# dict

Words: AB制
Pinyin: b zhì
Hanviet: 制chế
Meaning:
to split the bill (where the male counterpart foots the larger portion of the sum)/(theater) a system where two actors take turns in acting the main role, with one actor replacing the other if either is unavailable/


Words: OK鏡
Pinyin: o k jìng
Hanviet: 鏡kính
Meaning:
OK Lens, orthokeratology contact lens that helps reshape the cornea in order to eliminate nearsightedness or myopia/


Words: Q
Pinyin: q
Meaning:
cute (loanword)/(of food) having a pleasant chewiness (like mochi, tapioca pearls, taro balls etc - foods with a springy or gel-like mouthfeel)/


Words: 一
Pinyin: yī
Hanviet: 一nhất
Meaning:
one/1/single/a (article)/as soon as/entire/whole/all/throughout/"one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)/also pr.  for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit/


Words: 一一映射
Pinyin: yī yī yìng shè
Hanviet: 一nhất 一nhất 映ánh 射xạ
Meaning:
bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto)/one-to-one correspondence/


Words: 一下
Pinyin: yī xià
Hanviet: 一nhất 下hạ
Meaning:
(used after a verb) give it a go/to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)/one time/once/in a while/all of a sudden/all at once/


Words: 一不做，二不休
Pinyin: yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
Hanviet: 一nhất 不bất 做tố 二nhị 不bất 休hưu
Meaning:
don’t do it, or don’t rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end/Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens./in for a penny, in for a pound/


Words: 一世
Pinyin: yī shì
Hanviet: 一nhất 世thế
Meaning:
generation/period of 30 years/one’s whole lifetime/lifelong/age/era/times/the whole world/the First (of numbered European kings)/


Words: 一人得道，雞犬升天
Pinyin: yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
Hanviet: 一nhất 人nhân 得đắc 道Đạo 雞kê 犬khuyển 升thăng 天thiên
Meaning:
lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)/fig. to ride on sb else’s success/Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too/Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it/


Words: 一個巴掌拍不響
Pinyin: yī ge bā zhǎng pāi bù xiǎng
Hanviet: 一nhất 個cá 巴ba 掌chưởng 拍phách 不bất 響hưởng
Meaning:
lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb)/fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute/it takes two to tango/it’s difficult to achieve anything without support/


Words: 一個蘿蔔一個坑
Pinyin: yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng
Hanviet: 一nhất 個cá 蘿 蔔bặc 一nhất 個cá 坑khanh
Meaning:
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)/fig. each person has his own position/each to his own/horses for courses/every kettle has its lid/


Words: 一刀切
Pinyin: yī dāo qiē
Hanviet: 一nhất 刀đao 切thiết
Meaning:
lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity/one solution fits a diversity of problems/one size fits all/


Words: 一分為二
Pinyin: yī fēn wéi èr
Hanviet: 一nhất 分phân 為vi 二nhị
Meaning:
one divides into two/to be two-sided/there are two sides to everything/to see both sb’s good points and shortcomings (idiom)/


Words: 一反常態
Pinyin: yī fǎn cháng tài
Hanviet: 一nhất 反phản 常thường 態thái
Meaning:
complete change from the normal state (idiom); quite uncharacteristic/entirely outside the norm/out of character/


Words: 一口吃個胖子
Pinyin: yī kǒu chī ge pàng zi
Hanviet: 一nhất 口khẩu 吃cật 個cá 胖 子tử
Meaning:
lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb)/fig. to try to achieve one’s goal in the shortest time possible/to be impatient for success/


Words: 一呼百諾
Pinyin: yī hū bǎi nuò
Hanviet: 一nhất 呼hô 百bách 諾nặc
Meaning:
one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one’s beck and call/


Words: 一問三不知
Pinyin: yī wèn sān bù zhī
Hanviet: 一nhất 問vấn 三tam 不bất 知tri
Meaning:
lit. to reply "don’t know" whatever the question (idiom)/fig. absolutely no idea of what’s going on/complete ignorance/


Words: 一字千金
Pinyin: yī zì qiān jīn
Hanviet: 一nhất 字tự 千thiên 金kim
Meaning:
one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)/(in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect/each word is highly valued/


Words: 一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰
Pinyin: yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn , cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn
Hanviet: 一nhất 寸thốn 光quang 陰ấm 一nhất 寸thốn 金kim 寸thốn 金kim 難nạn/nan 買mãi 寸thốn 光quang 陰ấm
Meaning:
lit. An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time. (idiom)/fig. Time is precious and must be treasured./


Words: 一手交錢，一手交貨
Pinyin: yī shǒu jiāo qián , yī shǒu jiāo huò
Hanviet: 一nhất 手thủ 交giao 錢tiền 一nhất 手thủ 交giao 貨hóa
Meaning:
lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)/fig. to pay for what you want in cash/simple and direct transaction/


Words: 一擲千金
Pinyin: yī zhì qiān jīn
Hanviet: 一nhất 擲trịch 千thiên 金kim
Meaning:
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly/extravagant/


Words: 一改故轍
Pinyin: yī gǎi gù zhé
Hanviet: 一nhất 改cải 故cố 轍triệt
Meaning:
complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction/a volte-face/to change old practices/


Words: 一敗塗地
Pinyin: yī bài tú dì
Hanviet: 一nhất 敗bại 塗đồ 地địa
Meaning:
failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly/a crushing defeat/beaten and in a hopeless position/


Words: 一是一，二是二
Pinyin: yī shì yī , èr shì èr
Hanviet: 一nhất 是thị 一nhất 二nhị 是thị 二nhị
Meaning:
lit. one is one, two is two (idiom)/fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut/unequivocal/


Words: 一暴十寒
Pinyin: yī pù shí hán
Hanviet: 一nhất 暴bạo 十thập 寒hàn
Meaning:
one day’s sun, ten days’ frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp/sporadic effort/short attention span/


Words: 一曝十寒
Pinyin: yī pù shí hán
Hanviet: 一nhất 曝bộc 十thập 寒hàn
Meaning:
one day’s sun, ten days’ frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp/sporadic effort/lack of sticking power/short attention span/


Words: 一板一眼
Pinyin: yī bǎn yī yǎn
Hanviet: 一nhất 板bản 一nhất 眼nhãn
Meaning:
lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter/scrupulous attention to detail/


Words: 一板三眼
Pinyin: yī bǎn sān yǎn
Hanviet: 一nhất 板bản 三tam 眼nhãn
Meaning:
lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail/


Words: 一枝獨秀
Pinyin: yī zhī dú xiù
Hanviet: 一nhất 枝chi 獨độc 秀tú
Meaning:
lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom)/fig. to be in a league of one’s own/outstanding/


Words: 一柱擎天
Pinyin: yī zhù qíng tiān
Hanviet: 一nhất 柱trụ 擎kình 天thiên
Meaning:
lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)/fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one’s shoulders/


Words: 一條繩上的螞蚱
Pinyin: yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
Hanviet: 一nhất 條điều 繩thằng 上thượng 的đích 螞 蚱
Meaning:
lit. like locusts tied to one rope (idiom)/fig. in the same boat/in it together for better or worse/to sink or swim together/


Words: 一次生，兩次熟
Pinyin: yī cì shēng , liǎng cì shú
Hanviet: 一nhất 次thứ 生sanh 兩lưỡng 次thứ 熟thục
Meaning:
unfamiliar at first but you get used to it/strangers are first meeting, but soon friends/an acquired taste/


Words: 一波未平，一波又起
Pinyin: yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
Hanviet: 一nhất 波ba 未vị 平bình 一nhất 波ba 又hựu 起khởi
Meaning:
before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved/many twists and turns to a story/one thing after another/


Words: 一物降一物
Pinyin: yī wù xiáng yī wù
Hanviet: 一nhất 物vật 降giáng/hàng 一nhất 物vật
Meaning:
lit. one object bests another object/every item has a weakness (idiom)/there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock/


Words: 一甲
Pinyin: yī jiǎ
Hanviet: 一nhất 甲giáp
Meaning:
1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元, 状元, 榜眼, and 探花, respectively)/


Words: 一竅不通
Pinyin: yī qiào bù tōng
Hanviet: 一nhất 竅khiếu 不bất 通thông
Meaning:
lit. doesn’t (even) enter a single aperture (of one’s head)/I don’t understand a word (idiom)/it’s all Greek to me/


Words: 一筆不苟
Pinyin: yī bǐ bù gǒu
Hanviet: 一nhất 筆bút 不bất 苟cẩu
Meaning:
lit. not even one stroke is negligent (idiom)/fig. to write characters (calligraphy) in which every stroke is placed perfectly/


Words: 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥
Pinyin: yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu
Hanviet: 一nhất 粒lạp 老lão 鼠thử 屎thỉ 壞hoại 了liễu 一nhất 鍋oa 粥chúc
Meaning:
lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)/fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch/


Words: 一絲不掛
Pinyin: yī sī bù guà
Hanviet: 一nhất 絲ti 不bất 掛quải
Meaning:
not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked/without a stitch of clothing/in one’s birthday suit/


Words: 一網打盡
Pinyin: yī wǎng dǎ jìn
Hanviet: 一nhất 網võng 打đả 盡tận
Meaning:
lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)/fig. to scoop up the whole lot/to capture them all in one go/


Words: 一落千丈
Pinyin: yī luò qiān zhàng
Hanviet: 一nhất 落lạc 千thiên 丈trượng
Meaning:
lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)/fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline/to take a dive/


Words: 一葉知秋
Pinyin: yī yè zhī qiū
Hanviet: 一nhất 葉diệp 知tri 秋thu
Meaning:
lit. the falling of one leaf heralds the coming of autumn (idiom)/fig. a small sign can indicate a great trend/a straw in the wind/


Words: 一葉障目
Pinyin: yī yè zhàng mù
Hanviet: 一nhất 葉diệp 障chướng 目mục
Meaning:
lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom)/fig. not seing the wider picture/can’t see the wood for the trees/


Words: 一蹶不振
Pinyin: yī jué bù zhèn
Hanviet: 一nhất 蹶quyết 不bất 振chấn
Meaning:
one stumble, unable to rise (idiom); a setback leading to total collapse/ruined at a stroke/unable to recover after a minor hitch/


Words: 一退六二五
Pinyin: yī tuì liù èr wǔ
Hanviet: 一nhất 退thoái 六lục 二nhị 五ngũ
Meaning:
lit. 1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule)/fig. to deny responsibility/to pass the buck/also written 一推六二五/


Words: 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯
Pinyin: yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng
Hanviet: 一nhất 顆khỏa 老lão 鼠thử 屎thỉ 壞hoại 了liễu 一nhất 鍋oa 湯thang
Meaning:
lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)/fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch/


Words: 一鼻孔出氣
Pinyin: yī bí kǒng chū qì
Hanviet: 一nhất 鼻tị 孔khổng 出xuất 氣khí
Meaning:
lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)/to sing from the same hymn sheet/


Words: 丁
Pinyin: dīng
Hanviet: 丁đinh
Meaning:
fourth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/fourth in order/letter "D" or roman "IV" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 195°/butyl/cubes (of food)/


Words: 丁玲
Pinyin: dīng líng
Hanviet: 丁đinh 玲linh
Meaning:
Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上, 太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party/


Words: 丁韙良
Pinyin: dīng wěi liáng
Hanviet: 丁đinh 韙 良lương
Meaning:
William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University/


Words: 七七事變
Pinyin: qī qī shì biàn
Hanviet: 七thất 七thất 事sự 變biến
Meaning:
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭, 抗日战争/


Words: 七事
Pinyin: qī shì
Hanviet: 七thất 事sự
Meaning:
the Seven Duties of a sovereign, namely: offering sacrifice 祭祀, giving audience 朝覲, 朝觐, administering jointly 會同, 会同, receiving guests 賓客, 宾客, running army 軍旅, 军旅, attending to farm work 田役, mourning ceremonial 喪荒, 丧荒/


Words: 七國集團
Pinyin: qī guó jí tuán
Hanviet: 七thất 國quốc 集tập 團đoàn
Meaning:
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)/


Words: 七夕
Pinyin: qī xī
Hanviet: 七thất 夕tịch
Meaning:
double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month/girls’ festival/Chinese Valentine’s day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女, 牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting/


Words: 七夕節
Pinyin: qī xī jié
Hanviet: 七thất 夕tịch 節tiết
Meaning:
Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month/girls’ festival/Chinese Valentine’s day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女, 牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting/


Words: 七律
Pinyin: qī lǜ
Hanviet: 七thất 律luật
Meaning:
abbr. for 七言律詩, 七言律诗, verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines/


Words: 七情
Pinyin: qī qíng
Hanviet: 七thất 情tình
Meaning:
seven emotional states/seven affects of traditional Chinese medical theory and therapy, namely: joy 喜, anger 怒, anxiety 憂, 忧, thought 思, grief 悲, fear 恐, fright 驚, 惊/seven relations/


Words: 七曜
Pinyin: qī yào
Hanviet: 七thất 曜diệu
Meaning:
the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)/


Words: 七里香
Pinyin: qī lǐ xiāng
Hanviet: 七thất 里lý 香hương
Meaning:
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata)/"chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt/


Words: 七魄
Pinyin: qī pò
Hanviet: 七thất 魄phách
Meaning:
seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires/contrasted with 三魂 three immortal souls/


Words: 丈
Pinyin: zhàng
Hanviet: 丈trượng
Meaning:
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)/to measure/husband/polite appellation for an older male/


Words: 三人行，必有我師
Pinyin: sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
Hanviet: 三tam 人nhân 行hành 必tất 有hữu 我ngã 師sư
Meaning:
lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)/you have sth to learn from everyone/


Words: 三仇
Pinyin: sān chóu
Hanviet: 三tam 仇cừu
Meaning:
animosity or resentment towards three groups (the bureaucrats, the wealthy, and the police) due to perceived abuse of power/


Words: 三伏
Pinyin: sān fú
Hanviet: 三tam 伏phục
Meaning:
three periods forming the hottest periods of summer, from mid-July to mid-August, namely: 初伏 (mid-July), 中伏 (late July to early August), 末伏 (mid-August)/


Words: 三俠五義
Pinyin: sān xiá wǔ yì
Hanviet: 三tam 俠hiệp 五ngũ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話, 评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆/


Words: 三個世界
Pinyin: sān ge shì jiè
Hanviet: 三tam 個cá 世thế 界giới
Meaning:
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America/


Words: 三個代表
Pinyin: sān gè dài biǎo
Hanviet: 三tam 個cá 代đại 表biểu
Meaning:
the Three Represents enunciated by Jiang Zemin 江澤民, 江泽民 as the duty of the Chinese Communist party in 2001, namely: to represent productivity of an advanced society, forward progress of advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the people/


Words: 三個臭皮匠，賽過一個諸葛亮
Pinyin: sān gè chòu pí jiang , sài guò yī gè zhū gě liàng
Hanviet: 三tam 個cá 臭xú 皮bì 匠tượng 賽tái 過quá 一nhất 個cá 諸chư 葛cát 亮lượng
Meaning:
lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom/wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual/


Words: 三公經費
Pinyin: sān gōng jīng fèi
Hanviet: 三tam 公công 經kinh 費phí
Meaning:
"three public expenditures" of the PRC government, i.e. air travel, food and entertainment, and public vehicles/


Words: 三十八度線
Pinyin: sān shí bā dù xiàn
Hanviet: 三tam 十thập 八bát 度độ 線tuyến
Meaning:
thirty eighth parallel/dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea/


Words: 三十六計
Pinyin: sān shí liù jì
Hanviet: 三tam 十thập 六lục 計kế
Meaning:
The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction/all the possible schemes and stratagems/


Words: 三國
Pinyin: sān guó
Hanviet: 三tam 國quốc
Meaning:
Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history/several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅, 新罗 in 658/


Words: 三國史記
Pinyin: sān guó shǐ jì
Hanviet: 三tam 國quốc 史sử 記ký
Meaning:
History of Three Kingdoms (Korean: Samguk Sagi), the oldest extant Korean history, compiled under Kim Busik 金富軾, 金富轼 in 1145. The three kingdoms are Goguryeo 高句麗, 高句丽, Baekje 百濟, 百济, Silla 新羅, 新罗./


Words: 三國志
Pinyin: sān guó zhì
Hanviet: 三tam 國quốc 志chí
Meaning:
History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Chen Shou 陳壽, 陈寿 in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝, 晋朝, 65 scrolls/


Words: 三國演義
Pinyin: sān guó yǎn yì
Hanviet: 三tam 國quốc 演diễn 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中, 罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature/a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei’s Shu Han 劉備, 蜀漢, 刘备, 蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao’s Wei 曹操, 魏 as tyrannical villains/


Words: 三大紀律八項注意
Pinyin: sān dà jì lǜ bā xiàng zhù yì
Hanviet: 三tam 大đại 紀kỷ 律luật 八bát 項hạng 注chú 意ý
Meaning:
the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime/


Words: 三天不打，上房揭瓦
Pinyin: sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
Hanviet: 三tam 天thiên 不bất 打đả 上thượng 房phòng 揭yết 瓦ngõa
Meaning:
three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)/spare the rod, spoil the child/


Words: 三天打魚，兩天曬網
Pinyin: sān tiān dǎ yú , liǎng tiān shài wǎng
Hanviet: 三tam 天thiên 打đả 魚ngư 兩lưỡng 天thiên 曬sái 網võng
Meaning:
lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb)/fig. not to persevere in doing sth/to do sth by fits and starts/


Words: 三字經
Pinyin: sān zì jīng
Hanviet: 三tam 字tự 經kinh
Meaning:
Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters/


Words: 三家村
Pinyin: sān jiā cūn
Hanviet: 三tam 家gia 村thôn
Meaning:
lit. village of three households/name of essay column in Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓, 邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗, 吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-party during the Cultural Revolution/


Words: 三寶
Pinyin: sān bǎo
Hanviet: 三Tam 寶Bảo
Meaning:
the Three Precious Treasures of Buddhism, namely: the Buddha 佛, the Dharma 法 (his teaching), and the Sangha 僧 (his monastic order)/


Words: 三峽
Pinyin: sān xiá
Hanviet: 三tam 峽
Meaning:
Three Gorges on the Chang Jiang or Yangtze, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽, 瞿塘峡, Wuxia Gorge 巫峽, 巫峡 and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽, 西陵峡/Sanxia or Sanhsia town in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan/


Words: 三廢
Pinyin: sān fèi
Hanviet: 三tam 廢phế
Meaning:
three types of waste product, namely: waste water 廢水, 废水, exhaust gas 廢氣, 废气, industrial slag 廢渣, 废渣/


Words: 三弦
Pinyin: sān xián
Hanviet: 三tam 弦huyền
Meaning:
sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra/


Words: 三從四德
Pinyin: sān cóng sì dé
Hanviet: 三tam 從tùng 四tứ 德đức
Meaning:
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功/


Words: 三教九流
Pinyin: sān jiào jiǔ liú
Hanviet: 三tam 教giáo 九cửu 流lưu
Meaning:
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists)/fig. people from all trades (often derog.)/


Words: 三旬九食
Pinyin: sān xún jiǔ shí
Hanviet: 三tam 旬tuần 九cửu 食thực
Meaning:
lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)/fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation/in dire straits/


Words: 三星
Pinyin: sān xīng
Hanviet: 三tam 星tinh
Meaning:
Sanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣, 宜兰县, Taiwan/Samsung (South Korean electronics company)/


Words: 三星
Pinyin: sān xīng
Hanviet: 三tam 星tinh
Meaning:
three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿, 参宿 Chinese constellation/the belt of Orion/three spirits 福, 祿, 禄, and 壽, 寿 associated with the Three Stars 參宿, 参宿 Chinese constellation/


Words: 三曹
Pinyin: sān cáo
Hanviet: 三tam 曹tào
Meaning:
the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers/


Words: 三江並流
Pinyin: sān jiāng bìng liú
Hanviet: 三tam 江giang 並tịnh 流lưu
Meaning:
Three Parallel Rivers National Park, in mountainous northwest Yunnan World Heritage protected area: the three rivers are Nujian 怒江 or Salween, Jinsha 金沙江 or upper reaches of Changjiang and Lancang 澜沧江 or Mekong/


Words: 三江平原
Pinyin: sān jiāng píng yuán
Hanviet: 三tam 江giang 平bình 原nguyên
Meaning:
Sanjiang or Three rivers plain in Heilongjiang, vast wetland watered by Heilongjiang 黑龍江, 黑龙江 or Amur, Songhua 松花江, Ussuri 烏蘇里江, 乌苏里江/


Words: 三江源
Pinyin: sān jiāng yuán
Hanviet: 三tam 江giang 源nguyên
Meaning:
Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, high plateau region of Qinghai containing the headwaters of Changjiang or Yangtze, Huanghe or Yellow River and Lancang or Mekong River/


Words: 三浦梅園
Pinyin: sān pǔ méi yuán
Hanviet: 三tam 浦 梅mai 園viên
Meaning:
MIURA Baien (1723-1789), Japanese neo-Confucian philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Origin of value 價原, 价原/


Words: 三焦
Pinyin: sān jiāo
Hanviet: 三tam 焦tiêu
Meaning:
(TCM) the three truncal cavities (thoracic, abdominal and pelvic), known as the "triple heater" or "San Jiao"/


Words: 三皇
Pinyin: sān huáng
Hanviet: 三tam 皇hoàng
Meaning:
Three Sovereigns, between Gods and Emperors in third millennium BC/usually listed as Suiren 燧人, Fuxi 伏羲, trapping and writing, Shennong or Farmer God 神農, 神农/


Words: 三皇五帝
Pinyin: sān huáng wǔ dì
Hanviet: 三tam 皇hoàng 五ngũ 帝đế
Meaning:
three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend/the earliest system of Chinese historiography/


Words: 三綱五常
Pinyin: sān gāng wǔ cháng
Hanviet: 三tam 綱cương 五ngũ 常thường
Meaning:
three principles and five virtues (idiom)/the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義, 义, propriety 禮, 礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)/


Words: 三茶六飯
Pinyin: sān chá liù fàn
Hanviet: 三tam 茶trà 六lục 飯phạn
Meaning:
lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes/to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)/


Words: 三藏
Pinyin: sān zàng
Hanviet: 三tam 藏tạng
Meaning:
Tripitaka (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645/same as 玄奘/


Words: 三蘇
Pinyin: sān sū
Hanviet: 三tam 蘇tô
Meaning:
the Three Su father and sons/refers to northern Song literati Su Xun 蘇洵, 苏洵, Su Shi 蘇軾, 苏轼 and Su Zhe 蘇轍, 苏辙/


Words: 三號電池
Pinyin: sān hào diàn chí
Hanviet: 三tam 號hiệu 電điện 池trì
Meaning:
C size battery (PRC)/AA battery (Taiwan)/see 二號電池, 二号电池 (C battery in Taiwan) and 五號電池, 五号电池 (AA battery in PRC)/


Words: 三足烏
Pinyin: sān zú wū
Hanviet: 三tam 足túc 烏ô
Meaning:
three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology)/Korean: samjog’o/


Words: 三軍
Pinyin: sān jūn
Hanviet: 三tam 軍quân
Meaning:
(in former times) upper, middle and lower army/army of right, center and left/(in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force/


Words: 三項
Pinyin: sān xiàng
Hanviet: 三tam 項hạng
Meaning:
three items/three events/three terms/tri-/trinomial, ternary (math.)/triathlon (abbr. for 三項全能, 三项全能)/


Words: 三頭六臂
Pinyin: sān tóu liù bì
Hanviet: 三tam 頭đầu 六lục 臂tý
Meaning:
lit. to have three heads and six arms (idiom)/fig. to possess remarkable abilities/a being of formidable powers/


Words: 三顧茅廬
Pinyin: sān gù máo lú
Hanviet: 三tam 顧cố 茅mao 廬lư
Meaning:
lit. three humble visits to a thatched cottage/cf famous episode in the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備, 刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮, 诸葛亮 (the Hidden Dragon 臥龍, 卧龙) to his cause by visiting him three times/


Words: 三馬同槽
Pinyin: sān mǎ tóng cáo
Hanviet: 三tam 馬mã 同đồng 槽tào
Meaning:
three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿, 司马懿 and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof/


Words: 三魂七魄
Pinyin: sān hún qī pò
Hanviet: 三tam 魂hồn 七thất 魄phách
Meaning:
three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man/


Words: 三鹿集團
Pinyin: sān lù jí tuán
Hanviet: 三tam 鹿lộc 集tập 團đoàn
Meaning:
Sanlu Group, Chinese state-owned dairy products company involved in the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal/


Words: 上
Pinyin: shàng
Hanviet: 上thượng
Meaning:
on top/upon/above/upper/previous/first (of multiple parts)/to climb/to get onto/to go up/to attend (class or university)/


Words: 上天
Pinyin: shàng tiān
Hanviet: 上thượng 天thiên
Meaning:
Heaven/Providence/God/the day before/the sky above/to fly to the sky/to take off and fly into space/to die/to pass away/


Words: 上天入地
Pinyin: shàng tiān rù dì
Hanviet: 上thượng 天thiên 入nhập 地địa
Meaning:
lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)/fig. to go to great lengths/to search heaven and earth/


Words: 上天無路，入地無門
Pinyin: shàng tiān wú lù , rù dì wú mén
Hanviet: 上thượng 天thiên 無vô 路lộ 入nhập 地địa 無vô 門môn
Meaning:
lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)/fig. to be at the end of one’s rope/to be trapped in a hopeless situation/


Words: 上山下鄉
Pinyin: shàng shān xià xiāng
Hanviet: 上thượng 山sơn 下hạ 鄉hương
Meaning:
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers)/forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals/


Words: 上方寶劍
Pinyin: shàng fāng bǎo jiàn
Hanviet: 上thượng 方phương 寶bảo 劍kiếm
Meaning:
imperial sword (giving bearer plenipotentiary powers)/imperial Chinese version of 007 licensed to kill/


Words: 上有天堂，下有蘇杭
Pinyin: shàng yǒu tiān táng , xià yǒu sū háng
Hanviet: 上thượng 有hữu 天thiên 堂đường 下hạ 有hữu 蘇tô 杭
Meaning:
lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭, 苏杭 below (idiom)/fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven/


Words: 上有政策，下有對策
Pinyin: shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè
Hanviet: 上thượng 有hữu 政chánh 策sách 下hạ 有hữu 對đối 策sách
Meaning:
The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)/


Words: 上有老下有小
Pinyin: shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
Hanviet: 上thượng 有hữu 老lão 下hạ 有hữu 小tiểu
Meaning:
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)/fig. to have to take care of both one’s aging parents and one’s children/sandwich generation/


Words: 上梁不正下梁歪
Pinyin: shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi
Hanviet: 上thượng 梁lương 不bất 正chánh 下hạ 梁lương 歪
Meaning:
lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors’ vices/


Words: 上榜
Pinyin: shàng bǎng
Hanviet: 上thượng 榜bảng
Meaning:
to appear on the public roll of successful examinees (i.e. pass an exam)/to make the list/(of a song) to hit the charts/


Words: 上網
Pinyin: shàng wǎng
Hanviet: 上thượng 網võng
Meaning:
to go online/to connect to the Internet/(of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet/(tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net/


Words: 上行
Pinyin: shàng xíng
Hanviet: 上thượng 行hành
Meaning:
(of trains) up (i.e. towards the capital)/(of river boats) to go against the current/to submit (a document) to higher authorities/


Words: 上門
Pinyin: shàng mén
Hanviet: 上thượng 門môn
Meaning:
to drop in/to visit/to lock a door/(of a shop) to close/to go and live with one’s wife’s family, in effect becoming a member of her family/


Words: 上頭
Pinyin: shàng tóu
Hanviet: 上thượng 頭đầu
Meaning:
(of alcohol) to go to one’s head/(old) (of a bride-to-be) to bind one’s hair into a bun/(of a prostitute) to receive a patron for the first time/


Words: 下
Pinyin: xià
Hanviet: 下hạ
Meaning:
down/downwards/below/lower/later/next (week etc)/second (of two parts)/to decline/to go down/to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)/measure word to show the frequency of an action/


Words: 下來
Pinyin: xià lai
Hanviet: 下hạ 來lai
Meaning:
to come down/(after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)/(indicates continuation from the past towards us)/to be harvested (of crops)/to be over (of a period of time)/to go among the masses (said of leaders)/


Words: 下場
Pinyin: xià chǎng
Hanviet: 下hạ 場tràng
Meaning:
to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc)/to take part in some activity/to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)/


Words: 下士
Pinyin: xià shì
Hanviet: 下hạ 士sĩ
Meaning:
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)/


Words: 下放
Pinyin: xià fàng
Hanviet: 下hạ 放phóng
Meaning:
to delegate/to decentralize/to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside/


Words: 下水
Pinyin: xià shuǐ
Hanviet: 下hạ 水thủy
Meaning:
downstream/to go into the water/to put into water/to launch (a ship)/fig. to fall into bad ways/to lead astray/to go to pot/


Words: 下海
Pinyin: xià hǎi
Hanviet: 下hạ 海hải
Meaning:
to go out to sea/to enter the sea (to swim etc)/(fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)/


Words: 下臺
Pinyin: xià tái
Hanviet: 下hạ 臺đài
Meaning:
to go off the stage/to fall from position of prestige/to step down (from office etc)/to disentangle oneself/to get off the hook/


Words: 下行
Pinyin: xià xíng
Hanviet: 下hạ 行hành
Meaning:
(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital)/(of river boats) to travel downstream/to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels/(of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom/


Words: 不以人廢言
Pinyin: bù yǐ rén fèi yán
Hanviet: 不bất 以dĩ 人nhân 廢phế 言ngôn
Meaning:
not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers/


Words: 不以詞害誌
Pinyin: bù yǐ cí hài zhì
Hanviet: 不bất 以dĩ 詞từ 害hại 誌chí
Meaning:
don’t let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don’t get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say/


Words: 不依不饒
Pinyin: bù yī bù ráo
Hanviet: 不bất 依y 不bất 饒nhiêu
Meaning:
not to overlook, nor spare (idiom); unwilling to forgive/to treat severely without listening to excuses/


Words: 不入虎穴，焉得虎子
Pinyin: bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐ
Hanviet: 不bất 入nhập 虎hổ 穴huyệt 焉yên 得đắc 虎hổ 子tử
Meaning:
How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger’s lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained./


Words: 不分伯仲
Pinyin: bù fēn bó zhòng
Hanviet: 不bất 分phân 伯bá 仲trọng
Meaning:
lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent/nothing to choose between them/


Words: 不分彼此
Pinyin: bù fēn bǐ cǐ
Hanviet: 不bất 分phân 彼bỉ 此thử
Meaning:
to make no distinction between what’s one’s own and what’s another’s (idiom)/to share everything/to be on very intimate terms/


Words: 不到長城非好漢
Pinyin: bù dào cháng chéng fēi hǎo hàn
Hanviet: 不bất 到đáo 長trường/trưởng 城thành 非phi 好hảo/hiếu 漢hán
Meaning:
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you’re not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal/


Words: 不到黃河心不死
Pinyin: bù dào huáng hé xīn bù sǐ
Hanviet: 不bất 到đáo 黃hoàng 河hà 心tâm 不bất 死tử
Meaning:
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)/fig. to persevere until one reaches one’s goal/to keep going while some hope is left/


Words: 不務正業
Pinyin: bù wù zhèng yè
Hanviet: 不bất 務vụ 正chánh 業nghiệp
Meaning:
not to engage in honest work/to ignore one’s proper occupation/not to attend to one’s proper duties/


Words: 不可同日而語
Pinyin: bù kě tóng rì ér yǔ
Hanviet: 不bất 可khả 同đồng 日nhật 而nhi 語ngữ
Meaning:
lit. mustn’t speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath/incomparable/


Words: 不可抗力
Pinyin: bù kě kàng lì
Hanviet: 不bất 可khả 抗kháng 力lực
Meaning:
unpredictable eventuality/unpreventable/unavoidable/impossible to overcome/nothing can be done about it/act of God/force majeure/


Words: 不可知論
Pinyin: bù kě zhī lùn
Hanviet: 不bất 可khả 知tri 論luận
Meaning:
agnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that some questions about the universe are in principle unanswerable/


Words: 不吝
Pinyin: bù lìn
Hanviet: 不bất 吝lận
Meaning:
not to stint/to be generous (with praise etc)/to be prepared to (pay a fee, give of one’s time etc)/


Words: 不吝珠玉
Pinyin: bù lìn zhū yù
Hanviet: 不bất 吝lận 珠châu 玉ngọc
Meaning:
lit. do not begrudge gems of wisdom (idiom, humble expr.); fig. Please give me your frank opinion./Your criticism will be most valuable./


Words: 不含糊
Pinyin: bù hán hu
Hanviet: 不bất 含hàm 糊
Meaning:
unambiguous/unequivocal/explicit/prudent/cautious/not negligent/unafraid/unhesitating/really good/extraordinary/


Words: 不啻天淵
Pinyin: bù chì tiān yuān
Hanviet: 不bất 啻 天thiên 淵uyên
Meaning:
no less than from heaven to the abyss (idiom); differing widely/worlds apart/the gap couldn’t be bigger/


