775de707d3a5e1d6c4394b03afe60d0
simplified: 王粲
traditional: 王粲
pinyin: wang2 can4
english:
Wang Can (177-217), poet, generally regarded as the most brilliant of "the seven masters of Jian'an" 建安[Jian4 an1]


id: 6517eb19117e649a48dd4d6d3e24ef1e27c05865
simplified: 王肃
traditional: 王肅
pinyin: wang2 su4
english:
Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts


id: 4b676751d8d4712a1adbb1699d98312b75b23470
simplified: 王阳明
traditional: 王陽明
pinyin: wang2 yang2 ming2
english:
Wang Yangming (1472-1529), Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, influential in the School of Mind 心學|心学[xin1 xue2]


id: 4e8c0c3bedfd350b0b6bb74ce2ae3bff83189691
simplified: 王顾左右而言他
traditional: 王顧左右而言他
pinyin: wang2 gu4 zuo3 you4 er2 yan2 ta1
english:
the king looked left and right and then talked of other things/to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom)


id: cca3a4a5c659595c7678b456ea7845408d0f08c6
simplified: 玩
traditional: 玩
pinyin: wan2
radicalSimplified: 玉
radicalTraditional: 玉
english:
to play/to have fun/to trifle with/toy/sth used for amusement/curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4])/to keep sth for entertainment


id: 17ec565a8f485040e6554bf50f562d43bcb05a35
simplified: 玩火自焚
traditional: 玩火自焚
pinyin: wan2 huo3 zi4 fen2
english:
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences/to get one's fingers burnt


id: df8f10fa1df9bdd1eb987ab4bb109f9fa58cb6ad
simplified: 玩物丧志
traditional: 玩物喪志
pinyin: wan2 wu4 sang4 zhi4
english:
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress/excessive attention to trivia saps the will


id: 49618f431c8b855aba281c9da3f41bbb134a7ef5
simplified: 珠山
traditional: 珠山
pinyin: zhu1 shan1
english:
Mt Everest/abbr. for 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan)/Nepalese: Sagarmatha/Mt Pearl (place name)/Zhushan district of Jingdezhen city 景德鎮市|景德镇市, Jiangxi


id: f8b4064d1101a1a0caf318598aa26e5a893e2fdc
simplified: 班戈
traditional: 班戈
pinyin: ban1 ge1
english:
Baingoin county, Tibetan: Dpal mgon rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: 4cdb7503feb930937614e3a31d5a08b2f9e34795
simplified: 班次
traditional: 班次
pinyin: ban1 ci4
english:
grade/class number (in school)/flight or run number/flight or run (seen as an item)/shift (work period)


id: 834ef2b940c34147ece08666387be75e13a19526
simplified: 班玛
traditional: 班瑪
pinyin: ban1 ma3
english:
Baima or Banma county (Tibetan: pad ma rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州[Guo3 luo4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: b26b1331f12a11953374d60ae54bc21217467e5e
simplified: 现任
traditional: 現任
pinyin: xian4 ren4
english:
to occupy a post currently/current (president etc)/incumbent/(coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)


id: 694df82a0f0d6c4022f74c9cc58d6cc9c86f1a82
simplified: 现炒现卖
traditional: 現炒現賣
pinyin: xian4 chao3 xian4 mai4
english:
lit. to fry and sell on the spot/fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school


id: 697b3cad62797c512d16a041dc82ba11f4df63f3
simplified: 现货
traditional: 現貨
pinyin: xian4 huo4
english:
merchandise or commodities available immediately after sale/merchandise in stock/available item/actuals (investment)/actual commodities


id: 16198289491f989fccaf7a484301b8c0d1d694f2
simplified: 琅威理
traditional: 琅威理
pinyin: lang2 wei1 li3
english:
Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北洋水師|北洋水师 during the 1880s


id: f7cba9c5dba0328118526c9702779aa107675365
simplified: 理
traditional: 理
pinyin: li3
radicalSimplified: 玉
radicalTraditional: 玉
variants: 理
english:
texture/grain (of wood)/inner essence/intrinsic order/reason/logic/truth/science/natural science (esp. physics)/to manage/to pay attention to/to run (affairs)/to handle/to put in order/to tidy up


id: 4fea6b2bcae0af214ca26fe6ae0a32ecc8772065
simplified: 理塘
traditional: 理塘
pinyin: li3 tang2
english:
Litang county (Tibetan: li thang 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: e782d393f72c42beecb2ca2956e00089e69eede8
simplified: 理学
traditional: 理學
pinyin: li3 xue2
english:
science/School of Principle/Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢[Cheng2 Hao4], Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐[Cheng2 Yi2] and Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhu1 xi1])


id: 283a0dae2f4e9b6b005533fdd0c540102dc576d3
simplified: 理屈词穷
traditional: 理屈詞窮
pinyin: li3 qu1 ci2 qiong2
english:
faulty argument and poor rhetoric (idiom); unable to put forward any convincing arguments/without a leg to stand on


id: b46c356908c67998edd3ed877dd21c300f6be322
simplified: 理所当然
traditional: 理所當然
pinyin: li3 suo3 dang1 ran2
english:
as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course/inevitable and right


id: b17e97e45ddc2dee4bd98a5e89915c3aa773a1a1
simplified: 理直气壮
traditional: 理直氣壯
pinyin: li3 zhi2 qi4 zhuang4
english:
in the right and self-confident (idiom); bold and confident with justice on one's side/to have the courage of one's convictions/just and forceful


id: 0f067c88c330361d1a718e971e3772100a901367
simplified: 理县
traditional: 理縣
pinyin: li3 xian4
english:
Li county (Tibetan: li 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: 3bfe5f9a6e72dfb3dc5c29d2d3910fbc5753414d
simplified: 理雅各
traditional: 理雅各
pinyin: li3 ya3 ge4
english:
James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English


id: 2b185a6dd5fe618e8d7d1fd8dbc8b98a4b6030e9
simplified: 琉球
traditional: 琉球
pinyin: liu2 qiu2
english:
Ryūkyū/refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan/Liuchiu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan


id: 2bea8b3b183c39db1c766acab21a9c699dcabd2c
simplified: 琉球海
traditional: 琉球海
pinyin: liu2 qiu2 hai3
english:
Ryūkyū Sea/refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan


id: ac427886088f1f4c589016a22a2c06146745e9bd
simplified: 琳·戴维斯
traditional: 琳·戴維斯
pinyin: lin2 · dai4 wei2 si1
english:
Lynn E. Davis, US academic and arms control expert, Under-secretary at US State Department 1993-1997


id: 8fa31353b466d121a59353dca50d979288b43c6a
simplified: 瑞丽
traditional: 瑞麗
pinyin: rui4 li4
english:
Ruili city 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: b3ac70dddfc1cb54d191452822b6c48026162b66
simplified: 瑶
traditional: 瑤
pinyin: yao2
radicalSimplified: 玉
radicalTraditional: 玉
english:
jade/precious stone/mother-of-pearl/nacre/precious/used a complementary honorific/Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia/surname Yao


id: fce9bf9295003c1a34493f6cc9bf59a87ed73d45
simplified: 玛俐欧
traditional: 瑪俐歐
pinyin: ma3 li4 ou1
english:
Mario (Nintendo video game character)/also transcribed variously as 馬里奧|马里奥[Ma3 li3 ao4], 馬力歐|马力欧[Ma3 li4 ou1] etc


id: e191bfbe61133de022957414935afdb1f9702bc4
simplified: 玛多
traditional: 瑪多
pinyin: ma3 duo1
english:
Madoi or Maduo county (Tibetan: rma stod rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州[Guo3 luo4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: b29c5d7026e0458bec36a5d12c17d4fc46dec108
simplified: 玛曲
traditional: 瑪曲
pinyin: ma3 qu3
english:
Maqu county in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: d0ce31d16f91c756076681a85123d4fd0f466f01
simplified: 玛沁
traditional: 瑪沁
pinyin: ma3 qin4
english:
Maqên or Maqin county (Tibetan: rma chen rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州[Guo3 luo4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 5cb53a20dd19fbaa35d6b682f3c6ecb580ddddb1
simplified: 玛窦
traditional: 瑪竇
pinyin: ma3 dou4
english:
Matthew/St Matthew the evangelist/less common variant of 馬太|马太[Ma3 tai4] (preferred by the Catholic Church)


id: fd8de38e01d63c29adf443797997dd1e835e05b4
simplified: 玛纳斯
traditional: 瑪納斯
pinyin: ma3 na4 si1
english:
Manas, hero of Kyrghiz epic saga/Manas county and town in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: 565a52058fcc99fc8029fb6988dfb63e00c412d8
simplified: 玛纳斯县
traditional: 瑪納斯縣
pinyin: ma3 na4 si1 xian4
english:
Manas county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: 0ce05ae1093d75a0f1f03a08fec899b516f9b014
simplified: 玛纳斯镇
traditional: 瑪納斯鎮
pinyin: ma3 na4 si1 zhen4
english:
Manas town in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: 27e4d4f696913871dd56a015f5bac44a65203088
simplified: 环
traditional: 環
pinyin: huan2
radicalSimplified: 玉
radicalTraditional: 玉
english:
ring/hoop/loop/(chain) link/classifier for scores in archery etc/to surround/to encircle/to hem in/surname Huan


id: 3c2237d7b2966dbc4d271d44c2eab107cf33f5c6
simplified: 环创
traditional: 環創
pinyin: huan2 chuang4
english:
eye-catching décor for young children (in classrooms, libraries etc) (posters, mobiles, murals etc) (abbr. for 環境創設|环境创设[huan2 jing4 chuang4 she4])


id: 7fd337b9e1583c9fe69d69fceb03af3a86f6360e
simplified: 环境创设
traditional: 環境創設
pinyin: huan2 jing4 chuang4 she4
english:
design of a learning environment for young children, incorporating artwork designed to appeal to them/abbr. to 環創|环创[huan2 chuang4]


id: a58024947e6dd3e808f24a12faeca328d46829d2
simplified: 环球时报
traditional: 環球時報
pinyin: huan2 qiu2 shi2 bao4
english:
Global Times (weekly digest of international news from People's Daily 人民日報|人民日报[Ren2 min2 Ri4 bao4])


id: 900f22f53ad69d5dd4a364e44c4f3fcc79ed557c
simplified: 环节
traditional: 環節
pinyin: huan2 jie2
english:
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc)/(fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process), etc


id: 7363b1fdebab7080a5e48501e9bf6292a629113e
simplified: 环卫
traditional: 環衛
pinyin: huan2 wei4
english:
public cleanliness/(urban) sanitation/environmental sanitation/abbr. for 環境衛生|环境卫生[huan2 jing4 wei4 sheng1]


id: b25ecaf43274006e2af15565fc2477038977ccdc
simplified: 琼结县
traditional: 瓊結縣
pinyin: qiong2 jie2 xian4
english:
Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: e7e443e7bbaea1547d3ebe567c368dc5a9c67e90
simplified: 瓜代
traditional: 瓜代
pinyin: gua1 dai4
english:
a changeover of personnel/a new shift/(lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season


id: 15ab9fcf28118e813fe90d5390e770b950904126
simplified: 瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠
traditional: 瓜田不納履，李下不整冠
pinyin: gua1 tian2 bu4 na4 lu:3 , li3 xia4 bu4 zheng3 guan1
english:
lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)/fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion/innocent acts may be misconstrued


id: 5cd9b41edee3c9fcf08751f2eed98e20b7222c35
simplified: 瓣
traditional: 瓣
pinyin: ban4
radicalSimplified: 瓜
radicalTraditional: 瓜
english:
petal/segment/clove (of garlic)/piece/section/fragment/valve/lamella/classifier for pieces, segments etc


id: 451a1d8021b640d3b155a9af48a86b0ac8fbf26f
simplified: 瓦德西
traditional: 瓦德西
pinyin: wa3 de2 xi1
english:
Waldersee (name)/Alfred Graf Von Waldersee (1832-1904), commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance 八國聯軍|八国联军[Ba1 guo2 Lian2 jun1]


id: da72c0f825403b6823d42b3637bdb5afd46161a6
simplified: 瓯
traditional: 甌
pinyin: ou1
radicalSimplified: 瓦
radicalTraditional: 瓦
english:
(pottery) bowl or drinking vessel/old name for Wenzhou City 溫州市|温州市[Wen1 zhou1 shi4] in Zhejiang 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1]


id: d581903d119e25ef4c4a44029db999c0ab027abb
simplified: 甘丹寺
traditional: 甘丹寺
pinyin: gan1 dan1 si4
english:
Ganden monastery, Tibetan: dGa' ldan rNam rgyal gling, Dagzê county 達孜縣|达孜县[Da2 zi1 xian4], Lhasa, Tibet


id: 405238a82b517a95020776866cf99ea566aa6741
simplified: 甘之如饴
traditional: 甘之如飴
pinyin: gan1 zhi1 ru2 yi2
english:
lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly/a glutton for punishment


id: f2d5aa24c595cf73a64bc86ab222106c9363e099
simplified: 甘孜
traditional: 甘孜
pinyin: gan1 zi1
english:
Garze or Kandze, capital of Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], formerly in Kham province of Tibet, present Sichuan


id: e8f64788215b6bbae36bb6f0dadabe0738d53b80
simplified: 甘孜州
traditional: 甘孜州
pinyin: gan1 zi1 zhou1
english:
Garze or Kandze, Tibetan autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul), formerly in Kham province of Tibet, present Sichuan


id: 3434e0b5e76d645214fbe1d22bca117ec90bc37e
simplified: 甘孜县
traditional: 甘孜縣
pinyin: gan1 zi1 xian4
english:
Garzê county (Tibetan: dkar mdzes 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: d59781e0b9fffd4eefd56d881f256b8c5aacc65c
simplified: 甘巴里
traditional: 甘巴里
pinyin: gan1 ba1 li3
english:
Professor Ibrahim Gambari (1944-), Nigerian scholar and diplomat, ambassador to UN 1990-1999, UN envoy to Burma from 2007


id: 46fa1bb08c086a67b470b32152a6a54d669833b8
simplified: 甘德
traditional: 甘德
pinyin: gan1 de2
english:
Gadê or Gande county (Tibetan: dga' bde rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州[Guo3 luo4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 9dd09e1ed28a8373bc88147f95da973238632e0e
simplified: 甘洛
traditional: 甘洛
pinyin: gan1 luo4
english:
Ganluo 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: 5dacc9c2db3a7fbe6675104fa05161e4ff50658e
simplified: 甜菊
traditional: 甜菊
pinyin: tian2 ju2
english:
Stevia, South American sunflower genus/sugarleaf (Stevia rebaudiana), bush whose leaves produce sugar substitute


id: 5337f7c39e060d119140987c6e9b46907cc5135b
simplified: 生不逢时
traditional: 生不逢時
pinyin: sheng1 bu4 feng2 shi2
english:
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate)/born under an unlucky star/ahead of his time


id: 5300da82d265ff2a7003e22e5d59d2190e2b40ba
simplified: 生命在于运动
traditional: 生命在於運動
pinyin: sheng1 ming4 zai4 yu2 yun4 dong4
english:
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations)/Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle)./Life derives from physical exercise.


id: 16a2cd499c1f9ea5b37225dbb25822ffb7a8449e
simplified: 生于忧患，死于安乐
traditional: 生於憂患，死於安樂
pinyin: sheng1 yu2 you1 huan4 , si3 yu2 an1 le4
english:
to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom)/life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure


id: 79c8845356875782a1fbc434554d39c4a1bedd5a
simplified: 生炒热卖
traditional: 生炒熱賣
pinyin: sheng1 chao3 re4 mai4
english:
to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)


id: 3fff7c4ef7eea785e1d63d255fed4f43074b86ac
simplified: 生米做成熟饭
traditional: 生米做成熟飯
pinyin: sheng1 mi3 zuo4 cheng2 shu2 fan4
english:
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed/It's too late to change anything now./also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭


id: 568c7b717f83f88a521fa123bb13b4929bc8df6a
simplified: 生米熟饭
traditional: 生米熟飯
pinyin: sheng1 mi3 shu2 fan4
english:
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed/It's too late to change anything now.


id: b702c8a856f3c4f41e64c8d08ffe1fbf0e864d6b
simplified: 生肖
traditional: 生肖
pinyin: sheng1 xiao4
english:
one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]/animal from the Chinese zodiac


id: 6d061504aff9e87f85ecc7e5f6f0ae6c9e3f8ea2
simplified: 生财有道
traditional: 生財有道
pinyin: sheng1 cai2 you3 dao4
english:
lit. there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business/knowing how to accumulate wealth/good at feathering one's own nest


id: add0a0a9f2ecf032023e21a6bb220bc43a4000bd
simplified: 生辰八字
traditional: 生辰八字
pinyin: sheng1 chen2 ba1 zi4
english:
one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch


id: 74de0627fbb567ff2bd396a9f8be8df2d1f25563
simplified: 生达县
traditional: 生達縣
pinyin: sheng1 da2 xian4
english:
Sinda county, name of former county 1983-1999 in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: 1245d137f8e05967d11edba247d1f2cd103fd408
simplified: 产生
traditional: 產生
pinyin: chan3 sheng1
english:
to arise/to come into being/to come about/to give rise to/to bring into being/to bring about/to produce/to engender/to generate/to appear/appearance/emergence/generation/production/yield


id: 62ae6021c4101cf0d9c82891490482dab720b90b
simplified: 甩包袱
traditional: 甩包袱
pinyin: shuai3 bao1 fu5
english:
lit. to fling off a bundle/fig. to abandon one's responsibility for sth/to wash one's hands of the matter


id: 8909024001dd7283169e64f04e29970b2c547a00
simplified: 甬
traditional: 甬
pinyin: yong3
radicalSimplified: 用
radicalTraditional: 用
variants: 埇
english:
path screened by walls on both sides/the Yongjiang river 甬江[Yong3 jiang1] through Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1]/abbr. for Ningbo


id: 106a0a52d01cf576c5095a1ffce0edfd1323ab6e
simplified: 田文
traditional: 田文
pinyin: tian2 wen2
english:
birth name of Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)


id: 89daeeafb5d5cb2f7dcf0a8f5490521df3cd4b4c
simplified: 田格本
traditional: 田格本
pinyin: tian2 ge2 ben3
english:
exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)


id: 97e436d86ed2512a314ba9cf5e42925f6c73e158
simplified: 田汉
traditional: 田漢
pinyin: tian2 han4
english:
Tian Han (1898-1968), author of the words of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲


id: a043ab564a674b7ece4ba673c1faddee392e8945
simplified: 田长霖
traditional: 田長霖
pinyin: tian2 chang2 lin2
english:
Chang-lin Tien (1935-2002), Chinese-American professor and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1990-1997


id: fb60337a4cf8d08ddbe117801581b6fe95fa6862
simplified: 由
traditional: 由
pinyin: you2
radicalSimplified: 田
radicalTraditional: 田
english:
to follow/from/it is for...to/reason/cause/because of/due to/to/to leave it (to sb)/by (introduces passive verb)


id: 95c91f38151254b222d5e594f1a4aef191334f91
simplified: 由表及里
traditional: 由表及裡
pinyin: you2 biao3 ji2 li3
english:
to proceed from the outside to the inside/to see the essence merely by looking at the superficial appearance


id: 92df931d855e345c2a5afc4aae6c210e029f3a8a
simplified: 甲
traditional: 甲
pinyin: jia3
radicalSimplified: 田
radicalTraditional: 田
english:
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]/(used for an unspecified person or thing)/first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)/letter "A" or Roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/armor plating/shell or carapace/(of the fingers or toes) nail/bladed leather or metal armor (old)/ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)/civil administration unit (old)/ancient Chinese compass point: 75°


id: fb319e35dbcdfd6b57a620b2a8f2f2d49544e471
simplified: 甲子
traditional: 甲子
pinyin: jia3 zi3
english:
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1])/the sixty-year cycle


id: 0a28d0be69b3a57fc728e046e3bb05d7c7128a39
simplified: 甲申政变
traditional: 甲申政變
pinyin: jia3 shen1 zheng4 bian4
english:
unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops


id: 51f85506941c75391d272c69c41e18de67c076c8
simplified: 甲骨
traditional: 甲骨
pinyin: jia3 gu3
english:
tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination/oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)


id: 295c2054408a8baa88a075499c51114b0940293b
simplified: 申
traditional: 申
pinyin: shen1
radicalSimplified: 田
radicalTraditional: 田
english:
to extend/to state/to explain/9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey/ancient Chinese compass point: 240°/old name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]/surname Shen


id: 439b7d6d4606c97fa0c44e1d033b5c501ef6cf47
simplified: 申城
traditional: 申城
pinyin: shen1 cheng2
english:
alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]/alternative name for Xinyang City, Henan 信陽市|信阳市[Xin4 yang2 Shi4]


id: cde206ce2864ffe620e4bbaa6c0ce78829c0d481
simplified: 申扎
traditional: 申扎
pinyin: shen1 zha1
english:
Xainza county, Tibetan: Shan rtsa rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: c7597944499f293bf1c66f35920ea59740e0731b
simplified: 男人膝下有黄金
traditional: 男人膝下有黃金
pinyin: nan2 ren2 xi1 xia4 you3 huang2 jin1
english:
lit. the man has gold under his knees; fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing to pride or moral integrity)


id: 2f3d9645f38c41ecf6f3edb5befdb18333402373
simplified: 甸
traditional: 甸
pinyin: dian4
radicalSimplified: 田
radicalTraditional: 田
english:
suburbs or outskirts/one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China/official in charge of fields (old)/surname Dian


id: e222885aebca8ded761ceafa96d291f192c83bd7
simplified: 界画
traditional: 界畫
pinyin: jie4 hua4
english:
accurate depiction of architectural forms with the aid of a ruler (technique of Chinese art)/picture created using this technique


id: 2b3e62d26b0c886ee49ab8e01e02fdeb5a8b2e1c
simplified: 畏首畏尾
traditional: 畏首畏尾
pinyin: wei4 shou3 wei4 wei3
english:
afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous/afraid of the slightest thing


id: 6ea64f7e199c21dd0d6ef6cd10738abdde05d3e6
simplified: 留守儿童
traditional: 留守兒童
pinyin: liu2 shou3 er2 tong2
english:
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them


id: 41d960ea21a4caff2211896311f1f464eb2390f0
simplified: 留样
traditional: 留樣
pinyin: liu2 yang4
english:
retention sample/(of a manufacturer, esp. of food or drugs) to retain a sample of a batch of a product (abbr. for 保留樣品|保留样品[bao3 liu2 yang4 pin3])


id: 548d15e0579e6650d1798033b46fc3a4ba9de7d2
simplified: 留白
traditional: 留白
pinyin: liu2 bai2
english:
to leave a message/to leave some empty space in a work of art/to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)


id: 1858723656d8252fe18aa1e095a82e4faef7c81c
simplified: 畜牲
traditional: 畜牲
pinyin: chu4 sheng1
english:
livestock, or specifically the six farm animals cow, horse, sheep, cock, dog, pig 牛馬羊雞狗豬|牛马羊鸡狗猪/an insult, You animal!


id: 09b4da4b6fa823b73e5f113ab319412c0dca7fa2
simplified: 番
traditional: 番
pinyin: fan1
radicalSimplified: 田
radicalTraditional: 田
variants: 蹯
english:
foreign (non-Chinese)/barbarian/classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance)/classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc)/classifier for situations: kind, sort


id: 50ba2ac1e551f33bff78cfa583e0eba53d30be76
simplified: 番禺
traditional: 番禺
pinyin: pan1 yu2
english:
Panyu district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong/Panyu county in Guangdong province


id: d55b47ce2abed4ddda31327c4ad49c33b1f560a9
simplified: 画地为牢
traditional: 畫地為牢
pinyin: hua4 di4 wei2 lao2
english:
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom)/fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities


id: 858b6b81d08513cbbd9d63233583a993050cb476
simplified: 画荻教子
traditional: 畫荻教子
pinyin: hua4 di2 jiao4 zi3
english:
to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son (idiom)/mother's admirable dedication to her children's education


id: 91d1540e18b8150304db4522482368ae083363a1
simplified: 画龙点睛
traditional: 畫龍點睛
pinyin: hua4 long2 dian3 jing1
english:
to paint a dragon and dot 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: 39820c4726dd79594b7087866878332b4a0a5bf6
simplified: 异丁苯丙酸
traditional: 異丁苯丙酸
pinyin: yi4 ding1 ben3 bing3 suan1
english:
Ibuprofen or Nurofen/nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), trade names Advil, Motrin, Nuprin etc, used as analgesic and antipyretic, e.g. for arthritis sufferers/also called 布洛芬


id: 3bb3a21f27ee23ea34d6c8616458c1586fdcf215
simplified: 异事
traditional: 異事
pinyin: yi4 shi4
english:
sth else/a separate matter/not the same thing/with different jobs (not colleagues)/a remarkable thing/sth special/an odd thing/sth strange or incomprehensible


id: 013384e8343d9f71f9709fe921e3038a8946a6f1
simplified: 异形词
traditional: 異形詞
pinyin: yi4 xing2 ci2
english:
variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃|笔划[bi3 hua4] and 筆畫|笔画[bi3 hua4]/exact synonym and homonym written with different characters


id: 452976e4abb502c7fde2d01754da360c37b66330
simplified: 异曲同工
traditional: 異曲同工
pinyin: yi4 qu3 tong2 gong1
english:
different tunes played with equal skill (idiom)/different methods leading to the same result/different approach but equally satisfactory outcome


id: f89e7b95641b6d6c080cf27be0e8ca55ab621b1c
simplified: 当
traditional: 當
pinyin: dang1
radicalSimplified: 小
radicalTraditional: 田
variants: 當,当
english:
to be/to act as/manage/withstand/when/during/ought/should/match equally/equal/same/obstruct/just at (a time or place)/on the spot/right/just at


id: 313975ee2d54faa35fad5ce27450ccd93ff75903
simplified: 当
traditional: 當
pinyin: dang4
radicalSimplified: 小
radicalTraditional: 田
variants: 當,当
english:
at or in the very same.../suitable/adequate/fitting/proper/to replace/to regard as/to think/to pawn/(coll.) to fail (a student)


id: e7c26b04ef41149cef4df9e84b3ffadb3a16be9c
simplified: 当回事
traditional: 當回事
pinyin: dang4 hui2 shi4
english:
to take seriously (often with negative expression: "don't take it too seriously")/to treat conscientiously


id: 506c0905a85d4b13184280ac83812d9ee9bbebd4
simplified: 当局者迷，旁观者清
traditional: 當局者迷，旁觀者清
pinyin: dang1 ju2 zhe3 mi2 , pang2 guan1 zhe3 qing1
english:
The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear (idiom). The onlooker sees more of the game.


id: 76988070f9e4ae55857afa9134a970a8431950e4
simplified: 畹町
traditional: 畹町
pinyin: wan3 ding1
english:
Wanding town 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, Yunnan, on border with Myanmar (Burma)


id: d056c07813ec0f03d700d70cd2c90987b3b8e05d
simplified: 疏
traditional: 疏
pinyin: shu1
radicalSimplified: 疋
radicalTraditional: 疋
variants: 疎
english:
to dredge/to clear away obstruction/thin/sparse/scanty/distant (relation)/not close/to neglect/negligent/to present a memorial to the Emperor/commentary/annotation/surname Shu


id: 92f67dcfbe2b5fb0722d9b3c1443dea15b5d88cf
simplified: 疏勒
traditional: 疏勒
pinyin: shu1 le4
english:
Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar/Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang


id: 883500b2bcf72847364643ecd673902c87384804
simplified: 疏而不漏
traditional: 疏而不漏
pinyin: shu1 er2 bu4 lou4
english:
loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape


id: ffd3024b4679add8f3c81434886609bd15f186fa
simplified: 疏通
traditional: 疏通
pinyin: shu1 tong1
english:
to unblock/to dredge/to clear the way/to get things flowing/to facilitate/to mediate/to lobby/to explicate (a text)


id: cc01a32718241160642e996a633fed4d2eb1717f
simplified: 疾控中心
traditional: 疾控中心
pinyin: ji2 kong4 zhong1 xin1
english:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/abbr. for 疾病預防控製中心|疾病预防控制中心[ji2 bing4 yu4 fang2 kong4 zhi4 zhong1 xin1]


id: f6231135a855303c734ea09a08b74fa7af662ca7
simplified: 疾风劲草
traditional: 疾風勁草
pinyin: ji2 feng1 jing4 cao3
english:
the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister/to show one's true colors after a stern test


id: 02fb315df4c38f32827a316b67f2bce317aee210
simplified: 疾风知劲草
traditional: 疾風知勁草
pinyin: ji2 feng1 zhi1 jing4 cao3
english:
the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister/to show one's true colors after a stern test/also written 疾風勁草|疾风劲草


id: f789e327ae88b31bd481190d3f3b8c0d6ac33a2d
simplified: 疾风知劲草，烈火见真金
traditional: 疾風知勁草，烈火見真金
pinyin: ji2 feng1 zhi1 jin4 cao3 , lie4 huo3 jian4 zhen1 jin1
english:
the storm put strong grass to the test, fire tests true gold (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister/to show one's true colors after a stern test


id: cdcd40570f89c1c5cb4a8028c4e5cd6458f1b257
simplified: 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝
traditional: 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲
pinyin: bing4 lai2 ru2 shan1 dao3 , bing4 qu4 ru2 chou1 si1
english:
sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly


id: 599b28c85f7202038290d94d8b41279ce2a8a40c
simplified: 病从口入
traditional: 病從口入
pinyin: bing4 cong2 kou3 ru4
english:
Illness enters by the mouth (idiom). Mind what you eat!/fig. A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble.


id: 80267be4385332348816f836e036cf6823716734
simplified: 病从口入，祸从口出
traditional: 病從口入，禍從口出
pinyin: bing4 cong2 kou3 ru4 , huo4 cong2 kou3 chu1
english:
Illness enters by the mouth, trouble comes out by the mouth (idiom). A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble.


id: 89647d80a6ef7c582635e94c3d05767b21a7c906
simplified: 病急乱投医
traditional: 病急亂投醫
pinyin: bing4 ji2 luan4 tou2 yi1
english:
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis


id: cc8227c4f5a5709ace191952668c981bcbc15814
simplified: 痛失
traditional: 痛失
pinyin: tong4 shi1
english:
to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc)/to miss out on (an opportunity)/to fail to gain (victory etc)


id: 2a6e563a61e5e48d318ee2fb097fc9ec6e27e673
simplified: 痛改前非
traditional: 痛改前非
pinyin: tong4 gai3 qian2 fei1
english:
completely correcting one's former misdeeds (idiom); to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf/a reformed character


id: 5713aea61ea852af7deb70fb4757db51945789d0
simplified: 症结
traditional: 癥結
pinyin: zheng1 jie2
english:
hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine)/crux of an issue/main point in an argument/sticking point/deadlock in negotiations


id: e161a5dae9de5c76d93b19b61a40d9c4d897f66f
simplified: 癸
traditional: 癸
pinyin: gui3
radicalSimplified: 癶
radicalTraditional: 癶
english:
tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]/tenth in order/letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 15°/deca


id: 7959ec76cb111716289084f739fd3758234dc0a2
simplified: 登
traditional: 登
pinyin: deng1
radicalSimplified: 癶
radicalTraditional: 癶
variants: 豋
english:
to scale (a height)/to ascend/to mount/to publish or record/to enter (e.g. in a register)/to press down with the foot/to step or tread on/to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect)/to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)


id: 64681b3743625023d49c21d58099bc0eeaee39a2
simplified: 登堂入室
traditional: 登堂入室
pinyin: deng1 tang2 ru4 shi4
english:
from the main room, enter the inner chamber (idiom)/to go to the next level/to attain a higher level


id: 243213191829b52c511ddea455be7a1d6734f2ad
simplified: 发
traditional: 發
pinyin: fa1
radicalSimplified: 又
radicalTraditional: 癶
variants: 發,発
english:
to send out/to show (one's feeling)/to issue/to develop/to make a bundle of money/classifier for gunshots (rounds)


id: 376a9866b86be3484265b1a6ec18cf1f1b480331
simplified: 发射
traditional: 發射
pinyin: fa1 she4
english:
to shoot (a projectile)/to fire (a rocket)/to launch/to emit (a particle)/to discharge/emanation/emission


id: 15e4faf7ddf01fcf2f495f1090598dc99c9e074c
simplified: 发挥
traditional: 發揮
pinyin: fa1 hui1
english:
to display/to exhibit/to bring out implicit or innate qualities/to express (a thought or moral)/to develop (an idea)/to elaborate (on a theme)


id: 01812160faf61bdbcdc14cc9f91e2183bac1c8e0
simplified: 发改委
traditional: 發改委
pinyin: fa1 gai3 wei3
english:
abbr. for 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会, PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003


id: 2dad895e38ed165706129c4c15ddf776104ef648
simplified: 发案
traditional: 發案
pinyin: fa1 an4
english:
occurrence (refers to time and place esp. of a criminal act)/to take place/to occur/to advertise freelance work


id: c4631852b535164f306051a575490152b47a7a66
simplified: 发起
traditional: 發起
pinyin: fa1 qi3
english:
to originate/to initiate/to launch (an attack, an initiative etc)/to start/to propose sth (for the first time)


id: 85c3cf9d03a561590560096e36cc9f79c73828b3
simplified: 白
traditional: 白
pinyin: bai2
radicalSimplified: 白
radicalTraditional: 白
english:
white/snowy/pure/bright/empty/blank/plain/clear/to make clear/in vain/gratuitous/free of charge/reactionary/anti-communist/funeral/to stare coldly/to write wrong character/to state/to explain/vernacular/spoken lines in opera/surname Bai


id: 272172461229de766e131c21a35f092b5833b462
simplified: 白崇禧
traditional: 白崇禧
pinyin: bai2 chong2 xi3
english:
Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949


id: 6782f93a4db7aab4f04dad9565207be8f9968010
simplified: 白托
traditional: 白托
pinyin: bai2 tuo1
english:
day care for the elderly (abbr. of 白天托管[bai2 tian1 tuo1 guan3])/to be blinded by greed/swindler (homonym of 拜託|拜托[bai4 tuo1])


id: 96cc8b43045fe0b6a13a73f2e8e9354ce6036299
simplified: 白朴
traditional: 白樸
pinyin: bai2 pu3
english:
Bai Pu (1226-1306), 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: aef8e0b320369c82db1d0734bafdcd8830172b96
simplified: 白求恩
traditional: 白求恩
pinyin: bai2 qiu2 en1
english:
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning


id: ea290c10ea2e3fee76d8bdd65272e0d8534930aa
simplified: 白沙
traditional: 白沙
pinyin: bai2 sha1
english:
Baisha (common place name)/Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan/Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan


id: 2b7fa675e3499a08fb77266d5d702cf3a9c84b90
simplified: 白沙工农区
traditional: 白沙工農區
pinyin: bai2 sha1 gong1 nong2 qu1
english:
Baisha Gongnong area in Dazhou 達州|达州[Da2 zhou1], Sichuan northeast Sichuan, amalgamated into Wanyuan county level city 萬源|万源[Wan4 yuan2] in 1993


id: 39ba6ea5cd11bb7caa949787134394a22c7bdb32
simplified: 白河
traditional: 白河
pinyin: bai2 he2
english:
Baihe County in Ankang 安康[An1 kang1], Shaanxi/Paiho town in Tainan County 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan


id: f80ac58182919ca65a8e516011d6f7cb0471a101
simplified: 白汤
traditional: 白湯
pinyin: bai2 tang1
english:
clear soup/white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤[nai3 tang1]/decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs


id: 67637636bca2562ed1de4db875fe064ef9cf8295
simplified: 白玉
traditional: 白玉
pinyin: bai2 yu4
english:
white jade/tofu (by analogy)/Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul 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: b817cace9063d92249eadd1ecd0ea0b64cf762d9
simplified: 白玉县
traditional: 白玉縣
pinyin: bai2 yu4 xian4
english:
Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul 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: fb832bb5b93beaafeb87f36c1a99f157bd702af3
simplified: 白苋
traditional: 白莧
pinyin: bai2 xian4
english:
white amaranth (Amaranthus albus)/sprouts and tender leaves of Chinese spinach (Amaranthus spp.) used as food


id: 2f19db9027b32de50942b9c2b75dd8cdeddbc8f2
simplified: 白虎观
traditional: 白虎觀
pinyin: bai2 hu3 guan4
english:
White Tiger Hall, a Han dynasty palace hall in which the famous Virtuous Discussions Held in White Tiger Hall 白虎通德論|通俗白虎通德论 were held under the aegis of Han Emperor Zhang 漢章帝|汉章帝


id: c051ea3af1c3f24de07efdcf6eecda9a8d59cf71
simplified: 白行简
traditional: 白行簡
pinyin: bai2 xing2 jian3
english:
Bai Xingjian (c. 776-826), younger brother of Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4], Tang novelist and poet, author of novel Tale of Courtesan Li Wa 李娃傳|李娃传[Li3 Wa2 Zhuan4]


id: e536ec9becc45719fc61cee5df0b5519f68d7251
simplified: 白衣苍狗
traditional: 白衣蒼狗
pinyin: bai2 yi1 cang1 gou3
english:
lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom)/fig. the impermanence of all things


id: 14ab819efab218e84ffc1c088e44907a11b7728f
simplified: 白军
traditional: 白軍
pinyin: bai2 jun1
english:
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)


id: 9b07971a5638cf93ff0c677b66002c194f0b63c1
simplified: 白银书
traditional: 白銀書
pinyin: bai2 yin2 shu1
english:
valuable book decorated with silver, gold and jewels etc, commonly regarded as a disguised form of bribe


id: 5141c5008f3deaed2847017589f724c8a74c6c1d
simplified: 白云
traditional: 白雲
pinyin: bai2 yun2
english:
white cloud/Baiyun district of Guiyang city 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 shi4], Guizhou/Baiyun district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong


id: 12a393b3aba99c9742d9c4bb77dfbdf40fe1506b
simplified: 白云区
traditional: 白雲區
pinyin: bai2 yun2 qu1
english:
Baiyun district of Guiyang city 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 shi4], Guizhou/Baiyun district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong


id: 6fca9603605c1b46f5f8613d9bd919a7390f623c
simplified: 白面书生
traditional: 白面書生
pinyin: bai2 mian4 shu1 sheng1
english:
lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience/still wet behind the ears


id: fe988591732d7625057562ddd416e02c4b61b502
simplified: 白头偕老
traditional: 白頭偕老
pinyin: bai2 tou2 xie2 lao3
english:
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss/until death do us part


id: bf2cda45c42da7c1094decf189fb9e0df2a85ce7
simplified: 白头山
traditional: 白頭山
pinyin: bai2 tou2 shan1
english:
Baekdu or Changbai mountains 長白山|长白山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology


id: ab2a798cf04c7d5ad38cb84595204a2aeb0decf8
simplified: 白香词谱
traditional: 白香詞譜
pinyin: bai2 xiang1 ci2 pu3
english:
Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times


id: 0f48d21b4f3f5316daf3b2ef078c4b0d024425c2
simplified: 白马雪山
traditional: 白馬雪山
pinyin: bai2 ma3 xue3 shan1
english:
Baimaxue mountains, up to 5430 m., in Dechen 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], Yunnan


id: becf4d94b7862860567ca3ffc398f8009a4184ea
simplified: 白骨精
traditional: 白骨精
pinyin: bai2 gu3 jing1
english:
White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4])/(fig.) sly and cunning person


id: 03a144d223f72e0fd6471e35e3a35a5871e566ab
simplified: 白鲸
traditional: 白鯨
pinyin: bai2 jing1
english:
white whale/beluga/Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔[He4 man4 · Mai4 er3 wei2 er3]


id: e5e8d5d0c33bbcd7523a19ee5bd48af061dfaeec
simplified: 白鹤梁
traditional: 白鶴梁
pinyin: bai2 he4 liang2
english:
White Crane Ridge at Fuling, Sichuan on the Changjiang River, that used to show above the water at dry periods, with famous carvings


id: b6d8a47e549401b7afe45c4102093b33d121268c
simplified: 白碱滩
traditional: 白鹼灘
pinyin: bai2 jian3 tan1
english:
Baijiantan district (Uighur: Jerenbulaq Rayoni) of Qaramay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市[Ke4 la1 ma3 yi1 shi4], Xinjiang


id: f1690f0538f80ade9c31370a494ec8970fe9c8f3
simplified: 百团大战
traditional: 百團大戰
pinyin: bai3 tuan2 da4 zhan4
english:
Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists


id: cf55102f0eef93a927bb4a49bb753f1adf27c9cc
simplified: 百家争鸣
traditional: 百家爭鳴
pinyin: bai3 jia1 zheng1 ming2
english:
a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC


id: 721ff90fcfb9fc06c38e949a24f5a027dc3cef86
simplified: 百尺竿头，更尽一步
traditional: 百尺竿頭，更盡一步
pinyin: bai3 chi3 gan1 tou2 , geng4 jin4 yi1 bu4
english:
lit. hundred foot pole, progress still further (idiom); fig. much accomplished, still some work to do/to continue to further successes/not to rest on one's laurels


id: 6390a52c25f98a658aa092c5d8502ea94c6a737b
simplified: 百年树人
traditional: 百年樹人
pinyin: bai3 nian2 shu4 ren2
english:
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom)/fig. a good education program takes a long time to develop/cf. 十年樹木，百年樹人|十年树木，百年树人


id: ddf2eaaa6bde08bb86c52800bdd4c6b7615ccf99
simplified: 百思不解
traditional: 百思不解
pinyin: bai3 si1 bu4 jie3
english:
to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom)/to remain perplexed despite much thought


id: 47b629726c306023af998ad5057cc8c6047544cc
simplified: 百战不殆
traditional: 百戰不殆
pinyin: bai3 zhan4 bu4 dai4
english:
to come unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]); to win every fight


id: e1c6bbe3177ccf9885ed7438afbcf15854cbea16
simplified: 百折不挠
traditional: 百折不撓
pinyin: bai3 zhe2 bu4 nao2
english:
to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)/to be undaunted by repeated setbacks/to be indomitable


id: 82981cbadb13fdda8d1e75cfce56daf5651f1f09
simplified: 百发百中
traditional: 百發百中
pinyin: bai3 fa1 bai3 zhong4
english:
lit. one hundred shots, one hundred hits/to carry out a task with great precision/to shoot with unfailing accuracy/be a crack shot (idiom)


id: 0c67edddd6b763c658c60f0c44147a0252aaa12c
simplified: 百闻不如一见
traditional: 百聞不如一見
pinyin: bai3 wen2 bu4 ru2 yi1 jian4
english:
seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others/seeing is believing


id: 3d5ade09a2ce7be3bf1326bdc4b373fee06bcfdc
simplified: 百花运动
traditional: 百花運動
pinyin: bai3 hua1 yun4 dong4
english:
Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP to be lifted


id: 48d83d24bd18acc6b8845acaa85275b2d1d2f5c1
simplified: 百花齐放，百家争鸣
traditional: 百花齊放，百家爭鳴
pinyin: bai3 hua1 qi2 fang4 , bai3 jia1 zheng1 ming2
english:
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956


id: 953b700a9fabee8bef2e4706501e167c09f0ea70
simplified: 百叶箱
traditional: 百葉箱
pinyin: bai3 ye4 xiang1
english:
Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments)/thermometer screen/instrument shelter


id: 17d5958dd8b949ec1172a325b09fcf4a2cf6913e
simplified: 的
traditional: 的
pinyin: de5
radicalSimplified: 白
radicalTraditional: 白
english:
of/~'s (possessive particle)/(used after an attribute)/(used to form a nominal expression)/(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)


id: d3a5612533728a4e4930bd4482a0837fc53f43fd
simplified: 皇天不负苦心人
traditional: 皇天不負苦心人
pinyin: huang2 tian1 bu4 fu4 ku3 xin1 ren2
english:
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.


id: fa5c42fe82718f3ba10efccd18b4f0c13e68ec4d
simplified: 皇太极
traditional: 皇太極
pinyin: huang2 tai4 ji2
english:
Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor/posthumous name 清太宗


id: 285041c3ed3c37915fe328d10da2462596fbe765
simplified: 皇太极清太宗
traditional: 皇太極清太宗
pinyin: huang2 tai4 ji2 qing1 tai4 zong1
english:
Hung Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor


id: 9c0f38b073c89d6474aacd5a51050de2c2d98f00
simplified: 皇帝不急太监急
traditional: 皇帝不急太監急
pinyin: huang2 di4 bu4 ji2 tai4 jian4 ji2
english:
lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are (idiom)/fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved


id: 5ae474498aea2f31714e368c563ab1f17991627e
simplified: 盈江
traditional: 盈江
pinyin: ying2 jiang1
english:
Yingjiang 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: 11b457b8d9119a42bee21b7f69330d8bbc9e39f2
simplified: 盈亏自负
traditional: 盈虧自負
pinyin: ying2 kui1 zi4 fu4
english:
responsible for its profit and losses (of organization)/financially autonomous/personal financial responsibility


id: efde6a7667d0d1b7a510399177b04a49690c4b19
simplified: 盗取
traditional: 盜取
pinyin: dao4 qu3
english:
to steal (including identity theft, credit card fraud or theft of computer account)/to misappropriate


id: ce588ba97efc45fc02a30602ca4a96588ec88a6e
simplified: 盗版党
traditional: 盜版黨
pinyin: dao4 ban3 dang3
english:
Pirate Party, political movement whose main goal is to reform copyright law in line with the Internet era


id: 7a8abcb6b021ec05e11d74d099b42c856ce45fa1
simplified: 尽
traditional: 盡
pinyin: jin4
radicalSimplified: 尸
radicalTraditional: 皿
variants: 盡,尽
english:
to use up/to exhaust/to end/to finish/to the utmost/exhausted/finished/to the limit (of sth)/all/entirely


id: 8909d4453faa9f2de5e269dc8bd72a5644f82c5a
simplified: 监牧
traditional: 監牧
pinyin: jian1 mu4
english:
shepherd/Tang dynasty official with responsibility for animal husbandry/pastor (cleric in charge of a Christian parish)


id: 4215d70613adf8499078280870942ec975fed7c3
simplified: 盘
traditional: 盤
pinyin: pan2
radicalSimplified: 皿
radicalTraditional: 皿
english:
plate/dish/tray/board/hard drive (computing)/to build/to coil/to check/to examine/to transfer (property)/to make over/classifier for food: dish, helping/to coil/classifier for coils of wire/classifier for games of chess


id: 6f5b936b2295c9f75e10a92133d5e91e96a4635f
simplified: 盘根错节
traditional: 盤根錯節
pinyin: pan2 gen1 cuo4 jie2
english:
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky/knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties


id: 2dbb3126795e56c44631771a062690eb3abe2d9b
simplified: 卢
traditional: 盧
pinyin: lu2
radicalSimplified: 卜
radicalTraditional: 皿
english:
(old) rice vessel/black/old variant of 廬|庐[lu2]/(slang) (Tw) troublesome/fussy/surname Lu/abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lu2 sen1 bao3]


id: 498c1455580234c7a874dc033ae5b46f7c879fe7
simplified: 卢因
traditional: 盧因
pinyin: lu2 yin1
english:
Lewin (name)/Kurt Lewing (1890-1944), German American psychologist of the Gestalt school, the author of Field Theory


id: bc4859cfce35a1fceb95cddb06f4c2a3e9b7ab61
simplified: 卢沟桥
traditional: 盧溝橋
pinyin: lu2 gou1 qiao2
english:
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1]


id: c47a9e072c4da2b0e3386b85cbd667f578f0cef2
simplified: 目不斜视
traditional: 目不斜視
pinyin: mu4 bu4 xie2 shi4
english:
not to glance sideways (idiom)/to gaze fixedly/to be fully concentrated/to preserve a correct attitude


id: b4d4d43248281633c05cc45f94da8d53c8746a38
simplified: 目不见睫
traditional: 目不見睫
pinyin: mu4 bu4 jian4 jie2
english:
lit. the eye cannot see the eyelashes (idiom); fig. unable to see one's own faults/to lack self-awareness/truths too close to home


id: 554c46a50e1632dbd9521229ef8d8cc538db8c51
simplified: 目中无人
traditional: 目中無人
pinyin: mu4 zhong1 wu2 ren2
english:
to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters/condescending/to go about with one's nose in the air


id: 489824f44066fc653954f4683123aa995f104f47
simplified: 目无全牛
traditional: 目無全牛
pinyin: mu4 wu2 quan2 niu2
english:
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled/able to see through the problem at one glance


id: 6c0b48612a8d327a4e8c358504d7b69464772661
simplified: 目无法纪
traditional: 目無法紀
pinyin: mu4 wu2 fa3 ji4
english:
with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules/in complete disorder


id: af5075850e2c4a3eab5dd66dbd60446bbb11fef2
simplified: 盲人摸象
traditional: 盲人摸象
pinyin: mang2 ren2 mo1 xiang4
english:
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture/to mistake the part for the whole/unable to see the wood for the trees


id: 9a13719f718c43b17937d75364fa01bf3b3f77be
simplified: 盲流
traditional: 盲流
pinyin: mang2 liu2
english:
(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities/rural migrant without definite prospects/drifter


id: 1bb378099a819c9b41cdadd7efb5b532bf9141e6
simplified: 直
traditional: 直
pinyin: zhi2
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 目
english:
straight/to straighten/fair and reasonable/frank/straightforward/(indicates continuing motion or action)/vertical/vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters/surname Zhi/Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God


id: 36bf5290a27998f8cbe6f77a5eccfd021a9dca8d
simplified: 直呼其名
traditional: 直呼其名
pinyin: zhi2 hu1 qi2 ming2
english:
to address sb directly by name (idiom)/to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating either familiarity or overfamiliarity)


id: 5e947303b4be8221c5d654ddc16a98d75d6567d8
simplified: 直皖战争
traditional: 直皖戰爭
pinyin: zhi2 wan3 zhan4 zheng1
english:
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government


id: 5e6a5252d11d6f6d4a1a1db03876ab62c5e3812d
simplified: 直通车
traditional: 直通車
pinyin: zhi2 tong1 che1
english:
"through train" (refers to the idea of retaining previous legislature after transition to Chinese rule in Hong Kong or Macao)


id: 95687400360d40dea2dd32870a9f9d3b67921c66
simplified: 直隶
traditional: 直隸
pinyin: zhi2 li4
english:
Ming and Qing dynasty province directly administered by Beijing, including Beijing, Tianjin, most of Hebei and Henan and part of Shandong


id: e5263e5908c2fbe3bf4623f31bab3e0c0ad4c21c
simplified: 相
traditional: 相
pinyin: xiang1
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 目
english:
each other/one another/mutually/fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])/surname Xiang


id: adcd5edd90abfc9e277efcd2af304e510843c196
simplified: 相
traditional: 相
pinyin: xiang4
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 目
english:
appearance/portrait/picture/government minister/(physics) phase/(literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features)/to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)


id: c34f719c9a9cb600b1f30bf946fe26d1b6194005
simplified: 相公
traditional: 相公
pinyin: xiang4 gong5
english:
lord/master/young gentleman/male prostitute/catamite/mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes/(old form of address for one's husband) husband


id: a324f710a59aea823d8e4ac8ab13544fe1a559ab
simplified: 相应
traditional: 相應
pinyin: xiang1 ying4
english:
to correspond/answering (one another)/to agree (among the part)/corresponding/relevant/appropriate/(modify) accordingly


id: a6e9673bbde94af0fdd5ab2411e12443561e6950
simplified: 相提并论
traditional: 相提並論
pinyin: xiang1 ti2 bing4 lun4
english:
to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms/to place on a par with/(often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y)


id: 4422cf223cec6116fdda1c82ad5880f7008d95ca
simplified: 相见恨晚
traditional: 相見恨晚
pinyin: xiang1 jian4 hen4 wan3
english:
to regret not having met earlier (idiom); It is nice to meet you finally./It feels like we have known each other all along.


id: 66659a7f468781c4c2aa4750695fad2b825b76f3
simplified: 相亲
traditional: 相親
pinyin: xiang1 qin1
english:
blind date/arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. [xiang4 qin1])/to be deeply attached to each other


id: e9bd1e5095c95c711c25a438438089daa1c58154
simplified: 盾
traditional: 盾
pinyin: dun4
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 目
english:
shield/(currency) Vietnamese dong/currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)


id: 18ced5204a2fc0a11dcd9276137d1addfaa55faa
simplified: 眉心轮
traditional: 眉心輪
pinyin: mei2 xin1 lun2
english:
ājñā or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查克拉, residing in the forehead/also written 眉間輪|眉间轮[mei2 jian1 lun2]


id: d03c1e2d25cc9e7fa1c2672979ef956fc945fdac
simplified: 眉目
traditional: 眉目
pinyin: mei2 mu4
english:
general facial appearance/features/arrangement/sequence of ideas/logic (of writing)/rough sketch or general idea of things


id: 4d4b34a161c833af8936828679d65e63247ad32f
simplified: 看
traditional: 看
pinyin: kan4
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 目
english:
to see/to look at/to read/to watch/to visit/to call on/to consider/to regard as/to look after/to treat (an illness)/to depend on/to feel (that)/(after verb) to give it a try/Watch out! (for a danger)


id: 0cffb5fc128a1afd31e932dcf9f057ec15720f17
simplified: 看人下菜碟儿
traditional: 看人下菜碟兒
pinyin: kan4 ren2 xia4 cai4 die2 r5
english:
(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)/not to treat everyone equally favorably


id: 5dd88284f3653fd0e57ec4dd0e123193d01d029d
simplified: 看淡
traditional: 看淡
pinyin: kan4 dan4
english:
to regard as unimportant/to be indifferent to (fame, wealth etc)/(of an economy or a market) to slacken


id: 3c89d3e37b32c43e75f33e3249b670ae424b6292
simplified: 看破红尘
traditional: 看破紅塵
pinyin: kan1 po4 hong2 chen2
english:
to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk)/disillusioned with human society/to reject the world for a monastic life


id: f1d502cee7a74f59646b88fdfcce1be8553eff42
simplified: 看菜吃饭
traditional: 看菜吃飯
pinyin: kan1 cai4 chi1 fan4
english:
to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances/to live within one's means


id: 00f71f6bf5855b6abfec76bb94d043a945cf603c
simplified: 看菜吃饭，量体裁衣
traditional: 看菜吃飯，量體裁衣
pinyin: kan1 cai4 chi1 fan4 , liang2 ti3 cai2 yi1
english:
eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure/to act according to actual circumstances/to live within one's means


id: 00e7cee4b78fa7f72855d5f9a773797c63911ef0
simplified: 看起来
traditional: 看起來
pinyin: kan4 qi3 lai5
english:
seemingly/apparently/looks as if/appear to be/gives the impression that/seems on the face of it to be


id: 8f477f8bbd386cfb1b7dbc3792730f5130d9e4af
simplified: 看错
traditional: 看錯
pinyin: kan4 cuo4
english:
to misinterpret what one sees or reads/to misjudge (sb)/to mistake (sb for sb else)/to misread (a document)


id: c4b96616905e560114b3076e8734da97f8bc4c07
simplified: 看齐
traditional: 看齊
pinyin: kan4 qi2
english:
to follow sb's example/to emulate/(of troops etc) to dress (come into alignment for parade formation)


id: 32db630e4d7e90c443da24decd25f3c8d00b0803
simplified: 真伪莫辨
traditional: 真偽莫辨
pinyin: zhen1 wei3 mo4 bian4
english:
can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake/not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)


id: 7ed5e5798d71839771124bf316f92fe3e23c796a
simplified: 真分数
traditional: 真分數
pinyin: zhen1 fen1 shu4
english:
proper fraction (with numerator < denominator, e.g. five sevenths)/see also: improper fraction 假分數|假分数[jia3 fen1 shu4] and mixed number 帶分數|带分数[dai4 fen1 shu4]


id: c34587ed84624b8fe45069c43d635bfeba20d231
simplified: 真象
traditional: 真象
pinyin: zhen1 xiang4
english:
the whole elephant (i.e. not the small parts felt by the proverbial blind feelers)/fig. the whole picture/a realistic overall view of the whole situation


id: 0dfc3dd773bc012626943ccd2e511b2c78c1aa3c
simplified: 眩晕
traditional: 眩暈
pinyin: xuan4 yun4
english:
vertigo/dizziness/fainting/feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke)/Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1]


id: 55d941bb611c7e5e7a79d5e1398abfdd7881606e
simplified: 眷村
traditional: 眷村
pinyin: juan4 cun1
english:
military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)


id: 80774aed0d6b804e21c0c7f548c6c30a0fbcf23f
simplified: 眼
traditional: 眼
pinyin: yan3
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 目
english:
eye/small hole/crux (of a matter)/CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]/classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)


id: cd3a545ef3a7572c2a4436be1e55812fc5cef210
simplified: 眼不见为净
traditional: 眼不見為淨
pinyin: yan3 bu4 jian4 wei2 jing4
english:
what remains unseen is deemed to be clean/what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom)


id: 5671ed163c263dc788f10194e1ecbf2f14fd88d6
simplified: 眼底
traditional: 眼底
pinyin: yan3 di3
english:
fundus of the eye (containing the choroid, retina, optic nerve etc)/inside the eye/right in front of one's eyes/in full view as a panorama


id: 6dfc2fe302cc36dd20b3a2bc85097a7feee24fe1
simplified: 眼里容不得沙子
traditional: 眼裡容不得沙子
pinyin: yan3 li3 rong2 bu5 de2 sha1 zi5
english:
can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom)/unable to put sth objectionable out of one's mind/not prepared to turn a blind eye


id: dd87732d56b622c49f4aca039a6df7ee0878f628
simplified: 眼见为实，耳听为虚
traditional: 眼見為實，耳聽為虛
pinyin: yan3 jian4 wei2 shi2 , er3 ting1 wei2 xu1
english:
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself./It ain't necessarily so.


id: 91b74bf17b19dcf99ce570f4e3b91ba99f8d5149
simplified: 眼观六路耳听八方
traditional: 眼觀六路耳聽八方
pinyin: yan3 guan1 liu4 lu4 er3 ting1 ba1 fang1
english:
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions/to be observant and alert (idiom)


id: 1edbb19040fe8b3f9e0221bb1bc136e85de766d6
simplified: 眼观四面，耳听八方
traditional: 眼觀四面，耳聽八方
pinyin: yan3 guan1 si4 mian4 , er3 ting1 ba1 fang1
english:
lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom)/fig. to be observant and alert


id: b52a9c20ac7deb704f1e2f6f6b1fb1c8c35be698
simplified: 众口铄金
traditional: 眾口鑠金
pinyin: zhong4 kou3 shuo4 jin1
english:
lit. public opinion is powerful enough to melt metal (idiom)/fig. public clamor can obscure the actual truth/mass spreading of rumors can confuse right and wrong


id: 7acdfa778b93a0f62780a334c7d7771261915faf
simplified: 众寡悬殊
traditional: 眾寡懸殊
pinyin: zhong4 gua3 xuan2 shu1
english:
the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered/unequally matched/overwhelmed by weight of numbers


id: ba6e06e94dd01c9d54005589682596e50aaf3d87
simplified: 众星拱辰
traditional: 眾星拱辰
pinyin: zhong4 xing1 gong3 chen2
english:
lit. all the stars revolve around Polaris 北辰[Bei3 chen2] (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure/to group around a revered leader


id: 08314c1b1eb38746546cc14a935220ab342c7c51
simplified: 众星捧月
traditional: 眾星捧月
pinyin: zhong4 xing1 peng3 yue4
english:
lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure/to group around a revered leader/to revolve around sb


id: 0c3d25c11b9606e30ed5f6151f9212500cf589c9
simplified: 众盲摸象
traditional: 眾盲摸象
pinyin: zhong4 mang2 mo1 xiang4
english:
multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture/to mistake the part for the whole/unable to see the wood for the trees


id: 3d9e1d6a8642b3587c8aa1b46c3b7a1040aa3558
simplified: 睽违
traditional: 睽違
pinyin: kui2 wei2
english:
to be separated (from a friend, one's homeland etc) for a period of time/after a hiatus of (x years)


id: 4fa0658657a1283cfe6e23b3ce027f7306f4158a
simplified: 瞎说
traditional: 瞎說
pinyin: xia1 shuo1
english:
to talk drivel/to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact/not to know what one is talking about


id: 6eece4136f15c9f750e550a68da1d1fba66eec91
simplified: 瞿塘峡
traditional: 瞿塘峽
pinyin: qu2 tang2 xia2
english:
Qutang Gorge, 8 km long gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze in Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4], the upper of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡[San1 Xia2]


id: 23f913b49b300054dc1b9cd076a9cc4251314d0f
simplified: 瞿秋白
traditional: 瞿秋白
pinyin: qu2 qiu1 bai2
english:
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March


id: 03cd578dba060e67e124c00b953e47db6c37d21f
simplified: 知人善任
traditional: 知人善任
pinyin: zhi1 ren2 shan4 ren4
english:
expert at appointing people according to their abilities (idiom)/to put the right people in the right places


id: 6e08243b41c3095146a7885801a3f3c8a80dc4d3
simplified: 知人者智，自知者明
traditional: 知人者智，自知者明
pinyin: zhi1 ren2 zhe3 zhi4 , zi4 zhi1 zhe3 ming2
english:
those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1]


id: 59e75e4a1fe76cbac307aa1e2b4ec4cbca37ceaf
simplified: 知己知彼，百战不殆
traditional: 知己知彼，百戰不殆
pinyin: zhi1 ji3 zhi1 bi3 , bai3 zhan4 bu4 dai4
english:
know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3])


id: a5c584044bf60d5bd07891c45a63b11ba0a739aa
simplified: 知彼知己，百战不殆
traditional: 知彼知己，百戰不殆
pinyin: zhi1 bi3 zhi1 ji3 , bai3 zhan4 bu4 dai4
english:
knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")


id: 82651dcee41f8d9970ec56b5cdc1c2ce603df88e
simplified: 知识越多越反动
traditional: 知識越多越反動
pinyin: zhi1 shi5 yue4 duo1 yue4 fan3 dong4
english:
the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮)


id: 750cfea91f66bd2523aa0d5ad9bb6c442c9189aa
simplified: 知难而退
traditional: 知難而退
pinyin: zhi1 nan2 er2 tui4
english:
to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom); fig. to back out of an awkward situation/to get out on finding out what it's really like


id: b57b58c4e52b92688da90f4c53fa88f815170ef1
simplified: 短兵相接
traditional: 短兵相接
pinyin: duan3 bing1 xiang1 jie1
english:
lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat/to fight at close quarters


id: ecf42188206fa3adafcce0f98a889e9bb1369134
simplified: 矮子里拔将军
traditional: 矮子裡拔將軍
pinyin: ai3 zi5 li5 ba2 jiang1 jun1
english:
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs/fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)


id: bd6b2354e5550038123bbeb078136c91807e0eb8
simplified: 矮丑穷
traditional: 矮醜窮
pinyin: ai3 chou3 qiong2
english:
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor)/opposite: 高富帥|高富帅[gao1 fu4 shuai4]


id: 3c3e8a8733c1a6db3d305017306ad8fdd5107f32
simplified: 矫正
traditional: 矯正
pinyin: jiao3 zheng4
english:
to correct/to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision)/to cure/rectification/correction/to straighten


id: a98984673ae6416c9fdd1b3fe7cc8badb777bfbb
simplified: 石咀山
traditional: 石咀山
pinyin: shi2 ju3 shan1
english:
Shijushan or Shizuishan (place name)/variant of Shizuishan 石嘴山[Shi2 zui3 shan1], prefecture level city in Ningxia on the border with Inner Mongolia


id: ce60de52872199c5844b90866f31b4e2329200f3
simplified: 石咀山市
traditional: 石咀山市
pinyin: shi2 ju3 shan1 shi4
english:
variant of Shizuishan 石嘴山市[Shi2 zui3 shan1 shi4], prefecture level city in Ningxia on the border with Inner Mongolia


id: 33d13cc23ea4910ab905a90f9754885106c7ab73
simplified: 石家庄
traditional: 石家莊
pinyin: shi2 jia1 zhuang1
english:
Shijiazhuang prefecture level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3] in north China


id: d32ca9a64e8fdc7e69f51a70febcb10824baba52
simplified: 石库门
traditional: 石庫門
pinyin: shi2 ku4 men2
english:
"shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai


id: 8277eee2684fe8b10245c0db845558de2b9f993d
simplified: 石斑鱼
traditional: 石斑魚
pinyin: shi2 ban1 yu2
english:
grouper (Portuguese: garoupa)/also called 鮨/Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper)


id: d994d93d6fb7e1acfa04aab12dfe3f75c4c7abaf
simplified: 石林风景区
traditional: 石林風景區
pinyin: shi2 lin2 feng1 jing3 qu1
english:
Petrified forest scenic area in Shilin Yi autonomous county 石林彞族自治縣|石林彝族自治县[Shi2 lin2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] in Kunming 昆明[Kun1 ming2], Yunnan


id: d2e5d99cd1f270155d035e918c9db281f380c862
simplified: 石渠
traditional: 石渠
pinyin: shi2 qu2
english:
stone channel (e.g. drain)/Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/name of several historical figures


id: 451099072cb3863340c070b767a6f2c8ac98ece6
simplified: 石渠县
traditional: 石渠縣
pinyin: shi2 qu2 xian4
english:
Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul 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: 6d55fa5106318ab19dc643727657179d1d8181dd
simplified: 石渠阁
traditional: 石渠閣
pinyin: shi2 qu2 ge2
english:
cabinet meeting in 51 BC that established the five classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1] as state canon


id: 7e0ecbfe924e0726057c4dd9554871ad66efe89c
simplified: 石炭井
traditional: 石炭井
pinyin: shi2 tan4 jing3
english:
Shitanjing subdistrict of Dawukou district 大武口區|大武口区[Da4 wu3 kou3 qu1] of Shizuishan city 石嘴山市[Shi2 zui3 shan1 shi4], Ningxia


id: f259b9e3a1b364c1d1352042ce9b09b746a15ca9
simplified: 石狮子
traditional: 石獅子
pinyin: shi2 shi1 zi5
english:
guardian lion, a lion statue traditionally placed at the entrance of Chinese imperial palaces, imperial tombs, temples etc


id: 1773b850383c8c0c8a8761fdd8beaba7c4512a17
simplified: 砧骨
traditional: 砧骨
pinyin: zhen1 gu3
english:
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone


id: 2c35c822d49953e9b6e47a566cd568d4cf7ea61b
simplified: 破
traditional: 破
pinyin: po4
radicalSimplified: 石
radicalTraditional: 石
english:
broken/damaged/worn out/lousy/rotten/to break, split or cleave/to get rid of/to destroy/to break with/to defeat/to capture (a city etc)/to expose the truth of


id: 4a429ce94586f46bcf3a45d4fcfb9a4f24f975ce
simplified: 破土
traditional: 破土
pinyin: po4 tu3
english:
to break ground/to start digging/to plough/to break through the ground (of seedling)/fig. the start of a building project


id: 138ff90e68344ee051f504b05de0b151ea2ac500
simplified: 破瓜
traditional: 破瓜
pinyin: po4 gua1
english:
(of a girl) to lose one's virginity/to deflower a virgin/to reach the age of 16/(of a man) to reach the age of 64


id: c90c35d7bff0c8001cff9ed1ce1fe732a9edc573
simplified: 破罐破摔
traditional: 破罐破摔
pinyin: po4 guan4 po4 shuai1
english:
lit. to smash a cracked pot (idiom); crazy despair in the face of a blemish, defect, error or setback


id: e7a761781ef2d9525a23b15f4d52e6e6f5e827a6
simplified: 破釜沉舟
traditional: 破釜沉舟
pinyin: po4 fu3 chen2 zhou1
english:
lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat/to burn one's boats


id: 4ec1aa4321a0057ad0880681135efd418dc92774
simplified: 破镜重圆
traditional: 破鏡重圓
pinyin: po4 jing4 chong2 yuan2
english:
a shattered mirror put back together (idiom)/(of marriage) to pick up the pieces and start anew/for a separated couple to reconcile and reunite


id: b4b56ec7a0688d33460c954cdb8e0920d276a679
simplified: 破门
traditional: 破門
pinyin: po4 men2
english:
to burst or force open a door/to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church)/to score a goal (in football, hockey etc)


id: 8c0ebdd7cc56592b4f787b8ec54778690af80bc9
simplified: 破音字
traditional: 破音字
pinyin: po4 yin1 zi4
english:
character with two or more readings/character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw)


id: a93c64473c3f04552920cd06e20ce84b25c6dd19
simplified: 破题
traditional: 破題
pinyin: po4 ti2
english:
writing style in which the main subject is approached directly from the outset/opposite of 冒題|冒题[mao4 ti2]


id: e4ebd730495ab5c59074ab90d1e059fca07aae78
simplified: 硌
traditional: 硌
pinyin: ge4
radicalSimplified: 石
radicalTraditional: 石
english:
(coll.) (of sth hard or rough) to press against some part of one's body causing discomfort (like a small stone in one's shoe)/to hurt/to chafe


id: 3cddec743f2013cdfec2794d04ab13a59d2cc6dd
simplified: 硬拗
traditional: 硬拗
pinyin: ying4 ao4
english:
(coll.) (Tw) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (Taiwanese, POJ pr. [ngē-áu])/Taiwan pr. [ying4 ao1]