Words: 不怕不識貨，只怕貨比貨
Pinyin: bù pà bù shí huò , zhǐ pà huò bǐ huò
Hanviet: 不bất 怕phạ 不bất 識thức 貨hóa 只chỉ 怕phạ 貨hóa 比tỉ 貨hóa
Meaning:
lit. don’t worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb)/fig. goods’ (or person’s) true value can only be determined through comparison/


Words: 不怕官，只怕管
Pinyin: bù pà guān , zhǐ pà guǎn
Hanviet: 不bất 怕phạ 官quan 只chỉ 怕phạ 管quản
Meaning:
lit. it is not an official to be feared, but a person in direct control over sb (proverb)/fig. to be obliged to comply with people in authority/


Words: 不打不相識
Pinyin: bù dǎ bù xiāng shí
Hanviet: 不bất 打đả 不bất 相tương 識thức
Meaning:
lit. don’t fight, won’t make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship/no discord, no concord/


Words: 不是一家人不進一家門
Pinyin: bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén
Hanviet: 不bất 是thị 一nhất 家gia 人nhân 不bất 進tiến 一nhất 家gia 門môn
Meaning:
people who don’t belong together, don’t get to live together (idiom)/marriages are predestined/people marry because they share common traits/


Words: 不會
Pinyin: bù huì
Hanviet: 不bất 會hội
Meaning:
improbable/unlikely/will not (act, happen etc)/not able/not having learned to do sth/(coll.) (Tw) don’t mention it/not at all/


Words: 不服
Pinyin: bù fú
Hanviet: 不bất 服phục
Meaning:
not to accept sth/to want to have sth overruled or changed/to refuse to obey or comply/to refuse to accept as final/to remain unconvinced by/not to give in to/


Words: 不求有功，但求無過
Pinyin: bù qiú yǒu gōng , dàn qiú wú guò
Hanviet: 不bất 求cầu 有hữu 功công 但đãn 求cầu 無vô 過quá
Meaning:
special achievement not required, just no hyperactive blunders (idiom); not hoping to acquire merit, just avoiding mistakes/Take it easy and keep your nose clean./


Words: 不求甚解
Pinyin: bù qiú shèn jiě
Hanviet: 不bất 求cầu 甚thậm 解giải
Meaning:
lit. not requiring a detailed understanding (idiom); only looking for an overview/not bothered with the details/superficial/content with shallow understanding/


Words: 不減當年
Pinyin: bù jiǎn dāng nián
Hanviet: 不bất 減giảm 當đương 年niên
Meaning:
(of one’s skills, appearance etc) not to have deteriorated a bit/to be as (good, vigorous etc) as ever/


Words: 不痛不癢
Pinyin: bù tòng bù yǎng
Hanviet: 不bất 痛thống 不bất 癢dạng
Meaning:
lit. doesn’t hurt, doesn’t tickle (idiom); sth is wrong, but not quite sure what/fig. not getting to any matter of substance/scratching the surface/superficial/perfunctory/


Words: 不知好歹
Pinyin: bù zhī hǎo dǎi
Hanviet: 不bất 知tri 好hảo/hiếu 歹
Meaning:
unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)/not to know what’s good for one/unable to recognize others’ good intentions/


Words: 不知者不罪
Pinyin: bù zhī zhě bù zuì
Hanviet: 不bất 知tri 者giả 不bất 罪tội
Meaning:
One who does not know is not guilty/If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible/


Words: 不知輕重
Pinyin: bù zhī qīng zhòng
Hanviet: 不bất 知tri 輕khinh 重trọng
Meaning:
lit. not knowing what’s important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things/naive/doesn’t know who’s who/no sense of priorities/


Words: 不聞不問
Pinyin: bù wén bù wèn
Hanviet: 不bất 聞văn 不bất 問vấn
Meaning:
not to hear, not to question (idiom)/to show no interest in sth/uncritical/not in the least concerned/


Words: 不見不散
Pinyin: bù jiàn bù sàn
Hanviet: 不bất 見kiến 不bất 散tán
Meaning:
(lit.) Even if we don’t see each other, don’t give up and leave (idiom)/Be sure to wait!/See you there!/


Words: 不見兔子不撒鷹
Pinyin: bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng
Hanviet: 不bất 見kiến 兔thố 子tử 不bất 撒tản 鷹ưng
Meaning:
you don’t release the hawk until you’ve seen the hare (idiom)/one doesn’t act without some incentive/


Words: 不見棺材不落淚
Pinyin: bù jiàn guān cai bù luò lèi
Hanviet: 不bất 見kiến 棺quan 材tài 不bất 落lạc 淚lệ
Meaning:
lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)/fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality/


Words: 不識時務
Pinyin: bù shí shí wù
Hanviet: 不bất 識thức 時thời 務vụ
Meaning:
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances/not amenable to reason/


Words: 不讓鬚眉
Pinyin: bù ràng xū méi
Hanviet: 不bất 讓nhượng 鬚tu 眉mi
Meaning:
(idiom) to compare favorably with men in terms of ability, bravery etc/to be a match for men/lit. not conceding to men (beard and eyebrows)/


Words: 不逮捕特權
Pinyin: bù dài bǔ tè quán
Hanviet: 不bất 逮đãi 捕bộ 特đặc 權quyền
Meaning:
the right of immunity from arrest afforded by the Taiwan ROC Constitution, for the duration of meetings, unless caught actually committing a crime, to members of the National Assembly, the Legislative Yuan, or a supervisory committee/


Words: 不過
Pinyin: bù guò
Hanviet: 不bất 過quá
Meaning:
only/merely/no more than/but/however/anyway (to get back to a previous topic)/cannot be more (after adjectival)/


Words: 不避斧鉞
Pinyin: bù bì fǔ yuè
Hanviet: 不bất 避tị 斧phủ 鉞việt
Meaning:
not trying to avoid the battle-ax (idiom)/not afraid of dying in combat/not afraid of being executed/


Words: 丑
Pinyin: chǒu
Hanviet: 丑sửu
Meaning:
clown/2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox/ancient Chinese compass point: 30°/


Words: 且末
Pinyin: qiě mò
Hanviet: 且thả 末mạt
Meaning:
Cherchen nahiyisi or Qiemo county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 且末遺址
Pinyin: qiě mò yí zhǐ
Hanviet: 且thả 末mạt 遺di 址
Meaning:
ruins of Cherchen, Qarqan or Chiemo, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 世宗
Pinyin: shì zōng
Hanviet: 世thế 宗tông
Meaning:
Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented/


Words: 世說新語
Pinyin: shì shuō xīn yǔ
Hanviet: 世thế 說thuyết 新tân 語ngữ
Meaning:
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶, 刘义庆/


Words: 丙
Pinyin: bǐng
Hanviet: 丙bính
Meaning:
third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/third in order/letter "C" or roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 165°/propyl/


Words: 並行不悖
Pinyin: bìng xíng bù bèi
Hanviet: 並tịnh 行hành 不bất 悖bội
Meaning:
to run in parallel without hindrance/not mutually exclusive/two processes can be implemented without conflict/


Words: 中伏
Pinyin: zhōng fú
Hanviet: 中trung 伏phục
Meaning:
last ten days of July and first ten days of August, the second of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year/


Words: 中俄伊犁條約
Pinyin: zhōng é yī lí tiáo yuē
Hanviet: 中trung 俄nga 伊y 犁lê 條điều 約ước
Meaning:
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights/


Words: 中共中央組織部
Pinyin: zhōng gòng zhōng yāng zǔ zhī bù
Hanviet: 中trung 共cộng 中trung 央ương 組 織chức 部bộ
Meaning:
Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, which oversees appointments of Party members to official positions throughout China/abbr. to 中組部, 中组部/


Words: 中共中央辦公廳
Pinyin: zhōng gòng zhōng yāng bàn gōng tīng
Hanviet: 中trung 共cộng 中trung 央ương 辦biện 公công 廳thính
Meaning:
General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC, responsible for technical and logistical matters relating to the Central Committee/abbr. to 中辦, 中办/


Words: 中南海
Pinyin: zhōng nán hǎi
Hanviet: 中trung 南nam 海hải
Meaning:
Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council/


Words: 中原
Pinyin: zhōng yuán
Hanviet: 中trung 原nguyên
Meaning:
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei/


Words: 中古
Pinyin: zhōng gǔ
Hanviet: 中trung 古cổ
Meaning:
medieval/Middle Ages/Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties/Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English)/used/second-hand/


Words: 中國傳媒大學
Pinyin: zhōng guó chuán méi dà xué
Hanviet: 中trung 國quốc 傳truyền 媒môi 大đại 學học
Meaning:
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China/


Words: 中國同盟會
Pinyin: zhōng guó tóng méng huì
Hanviet: 中trung 國quốc 同đồng 盟minh 會hội
Meaning:
Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen’s alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨, 国民党 in 1912/


Words: 中國政法大學
Pinyin: zhōng guó zhèng fǎ dà xué
Hanviet: 中trung 國quốc 政chánh 法pháp 大đại 學học
Meaning:
China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, with undergraduate campus at Changping 昌平, and graduate campus in Haidian district 海澱區, 海淀区/


Words: 中國海
Pinyin: zhōng guó hǎi
Hanviet: 中trung 國quốc 海hải
Meaning:
the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)/


Words: 中國航天工業公司
Pinyin: zhōng guó háng tiān gōng yè gōng sī
Hanviet: 中trung 國quốc 航 天thiên 工công 業nghiệp 公công 司ty
Meaning:
China Aerospace Corporation, forerunner of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) 中國航天科技集團公司, 中国航天科技集团公司/


Words: 中場
Pinyin: zhōng chǎng
Hanviet: 中trung 場tràng
Meaning:
middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times)/midfield/mid-court (in sports)/half-time/intermission half-way through a performance/


Words: 中央人民政府駐香港特別行政區聯絡辦公室
Meaning: Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region/
Pinyin: zhōng yāng rén mín zhèng fǔ zhù xiāng gǎng tè bié xíng zhèng qū lián luò bàn gōng shì
Hanviet:
中trung 央ương 人nhân 民dân 政chánh 府phủ 駐trú 香hương 港cảng 特đặc 別biệt 行hành 政chánh 區khu 聯liên 絡lạc 辦biện 公công 室thất


Words: 中央宣傳部
Pinyin: zhōng yāng xuān chuán bù
Hanviet: 中trung 央ương 宣tuyên 傳truyền 部bộ
Meaning:
Central Propaganda Section/abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會宣傳部, 中国共产党中央委员会宣传部/Central Propaganda Department (of the Chinese communist party)/


Words: 中央直轄市
Pinyin: zhōng yāng zhí xiá shì
Hanviet: 中trung 央ương 直trực 轄hạt 市thị
Meaning:
municipality, namely: Beijing 北京, Tianjin 天津, Shanghai 上海 and Chongqing 重慶, 重庆, the first level administrative subdivision/province level city/also called directly governed city/


Words: 中山
Pinyin: zhōng shān
Hanviet: 中trung 山sơn
Meaning:
refers to Dr Sun Yat-sen/Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen’s birthplace/Nakayama (Japanese surname)/


Words: 中山區
Pinyin: zhōng shān qū
Hanviet: 中trung 山sơn 區khu
Meaning:
Zhongshan or Chungshan district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Zhongshan district of Dalian 大連市, 大连市, Liaoning/Chungshan district of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan/


Words: 中山大學
Pinyin: zhōng shān dà xué
Hanviet: 中trung 山sơn 大đại 學học
Meaning:
Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou)/Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung)/Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists/


Words: 中山市
Pinyin: zhōng shān shì
Hanviet: 中trung 山sơn 市thị
Meaning:
Zhongshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong province 廣東省, 广东省 in south China, close to Dr Sun Yat-sen’s birthplace/


Words: 中山成彬
Pinyin: zhōng shān chéng bīn
Hanviet: 中trung 山sơn 成thành 彬
Meaning:
NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943-), right-wing Japanese cabinet minister and prominent denier of Japanese war crimes/


Words: 中生代
Pinyin: zhōng shēng dài
Hanviet: 中trung 生sanh 代đại
Meaning:
Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀, 三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀, 侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀, 白垩纪)/


Words: 中甸
Pinyin: zhōng diàn
Hanviet: 中trung 甸
Meaning:
Gyeltang or Gyalthang town and county, former name of Shangri-La county 香格里拉縣, 香格里拉县 in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, northwest Yunnan/


Words: 中紀委
Pinyin: zhōng jì wěi
Hanviet: 中trung 紀kỷ 委ủy
Meaning:
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres/abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會, 中共中央纪律检查委员会/


Words: 中興新村
Pinyin: zhōng xīng xīn cūn
Hanviet: 中trung 興hưng 新tân 村thôn
Meaning:
Chung-hsing New Village, model town in Nantou County, west-central Taiwan, administrative seat of the Taiwan Provincial Government/


Words: 中華字海
Pinyin: zhōng huá zì hǎi
Hanviet: 中trung 華hoa 字tự 海hải
Meaning:
Zhonghua Zihai, the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionary with 85,568 entries, compiled in 1994/


Words: 中華臺北
Pinyin: zhōng huá tái běi
Hanviet: 中trung 華hoa 臺đài 北bắc
Meaning:
Chinese Taipei, name for Taiwan to which the PRC and Taiwan agreed for the purpose of participation in international events/


Words: 中蘇解決懸案大綱協定
Pinyin: zhōng sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìng
Hanviet: 中trung 蘇tô 解giải 決quyết 懸huyền 案án 大đại 綱cương 協hiệp 定định
Meaning:
the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China/


Words: 中越戰爭
Pinyin: zhōng yuè zhàn zhēng
Hanviet: 中trung 越việt 戰chiến 爭tranh
Meaning:
the Sino-Vietnamese War, fought between the PRC and Vietnam in 1979/also known as the Third Indochina War/


Words: 中關村
Pinyin: zhōng guān cūn
Hanviet: 中trung 關quan 村thôn
Meaning:
Zhongguancun neighborhood of Beijing, containing Peking University, famous for electronics shops and bookstores/


Words: 串
Pinyin: chuàn
Hanviet: 串xuyến
Meaning:
to string together/to skewer/to connect wrongly/to gang up/to rove/string/bunch/skewer/classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of/to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus)/to move across/


Words: 丹巴
Pinyin: dān bā
Hanviet: 丹đan 巴ba
Meaning:
Danba county (Tibetan: rong brag rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 丹瑞
Pinyin: dān ruì
Hanviet: 丹đan 瑞thụy
Meaning:
General Than Shwe (1933-), Myanmar army officer and politician, president of Myanmar (Burma) from 1992/


Words: 主
Pinyin: zhǔ
Hanviet: 主chủ
Meaning:
owner/master/host/individual or party concerned/God/Lord/main/to indicate or signify/trump card (in card games)/


Words: 主動
Pinyin: zhǔ dòng
Hanviet: 主chủ 動động
Meaning:
to take the initiative/to do sth of one’s own accord/spontaneous/active/opposite: passive 被動, 被动/drive (of gears and shafts etc)/


Words: 主持
Pinyin: zhǔ chí
Hanviet: 主chủ 持trì
Meaning:
to take charge of/to manage or direct/to preside over/to uphold/to stand for (justice etc)/to host (a TV or radio program etc)/(TV) anchor/


Words: 主流
Pinyin: zhǔ liú
Hanviet: 主chủ 流lưu
Meaning:
main stream (of a river)/fig. the essential point/main viewpoint of a matter/mainstream (culture etc)/


Words: 主賓謂
Pinyin: zhǔ bīn wèi
Hanviet: 主chủ 賓tân 謂vị
Meaning:
subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar)/


Words: 久慕
Pinyin: jiǔ mù
Hanviet: 久cửu 慕mộ
Meaning:
lit. I’ve admired you for a long time (honorific)./I’ve been looking forward to meeting you./It’s an honor to meet you at last./


Words: 久慕盛名
Pinyin: jiǔ mù shèng míng
Hanviet: 久cửu 慕mộ 盛thịnh 名danh
Meaning:
I’ve admired your reputation for a long time (idiom); I’ve been looking forward to meeting you./It’s an honor to meet you at last./


Words: 久治
Pinyin: jiǔ zhì
Hanviet: 久cửu 治trị
Meaning:
Jigzhi or Jiuzhi county (Tibetan: gcig sgril rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai (formerly in Sichuan)/


Words: 么
Pinyin: yāo
Hanviet: 么
Meaning:
youngest/most junior/tiny/one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)/one or ace on dice or dominoes/variant of 吆, to shout/


Words: 之乎者也
Pinyin: zhī hū zhě yě
Hanviet: 之chi 乎hồ 者giả 也dã
Meaning:
four common characters of classical Chinese (idiom); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk/double Dutch/all Greek to me/


Words: 乎
Pinyin: hū
Hanviet: 乎hồ
Meaning:
(classical particle similar to 於, 于) in/at/from/because/than/(classical final particle similar to 嗎, 吗, 吧, 呢, expressing question, doubt or astonishment)/


Words: 乖
Pinyin: guāi
Hanviet: 乖quai
Meaning:
(of a child) obedient, well-behaved/clever/shrewd/alert/perverse/contrary to reason/irregular/abnormal/


Words: 乘
Pinyin: chéng
Hanviet: 乘thừa
Meaning:
to ride/to mount/to make use of/to avail oneself of/to take advantage of/to multiply (mathematics)/Buddhist sect or creed/


Words: 乙
Pinyin: yǐ
Hanviet: 乙ất
Meaning:
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/second in order/letter "B" or roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方)/ethyl/bent/winding/radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5)/ancient Chinese compass point: 105°/


Words: 九一八事變
Pinyin: jiǔ yī bā shì biàn
Hanviet: 九cửu 一nhất 八bát 事sự 變biến
Meaning:
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria/also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變, 柳条沟事变/


Words: 九二共識
Pinyin: jiǔ èr gòng shí
Hanviet: 九cửu 二nhị 共cộng 識thức
Meaning:
1992 Consensus, statement issued after 1992 talks between PRC and Taiwan representatives, asserting that there is only one China/


Words: 九份
Pinyin: jiǔ fèn
Hanviet: 九cửu 份
Meaning:
Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies/


Words: 九尾龜
Pinyin: jiǔ wěi guī
Hanviet: 九cửu 尾vĩ 龜quy
Meaning:
nine-tailed turtle of mythology/The Nine-tailed Turtle, novel by late Qing novelist Zhang Chunfan 張春帆, 张春帆/


Words: 九州
Pinyin: jiǔ zhōu
Hanviet: 九cửu 州châu
Meaning:
division of China during earliest dynasties/fig. ancient China/Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan’s four major islands/


Words: 九流
Pinyin: jiǔ liú
Hanviet: 九cửu 流lưu
Meaning:
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家, 阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家, 纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家, 杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家, 农家/


Words: 九龍縣
Pinyin: jiǔ lóng xiàn
Hanviet: 九cửu 龍long 縣huyện
Meaning:
Jiulong county (Tibetan: brgyad zur rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 也有今天
Pinyin: yě yǒu jīn tiān
Hanviet: 也dã 有hữu 今kim 天thiên
Meaning:
(coll.) to get one’s just deserts/to serve sb right/to get one’s share of (good or bad things)/every dog has its day/


Words: 乶
Pinyin: fǔ
Hanviet: 乶
Meaning:
phonetic pol, used in Korean place name/see Polha 乶下, Korean place name in former Hamgyeongdo Province 咸鏡道, 咸镜道/


Words: 乾
Pinyin: qián
Hanviet: 乾can/kiền/càn
Meaning:
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven/male principle/☰/ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)/


Words: 乾嘉三大家
Pinyin: qián jiā sān dà jiā
Hanviet: 乾can/kiền/càn 嘉gia 三tam 大đại 家gia
Meaning:
Three great poets of the Qianlong and Jiaqing era (1735-1820), namely: Yuan Mei 袁枚, Jiang Shiquan 蔣士銓, 蒋士铨 and Zhao Yi 趙翼, 赵翼/


Words: 乾陵
Pinyin: qián líng
Hanviet: 乾can/kiền/càn 陵lăng
Meaning:
Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市, 咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天, 武则天/


Words: 乾隆
Pinyin: qián lóng
Hanviet: 乾can/kiền/càn 隆long
Meaning:
Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王, 宝亲王, personal name 弘曆, 弘历, reigned 1735-1799/


Words: 亂
Pinyin: luàn
Hanviet: 亂loạn
Meaning:
in confusion or disorder/in a confused state of mind/disorder/upheaval/riot/illicit sexual relations/to throw into disorder/to mix up/indiscriminate/random/arbitrary/


Words: 亂碼
Pinyin: luàn mǎ
Hanviet: 亂loạn 碼mã
Meaning:
mojibake (nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding)/


Words: 事不過三
Pinyin: shì bù guò sān
Hanviet: 事sự 不bất 過quá 三tam
Meaning:
a thing should not be attempted more than three times (idiom)/don’t repeat the same mistake again and again/bad things don’t happen more than three times/


Words: 事半功倍
Pinyin: shì bàn gōng bèi
Hanviet: 事sự 半bán 功công 倍bội
Meaning:
half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results/a stitch in time saves nine/


Words: 事在人為
Pinyin: shì zài rén wéi
Hanviet: 事sự 在tại 人nhân 為vi
Meaning:
the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort/With effort, one can achieve anything./


Words: 事業
Pinyin: shì yè
Hanviet: 事sự 業nghiệp
Meaning:
undertaking/project/activity/(charitable, political or revolutionary) cause/publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation/career/occupation/CL:個, 个/


Words: 事無巨細
Pinyin: shì wú jù xì
Hanviet: 事sự 無vô 巨cự 細tế
Meaning:
lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom)/fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance/


Words: 二一添作五
Pinyin: èr yī tiān zuò wǔ
Hanviet: 二nhị 一nhất 添 作tác 五ngũ
Meaning:
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning)/to share fairly between two parties/to go fifty-fifty/


Words: 二伏
Pinyin: èr fú
Hanviet: 二nhị 伏phục
Meaning:
same as 中伏, last ten days of July and first ten days of August, the second of 三伏, three hottest periods of the year/


Words: 二元論
Pinyin: èr yuán lùn
Hanviet: 二nhị 元nguyên 論luận
Meaning:
dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil)/


Words: 二刻拍案驚奇
Pinyin: èr kè pāi àn jīng qí
Hanviet: 二nhị 刻khắc 拍phách 案án 驚kinh 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初, 凌蒙初/


Words: 二十四史
Pinyin: èr shí sì shǐ
Hanviet: 二nhị 十thập 四tứ 史sử
Meaning:
the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century/fig. a long and complicated story/


Words: 二十四節氣
Pinyin: èr shí sì jié qi
Hanviet: 二nhị 十thập 四tứ 節tiết 氣khí
Meaning:
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods/


Words: 二十年目睹之怪現狀
Pinyin: èr shí nián mù dǔ zhī guài xiàn zhuàng
Hanviet: 二nhị 十thập 年niên 目mục 睹đổ 之chi 怪quái 現hiện 狀trạng
Meaning:
The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人, 吴趼人/


Words: 二奶專家
Pinyin: èr nǎi zhuān jiā
Hanviet: 二nhị 奶 專chuyên 家gia
Meaning:
"mercenary expert", a person who is supposedly an independent expert, but receives payment for making comments favorable to a particular entity/


Words: 二次革命
Pinyin: èr cì gé mìng
Hanviet: 二nhị 次thứ 革cách 命mạng
Meaning:
second revolution/campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱, 袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords/


Words: 二毛子
Pinyin: èr máo zi
Hanviet: 二nhị 毛mao 子tử
Meaning:
lit. secondary foreigner/(derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion)/(coll.) westernized Chinese person/(derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood/(slang) Ukraine/German shepherd dog/(dialect) two-year-old goat/


Words: 二氯苯胺苯乙酸鈉
Pinyin: èr lǜ běn àn běn yǐ suān nà
Hanviet: 二nhị 氯 苯 胺 苯 乙ất 酸toan 鈉
Meaning:
diclofenac sodium (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as pain-killer)/also called voltaren 扶他林/


Words: 互相推諉
Pinyin: hù xiāng tuī wěi
Hanviet: 互hỗ 相tương 推thôi 諉
Meaning:
mutually shirking responsibilities (idiom); each blaming the other/passing the buck to and fro/each trying to unload responsibilities onto the other/


Words: 互通有無
Pinyin: hù tōng yǒu wú
Hanviet: 互hỗ 通thông 有hữu 無vô
Meaning:
mutual exchange of assistance (idiom)/to benefit from each other’s strengths and make up each other’s shortfalls/to reciprocate with material assistance/scratch each other’s back/


Words: 五七幹校
Pinyin: wǔ qī gàn xiào
Hanviet: 五ngũ 七thất 幹cán 校giáo
Meaning:
May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution)/abbr. for 五七幹部學校, 五七干部学校/


Words: 五七幹部學校
Pinyin: wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào
Hanviet: 五ngũ 七thất 幹cán 部bộ 學học 校giáo
Meaning:
May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution)/abbr. to 五七幹校, 五七干校/


Words: 五代
Pinyin: wǔ dài
Hanviet: 五ngũ 代đại
Meaning:
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China/


Words: 五代史
Pinyin: wǔ dài shǐ
Hanviet: 五ngũ 代đại 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Five Dynasties, eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls/


Words: 五倫
Pinyin: wǔ lún
Hanviet: 五ngũ 倫luân
Meaning:
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)/


Words: 五刑
Pinyin: wǔ xíng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 刑hình
Meaning:
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮, 宫, execution 大辟/Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死/


Words: 五勞七傷
Pinyin: wǔ láo qī shāng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 勞lao 七thất 傷thương
Meaning:
(TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟, 五脏, and seven to adverse effects on one’s body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind)/


Words: 五十步笑百步
Pinyin: wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù
Hanviet: 五ngũ 十thập 步bộ 笑tiếu 百bách 步bộ
Meaning:
the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom)/the pot calls the kettle black/


Words: 五卅運動
Pinyin: wǔ sà yùn dòng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 卅 運vận 動động
Meaning:
anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc/


Words: 五口通商
Pinyin: wǔ kǒu tōng shāng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 口khẩu 通thông 商thương
Meaning:
the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南京條約, 南京条约 that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 廣州, 广州, Fuzhou 福州, Ningbo 寧波, 宁波, Xiamen or Amoy 廈門, 厦门 and Shanghai 上海/


Words: 五四
Pinyin: wǔ sì
Hanviet: 五ngũ 四tứ
Meaning:
fourth of May, cf 五四運動, 五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles/


Words: 五四愛國運動
Pinyin: wǔ sì ài guó yùn dòng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 四tứ 愛ái 國quốc 運vận 動động
Meaning:
May Fourth Movement/Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles/


Words: 五大名山
Pinyin: wǔ dà míng shān
Hanviet: 五ngũ 大đại 名danh 山sơn
Meaning:
Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山, 华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山, 恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan/


Words: 五家渠
Pinyin: wǔ jiā qú
Hanviet: 五ngũ 家gia 渠cừ
Meaning:
Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang/


Words: 五峰
Pinyin: wǔ fēng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 峰phong
Meaning:
abbr. for 五峰土家族自治縣, 五峰土家族自治县, Wufeng Tujiazu Autonomous County in Hubei/Wufeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣, 新竹县, northwest Taiwan/


Words: 五嶺
Pinyin: wǔ lǐng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 嶺lĩnh
Meaning:
the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺, 大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺, 都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺, 骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺, 萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺, 越城岭/


Words: 五帝
Pinyin: wǔ dì
Hanviet: 五ngũ 帝đế
Meaning:
Five Emperors from legendary times/possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them/usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黃帝, 黄帝 and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 顓頊, 颛顼, Di Ku 帝嚳, 帝喾, Tang Yao 唐堯, 唐尧, Yu Shun 虞舜/


Words: 五常
Pinyin: wǔ cháng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 常thường
Meaning:
five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義, 义, propriety 禮, 礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信/five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends)/five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土/


Words: 五權憲法
Pinyin: wǔ quán xiàn fǎ
Hanviet: 五ngũ 權quyền 憲hiến 法pháp
Meaning:
Sun Yat-sen’s Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan/The five courts or 院 are 行政院 Executive yuan, 立法院 Legislative yuan, 司法院 Judicial yuan, 考試院, 考试院 Examination yuan, 監察院, 监察院 Control yuan/


Words: 五涼
Pinyin: wǔ liáng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 涼lương
Meaning:
the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼, 前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼, 後凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼, 北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼, 西凉 (400-421)/


Words: 五福臨門
Pinyin: wǔ fú lín mén
Hanviet: 五ngũ 福phước 臨lâm 門môn
Meaning:
lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death)/(an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)/


Words: 五穀
Pinyin: wǔ gǔ
Hanviet: 五ngũ 穀cốc
Meaning:
five crops, e.g. millet 粟, soybean 豆, sesame 麻, barley 麥, 麦, rice 稻 or other variants/all crops/all grains/oats, peas, beans and barley/


Words: 五筆
Pinyin: wǔ bǐ
Hanviet: 五ngũ 筆bút
Meaning:
abbr. of 五筆字型, 五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983/


Words: 五筆字型
Pinyin: wǔ bǐ zì xíng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 筆bút 字tự 型
Meaning:
five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983/


Words: 五經
Pinyin: wǔ jīng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 經kinh
Meaning:
the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經, 诗经, the Book of History 書經, 书经, the Classic of Rites 禮記, 礼记, the Book of Changes 易經, 易经, and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋/


Words: 五胡
Pinyin: wǔ hú
Hanviet: 五ngũ 胡hồ
Meaning:
Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑, 鲜卑, Jie 羯, Di 氐, Qiang 羌, esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國, 五胡十六国/


Words: 五花大綁
Pinyin: wǔ huā dà bǎng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 花hoa 大đại 綁
Meaning:
to bind a person’s upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck/to truss up/


Words: 五苓散
Pinyin: wǔ líng sǎn
Hanviet: 五ngũ 苓 散tán
Meaning:
wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM)/poria five powder/Hoelen five powder/five ling powder/


Words: 五虎將
Pinyin: wǔ hǔ jiàng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 虎hổ 將tương
Meaning:
Liu Bei’s five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽, 关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛, 张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲, 赵云, Ma Chao 馬超, 马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠, 黄忠/


Words: 五言絕句
Pinyin: wǔ yán jué jù
Hanviet: 五ngũ 言ngôn 絕tuyệt 句cú
Meaning:
poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line/


Words: 五講四美三熱愛
Pinyin: wǔ jiǎng sì měi sān rè ài
Hanviet: 五ngũ 講giảng 四tứ 美mỹ 三tam 熱nhiệt 愛ái
Meaning:
the five emphases, four beauties and three loves (PRC policy introduced in 1981, including emphasis on manners, beauty of language and love of socialism)/


Words: 五院
Pinyin: wǔ yuàn
Hanviet: 五ngũ 院viện
Meaning:
Five yuan or courts that formed the government of the Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen’s constitution, namely: 行政院 Executive yuan, 立法院 Legislative yuan, 司法院 Judicial yuan, 考試院, 考试院 Examination yuan, 監察院, 监察院 Control yuan/


Words: 五音
Pinyin: wǔ yīn
Hanviet: 五ngũ 音âm
Meaning:
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la/five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音, 齿音, 唇音/


Words: 五香
Pinyin: wǔ xiāng
Hanviet: 五ngũ 香hương
Meaning:
five spice seasoned/incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)/


Words: 五鬼鬧判
Pinyin: wǔ guǐ nào pàn
Hanviet: 五ngũ 鬼quỷ 鬧náo 判phán
Meaning:
Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne’er-do-wells/


Words: 亞哈
Pinyin: yà hā
Hanviet: 亞 哈
Meaning:
Ahab (9th c. BC), King of Israel, son of Omri and husband of Jezebel, prominent figure in 1 Kings 16-22/


Words: 亞當·斯密
Pinyin: yà dāng �� sī mì
Hanviet: 亞 當đương · 斯tư 密mật
Meaning:
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish ethical philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Wealth of Nations 國富論, 国富论/


Words: 亞羅號
Pinyin: yà luó hào
Hanviet: 亞 羅la 號hiệu
Meaning:
the Arrow (a Hong Kong registered ship involved in historical incident in 1856 used as pretext for the second Opium War)/


Words: 亞西爾·阿拉法特
Pinyin: yà xī ěr �� ā lā fǎ tè
Hanviet: 亞 西tây 爾nhĩ · 阿a 拉lạp 法pháp 特đặc
Meaning:
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat/


Words: 亡羊補牢
Pinyin: wáng yáng bǔ láo
Hanviet: 亡vong 羊dương 補bổ 牢lao
Meaning:
lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)/fig. to act belatedly/better late than never/to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted/


Words: 交代
Pinyin: jiāo dài
Hanviet: 交giao 代đại
Meaning:
to hand over/to explain/to make clear/to brief (sb)/to account for/to justify oneself/to confess/to finish (colloquial)/


Words: 交彙
Pinyin: jiāo huì
Hanviet: 交giao 彙vị
Meaning:
variant of 交匯, 交汇/to flow together/confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads)/(international) cooperation/