id: f59e6ff557be802d91b61228ebc4edb66da53e9e
simplified: 硬笔
traditional: 硬筆
pinyin: ying4 bi3
english:
generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes


id: f66a3d9d72de97a84a339c1ee78b387771c01e38
simplified: 硬逼
traditional: 硬逼
pinyin: ying4 bi1
english:
to pressure/to press/to force/to compel/to push/to coerce/to urge/to impel/to bully into/to be compelled


id: 314aa7db732859aa8835235e215d6a4904162789
simplified: 砚山
traditional: 硯山
pinyin: yan4 shan1
english:
Yanshan 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: 54fcd6567aae3b83b3708619dfccf87348d7b1a4
simplified: 碌曲
traditional: 碌曲
pinyin: lu4 qu3
english:
Luqu county in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: da891b3018ebc7a17ffbfb79f0897add901a4f6b
simplified: 碎钻
traditional: 碎鑽
pinyin: sui4 zuan4
english:
small diamonds/melee (small diamonds used in embellishing mountings for larger gems)/splints (sharp-pointed diamond splinters)/clatersal (small diamond splints from which diamond powder is produced by crushing)


id: d002a3f0d541f05acbde5642e51a9ff39b265687
simplified: 碟仙
traditional: 碟仙
pinyin: die2 xian1
english:
form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters


id: d418c22e61628cfbace74a1ab45caadf9a2d2736
simplified: 碧螺春
traditional: 碧螺春
pinyin: bi4 luo2 chun1
english:
biluochun or pi lo chun, a type of green tea grown in the Dongting Mountain region near Lake Tai 太湖[Tai4 Hu2], Jiangsu


id: e991916843e612143529261483f693d08712e8da
simplified: 碰瓷
traditional: 碰瓷
pinyin: peng4 ci2
english:
(coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car)


id: 037e4864aac82258964dd6ac05ee54157bdf0e4e
simplified: 确定
traditional: 確定
pinyin: que4 ding4
english:
definite/certain/fixed/to fix (on sth)/to determine/to be sure/to ensure/to make certain/to ascertain/to clinch/to recognize/to confirm/OK (on computer dialog box)


id: 615aaebe63edf78efd85c6d063a840f916351353
simplified: 码子
traditional: 碼子
pinyin: ma3 zi5
english:
number (e.g. page or house number)/numeral (e.g. Arabic or Chinese numeral)/code sign/plus or minus sound/counter/chip (e.g. in gambling games)/price tag/ready cash at one's disposal (old)


id: 33521237397c9373a9f1d39142e4bb1d1c7dd6d8
simplified: 码表
traditional: 碼表
pinyin: ma3 biao3
english:
dial or meter for displaying speed, time, or other measurements/cyclocomputer/code table (computing)


id: 2fcfe0ce9f3e201639442cc8307c984730600f6c
simplified: 磁吸
traditional: 磁吸
pinyin: ci2 xi1
english:
(of a magnet) to attract metallic objects/(fig.) to exert a magnetic attraction (for investment, tourists etc)


id: 53ca6f6a1515d13665c20f29e9a396bbe4476d65
simplified: 磁吸效应
traditional: 磁吸效應
pinyin: ci2 xi1 xiao4 ying4
english:
"magnetic" force that attracts investment and talented individuals/in particular, the attraction China has for people and capital from around the world


id: 77142cd7bcbecdb57e5c74df05f7716e801d838e
simplified: 磕头
traditional: 磕頭
pinyin: ke1 tou2
english:
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)


id: 21ed703a87efadebde20207309c50180146df51d
simplified: 磨嘴皮子
traditional: 磨嘴皮子
pinyin: mo2 zui3 pi2 zi5
english:
to wear out the skin of one's teeth (idiom); pointlessly blather/to talk incessant nonsense/blah blah


id: cf28b68352b69527011fe580305ba7defceec2c0
simplified: 磨杵成针
traditional: 磨杵成針
pinyin: mo2 chu3 cheng2 zhen1
english:
to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task/to study diligently


id: 483308dfa0794be5ba3133857fc6cdc4e88267ca
simplified: 磨穿铁砚
traditional: 磨穿鐵硯
pinyin: mo2 chuan1 tie3 yan4
english:
to grind one's way through an ink stone/to persevere in a difficult task (idiom)/to study diligently (idiom)


id: 230cdfe36e36123a7906340fe9fd2535ad931368
simplified: 磬
traditional: 磬
pinyin: qing4
radicalSimplified: 石
radicalTraditional: 石
english:
chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone


id: b53b76fff96a7096a8c2f166f5593237bffd08ef
simplified: 社会主义教育运动
traditional: 社會主義教育運動
pinyin: she4 hui4 zhu3 yi4 jiao4 yu4 yun4 dong4
english:
Socialist Education Movement (1963-66), formal name of the Four Cleanups Movement 四清運動|四清运动[Si4 qing1 Yun4 dong4]


id: c0e9484a924eb9ef65b1cc6570df788b666ac225
simplified: 社鼠城狐
traditional: 社鼠城狐
pinyin: she4 shu3 cheng2 hu2
english:
lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people


id: 4e0716f1fb21d9314030c016269572b1726bd7a1
simplified: 祁奚之荐
traditional: 祁奚之薦
pinyin: qi2 xi1 zhi1 jian4
english:
Qi Xi's recommendation (idiom); recommending the best person for the job independent of factional loyalty


id: ca33e1c70c7f77bc21c307496dbc250948c58d15
simplified: 祁连
traditional: 祁連
pinyin: qi2 lian2
english:
Qilian county in Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海北藏族自治州[Hai3 bei3 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: d2643c86d9b27d741207a34896caaccbcb9788b5
simplified: 祖马
traditional: 祖馬
pinyin: zu3 ma3
english:
Zuma (name)/Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president from 2009


id: 03fc6e3ded6c8516e0a7ee31c32a52b244fedcbe
simplified: 祝枝山
traditional: 祝枝山
pinyin: zhu4 zhi1 shan1
english:
Zhu Zhishan (1460-1526), Ming calligrapher and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子


id: 5f70b0b5abf4983f83ba75d183df9057f0af4abf
simplified: 神
traditional: 神
pinyin: shen2
radicalSimplified: 示
radicalTraditional: 示
variants: 神
english:
deity/soul/spirit/unusual/mysterious/lively/expressive/expression/look/CL:個|个[ge4]/(slang) awesome/amazing/God/abbr. for 神舟[Shen2 zhou1]


id: d9504c78ebb40da24439f3b3264cf7cd67711e7e
simplified: 神仙
traditional: 神仙
pinyin: shen2 xian1
english:
Daoist immortal/supernatural entity/(in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc/fig. lighthearted person


id: 522af0f6829463b401ec794c5b54246342aa8095
simplified: 神女
traditional: 神女
pinyin: shen2 nu:3
english:
goddess/prostitute (slang)/The Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[Wu2 Yong3 gang1]


id: c0f37dc40f30a6f4be8d08d92cb89d5b93ef6b82
simplified: 神工鬼斧
traditional: 神工鬼斧
pinyin: shen2 gong1 gui3 fu3
english:
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods/uncanny workmanship/superlative craftsmanship


id: 5a6e2fe6c7ddd448643ba66df45b422a374c66a5
simplified: 神差鬼使
traditional: 神差鬼使
pinyin: shen2 chai1 gui3 shi3
english:
the work of gods and devils (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation/curious coincidence


id: 2782f62eeea84f9327559139ad08a09c5aa48e43
simplified: 神探
traditional: 神探
pinyin: shen2 tan4
english:
master sleuth/lit. miraculous detective/cf Sherlock Holmes 福爾摩斯|福尔摩斯[Fu2 er3 mo2 si1] or Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰[Di2 Ren2 jie2]


id: 0a284d0f1559b26c7f8933105049c008e51ce6c3
simplified: 神农
traditional: 神農
pinyin: shen2 nong2
english:
Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] and creator of agriculture


id: 3833131619fea51d9f27817d311569a5826d17ff
simplified: 神农氏
traditional: 神農氏
pinyin: shen2 nong2 shi4
english:
Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] and creator of agriculture in China/followers or clan of Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2]


id: 590d191b0cba554e012e12786f15e69826bbe604
simplified: 神雕侠侣
traditional: 神雕俠侶
pinyin: shen2 diao1 xia2 lu:3
english:
The Return of the Condor Heroes (classic wuxia martial arts TV films of 1998 and 2006 based on novel by Jinyong 金庸)/variant of 神鵰俠侶|神雕侠侣


id: a135f76481c9b8faa6b6235253b53a59c78341b2
simplified: 神魂颠倒
traditional: 神魂顛倒
pinyin: shen2 hun2 dian1 dao3
english:
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love/fascinated/captivated


id: 2eb6df7b7022b9016c5784d7ddebe74f3bfa5fdc
simplified: 神雕侠侣
traditional: 神鵰俠侶
pinyin: shen2 diao1 xia2 lu:3
english:
The Return of the Condor Heroes (classic wuxia martial arts TV films of 1998 and 2006 based on novel by Jinyong 金庸)


id: bb79c035d54ee73679702356e5b94db674490efb
simplified: 祥云
traditional: 祥雲
pinyin: xiang2 yun2
english:
magic cloud/Xiangyun county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan


id: ade2c58b0a5ed742421fa9f3bd2a0e8c12faebd7
simplified: 票
traditional: 票
pinyin: piao4
radicalSimplified: 示
radicalTraditional: 示
english:
ticket/ballot/banknote/CL:張|张[zhang1]/person held for ransom/amateur performance of Chinese opera/classifier for groups, batches, business transactions


id: a2f3dcfd4f9db97c14a6b1dc78d5b4bab66099cd
simplified: 祭酒
traditional: 祭酒
pinyin: ji4 jiu3
english:
to offer a libation/person who performs the libation before a banquet/senior member of a profession/important government post in imperial China


id: 6edbc8161b8f5b32aad62b8954ff2b4723aa1ce4
simplified: 禄丰
traditional: 祿豐
pinyin: lu4 feng1
english:
Lufeng 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: 6e8c1540c631e16d0afb0205888adeecf1a2fd26
simplified: 禁足
traditional: 禁足
pinyin: jin4 zu2
english:
to forbid sb to go out/to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc)/to ground (as disciplinary measure)/to gate/to curfew/restriction on movement/ban on visiting a place/out of bounds/off limits/caveat


id: 5bf25e79ae9c34b16fd65d33c346bcdb3d94ccf8
simplified: 祸福无常
traditional: 禍福無常
pinyin: huo4 fu2 wu2 chang2
english:
disaster and happiness do not follow rules (idiom); future blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable


id: 2f8ed6ad7f5ffa975ddeece60353342e95dd8a09
simplified: 福寿螺
traditional: 福壽螺
pinyin: fu2 shou4 luo2
english:
giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix), that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s


id: 3037629cbabd8c53d95bd488ef2ef6419368e549
simplified: 福州
traditional: 福州
pinyin: fu2 zhou1
english:
Fuzhou prefecture-level city and capital of Fujian province in east China/formerly known as Foochow or Fuchow


id: daae8dafb8412af0accb201cd843215c988fdb14
simplified: 福建
traditional: 福建
pinyin: fu2 jian4
english:
Fujian province (Fukien) in east China, abbr. 福 or 閩|闽, capital Fuzhou 福州/Fujian province (Fukien) in Taiwan


id: f56f7816c94ca2f068ed496f0e47a8fe43784b94
simplified: 福建省
traditional: 福建省
pinyin: fu2 jian4 sheng3
english:
Fujian province (Fukien) in east China, abbr. 閩|闽, capital Fuzhou 福州/Fujian province (Fukien) in Taiwan


id: f78c6a626fc1151dc7ec85e93d177a81ee9e303c
simplified: 福泉
traditional: 福泉
pinyin: fu2 quan2
english:
Fuquan county level city in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qian2 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: 49fac31abca68c6af163367832b0a2f9e4640475
simplified: 福泽谕吉
traditional: 福澤諭吉
pinyin: fu2 ze2 yu4 ji2
english:
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901), prominent Japanese Westernizer, liberal educator and founder of Keio University


id: f5b223ba173c7440431b9e20d2cd52bc495f2ab4
simplified: 福煦
traditional: 福煦
pinyin: fu2 xu4
english:
Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One


id: 664387a46f09d0000cd0ff754ce068378817b2dc
simplified: 福田
traditional: 福田
pinyin: fu2 tian2
english:
field for growing happiness/domain for practices leading to enlightenment (Buddhism)/Futian district of Shenzhen City 深圳市, Guangdong/Fukuda (Japanese surname)


id: 9135e28816947fe75665065a4c135071d134e5ad
simplified: 福袋
traditional: 福袋
pinyin: fu2 dai4
english:
fukubukuro or "lucky bag", Japanese New Year custom where merchants offer grab bags containing random products at a steep discount


id: f828e63f5e47724fd3800ea5fa8a47ce2b924a25
simplified: 福贡
traditional: 福貢
pinyin: fu2 gong4
english:
Fugong 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: 3952c2ee1ef9a7942ae9429ce67cdb66d348be25
simplified: 御敌
traditional: 禦敵
pinyin: yu4 di2
english:
armed enemy of the nation/enemy of the Emperor/fig. championship challenger/contender opposing champion in sporting contest


id: a01d7d8b8d7606a23d121609e2340323724f1faa
simplified: 礼
traditional: 禮
pinyin: li3
radicalSimplified: 示
radicalTraditional: 示
variants: 礼,禮,禮,礼
english:
gift/rite/ceremony/CL:份[fen4]/propriety/etiquette/courtesy/surname Li/abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites


id: b5920ae7465a2e1d4dcf7d3f535c251fde1ac32c
simplified: 礼轻人意重
traditional: 禮輕人意重
pinyin: li3 qing1 ren2 yi4 zhong4
english:
slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.


id: 22b24b2798e2f16fc05b65b2cc661714f38811a2
simplified: 秀
traditional: 秀
pinyin: xiu4
radicalSimplified: 禾
radicalTraditional: 禾
english:
handsome/refined/elegant/graceful/superior/show (loanword)/CL:場|场[chang2]/(literary) to grow/to bloom/(of crops) to produce ears


id: 52c69be202dc1e4596370ff8b77e5688df7ac984
simplified: 秀才
traditional: 秀才
pinyin: xiu4 cai5
english:
a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical)/scholar/skillful writer/fine talent


id: 03c14a69839dd31a40baea83cf86bf60fd54d2f1
simplified: 私人
traditional: 私人
pinyin: si1 ren2
english:
private/personal/interpersonal/sb with whom one has a close personal relationship/a member of one's clique


id: f1d2492dd917bfbb1b636ac206c198ddb2e03f89
simplified: 私行
traditional: 私行
pinyin: si1 xing2
english:
to travel on private business/to act without official approval/to inspect incognito/to act in one's own interest


id: f8019bf0e0be43e2b13678094374f23e65ae205e
simplified: 私通
traditional: 私通
pinyin: si1 tong1
english:
to have secret ties with/to be in covert communication with (the enemy etc)/to engage in an illicit sexual relationship/adultery


id: dbde8b2569d769d3f0296d06de8cd504f6560f56
simplified: 秋后算帐
traditional: 秋後算帳
pinyin: qiu1 hou4 suan4 zhang4
english:
lit. settling accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom); to wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts/to bide time for revenge


id: 9158924647f5c45c9aeecc725aa75d8de41472c1
simplified: 秋毫
traditional: 秋毫
pinyin: qiu1 hao2
english:
fine hair grown by animals (or down grown by birds) in the fall/(fig.) sth barely discernible/the slightest thing/the minutest detail


id: db5f722c6c74f62436b515f6a5bf791e4f4683ec
simplified: 秋瑾
traditional: 秋瑾
pinyin: qiu1 jin3
english:
Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films


id: a4a2f045a296763d6b25ed3094b2d02419a90a3c
simplified: 秋风扫落叶
traditional: 秋風掃落葉
pinyin: qiu1 feng1 sao3 luo4 ye4
english:
lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep


id: fa8f9247978b737b2053fdd941ef171728de4360
simplified: 科
traditional: 科
pinyin: ke1
radicalSimplified: 禾
radicalTraditional: 禾
english:
branch of study/administrative section/division/field/branch/stage directions/family (taxonomy)/rules/laws/to mete out (punishment)/to levy (taxes etc)/to fine sb/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: 98e9e2c1070d0ac0c4c208662071d7e639e5c367
simplified: 科右中旗
traditional: 科右中旗
pinyin: ke1 you4 zhong1 qi2
english:
Horqin right center banner, Mongolian Khorchin Baruun Garyn Dund khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia


id: 056d20e0185414b49c08c1947db8f9f1a37c37d7
simplified: 科右前旗
traditional: 科右前旗
pinyin: ke1 you4 qian2 qi2
english:
Horqin right front banner, Mongolian Khorchin Baruun Garyn Ömnöd khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia


id: d780ad20546c49abd6191f44d7b49493d56a3546
simplified: 科学技术是第一生产力
traditional: 科學技術是第一生產力
pinyin: ke1 xue2 ji4 shu4 shi4 di4 yi1 sheng1 chan3 li4
english:
Science and technology is the number one productive force (from 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化).


id: cd7e96c29855dd137c308c912085be4244221c9b
simplified: 科学发展观
traditional: 科學發展觀
pinyin: ke1 xue2 fa1 zhan3 guan1
english:
Scientific Outlook on Development, a guiding principle for the CPC attributed to Hu Jintao 胡錦濤|胡锦涛[Hu2 Jin3 tao1], incorporated into the Constitution of the CPC in 2007


id: b5f4a2ae72ea026fbfc071e69c35604161af2b0a
simplified: 科普特语
traditional: 科普特語
pinyin: ke1 pu3 te4 yu3
english:
Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人[Ke1 pu3 te4 ren2], spoken in Egypt until late 17th century


id: 2888f29e9e402c8d801b38275a9239602a0f3868
simplified: 科尔沁
traditional: 科爾沁
pinyin: ke1 er3 qin4
english:
Horqin or Xorchin, famous Mongolian archer/Horqin district or Xorchin raion of Tongliao city 通遼市|通辽市[Tong1 liao2 shi4], Inner Mongolia


id: 971a9392d4b861a89417411c2c82c2de044940e8
simplified: 科尔沁左翼中
traditional: 科爾沁左翼中
pinyin: ke1 er3 qin4 zuo3 yi4 zhong1
english:
Horqin Left Middle banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Dund khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia


id: f014d285e14555440f07061c3837d7c645fa5ced
simplified: 科尔沁左翼后
traditional: 科爾沁左翼後
pinyin: ke1 er3 qin4 zuo3 yi4 hou4
english:
Horqin Left Rear banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia


id: d001dd0cae95534b568bca48a96d001c63c676bb
simplified: 科考
traditional: 科考
pinyin: ke1 kao3
english:
preliminary round of imperial examinations/abbr. for 科學考察|科学考察[ke1 xue2 kao3 cha2], scientific exploration


id: 29cc94c6245bdcdf5a7c035a0c3033869fb738e4
simplified: 科迪勒拉
traditional: 科迪勒拉
pinyin: ke1 di2 le4 la1
english:
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian Islands


id: eb955b1f1030b742c2742401151de58c6c921eef
simplified: 科迪勒拉山系
traditional: 科迪勒拉山系
pinyin: ke1 di2 le4 la1 shan1 xi4
english:
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands


id: c4ad96ed71ca22578c290b33cda475f1b72f4342
simplified: 租界
traditional: 租界
pinyin: zu1 jie4
english:
foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)


id: a368addbb9330649ab52c34f36ed77be55265f2f
simplified: 秤砣虽小压千斤
traditional: 秤砣雖小壓千斤
pinyin: cheng4 tuo2 sui1 xiao3 ya1 qian1 jin1
english:
although small, a steelyard weight may tip a hundred pounds (idiom)/apparently insignificant details can have a large impact/for want of a nail the battle was lost


id: 94b1e3986ceb82c2cb79c0bc631720af664c62db
simplified: 秦
traditional: 秦
pinyin: qin2
radicalSimplified: 禾
radicalTraditional: 禾
english:
surname Qin/Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]/abbr. for 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]


id: 9d5b5a3a9f0cdb57385a479a7f22f596c96661eb
simplified: 秦代
traditional: 秦代
pinyin: qin2 dai4
english:
Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), founded by the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], the first dynasty to rule the whole of China


id: 06e39bd342fbbeacdc9e0ac47576f6f9b655d4bc
simplified: 秦城监狱
traditional: 秦城監獄
pinyin: qin2 cheng2 jian1 yu4
english:
Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption


id: 07a36be07a16a52af36922d10c438acfa3abf10e
simplified: 秦岭
traditional: 秦嶺
pinyin: qin2 ling3
english:
Qinling mountain range in Shaanxi forming natural barrier between Guanzhong plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 ping2 yuan2] and Han River 漢水|汉水[Han4 shui3] valley


id: b553f4a4fd655deacb85d95b0c4353fc0ef4a11c
simplified: 秦岭山脉
traditional: 秦嶺山脈
pinyin: qin2 ling3 shan1 mai4
english:
Qinling mountain range in Shaanxi forming natural barrier between Guanzhong plain 關中平原|关中平原 and Han River 汉水 valley


id: 29d51b6d10ecefc7972f0b9768d43a720616eefe
simplified: 秦桧
traditional: 秦檜
pinyin: qin2 hui4
english:
Qin Hui (1090-1155 AD), Song Dynasty official said to have betrayed General Yue Fei 岳飛|岳飞[Yue4 Fei1]


id: aad9689a021426878cb563f0988e2e023274baf3
simplified: 秦穆公
traditional: 秦穆公
pinyin: qin2 mu4 gong1
english:
Duke Mu of Qin, the first substantial king of Qin (ruled 659-621 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸


id: 122ebf607703c96a782127d22550dc2f1a494241
simplified: 秦腔
traditional: 秦腔
pinyin: qin2 qiang1
english:
Qinqiang, an opera style popular in northwest China, possibly originating in Ming dynasty folk music/Shaanxi opera


id: 13635b16768d2a9a1ff829c8677d7b9dfcf7c5ad
simplified: 移情别恋
traditional: 移情別戀
pinyin: yi2 qing2 bie2 lian4
english:
change of affection, shift of love (idiom); to change one's feelings to another love/to fall in love with sb else


id: 38fb11d0e7716ffabbecefeae6acc3b4ed37a5b7
simplified: 稀里哗啦
traditional: 稀裡嘩啦
pinyin: xi1 li5 hua1 la1
english:
(onom.) rustling sound/sound of rain or of sth falling down/in disorder/completely smashed/badly battered/broken to pieces


id: b883f1d218d4a1c43f3a64185626f1af75b9db4f
simplified: 程邈
traditional: 程邈
pinyin: cheng2 miao3
english:
Cheng Miao, a jailer-turned-prisoner in the Qin dynasty who created the clerical style of Chinese calligraphy


id: 6734d5ec0aa1615083773865cce23e6c99d651c7
simplified: 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆
traditional: 種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆
pinyin: zhong4 gua1 de2 gua1 , zhong4 dou4 de2 dou4
english:
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap./One must live with the consequences of one's actions./You've made your bed, now must lie on it.


id: a693dffb3c67eac632603d46c8aad679e4fdb742
simplified: 称多
traditional: 稱多
pinyin: chen4 duo1
english:
Chindu county (Tibetan: khri 'du 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: c39c5daa0141a869da127048d8b7cc4e32af3d5b
simplified: 稻城
traditional: 稻城
pinyin: dao4 cheng2
english:
Daocheng county (Tibetan: 'dab pa 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: 5852fc0355399d24bbc0b5ffe6324b8df6361b69
simplified: 谷梁传
traditional: 穀梁傳
pinyin: gu3 liang2 zhuan4
english:
Guliang Annals, commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], first published during the Han Dynasty


id: 9e291ddafcf2ee896b2dd456bbeec55e14928350
simplified: 穆尔西
traditional: 穆爾西
pinyin: mu4 er3 xi1
english:
Morsi, Mursi or Morsy (name)/Mohamed Morsi (1951-), Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood politician, president of Egypt 2012-2013


id: b632bb74d3c4a8f3abc7b8a34cc1183616de4c57
simplified: 穆通
traditional: 穆通
pinyin: mu4 tong1
english:
Mouton (name)/Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system


id: b316bfd5dfcc8b950f626a7c94aa940e87afad51
simplified: 积
traditional: 積
pinyin: ji1
radicalSimplified: 禾
radicalTraditional: 禾
english:
to amass/to accumulate/to store/measured quantity (such as area of volume)/product (the result of multiplication)/to integrate (math.)/to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.)/old/long-standing


id: 5ea48b1b1d3a334f55dc1453cdee716928f4d1e9
simplified: 积分
traditional: 積分
pinyin: ji1 fen1
english:
integral (calculus)/accumulated points (in sports, at school etc)/total credits earned by student/bonus points in a benefit scheme


id: 627a735c362a97b5bb9b601c477bf75718d0b2c8
simplified: 积石山保安族东乡族撒拉族自治县
traditional: 積石山保安族東鄉族撒拉族自治縣
pinyin: ji1 shi2 shan1 bao3 an1 zu2 dong1 xiang1 zu2 sa1 la1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar autonomous county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: ce09b5c61ef443f9885e55fbbb0c8ebfe7951023
simplified: 积非成是
traditional: 積非成是
pinyin: ji1 fei1 cheng2 shi4
english:
a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth


id: 1462de199dc198221f189f3c20e32f98bc34f2ab
simplified: 稳坐钓鱼台
traditional: 穩坐釣魚臺
pinyin: wen3 zuo4 diao4 yu2 tai2
english:
lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite storms (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation/a cool head in a crisis


id: 8390c77ef72e379079da9a8cea0d0de517087749
simplified: 究竟
traditional: 究竟
pinyin: jiu1 jing4
english:
to go to the bottom of a matter/after all/when all is said and done/(in an interrogative sentence) finally/outcome/result


id: e68f338c00579a5823bded41b1a19d03fcc6d464
simplified: 空中楼阁
traditional: 空中樓閣
pinyin: kong1 zhong1 lou2 ge2
english:
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction/castles in Spain/imaginary future plans


id: cb170c4600d98c835724f759707996703e36536b
simplified: 空口
traditional: 空口
pinyin: kong1 kou3
english:
incomplete meal of a single dish/meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine/rice without meat or vegetables


id: 8da844a82fa1ead2c8bc0e41f704ed0360153e14
simplified: 空城计
traditional: 空城計
pinyin: kong1 cheng2 ji4
english:
the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush)/double bluff


id: 4b78b199665c75689ae59849bbd3245cf4acafe1
simplified: 空室清野
traditional: 空室清野
pinyin: kong1 shi4 qing1 ye3
english:
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy/scorched earth policy


id: 6d8dd099ea576a78d13f0a55d29f226dd3391d9c
simplified: 空档
traditional: 空檔
pinyin: kong4 dang4
english:
gap (between two objects)/interval of time (between events)/opening in one's schedule/free time/(fig.) gap (in the market etc)


id: 9c1176e8a081295292c8617d5957a28dc9da4bf6
simplified: 空空如也
traditional: 空空如也
pinyin: kong1 kong1 ru2 ye3
english:
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft/to have nothing/vacuous/hollow/empty (argument, head etc)


id: b71da638bbd38502019bec30abbe9c32e68f0c53
simplified: 空窗期
traditional: 空窗期
pinyin: kong1 chuang1 qi1
english:
window period (time between infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies)/period during which sth is lacking (boyfriend or girlfriend, work, revenue, production of a commodity etc)/lull/hiatus


id: 10179a382026e8428f5d3cfc8e492431699a9182
simplified: 空肠
traditional: 空腸
pinyin: kong1 chang2
english:
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠[shi2 er4 zhi3 chang2] and ileum 回腸|回肠[hui2 chang2])


id: 03252b122fa06be97644c63e21ff5c082b96e309
simplified: 空载
traditional: 空載
pinyin: kong1 zai4
english:
(of a ship, train etc) not carrying any load (i.e. no passengers or freight etc)/(electricity) no-load (used to describe the condition of a transformer when there is no load connected to its secondary coil)


id: 1373d50670a91d100d0413986ed370cebfd52882
simplified: 空头
traditional: 空頭
pinyin: kong1 tou2
english:
phony/so-called/armchair (expert)/vain (promise)/(finance) short-seller/bear (market)/short (selling)


id: fa103d13bbf597af728e791ec4a16dd8641a1657
simplified: 穿
traditional: 穿
pinyin: chuan1
radicalSimplified: 穴
radicalTraditional: 穴
english:
to wear/to put on/to dress/to bore through/to pierce/to perforate/to penetrate/to pass through/to thread


id: 503870ae7734a4e7bca793e6891c3b3409a649a9
simplified: 穿一条裤子
traditional: 穿一條褲子
pinyin: chuan1 yi1 tiao2 ku4 zi5
english:
(of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together/to be like family/to share the same view of things


id: 66719b042aef5ad7dd52b8a268f8be169ccc7b8d
simplified: 穿帮
traditional: 穿幫
pinyin: chuan1 bang1
english:
(TV or movie) blooper/continuity error/(theater) to flub one's lines/unintended exposure of a body part/to be exposed (of a scheme or trick)/to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue/to blow one's cover


id: 03b3b370993cf714c9cd5e48f57628c076556efd
simplified: 穿插
traditional: 穿插
pinyin: chuan1 cha1
english:
to insert/to take turns, alternate/to interweave/to interlace/subplot/interlude/episode/(military) to thrust deep into the enemy forces


id: bfd1ba99b3643ea9bcad3320724b43ece6b9f953
simplified: 突
traditional: 突
pinyin: tu1
radicalSimplified: 穴
radicalTraditional: 穴
english:
to dash/to move forward quickly/to bulge/to protrude/to break through/to rush out/sudden/Taiwan pr. [tu2]


id: 63b59182ce032fff427808f87430ddfd217815e0
simplified: 突破
traditional: 突破
pinyin: tu1 po4
english:
to break through/to make a breakthrough/to surmount or break the back of (a task etc)/(of ball sports) to break through a defense


id: d74da0188b2129001529dd89e525b8d647313648
simplified: 窗口
traditional: 窗口
pinyin: chuang1 kou3
english:
window/opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window)/computer operating system window/fig. medium/intermediary/showpiece/testing ground


id: aa537f22da744d105ef584a5cc35700ac03b8ba1
simplified: 窝
traditional: 窩
pinyin: wo1
radicalSimplified: 穴
radicalTraditional: 穴
english:
nest/pit or hollow on the human body/lair/den/place/to harbor or shelter/to hold in check/to bend/classifier for litters and broods


id: a1468c456eeb536551a6efcb571708ef19bfb86a
simplified: 窝工
traditional: 窩工
pinyin: wo1 gong1
english:
(of workers) to have no work to do/to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)


id: 066388ab2a9de3a7021b52840b7484d11dcd8f1e
simplified: 窝心
traditional: 窩心
pinyin: wo1 xin1
english:
aggrieved/dejected/(Tw, southern China) to be moved by a kind gesture etc/to feel gratified/to feel warm inside


id: 72ddde87f238e125dda9d77b1743f764d430dc5a
simplified: 穷光蛋
traditional: 窮光蛋
pinyin: qiong2 guang1 dan4
english:
poor wretch/pauper/destitute man/poverty-stricken peasant/penniless good-for-nothing/impecunious vagabond


id: a6fa521bff01f1737904fdb8972c1774dcdf2d33
simplified: 穷当益坚
traditional: 窮當益堅
pinyin: qiong2 dang1 yi4 jian1
english:
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined/the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back


id: a2864064816725dcd0b4f92217b3ff28bf909c68
simplified: 穷结
traditional: 窮結
pinyin: qiong2 jie2
english:
variant of 瓊結|琼结[Qiong2 jie2], Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: 8b40a7e48ea08c165c24a52ae7f0474861d188ca
simplified: 穷结县
traditional: 窮結縣
pinyin: qiong2 jie2 xian4
english:
variant of 瓊結縣|琼结县[Qiong2 jie2 xian4], Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: 3a5f0362e149047a0fe96bc3940ad8396a1c0424
simplified: 穷途末路
traditional: 窮途末路
pinyin: qiong2 tu2 mo4 lu4
english:
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse/in a plight with no way out/things have reached a dead end


id: 55ae2d5b1a163eb6e2e33be902022824ec411863
simplified: 窃国者侯，窃钩者诛
traditional: 竊國者侯，竊鉤者誅
pinyin: qie4 guo2 zhe3 hou2 , qie4 gou1 zhe3 zhu1
english:
steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)


id: c1f1927c348fbbed35b094cab1c3f0d4a3dccc4a
simplified: 窃钩者诛，窃国者侯
traditional: 竊鉤者誅，竊國者侯
pinyin: qie4 gou1 zhe3 zhu1 , qie4 guo2 zhe3 hou2
english:
steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)


id: da564621fd5038f78eb427e05490515e055656ea
simplified: 立地成佛
traditional: 立地成佛
pinyin: li4 di4 cheng2 fo2
english:
to become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation/to repent and be absolved of one's crimes


id: 13fc32ca6099ed2f94891148c6b42675333e417b
simplified: 立春
traditional: 立春
pinyin: li4 chun1
english:
Lichun or Beginning of Spring, 1st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气[er4 shi2 si4 jie2 qi5] 4th-18th February


id: f697ae5406c1d13bab7df96dc92cac7e3233dff4
simplified: 立法院
traditional: 立法院
pinyin: li4 fa3 yuan4
english:
Legislative Yuan, the legislative branch of government under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan


id: 6c0a2d753b194cbd3d0f111579185675659c6230
simplified: 站着说话不腰疼
traditional: 站著說話不腰疼
pinyin: zhan4 zhe5 shuo1 hua4 bu4 yao1 teng2
english:
it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom)/to be an armchair expert/to blabber on


id: 59d71b3f07ab4ef6f171390a1c63bc8e521bda5b
simplified: 章回小说
traditional: 章回小說
pinyin: zhang1 hui2 xiao3 shuo1
english:
novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet


id: 039d537a859c598852fa16e25f397d734cca0e4f
simplified: 章太炎
traditional: 章太炎
pinyin: zhang1 tai4 yan2
english:
Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution


id: 0d96d687ee7dcc0648f87a3be93d12bf7801e406
simplified: 章炳麟
traditional: 章炳麟
pinyin: zhang1 bing3 lin2
english:
Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution


id: f3a20212aa2d9422a00eec734a1500c09411a5ff
simplified: 章程
traditional: 章程
pinyin: zhang1 cheng2
english:
rules/regulations/constitution/statute/articles of association (of company)/articles of incorporation/charter (of a corporation)/by-laws


id: 8a0eda1c65926e4f15c38d08b8f94bec2bfbd51b
simplified: 童叟无欺
traditional: 童叟無欺
pinyin: tong2 sou3 wu2 qi1
english:
cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously/Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.


id: 333312ccc487b13cedd79b6c5c41fbecae08b8aa
simplified: 童趣
traditional: 童趣
pinyin: tong2 qu4
english:
qualities that delight children (e.g. bold colors in a picture, anthropomorphized characters in a TV show, the physical challenge of playground equipment)


id: fe2848e87f49d161b361cb8b3e51f4e07c9bb0ca
simplified: 竹山
traditional: 竹山
pinyin: zhu2 shan1
english:
Zhushan county in Shiyan 十堰[Shi2 yan4], Hubei/Zhushan or Chushan town in Nantou county 南投縣|南投县[Nan2 tou2 xian4], central Taiwan


id: bf3ffb5e1812305a8409e664ee7228c46aaa2aa9
simplified: 竹丝鸡
traditional: 竹絲雞
pinyin: zhu2 si1 ji1
english:
black-boned chicken/silky fowl/silkie/Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson/see also 烏骨雞|乌骨鸡[wu1 gu3 ji1]


id: f291db9a35dab21c8358e35b1eb9e9aa4cf93801
simplified: 笑林
traditional: 笑林
pinyin: xiao4 lin2
english:
Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes)


id: 231efd846fc55144590377c28318f99e66038d8a
simplified: 笑里藏刀
traditional: 笑裡藏刀
pinyin: xiao4 li3 cang2 dao1
english:
lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions/when the fox preaches, look to the geese


id: a0362c57c89c8bdce41a173928fd5b17961c7000
simplified: 笑贫不笑娼
traditional: 笑貧不笑娼
pinyin: xiao4 pin2 bu4 xiao4 chang1
english:
the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty/lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)


id: c13f51cc276b5d88daf4f787c08c48f511651a7c
simplified: 笑逐颜开
traditional: 笑逐顏開
pinyin: xiao4 zhu2 yan2 kai1
english:
smile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure/all smiles/joy written across one's face


id: b9211c9ca9541879fa417e81f506ce54b940dde8
simplified: 符合
traditional: 符合
pinyin: fu2 he2
english:
in keeping with/in accordance with/tallying with/in line with/to agree with/to accord with/to conform to/to correspond with/to manage/to handle


id: 6de70b568d0e8ed58fa1485c232679fa501491ab
simplified: 笨鸟先飞
traditional: 笨鳥先飛
pinyin: ben4 niao3 xian1 fei1
english:
lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. to work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities


id: 8eefdba494e28874712702ff3a3750e9c9c5e455
simplified: 第
traditional: 第
pinyin: di4
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
english:
(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc)/order/(old) rank in the imperial examinations/mansion/(literary) but/just


id: 23b86c2c84241018ca2b1334815b96ebbfc6ecb6
simplified: 第三纪
traditional: 第三紀
pinyin: di4 san1 ji4
english:
third period/tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)


id: e2ad1469b0317225c3a2b688b43130c80c019c4d
simplified: 第三者
traditional: 第三者
pinyin: di4 san1 zhe3
english:
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship/the other woman/the other man/third person/third party (in dispute)/disinterested party/number three in a list


id: 466712bf84a3a3056f080d94ba550a25fbbfff9f
simplified: 第二次汉字简化方案
traditional: 第二次漢字簡化方案
pinyin: di4 er4 ci4 han4 zi4 jian3 hua4 fang1 an4
english:
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986)/abbr. to 二簡|二简[er4 jian3]


id: 0f62184d450bb0e8e1706e9fe0db1c1cc8007a7c
simplified: 第四纪
traditional: 第四紀
pinyin: di4 si4 ji4
english:
fourth period/quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)


id: ecc1664a37d5fdaa52c50708ae1df972a1b803f3
simplified: 笔
traditional: 筆
pinyin: bi3
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 筆,笔
english:
pen/pencil/writing brush/to write or compose/the strokes of Chinese characters/classifier for sums of money, deals/CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]


id: 1f5e1d2c848fd0b3bac96f69e84b6f5910a0d8d5
simplified: 笔仙
traditional: 筆仙
pinyin: bi3 xian1
english:
a form of automatic writing in which two or more participants hold a single pen over a sheet of paper and invite a spirit to write answers to their questions/a spirit so invited


id: fbbf1cf4156169debef550a7f987a0490d589f5e
simplified: 笔谈
traditional: 筆談
pinyin: bi3 tan2
english:
to communicate by means of written notes (instead of speaking)/to publish one's opinion (e.g. as part of a scholarly dialogue)/(in book titles) essays/sketches


id: 5edcb82034d8f925d464967dae443ff355d4becf
simplified: 等
traditional: 等
pinyin: deng3
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 朩
english:
class/rank/grade/equal to/same as/to wait for/to await/et cetera/and so on/et al. (and other authors)/after/as soon as/once


id: 25cd9dd7597af85c5a7126d0a9f420bc89c267a5
simplified: 等因奉此
traditional: 等因奉此
pinyin: deng3 yin1 feng4 ci3
english:
officialese/official routine/(old) (conventional phrase used in response to one's superior) in view of the above, we therefore...


id: 4a7076b0ceaad4397c0a3a03ec1f0d8a5c3f5588
simplified: 等额比基金
traditional: 等額比基金
pinyin: deng3 e2 bi3 ji1 jin1
english:
equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion to further donations


id: 440042329274ccc12bac5529dff1f15422d42aa4
simplified: 等额选举
traditional: 等額選舉
pinyin: deng3 e2 xuan3 ju3
english:
non-competitive election (i.e. with as many candidates as there are seats)/single-candidate election


id: c33afbaa45bcff9b4ec044a28248f9cff0beb154
simplified: 筋
traditional: 筋
pinyin: jin1
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 觔
english:
muscle/tendon/veins visible under the skin/sth resembling tendons or veins (e.g. fiber in a vegetable)


id: 0633b8023f5f31ac4fc8ba505400006fad58d970
simplified: 筒子米糕
traditional: 筒子米糕
pinyin: tong3 zi3 mi3 gao1
english:
rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnished (Taiwanese dish, originally prepared by stuffing rice into bamboo tubes and steaming them)


id: bc79aa760f72212e7695341372141b9769f9ca14
simplified: 答数
traditional: 答數
pinyin: da2 shu4
english:
numerical answer (to a question in math.)/(Tw) (of troops) to shout numbers or phrases in unison (to keep in step or maintain morale)


id: 236b764f49db8c009fe256b89dade80a579c6818
simplified: 策
traditional: 策
pinyin: ce4
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 筞
english:
policy/plan/scheme/bamboo slip for writing (old)/to whip (a horse)/to encourage/riding crop with sharp spines (old)/essay written for the imperial examinations (old)/upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy/surname Ce


id: 02528c04de1a6187efc519f45f1884550be48305
simplified: 筝
traditional: 箏
pinyin: zheng1
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
english:
guzheng or long zither/long zither with 13 to 16 strings, developed from guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times/Japanese koto


id: 643ed3608d1dd367076c260745cd258e7e7fb3a5
simplified: 箕子
traditional: 箕子
pinyin: ji1 zi3
english:
Jizi, legendary sage from end of Shang dynasty (c. 1100 BC), said to have opposed the tyrant Zhòu 紂|纣 then ruled ancient Korea for Zhōu 周


id: 4e9818caa2fead0d84480e1b4c5368ac4c4bf70a
simplified: 算数
traditional: 算數
pinyin: suan4 shu4
english:
to count numbers/to keep to one's word/to hold (i.e. to remain valid)/to count (i.e. to be important)


id: 3e6d400bfcded3974d65f5b14c9ed4636867d657
simplified: 管
traditional: 管
pinyin: guan3
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 筦
english:
to take care (of)/to control/to manage/to be in charge of/to look after/to run/to care about/tube/pipe/woodwind/classifier for tube-shaped objects/particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions/writing brush/(coll.) to/towards/surname Guan


id: e759177549d3254bbe4bcbdcddc73cf50d4053e9
simplified: 管仲
traditional: 管仲
pinyin: guan3 zhong4
english:
a restricted view through a bamboo tube/Guan Zhong (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國|齐国 of Spring and Autumn period/known as Guangzi 管子


id: 8c9e5b2ad4649a556fe12a2e98933a46eb8ff18d
simplified: 管子
traditional: 管子
pinyin: guan3 zi3
english:
Guanzi or Guan Zhong 管仲 (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國|齐国 of Spring and Autumn period/Guanzi, classical book containing writings of Guan Zhong and his school


id: f959f53ca0afb8d767860dcdbff735cff0bf6022
simplified: 节
traditional: 節
pinyin: jie2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 罇,卩
english:
festival/holiday/node/joint/section/segment/part/to economize/to save/to abridge/moral integrity/classifier for segments, e.g. lessons, train wagons, biblical verses/CL:個|个[ge4]


id: 62ace4440e18b0885fa691e892afe21cd881a8b4
simplified: 节度使
traditional: 節度使
pinyin: jie2 du4 shi3
english:
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song


id: 957c8e489570e4e0d4f15489f158a20b184a56db
simplified: 篆
traditional: 篆
pinyin: zhuan4
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
english:
seal (of office)/seal script (a calligraphic style)/the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆/writing in seal script


id: 1ef334db1e50276ebb6d2c4cc21cb5c676269900
simplified: 篇
traditional: 篇
pinyin: pian1
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
english:
sheet/piece of writing/bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)/classifier for written items: chapter, article


id: f11c76a16f5b624f3f990afbb4a0c84dd2640193
simplified: 筑室道谋
traditional: 築室道謀
pinyin: zhu4 shi4 dao4 mou2
english:
lit. ask passers-by how to build one's house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do/without a clue


id: e1faa4513291ac8b6b683436cdaece1cdd5b2757
simplified: 箪食壶浆
traditional: 簞食壺漿
pinyin: dan1 shi2 hu2 jiang1
english:
to receive troops with food and drink (idiom)/to give troops a hearty welcome/also pr. [dan1 si4 hu2 jiang1]


id: 462a814b020406084c25d15ef7a7151a0f125a21
simplified: 简写
traditional: 簡寫
pinyin: jian3 xie3
english:
to write characters in simplified form/the simplified form of a character/to abbreviate (a word or expression)/to write in simple language


id: 699de7992e280712f2bad2d4fa3e5624c60a6b5b
simplified: 筹算
traditional: 籌算
pinyin: chou2 suan4
english:
to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board)/to count beads/fig. to budget/to plan (an investment)


id: b0c9b40f35d3d41548cf6b2ce976a513a2c8d63b
simplified: 笼
traditional: 籠
pinyin: long2
radicalSimplified: 竹
radicalTraditional: 竹
variants: 籠
english:
enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc/cage/basket/steamer basket/to cover/to cage/to embrace/to manipulate through trickery


id: 738c57cbb656e6704d921cc8d7483c99df0a8f7c
simplified: 米夫
traditional: 米夫
pinyin: mi3 fu1
english:
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges


id: 25fbcdb6114511af3c6928dbd7281e9791441a5b
simplified: 米林
traditional: 米林
pinyin: mi3 lin2
english:
Mainling county, Tibetan: Sman gling rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[Lin2 zhi1 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: 1b2fb2b2d4d9348f17024a2c23969182b88e9e7e
simplified: 米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉
traditional: 米格爾·德·塞萬提斯·薩維德拉
pinyin: mi3 ge2 er3 · de2 · sai1 wan4 ti2 si1 · sa4 wei2 de2 la1
english:
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[Tang2 ji2 he1 de2]


id: 484846bc72dadf7d629a21c31ff0872cb3987153
simplified: 米歇尔
traditional: 米歇爾
pinyin: mi3 xie1 er3
english:
Michel or Mitchell (name)/George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009


id: bbbe343a88cddc1716bf77c94a01ab47c160d937
simplified: 米泉
traditional: 米泉
pinyin: mi3 quan2
english:
Miquan county level city in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang


id: c3f39b4b138ad2e8dca4b30e3c73e9c42c589357
simplified: 米高扬
traditional: 米高揚
pinyin: mi3 gao1 yang2
english:
Mikoyan (name)/Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s/Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft


id: 7c93c7dfad1914c73f4ba88c6be9d0dd427c96f1
simplified: 粉
traditional: 粉
pinyin: fen3
radicalSimplified: 米
radicalTraditional: 米
english:
powder/cosmetic face powder/food prepared from starch/noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour/whitewash/white/pink


id: 7b2d0cb5be3ee1b094db0317509a891dfbc4d47e
simplified: 粉丝
traditional: 粉絲
pinyin: fen3 si1
english:
bean vermicelli/mung bean starch noodles/Chinese vermicelli/cellophane noodles/CL:把[ba3]/fan (loanword)/enthusiast for sb or sth


id: e4acd0e09840e90116996e16e1c25bf862e9e175
simplified: 粘贴
traditional: 粘貼
pinyin: zhan1 tie1
english:
to stick/to affix/to adhere/to paste (as in "copy and paste")/Taiwan pr. [nian2 tie1]/also written 黏貼|黏贴[nian2 tie1]


id: fd4114742f3ddedcb733915cb46c7f763a43532a
simplified: 粩
traditional: 粩
pinyin: lao1
radicalSimplified: 米
radicalTraditional: 米
english:
a traditional pastry of Taiwan and Fujian which is fried, then coated with maltose and rolled in sesame seeds or chopped peanuts etc/Taiwan pr. [lao3]


id: 5ccb8cc1d31ca8e9cc467e2b0ec8541f2329addb
simplified: 粤汉铁路
traditional: 粵漢鐵路
pinyin: yue4 han4 tie3 lu4
english:
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路[Jing1 Guang3 Tie3 lu4]


id: 829187a46054e28ddec1ec35756eaafbd4995ea7
simplified: 精
traditional: 精
pinyin: jing1
radicalSimplified: 米
radicalTraditional: 米
variants: 精
english:
essence/extract/vitality/energy/semen/sperm/mythical goblin spirit/highly perfected/elite/the pick of sth/proficient (refined ability)/extremely (fine)/selected rice (archaic)


id: 6eb453bb86d2cdf596a8ebffa61bdbfec603f9d9
simplified: 精密陶瓷
traditional: 精密陶瓷
pinyin: jing1 mi4 tao2 ci2
english:
fine ceramics (used for dental implants, synthetic bones, electronics, knife blades etc)/advanced ceramics/engineered ceramics


id: b98f9ab72bb7bbbf7c0666675206e363b33ebc1c
simplified: 精河
traditional: 精河
pinyin: jing1 he2
english:
Jing Nahiyisi or Jinghe county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang


id: d59d82a2b50128fed8398c14a0ad43abc62c487b
simplified: 精炼
traditional: 精煉
pinyin: jing1 lian4
english:
to refine (a substance)/to purify/to refine (one's skills, writing etc)/refined/polished/succinct/skilled/capable


id: 131f31bcb9789c7929b2737e16fea3557806b3d4
simplified: 精神抖擞
traditional: 精神抖擻
pinyin: jing1 shen2 dou3 sou3
english:
spirit trembling with excitement (idiom); in high spirits/lively and full of enthusiasm/full of energy/con brio


id: 1799e0eee5dd13ee5fda763c0519dffbbcb8d0a5
simplified: 精卫
traditional: 精衛
pinyin: jing1 wei4
english:
mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃[Nu:3 wa2] of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[Yan2 di4]


id: c78073584d47bbc2c71d3728914f87c34c78dfc2
simplified: 精卫填海
traditional: 精衛填海
pinyin: jing1 wei4 tian2 hai3
english:
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition/task of Sisyphus/determination in the face of impossible odds


id: bbcd9595b8744e845d74c0cbeceb149ce8b25bb5
simplified: 精诚所加，金石为开
traditional: 精誠所加，金石為開
pinyin: jing1 cheng2 suo3 jia1 , jin1 shi2 wei4 kai1
english:
lit. sincerity splits open metal and metal (idiom); if you put your heart to it, you can break up metal and rocks/With a will, you can achieve anything.


id: b7b4b9ecf864792f09adcbbd41ff54b078c646ed
simplified: 精诚所至
traditional: 精誠所至
pinyin: jing1 cheng2 suo3 zhi4
english:
with a will, you can achieve anything (idiom); cf 精誠所至，金石為開|精诚所至，金石为开[jing1 cheng2 suo3 zhi4 , jin1 shi2 wei4 kai1]


id: f63c1a70a6bc53b91d701bc8dc478f0fd6827e10
simplified: 精选
traditional: 精選
pinyin: jing1 xuan3
english:
carefully chosen/handpicked/best of the bunch/choice (product)/concentration (mining)/to concentrate/to winnow


id: fa208a6f6690bd9d516501974b94c2ce1fb39e47
simplified: 糗
traditional: 糗
pinyin: qiu3
radicalSimplified: 米
radicalTraditional: 米
english:
dry rations (for a journey)/(dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking)/(coll.) embarrassing/embarrassment/surname Qiu


id: 33d2cac0d8d4d37a1677ca1608aa2dbe210c8746
simplified: 糟糠
traditional: 糟糠
pinyin: zao1 kang1
english:
chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor)/(fig.) rubbish/junk/(abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband


id: de5728c13d94dcb907ff312fa661264ae7b6b631
simplified: 纪昀
traditional: 紀昀
pinyin: ji4 yun2
english:
Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱微草堂筆記|阅微草堂笔记


id: 9ba7d4a4934992a4b4b2e2bf09960cac74dfa834
simplified: 约
traditional: 約
pinyin: yue1
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to make an appointment/to invite/approximately/pact/treaty/to economize/to restrict/to reduce (a fraction)/concise


id: 7af607899dc270dcd0a69ee5fa324e71e4578606
simplified: 约分
traditional: 約分
pinyin: yue1 fen1
english:
reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths)/to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator


id: b418e4bc479b514ac5dd26c305a8a8c8c34029bf
simplified: 约定
traditional: 約定
pinyin: yue1 ding4
english:
to agree on sth (after discussion)/to conclude a bargain/to arrange/to promise/to stipulate/to make an appointment/stipulated (time, amount, quality etc)/an arrangement/a deal/appointment/undertaking/commitment/understanding/engagement/stipulation


id: bfb42f798335ea9cf870784374b5b884f4072fbf
simplified: 约翰·霍金斯
traditional: 約翰·霍金斯
pinyin: yue1 han4 · huo4 jin1 si1
english:
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain/Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist


id: dc9b3dbdfe7ca77b4f54412dfe5c1a5aea54332f
simplified: 红五类
traditional: 紅五類
pinyin: hong2 wu3 lei4
english:
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs


id: e830811f680e6ff6a38e45144f9ac37688534c0f
simplified: 红原
traditional: 紅原
pinyin: hong2 yuan2
english:
Hongyuan county (Tibetan: rka khog 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: 32beae5a498b5adadba1137da59277dc8a8b54b0
simplified: 红客
traditional: 紅客
pinyin: hong2 ke4
english:
"honker", Chinese hacker motivated by patriotism, using one's skills to protect domestic networks and work in national interest


id: 8e5e82e2e441f2ae8606118d58fc64a4c576f385
simplified: 红宝书
traditional: 紅寶書
pinyin: hong2 bao3 shu1
english:
the "Little Red Book" of selected writings of Mao Zedong (refers to 毛主席語錄|毛主席语录[Mao2 Zhu3 xi2 Yu3 lu4])


id: 976bac6496ee5c7506ee7dd0fac23837a85a0909
simplified: 红旗
traditional: 紅旗
pinyin: hong2 qi2
english:
red flag/CL:面[mian4]/Red flag city district/Hongqi district of Xinxiang city 新鄉市|新乡市[Xin1 xiang1 shi4], Henan


id: d2bb26014de4aafdb5af91671bbe887412f91347
simplified: 红星
traditional: 紅星
pinyin: hong2 xing1
english:
red star/five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat/hot film star/Hongxing district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 shi4], Heilongjiang


id: e3224b991f962b03198d524e23be4025d01777f7
simplified: 红楼梦
traditional: 紅樓夢
pinyin: hong2 lou2 meng4
english:
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cao2 Xue3 qin2], one of the four great novels


id: 6eadf8694c95803bafc4061726d10b60a498c948
simplified: 红河
traditional: 紅河
pinyin: hong2 he2
english:
Honghe county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan/Red River in China/Northern Vietnam


id: 7401b31eada2bc10792d06ce2cc26e9e53041e2c
simplified: 红筹股
traditional: 紅籌股
pinyin: hong2 chou2 gu3
english:
red chip stocks (Chinese company stocks incorporated outside Mainland China and listed in the Hong Kong stock exchange)


id: c6a03270e4c7dee54102647e48a6b8bdbf466636
simplified: 红股
traditional: 紅股
pinyin: hong2 gu3
english:
(economics) bonus stock or share, i.e. share issued fully or partly paid to an existing shareholder in a company, generally on a pro rata basis


id: 51d0c0a84179a98d48647a42fc76a6e7bdf9665e
simplified: 红头文件
traditional: 紅頭文件
pinyin: hong2 tou2 wen2 jian4
english:
red-letterhead document, an official document with the name of the issuing government agency printed in red at the top, circulated to relevant bodies


id: ea4c09af901bc04a513ba28310ce9e61ac2ac298
simplified: 纳
traditional: 納
pinyin: na4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to receive/to accept/to enjoy/to bring into/to pay (tax etc)/nano- (one billionth)/to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewing/surname Na


id: 9a586a3d971038998c545425e359d4fdc11353f6
simplified: 纳指
traditional: 納指
pinyin: na4 zhi3
english:
NASDAQ/National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter


id: cb0028e80dea667aa73f15c032403da6b8cd7691
simplified: 纳新
traditional: 納新
pinyin: na4 xin1
english:
to accept the new/to take fresh (air)/fig. to accept new members (to reinvigorate the party)/new blood


id: 3c64889ea87222fdfaa8315115f331534affd221
simplified: 纳皮尔
traditional: 納皮爾
pinyin: na4 pi2 er3
english:
Napier (name)/John Napier (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician, inventor of logarithms/Napier, city in New Zealand


id: bd8732cb31f759e2a19f533df74e61d24267cab3
simplified: 纸上谈兵
traditional: 紙上談兵
pinyin: zhi3 shang4 tan2 bing1
english:
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)/fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice/armchair strategist/idle theorizing/cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC


id: e3ddd8ee72152c96ca78726c8694077c11aff08e
simplified: 纸火锅
traditional: 紙火鍋
pinyin: zhi3 huo3 guo1
english:
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)


id: 9db9e8c4a151792be0284c57c453c9b13d9237c8
simplified: 纷纷
traditional: 紛紛
pinyin: fen1 fen1
english:
one after another/in succession/one by one/continuously/diverse/in profusion/numerous and confused/pell-mell


id: 7ceec8f6184c49ae4f5de4347ccecb85d339b2cd
simplified: 素
traditional: 素
pinyin: su4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
raw silk/white/plain, unadorned/vegetarian (food)/essence/nature/element/constituent/usually/always/ever


id: aa4c1b789520a1e2266236e335d8e894fb329063
simplified: 素昧平生
traditional: 素昧平生
pinyin: su4 mei4 ping2 sheng1
english:
to have never met sb before (idiom); entirely unacquainted/a complete stranger/not to know sb from Adam


id: e6118bd024c364f677c5ba8195ece1ae629a8d5f
simplified: 素面朝天
traditional: 素面朝天
pinyin: su4 mian4 chao2 tian1
english:
lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1]) (idiom)/fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup/to present oneself just as one is, without artifice


id: 58ff6a8fb95909e690ccf10bdb056c2a34388887
simplified: 索
traditional: 索
pinyin: suo3
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 索
english:
to search/to demand/to ask/to exact/large rope/isolated/surname Suo/abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia


id: 54c3f92711e8f4a878cfb98913effedbc3500e2c
simplified: 索尔仁尼琴
traditional: 索爾仁尼琴
pinyin: suo3 er3 ren2 ni2 qin2
english:
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago


id: ba6712dd2bb9cc9b29a5c0dabafd70d51ac50d86
simplified: 索罗斯
traditional: 索羅斯
pinyin: suo3 luo2 si1
english:
Soros (name)/George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist


id: 9e4702b6867808ecbced39e5a400d646b2268876
simplified: 紫草
traditional: 紫草
pinyin: zi3 cao3
english:
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon)/flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye/arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)


id: 64630ccf218a50b6482794348db82ce10e810e7d
simplified: 扎马剌丁
traditional: 紮馬剌丁
pinyin: za1 ma3 la2 ding1
english:
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260


id: 7e75eac744e8b822be4ef690c465fa09eafb73a7
simplified: 累累
traditional: 累累
pinyin: lei2 lei2
english:
(literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of/piles of/heaps of/gaunt/haggard/wretched/Taiwan pr. [lei3 lei3]


id: 378698e7f31cbb4f0fb40f66afab0b3936ff636c
simplified: 累觉不爱
traditional: 累覺不愛
pinyin: lei4 jue2 bu4 ai4
english:
(lit.) so exhausted (by difficulties in a relationship) that one feels one could never fall in love again (Internet slang)/disenchanted with sth


id: 243d813d644a3da4ad7295c70adb778af7e1994a
simplified: 累赘
traditional: 累贅
pinyin: lei2 zhui4
english:
superfluous/cumbersome/a burden on sb/a nuisance to sb/to inconvenience/to tie sb down/long-winded (of writing)/also pr. [lei2 zhui5]


id: b4bd0589a95bd430da1e080deba814bfb108a93d
simplified: 细水长流
traditional: 細水長流
pinyin: xi4 shui3 chang2 liu2
english:
lit. thin streams flow forever/fig. economy will get you a long way/to work steadily at something little by little


id: b378109af1a5340b9f7a75b7238dbdb494f6c34b
simplified: 絃
traditional: 絃
pinyin: xian2
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 弦
english:
variant of 弦/bow string/string of musical instrument/watch spring/chord (straight line joining two points on a curve)/hypotenuse


id: efaf2eb1cdc2a2249e8cd274234cdd20168fa297
simplified: 绝口不提
traditional: 絕口不提
pinyin: jue2 kou3 bu4 ti2
english:
lips sealed and not saying anything (idiom); fig. to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic)/to censor


id: a3d0dcd5281db53d3978bb721f4abfa1af10df79
simplified: 绝处逢生
traditional: 絕處逢生
pinyin: jue2 chu3 feng2 sheng1
english:
to come back from death's door (idiom); unexpected rescue from danger/fig. to recover from a seemingly impossible situation/to find a way out of a predicament


id: 3a9ebfaee7f2700f0ba7096e855f57327440ef5e
simplified: 绞
traditional: 絞
pinyin: jiao3
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to twist (strands into a thread)/to entangle/to wring/to hang (by the neck)/to turn/to wind/classifier for skeins of yarn


id: 0b23f3989ecdb9847cef4d6637f7c5067241f7d4
simplified: 给
traditional: 給
pinyin: gei3
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to/for/for the benefit of/to give/to allow/to do sth (for sb)/(grammatical equivalent of 被)/(grammatical equivalent of 把)/(sentence intensifier)


id: 61c4911e39059a4606907750fdc2be03920d5ac9
simplified: 统一口径
traditional: 統一口徑
pinyin: tong3 yi1 kou3 jing4
english:
lit. one-track path; fig. to adopt a unified approach to discussing an issue/to sing from the same hymn-sheet


id: f73e9d4cdcc33cbefb512304c5e8aed15bd788c6
simplified: 统战部
traditional: 統戰部
pinyin: tong3 zhan4 bu4
english:
United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee (UFWD)/abbr. for 統一戰線工作部|统一战线工作部[Tong3 yi1 Zhan4 xian4 Gong1 zuo4 bu4]


id: e47f1feed41c79f6cf52132e9948387721071d80
simplified: 统汉字
traditional: 統漢字
pinyin: tong3 han4 zi4
english:
Unihan/China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs/abbr. for 中日韓統一表意文字|中日韩统一表意文字[Zhong1 Ri4 Han2 tong3 yi1 biao3 yi4 wen2 zi4]


id: d11eafa39222f5493ee0d31f19b23f8db1d37a4c
simplified: 统读
traditional: 統讀
pinyin: tong3 du2
english:
standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985


id: 8832b3d83fb80e812fe62fa75206d616f0450ea2
simplified: 丝
traditional: 絲
pinyin: si1
radicalSimplified: 一
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 纟
english:
silk/thread/trace/(cuisine) shreds or julienne strips/CL:條|条[tiao2]/classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc


id: 49e3a794f424bcf8eebcdab3b159972e73b94045
simplified: 经
traditional: 經
pinyin: jing1
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 経,怇
english:
classics/sacred book/scripture/to pass through/to undergo/to bear/to endure/warp (textile)/longitude/menstruation/channel (TCM)/abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]/surname Jing


id: ca5bbd0198abd6598e4760b9b312450f27c78344
simplified: 经济协力开发机构
traditional: 經濟協力開發機構
pinyin: jing1 ji4 xie2 li4 kai1 fa1 ji1 gou4
english:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)/also written 經濟合作與發展組織|经济合作与发展组织[Jing1 ji4 He2 zuo4 yu3 Fa1 zhan3 Zu3 zhi1]


id: 8281c4d1a048ae1d52650eb974359dc19096a748
simplified: 经穴
traditional: 經穴
pinyin: jing1 xue2
english:
acupuncture point (any point on any meridian)/category of 12 specific acupuncture points near the wrist or ankle, each lying on a different meridian (one of five categories collectively termed 五輸穴|五输穴)


id: 3f9e530e8e0be656e0b1ea1d0d8e2c55f9fc60a7
simplified: 绿旗兵
traditional: 綠旗兵
pinyin: lu:4 qi2 bing1
english:
same as 綠營|绿营[lu:4 ying2], Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units


id: f47e88232a0320e9ac65fa9692e8c9eec789a9ca
simplified: 绿林
traditional: 綠林
pinyin: lu4 lin2
english:
place in Hubei, the starting point for a major rebellion at the end of Western Han/also pr. [Lu:4 lin2]


id: 399a09f145a765bab3178358564a0b532499f3be
simplified: 绿营
traditional: 綠營
pinyin: lu:4 ying2
english:
Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units


id: a22aca032a7ab43640d74bc7ad8f85821df3a267
simplified: 绿营兵
traditional: 綠營兵
pinyin: lu:4 ying2 bing1
english:
Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units


id: 344fd5e4de9c7e2b47b5a42752c7ae31aca99c3f
simplified: 绿皮车
traditional: 綠皮車
pinyin: lu:4 pi2 che1
english:
green train (slow, noisy, unairconditioned train with forest green livery and yellow trim that ran on the Chinese railway system from the 1950s, phased out in the early 21st century)


id: 02bfe69cbcb36405b45096d8188f802372065e28
simplified: 绿茶婊
traditional: 綠茶婊
pinyin: lu:4 cha2 biao3
english:
"green tea bitch", a girl who seems innocent and charming but is actually calculating and manipulative


id: 774968a47a5ca11b401168cd0785200d45b65cd5
simplified: 绿豆椪
traditional: 綠豆椪
pinyin: lu:4 dou4 peng4
english:
mung bean cake (pastry with a rounded top, containing a sweet or savory filling made with cooked mung beans)


id: 67880af40dc253fa054a22924113a1e1837914bc
simplified: 维
traditional: 維
pinyin: wei2
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to preserve/to maintain/to hold together/dimension/vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])/abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]/surname Wei


id: 7658ecdb867d502186de283ab3c85369185c0477
simplified: 维吉尔
traditional: 維吉爾
pinyin: wei2 ji2 er3
english:
Virgil or Vergilius (70-19 BC), Roman poet and author of the Aeneid 埃涅阿斯紀|埃涅阿斯纪[Ai1 nie4 a1 si1 Ji4]


id: ad2659697358ef7e67971893c4a821058e65b4f2
simplified: 维扬
traditional: 維揚
pinyin: wei2 yang2
english:
Weiyang district of Yangzhou city 揚州市|扬州市[Yang2 zhou1 shi4], Jiangsu/historical name for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1]


id: eb2d8923141a8722757b8837fdd9779b1fbdc45a
simplified: 维西傈僳族自治县
traditional: 維西傈僳族自治縣
pinyin: wei2 xi1 li4 su4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
english:
Weixi Lisu autonomous county in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州, northwest Yunnan


id: 235020cb9329ab36a9d134d9972e386c6c97b78e
simplified: 维西县
traditional: 維西縣
pinyin: wei2 xi1 xian4
english:
Weixi Lisu autonomous county 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], northwest Yunnan


id: 5e87bf1fa410424f94bf07dfb2335a1f61d29e05
simplified: 纲举目张
traditional: 綱舉目張
pinyin: gang1 ju3 mu4 zhang1
english:
if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom)/take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves/(of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered


id: 662a4b82dd6a481cd1760554cd88dbd6fbed23b7
simplified: 网罗
traditional: 網羅
pinyin: wang3 luo2
english:
net for fishing or bird catching/(fig.) fetters/to snare (a valuable new team member etc)/to bring together under the one umbrella


id: 088b37d2d3caf80d08a7510205f50fe99b730441
simplified: 网开一面
traditional: 網開一面
pinyin: wang3 kai1 yi1 mian4
english:
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly/to give one's opponent a way out/lenient treatment


id: 2bdb129c9e6c49ba60ed8541c106cb1e88188d11
simplified: 网开三面
traditional: 網開三面
pinyin: wang3 kai1 san1 mian4
english:
to leave the net open on three sides (idiom); let the caged bird fly/to give one's opponent a way out/lenient treatment


id: 86728c065305884673e44f248ac5013b19e3c477
simplified: 缀
traditional: 綴
pinyin: zhui4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to sew/to stitch together/to combine/to link/to connect/to put words together/to compose/to embellish


id: d7062aadfe1541b40bc75d25e0e0bd22a9807a29
simplified: 绮色佳
traditional: 綺色佳
pinyin: qi3 se4 jia1
english:
Ithaca, Island state of Greece, the home of Odysseus 奧迪修斯|奥迪修斯[Ao4 di2 xiu1 si1]/Ithaca NY (but pronounced [Yi3 se4 jia1]), location of Cornell University 康奈爾|康奈尔[Kang1 nai4 er3]


id: 61cbf61c6a2de75a336e5b259ed64415dbaf613d
simplified: 绵延
traditional: 綿延
pinyin: mian2 yan2
english:
continuous (esp. of mountain ranges)/to stretch long and unbroken/a continuous link/sostenuto (sustained, in music)


id: aa9fd5748df1937e1da8fd29bd998b7d7505b686
simplified: 绵里藏针
traditional: 綿裡藏針
pinyin: mian2 li3 cang2 zhen1
english:
lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom)/fig. ruthless character behind a gentle appearance/a wolf in sheep's clothing/an iron fist in a velvet glove