Words: 交往
Pinyin: jiāo wǎng
Hanviet: 交giao 往vãng
Meaning:
to associate (with)/to have contact (with)/to hang out (with)/to date/(interpersonal) relationship/association/contact/


Words: 交拜
Pinyin: jiāo bài
Hanviet: 交giao 拜bái
Meaning:
to bow to one another/to kneel and kowtow to one another/formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony/


Words: 交接
Pinyin: jiāo jiē
Hanviet: 交giao 接tiếp
Meaning:
(of two things) to come into contact/to meet/to hand over to/to take over from/to associate with/to have friendly relations with/to have sexual intercourse/


Words: 交通大學
Pinyin: jiāo tōng dà xué
Hanviet: 交giao 通thông 大đại 學học
Meaning:
abbr. for 上海交通大學, 上海交通大学 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 西安交通大學, 西安交通大学 Xia’an Jiaotong University, 國立交通大學, 国立交通大学 National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) etc/


Words: 亥
Pinyin: hài
Hanviet: 亥hợi
Meaning:
12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar/ancient Chinese compass point: 330°/


Words: 亨利五世
Pinyin: hēng lì wǔ shì
Hanviet: 亨 利lợi 五ngũ 世thế
Meaning:
Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt/History of Henry V by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞, 莎士比亚/


Words: 亨德爾
Pinyin: hēng dé ěr
Hanviet: 亨 德đức 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Handel (name)/George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born Baroque composer, naturalized British in 1727/


Words: 京二胡
Pinyin: jīng èr hú
Hanviet: 京kinh 二nhị 胡hồ
Meaning:
jing’erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera/also called 京胡/


Words: 京胡
Pinyin: jīng hú
Hanviet: 京kinh 胡hồ
Meaning:
jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera/also called 京二胡/


Words: 亮相
Pinyin: liàng xiàng
Hanviet: 亮lượng 相tương/tướng
Meaning:
to strike a pose (Chinese opera)/(fig.) to make a public appearance/to come out in public (revealing one’s true personality, opinions etc)/(of a product) to appear on the market or at a trade show etc/


Words: 人不可貌相
Pinyin: rén bù kě mào xiàng
Hanviet: 人nhân 不bất 可khả 貌mạo 相tương/tướng
Meaning:
you can’t judge a person by appearance (idiom)/you can’t judge a book by its cover/often in combination 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量/


Words: 人不為己，天誅地滅
Pinyin: rén bù wèi jǐ , tiān zhū dì miè
Hanviet: 人nhân 不bất 為vi 己kỷ 天thiên 誅tru 地địa 滅diệt
Meaning:
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you./Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost./


Words: 人之初，性本善
Pinyin: rén zhī chū , xìng běn shàn
Hanviet: 人nhân 之chi 初sơ 性tánh 本bổn 善thiện
Meaning:
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature/the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經, 三字经/


Words: 人云亦云
Pinyin: rén yún yì yún
Hanviet: 人nhân 云vân 亦diệc 云vân
Meaning:
to say what everyone says (idiom)/to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view/to follow the herd/


Words: 人傑地靈
Pinyin: rén jié dì líng
Hanviet: 人nhân 傑kiệt 地địa 靈linh
Meaning:
illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son/


Words: 人去樓空
Pinyin: rén qù lóu kōng
Hanviet: 人nhân 去khứ 樓lâu 空không
Meaning:
the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)/the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind/the place is deserted/the birds have flown/


Words: 人家
Pinyin: rén jiā
Hanviet: 人nhân 家gia
Meaning:
household/dwelling/family/sb else’s house/household business/house of woman’s husband-to-be/CL:戶, 户,家/


Words: 人往高處走，水往低處流
Pinyin: rén wǎng gāo chù zǒu , shuǐ wǎng dī chù liú
Hanviet: 人nhân 往vãng 高cao 處xứ 走tẩu 水thủy 往vãng 低đê 處xứ 流lưu
Meaning:
man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)/one should constantly strive to make progress/


Words: 人怕出名豬怕壯
Pinyin: rén pà chū míng zhū pà zhuàng
Hanviet: 人nhân 怕phạ 出xuất 名danh 豬trư 怕phạ 壯tráng
Meaning:
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)/fig. fame has its price/


Words: 人有失手，馬有失蹄
Pinyin: rén yǒu shī shǒu , mǎ yǒu shī tí
Hanviet: 人nhân 有hữu 失thất 手thủ 馬mã 有hữu 失thất 蹄đề
Meaning:
lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)/fig. everyone makes mistakes/even the best fall down sometimes/


Words: 人民公社化
Pinyin: rén mín gōng shè huà
Hanviet: 人nhân 民dân 公công 社xã 化hóa
Meaning:
collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s)/


Words: 人為財死，鳥為食亡
Pinyin: rén wèi cái sǐ , niǎo wèi shí wáng
Hanviet: 人nhân 為vi 財tài 死tử 鳥điểu 為vi 食thực 亡vong
Meaning:
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)/fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich/


Words: 人無遠慮，必有近憂
Pinyin: rén wú yuǎn lǜ , bì yǒu jìn yōu
Hanviet: 人nhân 無vô 遠viễn 慮lự 必tất 有hữu 近cận 憂ưu
Meaning:
He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects)./Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow./


Words: 人精
Pinyin: rén jīng
Hanviet: 人nhân 精tinh
Meaning:
sophisticate/man with extensive experience/child prodigy/Wunderkind (i.e. brilliant child)/spirit within a person (i.e. blood and essential breath 血氣, 血气 of TCM)/


Words: 人肉搜索
Pinyin: rén ròu sōu suǒ
Hanviet: 人nhân 肉nhục 搜sưu 索sách
Meaning:
human flesh search/a large-scale collective effort to find details about a person or event (Internet slang)/see 人肉搜索引擎/


Words: 人肉搜索引擎
Pinyin: rén ròu sōu suǒ yǐn qíng
Hanviet: 人nhân 肉nhục 搜sưu 索sách 引dẫn 擎kình
Meaning:
human flesh search engine/a large-scale collective effort to find details about a person or event (Internet slang)/


Words: 人道
Pinyin: rén dào
Hanviet: 人nhân 道đạo
Meaning:
human sympathy/humanitarianism/humane/the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism)/sexual intercourse/


Words: 人間地獄
Pinyin: rén jiān dì yù
Hanviet: 人nhân 間gian 地địa 獄ngục
Meaning:
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive/fig. having an uncomfortable time/


Words: 人非生而知之者，熟能無惑
Pinyin: rén fēi shēng ér zhī zhī zhě , shú néng wú huò
Hanviet: 人nhân 非phi 生sanh 而nhi 知tri 之chi 者giả 熟thục 能năng 無vô 惑hoặc
Meaning:
Knowledge is not innate to man, how can we overcome doubt?/We are not born with knowledge, how does one achieve maturity? (i.e. without guidance from a teacher - Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈, 韩愈)/


Words: 人頭
Pinyin: rén tóu
Hanviet: 人nhân 頭đầu
Meaning:
person/number of people/(per) capita/(a person’s) head/(Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account)/


Words: 仁愛
Pinyin: rén ài
Hanviet: 仁nhân 愛ái
Meaning:
Renai or Jenai district of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan/Renai or Jenai township in Nantou county 南投縣, 南投县, central Taiwan/


Words: 仁義道德
Pinyin: rén yì dào dé
Hanviet: 仁nhân 義nghĩa 道Đạo 德đức
Meaning:
compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues/mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical/


Words: 介之推
Pinyin: jiè zhī tuī
Hanviet: 介giới 之chi 推thôi
Meaning:
Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公, 晋文公, in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明 (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated/


Words: 仕
Pinyin: shì
Hanviet: 仕sĩ
Meaning:
to serve as an official/an official/the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將, 将/


Words: 他
Pinyin: tā
Hanviet: 他tha
Meaning:
he or him/(used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant)/(used before sb’s name for emphasis)/(used as a meaningless mock object)/other/another/


Words: 他山之石可以攻玉
Pinyin: tā shān zhī shí kě yǐ gōng yù
Hanviet: 他tha 山sơn 之chi 石thạch 可khả 以dĩ 攻công 玉ngọc
Meaning:
lit. the other mountain’s stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside/to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively/


Words: 付之度外
Pinyin: fù zhī dù wài
Hanviet: 付phó 之chi 度độ 外ngoại
Meaning:
to think nothing of doing sth (idiom)/to do sth without considering the risks/to leave out of consideration/


Words: 代
Pinyin: dài
Hanviet: 代đại
Meaning:
to substitute/to act on behalf of others/to replace/generation/dynasty/age/period/(historical) era/(geological) eon/


Words: 令
Pinyin: lìng
Hanviet: 令linh
Meaning:
to order/to command/an order/warrant/writ/to cause/to make sth happen/virtuous/honorific title/season/government position (old)/


Words: 令人
Pinyin: lìng rén
Hanviet: 令linh 人nhân
Meaning:
to cause sb (to do)/to make one (feel sth)/(used in constructing words for feelings such as anger, surprise, sympathy etc)/


Words: 令狐德棻
Pinyin: líng hú dé fēn
Hanviet: 令linh 狐hồ 德đức 棻
Meaning:
Linghu Defen (583-666), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Zhou of the Northern dynasties 周書, 周书/


Words: 令箭
Pinyin: lìng jiàn
Hanviet: 令linh 箭tiễn
Meaning:
arrow banner of command (archaic used as symbol of military authority)/fig. instructions from one’s superiors/


Words: 令行禁止
Pinyin: lìng xíng jìn zhǐ
Hanviet: 令linh 行hành 禁cấm 止chỉ
Meaning:
lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. to demand exact compliance with instructions/to ensure strictly obedience/


Words: 以人廢言
Pinyin: yǐ rén fèi yán
Hanviet: 以dĩ 人nhân 廢phế 言ngôn
Meaning:
to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case/


Words: 以其人之道，還治其人之身
Pinyin: yǐ qí rén zhī dào , huán zhì qí rén zhī shēn
Hanviet: 以dĩ 其kỳ 人nhân 之chi 道đạo 還hoàn 治trị 其kỳ 人nhân 之chi 身thân
Meaning:
to use an opponent’s own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game/to give sb a taste of his own medicine/


Words: 以利亞敬
Pinyin: yǐ lì yà jìng
Hanviet: 以dĩ 利lợi 亞 敬kính
Meaning:
Eliakim (name, Hebrew: God will raise up)/Eliakim, servant of the Lord in Isaiah 22:20/Eliakim, son of Abiud and father of Azor in Matthew 1:13/


Words: 以卵擊石
Pinyin: yǐ luǎn jī shí
Hanviet: 以dĩ 卵noãn 擊kích 石thạch
Meaning:
lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible/to invite disaster by overreaching oneself/


Words: 以夷制夷
Pinyin: yǐ yí zhì yí
Hanviet: 以dĩ 夷di 制chế 夷di
Meaning:
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)/Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)/


Words: 以子之矛，攻子之盾
Pinyin: yǐ zǐ zhī máo , gōng zǐ zhī dùn
Hanviet: 以dĩ 子tử 之chi 矛mâu 攻công 子tử 之chi 盾
Meaning:
lit. use sb’s spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子, 韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner/fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices/hoist with his own petard/


Words: 以毒攻毒
Pinyin: yǐ dú gōng dú
Hanviet: 以dĩ 毒độc 攻công 毒độc
Meaning:
to cure ills with poison (TCM)/to fight evil with evil/set a thief to catch a thief/to fight fire with fire/


Words: 以眼還眼
Pinyin: yǐ yǎn huán yǎn
Hanviet: 以dĩ 眼nhãn 還hoàn 眼nhãn
Meaning:
an eye for an eye (idiom); fig. to use the enemy’s methods against him/to give sb a taste of his own medicine/


Words: 以眼還眼，以牙還牙
Pinyin: yǐ yǎn huán yǎn , yǐ yá huán yá
Hanviet: 以dĩ 眼nhãn 還hoàn 眼nhãn 以dĩ 牙nha 還hoàn 牙nha
Meaning:
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom)/fig. to use the enemy’s methods against him/to give sb a taste of his own medicine/


Words: 以言代法，以權壓法
Pinyin: yǐ yán dài fǎ , yǐ quán yā fǎ
Hanviet: 以dĩ 言ngôn 代đại 法pháp 以dĩ 權quyền 壓áp 法pháp
Meaning:
to substitute one’s words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior/Might makes right./


Words: 以逸待勞
Pinyin: yǐ yì dài láo
Hanviet: 以dĩ 逸dật 待đãi 勞lao
Meaning:
to wait at one’s ease for the exhausted enemy/to nurture one’s strength and bide one’s time (idiom)/


Words: 仰光
Pinyin: yǎng guāng
Hanviet: 仰ngưỡng 光quang
Meaning:
Yangon (Rangoon), main city of south Myanmar (Burma), the national capital until November 2005, when the capital moved to Naypyidaw 内比都 or Pyinmana 彬馬那 彬马那/


Words: 仰屋興嘆
Pinyin: yǎng wū xīng tàn
Hanviet: 仰ngưỡng 屋ốc 興hưng 嘆thán
Meaning:
to stare at the ceiling in despair/to find no way out/nothing you can do about it/at the end of one’s wits/


Words: 仰屋著書
Pinyin: yǎng wū zhù shū
Hanviet: 仰ngưỡng 屋ốc 著trước 書thư
Meaning:
lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one’s whole body and soul into a book/


Words: 任
Pinyin: rèn
Hanviet: 任nhậm
Meaning:
to assign/to appoint/to take up a post/office/responsibility/to let/to allow/to give free rein to/no matter (how, what etc)/classifier for the number of terms served in office, post, or rank/


Words: 任人唯賢
Pinyin: rèn rén wéi xián
Hanviet: 任nhậm 人nhân 唯duy 賢hiền
Meaning:
to appoint people according to their merits (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity/


Words: 任憑風浪起，穩坐釣魚臺
Pinyin: rèn píng fēng làng qǐ , wěn zuò diào yú tái
Hanviet: 任nhậm 憑bằng 風phong 浪lãng 起khởi 穩ổn 坐tọa 釣điếu 魚ngư 臺đài
Meaning:
lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite wind and storm (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation/a cool head in a crisis/


Words: 任賢使能
Pinyin: rèn xián shǐ néng
Hanviet: 任nhậm 賢hiền 使sử 能năng
Meaning:
to appoint the virtuous and use the able (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity/


Words: 任重道遠
Pinyin: rèn zhòng dào yuǎn
Hanviet: 任nhậm 重trọng/trùng 道đạo 遠viễn
Meaning:
a heavy load and a long road/fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)/


Words: 伊寧
Pinyin: yī níng
Hanviet: 伊y 寧ninh
Meaning:
Yining city and county or Ghulja nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州, 伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 伊斯曼
Pinyin: yī sī màn
Hanviet: 伊y 斯tư 曼mạn
Meaning:
Eastman (name)/George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor and founder of Kodak 柯達, 柯达/Max F. Eastman (1883-1969), US socialist writer, subsequently severe critic of USSR/


Words: 伊犁
Pinyin: yī lí
Hanviet: 伊y 犁lê
Meaning:
the Ili river basin around Turpan in Xinjiang/abbr. for 伊犁哈薩克自治州, 伊犁哈萨克自治州, Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture/


Words: 伊薩卡
Pinyin: yī sà kǎ
Hanviet: 伊y 薩tát 卡
Meaning:
Ithaca, Island state of Greece, the home of Odysseus 奧迪修斯, 奥迪修斯/Ithaca NY, location of Cornell University 康奈爾, 康奈尔/


Words: 伊藤博文
Pinyin: yī téng bó wén
Hanviet: 伊y 藤đằng 博bác 文văn
Meaning:
ITŌ Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin/


Words: 伍子胥
Pinyin: wǔ zǐ xū
Hanviet: 伍 子tử 胥
Meaning:
Wu Zixu (-484 BC), powerful politician in Wu/famous as destitute refugee begging in Wu town, cf 吳市吹簫, 吴市吹箫/


Words: 伏
Pinyin: fú
Hanviet: 伏phục
Meaning:
to lean over/to fall (go down)/to hide (in ambush)/to conceal oneself/to lie low/hottest days of summer/to submit/to concede defeat/to overcome/to subdue/volt/


Words: 伏羲
Pinyin: fú xī
Hanviet: 伏phục 羲
Meaning:
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing/


Words: 伏羲氏
Pinyin: fú xī shì
Hanviet: 伏phục 羲 氏thị
Meaning:
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing/


Words: 伐柯
Pinyin: fá kē
Hanviet: 伐phạt 柯kha
Meaning:
(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax/fig. to follow a principle/fig. to act as matchmaker/


Words: 伯
Pinyin: bó
Hanviet: 伯bá
Meaning:
father’s elder brother/senior/paternal elder uncle/eldest of brothers/respectful form of address/Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位/


Words: 伯母
Pinyin: bó mǔ
Hanviet: 伯bá 母mẫu
Meaning:
wife of father’s elder brother/aunt/(polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one’s mother)/CL:個, 个/


Words: 伯里克利
Pinyin: bó lǐ kè lì
Hanviet: 伯bá 里lý 克khắc 利lợi
Meaning:
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war/


Words: 伯顏
Pinyin: bà yán
Hanviet: 伯bá 顏nhan
Meaning:
Bayan (name)/Bayan of the Baarin (1236-1295), Mongol Yuan general under Khubilai Khan, victorious over the Southern Song 1235-1239/Bayan of the Merkid (-1340), Yuan dynasty general and politician/


Words: 伴舞
Pinyin: bàn wǔ
Hanviet: 伴bạn 舞vũ
Meaning:
to be a dancing partner to sb/to perform as a backup dancer/taxi dancer (hired dancing partner)/escort/


Words: 似曾相識
Pinyin: sì céng xiāng shí
Hanviet: 似tự 曾tằng 相tương/tướng 識thức
Meaning:
déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)/seemingly familiar/apparently already acquainted/


Words: 伽羅華
Pinyin: jiā luó huà
Hanviet: 伽già 羅la 華hoa
Meaning:
Évariste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist/also written 伽羅瓦, 伽罗瓦/


Words: 佈雷頓森林
Pinyin: bù léi dùn sēn lín
Hanviet: 佈 雷lôi 頓đốn 森sâm 林lâm
Meaning:
Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank/


Words: 位
Pinyin: wèi
Hanviet: 位vị
Meaning:
position/location/place/seat/classifier for people (honorific)/classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)/


Words: 住
Pinyin: zhù
Hanviet: 住trụ
Meaning:
to live/to dwell/to stay/to reside/to stop/(suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)/


Words: 何不食肉糜
Pinyin: hé bù shí ròu mí
Hanviet: 何hà 不bất 食thực 肉nhục 糜mi
Meaning:
lit. "Why don’t they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝, 晋惠帝 when told that his people didn’t have enough rice to eat)/fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people’s plight/


Words: 何魯曉夫
Pinyin: hé lǔ xiǎo fū
Hanviet: 何hà 魯lỗ 曉hiểu 夫phu
Meaning:
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet communist party 1953-1964/also written 赫魯曉夫, 赫鲁晓夫/


Words: 佛朗哥
Pinyin: fó lǎng gē
Hanviet: 佛Phật 朗lãng 哥ca
Meaning:
Franco (name)/Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975), Spanish dictator and head of state 1939-1975/


Words: 佛爺
Pinyin: fó ye
Hanviet: 佛Phật 爺
Meaning:
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼, 释迦牟尼)/His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee)/Buddha/God/emperor/in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后/


Words: 作主
Pinyin: zuò zhǔ
Hanviet: 作tác 主chủ
Meaning:
to decide/to make decisions/to take responsibility (for deciding)/to be in charge/to give sb justice/


Words: 作出
Pinyin: zuò chū
Hanviet: 作tác 出xuất
Meaning:
to put out/to come up with/to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc)/to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc)/to draw (conclusion)/to deliver (speech, judgment)/to devise (explanation)/to extract/


Words: 作怪
Pinyin: zuò guài
Hanviet: 作tác 怪quái
Meaning:
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen/to act up/to act behind the scenes/to make mischief/odd/to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)/


Words: 作為
Pinyin: zuò wéi
Hanviet: 作tác 為vi
Meaning:
one’s conduct/deed/activity/accomplishment/achievement/to act as/as (in the capacity of)/qua/to view as/to look upon (sth as)/to take sth to be/


Words: 作用
Pinyin: zuò yòng
Hanviet: 作tác 用dụng
Meaning:
to act on/to affect/action/function/activity/impact/result/effect/purpose/intent/to play a role/corresponds to English -ity, -ism, -ization/CL:個, 个/


Words: 作繭自縛
Pinyin: zuò jiǎn zì fù
Hanviet: 作tác 繭kiển 自tự 縛phược
Meaning:
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one’s own devising/hoist by his own petard/


Words: 你爭我奪
Pinyin: nǐ zhēng wǒ duó
Hanviet: 你nễ 爭tranh 我ngã 奪đoạt
Meaning:
lit. you fight, I snatch (idiom); to compete fiercely offering no quarter/fierce rivalry/tug-of-war/


Words: 你走你的陽關道，我過我的獨木橋
Pinyin: nǐ zǒu nǐ de yáng guān dào , wǒ guò wǒ de dú mù qiáo
Hanviet: 你nễ 走tẩu 你nễ 的đích 陽dương 關quan 道đạo 我ngã 過quá 我ngã 的đích 獨độc 木mộc 橋kiều
Meaning:
lit. you hit the high road, I’ll cross the log bridge (idiom)/fig. you go your way, I’ll go mine/you do it your way, I’ll do it mine/


Words: 佩洛西
Pinyin: pèi luò xī
Hanviet: 佩bội 洛lạc 西tây
Meaning:
Nancy Pelosi (1940-), US Democrat politician from California, speaker of US House of Representatives from 2007/


Words: 佩蘭
Pinyin: pèi lán
Hanviet: 佩bội 蘭lan
Meaning:
orchid/fragrant thoroughwort/(botany) Eupatorium fortunei/Herba Eupatorii (used in Chinese medicine)/


Words: 使役
Pinyin: shǐ yì
Hanviet: 使sử 役dịch
Meaning:
to use (an animal or servant)/working (animal)/(beast) of burden/causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc)/


Words: 來日方長
Pinyin: lái rì fāng cháng
Hanviet: 來lai 日nhật 方phương 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
the future is long (idiom); there will be ample time for that later/We’ll cross that bridge when we get there/


Words: 來者不善，善者不來
Pinyin: lái zhě bù shàn , shàn zhě bù lái
Hanviet: 來lai 者giả 不bất 善thiện 善thiện 者giả 不bất 來lai
Meaning:
He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom)./Be careful not to trust foreigners./Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!/


Words: 來電
Pinyin: lái diàn
Hanviet: 來lai 電điện
Meaning:
incoming telegram or telephone call/your telegram, telephone call, or message/to send a telegram or make a telephone call here (i.e. to the speaker)/to have instant attraction to sb/to have chemistry with sb/to come back (of electricity, after an outage)/


Words: 例題
Pinyin: lì tí
Hanviet: 例lệ 題đề
Meaning:
problem or question solved for illustrative purposes in the classroom/practice question (used in preparation for an exam)/sample question/


Words: 依樣畫葫蘆
Pinyin: yī yàng huà hú lu
Hanviet: 依y 樣 畫họa 葫 蘆lô
Meaning:
lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom)/fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality/


Words: 依親
Pinyin: yī qīn
Hanviet: 依y 親thân
Meaning:
(Tw) to be in the care of one’s relatives/to be dependent on a relative/to draw on family connections/


Words: 侯賽因
Pinyin: hóu sài yīn
Hanviet: 侯hầu 賽tái 因nhân
Meaning:
Husain or Hussein (name)/Hussein (c. 626-680), Muslim leader whose martyrdom is commemorated at Ashura/Saddam Hussein al Tikriti (1937-2006), dictator of Iraq 1979-2003/


Words: 侯門似海
Pinyin: hóu mén sì hǎi
Hanviet: 侯hầu 門môn 似tự 海hải
Meaning:
lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea/there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)/


Words: 侵入
Pinyin: qīn rù
Hanviet: 侵xâm 入nhập
Meaning:
to make (military) incursions/to invade/to intrude into/to trespass/to gain unauthorized access (computing)/


Words: 便
Pinyin: biàn
Hanviet: 便tiện
Meaning:
plain/informal/suitable/convenient/opportune/to urinate or defecate/equivalent to 就: then/in that case/even if/soon afterwards/


Words: 便是
Pinyin: biàn shì
Hanviet: 便tiện 是thị
Meaning:
(emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated)/precisely/exactly/even/if/just like/in the same way as/


Words: 促使
Pinyin: cù shǐ
Hanviet: 促xúc 使sử
Meaning:
to induce/to promote/to urge/to impel/to bring about/to provoke/to drive (sb to do sth)/to catalyze/to actuate/to contribute to (some development)/


Words: 俄羅斯族
Pinyin: é luó sī zú
Hanviet: 俄nga 羅la 斯tư 族tộc
Meaning:
Russian ethnic group (of northeast China and Xinjiang etc)/Russian nationality/Russians (of Russia)/


Words: 俘獲
Pinyin: fú huò
Hanviet: 俘 獲hoạch
Meaning:
to capture (enemy property or personnel)/capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus)/


Words: 保固
Pinyin: bǎo gù
Hanviet: 保bảo 固cố
Meaning:
to undertake to rectify any deficiencies in the quality of a building, product or service/warranty/guarantee/


Words: 保安
Pinyin: bǎo ān
Hanviet: 保bảo 安an
Meaning:
to ensure public security/to ensure safety (for workers engaged in production)/public security/security guard/


Words: 保爾森
Pinyin: bǎo ěr sēn
Hanviet: 保bảo 爾nhĩ 森sâm
Meaning:
Paulson or Powellson (name)/Henry (Hank) Paulson (1946-), US banker, US Treasury Secretary from 2006/


Words: 保留
Pinyin: bǎo liú
Hanviet: 保bảo 留lưu
Meaning:
to retain/to continue to have/to preserve/to maintain/to reserve/reservations/to hold back (approval or acceptance)/


Words: 保研
Pinyin: bǎo yán
Hanviet: 保bảo 研nghiên
Meaning:
to recommend sb for postgraduate studies/to admit for postgraduate studies without taking the entrance exam/


Words: 信
Pinyin: xìn
Hanviet: 信tín
Meaning:
letter/mail/CL:封/to trust/to believe/to profess faith in/truthful/confidence/trust/at will/at random/


Words: 信息中心
Pinyin: xìn xī zhōng xīn
Hanviet: 信tín 息tức 中trung 心tâm
Meaning:
information center/abbr. for 中國人權民運信息中心, 中国人权民运信息中心, Information center for human rights and democracy, Hong Kong/


Words: 信義
Pinyin: xìn yì
Hanviet: 信tín 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Xinyi or Hsinyi district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Xinyi or Hsini district of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan/Xinyi or Hsini township in Nantou county 南投縣, 南投县, central Taiwan/


Words: 信義區
Pinyin: xìn yì qū
Hanviet: 信tín 義nghĩa 區khu
Meaning:
Xinyi or Hsinyi district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Hsini district of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan/


Words: 修好
Pinyin: xiū hǎo
Hanviet: 修tu 好hảo/hiếu
Meaning:
to repair (sth broken)/to restore (sth damaged)/to establish friendly relations with/(literary) to do meritorious deeds/


Words: 修成正果
Pinyin: xiū chéng zhèng guǒ
Hanviet: 修tu 成thành 正chánh 果quả
Meaning:
to achieve Buddhahood through one’s efforts and insight/to obtain a positive outcome after sustained efforts/to come to fruition/


Words: 修整
Pinyin: xiū zhěng
Hanviet: 修tu 整chỉnh
Meaning:
to spruce up/to renovate/to tend (a garden)/to groom (one’s hair)/to finish (a rough surface)/to trim (a lawn)/to touch up (a photo)/


Words: 俯就
Pinyin: fǔ jiù
Hanviet: 俯phủ 就tựu
Meaning:
to deign/to condescend/to yield to (entreaties)/to submit to (sb)/(polite) to deign to accept (a post)/


Words: 俯拾皆是
Pinyin: fǔ shí jiē shì
Hanviet: 俯phủ 拾thập 皆giai 是thị
Meaning:
lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom)/fig. extremely common/easily available/


Words: 俾斯麥
Pinyin: bǐ sī mài
Hanviet: 俾tỉ 斯tư 麥mạch
Meaning:
Bismarck (name)/Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890/


Words: 俾晝作夜
Pinyin: bǐ zhòu zuò yè
Hanviet: 俾tỉ 晝trú 作tác 夜dạ
Meaning:
to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one’s pleasure regardless of the hour/


Words: 倉頡
Pinyin: cāng jié
Hanviet: 倉thương 頡hiệt
Meaning:
Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and creator of Chinese writing/Cangjie input method (computing)/


Words: 個舊
Pinyin: gè jiù
Hanviet: 個cá 舊cựu
Meaning:
Gejiu, county level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州, 红河哈尼族彝族自治州/


Words: 倍足類
Pinyin: bèi zú lèi
Hanviet: 倍bội 足túc 類loại
Meaning:
Diplopoda (arthropod class with a pair of legs on each segment, including centipedes and millipedes)/


Words: 倒
Pinyin: dǎo
Hanviet: 倒đảo
Meaning:
to fall/to collapse/to overthrow/to fail/to go bankrupt/to change (trains or buses)/to move around/to resell at a profit/


Words: 倒
Pinyin: dào
Hanviet: 倒đảo
Meaning:
to place upside down/to invert/to pour/to throw out/to move backwards/however/actually/as a matter of fact/contrary to expectation/


Words: 倒吊蠟燭
Pinyin: dào diào là zhú
Hanviet: 倒đảo 吊điếu 蠟lạp 燭chúc
Meaning:
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer’s oleander or pala indigo)/


Words: 倒彩
Pinyin: dào cǎi
Hanviet: 倒đảo 彩thải
Meaning:
adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake/


Words: 倒懸之危
Pinyin: dào xuán zhī wēi
Hanviet: 倒đảo 懸huyền 之chi 危nguy
Meaning:
lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation/dire straits/


Words: 倒扁
Pinyin: dǎo biǎn
Hanviet: 倒đảo 扁
Meaning:
Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁, 陈水扁 in 2006 over corruption allegations/


Words: 倒打一耙
Pinyin: dào dǎ yī pá
Hanviet: 倒đảo 打đả 一nhất 耙
Meaning:
lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒, 猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记; fig. to counterattack/to make bogus accusations (against one’s victim)/


Words: 倒掛
Pinyin: dào guà
Hanviet: 倒đảo 掛quải
Meaning:
lit. to hang upside down/fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods)/to borrow more than one can ever repay/


Words: 倒數
Pinyin: dào shǔ
Hanviet: 倒đảo 數số
Meaning:
to count backwards (from 10 down to 0)/to count down/from the bottom (lines on a page)/from the back (rows of seats)/


Words: 倒行逆施
Pinyin: dào xíng nì shī
Hanviet: 倒đảo 行hành 逆nghịch 施thí
Meaning:
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong/to try to turn back history/a perverse way of doing things/


Words: 倒轉
Pinyin: dào zhuǎn
Hanviet: 倒đảo 轉chuyển
Meaning:
to make an about-turn/to reverse one’s direction, policy, sequence etc/to turn things on their head/


Words: 倚天屠龍記
Pinyin: yǐ tiān tú lóng jì
Hanviet: 倚ỷ 天thiên 屠đồ 龍long 記ký
Meaning:
Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wuxia (武俠, 武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations/


Words: 借刀殺人
Pinyin: jiè dāo shā rén
Hanviet: 借tá 刀đao 殺sát 人nhân
Meaning:
to lend sb a knife to kill sb/to get sb else to do one’s dirty work/to attack using the strength of another (idiom)/


Words: 借屍還魂
Pinyin: jiè shī huán hún
Hanviet: 借tá 屍thi 還hoàn 魂hồn
Meaning:
lit. reincarnated in sb else’s body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise/


Words: 借花獻佛
Pinyin: jiè huā xiàn fó
Hanviet: 借tá 花hoa 獻hiến 佛Phật
Meaning:
lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else’s property/plagiarism/


Words: 倪嗣沖
Pinyin: ní sì chōng
Hanviet: 倪nghê 嗣tự 沖
Meaning:
Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱, 袁世凯 during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire/


Words: 倪桂珍
Pinyin: ní guì zhēn
Hanviet: 倪nghê 桂quế 珍trân
Meaning:
Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋藹齡, 宋蔼龄, Song Qingling 宋慶齡, 宋庆龄 and Song Meiling 宋美齡, 宋美龄/


Words: 假借
Pinyin: jiǎ jiè
Hanviet: 假giả 借tá
Meaning:
to make use of/to use sth as pretext/under false pretenses/under the guise of/masquerading as/lenient/tolerant/loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/character acquiring meanings by phonetic association/also called phonetic loan/


Words: 假借字
Pinyin: jiǎ jiè zì
Hanviet: 假giả 借tá 字tự
Meaning:
loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/character acquiring meanings by phonetic association/also called phonetic loan/


Words: 假公濟私
Pinyin: jiǎ gōng jì sī
Hanviet: 假giả 公công 濟tế 私tư
Meaning:
official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position/


Words: 假分數
Pinyin: jiǎ fēn shù
Hanviet: 假giả 分phần/phân 數số
Meaning:
improper fraction (with numerator ≥ denominator, e.g. seven fifths)/see also: proper fraction 真分數, 真分数 and mixed number 帶分數, 带分数/


Words: 假途滅虢
Pinyin: jiǎ tú miè guó
Hanviet: 假giả 途đồ 滅diệt 虢
Meaning:
lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner/


Words: 假道伐虢
Pinyin: jiǎ dào fá guó
Hanviet: 假giả 道đạo 伐phạt 虢
Meaning:
to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo/to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom)/


Words: 偏
Pinyin: piān
Hanviet: 偏thiên
Meaning:
to lean/to slant/oblique/prejudiced/to deviate from average/to stray from the intended line/stubbornly/contrary to expectations/left-hand side of a split Chinese character, often the key or radical/


Words: 偏偏
Pinyin: piān piān
Hanviet: 偏thiên 偏thiên
Meaning:
(indicates that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately/as it happened/(indicates that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly/contrarily/against reason/(indicates that sb or a group is singled out) precisely/only/of all people/


Words: 偏安
Pinyin: piān ān
Hanviet: 偏thiên 安an
Meaning:
content to hold a small part of the territory/fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground/forced to move away/


Words: 做
Pinyin: zuò
Hanviet: 做tố
Meaning:
to do/to make/to produce/to write/to compose/to act as/to engage in/to hold (a party)/to be/to become/to function (in some capacity)/to serve as/to be used for/to form (a bond or relationship)/to pretend/to feign/to act a part/to put on appearance/


Words: 做一天和尚，撞一天鐘
Pinyin: zuò yī tiān hé shang , zhuàng yī tiān zhōng
Hanviet: 做tố 一nhất 天thiên 和hòa 尚thượng 撞chàng 一nhất 天thiên 鐘chung
Meaning:
as a monk for today, toll today’s bell (idiom); to do one’s job mechanically/to hold a position passively/


Words: 停擺
Pinyin: tíng bǎi
Hanviet: 停đình 擺bãi
Meaning:
(of a pendulum) to stop swinging/(of work, production, activities etc) to come to a halt/to be suspended/to be canceled/shutdown/(sports) lockout/


Words: 停機
Pinyin: tíng jī
Hanviet: 停đình 機cơ
Meaning:
(of a machine) to stop/to shut down/to park a plane/to finish shooting (a TV program etc)/to suspend a phone line/(of a prepaid mobile phone) to be out of credit/


Words: 停航
Pinyin: tíng háng
Hanviet: 停đình 航
Meaning:
to stop running (of flight of shipping service)/to suspend service (flight, sailing)/to interrupt schedule/


Words: 側刀旁
Pinyin: cè dāo páng
Hanviet: 側trắc 刀đao 旁bàng
Meaning:
name of "knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in 到, 利, 别 etc/see also 刂/


Words: 偵破
Pinyin: zhēn pò
Hanviet: 偵 破phá
Meaning:
to investigate (as detective)/to solve (crime)/to uncover (a plot)/to sniff out/to break in and analyze/detective work/to scout/


Words: 偶像劇
Pinyin: oǔ xiàng jù
Hanviet: 偶ngẫu 像tượng 劇kịch
Meaning:
idol drama/drama series in which the actors are chosen for their pre-existing popularity with young viewers/


Words: 偷梁換柱
Pinyin: tōu liáng huàn zhù
Hanviet: 偷thâu 梁lương 換hoán 柱trụ
Meaning:
lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column/to replace the original with a fake/to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)/


Words: 偷渡
Pinyin: tōu dù
Hanviet: 偷thâu 渡độ
Meaning:
illegal immigration/to stowaway (on a ship)/to steal across the international border/to run a blockade/


Words: 偷雞不成蝕把米
Pinyin: tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ
Hanviet: 偷thâu 雞kê 不bất 成thành 蝕thực 把bả 米mễ
Meaning:
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)/fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off/to go for wool and come back shorn/


Words: 偽裝
Pinyin: wěi zhuāng
Hanviet: 偽ngụy 裝trang
Meaning:
to pretend to be (asleep etc)/to disguise oneself as/pretense/disguise/(military) to camouflage/camouflage/


Words: 傳承
Pinyin: chuán chéng
Hanviet: 傳truyền 承thừa
Meaning:
to pass on (to future generations)/passed on (from former times)/a continued tradition/an inheritance/


Words: 傳給
Pinyin: chuán gei
Hanviet: 傳truyền 給cấp
Meaning:
to pass on (to sb)/to send/to pass (e.g. in football)/to give directly (by hand)/to deliver/to hand over/to transfer/to relay/to transmit/to hand on (to the next generation)/


Words: 傾國傾城
Pinyin: qīng guó qīng chéng
Hanviet: 傾khuynh 國quốc 傾khuynh 城thành
Meaning:
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)/fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful/also written 傾城傾國, 倾城倾国/


Words: 傾城傾國
Pinyin: qīng chéng qīng guó
Hanviet: 傾khuynh 城thành 傾khuynh 國quốc
Meaning:
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)/fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful/


Words: 傾角
Pinyin: qīng jiǎo
Hanviet: 傾khuynh 角giác
Meaning:
dip/angle of dip (inclination of a geological plane down from horizontal)/tilt (inclination of ship from vertical)/


Words: 像
Pinyin: xiàng
Hanviet: 像tượng
Meaning:
to resemble/to be like/to look as if/such as/appearance/image/portrait/image under a mapping (math.)/


Words: 價原
Pinyin: jià yuán
Hanviet: 價giá 原nguyên
Meaning:
Kagen or the Origin of Value by MIURA Baien 三浦梅園, 三浦梅园, pioneering study of economics comparable to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations 國富論, 国富论/


Words: 儒勒·凡爾納
Pinyin: rú lè �� fán ěr nà
Hanviet: 儒nho 勒lặc · 凡phàm 爾nhĩ 納nạp
Meaning:
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories, author of Around the World in Eighty Days 八十天环绕地球/


Words: 儒林外史
Pinyin: rú lín wài shǐ
Hanviet: 儒nho 林lâm 外ngoại 史sử
Meaning:
The Scholars, Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓, 吴敬梓, an extended satire on the Imperial Examination system/


Words: 儘
Pinyin: jǐn
Hanviet: 儘
Meaning:
to the greatest extent/(when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme/to be within the limits of/to give priority to/


Words: 儘管
Pinyin: jǐn guǎn
Hanviet: 儘 管quản
Meaning:
despite/although/even though/in spite of/unhesitatingly/do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc)/(go ahead and do it) without hesitating/


Words: 優孟
Pinyin: yōu mèng
Hanviet: 優ưu 孟
Meaning:
You Meng, famous court jester during the reign of King Zhuang of Chu 楚莊王, 楚庄王, known for his intelligence and sharp tongue/


Words: 元
Pinyin: yuán
Hanviet: 元nguyên
Meaning:
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)/first/original/primary/fundamental/constituent/part/era (of a reign)/(math.) argument/variable/(Tw) (geology) eon/


Words: 元世祖
Pinyin: yuán shì zǔ
Hanviet: 元nguyên 世thế 祖tổ
Meaning:
lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294/


Words: 元史
Pinyin: yuán shǐ
Hanviet: 元nguyên 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Yuan Dynasty, twenty third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Song Lian 宋濂 in 1370 during the Ming Dynasty, 210 scrolls/


Words: 元宵節
Pinyin: yuán xiāo jié
Hanviet: 元nguyên 宵tiêu 節tiết
Meaning:
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節, 春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar/


Words: 元寶
Pinyin: yuán bǎo
Hanviet: 元nguyên 寶bảo
Meaning:
a silver or gold ingot/mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship)/a name for ancient currency/a rare genius/


Words: 元曲四大家
Pinyin: yuán qǔ sì dà jiā
Hanviet: 元nguyên 曲khúc 四tứ 大đại 家gia
Meaning:
Four great Yuan dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 關漢卿, 关汉卿, Zheng Guangzu 鄭光祖, 郑光祖, Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠, 马致远 and Bai Pu 白樸, 白朴/


Words: 兄弟
Pinyin: xiōng dì
Hanviet: 兄huynh 弟đệ
Meaning:
brothers/younger brother/CL:個, 个/I, me (humble term used by men in public speech)/brotherly/fraternal/


Words: 充塞
Pinyin: chōng sè
Hanviet: 充sung 塞tắc
Meaning:
congestion/to block/to congest/to crowd/to choke/to cram/to fill up/to stuff/to take up all the space/


Words: 先下手為強
Pinyin: xiān xià shǒu wéi qiáng
Hanviet: 先tiên 下hạ 手thủ 為vi 強cường/cưỡng
Meaning:
strike first and gain the upper hand (idiom, martial arts term); Making the first move is an advantage./


Words: 先天下之憂而憂，後天下之樂而樂
Pinyin: xiān tiān xià zhī yōu ér yōu , hòu tiān xià zhī lè ér lè
Hanviet: 先tiên 天thiên 下hạ 之chi 憂ưu 而nhi 憂ưu 後hậu 天thiên 下hạ 之chi 樂lạc 而nhi 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
The first concern is affairs of state, enjoying the pleasure comes later. Quotation from essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記, 岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 範仲淹, 范仲淹/


Words: 先王
Pinyin: xiān wáng
Hanviet: 先tiên 王vương
Meaning:
former kings/former emperors/in Confucian writing, refers esp. to the sage rulers Yao 堯, 尧, Shun 舜, Yu 禹, Tang 湯, 汤 and the kings of Zhou/


Words: 先禮後兵
Pinyin: xiān lǐ hòu bīng
Hanviet: 先tiên 禮lễ 後hậu 兵binh
Meaning:
peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence/jaw-jaw is better than war-war/


Words: 光州
Pinyin: guāng zhōu
Hanviet: 光quang 州châu
Meaning:
Guangzhou, old name for Huangchuan 潢川 in Xinyang 信陽, 信阳, Henan/Gwangju Metropolitan City, capital of South Jeolla Province 全羅南道, 全罗南道, South Korea/


Words: 光明正大
Pinyin: guāng míng zhèng dà
Hanviet: 光quang 明minh 正chánh 大đại
Meaning:
(of a person) honorable/not devious/(of a behavior) fair and aboveboard/without tricks/openly/(of a situation) out in the open/


Words: 光明節
Pinyin: guāng míng jié
Hanviet: 光quang 明minh 節tiết
Meaning:
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)/also called 哈努卡節, 哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡/


Words: 光風霽月
Pinyin: guāng fēng jì yuè
Hanviet: 光quang 風phong 霽tễ 月nguyệt
Meaning:
lit. light breeze and clear moon (idiom)/period of peace and prosperity/noble and benevolent character/


Words: 克勒
Pinyin: kè lè
Hanviet: 克khắc 勒lặc
Meaning:
Keller or Köhler (name)/Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, chaired IMF 2000-2004, President of Germany from 2004/


Words: 克孜爾尕哈
Pinyin: kè zī ěr gǎ hā
Hanviet: 克khắc 孜tư 爾nhĩ 尕 哈
Meaning:
Kizilgaha (Uighur: red-mouthed crow or border sentry), site of famous fire beacon tower and cliff caves in Kuchar county 庫車, 库车, Aksu 阿克蘇地區, 阿克苏地区, Xinjiang/


Words: 克己復禮
Pinyin: kè jǐ fù lǐ
Hanviet: 克khắc 己kỷ 復phục 禮lễ
Meaning:
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties/(any number of possible translations)/


Words: 克林頓
Pinyin: kè lín dùn
Hanviet: 克khắc 林lâm 頓đốn
Meaning:
Clinton (name)/Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001/Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician/


Words: 免
Pinyin: miǎn
Hanviet: 免miễn
Meaning:
to excuse sb/to exempt/to remove or dismiss from office/to avoid/to avert/to escape/to be prohibited/


Words: 免受
Pinyin: miǎn shòu
Hanviet: 免miễn 受thọ
Meaning:
to avoid suffering/to prevent (sth bad)/to protect against (damage)/immunity (from prosecution)/freedom (from pain, damage etc)/exempt from punishment/


Words: 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧
Pinyin: ér bù xián mǔ chǒu , gǒu bù xián jiā pín
Hanviet: 兒nhi 不bất 嫌hiềm 母mẫu 醜xú 狗cẩu 不bất 嫌hiềm 家gia 貧bần
Meaning:
a son won’t abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won’t abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)/


Words: 兔子不吃窩邊草
Pinyin: tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
Hanviet: 兔thố 子tử 不bất 吃cật 窩 邊biên 草thảo
Meaning:
A rabbit doesn’t eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn’t do anything to harm one’s neighbors./


Words: 兔死狐悲
Pinyin: tù sǐ hú bēi
Hanviet: 兔thố 死tử 狐hồ 悲bi
Meaning:
lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress/


Words: 兔死狗烹
Pinyin: tù sǐ gǒu pēng
Hanviet: 兔thố 死tử 狗cẩu 烹phanh
Meaning:
lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)/fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose/


Words: 兜
Pinyin: dōu
Hanviet: 兜đâu
Meaning:
pocket/bag/to wrap up or hold in a bag/to move in a circle/to canvas or solicit/to take responsibility for/to disclose in detail/combat armor (old)/


Words: 入境問俗
Pinyin: rù jìng wèn sú
Hanviet: 入nhập 境cảnh 問vấn 俗tục
Meaning:
When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do/When in Rome, do as the Romans do/


Words: 入境隨俗
Pinyin: rù jìng suí sú
Hanviet: 入nhập 境cảnh 隨tùy 俗tục
Meaning:
When you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do/When in Rome, do as the Romans do/


Words: 入鄉隨俗
Pinyin: rù xiāng suí sú
Hanviet: 入nhập 鄉hương 隨tùy 俗tục
Meaning:
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do/When in Rome, do as the Romans do/


Words: 內在超越
Pinyin: nèi zài chāo yuè
Hanviet: 內nội 在tại 超siêu 越việt
Meaning:
inner transcendence (perfection through one’s own inner moral cultivation, as in Confucianism, for example)/


Words: 內地
Pinyin: nèi dì
Hanviet: 內nội 地địa
Meaning:
mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan)/Japan (used in Taiwan during Japanese colonization)/


Words: 內場
Pinyin: nèi chǎng
Hanviet: 內nội 場tràng
Meaning:
inner area (of a place that has an outer area)/the kitchen of a restaurant (as opposed to the dining area)/infield (baseball etc)/(Chinese opera) the area behind the table on the stage/


Words: 內塔尼亞胡
Pinyin: nèi tǎ ní yà hú
Hanviet: 內nội 塔tháp 尼ni 亞 胡hồ
Meaning:
Netanyahu (name)/Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009/


Words: 內定
Pinyin: nèi dìng
Hanviet: 內nội 定định
Meaning:
to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later/to decide behind closed doors/all cut and dried/


Words: 內插
Pinyin: nèi chā
Hanviet: 內nội 插sáp
Meaning:
to install (hardware) internally (rather than plugging it in as a peripheral)/(math.) to interpolate/interpolation/


Words: 內比都
Pinyin: nèi bǐ dū
Hanviet: 內nội 比tỉ 都đô
Meaning:
Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw, jungle capital of Myanmar (Burma) since November 2005, 300 km north of Rangoon and 300 km south of Mandalay/formerly called Pyinmana 彬馬那, 彬马那/


Words: 內科醫生
Pinyin: nèi kē yī shēng
Hanviet: 內nội 科khoa 醫y 生sanh
Meaning:
medical doctor/physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生, 外科医生/


Words: 內耗
Pinyin: nèi hào
Hanviet: 內nội 耗hao
Meaning:
internal friction/internal dissipation of energy (in mechanics)/fig. waste or discord within an organization/


Words: 內賈德
Pinyin: nèi jiǎ dé
Hanviet: 內nội 賈cổ 德đức
Meaning:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956-), Iranian fundamentalist politician, President of Iran from 2005, famous for provocative speeches/abbr. for 艾哈邁迪內賈德, 艾哈迈迪内贾德/


Words: 內賓
Pinyin: nèi bīn
Hanviet: 內nội 賓tân
Meaning:
guest from the same country/internal or domestic visitor (as opposed to international guest 外賓, 外宾)/


Words: 全場
Pinyin: quán chǎng
Hanviet: 全toàn 場tràng
Meaning:
everyone present/the whole audience/across-the-board/unanimously/whole duration (of a competition or match)/


Words: 全球衛星導航系統
Pinyin: quán qiú wèi xīng dǎo háng xì tǒng
Hanviet: 全toàn 球 衛vệ 星tinh 導đạo 航 系hệ 統thống
Meaning:
Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelinaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), the Russian equivalent of GPS/abbr. to 格洛納斯, 格洛纳斯/


Words: 全羅道
Pinyin: quán luó dào
Hanviet: 全toàn 羅la 道đạo
Meaning:
Jeolla or Cholla Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Jeolla Province 全羅北道, 全罗北道 and South Jeolla Province 全羅南道, 全罗南道/


Words: 兩全其美
Pinyin: liǎng quán qí měi
Hanviet: 兩lưỡng 全toàn 其kỳ 美mỹ
Meaning:
to satisfy rival demands (idiom)/to get the best of both worlds/to have it both ways/to have one’s cake and eat it too/


Words: 兩彈一星
Pinyin: liǎng dàn yī xīng
Hanviet: 兩lưỡng 彈đàn 一nhất 星tinh
Meaning:
refers to the historical achievement of China by 1970 in producing and successfully detonating an atomic bomb (1964), a hydrogen bomb (1967) and launching a satellite into space (1970)/


Words: 兩德
Pinyin: liǎng dé
Hanviet: 兩lưỡng 德đức
Meaning:
two Germanies/refers to German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)/


Words: 兩肋插刀
Pinyin: liǎng lèi chā dāo
Hanviet: 兩lưỡng 肋lặc 插sáp 刀đao
Meaning:
lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)/fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it/


Words: 兩袖清風
Pinyin: liǎng xiù qīng fēng
Hanviet: 兩lưỡng 袖tụ 清thanh 風phong
Meaning:
lit. both sleeves flowing in the breeze (idiom); having clean hands/uncorrupted/unsoiled by corrupt practices/


Words: 八二三砲戰
Pinyin: bā èr sān pào zhàn
Hanviet: 八bát 二nhị 三tam 砲 戰chiến
Meaning:
bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis/


Words: 八仙過海，各顯神通
Pinyin: bā xiān guò hǎi , gè xiǎn shén tōng
Hanviet: 八bát 仙tiên 過quá 海hải 各các 顯hiển 神thần 通thông
Meaning:
lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom)/fig. (of each individual in a group) to give full play to one’s unique capabilities/


Words: 八大元老
Pinyin: bā dà yuán lǎo
Hanviet: 八bát 大đại 元nguyên 老lão
Meaning:
"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CPC, namely 鄧小平, 邓小平, 陳雲, 陈云, 李先念, 彭真, 楊尚昆, 杨尚昆, 薄一波, 王震, and 宋任窮, 宋任穷/abbr. to 八老/


Words: 八字方針
Pinyin: bā zì fāng zhēn
Hanviet: 八bát 字tự 方phương 針châm
Meaning:
the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by 李富春 in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高, 调整、巩固、充实、提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve"/a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan/


Words: 八字沒一撇
Pinyin: bā zì méi yī piě
Hanviet: 八bát 字tự 沒một 一nhất 撇
Meaning:
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom)/fig. things have not even begun to take shape/no sign of success yet/


Words: 八字還沒一撇
Pinyin: bā zì hái méi yī piě
Hanviet: 八bát 字tự 還hoàn 沒một 一nhất 撇
Meaning:
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八/things have not even begun to take shape/no sign of success yet/


Words: 八岐大蛇
Pinyin: bā qí dà shé
Hanviet: 八bát 岐kỳ 大đại 蛇xà
Meaning:
Yamata no Orochi, serpent with eight heads and eight tails from mythological section of Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)/


Words: 八旗
Pinyin: bā qí
Hanviet: 八bát 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金, 后金 from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty/


Words: 八沖
Pinyin: bā chōng
Hanviet: 八bát 沖
Meaning:
eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally)/


Words: 八苦
Pinyin: bā kǔ
Hanviet: 八bát 苦khổ
Meaning:
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)/


Words: 八萬大藏經
Pinyin: bā wàn dà zàng jīng
Hanviet: 八bát 萬vạn 大Đại 藏Tạng 經Kinh
Meaning:
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in Haeinsa 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea/


Words: 八角街
Pinyin: bā jiǎo jiē
Hanviet: 八bát 角giác 街nhai
Meaning:
Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet/same as 八廓街/


Words: 八音
Pinyin: bā yīn
Hanviet: 八bát 音âm
Meaning:
music/(used in advertising instrumental tuition)/(archaic) musical instruments made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲, 丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)/


Words: 公
Pinyin: gōng
Hanviet: 公công
Meaning:
public/collectively owned/common/international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar)/make public/fair/just/Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位/honorable (gentlemen)/father-in-law/male (animal)/


Words: 公事公辦
Pinyin: gōng shì gōng bàn
Hanviet: 公công 事sự 公công 辦biện
Meaning:
to do official business according to the official principles (i.e. without involving private interests)/


Words: 公假
Pinyin: gōng jià
Hanviet: 公công 假giả
Meaning:
official leave from work (e.g. maternity leave, sick leave or leave to attend to official business)/


Words: 公孫起
Pinyin: gōng sūn qǐ
Hanviet: 公công 孫tôn 起khởi
Meaning:
Gongsun Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國, 秦国, the victor at 長平, 长平 in 260 BC/same as Bai Qi 白起/


Words: 公孫龍
Pinyin: gōng sūn lóng
Hanviet: 公công 孫tôn 龍long
Meaning:
Gongsun Long (c. 325-250 BC), leading thinker of the School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 公羊傳
Pinyin: gōng yáng zhuàn
Hanviet: 公công 羊dương 傳truyền
Meaning:
Mr Gongyang’s Annals or commentary on 春秋, early history, probably written by multiple authors during Han dynasty, same as 公羊春秋/


Words: 公羊春秋
Pinyin: gōng yáng chūn qiū
Hanviet: 公công 羊dương 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
Mr Gongyang’s Annals or commentary on 春秋, early history, probably written during Han dynasty, same as 公羊傳, 公羊传/


Words: 公車
Pinyin: gōng chē
Hanviet: 公công 車xa
Meaning:
bus/abbr. for 公共汽車, 公共汽车/car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc)/abbr. for 公務用車, 公务用车/


Words: 六合
Pinyin: liù hé
Hanviet: 六lục 合hợp
Meaning:
the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down)/the whole country/the universe/everything under the sun/


Words: 六書
Pinyin: liù shū
Hanviet: 六lục 書thư
Meaning:
Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文, 说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意, 会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲, 形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注, 转注 (transfer)/


Words: 六朝四大家
Pinyin: liù cháo sì dà jiā
Hanviet: 六lục 朝triêu 四tứ 大đại 家gia
Meaning:
Four Great Painters of the Six dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing 曹不興, 曹不兴, Gu Kaizhi 顧愷之, 顾恺之, Lu Tanwei 陸探微, 陆探微 and Zhang Sengyou 張僧繇, 张僧繇/


Words: 六淫
Pinyin: liù yín
Hanviet: 六lục 淫dâm
Meaning:
(TCM) six excesses causing illness, namely: excessive wind 風, 风, cold 寒, heat 暑, damp 濕, 湿, dryness 燥, fire 火/


Words: 六神
Pinyin: liù shén
Hanviet: 六lục 神thần
Meaning:
the six spirits that rule the vital organs (heart 心, lungs 肺, liver 肝, kidneys 腎, 肾, spleen 脾 and gall bladder 膽, 胆)/


Words: 六經
Pinyin: liù jīng
Hanviet: 六lục 經kinh
Meaning:
Six Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經, 诗经, Book of History 尚書, 尚书, Book of Rites 儀禮, 仪礼, the lost Book of Music 樂經, 乐经, Book of Changes 易經, 易经, Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋/


Words: 六腑
Pinyin: liù fǔ
Hanviet: 六lục 腑phủ
Meaning:
(TCM) six bowels (hollow organs), namely: gall bladder 膽, 胆, stomach 胃, large intestine 大腸, 大肠, small intestine 小腸, 小肠, triple heater 三焦, bladder 膀胱/


Words: 六藝
Pinyin: liù yì
Hanviet: 六lục 藝nghệ
Meaning:
the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮, 礼 (禮儀, 礼仪), music 樂, 乐 (音樂, 音乐), archery 射 (射箭), charioteering 御 (駕車, 驾车), calligraphy or literacy 書, 书 (識字, 识字), mathematics or reckoning 數, 数 (計算, 计算)/another name for the Six Classics 六經, 六经/


Words: 六親
Pinyin: liù qīn
Hanviet: 六lục 親thân
Meaning:
six close relatives, namely: father 父, mother 母, older brothers 兄, younger brothers 弟, wife 妻, male children 子/one’s kin/


Words: 六親不認
Pinyin: liù qīn bù rèn
Hanviet: 六lục 親thân 不bất 認nhận
Meaning:
not recognizing one’s family (idiom); self-centered and not making any allowances for the needs of one’s relatives/


Words: 六邪
Pinyin: liù xié
Hanviet: 六lục 邪tà
Meaning:
(TCM) six unhealthy influences causing illness, namely: excessive wind 風, 风, cold 寒, heat 暑, damp 濕, 湿, dryness 燥, fire 火/


Words: 六韜
Pinyin: liù tāo
Hanviet: 六lục 韜
Meaning:
“Six Secret Strategic Teachings”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书, attributed to Jiang Ziya 薑子牙, 姜子牙/


Words: 六韜三略
Pinyin: liù tāo sān lüè
Hanviet: 六lục 韜 三tam 略lược
Meaning:
"Six Secret Strategic Teachings" 六韜, 六韬 and "Three Strategies of Huang Shigong" 三略, two of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书, attributed to Jiang Ziya 薑子牙, 姜子牙/


Words: 兮兮
Pinyin: xī xī
Hanviet: 兮hề 兮hề
Meaning:
(particle used to exaggerate certain adjectives, in particular 神經兮兮, 神经兮兮, 髒兮兮, 脏兮兮, 可憐兮兮, 可怜兮兮, and 慘兮兮, 惨兮兮)/


Words: 共同綱領
Pinyin: gòng tóng gāng lǐng
Hanviet: 共cộng 同đồng 綱cương 領lãnh
Meaning:
common program/formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim national plan/


Words: 兵來將擋，水來土掩
Pinyin: bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn
Hanviet: 兵binh 來lai 將tương 擋 水thủy 來lai 土thổ/độ 掩yểm
Meaning:
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action/to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation/


Words: 兵家
Pinyin: bīng jiā
Hanviet: 兵binh 家gia
Meaning:
the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家, 诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 兵精糧足
Pinyin: bīng jīng liáng zú
Hanviet: 兵binh 精tinh 糧lương 足túc
Meaning:
elite soldiers, ample provisions (idiom); well prepared forces/preparations for war are in an advanced state/


Words: 兵馬未動，糧草先行
Pinyin: bīng mǎ wèi dòng , liáng cǎo xiān xíng
Hanviet: 兵binh 馬mã 未vị 動động 糧lương 草thảo 先tiên 行hành
Meaning:
before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers/an army marches on its stomach/


Words: 具
Pinyin: jù
Hanviet: 具cụ
Meaning:
tool/device/utensil/equipment/instrument/talent/ability/to possess/to have/to provide/to furnish/to state/classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies/


Words: 典
Pinyin: diǎn
Hanviet: 典điển
Meaning:
canon/law/standard work of scholarship/literary quotation or allusion/ceremony/to be in charge of/to mortgage or pawn/


Words: 兼愛
Pinyin: jiān ài
Hanviet: 兼kiêm 愛ái
Meaning:
"universal love", principle advocated by Mozi 墨子, stressing that people should care for everyone equally/


Words: 兼顧
Pinyin: jiān gù
Hanviet: 兼kiêm 顧cố
Meaning:
to attend simultaneously to two or more things/to balance (career and family, family and education etc)/


Words: 冊府元龜
Pinyin: cè fǔ yuán guī
Hanviet: 冊sách 府phủ 元nguyên 龜quy
Meaning:
Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若, 王钦若 and Yang Yi 楊億, 杨亿, 1000 scrolls/


Words: 再造
Pinyin: zài zào
Hanviet: 再tái 造tạo
Meaning:
to give a new lease of life/to reconstruct/to reform/to rework/to recycle/to reproduce (copies, or offspring)/restoration/restructuring/


Words: 冒
Pinyin: mào
Hanviet: 冒mạo
Meaning:
to emit/to give off/to send out (or up, forth)/to brave/to face/reckless/to falsely adopt (sb’s identity etc)/to feign/(literary) to cover/


Words: 冖
Pinyin: mì
Hanviet: 冖
Meaning:
"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 军, 写, 冠 etc/see also 禿寶蓋, 秃宝盖/see also 平寶蓋, 平宝盖/


Words: 冤有頭，債有主
Pinyin: yuān yǒu tóu , zhài yǒu zhǔ
Hanviet: 冤oan 有hữu 頭đầu 債trái 有hữu 主chủ
Meaning:
for every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor (idiom)/when settling disputes one should not involve third parties/


Words: 冬筍
Pinyin: dōng sǔn
Hanviet: 冬đông 筍duẩn
Meaning:
winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)/


Words: 冰壺秋月
Pinyin: bīng hú qiū yuè
Hanviet: 冰băng 壺hồ 秋thu 月nguyệt
Meaning:
jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡, 苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure/flawless person/


Words: 冰炭不言，冷熱自明
Pinyin: bīng tàn bù yán , lěng rè zì míng
Hanviet: 冰băng 炭thán 不bất 言ngôn 冷lãnh 熱nhiệt 自tự 明minh
Meaning:
ice or coals, whether hot or cold goes without saying (idiom); fig. sincerity is not expressed in words/


Words: 冰皮月餅
Pinyin: bīng pí yuè bǐng
Hanviet: 冰băng 皮bì 月nguyệt 餅bính
Meaning:
snow skin mooncake (with a soft casing which is not baked, instead of the traditional baked pastry casing)/


Words: 冰釋
Pinyin: bīng shì
Hanviet: 冰băng 釋thích
Meaning:
to dispel (enmity, misunderstandings etc)/to vanish (of misgivings, differences of opinion)/thaw (in relations)/


Words: 冷湖
Pinyin: lěng hú
Hanviet: 冷lãnh 湖hồ
Meaning:
Lenghu county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 冷笑
Pinyin: lěng xiào
Hanviet: 冷lãnh 笑tiếu
Meaning:
to sneer/to laugh grimly/grin of dissatisfaction (bitterness, helplessness, indignation etc)/bitter, grim, sarcastic or angry smile/


Words: 冼星海
Pinyin: xiǎn xīng hǎi
Hanviet: 冼 星tinh 海hải
Meaning:
Xian Xinghai (1905-1945), violinist and composer, known for patriotic wartime pieces, including Yellow River Oratorio 黃河大合唱, 黄河大合唱/


Words: 凍容
Pinyin: dòng róng
Hanviet: 凍đống 容dung
Meaning:
"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old/


Words: 凜
Pinyin: lǐn
Hanviet: 凜
Meaning:
cold/to shiver with cold/to tremble with fear/afraid/apprehensive/strict/stern/severe/austere/awe-inspiring/imposing/majestic/


Words: 凝重
Pinyin: níng zhòng
Hanviet: 凝ngưng 重trọng/trùng
Meaning:
dignified/grave (expression)/imposing (attitude)/heavy (atmosphere)/(music etc) deep and resounding/


Words: 凡
Pinyin: fán
Hanviet: 凡phàm
Meaning:
ordinary/commonplace/mundane/temporal/of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels)/every/all/whatever/altogether/gist/outline/note of Chinese musical scale/


Words: 凱里
Pinyin: kǎi lǐ
Hanviet: 凱 里lý
Meaning:
Kaili city in Guizhou, capital of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州, 黔东南苗族侗族自治州/


Words: 出
Pinyin: chū
Hanviet: 出xuất
Meaning:
to go out/to come out/to occur/to produce/to go beyond/to rise/to put forth/to happen/classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc/


Words: 出乎
Pinyin: chū hū
Hanviet: 出xuất 乎hồ
Meaning:
due to/to stem from/to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc)/to go against (expectations)/


Words: 出其不意，攻其不備
Pinyin: chū qí bù yì , gōng qí bù bèi
Hanviet: 出xuất 其kỳ 不bất 意ý 攻công 其kỳ 不bất 備bị
Meaning:
to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi’s "The Art of War" 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法)/


Words: 出場
Pinyin: chū chǎng
Hanviet: 出xuất 場tràng
Meaning:
to appear (on stage, in a show, in a photo etc)/to play (for a team)/to enter (arena or stage)/to send sb out (e.g. off the field for a foul)/