id: 8de28089b35c6b32d3ff88e87fa96c15da2891c0
simplified: 线
traditional: 線
pinyin: xian4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 線,綫
english:
thread/string/wire/line/CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]/(after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)


id: c954377c14fcd62b87154f4db14d5413b402fec6
simplified: 线条
traditional: 線條
pinyin: xian4 tiao2
english:
line (in drawing, calligraphy etc)/the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)


id: 8f02670d2b1838998e6137396400d6e91f1aab85
simplified: 编
traditional: 編
pinyin: bian1
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
to weave/to plait/to organize/to group/to arrange/to edit/to compile/to write/to compose/to fabricate


id: 7da5c7ccdd5e97e258421a7100c5bcbce77adf7c
simplified: 编导
traditional: 編導
pinyin: bian1 dao3
english:
to write and direct (a play, film etc)/playwright-director/choreographer-director/scenarist-director


id: b25761c31ee3e3a397e4f0d3674edec31ea23d70
simplified: 编磬
traditional: 編磬
pinyin: bian1 qing4
english:
musical instrument consisting of a set of chime stones suspended from a beam and struck as a xylophone


id: c455f97dfc398e186512cec24138bc2806a9450b
simplified: 缓
traditional: 緩
pinyin: huan3
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
slow/unhurried/sluggish/gradual/not tense/relaxed/to postpone/to defer/to stall/to stave off/to revive/to recuperate


id: c9d3ec0ca64485167cf8aabc1f75a3dc09db186b
simplified: 缓不济急
traditional: 緩不濟急
pinyin: huan3 bu4 ji4 ji2
english:
lit. slow no aid to urgent (idiom); slow measures will not address a critical situation/too slow to meet a pressing need


id: afe814c433ccb03be29c71f121651e31cf010445
simplified: 缓急轻重
traditional: 緩急輕重
pinyin: huan3 ji2 qing1 zhong4
english:
slight or important, urgent or non-urgent (idiom); to deal with important matters first/sense of priority/also written 輕重緩急|轻重缓急


id: f7337dd26f322e39599fc0cd824e37c61bf88fa2
simplified: 缩多氨酸
traditional: 縮多氨酸
pinyin: suo1 duo1 an1 suan1
english:
polypeptide, a chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein/same as 多肽[duo1 tai4]


id: b8fa0007e3a0a6e6113b44135dc3c3043f654adc
simplified: 纵
traditional: 縱
pinyin: zong4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
warp (the vertical threads in weaving)/vertical/longitudinal/north-south (lines of longitude)/lengthwise/to release/to indulge/even if


id: 0e6935c51731d3e761557e4aae92e5efb3e8e6c1
simplified: 纵横
traditional: 縱橫
pinyin: zong4 heng2
english:
lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal/length and breadth/criss-crossed/able to move unhindered/abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)


id: 5bf26caf742182edb5289a38481341b106ff40bd
simplified: 纵横家
traditional: 縱橫家
pinyin: zong4 heng2 jia1
english:
School of Diplomacy of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocates were Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2] and Zhang Yi 張儀|张仪[Zhang4 Yi2]


id: ec0d33f681350cbccb785ddf3863078970a9ebac
simplified: 纵深
traditional: 縱深
pinyin: zong4 shen1
english:
depth (from front to rear)/depth (into a territory)/span (of time)/(fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)


id: b1a4647e023b518466d65bee8958a22812358c37
simplified: 纵贯
traditional: 縱貫
pinyin: zong4 guan4
english:
lit. warp string in weaving/fig. vertical or north-south lines/to pass through/to cross lengthwise/to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom)


id: dd9a41968c32e6ec8ada0198361dcadc23587d42
simplified: 缕
traditional: 縷
pinyin: lu:3
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
english:
strand/thread/detailed/in detail/classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)


id: 6c0b16844d368efc5a6602a79e90b24ea822c407
simplified: 总监
traditional: 總監
pinyin: zong3 jian1
english:
head/director (of an organizational unit)/(police) commissioner/inspector-general/rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration


id: b90a9861be31fc5350305d6af7b60b74936cb7ea
simplified: 织女星
traditional: 織女星
pinyin: zhi1 nu:3 xing1
english:
Vega, brightest star in constellation Lyra 天琴星座/Weaving girl of folk tale Cowherd and weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女


id: d03c4c335af49ac7d2ae9e8fa170a80f8d0c91ca
simplified: 绕
traditional: 繞
pinyin: rao4
radicalSimplified: 纟
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 遶
english:
to wind/to coil (thread)/to rotate around/to spiral/to move around/to go round (an obstacle)/to by-pass/to make a detour/to confuse/to perplex


id: 1dec5e492b9fe934b4cf20572aca8666894a3d5a
simplified: 绕弯子
traditional: 繞彎子
pinyin: rao4 wan1 zi5
english:
lit. to go on a long detour/fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point/to beat about the bush


id: 196b518fc4ab6788ae2b58694d1561e92da71693
simplified: 绕梁三日
traditional: 繞梁三日
pinyin: rao4 liang2 san1 ri4
english:
reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)


id: 4450a8229e56f6fe7f52b2f24f7efa5097265e35
simplified: 绕腾
traditional: 繞騰
pinyin: rao4 teng5
english:
to run a long way around/fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point/to beat about the bush


id: cb37649ce64a7d28cfc83cc9494748107f1b6cbd
simplified: 𦈡
traditional: 繻
pinyin: xu1
english:
multicolored silk/piece of silk torn in two, used to verify the holder's identity by matching up the two halves


id: dd409959b56b80dd4433ac3cf882f3502e6bc971
simplified: 续弦
traditional: 續弦
pinyin: xu4 xian2
english:
to remarry (of a widow)/second wife/qin and se 琴瑟[qin2 se4], two string instruments as a symbol of marital harmony


id: 9adc7583821160c76ae3b079e8f91d16aabb3ea5
simplified: 缠头
traditional: 纏頭
pinyin: chan2 tou2
english:
embroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group/to reward an actor with brocade headband


id: b9cc1db831c5419f40ca49a07fd11463c329a323
simplified: 才
traditional: 纔
pinyin: cai2
radicalSimplified: 手
radicalTraditional: 糸
variants: 纔,財,才
english:
a moment ago/just now/(indicating sth happening later than expected)/(preceded by a clause of condition or reason) not until/(followed by a numerical clause) only


id: 6cd260a7a4ddded5412403fcb1ca94a49a56e0c4
simplified: 缺德
traditional: 缺德
pinyin: que1 de2
english:
to be lacking in moral sense/to lack common basic respect for others/lacking in virtue/mischievous/wicked/cruel/mean


id: 217bc0871e9416b623b7a370de845b391f2bb4fd
simplified: 缺角
traditional: 缺角
pinyin: que1 jiao3
english:
(of a square shape, such as a house plan) to have a corner missing/(fig.) to lack something/missing piece


id: a629ca51afdc7973b778a58d42c35b24b88f52c6
simplified: 罄竹难书
traditional: 罄竹難書
pinyin: qing4 zhu2 nan2 shu1
english:
so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted/innumerable crimes (idiom)/see also 罄筆難書|罄笔难书[qing4 bi3 nan2 shu1]


id: ae5bbe87078ae41932c37b1cfc46e8af01d62f6a
simplified: 罄笔难书
traditional: 罄筆難書
pinyin: qing4 bi3 nan2 shu1
english:
too numerous to be cited (of atrocities or misdeeds) (idiom)/see also 罄竹難書|罄竹难书[qing4 zhu2 nan2 shu1]


id: 79619c963ca464206bba86a1f4235c199a5ff522
simplified: 罪有应得
traditional: 罪有應得
pinyin: zui4 you3 ying1 de2
english:
guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement/the punishment fits the crime


id: 4a5c1da8811f3750fc635ae21b0724c36d91a1c0
simplified: 置之死地
traditional: 置之死地
pinyin: zhi4 zhi1 si3 di4
english:
to place sb on field of death/to confront with mortal danger/to give sb no way out/with one's back to the wall/looking death in the eye/part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生


id: e5661fb7fcc5ee758afa81449eabb1dec25dce9a
simplified: 置之死地而后生
traditional: 置之死地而後生
pinyin: zhi4 zhi1 si3 di4 er2 hou4 sheng1
english:
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger/fig. to find a way out of an impasse


id: f779c9fda2eb7ae3d23d27b1eba01213f15c84e2
simplified: 罗伯斯庇尔
traditional: 羅伯斯庇爾
pinyin: luo2 bo2 si1 bi4 er3
english:
Robespierre (name)/Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794


id: 5c439627032a4e67d99bbac2508ee40e709d61fa
simplified: 罗斯
traditional: 羅斯
pinyin: luo2 si1
english:
Roth (name)/Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察[Ren2 quan2 Guan1 cha2]


id: 16f581275d702dc74eb696a03973f9a75e6b7d73
simplified: 罗斯托夫
traditional: 羅斯托夫
pinyin: luo2 si1 tuo1 fu1
english:
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)


id: 5046f16bd0922ecbfcca3e5358f8f8e6e715da6e
simplified: 罗斯福
traditional: 羅斯福
pinyin: luo2 si1 fu2
english:
Roosevelt (name)/Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909/Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945


id: 13fb0e45e8e67de67bbef02a1acf522ad692ff4f
simplified: 罗汉果
traditional: 羅漢果
pinyin: luo2 han4 guo3
english:
sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii (formerly Momordica grosvenori, a gourd of the Curcubitaceae family), grown in Guangxi and used in Chinese medicine


id: 0dfcc16ab60ba7a059683b5a17875ca2b0e8b307
simplified: 罗生门
traditional: 羅生門
pinyin: luo2 sheng1 men2
english:
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie/(fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth/unsolvable case


id: 45fe3d9027c050d936b07d61e57fbf1a0fc206aa
simplified: 罗素
traditional: 羅素
pinyin: luo2 su4
english:
Russell (name)/Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist


id: 611735ba9eefee57807dd5a7b9ecb62ab8db5d40
simplified: 羊肠小道
traditional: 羊腸小道
pinyin: yang2 chang2 xiao3 dao4
english:
road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road/fig. complicated and tricky job


id: c8cb8d3bd18cbc2f9a99bcda25a31376e0113b81
simplified: 羊触藩篱
traditional: 羊觸藩籬
pinyin: yang2 chu4 fan1 li2
english:
lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat/without any way out of a dilemma/trapped/in an impossible situation


id: 51938ff8e107eb463cacf21440075b15fd9de513
simplified: 羊质虎皮
traditional: 羊質虎皮
pinyin: yang2 zhi4 hu3 pi2
english:
lit. the heart of a sheep in the skin of a tiger (idiom)/fig. impressive in appearance but lacking in substance/braggart


id: 034d23c302a3808574f922ef6a6fa7dbf1963083
simplified: 羌
traditional: 羌
pinyin: qiang1
radicalSimplified: 羊
radicalTraditional: 羊
variants: 羗
english:
muntjac/grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)/Qiang ethnic group of northwestern Sichuan/surname Qiang


id: 4ad285779d70a5e37d5c05c88a1ed344692eba03
simplified: 美
traditional: 美
pinyin: mei3
radicalSimplified: 羊
radicalTraditional: 羊
variants: 羙
english:
beautiful/very satisfactory/good/to beautify/to be pleased with oneself/the Americas/abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]/USA/abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2]


id: b14965fdac6b776b86b2c5772518a3c0dd265095
simplified: 美姑
traditional: 美姑
pinyin: mei3 gu1
english:
Meigu 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: a3cfd1d8e37d526f7d8bd01da35f8030a0e48319
simplified: 美容
traditional: 美容
pinyin: mei3 rong2
english:
to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery)/to make oneself more attractive/to beautify


id: 8385afaefb06d395162a78bc5c8f401511577d24
simplified: 美帝
traditional: 美帝
pinyin: mei3 di4
english:
(in early CPC propaganda) United States (as an imperialist nation)/(in more recent times) a neutral, colloquial term for the United States


id: a2d9ecbe9406d6b895f7efd7761dc1cb3c59eb85
simplified: 美洲
traditional: 美洲
pinyin: mei3 zhou1
english:
America (including North, Central and South America)/the Americas/abbr. for 亞美利加洲|亚美利加洲[Ya4 mei3 li4 jia1 Zhou1]


id: c07df101c0e6b2b16b52f35ae119756a370be93b
simplified: 美编
traditional: 美編
pinyin: mei3 bian1
english:
(publishing) (abbr. for 美術編輯|美术编辑[mei3 shu4 bian1 ji2]) layout and graphics/graphic design/art editor/graphic designer


id: bcf332028f952385dfb9246c8b99504f326ed8bf
simplified: 美丽岛
traditional: 美麗島
pinyin: mei3 li4 dao3
english:
Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Isle", the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544)


id: 2a93c1260d8ce72f2fe5555a35782c071366020d
simplified: 群众路线
traditional: 群眾路線
pinyin: qun2 zhong4 lu4 xian4
english:
the mass line, CPC term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses


id: 5611cfaf77200a39212ad61f5bc8480c360cdc41
simplified: 群体性事件
traditional: 群體性事件
pinyin: qun2 ti3 xing4 shi4 jian4
english:
mass incident (PRC term for incidents of social unrest, including rioting, melees and petition campaigns)


id: fc9b221132e9d6584a2ee5fd63a645ab8bd870bc
simplified: 义
traditional: 義
pinyin: yi4
radicalSimplified: 丿
radicalTraditional: 羊
variants: 義,义
english:
justice/righteousness/meaning/foster (father etc)/adopted/artificial (tooth, limb etc)/relationship/friendship/surname Yi/(Tw) abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4], Italy


id: 311d9c76724f72e4a205ae14ea7363ba541fd741
simplified: 义无反顾
traditional: 義無反顧
pinyin: yi4 wu2 fan3 gu4
english:
honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back/no surrender/to pursue justice with no second thoughts


id: 405c74ff3d2f83c903261c9719438ef8d4c1ef0f
simplified: 义译
traditional: 義譯
pinyin: yi4 yi4
english:
formation of a loanword using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯|音译[yin1 yi4]) (e.g. 超文本[chao1 wen2 ben3], 火車|火车[huo3 che1])


id: 58d2812be2d3d63006b562c9b58c146b71c77fd8
simplified: 羯
traditional: 羯
pinyin: jie2
radicalSimplified: 羊
radicalTraditional: 羊
english:
ram, esp. gelded/to castrate/deer's skin/Jie people, originally a branch of the Tokhara 月支[Yue4 zhi1]/also general term for non-Han people


id: e11acf4fe4fe3125ac605857be3b9b28e8ed447f
simplified: 羯鼓催花
traditional: 羯鼓催花
pinyin: jie2 gu3 cui1 hua1
english:
drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom


id: 73a67aeade8d6fd6633f1eb1cf212ffc665dd237
simplified: 羲皇上人
traditional: 羲皇上人
pinyin: xi1 huang2 shang4 ren2
english:
lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1]/person from ages immemorial/fig. untroubled person


id: 94665b2f63ae85227d0877f1dfd2560a1794d70b
simplified: 羹藜含糗
traditional: 羹藜含糗
pinyin: geng1 li2 han2 qiu3
english:
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet/à la guerre comme à la guerre


id: 6e9541dc45cf991dd0a2801430ef610887e0c9e1
simplified: 羽化
traditional: 羽化
pinyin: yu3 hua4
english:
levitation (of Daoist immortal)/to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven/(in Daoism) to become immortal/to die/of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form/eclosion


id: 3e846d90c7f43af2f82db257b01f6a6162946ff5
simplified: 翅膀硬了
traditional: 翅膀硬了
pinyin: chi4 bang3 ying4 le5
english:
(of a bird) to have become fully fledged/(fig.) (of a person) to have grown up (and become independent)/to be ready to spread one's wings


id: 97d1b15bb6b1d753af1570be2f2ddf769f6a497a
simplified: 翎子
traditional: 翎子
pinyin: ling2 zi5
english:
peacock feathers on an official's hat displaying his rank (traditional)/pheasant tail feathers on warriors' helmets (opera)


id: 9f6e781d1b3abda013642ba261e5a2746af2325c
simplified: 习惯自然
traditional: 習慣自然
pinyin: xi2 guan4 zi4 ran2
english:
habit becomes nature (idiom); get used to something and it seems inevitable/second nature/same as 習慣成自然|习惯成自然


id: cef1a7d250e9e23f2ff5476d5b051d39cfd8f99a
simplified: 习近平
traditional: 習近平
pinyin: xi2 jin4 ping2
english:
Xi Jinping (1953-), PRC politician, General Secretary of the CPC from 2012, president of the PRC from 2013


id: 969646b9f03c98264bb75c60876ada446b250c3c
simplified: 翟
traditional: 翟
pinyin: di2
radicalSimplified: 羽
radicalTraditional: 羽
english:
long-tail pheasant/surname Di/variant of 狄[Di2], generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)


id: 6c0c78f9e47b5ae1f840855d100f3cc97274188d
simplified: 翟理斯
traditional: 翟理斯
pinyin: zhai2 li3 si1
english:
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system


id: a3b8fbb0368a355c99d796496754a28f14a20f6c
simplified: 翰林
traditional: 翰林
pinyin: han4 lin2
english:
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院


id: dc098b714ad670f3ee9c41c35d761a93bd25dea6
simplified: 翘足引领
traditional: 翹足引領
pinyin: qiao2 zu2 yin3 ling3
english:
waiting on tiptoes and craning one's neck (idiom)/to look forward eagerly/to long for/also pr. [qiao4 zu2 yin3 ling3]


id: 36a52982d30b79de90d25a38c4f1bc84fb824220
simplified: 翻
traditional: 翻
pinyin: fan1
radicalSimplified: 羽
radicalTraditional: 羽
variants: 繙
english:
to turn over/to flip over/to overturn/to rummage through/to translate/to decode/to double/to climb over or into/to cross


id: b04a9c6062ba869d49811f18688b8d4c66a33a21
simplified: 翻动
traditional: 翻動
pinyin: fan1 dong4
english:
to flip over/to turn (a page)/to scroll (an electronic document)/to stir (food in a pot etc)/to move things about/to rummage


id: bfed632d8a5895d3b06e8885fa3bc6bd9dde2f9a
simplified: 翻手为云覆手变雨
traditional: 翻手為雲覆手變雨
pinyin: fan1 shou3 wei2 yun2 fu4 shou3 bian4 yu3
english:
lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain/very powerful and capable (idiom)


id: 95dcb6ee5460a0b5450ec6a14a7fb915c62f172d
simplified: 翻拍
traditional: 翻拍
pinyin: fan1 pai1
english:
to reproduce photographically/to duplicate/to adapt (as a movie)/to remake (a movie)/adaptation/reproduction/remake


id: 1d98a58051ae3fce776317b1fa87646e2057c92f
simplified: 翻译
traditional: 翻譯
pinyin: fan1 yi4
english:
to translate/to interpret/translator/interpreter/translation/interpretation/CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]


id: b2d540511c7ca8dde56c4b57b4d5942a0009229d
simplified: 翻身
traditional: 翻身
pinyin: fan1 shen1
english:
to turn over (when lying)/(fig.) to free oneself/to emancipate oneself/to bring about a change of one's fortunes


id: f91746710c553f38c803d4f1663ae1c763ddb196
simplified: 翻云覆雨
traditional: 翻雲覆雨
pinyin: fan1 yun2 fu4 yu3
english:
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground/tricky and inconstant/to make love


id: a62542293fba71be29a627805a35c39a3b678796
simplified: 翼
traditional: 翼
pinyin: yi4
radicalSimplified: 羽
radicalTraditional: 羽
variants: 折
english:
wing/area surrounding the bullseye of a target/to assist/one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy/old variant of 翌/surname Yi/alternative name for 絳|绛[Jiang4] capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)


id: 0047e4d1ce33cc12b7813a121a6ed05d6caa11d6
simplified: 老
traditional: 老
pinyin: lao3
radicalSimplified: 老
radicalTraditional: 老
variants: 耂
english:
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity/old (of people)/venerable (person)/experienced/of long standing/always/all the time/of the past/very/outdated/(of meat etc) tough


id: 9af0ee923738ada0bfb9d0201f05d7627b3c448d
simplified: 老佛爷
traditional: 老佛爺
pinyin: lao3 fo2 ye2
english:
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father/nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]


id: 246b273ad789c0e93254c353d3c0902bccc05977
simplified: 老君
traditional: 老君
pinyin: lao3 jun1
english:
Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism/the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi


id: 0aadadc2343456d869b6feb108be8f7b7864f895
simplified: 老城区
traditional: 老城區
pinyin: lao3 cheng2 qu1
english:
old city district/historical center/Laocheng district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市[Luo4 yang2 shi4], Henan


id: f012326e3268f75ebf7129688b3081b28cc99d9a
simplified: 老大
traditional: 老大
pinyin: lao3 da4
english:
old age/very/eldest child in a family/leader of a group/boss/captain of a boat/leader of a criminal gang


id: d78a32f87e24457c3dbfc931a336d385caf4a1c6
simplified: 老天爷饿不死瞎家雀
traditional: 老天爺餓不死瞎家雀
pinyin: lao3 tian1 ye2 e4 bu4 si3 xia1 jia1 que4
english:
lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom)/fig. don't give up hope/if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel


id: 97f5e14abee40ea7f70d5172cb11abe831a8f98c
simplified: 老奶奶
traditional: 老奶奶
pinyin: lao3 nai3 nai5
english:
(coll.) father's father's mother/paternal great-grandmother/respectful form of address for an old woman


id: f4fcaf5e93063567e8a1c2de027063474d29727d
simplified: 老子英雄儿好汉，老子反动儿混蛋
traditional: 老子英雄兒好漢，老子反動兒混蛋
pinyin: lao3 zi5 ying1 xiong2 er2 hao3 han4 , lao3 zi5 fan3 dong4 er2 hun2 dan4
english:
If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan)/fig. like father, like son


id: 9498802630087cbfb1f702deaea1a895d73d0791
simplified: 老将
traditional: 老將
pinyin: lao3 jiang4
english:
lit. old general/commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess/fig. old-timer/veteran


id: 77ffb978910ccd2c988f332f76978d4ffc6dd54c
simplified: 老少无欺
traditional: 老少無欺
pinyin: lao3 shao4 wu2 qi1
english:
cheating neither old nor young/treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously/Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.


id: 27fb6c0aa275f2bc2f08d12840e4fece7630a8b8
simplified: 老本
traditional: 老本
pinyin: lao3 ben3
english:
capital/assets/savings/nest egg/(fig.) reputation/laurels (to rest upon)/old edition of a book/(tree) trunk


id: 212559b8905a40a597e29cb2a6edd8c2de860e4c
simplified: 老牛吃嫩草
traditional: 老牛吃嫩草
pinyin: lao3 niu2 chi1 nen4 cao3
english:
lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom)/fig. a May-December relationship/a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman


id: efb232734bad2542aee8031f21e46876eda1cfbd
simplified: 老虎凳
traditional: 老虎凳
pinyin: lao3 hu3 deng4
english:
tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse)


id: ab8a167992ece78ca85389b55bfb17b80d88995b
simplified: 老虎菜
traditional: 老虎菜
pinyin: lao3 hu3 cai4
english:
"Tiger Vegetable Salad," Northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek


id: 070c7385c606f9d4d57db0de1cfb446170d6aa17
simplified: 老头乐
traditional: 老頭樂
pinyin: lao3 tou2 le4
english:
backscratcher (made from bamboo etc)/(may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc)


id: 2b585bd25bf19cd24f7f3aad0bb2e4e7bc3dbd68
simplified: 老马识途
traditional: 老馬識途
pinyin: lao3 ma3 shi2 tu2
english:
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do/an old hand knows the ropes


id: 35051a0d6740d7ac0d3983badea7873debf10ee0
simplified: 老骥伏枥
traditional: 老驥伏櫪
pinyin: lao3 ji4 fu2 li4
english:
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations


id: 5e1fea6cd5f6fc4932d71546020910e6f3cc294a
simplified: 老骥伏枥，志在千里
traditional: 老驥伏櫪，志在千里
pinyin: lao3 ji4 fu2 li4 , zhi4 zai4 qian1 li3
english:
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations


id: 310b12bb47cc3667b15bd227f7881630b6c7ce72
simplified: 老鼠拖木锨，大头在后头
traditional: 老鼠拖木鍁，大頭在後頭
pinyin: lao3 shu3 tuo1 mu4 xian1 , da4 tou2 zai4 hou4 tou5
english:
when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second/the tip of the iceberg/the cockroach principle


id: 073cd25113b319bea8a466c7a3e09ab003413c3c
simplified: 考克斯报告
traditional: 考克斯報告
pinyin: kao3 ke4 si1 bao4 gao4
english:
Cox Report/Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military-Commercial Concerns with the PRC (1999); Committee Chairman Republican Rep. Chris Cox


id: eb207dd59e631ecf4bd822d8fb1e5b5ebdabec80
simplified: 考工记
traditional: 考工記
pinyin: kao3 gong1 ji4
english:
The Artificer's Record, a technology treaty compiled towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period


id: f35bb9c9b01a1ed0305a68d49aea2beeb0b20281
simplified: 考试院
traditional: 考試院
pinyin: kao3 shi4 yuan4
english:
Examination Yuan, the qualification and appointment board under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan/exam board


id: 0489d52cff8ed2ff90bd2a6182c836f496178388
simplified: 者
traditional: 者
pinyin: zhe3
radicalSimplified: 老
radicalTraditional: 老
english:
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) .../(after a noun) person involved in .../-er/-ist/(used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously)/(used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)/(old) (used at the end of a command)/(old) this


id: 90ae3264631c10551e64f141a5205f5e343c7e8e
simplified: 而
traditional: 而
pinyin: er2
radicalSimplified: 而
radicalTraditional: 而
english:
and/as well as/and so/but (not)/yet (not)/(indicates causal relation)/(indicates change of state)/(indicates contrast)


id: 5aa7beb3c84eda8d7afbf50e987f2647315b3131
simplified: 耍无赖
traditional: 耍無賴
pinyin: shua3 wu2 lai4
english:
to act shamelessly/to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disapproval


id: 36fe2f203e0bd9b8cba64156f393712b600a1a2c
simplified: 耍贫嘴
traditional: 耍貧嘴
pinyin: shua3 pin2 zui3
english:
(coll.) to wag one's tongue/to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes/to chatter endlessly/to speak glibly


id: 587e2f32553aca7028779a55d93eb876e529b289
simplified: 耍赖
traditional: 耍賴
pinyin: shua3 lai4
english:
to act shamelessly/to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc/to act dumb/to act as if sth never happened


id: 21ceba9b9427836d72c3adbe03a9cc298f7ae337
simplified: 耐操
traditional: 耐操
pinyin: nai4 cao1
english:
(Tw) (of a person) to have stamina/(of a product) durable/(mainland China) (vulgar) (usu. of a woman) alternative form of 耐肏 (enthusiastic as a sexual partner)


id: b0c4099c0716354416bfa87302b2865581974c95
simplified: 耕当问奴
traditional: 耕當問奴
pinyin: geng1 dang1 wen4 nu2
english:
if it's plowing, ask the laborer (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist


id: 2fffe0bae43ee1033a20fc5a899efa0bc454e583
simplified: 耕当问奴，织当访婢
traditional: 耕當問奴，織當訪婢
pinyin: geng1 dang1 wen4 nu2 , zhi1 dang1 fang3 bi4
english:
if it's plowing ask the laborer, if it's weaving ask the maid (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist


id: 333c500434e58df525f564fe61e87c65f56640f0
simplified: 耳听为虚，眼见为实
traditional: 耳聽為虛，眼見為實
pinyin: er3 ting1 wei2 xu1 , yan3 jian4 wei2 shi2
english:
Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself./It ain't necessarily so.


id: b5a5c3799a6e79317463446fe87d47b83eb5f142
simplified: 耶律大石
traditional: 耶律大石
pinyin: ye1 lu:4 da4 shi2
english:
Yollig Taxin or Yelü Dashi (1087-1143), Chinese-educated Khitan leader, founder of Western Liao 西遼|西辽 in Central Asia


id: 55c900afdc0b00646c1dc9ae5c0812d69170bf15
simplified: 耶律楚材
traditional: 耶律楚材
pinyin: ye1 lu:4 chu3 cai2
english:
Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it


id: 89502fb24212ed15011c6a81597649658b29b53b
simplified: 耶洗别
traditional: 耶洗別
pinyin: ye1 xi3 bie2
english:
Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶|耶户[Ye1 hu4]


id: 7a86bd1a000a57395d60b68a96e1d560d6e7d9e7
simplified: 圣像
traditional: 聖像
pinyin: sheng4 xiang4
english:
icon/iconic/religious image/figure (of Confucius, Buddha, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary etc)/CL:張|张[zhang1]


id: d7d19541cebc6ef6d5ba097c8eb474aff9899202
simplified: 圣地
traditional: 聖地
pinyin: sheng4 di4
english:
holy land (of a religion)/sacred place/shrine/holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc)/center of historic interest


id: cab03d36ed2bcee6bc3c1f06edb28e1e21993aaa
simplified: 圣奥古斯丁
traditional: 聖奧古斯丁
pinyin: sheng4 ao4 gu3 si1 ding1
english:
St Augustine/Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher/Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany


id: f388bf4ff775bb8a13da188b2a6a5ddd5f8dce45
simplified: 圣女贞德
traditional: 聖女貞德
pinyin: sheng4 nu:3 zhen1 de2
english:
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English


id: 1dd4ce73ac264237f64de6b00b9710aa822fa507
simplified: 圣德太子
traditional: 聖德太子
pinyin: sheng4 de2 tai4 zi3
english:
Prince Shōtoku Taiji (574-621), major Japanese statesman and reformer of the Asuka period 飛鳥時代|飞鸟时代[Fei1 niao3 Shi2 dai4], proponent of state Buddhism, portrayed as Buddhist saint


id: 3412d17e2786552d3f5aa8c17e7ce9714b1b1196
simplified: 圣母峰
traditional: 聖母峰
pinyin: sheng4 mu3 feng1
english:
Goddess peak (Nepalese: Sagarmatha, Sky Goddess)/refers to Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan), Chinese 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰/Mt Everest


id: eb7f2d28dd7081db43161b6ded068a176b4ffa80
simplified: 圣祖
traditional: 聖祖
pinyin: sheng4 zu3
english:
divine ancester/patron saint/Shengzu, temple name of the second Qing emperor, known as the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722)/cf. 康熙[Kang1 xi1]


id: 4d188538b3975887754e011f5683b73515911a1f
simplified: 圣神
traditional: 聖神
pinyin: sheng4 shen2
english:
feudal term of praise for ruler, king or emperor/general term for saint in former times/term for God during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国/Holy Spirit (in Christian Trinity)


id: 7f6328180f2d115c541f01154f5684e975d9e5ce
simplified: 聘问
traditional: 聘問
pinyin: pin4 wen4
english:
international exchange of visits/to visit as envoy/to visit as family representative for purpose of marriage arrangement (traditional culture)


id: 9f20abca510d55ea521c332a4d2b2d3eca3e79a6
simplified: 聚敛
traditional: 聚斂
pinyin: ju4 lian3
english:
to accumulate/to gather/to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means/(science) convergent


id: 73bb6384f9a5962fd89e45c6391cc2f626db60cd
simplified: 聚沙成塔
traditional: 聚沙成塔
pinyin: ju4 sha1 cheng2 ta3
english:
sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity/many a mickle makes a muckle


id: f255d1c1ddfa816b18c3797cc14d65e180d55be4
simplified: 聚萤映雪
traditional: 聚螢映雪
pinyin: ju4 ying2 ying4 xue3
english:
lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background/burning the midnight oil


id: eb0ed0d38d847172cf0e578f200e50f11bf9a163
simplified: 闻一知十
traditional: 聞一知十
pinyin: wen2 yi1 zhi1 shi2
english:
lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything/a word to the wise


id: 55d391e21cae01bf942518db103f7199f388b7da
simplified: 联大
traditional: 聯大
pinyin: lian2 da4
english:
abbr. for 聯合國大會|联合国大会[Lian2 he2 guo2 Da4 hui4], United Nations General Assembly/abbr. for 國立西南聯合大學|国立西南联合大学[Guo2 li4 Xi1 nan2 Lian2 he2 Da4 xue2], National Southwest Combined University


id: 7a3489419f21374b159153fb0da01d4c289f6873
simplified: 联想
traditional: 聯想
pinyin: lian2 xiang3
english:
to associate (cognitively)/to make an associative connection/mental association/word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs/abbr. for 聯想集團|联想集团[Lian2 xiang3 Ji2 tuan2]


id: cb9002ffac73aca88754e2906d7c6f1144013ed4
simplified: 联产到户
traditional: 聯產到戶
pinyin: lian2 chan3 dao4 hu4
english:
household responsibility system, introduced in the early 1980s, under which each rural household could freely decide what to produce and how to sell, as long as it fulfilled its quota of products to the state


id: e9a705eaac5ce85007b1a1ba53f2e933f2defd95
simplified: 联通
traditional: 聯通
pinyin: lian2 tong1
english:
connection/link/to link together/China United Telecommunications Corporation/aka China Unicom or Unicom/abbr. for 中國聯通|中国联通


id: 9c6c686bdf5fea9d0bdc799d0b442068fdc77fa7
simplified: 聪明反被聪明误
traditional: 聰明反被聰明誤
pinyin: cong1 ming2 fan3 bei4 cong1 ming2 wu4
english:
a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself/too smart for one's own good


id: 2b217cd822f8ff46a7aa92895548632a64783b2a
simplified: 声类
traditional: 聲類
pinyin: sheng1 lei4
english:
Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day)


id: 71eb831d0608262935b7013e97552ad7fafa4735
simplified: 聂荣
traditional: 聶榮
pinyin: nie4 rong2
english:
Nyainrong county, Tibetan: Gnyan rong rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet


id: bb5337346a86115708e3bf0cf8658bcf108428f9
simplified: 聂耳
traditional: 聶耳
pinyin: nie4 er3
english:
Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲


id: c4964a2970d3bd510b4485a782be492573192322
simplified: 听来
traditional: 聽來
pinyin: ting1 lai2
english:
to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc)/to ring (true)/to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression)/to hear from somewhere


id: 216b2b11fb8eb6d758b1982a4bc2b0ca416e626c
simplified: 听其言而观其行
traditional: 聽其言而觀其行
pinyin: ting1 qi2 yan2 er2 guan1 qi2 xing2
english:
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions


id: 506463afda748ebbc5c8c88578f53e77e25d3a25
simplified: 听小骨
traditional: 聽小骨
pinyin: ting1 xiao3 gu3
english:
ossicles (of the middle ear)/three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨


id: 37390c87a1dbd52629bd73450e139ba1c64945f3
simplified: 听见风就是雨
traditional: 聽見風就是雨
pinyin: ting1 jian4 feng1 jiu4 shi4 yu3
english:
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain/to agree uncritically with whatever people say/to parrot other people's words/to chime in with others


id: 1b5c2321e1e0714da103e0a140e81ee97c4f6b09
simplified: 肃反
traditional: 肅反
pinyin: su4 fan3
english:
purge of counterrevolutionary elements (esp. Stalin's purges of the 1930 and Mao's purges 1955-57)/abbr. for 肅清反革命份子|肃清反革命分子


id: 88db4501c1d21ee879a424b880c527484f08c221
simplified: 肃反运动
traditional: 肅反運動
pinyin: su4 fan3 yun4 dong4
english:
purge of counterrevolutionary elements (esp. Stalin's purges of the 1930 and Mao's purges 1955-57)/abbr. for 肅反肅清反革命份子|肃清反革命分子运动


id: b119f0a469161173fb0c028c34aa513428f3c609
simplified: 肃清反革命分子
traditional: 肅清反革命份子
pinyin: su4 qing1 fan3 ge2 ming4 fen4 zi3
english:
purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Stalin's purges of the 1930 and Mao's purges 1955-57)/abbr. to 肅反|肃反


id: 26eb3b9d837a710f556945d96afc58ab8f2d16dc
simplified: 肉蒲团
traditional: 肉蒲團
pinyin: rou4 pu2 tuan2
english:
The Carnal Prayer Mat, Chinese erotic novel from 17th century, usually attributed to Li Yu 李漁|李渔[Li3 Yu3]


id: c4e5a32cd2e3b356e44714bb13fd38c6b79ed5cf
simplified: 肉豆蔻
traditional: 肉豆蔻
pinyin: rou4 dou4 kou4
english:
nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt)/mace/Myristicaceae (family of plants producing aromatic or hallucinogenic oils)


id: 1e7d716b03dfdb73e7d14c3025b388cdb6a5ccdd
simplified: 肘腋
traditional: 肘腋
pinyin: zhou3 ye4
english:
lit. armpit/elbow and armpit/fig. right up close (to a disaster)/in one's backyard/on one's doorstep


id: c6114854a2b4a2e0f554eae3e21c3cce1808949c
simplified: 股
traditional: 股
pinyin: gu3
radicalSimplified: 肉
radicalTraditional: 肉
variants: 脵,晶
english:
thigh/part of a whole/portion of a sum/(stock) share/strand of a thread/low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]/classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc/classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff/classifier for bands of people, gangs etc/classifier for sudden forceful actions


id: e77b86ee37d299fb6311485239f8fe3ad8937577
simplified: 股癣
traditional: 股癬
pinyin: gu3 xuan3
english:
tinea cruris, fungal skin infection of the groin/dermatomycosis, esp. sexually transmitted/jock itch


id: 7ab6be79b6a7d8b89497adf0827d8ca9099b3bfa
simplified: 股长
traditional: 股長
pinyin: gu3 zhang3
english:
person in charge of a 股[gu3] (section or department)/head/chief/director/(in a class in a school) student responsible for a specific duty, e.g. 風紀股長|风纪股长[feng1 ji4 gu3 zhang3] discipline monitor


id: 90e599a200651e976796a4d0b61b40953997b11a
simplified: 肥水不流外人田
traditional: 肥水不流外人田
pinyin: fei2 shui3 bu4 liu2 wai4 ren2 tian2
english:
lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field/fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb)


id: 7742e2bfc5a7fa42f47f6a2416a27ca22e4fe9f0
simplified: 肯定
traditional: 肯定
pinyin: ken3 ding4
english:
to be certain/to be positive/assuredly/definitely/to give recognition/to affirm/affirmative (answer)


id: 2a917cd3e4908ce068419c2f7481b7829085df9d
simplified: 背
traditional: 背
pinyin: bei4
radicalSimplified: 肉
radicalTraditional: 肉
variants: 絣
english:
the back of a body or object/to turn one's back/to hide something from/to learn by heart/to recite from memory/unlucky (slang)/hard of hearing


id: 4daa5713ab1de113188c8c40de4254a12a908eac
simplified: 背城借一
traditional: 背城借一
pinyin: bei4 cheng2 jie4 yi1
english:
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch/to put up a desperate struggle


id: a4b693ecd6a765cc9aa1bccf8d5bd2da1457b83b
simplified: 背影杀手
traditional: 背影殺手
pinyin: bei4 ying3 sha1 shou3
english:
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind/sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face/abbr. to 背殺|背杀[bei4 sha1]


id: 03b6cc4d63fcea4893f5f82cdf641b19ed5b53fe
simplified: 背杀
traditional: 背殺
pinyin: bei4 sha1
english:
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind/sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face/abbr. for 背影殺手|背影杀手[bei4 ying3 sha1 shou3]


id: 1cec3123328a0a410d2e74d0958c287449b5ef82
simplified: 背部
traditional: 背部
pinyin: bei4 bu4
english:
back (rear part of the torso)/back (the area of a vertebrate animal's body on either side of the backbone)/(anatomy) dorsum


id: 0fbfd500adbfaa5e8ddf180c456c96ba4207e4a4
simplified: 胎体
traditional: 胎體
pinyin: tai1 ti3
english:
(in ceramics, lacquerware etc) the base (made of clay, metal, bamboo etc) onto which a glaze, lacquer or other decorative elements are applied


id: a97f64dbf415a94dcc966f02767ec32a078839ac
simplified: 胡
traditional: 胡
pinyin: hu2
radicalSimplified: 肉
radicalTraditional: 肉
variants: 楜
english:
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia/reckless/outrageous/what?/why?/to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])/surname Hu


id: 7fb055f846f93bc7512232b3cd754db36fce6580
simplified: 胡佛
traditional: 胡佛
pinyin: hu2 fo2
english:
Hoover (name)/Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933)


id: 72b3141e54a710e3b7bd10bc435fc97decab8c7c
simplified: 胡来
traditional: 胡來
pinyin: hu2 lai2
english:
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules/to mess with sth/to make a hash of things/to cause trouble


id: 6d9855b9ba671c2198a69d4d23e3b1ed4312b9aa
simplified: 胡克
traditional: 胡克
pinyin: hu2 ke4
english:
Hook or Hooke (name)/Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor


id: 557c43574066114ff3f2269d3ff003680cdcf517
simplified: 胡温新政
traditional: 胡溫新政
pinyin: hu2 wen1 xin1 zheng4
english:
Hu-Wen New Administration (formed in 2003), ostensibly reform-oriented leadership of Hu Jintao 胡錦濤|胡锦涛[Hu2 Jin3 tao1] and Wen Jiabao 溫家寶|温家宝[Wen1 Jia1 bao3]


id: 7e04142847c62a7113f9dcea5b94d94215e1fcaf
simplified: 胡琴
traditional: 胡琴
pinyin: hu2 qin5
english:
huqin/family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring


id: 07574a884b71f9542b520addae78f9e39ebe9310
simplified: 胯下之辱
traditional: 胯下之辱
pinyin: kua4 xia4 zhi1 ru3
english:
lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom)/fig. utter humiliation


id: 52b36266f5a0c9a43bafe7ce907bddcbb903018a
simplified: 胸怀坦荡
traditional: 胸懷坦蕩
pinyin: xiong1 huai2 tan3 dang4
english:
open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything/ingenuous/openhearted/unselfish/magnanimous/broad-minded


id: e5b163930a982c8799ed7ef30c32a3e63f9252a8
simplified: 能伸能屈
traditional: 能伸能屈
pinyin: neng2 shen1 neng2 qu1
english:
can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take/flexible


id: 32c911413f31a5d7abf79b4d4293cdb3badcceda
simplified: 能者多劳
traditional: 能者多勞
pinyin: neng2 zhe3 duo1 lao2
english:
it's the most capable people who do the most work (idiom) (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc)


id: daa6c25ef1cf43c5c05c11c9e0f2e3757cb2406c
simplified: 脉络
traditional: 脈絡
pinyin: mai4 luo4
english:
arteries and veins/network of blood vessels/vascular system (of a plant or animal)/(fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric")/overall context


id: 2ab724359c1a06683b7bcb5d10d39d17922aa7d8
simplified: 脱亚入欧
traditional: 脫亞入歐
pinyin: tuo1 ya4 ru4 ou1
english:
to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe/refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan's subsequent colonization projects in Asia


id: 95cca877d8ef1606d59cad5ce3f33e9343daceca
simplified: 脱产
traditional: 脫產
pinyin: tuo1 chan3
english:
to transfer (from production to other duties)/to take leave (for study or other job)/to dispose of property/to transfer assets (to avoid liability)


id: 66da189a7b7111b1e6c51623e4018fcb8d9707be
simplified: 脱胎
traditional: 脫胎
pinyin: tuo1 tai1
english:
to be born/(fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc)/(fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn)/bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)


id: 1d53bc6544318b69053188311ec97d46a7f0f0a4
simplified: 脱胎换骨
traditional: 脫胎換骨
pinyin: tuo1 tai1 huan4 gu3
english:
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist/to turn over a new leaf/fig. to change wholly/to create from other material (story, artwork etc)


id: 80c0751236fea9214360f8da4627ec20c4030c01
simplified: 脱脱
traditional: 脫脫
pinyin: tuo1 tuo1
english:
Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 and Jin 金史/also written Tuoketuo 托克托


id: 333353f237abb7d8912539b4ede0148c47d6b0ff
simplified: 脱裤子放屁
traditional: 脫褲子放屁
pinyin: tuo1 ku4 zi5 fang4 pi4
english:
lit. to take off trousers to fart/fig. to do something absolutely unnecessary/fig. to make things too complicated


id: 1b0547330b23dc0292f119e28d300696c356e066
simplified: 脱骨换胎
traditional: 脫骨換胎
pinyin: tuo1 gu3 huan4 tai1
english:
to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist/to turn over a new leaf/fig. to change wholly


id: 17101d1ec7e33091a8a32f02271001f3b425f37d
simplified: 腕隧道症候群
traditional: 腕隧道症候群
pinyin: wan4 sui4 dao4 zheng4 hou4 qun2
english:
carpal tunnel syndrome (pain in the hands due to pressure on the median nerve)/median neuropathy at the wrist


id: 3c165350bfbeb3ed1f713924033e024d5edf5c93
simplified: 腩
traditional: 腩
pinyin: nan3
radicalSimplified: 肉
radicalTraditional: 肉
english:
brisket/belly beef/spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs/see 牛腩[niu2 nan3] esp. Cantonese/erroneously translated as sirloin


id: 264032a1da7b163c63c57df22c64a188d7b4abfb
simplified: 腰斩
traditional: 腰斬
pinyin: yao1 zhan3
english:
to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)/to cut sth in half/to reduce sth by a dramatic margin/to terminate/to cut short


id: d44bf7c81e04772492ce1e8f7207e03a35af9c4a
simplified: 腰缠万贯
traditional: 腰纏萬貫
pinyin: yao1 chan2 wan4 guan4
english:
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money/extremely wealthy/loaded


id: e197679481578232a2d3bb44eeceb88e60daa58f
simplified: 脚
traditional: 腳
pinyin: jiao3
radicalSimplified: 肉
radicalTraditional: 肉
variants: 腳,脚
english:
foot/leg (of an animal or an object)/base (of an object)/CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]/classifier for kicks


id: 4d91d4c9019c3b7e59a68834ad4940b7bcbe75b2
simplified: 脚踏两条船
traditional: 腳踏兩條船
pinyin: jiao3 ta4 liang3 tiao2 chuan2
english:
lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom)/fig. to have it both ways/to run after two hares/(especially) to have two lovers at the same time


id: fadeb427b039dc89cfd368e3fdd07ddcc9e1a420
simplified: 脚踏实地
traditional: 腳踏實地
pinyin: jiao3 ta4 shi2 di4
english:
to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy/steady and serious character


id: 67b107151cd52b6cadfc1c6ef27a15920558dcd3
simplified: 肠粉
traditional: 腸粉
pinyin: chang2 fen3
english:
rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc


id: 429a59c94f461e87339b74e35b4de433030dfb44
simplified: 胆
traditional: 膽
pinyin: dan3
radicalSimplified: 肉
radicalTraditional: 肉
variants: 膽,胆
english:
gall bladder/courage/guts/gall/inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)


id: 11f764e4188acff4a901f3f2a2f83307d182d2f7
simplified: 腊八粥
traditional: 臘八粥
pinyin: la4 ba1 zhou1
english:
Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar


id: abf92f594992a97dc783867b318f2c243b4f2825
simplified: 臣
traditional: 臣
pinyin: chen2
radicalSimplified: 臣
radicalTraditional: 臣
english:
state official or subject in dynastic China/I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign)/Kangxi radical 131/surname Chen


id: b79fe796a8f454796fb8d9eebd4f1ebca92c7541
simplified: 臣妾
traditional: 臣妾
pinyin: chen2 qie4
english:
(literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female)/(archaic) male and female slaves/subjects (of a ruler)


id: 8382e9672ce101e9f1bdc44f76d55b4b21a03679
simplified: 卧薪尝胆
traditional: 臥薪嘗膽
pinyin: wo4 xin1 chang2 dan3
english:
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Gou Jian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4]), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)/fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge


id: fd1d5e7c6c2f5daad44b76a1924e083ee27d9e70
simplified: 卧薪尝胆
traditional: 臥薪嚐膽
pinyin: wo4 xin1 chang2 dan3
english:
lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge


id: f2da8fe877738b3dab7ba12e37d36fc968c937a7
simplified: 卧虎藏龙
traditional: 臥虎藏龍
pinyin: wo4 hu3 cang2 long2
english:
lit. hidden dragon, crouching tiger (idiom)/fig. talented individuals in hiding/concealed talent/Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, movie by Ang Lee 李安[Li3 An1]


id: 4b4194c3d265f259f725caf9913c119c09564ed2
simplified: 卧龙
traditional: 臥龍
pinyin: wo4 long2
english:
lit. hidden dragon/fig. emperor in hiding/nickname of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮/Wolong giant panda nature reserve 臥龍大熊貓保護區|卧龙大熊猫保护区 in Wenchuan county, northwest Sichuan/Wolong district of Nanyang city 南陽|南阳[Nan2 yang2], Henan


id: 072a408726ff43e273a174085c2f3225a8bd0035
simplified: 临场
traditional: 臨場
pinyin: lin2 chang3
english:
to be at the scene (sitting for an exam, performing, competing, giving directions etc)/firsthand (experience)/impromptu (remarks etc)


id: 00e6a217b3838d99131fab9f2349aaf96f96435c
simplified: 临夏
traditional: 臨夏
pinyin: lin2 xia4
english:
Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu/also Linxia city and Linxia county


id: 02aeaf3827fbcf8721bdbe32a2e151201f3f4706
simplified: 临夏市
traditional: 臨夏市
pinyin: lin2 xia4 shi4
english:
Linxia county level city in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: fcbac5220af1a0c78bad3d8b1d54c7d9f5ccd95f
simplified: 临夏县
traditional: 臨夏縣
pinyin: lin2 xia4 xian4
english:
Linxia county city in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: e0dd8474745b2e0afad9a6af0dc6c2a6189a9113
simplified: 临时抱佛脚
traditional: 臨時抱佛腳
pinyin: lin2 shi2 bao4 fo2 jiao3
english:
lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble/doing things at the last minute/making a hasty last-minute effort


id: 39ed4b84b7ffad29607f058af8702aa309f390f7
simplified: 临朝
traditional: 臨朝
pinyin: lin2 chao2
english:
to hold a court audience/to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)


id: a2df762fdf291921e5bb936feceb897c4d80c795
simplified: 临渊羡鱼，不如退而结网
traditional: 臨淵羨魚，不如退而結網
pinyin: lin2 yuan1 xian4 yu2 , bu4 ru2 tui4 er2 jie2 wang3
english:
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom)/one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim


id: 30a81d838c7de94e1df6739328f4d620b66cdc55
simplified: 临渴掘井
traditional: 臨渴掘井
pinyin: lin2 ke3 jue2 jing3
english:
lit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty/to be unprepared and seek help at the last minute (idiom)


id: 51657a1e61bcf72eafca9112b94881c7c82fdf67
simplified: 临渴穿井
traditional: 臨渴穿井
pinyin: lin2 ke3 chuan1 jing3
english:
lit. face thirst and dig a well (idiom); fig. not to make adequate provision/to act when it is too late


id: 75d4f32ae92b2931fec952c8bed8c9af9a4611b6
simplified: 临潭
traditional: 臨潭
pinyin: lin2 tan2
english:
Lintan county in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: 7742562fd1aed9b0c6c787d75ceaeb2c32754829
simplified: 临魁
traditional: 臨魁
pinyin: lin2 kui2
english:
Linkui (c. 2000 BC), second of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God


id: 6e5cf75b9aa08ef346bcf0616afcf103135d08ab
simplified: 自圆其说
traditional: 自圓其說
pinyin: zi4 yuan2 qi2 shuo1
english:
to make a story or theory consistent/to give a plausible explanation/to plug the holes in one's story


id: e3508dec9ad6d2291785c6504c3170b2066a17c0
simplified: 自爱
traditional: 自愛
pinyin: zi4 ai4
english:
self-respect/self-love/self-regard/regard for oneself/to cherish one's good name/to take good care of one's health


id: 7e60da1b94dc5d3d0b8fa199878e71b623e4330a
simplified: 自找
traditional: 自找
pinyin: zi4 zhao3
english:
to suffer as a consequence of one's own actions/you asked for it/to bring it on oneself (sth unpleasant)


id: b1d79ae36e8f3e392a3b6e899746aa080dac20a4
simplified: 自治区
traditional: 自治區
pinyin: zi4 zhi4 qu1
english:
autonomous region, namely: Inner Mongolia 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区, Guangxi 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区, Tibet 西藏自治區|西藏自治区, Ningxia 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区, Xinjiang 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区


id: 392fb271624b83f20db92c01c574f032eb486034
simplified: 自爆
traditional: 自爆
pinyin: zi4 bao4
english:
to explode/spontaneous detonation/self-detonation/suicide bombing/to disclose private matters about oneself


id: 689e6417f680eaa8a4eab089abe5c9b794365cf0
simplified: 自习
traditional: 自習
pinyin: zi4 xi2
english:
to study outside of class time (reviewing one's lessons)/to study in one's free time/individual study


id: db0f882190c93a7d8f1e84e6112f3ba62fe3b151
simplified: 自认
traditional: 自認
pinyin: zi4 ren4
english:
to believe (sth in relation to oneself)/to regard oneself as/to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself)/to resign oneself to


id: 06c51fb7c268a386f2d375c04ead5d505c5b957b
simplified: 自食其果
traditional: 自食其果
pinyin: zi4 shi2 qi2 guo3
english:
to eat one's own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one's own action/to reap what one has sown


id: fe5102fb17d45da3febebc197c968ec5eace7184
simplified: 自食恶果
traditional: 自食惡果
pinyin: zi4 shi2 e4 guo3
english:
lit. to eat one's own bitter fruit (idiom)/fig. to suffer the consequences of one's own actions/to stew in one's own juice


id: 968d94d03208614ab83d8b1f3d8b7a6c692136cd
simplified: 致辞
traditional: 致辭
pinyin: zhi4 ci2
english:
to express in words or writing/to make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc)/to address (an audience)/same as 致詞|致词


id: 5061eff593d718d7f728400695c61df356403887
simplified: 台
traditional: 臺
pinyin: tai2
radicalSimplified: 口
radicalTraditional: 至
variants: 臺,台
english:
platform/stage/terrace/stand/support/station/broadcasting station/classifier for vehicles or machines/Taiwan (abbr.)


id: 30b1e01bc831abd40baff92bfbde74bab1042a6c
simplified: 台阶
traditional: 臺階
pinyin: tai2 jie1
english:
steps/flight of steps/step (over obstacle)/fig. way out of an embarrassing situation/bench (geology)


id: 1e524bc5d19a93a3f15799e2199eacb8acbf7499
simplified: 兴
traditional: 興
pinyin: xing1
radicalSimplified: 八
radicalTraditional: 臼
variants: 㒷
english:
to rise/to flourish/to become popular/to start/to encourage/to get up/(often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect)/maybe (dialect)/surname Xing


id: b84a18d1208f41017b9909f8293f0392a40eb0bd
simplified: 兴仁
traditional: 興仁
pinyin: xing1 ren2
english:
Xingren county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou


id: e828f602bee9d12e4a4ca3e4b100c7de0a7fe32b
simplified: 兴安
traditional: 興安
pinyin: xing1 an1
english:
Xing'an county in Guilin 桂林[Gui4 lin2], Guangxi/Hinggan league, a prefecture level subdivision of Inner Mongolia/Xing'an district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang


id: 8b8a3a95cbb06f422dfbc3875729ab051c18f82b
simplified: 兴宁
traditional: 興寧
pinyin: xing1 ning2
english:
Xingning county level city in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong/Xingning District of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市[Nan2 ning2 Shi4], Guangxi


id: 05a2836a930ae3a96a2a7792daeae8e60e82e365
simplified: 兴山
traditional: 興山
pinyin: xing1 shan1
english:
Xingshan district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang/Xingshan county in Yichang 宜昌[Yi2 chang1], Hubei


id: bc211e002dde46c64a19bd83a23b309a89ced524
simplified: 兴海
traditional: 興海
pinyin: xing1 hai3
english:
Xinghai county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hai3 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai


id: 8dc98563334c0e323caa7e237011134a01b179fe
simplified: 兴灭继绝
traditional: 興滅繼絕
pinyin: xing1 mie4 ji4 jue2
english:
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom)/fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten


id: b70a18d9d8d5c9b51a9b77e8c44e94915ece009d
simplified: 举目无亲
traditional: 舉目無親
pinyin: ju3 mu4 wu2 qin1
english:
to look up and see no-one familiar (idiom); not having anyone to rely on/without a friend in the world


id: 8b869c8bcad041c4a00516090d28784675db4863
simplified: 旧五代史
traditional: 舊五代史
pinyin: jiu4 wu3 dai4 shi3
english:
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[Xue1 Ju1 zheng4] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 150 scrolls


id: 99b632e71822a6b3763636bb9586a15737a250a8
simplified: 旧唐书
traditional: 舊唐書
pinyin: jiu4 tang2 shu1
english:
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls


id: 63bb18569d6a5f9b53d2292d52894debabe10633
simplified: 旧教
traditional: 舊教
pinyin: jiu4 jiao4
english:
old teachings/wisdom from the past/old church/the Catholic Church 天主教 as opposed to Protestantism 新教


id: f67eb3c1a68961db4eca1ab0ba931e94001679e4
simplified: 旧民主主义革命
traditional: 舊民主主義革命
pinyin: jiu4 min2 zhu3 zhu3 yi4 ge2 ming4
english:
old democratic revolution/bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)


id: 96737fcbb63b2c74e839fdddc41de459b1d3e4ea
simplified: 旧瓶装新酒
traditional: 舊瓶裝新酒
pinyin: jiu4 ping2 zhuang1 xin1 jiu3
english:
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework/(loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)


id: 4489f42ea98a7db2217cba3d88b73186c5bed7d7
simplified: 旧的不去，新的不来
traditional: 舊的不去，新的不來
pinyin: jiu4 de5 bu4 qu4 , xin1 de5 bu4 lai2
english:
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come./You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.


id: f7b9e367a25bae69030a8681fbf8157b7f2fa9fb
simplified: 旧调重弹
traditional: 舊調重彈
pinyin: jiu4 diao4 chong2 tan2
english:
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited/to keep harping on about the same old stuff


id: 1affd0d44398b43c2e54fffd1918f0388ebe077c
simplified: 舒梦兰
traditional: 舒夢蘭
pinyin: shu1 meng4 lan2
english:
Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜|白香词谱


id: e2b48eac01f21ed18c545b7a17e519e94fc424da
simplified: 舒缓
traditional: 舒緩
pinyin: shu1 huan3
english:
to ease (tension)/to relax/to cause sth to relax/to alleviate/relaxed/easy and unhurried/leisurely/soothing/mild (slope)


id: f4bb28e8ba950900f48d2c83ab3b4e8483f8b3ef
simplified: 舜帝陵
traditional: 舜帝陵
pinyin: shun4 di4 ling2
english:
several tombs of legendary Emperor Shun, one in Ningyuan county 寧遠縣|宁远县 in southwest Hunan, another Yuncheng prefecture 運城|运城 Shanxi


id: 224d0d3679ad27664aa21838f12e9452935e06e1
simplified: 舜日尧天
traditional: 舜日堯天
pinyin: shun4 ri4 yao2 tian1
english:
sage Emperors Shun and Yao rule every day (idiom); all for the best in the best of all possible worlds


id: e0547258f4ddf3e12a0169fef997b7f3244c2ef9
simplified: 舞水端里
traditional: 舞水端里
pinyin: wu3 shui3 duan1 li3
english:
Musudan-ri, North Korean rocket launch site in North Hamgyeong Province 咸鏡北道|咸镜北道[Xian2 jing4 bei3 dao4]


id: a3891989237c3cd521b8bea55e9ef0bc8aa1aebb
simplified: 舟曲
traditional: 舟曲
pinyin: zhou1 qu3
english:
Zhugqu or Zhouqu county in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu


id: 62f635d87373aea30693abe422a22db6e6b7aaa5
simplified: 船到桥门自会直
traditional: 船到橋門自會直
pinyin: chuan2 dao4 qiao2 men2 zi4 hui4 zhi2
english:
lit. when the ship arrives at the bridge we can deal with the problem/no point in worrying about sth until it actually happens (idiom)


id: 9a557f96e8abe9fd6ecd4aa9b4c5239319178d45
simplified: 船到桥头自然直
traditional: 船到橋頭自然直
pinyin: chuan2 dao4 qiao2 tou2 zi4 ran2 zhi2
english:
lit. when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current (proverb)/fig. everything will be all right/cf 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: faa2d35ebfb57fa6def50de3d8569429252bc5d1
simplified: 船到码头，车到站
traditional: 船到碼頭，車到站
pinyin: chuan2 dao4 ma3 tou2 , che1 dao4 zhan4
english:
The ship has docked, the carriage has reached the station./The job is over, it's time to relax. (idiom)


id: 676217efebad1cf055e3025af90669fe4956bf6a
simplified: 船舷
traditional: 船舷
pinyin: chuan2 xian2
english:
sides of a ship/ship's railing/fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges


id: b9e910bd92c777dfce6637e2ce32d54e2aed2c49
simplified: 艋舺
traditional: 艋舺
pinyin: meng3 jia3
english:
Mengjia (also written Monga, Monka or Bangka), the pre-Japanese-era name for Wanhua 萬華|万华[Wan4 hua2], the oldest district of Taipei


id: e7c919a96f45732c57f9c0dc281d6392f0987cee
simplified: 艮
traditional: 艮
pinyin: gen4
radicalSimplified: 艮
radicalTraditional: 艮
english:
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing mountain/☶/ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)


id: 819d40d9b6edfc5b3c04eacbc0c724b38e6feed4
simplified: 良知良能
traditional: 良知良能
pinyin: liang2 zhi1 liang2 neng2
english:
instinctive understanding, esp. of ethical issues (idiom); untrained, but with an inborn sense of right and wrong/innate moral sense


id: eb36153a66f39ce4b9f6e1ae4427f238a9083278
simplified: 良禽择木
traditional: 良禽擇木
pinyin: liang2 qin2 ze2 mu4
english:
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb)/fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity


id: c31e62abc74ab1c325f78297dbea1ee8f8890e57
simplified: 色厉内荏
traditional: 色厲內荏
pinyin: se4 li4 nei4 ren3
english:
lit. show strength while weak inside (idiom); appearing fierce while cowardly at heart/a sheep in wolf's clothing


id: 2b31242cb0e6375f1b6e206f1dcfc1f3cc82d7b6
simplified: 色字头上一把刀
traditional: 色字頭上一把刀
pinyin: se4 zi4 tou2 shang4 yi1 ba3 dao1
english:
lit. there is a knife above the character for lust/fig. lascivious activities can lead to bitter consequences


id: a2cf54aa23b40955d73e95b33604165a2624433a
simplified: 色达
traditional: 色達
pinyin: se4 da2
english:
Sêrtar county (Tibetan: gser thar 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: 539a2da32daecf40a3cf9708b9abbc22b95edc19
simplified: 色魔
traditional: 色魔
pinyin: se4 mo2
english:
sex fiend/molester/sex attacker/sex demon (a spirit that enters people's souls and makes them desire sex)


id: 3c7c4e25c6c3d55c2395926f223728762755fd32
simplified: 艾
traditional: 艾
pinyin: ai4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
Chinese mugwort or wormwood/moxa/to stop or cut short/phonetic "ai" or "i"/abbr. for 艾滋病[ai4 zi1 bing4], AIDS/surname Ai


id: fdee7393183ab7ecb9efee1c211c2a0095126ca3
simplified: 艾伯塔
traditional: 艾伯塔
pinyin: ai4 bo2 ta3
english:
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4]/also written 阿爾伯塔|阿尔伯塔[A1 er3 bo2 ta3]


id: 2cd2bed922e4a04357def8745ea40f1230f65190
simplified: 艾哈迈迪内贾德
traditional: 艾哈邁迪內賈德
pinyin: ai4 ha1 mai4 di2 nei4 jia3 de2
english:
Ahmadinejad or Ahmadinezhad (Persian name)/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956-), Iranian fundamentalist politician, president of Iran 2005-2013


id: b2f86f17b6e410187560759552cffe797eab792c
simplified: 艾未未
traditional: 艾未未
pinyin: ai4 wei4 wei4
english:
Ai Weiwei (1957-), Chinese artist active in architecture, photography, film, as well as cultural criticism and political activism


id: 5320793c2d86117b4efd4f2e340f9865a93562ae
simplified: 艾森豪威尔
traditional: 艾森豪威爾
pinyin: ai4 sen1 hao2 wei1 er3
english:
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961


id: 2eb7562ca1fbf65b536be65545c8f884e07bc933
simplified: 艾登堡
traditional: 艾登堡
pinyin: ai4 deng1 bao3
english:
Attenborough (name)/David Attenborough (1926-), British naturalist and broadcaster, author of Life on Earth 地球上的生物[di4 qiu2 shang4 de5 sheng1 wu4]


id: d9c518817e41712bb07b7279e4e38b644f0373c6
simplified: 艾迪卡拉
traditional: 艾迪卡拉
pinyin: ai4 di2 ka3 la1
english:
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era/also written 埃迪卡拉[Ai1 di2 ka3 la1]


id: 068245fc56eb24030c1d9ef618ed88b24f3fd9f6
simplified: 芒
traditional: 芒
pinyin: mang2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 杧
english:
awn (of cereals)/arista (of grain)/tip (of a blade)/Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass)/variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan


id: 7ce6cb4586f4ca796fd7b044b2e5e2755a9f3966
simplified: 芒康
traditional: 芒康
pinyin: mang2 kang1
english:
Markam county, Tibetan: Smar khams rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet


id: 0258b0b20e4c65341c97aff889b5dae0251d819e
simplified: 芙蓉
traditional: 芙蓉
pinyin: fu2 rong2
english:
hibiscus/cotton rose (Hibiscus mutabilis)/lotus/foo yung (Chinese dish similar to an omelet)/Furong district of Changsha city 長沙市|长沙市[Chang2 sha1 shi4], Hunan/Seremban, capital of Sembilan state 森美蘭|森美兰[Sen1 mei3 lan2], Malaysia


id: 969864e5099b9932a4f9073344300b8e5eac4115
simplified: 芝焚蕙叹
traditional: 芝焚蕙嘆
pinyin: zhi1 fen2 hui4 tan4
english:
lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress


id: e3fc01ae3eb0d994ffcb5c7b14729b188223925f
simplified: 芝兰
traditional: 芝蘭
pinyin: zhi1 lan2
english:
lit. iris and orchid/fig. exalted sentiments/(expr. of praise for noble character, beautiful surrounding, future prospects etc)


id: c221e4e7f5103dd55b9cbb0d4e23dbcdbdac4159
simplified: 芥蓝
traditional: 芥藍
pinyin: gai4 lan2
english:
Chinese broccoli/Chinese kale/cabbage mustard/Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra/also pr. [jie4 lan2]


id: 5f83d7bf541914f2d7b0a9f51166e34d022ed4d7
simplified: 花
traditional: 花
pinyin: hua1
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 蘤
english:
flower/blossom/CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]/fancy pattern/florid/to spend (money, time)/(coll.) lecherous/lustful/surname Hua


id: 5b968f8485a80ff442e81aaef753dc5c77653a1d
simplified: 花名
traditional: 花名
pinyin: hua1 ming2
english:
name of a person on the household register (old)/name on a roster/professional name of a prostitute/pseudonym/nickname


id: 4fa2646e29e87e33b9db9533e5337fabdabf886b
simplified: 花垣
traditional: 花垣
pinyin: hua1 yuan2
english:
Huayuan 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: dfa3bbc7483ba111eecd314611c2f96dccc1f52a
simplified: 花坛
traditional: 花壇
pinyin: hua1 tan2
english:
decorative mass planting of flowers and shrubs, often bounded by a low masonry border, and often part of a streetscape/Huatan township in Changhua county 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 xian4], Taiwan


id: 999923da2d1f7d4c30b8c43d4bf033a809f60a73
simplified: 花天酒地
traditional: 花天酒地
pinyin: hua1 tian1 jiu3 di4
english:
to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures/life of debauchery


id: 9075733c41d4ea12d34092f58d57e336f246b227
simplified: 花好月圆
traditional: 花好月圓
pinyin: hua1 hao3 yue4 yuan2
english:
lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful/perfect happiness/conjugal bliss


id: 23235b4938f78d6488cd0bc4dd14f7e922d68feb
simplified: 花押
traditional: 花押
pinyin: hua1 ya1
english:
signature (in grass-style writing)/symbol used in place of a signature (on a document, contract etc)


id: d85602fdf58313f088b3fc1625cf731b70688ce6
simplified: 花拳绣腿
traditional: 花拳繡腿
pinyin: hua1 quan2 xiu4 tui3
english:
flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom)/highly embellished and ineffectual/fancy but impractical skills/all show and no go/pugilistic wankery


id: 660d26c9fc2ec6634e52590b0d4d4ef1053587ef
simplified: 花斑癣
traditional: 花斑癬
pinyin: hua1 ban1 xuan3
english:
pityriasis versicolor (aka tinea versicolor), blotchy skin condition common in tropical areas, common name 汗斑


id: 2690f8d6b9f7ce3f816d29e44b324ed86092e1ec
simplified: 花旗
traditional: 花旗
pinyin: hua1 qi2
english:
the Stars and Stripes (US flag)/by extension, the United States of America/abbr. for Citibank 花旗銀行|花旗银行


id: 088e18c4270f81b72d6475c6292a3b35ba365f2e
simplified: 花朝月夕
traditional: 花朝月夕
pinyin: hua1 zhao1 yue4 xi1
english:
a beautiful day/cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August


id: 89ed9aee3da95b3eb2cd62b6e3ce2b65dd51b34a
simplified: 花木兰
traditional: 花木蘭
pinyin: hua1 mu4 lan2
english:
Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature


id: 313bbc754fd04d45d0eff3cc6a6de8ecad9250bc
simplified: 花果山
traditional: 花果山
pinyin: hua1 guo3 shan1
english:
Mount Huaguo in Jiangsu, featured in 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4], tourist destination/(also the name of mountains in other parts of China)


id: 8cfba7208d610f41af66c2d6f5f563208e601dfe
simplified: 花枝招展
traditional: 花枝招展
pinyin: hua1 zhi1 zhao1 zhan3
english:
lit. lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze (idiom)/fig. gorgeously dressed (woman)


id: 36fba4e0af29c62fb9ef6bb86077e917d8afa138
simplified: 花石峡
traditional: 花石峽
pinyin: hua1 shi2 xia2
english:
Huashixia town in Madoi county 瑪多縣|玛多县[Ma3 duo1 xian4] in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai


id: 3e08edaca95b603bf3a7349e0a31088546491ca6
simplified: 花红
traditional: 花紅
pinyin: hua1 hong2
english:
flowers on red silk (a traditional gift to celebrate weddings etc)/a bonus/crab apple (Malus asiatica)


id: 6a36cdcb385946f69aede13545e8ca7ad4ce9173
simplified: 花言巧语
traditional: 花言巧語
pinyin: hua1 yan2 qiao3 yu3
english:
graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words/cheating wheedling/dishonest rhetoric


id: 40338df11f6c417379f79daf156debbbfb763301
simplified: 花鼓
traditional: 花鼓
pinyin: hua1 gu3
english:
flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum/folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze/(bicycle wheel) hub


id: 6ef9c19dd0755d060fa86f6d2ca88e08187ce181
simplified: 芸苔子
traditional: 芸苔子
pinyin: yun2 tai2 zi3
english:
rape (Brassica campestris L.)/rapeseed plant/canola plant/a common vegetable with a dark green leaf/also called 油菜


id: 206d667965dc50e7f7ec297a34a3c7933bbf287d
simplified: 苟且偷安
traditional: 苟且偷安
pinyin: gou3 qie3 tou1 an1
english:
seeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself/taking things easily without attending to responsibilities


id: 291a232befce881d307d79a40abd96a01b125c2c
simplified: 若即若离
traditional: 若即若離
pinyin: ruo4 ji2 ruo4 li2
english:
lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom)/fig. to keep one's distance/(of a relationship) lukewarm/vague


id: 767dbda746bdd0309fd4157365ad4d96ff364a82
simplified: 若尔盖
traditional: 若爾蓋
pinyin: ruo4 er3 gai4
english:
Zoigê county (Tibetan: mdzod dge 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: fcb06f166aaed0eda2f4eb062a704431ef0dbb8d
simplified: 若羌
traditional: 若羌
pinyin: ruo4 qiang1
english:
Chaqiliq nahiyisi or Ruoqiang 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: 8341b445cf27e39ca5fc184d9c4a97fe281a5340
simplified: 若要人不知，除非己莫为
traditional: 若要人不知，除非己莫為
pinyin: ruo4 yao4 ren2 bu4 zhi1 , chu2 fei1 ji3 mo4 wei2
english:
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.