Words: 出局
Pinyin: chū jú
Hanviet: 出xuất 局cục
Meaning:
to send off (player for a foul)/to knock out (i.e. to beat in a knock-out tournament)/to eliminate/to call out/to kill off/to pull out of (a competition)/to retire (a runner in baseball)/out (i.e. man out in baseball)/


Words: 出山
Pinyin: chū shān
Hanviet: 出xuất 山sơn
Meaning:
to leave the mountain (of a hermit)/to come out of obscurity to a government job/to take a leading position/


Words: 出格
Pinyin: chū gé
Hanviet: 出xuất 格cách
Meaning:
to overstep the bounds of what is proper/to take sth too far/(of a measuring device) to go off the scale/


Words: 出水芙蓉
Pinyin: chū shuǐ fú róng
Hanviet: 出xuất 水thủy 芙phù 蓉dung
Meaning:
as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom); surpassingly beautiful (of young lady’s face or old gentleman’s calligraphy)/


Words: 出沒
Pinyin: chū mò
Hanviet: 出xuất 沒một
Meaning:
to come and go/to roam about (mostly unseen)/(of a ghost) to haunt (a place)/(of a criminal) to stalk (the streets)/(of the sun) to rise and set/


Words: 出爾反爾
Pinyin: chū ěr fǎn ěr
Hanviet: 出xuất 爾nhĩ 反phản 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
old: to reap the consequences of one’s words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one’s word/to blow hot and cold/to contradict oneself/inconsistent/


Words: 出生入死
Pinyin: chū shēng rù sǐ
Hanviet: 出xuất 生sanh 入nhập 死tử
Meaning:
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water/brave/willing to risk life and limb/


Words: 出產
Pinyin: chū chǎn
Hanviet: 出xuất 產sản
Meaning:
to produce (by natural growth, or by manufacture, mining etc)/to yield/to turn out/produce/products/


Words: 出籠
Pinyin: chū lóng
Hanviet: 出xuất 籠lung
Meaning:
just out of the steamer basket 蒸籠, 蒸笼/to appear (of products, publications, sometimes derog., "lots of shoddy material is appearing nowadays")/


Words: 出脫
Pinyin: chū tuō
Hanviet: 出xuất 脫thoát
Meaning:
to manage to sell/to dispose of sth (by selling)/to get property off one’s hands/to find excuses (to get off a charge)/to extricate sb (from trouble)/to vindicate/to become prettier (of child)/


Words: 出臺
Pinyin: chū tái
Hanviet: 出xuất 臺đài
Meaning:
to officially launch (a policy, program etc)/to appear on stage/to appear publicly/(of a bar girl) to leave with a client/


Words: 出貨
Pinyin: chū huò
Hanviet: 出xuất 貨hóa
Meaning:
to take money or valuables out of storage/to recover/to ship goods/to extract (chemicals from solution)/


Words: 出軌
Pinyin: chū guǐ
Hanviet: 出xuất 軌quỹ
Meaning:
derailment (railway accident)/to leave the rails/fig. to overstep bounds/fig. to have an extramarital affair/


Words: 出頭
Pinyin: chū tóu
Hanviet: 出xuất 頭đầu
Meaning:
to get out of a predicament/to stick out/to take the initiative/remaining odd fraction after a division/a little more than/


Words: 函谷關
Pinyin: hán gǔ guān
Hanviet: 函hàm 谷cốc 關quan
Meaning:
Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)/


Words: 刀
Pinyin: dāo
Hanviet: 刀đao
Meaning:
knife/blade/single-edged sword/cutlass/CL:把/(slang) dollar (loanword)/classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)/classifier for knife cuts or stabs/


Words: 刀槍不入
Pinyin: dāo qiāng bù rù
Hanviet: 刀đao 槍thương 不bất 入nhập
Meaning:
lit. impervious to sword or spear (idiom)/fig. invulnerable/untouchable/thick-skinned/impervious to criticism/


Words: 分
Pinyin: fēn
Hanviet: 分phần/phân
Meaning:
to divide/to separate/to distribute/to allocate/to distinguish (good and bad)/part or subdivision/fraction/one tenth (of certain units)/unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm/minute/a point (in sports or games)/0.01 yuan (unit of money)/


Words: 分久必合，合久必分
Pinyin: fēn jiǔ bì hé , hé jiǔ bì fēn
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 久cửu 必tất 合hợp 合hợp 久cửu 必tất 分phần/phân
Meaning:
lit. that which is long divided must unify, and that which is long unified must divide (idiom, from 三國演義, 三国演义)/fig. things are constantly changing/


Words: 分佈
Pinyin: fēn bù
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 佈
Meaning:
to scatter/to distribute/to be distributed (over an area etc)/(statistical, geographic) distribution/


Words: 分列
Pinyin: fēn liè
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 列liệt
Meaning:
to divide into rows/to identify subcategories/to break down into constituent parts/breakdown/disaggregation/


Words: 分別
Pinyin: fēn bié
Hanviet: 分phân 別biệt
Meaning:
to part or leave each other/to distinguish/difference/in different ways/differently/separately or individually/


Words: 分手代理
Pinyin: fēn shǒu dài lǐ
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 手thủ 代đại 理lý
Meaning:
"break-up agent", person who acts for sb who wishes to terminate a relationship but does not have the heart to do so/


Words: 分竈吃飯
Pinyin: fēn zào chī fàn
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 竈táo 吃cật 飯phạn
Meaning:
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC/


Words: 分立
Pinyin: fēn lì
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 立lập
Meaning:
to establish as separate entities/to divide (a company etc) into independent entities/discrete/separate/separation (of powers etc)/


Words: 分野
Pinyin: fēn yě
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 野dã
Meaning:
dividing line between distinct realms/boundary/field-allocation (in Chinese astrology, the association between celestial regions and corresponding terrestrial realms)/


Words: 分餐
Pinyin: fēn cān
Hanviet: 分phần/phân 餐xan
Meaning:
separate meals/to eat individual meals (rather than taking one’s food from plates served to everyone at the table)/


Words: 切
Pinyin: qiè
Hanviet: 切thiết
Meaning:
definitely/absolutely (not)/(scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right./Tut!/to grind/close to/eager/to correspond to/see also 反切/


Words: 切中時弊
Pinyin: qiè zhòng shí bì
Hanviet: 切thiết 中trung 時thời 弊tệ
Meaning:
to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target/to hit the nub of the matter/


Words: 切中時病
Pinyin: qiè zhòng shí bìng
Hanviet: 切thiết 中trung 時thời 病bệnh
Meaning:
to hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home/to hit the nail on the head (in an argument)/


Words: 切中要害
Pinyin: qiè zhòng yào hài
Hanviet: 切thiết 中trung 要yếu 害hại
Meaning:
to hit the target and do real damage (idiom)/fig. to hit where it hurts/fig. to hit home/an argument that hits the nail on the head/


Words: 切入
Pinyin: qiē rù
Hanviet: 切thiết 入nhập
Meaning:
to cut into/to incise/to penetrate deeply into (a topic, area etc)/cut (offensive moves in basketball)/


Words: 切切
Pinyin: qiè qiè
Hanviet: 切thiết 切thiết
Meaning:
urgently/eagerly/worried/(urge sb to) be sure to/it is absolutely essential to (follow the above instruction)/


Words: 刈包
Pinyin: guà bāo
Hanviet: 刈ngải 包bao
Meaning:
popular Taiwan snack, similar to a hamburger, steamed bun stuffed with pork, pickled vegetables, peanut powder and cilantro/


Words: 划算
Pinyin: huá suàn
Hanviet: 划 算toán
Meaning:
to calculate/to weigh (pros and cons)/to view as profitable/worthwhile/value for money/cost-effective/


Words: 列夫·托爾斯泰
Pinyin: liè fū �� tuō ěr sī tài
Hanviet: 列liệt 夫phu · 托thác 爾nhĩ 斯tư 泰thái
Meaning:
Tolstoy (name)/Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平, 战争与和平/


Words: 列子
Pinyin: liè zǐ
Hanviet: 列liệt 子tử
Meaning:
Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國, 战国/Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉, 魏晋 (3rd century AD)/


Words: 初出茅廬
Pinyin: chū chū máo lú
Hanviet: 初sơ 出xuất 茅mao 廬lư
Meaning:
venturing from one’s thatched hut for the first time (idiom)/young and inexperienced/novice/greenhorn/


Words: 初刻拍案驚奇
Pinyin: chū kè pāi àn jīng qí
Hanviet: 初sơ 刻khắc 拍phách 案án 驚kinh 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初, 凌蒙初/


Words: 初露頭角
Pinyin: chū lù tóu jiǎo
Hanviet: 初sơ 露lộ 頭đầu 角giác
Meaning:
lit. to first show one’s horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent/first sign of emerging talent/budding genius/


Words: 判讀
Pinyin: pàn dú
Hanviet: 判phán 讀đọc
Meaning:
to interpret (a visual document, a medical exam, an historical event etc)/to analyze data (from a chip, a black box etc)/


Words: 別
Pinyin: bié
Hanviet: 別biệt
Meaning:
to leave/to depart/to separate/to distinguish/to classify/other/another/don’t ...!/to pin/to stick (sth) in/


Words: 別樹一幟
Pinyin: bié shù yī zhì
Hanviet: 別biệt 樹thụ 一nhất 幟xí
Meaning:
lit. to fly one’s banner on a solitary tree (idiom); fig. to act as a loner/to stand out/to develop one’s own school/to have attitude of one’s own/


Words: 利馬竇
Pinyin: lì mǎ dòu
Hanviet: 利lợi 馬mã 竇đậu
Meaning:
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China/erroneous spelling of 利瑪竇, 利玛窦/


Words: 刮目相看
Pinyin: guā mù xiāng kàn
Hanviet: 刮 目mục 相tương/tướng 看khán
Meaning:
to have a whole new level of respect for sb or sth/to sit up and take notice (of sb’s improved performance etc)/


Words: 到
Pinyin: dào
Hanviet: 到đáo
Meaning:
to (a place)/until (a time)/up to/to go/to arrive/(verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)/


Words: 制式
Pinyin: zhì shì
Hanviet: 制chế 式thức
Meaning:
standardized/standard (service, method etc)/regulation (clothing etc)/formulaic/(telecommunications etc) system/format (e.g. the PAL or NTSC systems for TV signals)/


Words: 制服
Pinyin: zhì fú
Hanviet: 制chế 服phục
Meaning:
to subdue/to check/to bring under control/(in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status/uniform (army, party, school etc)/livery (for company employees)/CL:套/


Words: 刷新
Pinyin: shuā xīn
Hanviet: 刷 新tân
Meaning:
to renovate/to refurbish/to refresh (computer window)/to write a new page (in history)/to break (a record)/


Words: 券
Pinyin: quàn
Hanviet: 券khoán
Meaning:
bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half)/contract/deed (i.e. title deeds)/ticket/voucher/certificate/


Words: 刻舟求劍
Pinyin: kè zhōu qiú jiàn
Hanviet: 刻khắc 舟chu 求cầu 劍kiếm
Meaning:
lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances/


Words: 刻苦耐勞
Pinyin: kè kǔ nài láo
Hanviet: 刻khắc 苦khổ 耐nại 勞lao
Meaning:
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering/hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity/


Words: 刻鵠類鶩
Pinyin: kè hú lèi wù
Hanviet: 刻khắc 鵠hộc 類loại 鶩
Meaning:
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)/to fail utterly in trying to copy something/to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result/


Words: 則
Pinyin: zé
Hanviet: 則tắc
Meaning:
(conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but/then/standard/norm/principle/to imitate/to follow/classifier for written items/


Words: 削足適履
Pinyin: xuē zú shì lǚ
Hanviet: 削tước 足túc 適thích 履lý
Meaning:
to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed)/impractical or inelegant solution/


Words: 剋
Pinyin: kè
Hanviet: 剋khắc
Meaning:
Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God/


Words: 剋己奉公
Pinyin: kè jǐ fèng gōng
Hanviet: 剋khắc 己kỷ 奉phụng 公công
Meaning:
self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom); selfless dedication/to serve the public interest wholeheartedly/


Words: 前
Pinyin: qián
Hanviet: 前tiền
Meaning:
front/forward/ahead/first/top (followed by a number)/future/ago/before/BC (e.g. 前293年)/former/formerly/


Words: 前不著村，後不著店
Pinyin: qián bù zháo cūn , hòu bù zháo diàn
Hanviet: 前tiền 不bất 著trước 村thôn 後hậu 不bất 著trước 店điếm
Meaning:
lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom)/fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere/to be in a predicament/


Words: 前仆後繼
Pinyin: qián pū hòu jì
Hanviet: 前tiền 仆phó 後hậu 繼kế
Meaning:
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades/advancing wave upon wave/


Words: 前怕狼後怕虎
Pinyin: qián pà láng hòu pà hǔ
Hanviet: 前tiền 怕phạ 狼lang 後hậu 怕phạ 虎hổ
Meaning:
lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom); fig. needless fears/scare mongering/reds under the beds/


Words: 前漢書
Pinyin: qián hàn shū
Hanviet: 前tiền 漢hán 書thư
Meaning:
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls/


Words: 前臺
Pinyin: qián tái
Hanviet: 前tiền 臺đài
Meaning:
stage/proscenium/foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.)/front desk/reception desk/(computing) front-end/foreground/


Words: 前車之覆，後車之鑒
Pinyin: qián chē zhī fù , hòu chē zhī jiàn
Hanviet: 前tiền 車xa 之chi 覆phú 後hậu 車xa 之chi 鑒giám
Meaning:
lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one’s predecessor/learn from past mistake/once bitten twice shy/


Words: 前郭鎮
Pinyin: qián guō zhèn
Hanviet: 前tiền 郭quách 鎮trấn
Meaning:
Qian Gorlos township, capital of Qian Gorlos Mongol autonomous county 前郭爾羅斯蒙古族自治縣, 前郭尔罗斯蒙古族自治县, Songyuan, Jilin/


Words: 前門
Pinyin: qián mén
Hanviet: 前tiền 門môn
Meaning:
front door/main entrance/honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門, 后门, back-door or under the counter)/


Words: 前門打虎，後門打狼
Pinyin: qián mén dǎ hǔ , hòu mén dǎ láng
Hanviet: 前tiền 門môn 打đả 虎hổ 後hậu 門môn 打đả 狼lang
Meaning:
to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another/


Words: 剛察
Pinyin: gāng chá
Hanviet: 剛cang 察sát
Meaning:
Gangcha county (Tibetan: rkang tsha rdzong) in Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海北藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 副
Pinyin: fù
Hanviet: 副phó
Meaning:
secondary/auxiliary/deputy/assistant/vice-/abbr. for 副詞, 副词 adverb/classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions/


Words: 副地級市
Pinyin: fù dì jí shì
Hanviet: 副phó 地địa 級cấp 市thị
Meaning:
sub-prefecture level city (county level division, administered by province, not under a prefecture)/


Words: 割雞焉用牛刀
Pinyin: gē jī yān yòng niú dāo
Hanviet: 割cát 雞kê 焉yên 用dụng 牛ngưu 刀đao
Meaning:
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)/fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter/also written 殺雞焉用牛刀, 杀鸡焉用牛刀/


Words: 創練
Pinyin: chuàng liàn
Hanviet: 創sáng/sang 練luyện
Meaning:
to form and train (a military unit)/to create and practice (a martial art)/to train oneself (by real-life experience)/


Words: 劃過
Pinyin: huá guò
Hanviet: 劃hoạch 過quá
Meaning:
(of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky)/(of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)/


Words: 劉伯溫
Pinyin: liú bó wēn
Hanviet: 劉lưu 伯bá 溫ôn
Meaning:
Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius/also called Liu Ji 劉基, 刘基/


Words: 劉備
Pinyin: liú bèi
Hanviet: 劉lưu 備bị
Meaning:
Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢, 蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty/


Words: 劉光第
Pinyin: liú guāng dì
Hanviet: 劉lưu 光quang 第đệ
Meaning:
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898/


Words: 劉厚總
Pinyin: liú hòu zǒng
Hanviet: 劉lưu 厚hậu 總tổng
Meaning:
Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 項英, 项英 during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事变/


Words: 劉基
Pinyin: liú jī
Hanviet: 劉lưu 基cơ
Meaning:
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫, 刘伯温 (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius/


Words: 劉姥姥進大觀園
Pinyin: liú lǎo lao jìn dà guān yuán
Hanviet: 劉lưu 姥lao 姥lao 進tiến 大đại 觀quán 園viên
Meaning:
Granny Liu visits the Grand View gardens/(of a simple person) to be overwhelmed by new experiences and luxurious surroundings/


Words: 劉昫
Pinyin: liú xù
Hanviet: 劉lưu 昫
Meaning:
Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 後晉, 后晋, compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 舊唐書, 旧唐书/


Words: 劉曉波
Pinyin: liú xiǎo bō
Hanviet: 劉lưu 曉hiểu 波ba
Meaning:
Liu Xiaobo (1955-), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章, 零八宪章, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010/


Words: 劉松齡
Pinyin: liú sōng líng
Hanviet: 劉lưu 松tùng 齡linh
Meaning:
Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong’s court/


Words: 劉毅
Pinyin: liú yì
Hanviet: 劉lưu 毅nghị
Meaning:
Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晉, 西晋 (265-316)/Liu Yi (-412), general of Eastern Jin dynasty 東晉, 东晋 (317-420)/


Words: 劉淵
Pinyin: liú yuān
Hanviet: 劉lưu 淵uyên
Meaning:
Liu Yuan, warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晋, founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成漢, 成汉 (304-347)/


Words: 劉義慶
Pinyin: liú yì qìng
Hanviet: 劉lưu 義nghĩa 慶khánh
Meaning:
Liu Yiqing (403-444), writer of South Song Dynasty, compiler and editor of A New Account of the Tales of the World 世說新語, 世说新语/


Words: 劉裕
Pinyin: liú yù
Hanviet: 劉lưu 裕
Meaning:
Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋, 刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝/


Words: 劉貴今
Pinyin: liú guì jīn
Hanviet: 劉lưu 貴quý 今kim
Meaning:
Liu Guijin (1945-), PRC diplomat, special representative to Africa from 2007, Chinese specialist on Sudan and the Darfur issue/


Words: 劉賓雁
Pinyin: liú bīn yàn
Hanviet: 劉lưu 賓tân 雁nhạn
Meaning:
Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer/


Words: 劉邦
Pinyin: liú bāng
Hanviet: 劉lưu 邦bang
Meaning:
Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖, 汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)/


Words: 劉雲山
Pinyin: liú yún shān
Hanviet: 劉lưu 雲vân 山sơn
Meaning:
Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC career politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, from 2002 head of party Central Propaganda Section 中央宣传部/


Words: 劍走蜻蛉
Pinyin: jiàn zǒu qīng líng
Hanviet: 劍kiếm 走tẩu 蜻 蛉linh
Meaning:
the sword moves like a dragon-fly (modern idiom)/fig. unexpected winning move/unconventional gambit/


Words: 力不從心
Pinyin: lì bù cóng xīn
Hanviet: 力lực 不bất 從tùng 心tâm
Meaning:
less capable than desirable (idiom); not as strong as one would wish/the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak/


Words: 功敗垂成
Pinyin: gōng bài chuí chéng
Hanviet: 功công 敗bại 垂thùy 成thành
Meaning:
to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure/to fall at the last hurdle/snatching defeat from the jaws of victory/


Words: 功虧一簣
Pinyin: gōng kuī yī kuì
Hanviet: 功công 虧khuy 一nhất 簣quỹ
Meaning:
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful/to fail through lack of a final effort/to spoil the ship for a ha’penny worth of tar (idiom)/


Words: 加
Pinyin: jiā
Hanviet: 加gia
Meaning:
to add/plus/(used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned)/to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb)/to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)/


Words: 加以
Pinyin: jiā yǐ
Hanviet: 加gia 以dĩ
Meaning:
in addition/moreover/(used before a disyllabic verb to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned)/to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb)/to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)/


Words: 加格達奇
Pinyin: jiā gé dá qí
Hanviet: 加gia 格cách 達đạt 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Jiagedaqi district of Daxing’anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區, 大兴安岭地区, in northwest Heilongjiang and northeast Inner Mongolia/


Words: 加油
Pinyin: jiā yóu
Hanviet: 加gia 油du
Meaning:
to add oil/to top up with gas/to refuel/to accelerate/to step on the gas/(fig.) to make an extra effort/to cheer sb on/


Words: 加碼
Pinyin: jiā mǎ
Hanviet: 加gia 碼mã
Meaning:
to ratchet up/to raise (expectations etc)/to increase (a quota, a position in the market etc)/to up the ante/(computing) to encode/


Words: 加索爾
Pinyin: jiā suǒ ěr
Hanviet: 加gia 索sách 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Gasol (name)/Pau Gasol (1980-), Spanish professional basketball player (NBA)/Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player (NBA)/


Words: 加蓋
Pinyin: jiā gài
Hanviet: 加gia 蓋cái
Meaning:
to seal (with official stamp)/to stamp/fig. to ratify/to put lid on (cooking pot)/to cap/to build an extension or additional storey/


Words: 助紂為虐
Pinyin: zhù zhòu wéi nüè
Hanviet: 助trợ 紂 為vi 虐ngược
Meaning:
lit. helping tyrant Zhou 商紂王, 商纣王 in his oppression (idiom)/fig. to take the side of the evildoer/giving succor to the enemy/


Words: 勃列日涅夫
Pinyin: bó liè rì niè fū
Hanviet: 勃bột 列liệt 日nhật 涅niết 夫phu
Meaning:
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982/


Words: 勃固山脈
Pinyin: bó gù shān mài
Hanviet: 勃bột 固cố 山sơn 脈mạch
Meaning:
Pegu Yoma (mountain range) of south central Myanmar (Burma), separating Irrawaddy and Sittang basins/


Words: 勒
Pinyin: lè
Hanviet: 勒lặc
Meaning:
to rein in/to compel/to force/to carve/to engrave/(literary) to command/to lead/lux (unit of illumination)/(literary) bridle/


Words: 勒威耶
Pinyin: lè wēi yē
Hanviet: 勒lặc 威uy 耶da
Meaning:
Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune/


Words: 動
Pinyin: dòng
Hanviet: 動động
Meaning:
(of sth) to move/to set in movement/to displace/to touch/to make use of/to stir (emotions)/to alter/abbr. for 動詞, 动词, verb/


Words: 動物莊園
Pinyin: dòng wù zhuāng yuán
Hanviet: 動động 物vật 莊trang 園viên
Meaning:
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾, 乔治·奥威尔/also translated 動物農場, 动物农场/


Words: 動物農場
Pinyin: dòng wù nóng chǎng
Hanviet: 動động 物vật 農nông 場tràng
Meaning:
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾, 乔治·奥威尔/


Words: 勝
Pinyin: shèng
Hanviet: 勝thắng
Meaning:
victory/success/to beat/to defeat/to surpass/victorious/superior to/to get the better of/better than/surpassing/superb (of vista)/beautiful (scenery)/wonderful (view)/(Taiwan pr. ) able to bear/equal to (a task)/


Words: 勢
Pinyin: shì
Hanviet: 勢thế
Meaning:
power/influence/potential/momentum/tendency/trend/situation/conditions/outward appearance/sign/gesture/male genitals/


Words: 勤王
Pinyin: qín wáng
Hanviet: 勤cần 王vương
Meaning:
to serve the king diligently/to save the country in times of danger/to send troops to rescue the king/


Words: 勿忘國恥
Pinyin: wù wàng guó chǐ
Hanviet: 勿vật 忘vong 國quốc 恥sỉ
Meaning:
Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變, 九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria/


Words: 包
Pinyin: bāo
Hanviet: 包bao
Meaning:
to cover/to wrap/to hold/to include/to take charge of/to contract (to or for)/package/wrapper/container/bag/to hold or embrace/bundle/packet/CL:個, 个,隻, 只/


Words: 包公
Pinyin: bāo gōng
Hanviet: 包bao 公công
Meaning:
Lord Bao or Judge Bao, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty/


Words: 包工
Pinyin: bāo gōng
Hanviet: 包bao 工công
Meaning:
to undertake to perform work within a time limit and according to specifications/to contract for a job/contractor/


Words: 包待制
Pinyin: bāo dài zhì
Hanviet: 包bao 待đãi 制chế
Meaning:
Bao Daizhi, "Edict Attendant Bao", fictional name used for Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty/


Words: 包房
Pinyin: bāo fáng
Hanviet: 包bao 房phòng
Meaning:
compartment (of train, ship etc)/private room at restaurant/rented room for karaoke/hotel room rented by the hour/


Words: 包打天下
Pinyin: bāo dǎ tiān xià
Hanviet: 包bao 打đả 天thiên 下hạ
Meaning:
to run everything (idiom); to monopolize the whole business/not allow anyone else to have a look in/


Words: 包拯
Pinyin: bāo zhěng
Hanviet: 包bao 拯chửng
Meaning:
Bao Zheng (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty/modern day metaphor for an honest politician/


Words: 包青天
Pinyin: bāo qīng tiān
Hanviet: 包bao 青thanh 天thiên
Meaning:
Bao Qingtian, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty/


Words: 包龍圖
Pinyin: bāo lóng tú
Hanviet: 包bao 龍long 圖đồ
Meaning:
Bao Longtu, ”Bao of the Dragon Image”, fictional name used for Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty/


Words: 化干戈為玉帛
Pinyin: huà gān gē wéi yù bó
Hanviet: 化hóa 干can 戈qua 為vi 玉ngọc 帛bạch
Meaning:
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom)/fig. to turn hostility into friendship/


Words: 化解
Pinyin: huà jiě
Hanviet: 化hóa 解giải
Meaning:
to dissolve/to resolve (contradictions)/to dispel (doubts)/to iron out (difficulties)/to defuse (conflicts)/to neutralize (fears)/


Words: 北京人
Pinyin: běi jīng rén
Hanviet: 北bắc 京kinh 人nhân
Meaning:
Beijing resident/Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店, Beijing/


Words: 北京咳
Pinyin: běi jīng ké
Hanviet: 北bắc 京kinh 咳khái
Meaning:
"Beijing cough", respiratory problems caused by dry and polluted Beijing air, typically experienced by non-acclimated foreigners who would otherwise have no such problems/


Words: 北京語言學院
Pinyin: běi jīng yǔ yán xué yuàn
Hanviet: 北bắc 京kinh 語ngữ 言ngôn 學học 院viện
Meaning:
Beijing Language Institute/former name of 北京語言大學, 北京语言大学 Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)/


Words: 北伐
Pinyin: běi fá
Hanviet: 北bắc 伐phạt
Meaning:
the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists’ campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords/


Words: 北叟失馬
Pinyin: běi sǒu shī mǎ
Hanviet: 北bắc 叟 失thất 馬mã
Meaning:
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)/fig. a blessing in disguise/it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good/


Words: 北史
Pinyin: běi shǐ
Hanviet: 北bắc 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Northern Dynasties, fifteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Li Yanshou 李延壽, 李延寿 in 659 during Tang Dynasty, 100 scrolls/


Words: 北宋四大部書
Pinyin: běi sòng sì dà bù shū
Hanviet: 北bắc 宋tống 四tứ 大đại 部bộ 書thư
Meaning:
Four great compilations of Northern Song dynasty, namely: Extensive records of the Taiping era (978) 太平廣記, 太平广记, Imperial readings of the Taiping era 太平御覽, 太平御览, Prime tortoise of the record bureau 冊府元龜, 册府元龟, Finest blossoms in the garden of literature 文苑英華, 文苑英华/


Words: 北方民族大學
Pinyin: běi fāng mín zú dà xué
Hanviet: 北bắc 方phương 民dân 族tộc 大đại 學học
Meaning:
Northern Nationalities University NNU at Yingchuan, Ningxia (former Northwestern Second College for Nationalities)/


Words: 北洋政府
Pinyin: běi yáng zhèng fǔ
Hanviet: 北bắc 洋dương 政chánh 府phủ
Meaning:
the Warlord government of Northern China that developed from the Qing Beiyang army 北洋軍閥, 北洋军阀 after the Xinhai revolution of 1911/


Words: 北洋軍
Pinyin: běi yáng jūn
Hanviet: 北bắc 洋dương 軍quân
Meaning:
north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution/


Words: 北海
Pinyin: běi hǎi
Hanviet: 北bắc 海hải
Meaning:
Beihai, park in Beijing to the northwest of the Forbidden City/the North Sea (Europe)/Beihai prefecture level city and seaport in Guangxi/Bohai Sea/Lake Baikal/


Words: 北漢
Pinyin: běi hàn
Hanviet: 北bắc 漢hán
Meaning:
Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960)/


Words: 北領地
Pinyin: běi lǐng dì
Hanviet: 北bắc 領lãnh 地địa
Meaning:
Northern Territory, sparsely populated federal territory extending from center to north of Australia/


Words: 北齊書
Pinyin: běi qí shū
Hanviet: 北bắc 齊tề 書thư
Meaning:
History of Qi of the Northern Dynasties, eleventh of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Li Baiyao 李百藥, 李百药 in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 50 scrolls/


Words: 匚
Pinyin: fāng
Hanviet: 匚
Meaning:
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 22), occurring in 区, 医, 匹 etc/see also 三框欄, 三框栏/see also 區字框, 区字框/


Words: 匾
Pinyin: biǎn
Hanviet: 匾biển
Meaning:
horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall/shallow round woven bamboo basket/


Words: 區位
Pinyin: qū wèi
Hanviet: 區khu 位vị
Meaning:
location/geographical position/position on a grid or spreadsheet, where 區, 区 denotes the row and 位 the column/


Words: 十三經
Pinyin: shí sān jīng
Hanviet: 十thập 三tam 經kinh
Meaning:
the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經, 诗经, Book of History 尚書, 尚书, Rites of Zhou 周禮, 周礼, Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮, 仪礼, Classic of Rites 禮記, 礼记, Book of Changes 易經, 易经, Mr Zuo’s Annals 左傳, 左传, Mr Gongyang’s Annals 公羊傳, 公羊传, Mr Guliang’s Annals 穀梁傳, 谷梁传, The Analects 論語, 论语, Erya 爾雅, 尔雅, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經, 孝经, Mencius 孟子/


Words: 十二地支
Pinyin: shí èr dì zhī
Hanviet: 十thập 二nhị 地địa 支chi
Meaning:
the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)/


Words: 十二宮
Pinyin: shí èr gōng
Hanviet: 十thập 二nhị 宮cung
Meaning:
the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊, Taurus 金牛, Gemini 雙子, 双子, Cancer 巨蟹, Leo 獅子, 狮子, Virgo 室女, Libra 天秤, Scorpio 天蠍, 天蝎, Sagittarius 人馬, 人马, Capricorn 摩羯, Aquarius 寶瓶, 宝瓶, Pisces 雙魚, 双鱼/


Words: 十二支
Pinyin: shí èr zhī
Hanviet: 十thập 二nhị 支chi
Meaning:
the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)/


Words: 十六國春秋
Pinyin: shí liù guó chūn qiū
Hanviet: 十thập 六lục 國quốc 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
history of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 by Cui Hong 崔鴻, 崔鸿, written towards the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏, 100 scrolls/


Words: 十天干
Pinyin: shí tiān gān
Hanviet: 十thập 天thiên 干can
Meaning:
the ten Heavenly Stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)/


Words: 十字花科
Pinyin: shí zì huā kē
Hanviet: 十thập 字tự 花hoa 科khoa
Meaning:
Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)/


Words: 十干
Pinyin: shí gān
Hanviet: 十thập 干can
Meaning:
same as 天干/the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)/


Words: 十年樹木，百年樹人
Pinyin: shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén
Hanviet: 十thập 年niên 樹thụ 木mộc 百bách 年niên 樹thụ 人nhân
Meaning:
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop./


Words: 十日談
Pinyin: shí rì tán
Hanviet: 十thập 日nhật 談đàm
Meaning:
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘/


Words: 十面埋伏
Pinyin: shí miàn mái fú
Hanviet: 十thập 面diện 埋mai 伏phục
Meaning:
Ambush from ten sides (pipa solo piece)/House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀, 张艺谋)/


Words: 千千萬萬
Pinyin: qiān qiān wàn wàn
Hanviet: 千thiên 千thiên 萬vạn 萬vạn
Meaning:
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers/innumerable/thousands upon thousands/


Words: 千慮一得
Pinyin: qiān lǜ yī dé
Hanviet: 千thiên 慮lự 一nhất 得đắc
Meaning:
a thousand tries leads to one success (idiom, humble expr.); Even without any notable ability on my part, I may still get it right sometimes by good luck./


Words: 千篇一律
Pinyin: qiān piān yī lǜ
Hanviet: 千thiên 篇thiên 一nhất 律luật
Meaning:
thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive/once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all/


Words: 千軍萬馬
Pinyin: qiān jūn wàn mǎ
Hanviet: 千thiên 軍quân 萬vạn 馬mã
Meaning:
magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower/all the King’s horses and all the King’s men/


Words: 千里之行，始於足下
Pinyin: qiān lǐ zhī xíng , shǐ yú zú xià
Hanviet: 千thiên 里lý 之chi 行hành 始thỉ 於ư 足túc 下hạ
Meaning:
lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step/fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one/