id: 5298c5e6fd367f1fde967852833de09ced279c11
simplified: 苦水
traditional: 苦水
pinyin: ku3 shui3
english:
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates)/suffering/digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth/fig. bitter complaint


id: dbde6e1f50a720d943561c6a8379c13d5c59dcd7
simplified: 苦海无边，回头是岸
traditional: 苦海無邊，回頭是岸
pinyin: ku3 hai3 wu2 bian1 , hui2 tou2 shi4 an4
english:
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering./Repent and ye shall be saved!


id: b43e6d80925a8b9e039bf4c992cd7343c5b31c62
simplified: 苦尽甘来
traditional: 苦盡甘來
pinyin: ku3 jin4 gan1 lai2
english:
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning


id: c00e4a37e0e03391ec65245ed1ff94a58615b790
simplified: 苦菜花
traditional: 苦菜花
pinyin: ku3 cai4 hua1
english:
Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[Feng2 De2 ying1] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang


id: 65242e93a36782e75acf2922efd5756c760bd7b7
simplified: 苦集灭道
traditional: 苦集滅道
pinyin: ku3 ji2 mie4 dao4
english:
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道/also called 四諦|四谛


id: 9423d5bccf2aa7b8509e6f5faf8ca00325b98d04
simplified: 英
traditional: 英
pinyin: ying1
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
hero/outstanding/excellent/(literary) flower/blossom/United Kingdom/British/England/English/abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]


id: 6042764d6272f78b8891d8f78c2bff504d9a7a9a
simplified: 英吉沙
traditional: 英吉沙
pinyin: ying1 ji2 sha1
english:
Yéngisar nahiyisi (Yengisar county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang


id: 48c297d862ae089fb52328c712462fcf56ed1887
simplified: 英国
traditional: 英國
pinyin: ying1 guo2
english:
United Kingdom 聯合王國|联合王国[Lian2 he2 wang2 guo2]/United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland/abbr. for England 英格蘭|英格兰[Ying1 ge2 lan2]


id: 862151294aa0dfbde93b3fd86e179177aee20d9e
simplified: 茂县
traditional: 茂縣
pinyin: mao4 xian4
english:
Mao county 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: 966591219098a968d752ddb884edada3c7624165
simplified: 范仲淹
traditional: 范仲淹
pinyin: fan4 zhong4 yan1
english:
Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), minister of Northern Song, led failed reform of 1043/also writer and author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记


id: 47374e95f054bafc384cf40599132234a2f43584
simplified: 范缜
traditional: 范縝
pinyin: fan4 zhen3
english:
Fan Zhen (c. 450-c. 510), philosopher from Qi and Liang of the Southern dynasties, as atheist denying Buddhist teachings on karma and rebirth


id: 31206d02aab97514007fcc3a01eed0799aa369c2
simplified: 茄子
traditional: 茄子
pinyin: qie2 zi5
english:
eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)/aubergine/brinjal/Guinea squash/phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed)/equivalent of "say cheese"


id: 1c735f6c4a38c37c1c9de59b892ebdec80f2d625
simplified: 茫崖
traditional: 茫崖
pinyin: mang2 ya2
english:
Mang'ai county level subdivision of 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: b22e225face54dafdd664cf691cc896a72736f6e
simplified: 茫崖行政委员会
traditional: 茫崖行政委員會
pinyin: mang2 ya2 xing2 zheng4 wei3 yuan2 hui4
english:
Mang'ai county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai


id: 480b507d09f7f5a3e2b680e16220cdf90660354d
simplified: 茶经
traditional: 茶經
pinyin: cha2 jing1
english:
the Classic of Tea, first monograph ever on tea and its culture, written by 陸羽|陆羽[Lu4 Yu3] between 760-780


id: a29a9357132fab38cf67a5e65b1b534f9e8f796b
simplified: 茶马互市
traditional: 茶馬互市
pinyin: cha2 ma3 hu4 shi4
english:
old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty


id: bf18a08ebd7155f9e02af6da5c550cc528fb0b81
simplified: 茶马古道
traditional: 茶馬古道
pinyin: cha2 ma3 gu3 dao4
english:
old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond


id: 9ab05ede9fd88ddf3368c69a63c698ef455600a9
simplified: 茹
traditional: 茹
pinyin: ru2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
to eat/(extended meaning) to endure/putrid smell/vegetables/roots (inextricably attached to the plant)/surname Ru


id: 41bdf8bea3bc50d3f04f54cd8151a217eeebd3ac
simplified: 草木皆兵
traditional: 草木皆兵
pinyin: cao3 mu4 jie1 bing1
english:
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy/to feel beleaguered


id: b69113baa97858379428c2aaadecabd113dfdfac
simplified: 草标
traditional: 草標
pinyin: cao3 biao1
english:
(old) sign made of woven weeds, placed on an object, an animal or a person, indicating that it is for sale.


id: dc865e2549f03d84ac32faa13753e218df6827bb
simplified: 草泥马
traditional: 草泥馬
pinyin: cao3 ni2 ma3
english:
grass mud horse/used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet


id: 2b45edcfee5356e727db8fc94517898645ffd91b
simplified: 草码
traditional: 草碼
pinyin: cao3 ma3
english:
the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine


id: 11e6596fa3f2f39018b12c1e3bc14ad1ea629b95
simplified: 草船借箭
traditional: 草船借箭
pinyin: cao3 chuan2 jie4 jian4
english:
lit. using straw boats to borrow arrows (idiom, from 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4])/fig. to use others' manpower and resources for one's own ends


id: 7e921ed8f097762d0c146813cef1c0ac3c7c06f5
simplified: 草菅人命
traditional: 草菅人命
pinyin: cao3 jian1 ren2 ming4
english:
human life as grass (idiom); to kill people like scything grass/a politician acting with total disregard for the life of his countrymen


id: 948f566de61e3aa9d99952ac11a34e93859bd1c6
simplified: 荆
traditional: 荊
pinyin: jing1
radicalSimplified: 刀
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 荊,荆
english:
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus)/alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]


id: 2aa5372184ae7c9820ec44e2aab654ae15e6852a
simplified: 荆轲
traditional: 荊軻
pinyin: jing1 ke1
english:
Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)


id: f20e8e64e6359e2bd15bf57f21c77b8bd0083c6f
simplified: 荒废
traditional: 荒廢
pinyin: huang1 fei4
english:
to abandon (cultivated fields)/no longer cultivated/to lie waste/wasted/to neglect (one's work or study)


id: 37de69680bf3ed8869e0181c53b0b0ac5ec994a4
simplified: 荷泽
traditional: 荷澤
pinyin: he2 ze2
english:
Lotus marsh (used in place names)/misspelling of Heze 菏澤|菏泽[He2 ze2] prefecture-level city in Shandong


id: 7bb409d1d20a539f8848db18649e29ebd4daad83
simplified: 庄
traditional: 莊
pinyin: zhuang1
radicalSimplified: 广
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 莊,荘,庄
english:
farmstead/village/manor/place of business/banker (in a gambling game)/grave or solemn/holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)/surname Zhuang


id: 64b1a928274816c56219e2ab710fb91109d90e62
simplified: 莎车
traditional: 莎車
pinyin: sha1 che1
english:
Yeken nahiyisi (Yarkand county or Shache) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang


id: ee82977cdb877d3fab79d179d4efd8091c8557be
simplified: 莒光
traditional: 莒光
pinyin: ju3 guang1
english:
Chukuang Island, one of the Matsu Islands/Chukuang township in Lienchiang county 連江縣|连江县[Lian2 jiang1 xian4], Taiwan


id: 25afb374154737c44588a2df1ca48e1ab5a0a778
simplified: 苋
traditional: 莧
pinyin: xian4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
amaranth (genus Amaranthus)/Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor)/Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)


id: ddd246808a77d9a11964b9c97b473626db679dda
simplified: 莫伊谢耶夫
traditional: 莫伊謝耶夫
pinyin: mo4 yi1 xie4 ye1 fu1
english:
Moiseyev (name)/Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev (1906-2007), choreographer of folk dance and founder of Moiseyev dance company


id: bf0d223433d3bba39fe81c007271a8cf0c4b1c30
simplified: 莫衷一是
traditional: 莫衷一是
pinyin: mo4 zhong1 yi1 shi4
english:
unable to reach a decision (idiom); cannot agree on the right choice/no unanimous decision/still a matter of discussion


id: 1ae7d479616880c3847e159ea070179438309f32
simplified: 莫迪
traditional: 莫迪
pinyin: mo4 di2
english:
Modi (name)/Narendra Modi (1950-), Indian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party or Indian People's Party) politician, Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001, PM from 2014


id: c12bc419073eeb8f5d9e9dc636e494848f4a4dfc
simplified: 莫霍洛维奇
traditional: 莫霍洛維奇
pinyin: mo4 huo4 luo4 wei2 qi2
english:
Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho


id: ff772af776fbd096bb59972e9103c463418c2660
simplified: 莫霍洛维奇不连续面
traditional: 莫霍洛維奇不連續面
pinyin: mo4 huo4 luo4 wei2 qi2 bu4 lian2 xu4 mian4
english:
Moho (aka Mohorovičić discontinuity, the lower boundary of the earth's lithosphere)/abbr. to 莫霍面[Mo4 huo4 mian4]


id: 70f645c554490eab4f88f8dfd9589c38f2091554
simplified: 菊科
traditional: 菊科
pinyin: ju2 ke1
english:
Asteraceae or Compositae (composites), a large family of dicotyledonous plants producing scents, includes aster, daisy and sunflower


id: 5e031773791faae6d15c670f3ab4053c2e373efa
simplified: 菜
traditional: 菜
pinyin: cai4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
dish (type of food)/vegetable/cuisine/CL:盤|盘[pan2],道[dao4]/(coll.) (one's) type/(of one's skills etc) weak/poor


id: ec533d47deecc42788e14588347ff5ec36da47da
simplified: 华侨
traditional: 華僑
pinyin: hua2 qiao2
english:
overseas Chinese/(in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality/CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]


id: 7128e9f91074add4ef53a106edbdf0bb8b71adc1
simplified: 华北事变
traditional: 華北事變
pinyin: hua2 bei3 shi4 bian4
english:
North China Incident of October-December 1935, a Japanese attempt to set up a puppet government in north China


id: 54990603d18fe890fac4c553c5fb4eee8b4bd984
simplified: 华容
traditional: 華容
pinyin: hua2 rong2
english:
Huarong district of Ezhou city 鄂州市[E4 zhou1 shi4], Hubei/Huarong county in Yueyang 岳陽|岳阳[Yue4 yang2], Hunan


id: e4bfe71fb3651d882eaecadf5237a9aead8b1818
simplified: 华容道
traditional: 華容道
pinyin: hua2 rong2 dao4
english:
Huarong Road (traditional puzzle involving sliding wooden blocks, loosely based on an episode in Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4])


id: 0c792da5310b7d07067c423926459083afad0f32
simplified: 华盛顿
traditional: 華盛頓
pinyin: hua2 sheng4 dun4
english:
Washington (name)/George Washington (1732-1799), first US president/Washington, US State/Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)


id: 7ea2c836730da6238a985098f7b8c078c13019d5
simplified: 华兴会
traditional: 華興會
pinyin: hua2 xing1 hui4
english:
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in Changsha by 黃興|黄兴[Huang2 Xing1] in 1904, a precursor of Sun Yat-sen's Alliance for Democracy 同盟會|同盟会[Tong2 meng2 hui4] and of the Guomindang


id: aaac8770d22ae6cd0e5ed469f5697bec679dcaf4
simplified: 菲
traditional: 菲
pinyin: fei1
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
luxuriant (plant growth)/rich with fragrance/phenanthrene C14H10/abbr. for the Philippines 菲律賓|菲律宾[Fei1 lu:4 bin1]


id: f4a05874f94cde1f7669ed0faf3cf3683fe002c7
simplified: 菹
traditional: 菹
pinyin: zu1
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
marshland/swamp/salted or pickled vegetables/to mince/to shred/to mince human flesh and bones/Taiwan pr. [ju1]


id: 4719ccf2377d4de7cfff18ac8f2857c9e99b209d
simplified: 苌
traditional: 萇
pinyin: chang2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)/surname Chang


id: 83b5d3aebd07cbe466645359eee4299937e0ed86
simplified: 苌楚
traditional: 萇楚
pinyin: chang2 chu3
english:
plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)/kiwi fruit


id: 84b6e1e0a14352ef1f5ec4b8286080892c02daa6
simplified: 莱佛士
traditional: 萊佛士
pinyin: lai2 fo2 shi4
english:
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore/surname Raffles


id: a5485c09d527174d24e864b845ff18e1a0c64dc8
simplified: 莱布尼茨
traditional: 萊布尼茨
pinyin: lai2 bu4 ni2 ci2
english:
Leibniz (name)/Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus


id: 999a5d28ae03b176d77336d44939887bdd72473b
simplified: 莱布尼兹
traditional: 萊布尼茲
pinyin: lai2 bu4 ni2 zi1
english:
Leibnitz (name)/Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus


id: b4cf4d6d09aac68f604ae3449f8683f6792e40b0
simplified: 萌
traditional: 萌
pinyin: meng2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 萠
english:
to sprout/to bud/to have a strong affection for (slang)/adorable (loanword from Japanese 萌え moe, slang describing affection for a cute character)


id: bec36fb60bdec1392579b79dac24fe45a459b5d6
simplified: 万事俱备，只欠东风
traditional: 萬事俱備，只欠東風
pinyin: wan4 shi4 ju4 bei4 , zhi3 qian4 dong1 feng1
english:
lit. everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom)/fig. lacking only one tiny crucial item


id: 4aebc762cf1ecb8bcaa87c23aa11a4f8c3e75446
simplified: 万事皆备，只欠东风
traditional: 萬事皆備，只欠東風
pinyin: wan4 shi4 jie1 bei4 , zhi3 qian4 dong1 feng1
english:
everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom)/lacking only one tiny crucial item/also written 萬事俱備，只欠東風|万事俱备，只欠东风


id: 68456b85e6dda6406624e0c40b7c6b82daa039b3
simplified: 万人空巷
traditional: 萬人空巷
pinyin: wan4 ren2 kong1 xiang4
english:
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate)/the whole town turns out


id: 94667aa52dac754454684aba81802ec641521d36
simplified: 万元户
traditional: 萬元戶
pinyin: wan4 yuan2 hu4
english:
household with savings or annual income of 10,000 yuan or more (considered a large amount in the 1970s, when the term became established)


id: 9b8cf3f644cb2c57f646f82ddfca65f4f261ba54
simplified: 万峦
traditional: 萬巒
pinyin: wan4 luan2
english:
hundreds and thousands of mountains/Wanluan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan


id: bbe618cc7fb5b03ca58877c4528c37a0f3314cc8
simplified: 万年历
traditional: 萬年曆
pinyin: wan4 nian2 li4
english:
perpetual calendar/ten thousand year calendar/Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁


id: a71997b911d5d4166dddd5676bd9ad9ffd19a731
simplified: 万户
traditional: 萬戶
pinyin: wan4 hu4
english:
ten thousand houses or households/ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households/also translated as Marquis


id: abd5cb676476f27fe8a69bec43cf03bcdd887f98
simplified: 万荣
traditional: 萬榮
pinyin: wan4 rong2
english:
Wanrong County in Yuncheng 運城|运城[Yun4 cheng2], Shanxi/Wanrong or Wanjung township in Hualian County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], East Taiwan


id: 13c4d92cdaca558a3d9ded3bd4315820be5ea27d
simplified: 万水千山
traditional: 萬水千山
pinyin: wan4 shui3 qian1 shan1
english:
ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey/a long and difficult road


id: 76ebea8f14bf5d083a75801b226f9b0d19bf7cd6
simplified: 万箭穿心
traditional: 萬箭穿心
pinyin: wan4 jian4 chuan1 xin1
english:
lit. to have one's heart pierced by thousands of arrows (idiom)/fig. overcome with sorrow/to lambaste/to rip sb to shreds


id: eae58addb182379a853921b8153fdc7d0fe9ac40
simplified: 万维天罗地网
traditional: 萬維天羅地網
pinyin: wan4 wei2 tian1 luo2 di4 wang3
english:
World Wide Web (WWW)/lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth/term coined by China News Digest and abbreviated to 萬維網|万维网[Wan4 wei2 wang3]


id: 4b3ccd6789b87f03ccc2358686f493d5c0ef6de0
simplified: 万县
traditional: 萬縣
pinyin: wan4 xian4
english:
Wanxian port city on the Changjiang or Yangtze river in Sichuan, renamed Wanzhou district in Chongqing municipality in 1990


id: ad59c3b36bf4ad94446cf2b1bc18c9fe43dd26b5
simplified: 万变不离其宗
traditional: 萬變不離其宗
pinyin: wan4 bian4 bu4 li2 qi2 zong1
english:
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose


id: 69985f356dccb8143b00b00dbd76e36f951c5ee7
simplified: 万里
traditional: 萬里
pinyin: wan4 li3
english:
far away/thousands of miles/10000 li/Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan/Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician


id: 8b72642b9a1260414d5743ef629e3cd845a27415
simplified: 万马齐喑
traditional: 萬馬齊喑
pinyin: wan4 ma3 qi2 yin1
english:
thousands of horses, all mute (idiom); no-one dares to speak out/an atmosphere of political oppression


id: ab1821bb58e3cda85cc1da81b8f6193d1cd07b03
simplified: 落
traditional: 落
pinyin: luo4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 落
english:
to fall or drop/(of the sun) to set/(of a tide) to go out/to lower/to decline or sink/to lag or fall behind/to fall onto/to rest with/to get or receive/to write down/whereabouts/settlement


id: 9c2c649d6178b04959201f0296d4c9319813d8d9
simplified: 落地
traditional: 落地
pinyin: luo4 di4
english:
to fall to the ground/to be set on the ground/to reach to the ground/to be born/(of a plane) to land


id: 386573d7dca5470e88e6e3342367672164b4597d
simplified: 落网
traditional: 落網
pinyin: luo4 wang3
english:
(of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net/(of a tennis ball) to hit the net/(of a criminal) to be captured


id: dc821b7d4b7d86039d1e3130f4956667e8e3d089
simplified: 落花有意，流水无情
traditional: 落花有意，流水無情
pinyin: luo4 hua1 you3 yi4 , liu2 shui3 wu2 qing2
english:
lit. the falling flowers are yearning for love, but the heartless brook ripples on (idiom)/fig. one side is willing, yet the other one remains indifferent (usually of unrequited love)


id: be8136b0fd8fc497f10cbeeabdfe0cf79fe99b02
simplified: 落叶归根
traditional: 落葉歸根
pinyin: luo4 ye4 gui1 gen1
english:
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom)/fig. all things go back to their source eventually/in old age, an expatriate returns home/Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[Zhang1 Yang2], starring 趙本山|赵本山[Zhao4 Ben3 shan1]


id: 4925295bc06c37fb3281d602b93646c1f035685b
simplified: 落马
traditional: 落馬
pinyin: luo4 ma3
english:
(lit.) to fall from a horse/(fig.) to suffer a setback/to come a cropper/to be sacked (e.g. for corruption)


id: 03f34082410f3a8ce52eaf0c8df59e45e5ba31fc
simplified: 叶公好龙
traditional: 葉公好龍
pinyin: ye4 gong1 hao4 long2
english:
lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom)/fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it/ostensible fondness of sth one really fears


id: b455187445a07e9f420673357c6c657c4a0bd2ab
simplified: 叶卡捷琳娜
traditional: 葉卡捷琳娜
pinyin: ye4 ka3 jie2 lin2 na4
english:
Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name)/Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia


id: 09a750d31c7af6a1cb0d45dff3e1fc769eac2733
simplified: 叶城
traditional: 葉城
pinyin: ye4 cheng2
english:
Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang


id: 6f2954eb5af5cf0145a05a73c3dcc0497d3c0ce4
simplified: 叶落归根
traditional: 葉落歸根
pinyin: ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1
english:
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home/In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.


id: 797488c2e71205307c3621bd78c606609466d61a
simplified: 着
traditional: 著
pinyin: zhao2
radicalSimplified: 目
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 著,着,螫
english:
to touch/to come in contact with/to feel/to be affected by/to catch fire/to burn/(coll.) to fall asleep/(after a verb) hitting the mark/succeeding in


id: cc4e37c9e9d524336128fcc00b5e3939ed85d34c
simplified: 着手成春
traditional: 著手成春
pinyin: zhuo2 shou3 cheng2 chun1
english:
lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation)/to bring back the dead/once it starts, everything goes well


id: e88dae1b46f3f14df817c4c4282ae60b31ea6a2d
simplified: 着落
traditional: 著落
pinyin: zhuo2 luo4
english:
whereabouts/place to settle/reliable source (of funds etc)/(of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb/settlement/solution


id: 8af4716fb1190ab008e3e1fc9c26126fce807022
simplified: 董仲舒
traditional: 董仲舒
pinyin: dong3 zhong4 shu1
english:
Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the established system of values of former Han dynasty


id: f1079164dca6d8acdaa92d997e534b9377033486
simplified: 董卓
traditional: 董卓
pinyin: dong3 zhuo2
english:
Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布


id: 92aa155348bd852232d24daf44ec80412c33efb9
simplified: 董奉
traditional: 董奉
pinyin: dong3 feng4
english:
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead


id: f5849ee521c52ab4af9ed1d3d6f8ec53cb0d23e0
simplified: 葫芦
traditional: 葫蘆
pinyin: hu2 lu5
english:
calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)/hoist/generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof)/muddled/(poker) full house


id: 58ede405fc4e039c0622920788c6ca3446e54def
simplified: 葬送
traditional: 葬送
pinyin: zang4 song4
english:
to hold a funeral procession and burial/to give sb a final send-off/(fig.) to ruin (one's future prospects etc)


id: d253f66694fb61da15993c214d6c6e94d147bda3
simplified: 蒙代尔
traditional: 蒙代爾
pinyin: meng2 dai4 er3
english:
Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996


id: e597619e74c5243add6da5fdd8a83c19d64a668d
simplified: 蒙哥马利
traditional: 蒙哥馬利
pinyin: meng2 ge1 ma3 li4
english:
Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal/Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)


id: ed4e371a1de7dc0d5fe3b477141985002d97e7aa
simplified: 蒙巴顿
traditional: 蒙巴頓
pinyin: meng2 ba1 dun4
english:
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg)/Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.


id: 48f56d4ee0f45fff8061aa702e007c4467c801c9
simplified: 蒙恬
traditional: 蒙恬
pinyin: meng2 tian2
english:
Qin general Meng Tian (-210 BC), involved in 215 BC in fighting the Northern Xiongnu 匈奴 and building the great wall


id: d710487d00c5c1c6b3f9f0660159d49f8d556310
simplified: 蒟蒻
traditional: 蒟蒻
pinyin: ju3 ruo4
english:
konjac, konnyaku or devil's tongue (Amorphophallus konjac), plant whose corms are used to make a stiff jelly (as a food)


id: 7f9ebfae4f0519e2946bb25088e8c4d572f37f5b
simplified: 蒲
traditional: 蒲
pinyin: pu2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 莆
english:
refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis/common cattail/bullrush/surname Pu/old place name


id: 2f3e8bf0ea9c0e10b2ae9791bf41f3c7acf495d7
simplified: 蒸
traditional: 蒸
pinyin: zheng1
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 烝
english:
to evaporate/(of cooking) to steam/torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)/finely chopped firewood (old)


id: d4a8b299ecfa45dc34920d05ca69775ee3524450
simplified: 蓄须明志
traditional: 蓄鬚明志
pinyin: xu4 xu1 ming2 zhi4
english:
to grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳[Mei2 Lan2 fang1] growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese)


id: b4b4039b60a9386830308d726116ffcd8d26183d
simplified: 蓉
traditional: 蓉
pinyin: rong2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
see 芙蓉[fu2 rong2], lotus/food that has been minced, shredded, or ground into a paste, suitable for stuffing or making a sauce/short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]


id: 156f6dc7f54d96add1b532b7e29c99854f589078
simplified: 蓬
traditional: 蓬
pinyin: peng2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
fleabane (family Asteraceae)/disheveled/classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes, campfires: clump, puff/surname Peng


id: f69e0c9b013d4d34981bacd45f6c699a462a4d92
simplified: 蓬莱
traditional: 蓬萊
pinyin: peng2 lai2
english:
Penglai county level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong/Penglai, one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals/by extension, fairyland


id: 26717f2ffb6214e8662af37a6c04fdc35bab9ea3
simplified: 蔡元培
traditional: 蔡元培
pinyin: cai4 yuan2 pei2
english:
Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), liberal educationalist, studied in Germany, president of Peking University 1917-19, minister of education for Guomindang


id: b2fd20e6cc580990610f4c891a8d37f6e712ca43
simplified: 蔡李佛
traditional: 蔡李彿
pinyin: cai4 li3 fo2
english:
Cai Li Fo, Choy Li Fut, Choy Lay Fut, Choi Lei Fut, Choy Lai Fut, Choy Ley Fut, Choi Lei Faht, Tsai Li Fo, Choi Leih Faht - Martial Art


id: 7edc320f673c7ca07c25bd05c481db7bb0fabe44
simplified: 蒋介石
traditional: 蔣介石
pinyin: jiang3 jie4 shi2
english:
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), military leader, head of the Nationalist government in China 1928-1949 and the government in exile on Taiwan 1950-1975


id: 01c518370bdd34866e4ae87b6e86be17ebeba405
simplified: 蒋经国
traditional: 蔣經國
pinyin: jiang3 jing1 guo2
english:
Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石, Guomindang politician, president of ROC 1978-1988


id: 453d92b1f3c86865b4d90eb9f1a5bb87153b3f5a
simplified: 葱岭
traditional: 蔥嶺
pinyin: cong1 ling3
english:
old name for the Pamir high plateau 帕米爾高原|帕米尔高原[Pa4 mi3 er3 Gao1 yuan2] on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan


id: d673db78f7549f6c3489ec4505d6df69dea87c6e
simplified: 萧乾
traditional: 蕭乾
pinyin: xiao1 qian2
english:
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator


id: 1e5ddd72b05f393987ddbfd00ae369ee19f145cb
simplified: 萧何
traditional: 蕭何
pinyin: xiao1 he2
english:
Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]


id: bacd28dcc8244aff661fa5a8b9f2555914cf542c
simplified: 萧子显
traditional: 蕭子顯
pinyin: xiao1 zi3 xian3
english:
Xiao Zixian (487-537), writer and historian of Liang of Southern Dynasties, compiler of History of Qi of the Southern dynasties 南齊書 南齐书


id: 5d4f423ba32621b68d63c0d49450466eecddc46b
simplified: 萧万长
traditional: 蕭萬長
pinyin: xiao1 wan4 chang2
english:
Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice president 2008-2012


id: 398ecd99166bc0e459ce4bee90c6dfd0fbfb3eb7
simplified: 萧规曹随
traditional: 蕭規曹隨
pinyin: xiao1 gui1 cao2 sui2
english:
lit. Xiao's 蕭何|萧何[Xiao1 He2] governance followed by Cao 曹參|曹参[Cao2 Can1] (idiom)/fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor/to follow precedent


id: 31252649da63a28b22453b6e80cb90b1417caa88
simplified: 蕹
traditional: 蕹
pinyin: weng4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia/Taiwan pr. [yong1]


id: dedefbb62da1e263a94a65fcf28ecd366cc5b078
simplified: 蕹菜
traditional: 蕹菜
pinyin: weng4 cai4
english:
water spinach/ong choy/swamp cabbage/water convolvulus/water morning-glory/Ipomoea aquatica (botany)


id: 7c095260b41aee2c439f5220955f9574b05e1be9
simplified: 薄
traditional: 薄
pinyin: bo2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
meager/slight/weak/ungenerous or unkind/frivolous/to despise/to belittle/to look down on/to approach or near/surname Bo


id: 8925ad3d5ea65cd33b7a380426f3efbd28afd3d6
simplified: 薄一波
traditional: 薄一波
pinyin: bo2 yi1 bo1
english:
Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping


id: 559558c9386d1fb8c522adb13a392a56cc83e403
simplified: 薄伽丘
traditional: 薄伽丘
pinyin: bo2 jia1 qiu1
english:
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談|十日谈[Shi2 ri4 Tan2]


id: 071c799220b15daa4ad5587b2aac1a8c740d4e81
simplified: 薄熙来
traditional: 薄熙來
pinyin: bo2 xi1 lai2
english:
Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct


id: 04720b9498406d0303162dc8b0d6bef12fd976fe
simplified: 薄瑞光
traditional: 薄瑞光
pinyin: bo2 rui4 guang1
english:
Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006


id: f6213f5ab1c590299f9e23e518ebf5502f409449
simplified: 薄养厚葬
traditional: 薄養厚葬
pinyin: bo2 yang3 hou4 zang4
english:
to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral/hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly


id: ac5a4034eb7011aec4ffc8be4dad0c9798ae6eb8
simplified: 薛居正
traditional: 薛居正
pinyin: xue1 ju1 zheng4
english:
Xue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song 舊五代史|旧五代史


id: 190891b94c4987b538c7f0eaa02f0f9d1324fe9d
simplified: 萨克森
traditional: 薩克森
pinyin: sa4 ke4 sen1
english:
Sachsen or Saxony, Bundesland in east of Germany, bordering on Poland and Czech republic, capital Dresden 德累斯頓|德累斯顿[De2 lei4 si1 dun4]


id: 076a280045a9378b83a510e887f7c45306c0fd99
simplified: 萨克洛夫
traditional: 薩克洛夫
pinyin: sa4 ke4 luo4 fu1
english:
Sakharov (name)/Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident human rights activist


id: 1cd3e8d335963845cfe7a9efdc138ad48de7e196
simplified: 萨巴德罗
traditional: 薩巴德羅
pinyin: sa4 ba1 de2 luo2
english:
Zapatero (name)/José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain from 2004


id: 5091cb0ffd9dcbb9aa206de66a79472f0e488fed
simplified: 萨摩
traditional: 薩摩
pinyin: sa4 mo2
english:
Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc


id: 5dc4518bceda3ddda2fc13b225f3146bbcfd7676
simplified: 萨尔科齐
traditional: 薩爾科齊
pinyin: sa4 er3 ke1 qi2
english:
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012/also written 薩科齊|萨科齐[Sa4 ke1 qi2]


id: 109f57bc669065b00143cdf5e8ace8d2d5c2dcd7
simplified: 萨迦
traditional: 薩迦
pinyin: sa4 jia1
english:
Sa'gya town and county, Tibetan: Sa skya, in Shigatse prefecture, central Tibet/saga (i.e. heroic tale)


id: a65ca22e2ec8cf7fdc6c8b19c58cc3a7f0df15d6
simplified: 萨马兰奇
traditional: 薩馬蘭奇
pinyin: sa4 ma3 lan2 qi2
english:
Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-), Spanish Olympic official, president of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001


id: 8cf81de99be637990a38fe122053c619b732eae5
simplified: 薪传
traditional: 薪傳
pinyin: xin1 chuan2
english:
(of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another, abbr. for 薪盡火傳|薪尽火传[xin1 jin4 huo3 chuan2]


id: f8400b6c8b059f163031ee6202cb1fa0672e7038
simplified: 薪火相传
traditional: 薪火相傳
pinyin: xin1 huo3 xiang1 chuan2
english:
lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom)/fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another