Words: 千里寄鵝毛
Pinyin: qiān lǐ jì é máo
Hanviet: 千thiên 里lý 寄ký 鵝nga 毛mao
Meaning:
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it/also written 千里送鵝毛, 千里送鹅毛/


Words: 千里送鵝毛，禮輕人意重
Pinyin: qiān lǐ sòng é máo , lǐ qīng rén yì zhòng
Hanviet: 千thiên 里lý 送tống 鵝nga 毛mao 禮lễ 輕khinh 人nhân 意ý 重trọng/trùng
Meaning:
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It’s not the present the counts, it’s the thought behind it./


Words: 千里送鵝毛，禮輕情意重
Pinyin: qiān lǐ sòng é máo , lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng
Hanviet: 千thiên 里lý 送tống 鵝nga 毛mao 禮lễ 輕khinh 情tình 意ý 重trọng/trùng
Meaning:
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It’s not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it./


Words: 千里馬常有，而伯樂不常有
Pinyin: qiān lǐ mǎ cháng yǒu , ér bó lè bù cháng yǒu
Hanviet: 千thiên 里lý 馬mã 常thường 有hữu 而nhi 伯bá 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 不bất 常thường 有hữu
Meaning:
lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom)/fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it/


Words: 千里鵝毛
Pinyin: qiān lǐ é máo
Hanviet: 千thiên 里lý 鵝nga 毛mao
Meaning:
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it/also written 千里送鵝毛, 千里送鹅毛/


Words: 千金
Pinyin: qiān jīn
Hanviet: 千thiên 金kim
Meaning:
thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold/money and riches/(honorific) invaluable (support)/(honorific) daughter/


Words: 千金方
Pinyin: qiān jīn fāng
Hanviet: 千thiên 金kim 方phương
Meaning:
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈, 孙思邈/


Words: 升
Pinyin: shēng
Hanviet: 升thăng
Meaning:
to ascend/to rise to the rank of/to promote/to hoist/liter/measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗/


Words: 升堂入室
Pinyin: shēng táng rù shì
Hanviet: 升thăng 堂đường 入nhập 室thất
Meaning:
lit. to reach the main room and enter the chamber (idiom)/fig. to gradually attain proficiency/to attain a higher level/


Words: 午
Pinyin: wǔ
Hanviet: 午ngọ
Meaning:
7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse/ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)/


Words: 半壁江山
Pinyin: bàn bì jiāng shān
Hanviet: 半bán 壁bích 江giang 山sơn
Meaning:
half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)/vast swathe of territory/


Words: 半封建半殖民地
Pinyin: bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì
Hanviet: 半bán 封phong 建kiến 半bán 殖thực 民dân 地địa
Meaning:
semi-feudal and semi-colonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)/


Words: 半桶水
Pinyin: bàn tǒng shuǐ
Hanviet: 半bán 桶 水thủy
Meaning:
(coll.) (of one’s skills, knowledge etc) limited/superficial/half-baked/sb with a smattering of knowledge (of sth)/dabbler/


Words: 半死
Pinyin: bàn sǐ
Hanviet: 半bán 死tử
Meaning:
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc)/(tired) to death/(terrified) out of one’s wits/(beaten) to within an inch of one’s life/(knock) the daylights out of sb/


Words: 半瓶水響叮噹
Pinyin: bàn píng shuǐ xiǎng dīng dāng
Hanviet: 半bán 瓶bình 水thủy 響hưởng 叮 噹
Meaning:
lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom)/fig. empty vessels make the most noise/one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest/


Words: 半路殺出個程咬金
Pinyin: bàn lù shā chū gè chéng yǎo jīn
Hanviet: 半bán 路lộ 殺sát 出xuất 個cá 程 咬giảo 金kim
Meaning:
lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying)/fig. sb shows up unexpectedly and disrupts the plan/sb whose presence is regarded as irksome/


Words: 卐
Pinyin: wàn
Hanviet: 卐
Meaning:
swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, later adopted by Nazi Germany/


Words: 卑之，毋甚高論
Pinyin: bēi zhī , wú shèn gāo lùn
Hanviet: 卑ty 之chi 毋vô 甚thậm 高cao 論luận
Meaning:
my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familiar opinion/what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary/


Words: 協商會議
Pinyin: xié shāng huì yì
Hanviet: 協hiệp 商thương 會hội 議nghị
Meaning:
consultative conference (political venue during early communist rule)/consultative meeting/deliberative assembly/


Words: 南京
Pinyin: nán jīng
Hanviet: 南nam 京kinh
Meaning:
Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇, 江苏/capital of China at different historical periods/


Words: 南史
Pinyin: nán shǐ
Hanviet: 南nam 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Southern Dynasties, fourteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Li Yanshou 李延壽, 李延寿 in 659 during Tang Dynasty, 80 scrolls/


Words: 南寧
Pinyin: nán níng
Hanviet: 南nam 寧ninh
Meaning:
Nanning prefecture level city and capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in south China 廣西壯族自治區, 广西壮族自治区/Zhuang: Namzningz/


Words: 南寧市
Pinyin: nán níng shì
Hanviet: 南nam 寧ninh 市thị
Meaning:
Nanning prefecture level city and capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region 廣西壯族自治區, 广西壮族自治区 in south China/


Words: 南山區
Pinyin: nán shān qū
Hanviet: 南nam 山sơn 區khu
Meaning:
Nanshan district of Shenzhen City 深圳市, Guangdong/Nanshan district of Hegang city 鶴崗, 鹤岗, Heilongjiang/


Words: 南嶽
Pinyin: nán yuè
Hanviet: 南nam 嶽nhạc
Meaning:
Nanyue district of Hengyang city 衡陽市, 衡阳市, Hunan/Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽, 五岳/


Words: 南昌
Pinyin: nán chāng
Hanviet: 南nam 昌xương
Meaning:
Nanchang prefecture level city and capital of Jiangxi province 江西省 in southeast China/also Nanchang county/


Words: 南昌起義
Pinyin: nán chāng qǐ yì
Hanviet: 南nam 昌xương 起khởi 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War/


Words: 南海子
Pinyin: nán hǎi zi
Hanviet: 南nam 海hải 子tử
Meaning:
Nanhaizi, name used to refer to various places, including 草海, 南苑 and the Nanhaizi Wetland in Baotou, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 南澳
Pinyin: nán ào
Hanviet: 南nam 澳
Meaning:
Nan’ao County in Shantou 汕頭, 汕头, Guangdong/Nan’ao township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣, 宜兰县, Taiwan/abbr. for 南澳大利亞州, 南澳大利亚州, South Australia/


Words: 南竿
Pinyin: nán gān
Hanviet: 南nam 竿can/cán
Meaning:
Nankan Island, one of the Matsu Islands/Nankan or Nangan township in Lienchiang county 連江縣, 连江县, Taiwan/


Words: 南箕北斗
Pinyin: nán jī běi dǒu
Hanviet: 南nam 箕ki 北bắc 斗đẩu
Meaning:
the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom); sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use/


Words: 南苑
Pinyin: nán yuàn
Hanviet: 南nam 苑uyển
Meaning:
Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing/


Words: 南詔國
Pinyin: nán zhào guó
Hanviet: 南nam 詔chiếu 國quốc
Meaning:
Nanzhao, 8th and 9th century kingdom in Yunnan, at times allied with Tang against Tibetan Tubo pressure/


Words: 南齊書
Pinyin: nán qí shū
Hanviet: 南nam 齊tề 書thư
Meaning:
History of Qi of the Southern Dynasties, seventh of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Xiao Zixian 蕭子顯, 萧子显 in 537 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁, 59 scrolls/


Words: 博古
Pinyin: bó gǔ
Hanviet: 博bác 古cổ
Meaning:
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash/


Words: 博士買驢
Pinyin: bó shì mǎi lǘ
Hanviet: 博bác 士sĩ 買mãi 驢lư
Meaning:
lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point/idiom mocking scholastic pomposity/


Words: 博斯沃思
Pinyin: bó sī wò sī
Hanviet: 博bác 斯tư 沃ốc 思tư
Meaning:
Bosworth (name)/Stephen Bosworth (1939-), US academic and diplomat, special representative for policy on North Korea from 2009/


Words: 博樂
Pinyin: bó lè
Hanviet: 博bác 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
Börtala Shehiri, county level city in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州, 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 博樂市
Pinyin: bó lè shì
Hanviet: 博bác 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 市thị
Meaning:
Börtala Shehiri of Bole City, county level city in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州, 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 博湖
Pinyin: bó hú
Hanviet: 博bác 湖hồ
Meaning:
Bohu county, Baghrash nahiyisi or Bohu county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 博而不精
Pinyin: bó ér bù jīng
Hanviet: 博bác 而nhi 不bất 精tinh
Meaning:
extensive but not refined (idiom); to know something about everything/Jack of all trades and master of none./


Words: 卡斯特羅
Pinyin: kǎ sī tè luó
Hanviet: 卡 斯tư 特đặc 羅la
Meaning:
Castro (name)/Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008/


Words: 卡秋莎
Pinyin: kǎ qiū shā
Hanviet: 卡 秋thu 莎sa
Meaning:
Katyusha (name)/name of a Russian wartime song/nickname of a rocket launcher used by the Red Army in WWII/also written 喀秋莎/


Words: 卡西米爾效應
Pinyin: kǎ xī mǐ ěr xiào yìng
Hanviet: 卡 西tây 米mễ 爾nhĩ 效hiệu 應ưng
Meaning:
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)/


Words: 卦
Pinyin: guà
Hanviet: 卦
Meaning:
divinatory diagram/one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經, 易经/one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經, 易经/


Words: 卯
Pinyin: mǎo
Hanviet: 卯mão
Meaning:
mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon)/4th earthly branch: 5-7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March-4th April), year of the Rabbit/ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east)/variant of 鉚, 铆/to exert one’s strength/


Words: 危而不持
Pinyin: wēi ér bù chí
Hanviet: 危nguy 而nhi 不bất 持trì
Meaning:
national danger, but no support (idiom, from Analects); the future of the nation is at stake but no-one comes to the rescue/


Words: 即
Pinyin: jí
Hanviet: 即tức
Meaning:
namely/that is/i.e./prompt/at once/at present/even if/prompted (by the occasion)/to approach/to come into contact/to assume (office)/to draw near/


Words: 卷土重來
Pinyin: juǎn tǔ chóng lái
Hanviet: 卷quyển 土thổ/độ 重trùng 來lai
Meaning:
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)/fig. to regroup and come back even stronger/to make a comeback/


Words: 卷起
Pinyin: juǎn qǐ
Hanviet: 卷quyển 起khởi
Meaning:
to roll up/to curl up/to furl (a flag, umbrella etc)/to swirl (of dust, wind, sandstorm etc)/twist (in gymnastics)/


Words: 卸磨殺驢
Pinyin: xiè mò shā lǘ
Hanviet: 卸tá 磨ma 殺sát 驢lư
Meaning:
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom)/to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful/


Words: 卸肩兒
Pinyin: xiè jiān xiè jiānr
Hanviet: 卸tá 肩kiên 兒nhi
Meaning:
lit. a weight off one’s shoulders/fig. to resign a post/to lay down a burden/to be relieved of a job/


Words: 卿
Pinyin: qīng
Hanviet: 卿khanh
Meaning:
high ranking official (old)/term of endearment between spouses (old)/(from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)/honorific (old)/


Words: 厚積薄發
Pinyin: hòu jī bó fā
Hanviet: 厚hậu 積tích 薄bạc 發phát
Meaning:
lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom)/good preparation is the key to success/to be well prepared/


Words: 厚養薄葬
Pinyin: hòu yǎng bó zàng
Hanviet: 厚hậu 養dưỡng 薄bạc 葬táng
Meaning:
generous care but a thrifty funeral/to look after one’s parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral/


Words: 厲害
Pinyin: lì hai
Hanviet: 厲lệ 害hại
Meaning:
difficult to deal with/difficult to endure/ferocious/radical/serious/terrible/violent/tremendous/awesome/


Words: 去
Pinyin: qù
Hanviet: 去khứ
Meaning:
to go/to go to (a place)/(of a time etc) last/just passed/to send/to remove/to get rid of/to reduce/to be apart from in space or time/to die (euphemism)/to play (a part)/(when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth/(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)/(used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)/


Words: 參
Pinyin: cān
Hanviet: 參tham
Meaning:
to take part in/to participate/to join/to attend/to counsel/unequal/varied/irregular/uneven/not uniform/abbr. for 參議院, 参议院 Senate, Upper House/


Words: 參校
Pinyin: cān jiào
Hanviet: 參tham 校giáo
Meaning:
to proofread/to revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book/to editorially revise a text/


Words: 又想當婊子又想立牌坊
Pinyin: yòu xiǎng dāng biǎo zi yòu xiǎng lì pái fāng
Hanviet: 又hựu 想tưởng 當đương 婊 子tử 又hựu 想tưởng 立lập 牌bài 坊phường
Meaning:
lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one’s chastity (idiom)/fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation/to want to have one’s cake and eat it too/


Words: 又要馬兒跑，又要馬兒不吃草
Pinyin: yòu yào mǎ yòu yào mǎr pǎo , yòu yào mǎ yòu yào mǎ yòu yào mǎr pǎo , yòu yào mǎr bù chī cǎo
Hanviet: 又hựu 要yếu 馬mã 兒nhi 跑 又hựu 要yếu 馬mã 兒nhi 不bất 吃cật 草thảo
Meaning:
lit. you can’t expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)/fig. you can’t have your cake and eat it, too/


Words: 及時處理，事半功倍
Pinyin: jí shí chǔ lǐ , shì bàn gōng bèi
Hanviet: 及cập 時thời 處xứ 理lý 事sự 半bán 功công 倍bội
Meaning:
timely handling doubles the effect and halves the effort/the right approach saves effort and leads to better results/a stitch in time saves nine/


Words: 及時行樂
Pinyin: jí shí xíng lè
Hanviet: 及cập 時thời 行hành 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
to enjoy the present (idiom); to live happily with no thought for the future/make merry while you can/carpe diem/


Words: 友誼商店
Pinyin: yǒu yì shāng diàn
Hanviet: 友hữu 誼 商thương 店điếm
Meaning:
Friendship Store, PRC state-run store originally intended for foreigners, diplomats etc, specializing in selling imported Western goods and quality Chinese crafts/


Words: 友誼地久天長
Pinyin: yǒu yì dì jiǔ tiān cháng
Hanviet: 友hữu 誼 地địa 久cửu 天thiên 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯, 罗伯特·伯恩斯, sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell/also rendered 友誼萬歲, 友谊万岁 or 友誼天長地久, 友谊天长地久/


Words: 反
Pinyin: fǎn
Hanviet: 反phản
Meaning:
contrary/in reverse/inside out or upside down/to reverse/to return/to oppose/opposite/against/anti-/to rebel/to use analogy/instead/abbr. for 反切 phonetic system/


Words: 反串
Pinyin: fǎn chuàn
Hanviet: 反phản 串xuyến
Meaning:
(Chinese opera) to play a role outside of one’s specialty/(modern) to play a transvestite role/to masquerade as an opponent/


Words: 反切
Pinyin: fǎn qiè
Hanviet: 反phản 切thiết
Meaning:
traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone/


Words: 反右派鬥爭
Pinyin: fǎn yòu pài dòu zhēng
Hanviet: 反phản 右hữu 派phái 鬥đấu 爭tranh
Meaning:
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao’s purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957/


Words: 反彈
Pinyin: fǎn tán
Hanviet: 反phản 彈đàn
Meaning:
to bounce/to bounce back/to boomerang/to ricochet/rebound (of stock market etc)/bounce/backlash/negative repercussions/


Words: 反正一樣
Pinyin: fǎn zhèng yī yàng
Hanviet: 反phản 正chánh 一nhất 樣
Meaning:
whether it’s right or wrong doesn’t make a lot of difference/six of one and half a dozen of the other/as broad as it is long/


Words: 反清
Pinyin: fǎn qīng
Hanviet: 反phản 清thanh
Meaning:
anti-Qing/refers to the revolutionary movements in late 19th and early 20th century leading up to 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命/


Words: 反白
Pinyin: fǎn bái
Hanviet: 反phản 白bạch
Meaning:
reverse type (white on black)/reversed-out (graphics)/highlighting (of selected text on a computer screen)/


Words: 反裘負芻
Pinyin: fǎn qiú fù chú
Hanviet: 反phản 裘cừu 負phụ 芻sô
Meaning:
lit. to wear one’s coat inside out and carry firewood on one’s back (idiom)/fig. to live a life of poverty and hard work/fig. to act stupidly/


Words: 反轉
Pinyin: fǎn zhuǎn
Hanviet: 反phản 轉chuyển
Meaning:
reversal/inversion/to reverse/to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)/


Words: 取其精華，去其糟粕
Pinyin: qǔ qí jīng huá , qù qí zāo pò
Hanviet: 取thủ 其kỳ 精tinh 華hoa 去khứ 其kỳ 糟tao 粕
Meaning:
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan)/keep what is good, discard the rest/You need to be selective when studying./In modernizing the country, don’t accept uncritically all foreign ideas./


Words: 取巧
Pinyin: qǔ qiǎo
Hanviet: 取thủ 巧xảo
Meaning:
quick fix/opportune short cut (around a difficulty)/cheap trick (to get what one wants)/to pull a fast one/


Words: 取景框
Pinyin: qǔ jǐng kuàng
Hanviet: 取thủ 景cảnh 框
Meaning:
rectangular frame used to view a scene (made out of cardboard etc, or formed by the thumbs and forefingers)/viewfinder/viewing frame/


Words: 取經
Pinyin: qǔ jīng
Hanviet: 取thủ 經kinh
Meaning:
to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures/to learn by studying another’s experience/


Words: 取長補短
Pinyin: qǔ cháng bǔ duǎn
Hanviet: 取thủ 長trường/trưởng 補bổ 短đoản
Meaning:
lit. use others’ strengths to make up for one’s weak points (idiom from Mencius)/to use this in place of that/what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts/


Words: 受任
Pinyin: shòu rèn
Hanviet: 受thọ 任nhậm
Meaning:
appointment (to a job)/to be appointed (to high office)/to accept an appointment/entrusted with responsibilities/same as 授任/


Words: 受命于天
Pinyin: shòu mìng yú tiān
Hanviet: 受thọ 命mạng 于vu 天thiên
Meaning:
to become Emperor by the grace of Heaven/to "receive the Mandate of Heaven" (traditional English translation)/


Words: 受聘
Pinyin: shòu pìn
Hanviet: 受thọ 聘sính
Meaning:
hired (for employment)/invited (e.g. to lecture)/engaged (for a task)/(in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom’s family/


Words: 口
Pinyin: kǒu
Hanviet: 口khẩu
Meaning:
mouth/classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)/classifier for bites or mouthfuls/


Words: 口吻
Pinyin: kǒu wěn
Hanviet: 口khẩu 吻vẫn
Meaning:
tone of voice/connotation in intonation/accent (regional etc)/snout/muzzle/lips/protruding portion of an animal’s face/


Words: 口子
Pinyin: kǒu zi
Hanviet: 口khẩu 子tử
Meaning:
hole/opening/cut/gap/gash/my husband or wife/classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc)/precedent/


Words: 口風
Pinyin: kǒu fēng
Hanviet: 口khẩu 風phong
Meaning:
meaning behind the words/what sb really means to say/one’s intentions as revealed in one’s words/tone of speech/


Words: 古今小說
Pinyin: gǔ jīn xiǎo shuō
Hanviet: 古cổ 今kim 小tiểu 說thuyết
Meaning:
Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍, 冯梦龙, collection of late Ming baihua 白話, 白话 tales published in 1620/


Words: 古文
Pinyin: gǔ wén
Hanviet: 古cổ 文văn
Meaning:
old language/the Classics/classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose/classical Chinese as a school subject/


Words: 古文觀止
Pinyin: gǔ wén guān zhǐ
Hanviet: 古cổ 文văn 觀quán 止chỉ
Meaning:
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty/


Words: 古文運動
Pinyin: gǔ wén yùn dòng
Hanviet: 古cổ 文văn 運vận 動động
Meaning:
cultural movement aspiring to study and emulate classic works, at different periods of history, esp. Tang and Song/


Words: 古根罕噴氣推進研究中心
Pinyin: gǔ gēn hǎn pēn qì tuī jìn yán jiū zhōng xīn
Hanviet: 古cổ 根căn 罕 噴phún 氣khí 推thôi 進tiến 研nghiên 究cứu 中trung 心tâm
Meaning:
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT, from 1926)/Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center (from 1943)/


Words: 古爾邦節
Pinyin: gǔ ěr bāng jié
Hanviet: 古cổ 爾nhĩ 邦bang 節tiết
Meaning:
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar/


Words: 古琴
Pinyin: gǔ qín
Hanviet: 古cổ 琴cầm
Meaning:
guqin, a long zither with 5 or 7 strings, plucked with a plectrum/the ancestor of the long zither family, dating back to pre-classical times (playing it was an essential accomplishment of a Confucian gentleman)/


Words: 古生代
Pinyin: gǔ shēng dài
Hanviet: 古cổ 生sanh 代đại
Meaning:
Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀, 寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀, 奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀, 志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀, 泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀, 石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀, 二叠纪/


Words: 古登堡
Pinyin: gǔ dēng bǎo
Hanviet: 古cổ 登đăng 堡
Meaning:
Gutenberg (name)/Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400-1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press/Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale/


Words: 古箏
Pinyin: gǔ zhēng
Hanviet: 古cổ 箏tranh
Meaning:
zither or guzheng/large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times/


Words: 古董灘
Pinyin: gǔ dǒng tān
Hanviet: 古cổ 董 灘
Meaning:
Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關, 阳关, named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries/


Words: 句讀
Pinyin: jù dòu
Hanviet: 句cú 讀đọc
Meaning:
pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)/punctuation/periods and commas/sentences and phrases/


Words: 句逗
Pinyin: jù dòu
Hanviet: 句cú 逗đậu
Meaning:
punctuation of a sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)/period 句號, 句号 and comma 逗號, 逗号/sentences and phrases/


Words: 另起爐灶
Pinyin: lìng qǐ lú zào
Hanviet: 另 起khởi 爐lô 灶
Meaning:
lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch/back to square one/to start of on a new path/


Words: 另闢蹊徑
Pinyin: lìng pì xī jìng
Hanviet: 另 闢tịch 蹊 徑kính
Meaning:
to take an alternate route (idiom)/to find an alternative/to take a different approach/to blaze a new trail/


Words: 叩頭
Pinyin: kòu tóu
Hanviet: 叩khấu 頭đầu
Meaning:
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one’s forehead to the ground)/also written 磕頭, 磕头/


Words: 只管
Pinyin: zhǐ guǎn
Hanviet: 只chỉ 管quản
Meaning:
solely engrossed in one thing/just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest)/simply/by all means/please feel free/do not hesitate (to ask for sth)/


Words: 只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針
Pinyin: zhǐ yào gōng fu shēn , tiě chǔ mó chéng zhēn
Hanviet: 只chỉ 要yếu 功công 夫phu 深thâm 鐵thiết 杵xử 磨ma 成thành 針châm
Meaning:
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle./cf idiom 磨杵成針, 磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task/to study diligently/


Words: 只見樹木不見森林
Pinyin: zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín
Hanviet: 只chỉ 見kiến 樹thụ 木mộc 不bất 見kiến 森sâm 林lâm
Meaning:
unable to see the wood for the trees/fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture/


Words: 只許州官放火，不許百姓點燈
Pinyin: zhǐ xǔ zhōu guān fàng huǒ , bù xǔ bǎi xìng diǎn dēng
Hanviet: 只chỉ 許hứa 州châu 官quan 放phóng 火hỏa 不bất 許hứa 百bá 姓tánh 點điểm 燈đăng
Meaning:
only the official is allowed to light the fire/Gods may do what cattle may not/quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi/


Words: 叫板
Pinyin: jiào bǎn
Hanviet: 叫khiếu 板bản
Meaning:
to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)/(coll.) to challenge/


Words: 叮
Pinyin: dīng
Hanviet: 叮
Meaning:
to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc)/to say repeatedly/to urge insistently/to ask repeatedly/to stick to a point/(onom.) tinkling or jingling sound/


Words: 台胞證
Pinyin: tái bāo zhèng
Hanviet: 台thai 胞bào 證chứng
Meaning:
Mainland Travel Permit for Taiwan Residents/Taiwan Compatriot Entry Permit/abbr. for 台灣居民來往大陸通行證, 台湾居民来往大陆通行证/


Words: 史思明
Pinyin: shǐ sī míng
Hanviet: 史sử 思tư 明minh
Meaning:
Shi Siming (703-761), non-Han military man and colleague of An Lushan 安祿山, 安禄山, eventually conspirator with him in the 755-763 An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂, 安史之乱 against the Tang dynasty/


Words: 史景遷
Pinyin: shǐ jǐng qiān
Hanviet: 史sử 景cảnh 遷thiên
Meaning:
Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The search for modern China 追尋現代中國, 追寻现代中国/


Words: 史特勞斯
Pinyin: shǐ tè láo sī
Hanviet: 史sử 特đặc 勞lao 斯tư
Meaning:
Strauss (name) (Tw)/Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer/Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer/


Words: 史籀篇
Pinyin: shǐ zhòu piān
Hanviet: 史sử 籀 篇thiên
Meaning:
Shizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆, attributed to King Xuan of Zhou 周宣王 but probably dating from c. 500 BC/


Words: 司徒雷登
Pinyin: sī tú léi dēng
Hanviet: 司ty 徒đồ 雷lôi 登đăng
Meaning:
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first President of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China/


Words: 司馬光
Pinyin: sī mǎ guāng
Hanviet: 司ty 馬mã 光quang
Meaning:
Sima Guang (1019-1086), politician and historian of Northern Song, author of Comprehensive Mirror for aid in Government 資治通鑒, 资治通鉴/


Words: 司馬法
Pinyin: sī mǎ fǎ
Hanviet: 司ty 馬mã 法pháp
Meaning:
“Methods of Sima”, also called “Sima Rangju’s Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书, written by Sima Rangju 司馬穰苴, 司马穰苴/


Words: 司馬炎
Pinyin: sī mǎ yán
Hanviet: 司ty 馬mã 炎diễm
Meaning:
Sima Yan (236-290), founding emperor of Jin dynasty 晋 after the Three Kingdoms period, reigned 265-290 as Emperor Wu of Jin 晉武帝/


Words: 司馬穰苴
Pinyin: sī mǎ ráng jū
Hanviet: 司ty 馬mã 穰nhương 苴
Meaning:
Sima Rangju (c. 800 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), military strategist of the Qi State 齊國, 齐国 and author of “Methods of Sima” 司馬法, 司马法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 司馬遷
Pinyin: sī mǎ qiān
Hanviet: 司ty 馬mã 遷thiên
Meaning:
Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 史记, known as the father of Chinese historiography/


Words: 吃
Pinyin: chī
Hanviet: 吃cật
Meaning:
to eat/to consume/to eat at (a cafeteria etc)/to eradicate/to destroy/to absorb/to suffer/to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is )/


Words: 吃不了兜著走
Pinyin: chī bu liǎo dōu zhe zǒu
Hanviet: 吃cật 不bất 了liễu 兜đâu 著trước 走tẩu
Meaning:
lit. if you can’t eat it all, you’ll have to take it home (idiom)/fig. you’ll have to take the consequences/


Words: 吃人家的嘴軟，拿人家的手短
Pinyin: chī rén jiā de zuǐ ruǎn , ná rén jiā de shǒu duǎn
Hanviet: 吃cật 人nhân 家gia 的đích 嘴chủy 軟nhuyễn 拿 人nhân 家gia 的đích 手thủ 短đoản
Meaning:
lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn’t reach (idiom)/fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted/


Words: 吃得苦中苦，方為人上人
Pinyin: chī dé kǔ zhōng kǔ , fāng wéi rén shàng rén
Hanviet: 吃cật 得đắc 苦khổ 中trung 苦khổ 方phương 為vi 人nhân 上thượng 人nhân
Meaning:
one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb)/no pain, no gain/


Words: 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡
Pinyin: chī zhe wǎn lǐ , kàn zhe guō lǐ
Hanviet: 吃cật 著trước 碗oản 裡 看khán 著trước 鍋oa 裡
Meaning:
lit. eyeing what’s in the pot as one eats from one’s bowl (idiom)/not content with what one already has/(of men, typically) to have the wandering eye/


Words: 吃虧
Pinyin: chī kuī
Hanviet: 吃cật 虧khuy
Meaning:
to suffer losses/to come to grief/to lose out/to get the worst of it/to be at a disadvantage/unfortunately/


Words: 吃裡爬外
Pinyin: chī lǐ pá wài
Hanviet: 吃cật 裡 爬 外ngoại
Meaning:
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from/to double-cross one’s employer/to bite the hand that feeds you/


Words: 吃錯藥
Pinyin: chī cuò yào
Hanviet: 吃cật 錯thác 藥dược
Meaning:
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine/(fig.) (of one’s behavior etc) different than usual/abnormal/


Words: 各人自掃門前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜
Pinyin: gè rén zì sǎo mén qián xuě , mò guǎn tā jiā wǎ shàng shuāng
Hanviet: 各các 人nhân 自tự 掃tảo 門môn 前tiền 雪tuyết 莫mạc 管quản 他tha 家gia 瓦ngõa 上thượng 霜sương
Meaning:
sweep the snow from your own door step, don’t worry about the frost on your neighbor’s roof (idiom)/


Words: 各拉丹冬山
Pinyin: gè lā dān dōng shān
Hanviet: 各các 拉lạp 丹đan 冬đông 山sơn
Meaning:
Mount Geladaindong or Geladandong in Qinghai (6621 m), the main peak of the Tanggula mountain range 唐古拉山脈, 唐古拉山脉/


Words: 吆喝
Pinyin: yāo he
Hanviet: 吆 喝hát
Meaning:
to shout/to bawl/to yell (to urge on an animal)/to hawk (one’s wares)/to denounce loudly/to shout slogans/


Words: 合
Pinyin: gě
Hanviet: 合hợp
Meaning:
100 ml/one-tenth of a peck/measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗/


Words: 合
Pinyin: hé
Hanviet: 合hợp
Meaning:
to close/to join/to fit/to be equal to/whole/together/round (in battle)/conjunction (astronomy)/1st note of pentatonic scale/old variant of 盒/


Words: 合不攏嘴
Pinyin: hé bù lǒng zuǐ
Hanviet: 合hợp 不bất 攏 嘴chủy
Meaning:
unable to conceal one’s happiness, amazement, shock etc/grinning from ear to ear/mouth agape/gobsmacked/


Words: 合四乙尺工
Pinyin: hé sì yǐ chǐ gōng
Hanviet: 合hợp 四tứ 乙ất 尺xích 工công
Meaning:
names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la/


Words: 合手
Pinyin: hé shǒu
Hanviet: 合hợp 手thủ
Meaning:
to put one’s palms together (in prayer or greeting)/to work with a common purpose/harmonious/convenient (to use)/


Words: 合縱
Pinyin: hé zòng
Hanviet: 合hợp 縱túng/tung
Meaning:
Vertical Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)/


Words: 合縱連橫
Pinyin: hé zòng lián héng
Hanviet: 合hợp 縱túng/tung 連liên 橫hoạnh/hoành
Meaning:
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)/


Words: 合體字
Pinyin: hé tǐ zì
Hanviet: 合hợp 體thể 字tự
Meaning:
a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意, 会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲, 形声/


Words: 吉安
Pinyin: jí ān
Hanviet: 吉cát 安an
Meaning:
Ji’an prefecture level city in Jiangxi/also Ji’an county/Ji’an or Chi’an township in Hualien county 花蓮縣, 花莲县, east Taiwan/


Words: 吉林
Pinyin: jí lín
Hanviet: 吉cát 林lâm
Meaning:
Jilin province (Kirin) in northeast China, abbr. 吉, capital 長春, 长春/also Jilin prefecture level city, Jilin province/


Words: 吉首
Pinyin: jí shǒu
Hanviet: 吉cát 首thủ
Meaning:
Jishou county level city and capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州, Henan/


Words: 同床異夢
Pinyin: tóng chuáng yì mèng
Hanviet: 同đồng 床sàng 異dị 夢mộng
Meaning:
lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas/strange bedfellows/marital dissension/


Words: 同房
Pinyin: tóng fáng
Hanviet: 同đồng 房phòng
Meaning:
(of a married couple) to have intercourse/(literary) to share the same room/of the same family branch/


Words: 同文館
Pinyin: tóng wén guǎn
Hanviet: 同đồng 文văn 館quán
Meaning:
the first modern Chinese library established in 1898 by William A.P. Martin 丁韙良, 丁韪良, becoming the foundation for Peking University library/


Words: 同日而語
Pinyin: tóng rì ér yǔ
Hanviet: 同đồng 日nhật 而nhi 語ngữ
Meaning:
lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can’t mention X at the same time as Y)/


Words: 同樂會
Pinyin: tóng lè huì
Hanviet: 同đồng 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 會hội
Meaning:
social gathering at which those attending take it in turns to perform for the whole group (music, dancing or comedy etc)/


Words: 同歸於盡
Pinyin: tóng guī yú jìn
Hanviet: 同đồng 歸quy 於ư 盡tận
Meaning:
to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes/to take sb down with oneself/to end in mutual destruction/


Words: 同甘共苦
Pinyin: tóng gān gòng kǔ
Hanviet: 同đồng 甘cam 共cộng 苦khổ
Meaning:
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life’s joys and sorrows/for better or for worse/


Words: 同舟共濟
Pinyin: tóng zhōu gòng jì
Hanviet: 同đồng 舟chu 共cộng 濟tế
Meaning:
cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests/obliged to collaborate towards common goals/


Words: 名不副實
Pinyin: míng bù fù shí
Hanviet: 名danh 不bất 副phó 實thật
Meaning:
the name does not reflect the reality (idiom); more in name than in fact/Reality does not live up to the name./Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out./


Words: 名不正言不順
Pinyin: míng bu zhèng yán bu shùn
Hanviet: 名danh 不bất 正chánh 言ngôn 不bất 順thuận
Meaning:
unjustified and undeserving of such description/identity or status is unverified, or inconsistent in detail/unworthy of the title (or name), or reputation/no valid reason as justification/words without weight/cf 名正言順, 名正言顺/


Words: 名堂
Pinyin: míng tang
Hanviet: 名danh 堂đường
Meaning:
item (in a program of entertainments)/trick (act of mischief)/worthwhile result/accomplishment/sth significant but not immediately apparent/sth more than meets the eye/


Words: 名師出高徒
Pinyin: míng shī chū gāo tú
Hanviet: 名danh 師sư 出xuất 高cao 徒đồ
Meaning:
A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors./


Words: 名正言順
Pinyin: míng zhèng yán shùn
Hanviet: 名danh 正chánh 言ngôn 順thuận
Meaning:
in a way that justifies the use of the term/genuine/proper/in a way that conforms to logic/justifiable/appropriate/perfectly legitimate/


Words: 名落孫山
Pinyin: míng luò sūn shān
Hanviet: 名danh 落lạc 孫tôn 山sơn
Meaning:
lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山, 孙山 (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom)/fig. to fail an exam/to fall behind (in a competition)/


Words: 名韁利鎖
Pinyin: míng jiāng lì suǒ
Hanviet: 名danh 韁 利lợi 鎖tỏa
Meaning:
lit. fettered by fame and locked up by riches (idiom); tied down by reputation and wealth/the victim of one’s own success/


Words: 吐故納新
Pinyin: tǔ gù nà xīn
Hanviet: 吐thổ 故cố 納nạp 新tân
Meaning:
lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new/


Words: 吐絲自縛
Pinyin: tǔ sī zì fù
Hanviet: 吐thổ 絲ti 自tự 縛phược
Meaning:
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one’s own devising/hoist with his own petard/


Words: 吐苦水
Pinyin: tǔ kǔ shuǐ
Hanviet: 吐thổ 苦khổ 水thủy
Meaning:
to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth/fig. to complain bitterly/to pour out one’s sufferings/


Words: 向
Pinyin: xiàng
Hanviet: 向hướng
Meaning:
towards/to face/to turn towards/direction/to support/to side with/shortly before/formerly/always/all along/


Words: 向陽
Pinyin: xiàng yáng
Hanviet: 向hướng 陽dương
Meaning:
Xiangyang district of Kiamusze or Jiamusi city 佳木斯, Heilongjiang/Xiangyang district of Hegang city 鶴崗, 鹤岗, Heilongjiang/


Words: 吖嗪
Pinyin: ā qín
Hanviet: 吖 嗪
Meaning:
-azine/heterocyclic compound containing nitrogen in their ring such as pyridine 吡啶 C5H5N, pyrazine 噠嗪, 哒嗪 C4H4N2 or pyrimidine 嘧啶 C4H4N2/


Words: 君子報仇，十年不晚
Pinyin: jūn zi bào chóu , shí nián bù wǎn
Hanviet: 君quân 子tử 報báo 仇cừu 十thập 年niên 不bất 晚vãn
Meaning:
lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom)/fig. revenge is a dish best served cold/


Words: 君子遠庖廚
Pinyin: jūn zǐ yuàn páo chú
Hanviet: 君quân 子tử 遠viễn 庖bào 廚
Meaning:
lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius)/fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen/


Words: 吞吞吐吐
Pinyin: tūn tūn tǔ tǔ
Hanviet: 吞thôn 吞thôn 吐thổ 吐thổ
Meaning:
to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth/to speak and break off, then start again/to hold sth back/


Words: 吧
Pinyin: bā
Hanviet: 吧
Meaning:
bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)/to puff (on a pipe etc)/(onom.) bang/abbr. for 貼吧, 贴吧/


Words: 含蓄
Pinyin: hán xù
Hanviet: 含hàm 蓄súc
Meaning:
to contain/to hold/(of a person or style etc) reserved/restrained/(of words, writings) full of hidden meaning/implicit/veiled (criticism)/


Words: 吳
Pinyin: wú
Hanviet: 吳ngô
Meaning:
surname Wu/area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai/name of states in Southern China at different historical periods/


Words: 吳三桂
Pinyin: wú sān guì
Hanviet: 吳ngô 三tam 桂quế
Meaning:
Wu Sangui (1612-1678), Chinese general who let the Manchus into China and helped them establish the Qing Dynasty, later leading a revolt against Qing in an effort to start his own dynasty/


Words: 吳下阿蒙
Pinyin: wú xià ā méng
Hanviet: 吳ngô 下hạ 阿a 蒙mông
Meaning:
General Lü Meng 呂蒙, 吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)/


Words: 吳仁寶
Pinyin: wú rén bǎo
Hanviet: 吳ngô 仁nhân 寶bảo
Meaning:
Wu Renbao (1928-2013), former CPC chief of Huaxi Village 華西村, 华西村, responsible for turning it into a modern rich community/


Words: 吳任臣
Pinyin: wú rèn chén
Hanviet: 吳ngô 任nhậm 臣thần
Meaning:
Wu Renchen (1628-1689), Qing dynasty polymath and historian, author of History of Ten States of South China 十國春秋, 十国春秋/


Words: 吳國
Pinyin: wú guó
Hanviet: 吳ngô 國quốc
Meaning:
Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods)/Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權, 孙权 the southernmost of the three Kingdoms/


Words: 吳孟超
Pinyin: wú mèng chāo
Hanviet: 吳ngô 孟 超siêu
Meaning:
Wu Mengchao (1922-), Chinese medical scientist and surgeon specializing in liver and gallbladder disorders/


Words: 吳市吹簫
Pinyin: wú shì chuī xiāo
Hanviet: 吳ngô 市thị 吹xuy 簫tiêu
Meaning:
to beg while playing the xiao 箫 (mouth organ)/cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥, destitute refugee from Chu 楚, busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician/


Words: 吳晗
Pinyin: wú hán
Hanviet: 吳ngô 晗
Meaning:
Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution/


Words: 吳王闔閭
Pinyin: wú wáng hé lǘ
Hanviet: 吳ngô 王vương 闔hạp 閭lư
Meaning:
King Helu of Wu (-496 BC, reigned 514-496 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸/also called 吳王闔廬, 吴王阖庐/


Words: 吳起
Pinyin: wú qǐ
Hanviet: 吳ngô 起khởi
Meaning:
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子, 吴子, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 吳越同舟
Pinyin: wú yuè tóng zhōu
Hanviet: 吳ngô 越việt 同đồng 舟chu
Meaning:
Wu and Yue in the same boat (idiom); fig. cooperation between natural rivals/to collaborate towards a common end/in the same boat together/


Words: 吳越春秋
Pinyin: wú yuè chūn qiū
Hanviet: 吳ngô 越việt 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
History of the Southern States Wu and Yue (traditional rivals), compiled by Han historian Zhao Ye 趙曄, 赵晔, 10 extant scrolls/


Words: 吳趼人
Pinyin: wú jiǎn rén
Hanviet: 吳ngô 趼 人nhân
Meaning:
Wu Jianren (1867-1910), late Qing dynasty novelist, author of The strange state of the world witnessed over 20 years 二十年目睹之怪現狀, 二十年目睹之怪现状/


Words: 吳頭楚尾
Pinyin: wú tóu chǔ wěi
Hanviet: 吳ngô 頭đầu 楚sở 尾vĩ
Meaning:
lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together/head-to-tail/one thing starts where the other leaves off/


Words: 吸血鬼
Pinyin: xī xuè guǐ
Hanviet: 吸hấp 血huyết 鬼quỷ
Meaning:
leech/blood-sucking vermin/vampire (translated European notion)/fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers/


Words: 吹
Pinyin: chuī
Hanviet: 吹xuy
Meaning:
to blow/to play a wind instrument/to blast/to puff/to boast/to brag/to end in failure/to fall through/


Words: 吹了
Pinyin: chuī le
Hanviet: 吹xuy 了liễu
Meaning:
failed/busted/to have not succeeded/to have died/to have parted company/to have chilled (of a relationship)/


Words: 吹毛求疵
Pinyin: chuī máo qiú cī
Hanviet: 吹xuy 毛mao 求cầu 疵tỳ
Meaning:
lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious/nitpick/


Words: 吹燈拔蠟
Pinyin: chuī dēng bá là
Hanviet: 吹xuy 燈đăng 拔bạt 蠟lạp
Meaning:
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom)/fig. to die/to bite the dust/to be over and done with/


Words: 吹簫
Pinyin: chuī xiāo
Hanviet: 吹xuy 簫tiêu
Meaning:
to play the xiao 簫, 箫 (mouth organ)/to beg while playing pipes; cf politician Wu Zixu 伍子胥, c. 520 BC destitute refugee in Wu town, 吳市吹簫, 吴市吹箫/to busk/virtuoso piper wins a beauty, cf 玉人吹簫, 玉人吹箫/(slang) fellatio/blowjob/


Words: 吹鼓手
Pinyin: chuī gǔ shǒu
Hanviet: 吹xuy 鼓cổ 手thủ
Meaning:
(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession/(fig.) trumpeter of sb’s praises/booster/


Words: 呂不韋
Pinyin: lǚ bù wéi
Hanviet: 呂lữ 不bất 韋vi
Meaning:
Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國, 秦国, subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代 Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政, who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇/


Words: 呂氏春秋
Pinyin: lǚ shì chūn qiū
Hanviet: 呂lữ 氏thị 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
lit. “Mr. Lü’s Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家, 诸子百家, compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of Qin Dynasty 秦代 Chancellor Lü Buwei 呂不韋, 吕不韦/


Words: 呈
Pinyin: chéng
Hanviet: 呈trình
Meaning:
to present to a superior/memorial/petition/to present (a certain appearance)/to assume (a shape)/to be (a certain color)/


Words: 告諭
Pinyin: gào yù
Hanviet: 告cáo 諭dụ
Meaning:
(literary) to inform (the public)/to give clear instructions/public announcement (from higher authorities)/


Words: 呢
Pinyin: ne
Hanviet: 呢
Meaning:
particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?")/particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?")/particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?")/(at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action/particle indicating strong affirmation/


Words: 周
Pinyin: zhōu
Hanviet: 周chu
Meaning:
to make a circuit/to circle/circle/circumference/lap/cycle/complete/all/all over/thorough/to help financially/


Words: 周一嶽
Pinyin: zhōu yī yuè
Hanviet: 周chu 一nhất 嶽nhạc
Meaning:
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004/


Words: 周作人
Pinyin: zhōu zuò rén
Hanviet: 周chu 作tác 人nhân
Meaning:
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅, 鲁迅, academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution/


Words: 周公
Pinyin: zhōu gōng
Hanviet: 周chu 公công
Meaning:
Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams"/


Words: 周勃
Pinyin: zhōu bó
Hanviet: 周chu 勃bột
Meaning:
Zhou Bo (?-169 BC), military man and politician at the Qin-Han transition, a founding minister of Western Han/


Words: 周小川
Pinyin: zhōu xiǎo chuān
Hanviet: 周chu 小tiểu 川xuyên
Meaning:
Zhou Xiaochuan (1948-), PRC banker and politician, governor of People’s Bank of China 中國人民銀行, 中国人民银行 from 2002/


Words: 周成王
Pinyin: zhōu chéng wáng
Hanviet: 周chu 成thành 王vương
Meaning:
King Cheng of Zhou (1055-1021 BC), reigned 1042-1021 BC as the 2nd king of Western Zhou 西周, son of King Wu of Zhou 周武王/


Words: 周文王
Pinyin: zhōu wén wáng
Hanviet: 周chu 文văn 王vương
Meaning:
King Wen of Zhou state (c. 1152-1056 BC), reigned c. 1099-1056 BC as king of Zhou state, leading figure in building the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty, father of King Wu of Zhou 周武王 the first Zhou dynasty king/


Words: 周星馳
Pinyin: zhōu xīng chí
Hanviet: 周chu 星tinh 馳trì
Meaning:
Stephen Chow (1962-), Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director, known for his mo lei tau 無厘頭, 无厘头 movies/


Words: 周書
Pinyin: zhōu shū
Hanviet: 周chu 書thư
Meaning:
History of Zhou of the Northern Dynasties, twelfth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Linghu Defen 令狐德棻 in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 50 scrolls/


Words: 周武王
Pinyin: zhōu wǔ wáng
Hanviet: 周chu 武võ 王vương
Meaning:
King Wu of Zhou (-1043), personal name Ji Fa 姬發, 姬发, reigned 1046-1043 BC as first king of Western Zhou dynasty 1046-1043 BC/


Words: 周武王姬發
Pinyin: zhōu wǔ wáng jī fā
Hanviet: 周chu 武võ 王vương 姬 發phát
Meaning:
King Wu of Zhou, personal name Ji Fa, reigned 1046-1043 BC as first king of Western Zhou dynasty 西周 1046-771 BC/


Words: 周瑜
Pinyin: zhōu yú
Hanviet: 周chu 瑜du
Meaning:
Zhou Yu or Chou Yü (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redcliff/in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang/


Words: 周瑜打黃蓋
Pinyin: zhōu yú dǎ huáng gài
Hanviet: 周chu 瑜du 打đả 黃hoàng 蓋cái
Meaning:
fig. with the connivance of both sides/fig. by mutual consent/cf Wu patriot Huang Gai submits to mock beating at the hands of General Zhou Yu to deceive Cao Cao 曹操 before the 208 battle of Redcliff 赤壁之戰, 赤壁之战/


Words: 周瘦鵑
Pinyin: zhōu shòu juān
Hanviet: 周chu 瘦sấu 鵑
Meaning:
Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), writer, translator and art collector in Suzhou, a victim of the cultural revolution/


Words: 周穆王
Pinyin: zhōu mù wáng
Hanviet: 周chu 穆mục 王vương
Meaning:
King Mu, fifth king of Zhou, said to have lived to 105 and reigned 976-922 BC or 1001-947 BC, rich in associated mythology/


Words: 周立波
Pinyin: zhōu lì bō
Hanviet: 周chu 立lập 波ba
Meaning:
Zhou Libo (1908-1979), left-wing journalist, translator and novelist/Zhou Libo (1967-), Chinese stand-up comedian/


Words: 周髀算經
Pinyin: zhōu bì suàn jīng
Hanviet: 周chu 髀bễ 算toán 經kinh
Meaning:
Zhou Bi Suan Jing, or Chou Pei Suan Ching, one of the oldest Chinese texts on astronomy and mathematics/


Words: 呼之欲出
Pinyin: hū zhī yù chū
Hanviet: 呼hô 之chi 欲dục 出xuất
Meaning:
lit. ready to appear at the call (idiom)/fig. on the verge of coming out into the open/(of a person’s choice etc) on the point of being disclosed/(of an artistic depiction) vividly portrayed/


Words: 呼牛作馬
Pinyin: hū niú zuò mǎ
Hanviet: 呼hô 牛ngưu 作tác 馬mã
Meaning:
to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn’t matter what you call it/Insult me if you want, I don’t care what you call me./


Words: 咆哮
Pinyin: páo xiào
Hanviet: 咆 哮hao
Meaning:
to roar/to thunder/to snarl/to bluster (of wind, waves etc)/crashing waves (onom.)/to rage (of a person)/


Words: 和
Pinyin: hè
Hanviet: 和hòa
Meaning:
to compose a poem in reply (to sb’s poem) using the same rhyme sequence/to join in the singing/to chime in with others/


Words: 和
Pinyin: huò
Hanviet: 和hòa
Meaning:
to mix (ingredients) together/to blend/classifier for rinses of clothes/classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs/


Words: 和尚打傘，無法無天
Pinyin: hé shang dǎ sǎn , wú fǎ wú tiān
Hanviet: 和hòa 尚thượng 打đả 傘tản 無vô 法pháp 無vô 天thiên
Meaning:
lit. like a monk holding an umbrella — no hair, no sky (idiom) (punning on 髮, 发 vs 法)/fig. defying the law and the principles of heaven/lawless/


Words: 和布克賽爾縣
Pinyin: hé bù kè sài ěr xiàn
Hanviet: 和hòa 布bố 克khắc 賽tái 爾nhĩ 縣huyện
Meaning:
Hoboksar Mongol autonomous county or Qobuqsar Mongghul aptonom nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區, 塔城地区, Xinjiang/


Words: 和平
Pinyin: hé píng
Hanviet: 和hòa 平bình
Meaning:
Heping district of Shenyang city 沈陽市, 沈阳市, Liaoning/Hoping township in Taichung county 臺中縣, 台中县, Taiwan/


Words: 和平共處五項原則
Pinyin: hé píng gòng chǔ wǔ xiàng yuán zé
Hanviet: 和hòa 平bình 共cộng 處xứ 五ngũ 項hạng 原nguyên 則tắc
Meaning:
Zhou Enlai’s Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence/1954 Panchsheel series of agreements between PRC and India/


Words: 和平區
Pinyin: hé píng qū
Hanviet: 和hòa 平bình 區khu
Meaning:
Heping or Peace district (of many towns)/Heping district of Tianjin municipality 天津市/Heping district of Shenyang city 沈陽市, 沈阳市, Liaoning/


Words: 和珅
Pinyin: hé shēn
Hanviet: 和hòa 珅
Meaning:
Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale/


Words: 和盤托出
Pinyin: hé pán tuō chū
Hanviet: 和hòa 盤bàn 托thác 出xuất
Meaning:
lit. to put everything out including the tray/to reveal everything/to make a clean breast of it all/


Words: 和碩
Pinyin: hé shuò
Hanviet: 和hòa 碩
Meaning:
Hoxud county, Xoshut nahiyisi or Heshuo county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 和碩縣
Pinyin: hé shuò xiàn
Hanviet: 和hòa 碩 縣huyện
Meaning:
Hoxud or Heshuo county or Xoshut nahiyisi in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 和靜
Pinyin: hé jìng
Hanviet: 和hòa 靜tĩnh
Meaning:
Xéjing nahiyisi or Hejing county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 咨文
Pinyin: zī wén
Hanviet: 咨tư 文văn
Meaning:
official communication (between gov. offices of equal rank)/report delivered by the head of gov. on affairs of state/


Words: 咩
Pinyin: miē
Hanviet: 咩mế
Meaning:
the bleating of sheep/final particle which transforms statements into questions that indicate doubt or surprise (Cantonese)/


Words: 咪咪
Pinyin: mī mī
Hanviet: 咪 咪
Meaning:
oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc/(onom.) meow/kitty kitty!/Mimi (Western name)/tits (i.e. slang for breasts)/


Words: 咬人狗兒不露齒
Pinyin: yǎo rén gǒu yǎo rén gǒur bù lù chǐ
Hanviet: 咬giảo 人nhân 狗cẩu 兒nhi 不bất 露lộ 齒xỉ
Meaning:
lit. the dog that bites does not show its fangs (idiom)/fig. You can’t tell the really dangerous enemy from his external appearance./


Words: 咬唇妝
Pinyin: yǎo chún zhuāng
Hanviet: 咬giảo 唇thần 妝trang
Meaning:
bitten-lips look (darker lipstick applied on the inner part of the lips, and lighter on the outer part)/


Words: 咬緊牙關
Pinyin: yǎo jǐn yá guān
Hanviet: 咬giảo 緊khẩn 牙nha 關quan
Meaning:
lit. to bite the teeth tightly (idiom); fig. to grit one’s teeth and bear the pain/to bite the bullet/


Words: 咱們
Pinyin: zán men
Hanviet: 咱 們môn
Meaning:
we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to)/(dialect) I or me/(dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you/also pr. /


Words: 咸豐
Pinyin: xián fēng
Hanviet: 咸hàm 豐phong
Meaning:
reign name of Qing emperor (1850-1861)/Xianfeng county in Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei/


Words: 咸鏡
Pinyin: xián jìng
Hanviet: 咸hàm 鏡kính
Meaning:
Hamgyeongdo Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Hamgyeong Province 咸鏡北道, 咸镜北道 and South Hamgyeong Province 咸鏡南道, 咸镜南道 of North Korea/


Words: 哀
Pinyin: āi
Hanviet: 哀ai
Meaning:
Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God, also known as Li 釐, 厘/


Words: 哀江南賦
Pinyin: āi jiāng nán fù
Hanviet: 哀ai 江giang 南nam 賦phú
Meaning:
Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝/


Words: 哀莫大於心死
Pinyin: āi mò dà yú xīn sǐ
Hanviet: 哀ai 莫mạc 大đại 於ư 心tâm 死tử
Meaning:
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子)/no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices/the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart/nothing is more wretched than apathy/


Words: 哀鴻遍野
Pinyin: āi hóng biàn yě
Hanviet: 哀ai 鴻hồng 遍biến 野dã
Meaning:
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims/starving people fill the land/


Words: 品
Pinyin: pǐn
Hanviet: 品phẩm
Meaning:
article/commodity/product/goods/kind/grade/rank/character/disposition/nature/temperament/variety/to taste sth/to sample/to criticize/to comment/to judge/to size up/


Words: 品味
Pinyin: pǐn wèi
Hanviet: 品phẩm 味vị
Meaning:
to sample/to taste/to appreciate/one’s taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc)/good taste/


Words: 品學兼優
Pinyin: pǐn xué jiān yōu
Hanviet: 品phẩm 學học 兼kiêm 優ưu
Meaning:
excelling both in morals and studies (idiom); top marks for studies and for behavior (at school)/a paragon of virtue and learning/


Words: 品質
Pinyin: pǐn zhì
Hanviet: 品phẩm 質chất
Meaning:
character/intrinsic quality (of a person)/quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)/


Words: 品頭論足
Pinyin: pǐn tóu lùn zú
Hanviet: 品phẩm 頭đầu 論luận 足túc
Meaning:
lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom); minute criticism of a woman’s appearance/fig. to find fault in minor details/nitpicking/overcritical/


Words: 哈利法克斯
Pinyin: hā lì fǎ kè sī
Hanviet: 哈 利lợi 法pháp 克khắc 斯tư
Meaning:
Halifax (name)/Halifax city, capital of Nova Scotia, Canada/Halifax, town in West Yorkshire, England/


Words: 哈努卡
Pinyin: hā nǔ kǎ
Hanviet: 哈 努nỗ 卡
Meaning:
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)/also called 光明節, 光明节 and 哈努卡節, 哈努卡节/


Words: 哈努卡節
Pinyin: hā nǔ kǎ jié
Hanviet: 哈 努nỗ 卡 節tiết
Meaning:
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)/also called 光明節, 光明节 and simply 哈努卡/


Words: 哈巴羅夫斯克
Pinyin: hā bā luó fū sī kè
Hanviet: 哈 巴ba 羅la 夫phu 斯tư 克khắc
Meaning:
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China/


Words: 哥尼斯堡
Pinyin: gē ní sī bǎo
Hanviet: 哥ca 尼ni 斯tư 堡
Meaning:
(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic/(since WWII) Kaliningrad, Russian Republic/


Words: 哦
Pinyin: o
Hanviet: 哦nga
Meaning:
sentence-final particle that conveys informality, warmth, friendliness or intimacy/may also indicate that one is stating a fact that the other person is not aware of/


Words: 哪裏
Pinyin: nǎ lǐ
Hanviet: 哪 裏lý
Meaning:
where?/somewhere/anywhere/wherever/nowhere (negative answer to question)/humble expression denying compliment/also written 哪裡, 哪里/


Words: 哪裡
Pinyin: nǎ lǐ
Hanviet: 哪 裡
Meaning:
where?/somewhere/anywhere/wherever/nowhere (negative answer to question)/humble expression denying compliment/


Words: 哭笑不得
Pinyin: kū xiào bù dé
Hanviet: 哭khốc 笑tiếu 不bất 得đắc
Meaning:
lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)/both funny and extremely embarrassing/between laughter and tears/


Words: 唄
Pinyin: bei
Hanviet: 唄bối
Meaning:
modal particle indicating indicating lack of enthusiasm/modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way/


Words: 唐伯虎
Pinyin: táng bó hǔ
Hanviet: 唐đường 伯bá 虎hổ
Meaning:
Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子/


Words: 唐僖宗
Pinyin: táng xī zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 僖 宗tông
Meaning:
Emperor Xizong of Tang, reign name of nineteenth Tang Emperor Li Xuan 李儇 (862-888), reigned 873-888/


Words: 唐初四大家
Pinyin: táng chū sì dà jiā
Hanviet: 唐đường 初sơ 四tứ 大đại 家gia
Meaning:
Four Great Poets of early Tang/refers to Yu Shi’nan 虞世南, Ouyang Xun 陽歐詢, 欧阳询, Chu Suiliang 楮遂良 and Xue Ji 薛稷/


Words: 唐哀帝
Pinyin: táng āi dì
Hanviet: 唐đường 哀ai 帝đế
Meaning:
Emperor Aidi of Tang, reign name of twenty-first and last Tang emperor Li Zhu 李祝 (892-908), reigned 904-907/


Words: 唐太宗
Pinyin: táng tài zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 太thái 宗tông
Meaning:
Emperor Taizong of Tang, reign name of second Tang emperor Li Shimin 李世民 (599-649), reigned 626-649/


Words: 唐太宗李衛公問對
Pinyin: táng tài zōng lǐ wèi gōng wèn duì
Hanviet: 唐đường 太thái 宗tông 李 衛vệ 公công 問vấn 對đối
Meaning:
"Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang", military treatise attributed to Li Jing 李靖 and one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 唐宋八大家
Pinyin: táng sòng bā dà jiā
Hanviet: 唐đường 宋tống 八bát 大đại 家gia
Meaning:
Eight Giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動, 古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈, 韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修, 欧阳修, the Three Su father and sons 三蘇, 三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏, 曾巩/


Words: 唐宣宗
Pinyin: táng xuān zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 宣tuyên 宗tông
Meaning:
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (810-859), reign name of seventeenth Tang emperor Li Chen 李忱, reigned 846-859/


Words: 唐寅
Pinyin: táng yín
Hanviet: 唐đường 寅
Meaning:
Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子/


Words: 唐憲宗
Pinyin: táng xiàn zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 憲hiến 宗tông
Meaning:
Emperor Xianzong of Tang (778-820), reign name of twelfth Tang emperor Li Chun 李純, 李纯 reigned 805-820/


Words: 唐招提寺
Pinyin: táng zhāo tí sì
Hanviet: 唐đường 招chiêu 提đề 寺tự
Meaning:
Toushoudaiji, the temple in Nara, Japan founded by Tang dynastic Buddhist monk Jianzhen or Ganjin 鑒真和尚, 鉴真和尚 and his last resting place/


Words: 唐書
Pinyin: táng shū
Hanviet: 唐đường 書thư
Meaning:
same as 舊唐書, 旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫, 刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉, 后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls/


Words: 唐樓
Pinyin: táng lóu
Hanviet: 唐đường 樓lâu
Meaning:
tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)/


Words: 唐玄宗
Pinyin: táng xuán zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 玄huyền 宗tông
Meaning:
Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇, reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基, reigned 712-756/


Words: 唐睿宗
Pinyin: táng ruì zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 睿 宗tông
Meaning:
Emperor Ruizong of Tang, reign name of sixth Tang emperor Li Dan 李旦 (662-716), reigned 684-690 and 710-712/


Words: 唐順宗
Pinyin: táng shùn zōng
Hanviet: 唐đường 順thuận 宗tông
Meaning:
Emperor Shunzong of Tang (761-806), reign name of eleventh Tang emperor Li Song 李誦, 李诵, reigned 805-806/


Words: 唯意志論
Pinyin: wéi yì zhì lùn
Hanviet: 唯duy 意ý 志chí 論luận
Meaning:
voluntarism/metaphysical view, esp. due to Schopenhauer 叔本華, 叔本华, that the essence of the world is willpower/


Words: 唱和
Pinyin: chàng hè
Hanviet: 唱xướng 和hòa
Meaning:
antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus)/sung reply (in agreement with first voice)/to reply with a poem in the same rhythm/


Words: 唱空城計
Pinyin: chàng kōng chéng jì
Hanviet: 唱xướng 空không 城thành 計kế
Meaning:
lit. to sing “The Empty City Stratagem” (idiom)/fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one’s weakness/(jocularly) (of a place etc) to be empty/(of one’s stomach) to be rumbling/


Words: 唾面自乾
Pinyin: tuò miàn zì gān
Hanviet: 唾thóa 面diện 自tự 乾can/kiền/càn
Meaning:
to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek/to drain the cup of humiliation/


Words: 商
Pinyin: shāng
Hanviet: 商thương
Meaning:
commerce/merchant/dealer/to consult/2nd note in pentatonic scale/quotient (as in 智商, intelligence quotient)/


Words: 商鞅
Pinyin: shāng yāng
Hanviet: 商thương 鞅ưởng
Meaning:
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and important statesman of Qin state 秦國, 秦国 whose militaristic reforms in 356 and 350 BC played a key role in establishing Qin power/


Words: 商鞅變法
Pinyin: shāng yāng biàn fǎ
Hanviet: 商thương 鞅ưởng 變biến 法pháp
Meaning:
Shang Yang’s political reform of Qin state 秦國, 秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination/


Words: 問名
Pinyin: wèn míng
Hanviet: 問vấn 名danh
Meaning:
to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride/one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols (六禮, 六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride’s family/


Words: 問客殺雞
Pinyin: wèn kè shā jī
Hanviet: 問vấn 客khách 殺sát 雞kê
Meaning:
lit. asking guests whether or not to butcher a chicken for them (idiom)/fig. hypocritical show of affection (or hospitality)/


Words: 啞巴吃黃連，有苦說不出
Pinyin: yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū
Hanviet: 啞á 巴ba 吃cật 黃hoàng 連liên 有hữu 苦khổ 說thuyết 不bất 出xuất
Meaning:
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)/unable to speak of one’s bitter suffering/sometimes written 啞子吃黃連，有苦說不出, 哑子吃黄连，有苦说不出/


Words: 啟海話
Pinyin: qǐ hǎi huà
Hanviet: 啟khải 海hải 話thoại
Meaning:
Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai/


Words: 啟發
Pinyin: qǐ fā
Hanviet: 啟khải 發phát
Meaning:
to enlighten/to explain (a text etc)/to stimulate (a mental attitude)/enlightenment/revelation/motivation/


Words: 啟蒙
Pinyin: qǐ méng
Hanviet: 啟khải 蒙mông
Meaning:
to instruct the young/to initiate/to awake sb from ignorance/to free sb from prejudice or superstition/primer/enlightened/the Enlightenment/Western learning from the late Qing dynasty/


Words: 啟蟄
Pinyin: qǐ zhé
Hanviet: 啟khải 蟄chập
Meaning:
Waking from Hibernation/old variant of 驚蟄, 惊蛰, Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣, 二十四节气 6th-20th March/


Words: 啦
Pinyin: la
Hanviet: 啦
Meaning:
sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation/particle placed after each item in a list of examples/


Words: 喀喇沁
Pinyin: kā lǎ qìn
Hanviet: 喀 喇lặt 沁
Meaning:
Harqin (Mongol: guard)/Harqin banner or Kharchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia/also Harqin Left Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang 朝陽, 朝阳, Liaoning/


Words: 喀秋莎
Pinyin: kā qiū shā
Hanviet: 喀 秋thu 莎sa
Meaning:
Katyusha (name)/name of a Russian wartime song/nickname of a rocket launcher used by the Red Army in WWII/


Words: 善始善終
Pinyin: shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
Hanviet: 善thiện 始thỉ 善thiện 終chung
Meaning:
where there’s a start, there’s a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth/to carry things through/I started, so I’ll finish./


Words: 善者不辯，辯者不善
Pinyin: shàn zhě bù biàn , biàn zhě bù shàn
Hanviet: 善thiện 者giả 不bất 辯biện 辯biện 者giả 不bất 善thiện
Meaning:
Good words are not persuasive, persuasive words are not good (idiom, from Laozi 老子 81). Do not be taken in by appearances./


Words: 善財難捨
Pinyin: shàn cái nán shě
Hanviet: 善thiện 財tài 難nan 捨xả
Meaning:
to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom); refusing to contribute to charity/skinflint/miserly/


Words: 喇沙
Pinyin: lǎ shā
Hanviet: 喇lặt 沙sa
Meaning:
La Salle (used in the names of schools etc)/Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools/