id: 7fd2701c29090f7d3e5f446bec5b7eeb1078ca15
simplified: 薰莸不同器
traditional: 薰蕕不同器
pinyin: xun1 you2 bu4 tong2 qi4
english:
lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom)/bad people and good people do not mix


id: 62eccaa816048eb2d7baeb65e1c110a58b77d3d3
simplified: 蓝毗尼
traditional: 藍毗尼
pinyin: lan2 pi2 ni2
english:
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2] founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毘尼[Lan2 pi2 ni2], 臘伐尼|腊伐尼[La4 fa2 ni2], 林微尼[Lin2 wei1 ni2])


id: fb813fe2770c1810f414e0276a9821aa68a8692e
simplified: 蓝肤木
traditional: 藍膚木
pinyin: lan2 fu1 mu4
english:
sumac (Rhus coriaria), east Mediterranean deciduous shrub with fruit used as spice/also called tanner's sumach or vinegar tree


id: 7fe5cea1e1aaf96f4654de8e43ee903ad7c0bcfa
simplified: 藏垢纳污
traditional: 藏垢納污
pinyin: cang2 gou4 na4 wu1
english:
to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing/aiding and abetting wicked deeds


id: 570a63ed75ae8d7109cdea4ff77b27ed62bbf139
simplified: 藕断丝连
traditional: 藕斷絲連
pinyin: ou3 duan4 si1 lian2
english:
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another


id: 0a2c04c1694fccea8119bcbbf2508ac6b7d8bc3f
simplified: 药
traditional: 藥
pinyin: yao4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 薬,葯
english:
medicine/drug/substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)/CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]/to poison


id: d955a66682e343087dea015dbf33ebec867b4b61
simplified: 药水
traditional: 藥水
pinyin: yao4 shui3
english:
medicine in liquid form/bottled medicine/lotion/Yaksu in North Korea, near the border with Liaoning and Jiling province


id: 5008da468a4db4c4d16e8d7a5a4480812af176f7
simplified: 药监局
traditional: 藥監局
pinyin: yao4 jian1 ju2
english:
State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)/abbr. for 國家食品藥品監督管理局|国家食品药品监督管理局[Guo2 jia1 Shi2 pin3 Yao4 pin3 Jian1 du1 Guan3 li3 ju2]


id: 93cbdbd4157d421be6d659f0b0f45759787bb545
simplified: 药食同源
traditional: 藥食同源
pinyin: yao4 shi2 tong2 yuan2
english:
lit. food and medicine come from the same source (idiom)/fig. there is no clear-cut distinction between food and medicine


id: 97e1a8aac86b54fbae227c8853165bfbce4a807b
simplified: 藩镇
traditional: 藩鎮
pinyin: fan1 zhen4
english:
lit. fence town/buffer region (between enemies)/Tang dynasty system of provincial administration under a provincial governor 節度使|节度使[jie2 du4 shi3]


id: f76416181514602c2a83a42b7ecfd772c9505a4b
simplified: 藴
traditional: 藴
pinyin: yun4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 蘊
english:
variant of 蘊|蕴, to accumulate/to hold in store/to contain/to gather together/to collect/depth/inner strength/profundity


id: 5aee6605798d02d094d4987828a3d901783d957f
simplified: 蘅塘退士
traditional: 蘅塘退士
pinyin: heng2 tang2 tui4 shi4
english:
assumed name of Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛[Sun1 Zhu1] (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首[Tang2 shi1 San1 bai3 Shou3]


id: 06b6dcca178f932f6a1521e3f3e7f3194f873068
simplified: 苏
traditional: 蘇
pinyin: su1
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil)/place name/to revive/used as phonetic in transliteration/surname Su/abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃 or 蘇聯|苏联/abbr. for Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏/abbr. for Suzhou city 蘇州|苏州


id: 429475281dfc17eb577e52758886ff432317f8a9
simplified: 苏报案
traditional: 蘇報案
pinyin: su1 bao4 an4
english:
Qing's 1903 suppression of revolutionary calls in newspaper 蘇報|苏报, leading to imprisonment of Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 and Zou Rong 鄒容|邹容


id: d8e97ccdaf715afadd7d00fa4144a88546bcea8b
simplified: 苏州码子
traditional: 蘇州碼子
pinyin: su1 zhou1 ma3 zi5
english:
Suzhou numerals, i.e. the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine/also called 草碼|草码[cao3 ma3]


id: c46abafd17eac7f98e80d5ec33a7858b99bde806
simplified: 苏曼殊
traditional: 蘇曼殊
pinyin: su1 man4 shu1
english:
Su Manshu (1884-1918), Chinese writer, journalist, Buddhist monk, participant in the revolutionary movement


id: 3551ea451f234c688961b5f466dd3f22e453b551
simplified: 苏木
traditional: 蘇木
pinyin: su1 mu4
english:
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine/administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)


id: 899a72c67bef06ba224165a918088b52678625a3
simplified: 苏格拉底
traditional: 蘇格拉底
pinyin: su1 ge2 la1 di3
english:
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher/José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)


id: 7bfe9faa58d012e3e4b75c2fd128f6e7b8bd2825
simplified: 苏武
traditional: 蘇武
pinyin: su1 wu3
english:
Su Wu (140-60 BC), Han Dynasty diplomat and statesman, regarded as a model of courage and faithful service


id: 69fdf759e7c15408b86db74a0f44d2446c2c1c67
simplified: 苏洵
traditional: 蘇洵
pinyin: su1 xun2
english:
Su Xun (1009-1066), northern Song writer of prose/one of the Three Su 三苏 and one of Eight Giants 唐宋八大家


id: 69d277da1a180b530cbed755df7c2db67b9d7de5
simplified: 苏秦
traditional: 蘇秦
pinyin: su1 qin2
english:
Su Qin (340-284 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)


id: 1c02e22a793a719f744f05fda35756a12755952e
simplified: 苏联
traditional: 蘇聯
pinyin: su1 lian2
english:
Soviet Union, 1922-1991/abbr. for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟|苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟[Su1 wei2 ai1 She4 hui4 zhu3 yi4 Gong4 he2 guo2 Lian2 meng2]


id: 828b2422741dbd1c932664ba0b539e62fe99b842
simplified: 苏莱曼
traditional: 蘇萊曼
pinyin: su1 lai2 man4
english:
Suleiman (name)/General Michel Suleiman (1948-), Lebanese military man and politician, president of Lebanon 2008-2014


id: 0096de37d3250f1d6cbb37e81200114ec0e20ba4
simplified: 苏西洛
traditional: 蘇西洛
pinyin: su1 xi1 luo4
english:
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949-), retired Indonesian general, president of the Republic of Indonesia 2004-2014


id: 6486ef6ac5c51284cea90df94c25b7bd585b4a62
simplified: 苏轼
traditional: 蘇軾
pinyin: su1 shi4
english:
Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1] northern Song Dynasty writer and calligrapher/one of the Three Su father and sons 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1]


id: 425f31f143e51aec48792fecb241078afd7a178d
simplified: 蕴
traditional: 蘊
pinyin: yun4
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
variants: 蘊
english:
to accumulate/to hold in store/to contain/to gather together/to collect/depth/inner strength/profundity


id: 0d87a2815a62d40e958b6890a0eb1603860f5eb0
simplified: 蘝
traditional: 蘝
pinyin: lian3
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
variant of 蘞|蔹, trailing plant/liana/creeper/wild vine (Gynostemma pentaphyllum or Vitis pentaphylla)


id: 3d4a6e36e01ab3583e37d3653338c6e3c4233175
simplified: 兰
traditional: 蘭
pinyin: lan2
radicalSimplified: 八
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii)/fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei)/lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)/surname Lan/abbr. for Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 zhou1], Gansu


id: 4b77ee09662feab56e7ea9b38b59cebd64a6b1ef
simplified: 兰坪
traditional: 蘭坪
pinyin: lan2 ping2
english:
Lanping Bai and Pumi 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: 2094bcc5fb907161a09ee4ac25a02565baf3d063
simplified: 兰艾同焚
traditional: 蘭艾同焚
pinyin: lan2 ai4 tong2 fen2
english:
lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common/the rain falls on the just and unjust alike


id: 9ec4159e10036d1d50286ade1931cefdbc097937
simplified: 兰陵笑笑生
traditional: 蘭陵笑笑生
pinyin: lan2 ling2 xiao4 xiao4 sheng1
english:
Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, pseudonym of the Ming dynasty writer and author of the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅[Jin1 ping2 mei2]


id: 16bc44449c479cfd6eb63e047497656efd9e79cc
simplified: 蓠
traditional: 蘺
pinyin: li2
radicalSimplified: 艸
radicalTraditional: 艸
english:
red algae/Gracilaria, several species, some edible/Japanese ogonori/arch. used for vanilla-like herb


id: 7cfdc1b5efa60980c2411d6325b6f093a2fd1a72
simplified: 萝莉控
traditional: 蘿莉控
pinyin: luo2 li4 kong4
english:
lolicon or rorikon (Japanese loanword)/manga or anime genre depicting young girls in an erotic manner


id: 101241f42a468bf33ac1058b892cadcc23e1ce4c
simplified: 虎父无犬子
traditional: 虎父無犬子
pinyin: hu3 fu4 wu2 quan3 zi3
english:
lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well./like father, like son


id: 5bc2b7fa76833b19784eb2405fdf767d1b52ab84
simplified: 虎符
traditional: 虎符
pinyin: hu3 fu2
english:
tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)


id: ad5ca830bd745dcccb777811a935da85744a58ed
simplified: 虎跳峡
traditional: 虎跳峽
pinyin: hu3 tiao4 xia2
english:
Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Jinsha River 金沙江[Jin1 sha1 jiang1] in Lijiang Naxi autonomous county 麗江納西族自治縣|丽江纳西族自治县[Li4 jiang1 Na4 xi1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4], Yunnan


id: 4887903eb47d13af942100cc26fe405c43633694
simplified: 虎门
traditional: 虎門
pinyin: hu3 men2
english:
the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong/Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇[Hu3 men2 Zhen4]


id: 66f222cd4f79a800a0aeee5f76d3082323ef46ba
simplified: 虎门镇
traditional: 虎門鎮
pinyin: hu3 men2 zhen4
english:
Humen Town, also known as Taiping 太平[Tai4 ping2], a town within Dongguan prefecture-level city 東莞市|东莞市[Dong1 guan3 shi4], Guangdong


id: 6f397fa5bc8afe86bb668f5d263842041332f718
simplified: 处
traditional: 處
pinyin: chu3
radicalSimplified: 夂
radicalTraditional: 虍
variants: 処,䖏
english:
to reside/to live/to dwell/to be in/to be situated at/to stay/to get along with/to be in a position of/to deal with/to discipline/to punish


id: 9edeb40d4af5d2e17b7340b286a40d73e7798b14
simplified: 处
traditional: 處
pinyin: chu4
radicalSimplified: 夂
radicalTraditional: 虍
variants: 処,䖏
english:
place/location/spot/point/office/department/bureau/respect/classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point


id: 3a3a5b5906114455c2875f50eaf068af190c53af
simplified: 处理
traditional: 處理
pinyin: chu3 li3
english:
to handle/to treat/to deal with/to process/to deal with a criminal case/to mete out punishment/to offer for sale at a reduced price/to punish


id: 7727739530a25d91c5f05f28fc43194cae1fbd1b
simplified: 虚
traditional: 虛
pinyin: xu1
radicalSimplified: 虍
radicalTraditional: 虍
english:
emptiness/void/abstract theory or guiding principles/empty or unoccupied/diffident or timid/false/humble or modest/(of health) weak/virtual/in vain


id: ce68bbbbc58170767f85de21e061919498494ad6
simplified: 虚损
traditional: 虛損
pinyin: xu1 sun3
english:
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang/asthenia


id: d4db62ebaf94675eb2b896351c241bcd601fe3ab
simplified: 虚岁
traditional: 虛歲
pinyin: xu1 sui4
english:
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived). In this system, a person's age is one year at birth, and increases by one year at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday./as opposed to 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]


id: d6a3da5df1724f1dff20175a2de3a9bc8e3423d2
simplified: 虚火
traditional: 虛火
pinyin: xu1 huo3
english:
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)/the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself


id: b92a1dd9970445af4409adeacb7b91b6118c50b8
simplified: 虞世南
traditional: 虞世南
pinyin: yu2 shi4 nan2
english:
Yu Shi'nan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]


id: 94dde754f7256e28314e6b2adf4a799d01e67340
simplified: 虞应龙
traditional: 虞應龍
pinyin: yu2 ying4 long2
english:
Yu Yinglong, Yuan dynasty scholar, collaborated on the geographical encyclopedia Dayuan Dayi Tongzhi 大元大一統誌|大元大一统志


id: f6455dc86cd091a133d95cd11b1a3c6e097c98bd
simplified: 号
traditional: 號
pinyin: hao4
radicalSimplified: 口
radicalTraditional: 虍
variants: 號,号
english:
ordinal number/day of a month/mark/sign/business establishment/size/ship suffix/horn (wind instrument)/bugle call/assumed name/to take a pulse/classifier used to indicate number of people


id: 4d9a6192da4b23d591f70cbbdea7e651f2b48470
simplified: 号衣
traditional: 號衣
pinyin: hao4 yi1
english:
jacket worn esp. by soldiers in former times, with large insignia on the front and back indicating unit affiliation


id: 908705405d27b8ca5a158bd30a84770239c61f41
simplified: 虢
traditional: 虢
pinyin: guo2
radicalSimplified: 虍
radicalTraditional: 虍
english:
Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國|西虢国 and Eastern Guo 東虢國|东虢国/surname Guo


id: 6107f8e53be85ea70b3308aa0f8f93e83601c842
simplified: 虹桥
traditional: 虹橋
pinyin: hong2 qiao2
english:
Hongqiao, the name of numerous entities, notably a major airport in Shanghai, and a district in Tianjin


id: f6feceaaba24ed1d9e338b0d37b835c3d9fc38bb
simplified: 蚍蜉撼大树
traditional: 蚍蜉撼大樹
pinyin: pi2 fu2 han4 da4 shu4
english:
lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom)/fig. to overrate one's own strength/also written 蚍蜉撼樹|蚍蜉撼树[pi2 fu2 han4 shu4]


id: 292860e8bac5655c1bf4ecd72fcc2281c4db497a
simplified: 蛇岛
traditional: 蛇島
pinyin: she2 dao3
english:
Shedao or Snake island in Bohai sea 渤海 off Lüshun 旅順|旅顺 on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula, small rocky island famous for snakes


id: d934cb7cbfb872243134c9f6dc8d19275fb042fc
simplified: 蜀
traditional: 蜀
pinyin: shu3
radicalSimplified: 虫
radicalTraditional: 虫
english:
short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province/one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the fall of the Han dynasty


id: 6fe4c93f8937870f0adacbbd164e5c583576ed9e
simplified: 蜀国
traditional: 蜀國
pinyin: shu3 guo2
english:
Sichuan/the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods/the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 during the Three Kingdoms


id: 73bbc06f536527a7afca72bb5c1d7847b16761b2
simplified: 蜀汉
traditional: 蜀漢
pinyin: shu3 han4
english:
Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han


id: b578fb62d46537fb64605276a7dab6e2167eb4cd
simplified: 蜀犬吠日
traditional: 蜀犬吠日
pinyin: shu3 quan3 fei4 ri4
english:
lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom); fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things/alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day


id: 7027aaa8805e1e2ad2277407d746352aa6a852fc
simplified: 蜘蛛人
traditional: 蜘蛛人
pinyin: zhi1 zhu1 ren2
english:
Spider-Man, see 蜘蛛俠|蜘蛛侠/nickname of French skyscraper climber Alain Robert (1962-)/person who scales the outer walls of a building as a stunt or for building maintenance


id: 904f9011c577a727d0e9e2ed4fb64a36bc412060
simplified: 蜱咬病
traditional: 蜱咬病
pinyin: pi2 yao3 bing4
english:
tick-bite sickness/informal term for 發熱伴血小板減少綜合徵|发热伴血小板减少综合征[fa1 re4 ban4 xue4 xiao3 ban3 jian3 shao3 zong1 he2 zheng1]


id: bf21379566a7e13cfb76cb6c6d00e0c6a68bda94
simplified: 虾兵蟹将
traditional: 蝦兵蟹將
pinyin: xia1 bing1 xie4 jiang4
english:
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea)/useless troops (idiom)


id: c614d80b8bb95011d4b5cba804295bc209b24697
simplified: 虱多不痒
traditional: 蝨多不癢
pinyin: shi1 duo1 bu4 yang3
english:
many fleas, but unconcerned (idiom); no point in worrying about one debt when one has so many others/Troubles never come singly./It never rains but it pours.


id: 466dca1310e8f6a0d3338c6f08b3fa1f9c0621c6
simplified: 蜗行牛步
traditional: 蝸行牛步
pinyin: wo1 xing2 niu2 bu4
english:
lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom)/fig. to move at a snail's pace/to make slow progress


id: 75300ebc1b5ac57445883575726787ade2c6ec12
simplified: 融合
traditional: 融合
pinyin: rong2 he2
english:
a mixture/an amalgam/fusion/welding together/to be in harmony with (nature)/to harmonize with/to fit in


id: 1e0fbdf3d56941f910550ea3430791a03f18564b
simplified: 螟
traditional: 螟
pinyin: ming2
radicalSimplified: 虫
radicalTraditional: 虫
english:
boring insect/snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest


id: ae869700b6b2f259e36e198159fc863010fb454c
simplified: 螳臂当车
traditional: 螳臂當車
pinyin: tang2 bi4 dang1 che1
english:
a mantis trying to stop a chariot (idiom)/to overrate oneself and attempt sth impossible/also written 螳臂擋車|螳臂挡车[tang2 bi4 dang3 che1]


id: bfe6aebca95da04a227c781e6b815a06bbbb2e64
simplified: 螳螂捕蝉
traditional: 螳螂捕蟬
pinyin: tang2 lang2 bu3 chan2
english:
the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger


id: f5badc9535565c6f386bfec0f932bb98fc800891
simplified: 蝼蛄
traditional: 螻蛄
pinyin: lou2 gu1
english:
mole cricket/Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a serious agricultural pest)


id: 891498033de67c9a9c42fda74157b490553cc11c
simplified: 蟊贼
traditional: 蟊賊
pinyin: mao2 zei2
english:
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings/(lit. and fig.) vermin/a person harmful to the country and the people


id: e0a5ccee7b49126fa80feb21806d1387fb910efc
simplified: 蟠尾丝虫
traditional: 蟠尾絲蟲
pinyin: pan2 wei3 si1 chong2
english:
Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans


id: 541a0d5708f20c7390ac64aa4fcb5b0333ce673d
simplified: 蟠尾丝虫症
traditional: 蟠尾絲蟲症
pinyin: pan2 wei3 si1 chong2 zheng4
english:
"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus


id: 4b97a769f99317e6807626e419f8982d58e3024b
simplified: 蟪蛄不知春秋
traditional: 蟪蛄不知春秋
pinyin: hui4 gu1 bu4 zhi1 chun1 qiu1
english:
lit. short-lived cicada does not know the seasons; fig. to see only a small piece of the big picture


id: 657c80d926fd7d5e900d98ffed0a7bc4ce7d474d
simplified: 蝉联
traditional: 蟬聯
pinyin: chan2 lian2
english:
to continue in a post/(to hold a post) several times in succession/(to win a title) in successive years/to stay at number one/to defend a championship


id: f2b4ee456578138ee86662ce117e68ac20f06772
simplified: 虫
traditional: 蟲
pinyin: chong2
radicalSimplified: 虫
radicalTraditional: 虫
variants: 蟲,虫
english:
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures/CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]/person with a particular undesirable characteristic


id: f32c5f6a6d56ce1cc49e8ff10f9ed79be448eab4
simplified: 蚁族
traditional: 蟻族
pinyin: yi3 zu2
english:
"ant tribe", college graduates who endure cramped living conditions while trying to develop a career


id: 43b59e448896eafcf1118eb3ef7f9049404c5e75
simplified: 蟾宫折桂
traditional: 蟾宮折桂
pinyin: chan2 gong1 zhe2 gui4
english:
lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)/fig. to succeed in the imperial examination


id: 2d15d5c9b46eb46caab234930719bcd1e51e0ab5
simplified: 蛊
traditional: 蠱
pinyin: gu3
radicalSimplified: 虫
radicalTraditional: 虫
english:
arch. legendary venomous insect/to poison/to bewitch/to drive to insanity/to harm by witchcraft/intestinal parasite


id: fba6eb340ee8b3a25d2e4c01612d6234c4063722
simplified: 蛮子
traditional: 蠻子
pinyin: man2 zi5
english:
barbarian/slave servant/(old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)


id: a20c4a5fd786c5ec553a691a56c3121094100dc0
simplified: 血田
traditional: 血田
pinyin: xue4 tian2
english:
field of blood/battlefield/hateful place/Aceldama (field bought by Judas Iscariot with his 30 pieces of silver in Matthew 27:7)


id: 84a020b1d00eac30bc331c2a8f91b6887d9afb48
simplified: 血盆大口
traditional: 血盆大口
pinyin: xue4 pen2 da4 kou3
english:
bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey/fig. greedy exploiter/rapacious aggressor


id: 1e073f08ff093c691fd9dcdd33b73b02202987dd
simplified: 血统论
traditional: 血統論
pinyin: xue4 tong3 lun4
english:
class division into proletariat and bourgeoisie class enemy, in use esp. during the Cultural Revolution


id: 9f5d7edd06e6b2d464bd2948dcdcf33d763017b0
simplified: 行
traditional: 行
pinyin: hang2
radicalSimplified: 行
radicalTraditional: 行
variants: 行
english:
row/line/commercial firm/line of business/profession/to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age)/(in data tables) row/(Tw) column


id: 816c4fbd76fb20013c3b3f5ecb551e3ed0412813
simplified: 行
traditional: 行
pinyin: xing2
radicalSimplified: 行
radicalTraditional: 行
variants: 行
english:
to walk/to go/to travel/a visit/temporary/makeshift/current/in circulation/to do/to perform/capable/competent/effective/all right/OK!/will do/behavior/conduct/Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense


id: 2e140c013d5ef9a6a21f5e037ba2c7e43d20c407
simplified: 行不从径
traditional: 行不從徑
pinyin: xing2 bu4 cong2 jing4
english:
lit. not following the straight path (idiom); fig. looking for a shortcut to get ahead in work or study


id: 0ee40498ce831e84f27c8660f784f84f2a05dbf7
simplified: 行政院
traditional: 行政院
pinyin: xing2 zheng4 yuan4
english:
Executive Yuan, the executive branch of government under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan


id: 4bfae53836b4db95805238f113444af0a84c2c95
simplified: 行百里者半九十
traditional: 行百里者半九十
pinyin: xing2 bai3 li3 zhe3 ban4 jiu3 shi2
english:
lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)/fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets/a task is not done until it's done


id: 6febfe08949fb350de9122b3d033e60720d2c330
simplified: 行程
traditional: 行程
pinyin: xing2 cheng2
english:
journey/course of a journey/distance traveled/trajectory/itinerary/route/course (of history)/(Tw) (computing) process


id: cd387cc7065b1aaa362be3ebcd6aea6bdc306463
simplified: 行万里路，读万卷书
traditional: 行萬里路，讀萬卷書
pinyin: xing2 wan4 li3 lu4 , du2 wan4 juan4 shu1
english:
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom)/Learn as much as you can and do all you can.


id: 9c7201aa259e7132988957d32e10c84b55adb4c3
simplified: 行行出状元
traditional: 行行出狀元
pinyin: hang2 hang2 chu1 zhuang4 yuan2
english:
lit. in every trade, a master appears (idiom); fig. You can produce outstanding achievements in any task, provided you put it enough love and diligence


id: ce71ece101a8b61f160458d3bd538cbd749781f8
simplified: 行云流水
traditional: 行雲流水
pinyin: xing2 yun2 liu2 shui3
english:
lit. moving clouds and flowing water (idiom)/fig. very natural and flowing style of calligraphy, writing, etc/natural and unforced


id: f6584beb3fdc85418f7ef52ce2b67f90b53101d7
simplified: 衍声复词
traditional: 衍聲複詞
pinyin: yan3 sheng1 fu4 ci2
english:
compound word such as 玫瑰[mei2 gui1], 咖啡[ka1 fei1], whose meaning is unrelated to the component hanzi, which often cannot be used singly


id: acad15d4b8766fb833ba2a0bcdefe01e67427cbb
simplified: 术
traditional: 術
pinyin: zhu2
radicalSimplified: 木
radicalTraditional: 行
english:
various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea


id: 3c185992d8a083a65570bb51af3e74802e4b4a13
simplified: 街道办事处
traditional: 街道辦事處
pinyin: jie1 dao4 ban4 shi4 chu4
english:
subdistrict office/neighborhood official/an official who works with local residents to report to higher government authorities


id: 756b5446f029c8e26dac1f14489f7a0b097fc16e
simplified: 卫
traditional: 衛
pinyin: wei4
radicalSimplified: 乙
radicalTraditional: 行
variants: 衞
english:
to guard/to protect/to defend/abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene/health/abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet/surname Wei/vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066-221 BC), located in present day Henan and Hebei Provinces


id: 126a4038824975d345843a59e0b85cc1af413270
simplified: 卫奕信
traditional: 衛奕信
pinyin: wei4 yi4 xin4
english:
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-), British diplomat and China expert, Governor of Hong Kong 1986-1992


id: d3a3cd0aa52890ac1a330df74f362a49033bcbb0
simplified: 卫霍
traditional: 衛霍
pinyin: wei4 huo4
english:
abbr. for generals Wei Qing 衛青|卫青 and Huo Qubing 霍去病 of Western Han 西漢|西汉[Xi1 Han4], famous for their success in quelling the Xiongnu barbarian invaders


id: b804f577273ae26576d56dec5c3e216d2a10619d
simplified: 衡山
traditional: 衡山
pinyin: heng2 shan1
english:
Mt Heng in Hunan, southern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]/Hengshan county in Hengyang 衡陽|衡阳[Heng2 yang2], Hunan


id: 1a60ae8ccc7a7a3dd6421f278cc555c2ef68ba39
simplified: 衣钵
traditional: 衣缽
pinyin: yi1 bo1
english:
the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism)/legacy/mantle


id: e94836ed4184735d68126fa3a2bd01df78a4ec3e
simplified: 表
traditional: 表
pinyin: biao3
radicalSimplified: 衣
radicalTraditional: 衣
english:
exterior surface/family relationship via females/to show (one's opinion)/a model/a table (listing information)/a form/a meter (measuring sth)


id: a49b59fe40190193b04ccedf5f780fdc4cee939a
simplified: 表叔
traditional: 表叔
pinyin: biao3 shu1
english:
son of grandfather's sister/son of grandmother's brother or sister/father's younger male cousin/(Hong Kong slang) mainlander


id: c7f75064f5a7b1c41d09f62aee45f26c76c733e2
simplified: 表现
traditional: 表現
pinyin: biao3 xian4
english:
to show/to show off/to display/to manifest/expression/manifestation/show/display/performance (at work etc)/behavior


id: c38ed3df211c39aadb702c309025b756c2d81fa9
simplified: 表里不一
traditional: 表裡不一
pinyin: biao3 li3 bu4 yi1
english:
outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems/saying one thing but meaning sth different


id: 0902547e44c9b8e7f7e46fffc88169e9164fc431
simplified: 表里如一
traditional: 表裡如一
pinyin: biao3 li3 ru2 yi1
english:
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means/to think and act as one


id: d17f7968866472c96eacd91e3fbfb4341ed146be
simplified: 袁世凯
traditional: 袁世凱
pinyin: yuan2 shi4 kai3
english:
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China


id: 37ac83f5abecd36799acc6560f844ee546100353
simplified: 袁枚
traditional: 袁枚
pinyin: yuan2 mei2
english:
Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家


id: be9f0ef8a2fbdbdc76da30aaba29e0217405a565
simplified: 袁头
traditional: 袁頭
pinyin: yuan2 tou2
english:
silver coin from the early days of the Republic of China (1912-1949) bearing the head of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3]


id: df3f80ce7d11ecc5dd2101acd8b12888d556cf46
simplified: 被
traditional: 被
pinyin: bei4
radicalSimplified: 衣
radicalTraditional: 衣
english:
quilt/by/(indicates passive-voice clauses)/(literary) to cover/to meet with/(coll.) (since c. 2009) used before a verb that does not accurately represent what actually happened, to describe with black humor how sb or sth was dealt with by the authorities (as in 被自殺|被自杀[bei4 zi4 sha1])


id: 3285ba1b18be34c13cb781cd5172b91a32c9530e
simplified: 被旅游
traditional: 被旅游
pinyin: bei4 lu:3 you2
english:
(coll.) (of a dissident) to be taken on a tour, ostensibly a vacation, but actually a trip organized by the authorities where one's every move is watched


id: 4608b7138399aee25d166bb03def66855366ee86
simplified: 被窝
traditional: 被窩
pinyin: bei4 wo1
english:
quilt wrapped around the body as a tube (traditional bedding)/(contemporary) bedding/quilt/blankets/cover/bed


id: 8a9742ee3b02306da85cb2835197975dd26289fe
simplified: 裁
traditional: 裁
pinyin: cai2
radicalSimplified: 衣
radicalTraditional: 衣
english:
to cut out (as a dress)/to cut/to trim/to reduce/to diminish/to cut back (e.g. on staff)/decision/judgment


id: 59c9947c1b134a62e147f33747d549f59e5ab0bb
simplified: 裙带关系
traditional: 裙帶關係
pinyin: qun2 dai4 guan1 xi5
english:
favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative/(by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates


id: 193e48b57815882fff6be767ee60e4262817d5a1
simplified: 裙带风
traditional: 裙帶風
pinyin: qun2 dai4 feng1
english:
the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative/(by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates


id: 6d0a8a6e7b04d1e2707f150cf30eefa2f9c9b922
simplified: 补法
traditional: 補法
pinyin: bu3 fa3
english:
treatment involving the use of tonics to restore the patient's health/reinforcing method (in acupuncture)


id: 9c309601dd4afd7f8f0881069def5a6814d49779
simplified: 补白
traditional: 補白
pinyin: bu3 bai2
english:
to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout)/to make some additional remarks/filler (in a newspaper or magazine)


id: b59affdd6ef5093a512dd0712e865749b6b680d3
simplified: 补票
traditional: 補票
pinyin: bu3 piao4
english:
to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc/to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater


id: d8638f83c99138d51a73166731bb32720a0be58c
simplified: 装
traditional: 裝
pinyin: zhuang1
radicalSimplified: 衣
radicalTraditional: 衣
english:
adornment/to adorn/dress/clothing/costume (of an actor in a play)/to play a role/to pretend/to install/to fix/to wrap (sth in a bag)/to load/to pack


id: 9b7c3cd012e592a579c19a69487ce8c5fa62dc66
simplified: 装点门面
traditional: 裝點門面
pinyin: zhuang1 dian3 men2 mian4
english:
lit. to decorate the front of one's store (idiom)/fig. to embellish (one's CV, etc)/to keep up appearances/to put up a front


id: 29fc8ff81e2a005891980e750acd57c31bd68e50
simplified: 裸婚
traditional: 裸婚
pinyin: luo3 hun1
english:
lit. naked wedding/no-frills civil wedding ceremony lacking a material foundation: no car, house, reception, rings, or honeymoon


id: a52a30d83928bec212884337d455bf6008132efc
simplified: 裸机
traditional: 裸機
pinyin: luo3 ji1
english:
hardware-only device/computer without operating system or other software installed/mobile phone or pager without network subscription


id: 6d63b83a1801ffacb770281054029ec5e0c17c34
simplified: 复
traditional: 複
pinyin: fu4
radicalSimplified: 夊
radicalTraditional: 衣
variants: 復
english:
to repeat/to double/to overlap/complex (not simple)/compound/composite/double/diplo-/duplicate/overlapping/to duplicate


id: 6045d19d259b18e0581208428670288b64ac9f64
simplified: 褚遂良
traditional: 褚遂良
pinyin: chu3 sui4 liang2
english:
Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]


id: f4890d4ed8949d881a16eeab619a27b699fe16c6
simplified: 褪去
traditional: 褪去
pinyin: tui4 qu4
english:
to take off (one's clothes)/(fig.) to shed (one's former image etc)/(of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside/also pr. [tun4 qu4]


id: 2537e9f9d1e239ae058fe24ae46e6f615991c7fc
simplified: 襄
traditional: 襄
pinyin: xiang1
radicalSimplified: 衣
radicalTraditional: 衣
variants: 㐮
english:
to help/to assist/mutual assistance/to rush into or up/to raise or hold up/high/tall/old variant of 欀/chariot horse (old)/change (old)/surname Xiang


id: 377f22866589c03f3c6ab6976e4bb859604073b0
simplified: 襄城
traditional: 襄城
pinyin: xiang1 cheng2
english:
Xiangcheng county in Xuchang city 許昌市|许昌市[Xu3 chang1 shi4], Henan/Xiangcheng district of Xiangfan city 襄樊市[Xiang1 fan2 shi4], Hubei


id: e587965d8b9c2703fc38978c82bf1d8076ba8dc6
simplified: 襟
traditional: 襟
pinyin: jin1
radicalSimplified: 衣
radicalTraditional: 衣
variants: 衿
english:
lapel/overlap of Chinese gown/fig. bosom (the seat of emotions)/to cherish (ambition, desires, honorable intentions etc) in one's bosom


id: e74ac977b508cd71070d3e8951488b47348998ad
simplified: 西域记
traditional: 西域記
pinyin: xi1 yu4 ji4
english:
Report of the regions west of Great Tang/travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘 on his travels to Central Asia and India


id: be5bf2da35c189c3683df8b96929589342d11ed7
simplified: 西塞罗
traditional: 西塞羅
pinyin: xi1 sai1 luo2
english:
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), famous Roman politician, orator and philosopher, murdered at the orders of Marc Anthony


id: 9bccd90c8e4fb650b845bf57c9c0fa48af4b519b
simplified: 西夏
traditional: 西夏
pinyin: xi1 xia4
english:
Western Xia dynasty 1038-1227 of Tangut people 黨項|党项 occupying modern Ningxia and parts of Gansu and Shaanxi, overthrown by Mongols


id: 055fc095b78bb330e47cbfb56ee2ad77011c09f3
simplified: 西安
traditional: 西安
pinyin: xi1 an1
english:
Xi'an, sub-provincial city and capital of Shaanxi 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3] in northwest China/see 西安區|西安区[Xi1 an1 qu1]


id: 28cf6c1a7f82208f80b0b79a4d1d7c1c1fb0457d
simplified: 西康
traditional: 西康
pinyin: xi1 kang1
english:
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]