Words: 喚雨呼風
Pinyin: huàn yǔ hū fēng
Hanviet: 喚hoán 雨vũ 呼hô 風phong
Meaning:
to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom)/to exercise magical powers/fig. to stir up troubles/also 呼風喚雨, 呼风唤雨/


Words: 喜則氣緩
Pinyin: xǐ zé qì huǎn
Hanviet: 喜hỷ 則tắc 氣khí 緩hoãn
Meaning:
joy depresses one’s qi vital breath/an excess of joy may lead to sluggishness of vital energy (TCM)/


Words: 喜大普奔
Pinyin: xǐ dà pǔ bēn
Hanviet: 喜hỷ 大đại 普phổ 奔bôn
Meaning:
(of news etc) so thrilling that everyone is rejoicing and spreading the word (Internet slang)/acronym from 喜聞樂見, 喜闻乐见, 大快人心, 普天同慶, 普天同庆 and 奔走相告/


Words: 喜新厭舊
Pinyin: xǐ xīn yàn jiù
Hanviet: 喜hỷ 新tân 厭yếm 舊cựu
Meaning:
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old/


Words: 喜餅
Pinyin: xǐ bǐng
Hanviet: 喜hỷ 餅bính
Meaning:
double happiness cakes, pastries offered by a man to his fiancée’s family at the time of their engagement/


Words: 喧賓奪主
Pinyin: xuān bīn duó zhǔ
Hanviet: 喧huyên 賓tân 奪đoạt 主chủ
Meaning:
lit. the voice of the guest overwhelms that of the host (idiom)/fig. a minor player upstages the main attraction/minor details obscure the main point/the sauce is better than the fish/


Words: 喪
Pinyin: sàng
Hanviet: 喪táng
Meaning:
to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one’s life etc)/to be bereaved of (one’s spouse etc)/to die/disappointed/discouraged/


Words: 喪權辱國
Pinyin: sàng quán rǔ guó
Hanviet: 喪táng 權quyền 辱nhục 國quốc
Meaning:
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom)/to surrender territory under humiliating terms/


Words: 喬巴山
Pinyin: qiáo bā shān
Hanviet: 喬kiều 巴ba 山sơn
Meaning:
Choibalsan, city in Mongolia, capital of the eastern aimag (province) of Dornod/Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895-1952), Communist leader of the Mongolian People’s Republic (mid-1930s-1952)/


Words: 喬治·布爾
Pinyin: qiáo zhì �� bù ěr
Hanviet: 喬kiều 治trị · 布bố 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and the inventor of Boolean logic/


Words: 喬治·索羅斯
Pinyin: qiáo zhì �� suǒ luó sī
Hanviet: 喬kiều 治trị · 索sách 羅la 斯tư
Meaning:
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist/


Words: 喬治城大學
Pinyin: qiáo zhì chéng dà xué
Hanviet: 喬kiều 治trị 城thành 大đại 學học
Meaning:
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team/


Words: 單位
Pinyin: dān wèi
Hanviet: 單đơn 位vị
Meaning:
unit (of measure)/unit (group of people as a whole)/work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)/CL:個, 个/


Words: 單子葉
Pinyin: dān zǐ yè
Hanviet: 單đơn 子tử 葉diệp
Meaning:
monocotyledon (plant family distinguished by single embryonic leaf, includes grasses, orchids and lilies)/


Words: 單方
Pinyin: dān fāng
Hanviet: 單đơn 方phương
Meaning:
unilateral/one-sided/home remedy/folk prescription(same as 丹方)/single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方)/metaphorically. a good solution/


Words: 嗆
Pinyin: qiàng
Hanviet: 嗆
Meaning:
to irritate the nose/to choke (of smoke, smell etc)/pungent/(coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb/to scold/to speak out against sb/


Words: 嗩吶
Pinyin: suǒ nà
Hanviet: 嗩 吶
Meaning:
suona, Chinese shawm (oboe), used in festivals and processions or for military purposes/also written 鎖吶, 锁呐/also called 喇叭/


Words: 嘉定
Pinyin: jiā dìng
Hanviet: 嘉gia 定định
Meaning:
Jiading district of northwest Shanghai/final reign name 1208-1224 of South Song emperor Ningzong 寧宗, 宁宗/


Words: 嘉山
Pinyin: jiā shān
Hanviet: 嘉gia 山sơn
Meaning:
Jiashan former county 1932-1992 in northeast Anhui, now part of Chuzhou prefecture 滁州/provincial level scenic area in Hunan/


Words: 嘍
Pinyin: lou
Hanviet: 嘍lâu
Meaning:
(final particle equivalent to 了)/(particle calling attention to, or mildly warning of, a situation)/


Words: 嘔心瀝血
Pinyin: oǔ xīn lì xuè
Hanviet: 嘔 心tâm 瀝lịch 血huyết
Meaning:
lit. to spit out one’s heart and spill blood (idiom)/to work one’s heart out/blood, sweat and tears/


Words: 嘖
Pinyin: zé
Hanviet: 嘖
Meaning:
(interj. of admiration or of disgust)/to click one’s tongue/to attempt to (find an opportunity to) speak/


Words: 嘗糞
Pinyin: cháng fèn
Hanviet: 嘗thường 糞phẩn
Meaning:
to taste a patient’s excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety)/to suck up to sb/to kiss ass/


Words: 噴
Pinyin: pèn
Hanviet: 噴phún
Meaning:
(of a smell) strong/peak season (of a crop)/(classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)/


Words: 噶
Pinyin: gá
Hanviet: 噶
Meaning:
phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)/Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha/(dialect) final particle similar to 了 (esp. in Yunnan)/


Words: 噶瑪蘭
Pinyin: gá mǎ lán
Hanviet: 噶 瑪mã 蘭lan
Meaning:
Kavalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan/old name of Yilan 宜蘭, 宜兰 county, Taiwan/Kavalan, a brand of single malt whisky from Taiwan/


Words: 嚇
Pinyin: hè
Hanviet: 嚇
Meaning:
to scare/to intimidate/to threaten/(interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut/(interjection showing astonishment)/


Words: 嚴復
Pinyin: yán fù
Hanviet: 嚴nghiêm 復phục
Meaning:
Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences/


Words: 囊謙
Pinyin: náng qiān
Hanviet: 囊nang 謙khiêm
Meaning:
Nangqên county (Tibetan: nang chen rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州, 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 四一二事變
Pinyin: sì yī èr shì biàn
Hanviet: 四tứ 一nhất 二nhị 事sự 變biến
Meaning:
the coup of 12th Mar 1927, an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the communists/called 反革命政变, 反革命政變 or 慘案, 惨案 in PRC literature/


Words: 四一二反革命政變
Pinyin: sì yī èr fǎn gé mìng zhèng biàn
Hanviet: 四tứ 一nhất 二nhị 反phản 革cách 命mạng 政chánh 變biến
Meaning:
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek’s coup against the communists in Shanghai/


Words: 四一二慘案
Pinyin: sì yī èr cǎn àn
Hanviet: 四tứ 一nhất 二nhị 慘thảm 案án
Meaning:
the massacre of 12th Mar 1927/the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists/


Words: 四人幫
Pinyin: sì rén bāng
Hanviet: 四tứ 人nhân 幫
Meaning:
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution/


Words: 四個現代化
Pinyin: sì ge xiàn dài huà
Hanviet: 四tứ 個cá 現hiện 代đại 化hóa
Meaning:
Deng Xiaoping’s four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology/abbr. to 四化/


Words: 四分五裂
Pinyin: sì fēn wǔ liè
Hanviet: 四tứ 分phần/phân 五ngũ 裂liệt
Meaning:
all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization)/complete lack of unity/to disintegrate/falling apart/to be at sixes and sevens/


Words: 四十二章經
Pinyin: sì shí èr zhāng jīng
Hanviet: 四tứ 十thập 二nhị 章chương 經kinh
Meaning:
The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦葉摩騰 and Gobharana 竺法蘭 (Dharmaraksha)/


Words: 四大
Pinyin: sì dà
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại
Meaning:
the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism)/the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放, 大鸣大放, 大辯論, 大辩论, 大字報, 大字报 (PRC)/


Words: 四大佛教名山
Pinyin: sì dà fó jiào míng shān
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại 佛Phật 教giáo 名danh 山sơn
Meaning:
Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, namely: Mt Wutai 五臺山, 五台山 in Shanxi, Mt Emei 峨眉山 in Sichuan, Mt Jiuhua 九華山, 九华山 in Anhui, Mt Potala 普陀山 in Zhejiang/


Words: 四大名著
Pinyin: sì dà míng zhù
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại 名danh 著trước
Meaning:
the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢, 红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳, 水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/


Words: 四大盆地
Pinyin: sì dà pén dì
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại 盆bồn 地địa
Meaning:
four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 準葛爾盆地, 准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴達木盆地, 柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地/


Words: 四大石窟
Pinyin: sì dà shí kū
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại 石thạch 窟quật
Meaning:
the four great caves, namely: Longmen Grottoes 龍門石窟, 龙门石窟 at Luoyang, Henan, Yungang Caves 雲岡石窟, 云冈石窟 at Datong, Shanxi, Mogao Caves 莫高窟 at Dunhuang, Gansu, and Mt Maiji Caves 麥積山石窟, 麦积山石窟 at Tianshui, Gansu/


Words: 四大美女
Pinyin: sì dà měi nǚ
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại 美mỹ 女nữ
Meaning:
Four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬, 貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環, 杨玉环/


Words: 四大鬚生
Pinyin: sì dà xū shēng
Hanviet: 四tứ 大đại 鬚tu 生sanh
Meaning:
Four great beards of Beijing opera, namely: Ma Lianliang 馬連良, 马连良, Tan Fuying 譚富英, 谭富英, Yang Baosen 楊寶森, 杨宝森, Xi Xiaobo 奚嘯伯, 奚啸伯/


Words: 四小龍
Pinyin: sì xiǎo lóng
Hanviet: 四tứ 小tiểu 龍long
Meaning:
Four Asian Tigers/East Asian Tigers/Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)/


Words: 四德
Pinyin: sì dé
Hanviet: 四tứ 德đức
Meaning:
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one’s parents, respect 悌 to one’s older brother, loyalty 忠 to one’s monarch, faith 信 to one’s male friends/the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功/


Words: 四書
Pinyin: sì shū
Hanviet: 四tứ 書thư
Meaning:
Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學, 大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語, 论语, and Mencius 孟子/


Words: 四海為家
Pinyin: sì hǎi wéi jiā
Hanviet: 四tứ 海hải 為vi 家gia
Meaning:
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom)/to feel at home anywhere/to roam about unconstrained/to consider the entire country, or world, to be one’s own/


Words: 四清運動
Pinyin: sì qīng yùn dòng
Hanviet: 四tứ 清thanh 運vận 動động
Meaning:
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party/


Words: 四溢
Pinyin: sì yì
Hanviet: 四tứ 溢dật
Meaning:
(of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place/(of grease etc) dripping everywhere/flowing all over the place/


Words: 四維
Pinyin: sì wéi
Hanviet: 四tứ 維duy
Meaning:
the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor/see 禮義廉恥, 礼义廉耻/the four directions/the four limbs (Chinese medicine)/four-dimensional/


Words: 四聲
Pinyin: sì shēng
Hanviet: 四tứ 聲thanh
Meaning:
the four tones of classical Chinese phonetics, namely: level or even tone 平聲, 平声, third tone 上聲, 上声, fourth tone 去聲, 去声, entering tone 入聲, 入声/the four tones of modern standard Chinese pronunciation, namely: First or high level tone 陰平聲, 阴平声, Second or rising tone 陽平聲, 阳平声, Third or low-falling-raising tone 上聲, 上声, Fourth or falling tone 去聲, 去声/


Words: 四胡
Pinyin: sì hú
Hanviet: 四tứ 胡hồ
Meaning:
sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture/


Words: 四診
Pinyin: sì zhěn
Hanviet: 四tứ 診chẩn
Meaning:
(TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診, 望诊 (observation), 聞診, 闻诊 (auscultation and olfaction), 問診, 问诊 (interrogation), 切診, 切诊 (pulse feeling and palpation)/


Words: 四諦
Pinyin: sì dì
Hanviet: 四Tứ 諦Đế
Meaning:
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道: 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/


Words: 四象
Pinyin: sì xiàng
Hanviet: 四tứ 象tượng
Meaning:
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍, 青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武/


Words: 四靈
Pinyin: sì líng
Hanviet: 四tứ 靈linh
Meaning:
four divinities/four divine emperors/four mythical creatures symbolic of propsperity and longevity, namely phoenix 鳳, 凤, turtle 龜, 龟, dragon 龍, 龙, Chinese unicorn 麒麟/also 四象, the four division of the sky/


Words: 四項基本原則
Pinyin: sì xiàng jī běn yuán zé
Hanviet: 四tứ 項hạng 基cơ 本bổn 原nguyên 則tắc
Meaning:
the Four Cardinal Principles by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平, 邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, proletariat’s dictatorship, CPC’s leadership, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism/


Words: 回
Pinyin: huí
Hanviet: 回hồi
Meaning:
to circle/to go back/to turn around/to answer/to return/to revolve/Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)/time/classifier for acts of a play/section or chapter (of a classic book)/


Words: 回合
Pinyin: huí hé
Hanviet: 回hồi 合hợp
Meaning:
round (of negotiations)/bout (of sporting competition, boxing match, confrontation etc)/rally (in volley-ball, tennis etc)/


Words: 回老家
Pinyin: huí lǎo jiā
Hanviet: 回hồi 老lão 家gia
Meaning:
to go back to one’s roots/to return to one’s native place/by ext. to join one’s ancestors (i.e. to die)/


Words: 回良玉
Pinyin: huí liáng yù
Hanviet: 回hồi 良lương 玉ngọc
Meaning:
Hui Liangyu (1944-) PRC Hui national career politician from Guilin, background in economics, politburo member from 2002, deputy chair of State Council from 2003/


Words: 因噎廢食
Pinyin: yīn yē fèi shí
Hanviet: 因nhân 噎ế 廢phế 食thực
Meaning:
lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face/to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk/


Words: 因禍得福
Pinyin: yīn huò dé fú
Hanviet: 因nhân 禍họa 得đắc 福phước
Meaning:
to profit from a disaster (idiom); some good comes out of a setback/It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good./


Words: 因緣
Pinyin: yīn yuán
Hanviet: 因nhân 緣duyên
Meaning:
chance/opportunity/predestined relationship/(Buddhist) principal and secondary causes/chain of cause and effect/


Words: 因陋就簡
Pinyin: yīn lòu jiù jiǎn
Hanviet: 因nhân 陋lậu 就tựu 簡giản
Meaning:
crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can/to do things simply and thriftily/It’s not pretty but it works./


Words: 固若金湯
Pinyin: gù ruò jīn tāng
Hanviet: 固cố 若nhược 金kim 湯thang
Meaning:
secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom)/well fortified/invulnerable to attack/


Words: 國企
Pinyin: guó qǐ
Hanviet: 國quốc 企xí
Meaning:
state enterprise/(Tw) abbr. for 國際企業管理, 国际企业管理, international business management (as a subject of study)/


Words: 國內安全保衛局
Pinyin: guó nèi ān quán bǎo wèi jú
Hanviet: 國quốc 內nội 安an 全toàn 保bảo 衛vệ 局cục
Meaning:
Domestic Security Protection Bureau, the department of the Ministry of Public Security responsible for dealing with dissidents, activists etc/


Words: 國務院國有資產監督管理委員會
Pinyin: guó wù yuàn guó yǒu zī chǎn jiān dū guǎn lǐ wěi yuán huì
Hanviet: 國quốc 務vụ 院viện 國quốc 有hữu 資tư 產sản 監giám 督 管quản 理lý 委ủy 員 會hội
Meaning:
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of State Council (SASAC)/abbr. to 國資委, 国资委/


Words: 國大
Pinyin: guó dà
Hanviet: 國quốc 大đại
Meaning:
abbr. for 國民大會, 国民大会, National Assembly of the Republic of China (extant during various periods between 1913 and 2005)/abbr. for 新加坡國立大學, 新加坡国立大学, National University of Singapore (NUS)/abbr. for 印度國民大會黨, 印度国民大会党, Indian National Congress (INC)/abbr. for 馬來西亞印度國民大會黨, 马来西亚印度国民大会党, Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)/


Words: 國家廣播電影電視總局
Pinyin: guó jiā xīn wén chū bǎn guǎng diàn zǒng jú
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 廣quảng 播bá 電điện 影ảnh 電điện 視thị 總tổng 局cục
Meaning:
State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT)/abbr. to 廣電總局, 广电总局/


Words: 國家漢辦
Pinyin: guó jiā hàn bàn
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 漢hán 辦biện
Meaning:
Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as "Hanban"), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, and has established Confucius Institutes 孔子學院, 孔子学院 internationally/abbr. to 漢辦, 汉办/


Words: 國家環保總局
Pinyin: guó jiā huán bǎo zǒng jú
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 環hoàn 保bảo 總tổng 局cục
Meaning:
(PRC) State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), former incarnation (until 2008) of 環境保護部, 环境保护部/


Words: 國家發展計劃委員會
Pinyin: guó jiā fā zhǎn jì huà wěi yuán huì
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 發phát 展triển 計kế 劃hoạch 委ủy 員 會hội
Meaning:
PRC State Development and Planning Committee, set up 1998 to replace State Planning Committee 國家計劃委員會, 国家计划委员会, replaced in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會, 国家发展和改革委员会/


Words: 國家興亡，匹夫有責
Pinyin: guó jiā xīng wáng , pǐ fū yǒu zé
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 興hưng 亡vong 匹thất 夫phu 有hữu 責trách
Meaning:
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society./


Words: 國家計劃委員會
Pinyin: guó jiā jì huà wěi yuán huì
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 計kế 劃hoạch 委ủy 員 會hội
Meaning:
PRC State Planning Committee, set up in 1952, replaced in 1998 by State Development and Planning Committee 國家發展計劃委員會, 国家发展计划委员会 then in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會, 国家发展和改革委员会/


Words: 國家重點學科
Pinyin: guó jiā zhòng diǎn xué kē
Hanviet: 國quốc 家gia 重trọng/trùng 點điểm 學học 科khoa
Meaning:
National Key Disciplines (disciplines recognized as important and supported by PRC central government, including medicine, science, chemistry, engineering, commerce and law)/


Words: 國恥
Pinyin: guó chǐ
Hanviet: 國quốc 恥sỉ
Meaning:
national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變, 九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria/


Words: 國立西南聯合大學
Pinyin: guó lì xī nán lián hé dà xué
Hanviet: 國quốc 立lập 西tây 南nam 聯liên 合hợp 大đại 學học
Meaning:
National Southwest Combined University (Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai Universities in exile in Kunming 1937-1945)/


Words: 國語
Pinyin: guó yǔ
Hanviet: 國quốc 語ngữ
Meaning:
Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature/Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject/Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government/Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC/


Words: 國語注音符號第一式
Pinyin: guó yǔ zhù yīn fú hào dì yī shì
Hanviet: 國quốc 語ngữ 注chú 音âm 符phù 號hiệu 第đệ 一nhất 式thức
Meaning:
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan)/Bopomofo/abbr. to 注音一式/


Words: 國防科學技術工業委員會
Pinyin: guó fáng kē xué jì shù gōng yè wěi yuán huì
Hanviet: 國quốc 防phòng 科khoa 學học 技kỹ 術thuật 工công 業nghiệp 委ủy 員 會hội
Meaning:
Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)/abbr. to 國防科工委, 国防科工委/


Words: 圍剿
Pinyin: wéi jiǎo
Hanviet: 圍vi 剿
Meaning:
to encircle and annihilate/refers to repeated campaigns of the Guomindang against the communists from 1930 onwards/


Words: 圍城打援
Pinyin: wéi chéng dǎ yuán
Hanviet: 圍vi 城thành 打đả 援viện
Meaning:
to besiege and strike the relief force (idiom); strategy of surrounding a unit to entice the enemy to reinforce, then striking the new troops/


Words: 圍魏救趙
Pinyin: wéi wèi jiù zhào
Hanviet: 圍vi 魏ngụy 救cứu 趙triệu
Meaning:
lit. to besiege 魏 and rescue 趙, 赵 (idiom)/fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers/


Words: 圓
Pinyin: yuán
Hanviet: 圓viên
Meaning:
circle/round/circular/spherical/(of the moon) full/unit of Chinese currency (Yuan)/tactful/to justify/


Words: 圖譜
Pinyin: tú pǔ
Hanviet: 圖đồ 譜
Meaning:
archive of graphics (e.g. maps, documents or botanical figures)/atlas/collection of illustrations or sheet music/


Words: 團
Pinyin: tuán
Hanviet: 團đoàn
Meaning:
round/lump/ball/to roll into a ball/to gather/regiment/group/society/classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)/


Words: 團購
Pinyin: tuán gòu
Hanviet: 團đoàn 購
Meaning:
group buying/collective buying/buying by a group of individuals who negotiate a discount for the group/


Words: 土
Pinyin: tǔ
Hanviet: 土thổ/độ
Meaning:
earth/dust/clay/local/indigenous/crude opium/unsophisticated/one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音/


Words: 土司
Pinyin: tǔ sī
Hanviet: 土thổ/độ 司ty
Meaning:
sliced bread (loanword from "toast")/government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties/


Words: 土邦
Pinyin: tǔ bāng
Hanviet: 土thổ/độ 邦bang
Meaning:
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)/


Words: 在天願做比翼鳥，在地願做連理枝
Pinyin: zài tiān yuàn zuò bǐ yì niǎo , zài dì yuàn zuò lián lǐ zhī
Hanviet: 在tại 天thiên 願nguyện 做tố 比tỉ 翼dực 鳥điểu 在tại 地địa 願nguyện 做tố 連liên 理lý 枝chi
Meaning:
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined/wishing for conjugal bliss/


Words: 在家千日好，出門一時難
Pinyin: zài jiā qiān rì hǎo , chū mén yī shí nán
Hanviet: 在tại 家gia 千thiên 日nhật 好hảo/hiếu 出xuất 門môn 一nhất 時thời 難nạn/nan
Meaning:
lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom)/fig. there’s no place like home/


Words: 在那兒
Pinyin: zài na zài nar
Hanviet: 在tại 那na 兒nhi
Meaning:
(adverbial expression indicating that the attention of the subject of the verb is focused on what they are doing, not distracted by anything else)/just ...ing (and nothing else)/


Words: 地
Pinyin: de
Hanviet: 地địa
Meaning:
-ly/structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct/


Words: 地久天長
Pinyin: dì jiǔ tiān cháng
Hanviet: 地địa 久cửu 天thiên 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal/for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc)/also written 天長地久, 天长地久/


Words: 地區
Pinyin: dì qū
Hanviet: 地địa 區khu
Meaning:
local/regional/district (not necessarily formal administrative unit)/region/area/as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture level city or county level city)/CL:個, 个/


Words: 地心緯度
Pinyin: dì xīn wěi dù
Hanviet: 地địa 心tâm 緯 度độ
Meaning:
geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth)/


Words: 地支
Pinyin: dì zhī
Hanviet: 地địa 支chi
Meaning:
the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥, used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc/


Words: 地溝油
Pinyin: dì gōu yóu
Hanviet: 地địa 溝câu 油du
Meaning:
cooking oil that has been used and discarded (and, in China, sometimes illegally recovered from gutters and sewers, reprocessed and sold back to restaurants)/


Words: 地理緯度
Pinyin: dì lǐ wěi dù
Hanviet: 地địa 理lý 緯 度độ
Meaning:
geographic latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and the normal to the reference ellipsoid)/


Words: 地藏
Pinyin: dì zàng
Hanviet: 地địa 藏tạng
Meaning:
Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)/also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva/


Words: 地藏王菩薩
Pinyin: dì zàng wáng pú sà
Hanviet: 地địa 藏tạng 王vương 菩Bồ 薩Tát
Meaning:
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)/also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva/


Words: 坎兒井
Pinyin: kǎn kǎnr jǐng
Hanviet: 坎khảm 兒nhi 井tỉnh
Meaning:
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)/


Words: 坎坷
Pinyin: kǎn kě
Hanviet: 坎khảm 坷
Meaning:
bumpy (of a road)/rough (of life)/to be down on one’s luck/to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes/


Words: 坐冷板凳
Pinyin: zuò lěng bǎn dèng
Hanviet: 坐tọa 冷lãnh 板bản 凳
Meaning:
to hold an inconsequential job/to receive a cold reception/to be kept waiting for an assignment or audience/to be out in the cold/to be sidelined/to warm the bench/to cool one’s heels/


Words: 坐山觀虎鬥
Pinyin: zuò shān guān hǔ dòu
Hanviet: 坐tọa 山sơn 觀quán 虎hổ 鬥đấu
Meaning:
sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight/watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted (idiom)/


Words: 坐月子
Pinyin: zuò yuè zi
Hanviet: 坐tọa 月nguyệt 子tử
Meaning:
to convalesce for a month following childbirth, following a special diet, and observing various taboos to protect the body from exposure to the "wind"/


Words: 坐觀成敗
Pinyin: zuò guān chéng bài
Hanviet: 坐tọa 觀quán 成thành 敗bại
Meaning:
to sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides/to sit on the fence/


Words: 坤
Pinyin: kūn
Hanviet: 坤
Meaning:
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth/female principle/☷/ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)/


Words: 坦博拉
Pinyin: tǎn bó lā
Hanviet: 坦thản 博bác 拉lạp
Meaning:
Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history/


Words: 垧
Pinyin: shǎng
Hanviet: 垧
Meaning:
unit of land area, with value varying from area to area (worth one hectare or 15 mǔ 亩 in parts of northeast China, but only 3 or 5 mǔ in northwest China)/


Words: 埃
Pinyin: āi
Hanviet: 埃ai
Meaning:
dust/dirt/Angstrom or Ångström, unit of length equal to 10^-10 meters/phonetic ai or e/abbr. for Egypt 埃及/


Words: 埃德加·斯諾
Pinyin: āi dé jiā �� sī nuò
Hanviet: 埃ai 德đức 加gia · 斯tư 諾nặc
Meaning:
Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China/


Words: 埃斯庫羅斯
Pinyin: āi sī kù luó sī
Hanviet: 埃ai 斯tư 庫khố 羅la 斯tư
Meaning:
Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc/


Words: 埃爾金
Pinyin: āi ěr jīn
Hanviet: 埃ai 爾nhĩ 金kim
Meaning:
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園, 圆明园 in 1860/Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810/


Words: 埋頭
Pinyin: mái tóu
Hanviet: 埋mai 頭đầu
Meaning:
to immerse oneself in/engrossed in sth/to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain)/countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)/


Words: 埋頭苦幹
Pinyin: mái tóu kǔ gàn
Hanviet: 埋mai 頭đầu 苦khổ 幹cán
Meaning:
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work/to make an all-out effort/up to the neck in work/


Words: 城中區
Pinyin: chéng zhōng qū
Hanviet: 城thành 中trung 區khu
Meaning:
city central district/Chengzhong district of Liuzhou city 柳州市, Guangxi/Chengzhong district of Xining city 西寧市, 西宁市, Qinghai/


Words: 城市依賴症
Pinyin: chéng shì yī lài zhèng
Hanviet: 城thành 市thị 依y 賴lại 症
Meaning:
"urban dependence disease" (sufferers are unwilling to give up city comforts and return to the countryside)/


Words: 城門失火，殃及池魚
Pinyin: chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú
Hanviet: 城thành 門môn 失thất 火hỏa 殃ương 及cập 池trì 魚ngư
Meaning:
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer/fig. you can’t escape responsibility for your actions/ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee/


Words: 城關區
Pinyin: chéng guān qū
Hanviet: 城thành 關quan 區khu
Meaning:
Chengguan District of Lhasa City 拉薩市, 拉萨市, Tibetan: Lha sa khrin kon chus, Tibet/Chengguan district of Lanzhou city 蘭州市, 兰州市, Gansu/


Words: 執事
Pinyin: zhí shì
Hanviet: 執chấp 事sự
Meaning:
to perform one’s job/attendant/job/duties/(respectful appellation for the addressee) you/your Excellency/(Church) deacon/


Words: 培里克利斯
Pinyin: péi lǐ kè lì sī
Hanviet: 培bồi 里lý 克khắc 利lợi 斯tư
Meaning:
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war/also written 伯里克利/


Words: 培養
Pinyin: péi yǎng
Hanviet: 培bồi 養dưỡng
Meaning:
to cultivate/to breed/to foster/to nurture/to educate/to groom (for a position)/education/fostering/culture (biology)/


Words: 基測
Pinyin: jī cè
Hanviet: 基cơ 測trắc
Meaning:
Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students (Taiwan), abbr. for 國民中學學生基本學力測驗, 国民中学学生基本学力测验/


Words: 基準
Pinyin: jī zhǔn
Hanviet: 基cơ 準chuẩn
Meaning:
norm/standard/standard of reference/base/base point/base line/benchmark/reference point/reference frame/criterion/data/


Words: 堂
Pinyin: táng
Hanviet: 堂đường
Meaning:
(main) hall/large room for a specific purpose/CL:間, 间/relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family/of the same clan/classifier for classes, lectures etc/classifier for sets of furniture/


Words: 堅壁清野
Pinyin: jiān bì qīng yě
Hanviet: 堅kiên 壁bích 清thanh 野dã
Meaning:
to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader/scorched earth policy/


Words: 堡
Pinyin: bǎo
Hanviet: 堡
Meaning:
an earthwork/castle/position of defense/stronghold/used in place names, often as phonetic bao for "burg" or "bad"/


Words: 堯
Pinyin: yáo
Hanviet: 堯
Meaning:
surname Yao/Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝, second son of Di Ku 帝嚳, 帝喾/


Words: 報喜不報憂
Pinyin: bào xǐ bù bào yōu
Hanviet: 報báo 喜hỷ 不bất 報báo 憂ưu
Meaning:
to report only the good news, not the bad news/to hold back unpleasant news/to sweep bad news under the carpet/


Words: 場
Pinyin: chǎng
Hanviet: 場tràng
Meaning:
large place used for a specific purpose/stage/scene (of a play)/classifier for sporting or recreational activities/classifier for number of exams/


Words: 塊
Pinyin: kuài
Hanviet: 塊khối
Meaning:
lump (of earth)/chunk/piece/classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc/(coll.) classifier for money and currency units/


Words: 塔什庫爾干塔吉克自治縣
Pinyin: tǎ shí kù ěr gān tǎ jí kè zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 塔tháp 什thập 庫khố 爾nhĩ 干can 塔tháp 吉cát 克khắc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區, 喀什地区, west Xinjiang/


Words: 塞翁失馬安知非福
Pinyin: sài wēng shī mǎ ān zhī fēi fú
Hanviet: 塞tắc 翁ông 失thất 馬mã 安an 知tri 非phi 福phước
Meaning:
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise/it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good/also written 塞翁失馬焉知非福, 塞翁失马焉知非福/


Words: 塞翁失馬焉知非福
Pinyin: sài wēng shī mǎ yān zhī fēi fú
Hanviet: 塞tắc 翁ông 失thất 馬mã 焉yên 知tri 非phi 福phước
Meaning:
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise/it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good/


Words: 墨
Pinyin: mò
Hanviet: 墨mặc
Meaning:
ink stick/China ink/CL:塊, 块/corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim’s forehead/


Words: 墨線
Pinyin: mò xiàn
Hanviet: 墨mặc 線tuyến
Meaning:
inked line/carpenter’s straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)/


Words: 墩
Pinyin: dūn
Hanviet: 墩
Meaning:
block/gate pillar/pier/classifier for clusters of plants/classifier for rounds in a card game: trick/


Words: 壤塘
Pinyin: rǎng táng
Hanviet: 壤nhưỡng 塘đường
Meaning:
Zamtang county (Tibetan: ’dzam thang 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, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 士
Pinyin: shì
Hanviet: 士sĩ
Meaning:
member of the senior ministerial class (old)/scholar (old)/bachelor/honorific/soldier/noncommissioned officer/specialist worker/


Words: 士為知己者死，女為悅己者容
Pinyin: shì wèi zhī jǐ zhě sǐ , nǚ wèi yuè jǐ zhě róng
Hanviet: 士sĩ 為vi 知tri 己kỷ 者giả 死tử 女nữ 為vi 悅duyệt 己kỷ 者giả 容dung
Meaning:
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart/


Words: 壬
Pinyin: rén
Hanviet: 壬nhâm
Meaning:
ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/ninth in order/letter "I" or roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 345°/nona/


Words: 壯年
Pinyin: zhuàng nián
Hanviet: 壯tráng 年niên
Meaning:
lit. robust years/prime of life/summer/able-bodied (fit for military service)/mature (talent, garden etc)/


Words: 壹敗塗地
Pinyin: yī bài tú dì
Hanviet: 壹nhất 敗bại 塗đồ 地địa
Meaning:
beaten and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly/a crushing defeat/failed and in a hopeless position/


Words: 壽桃
Pinyin: shòu táo
Hanviet: 壽thọ 桃đào
Meaning:
(myth.) peaches of immortality, kept by Xi Wangmu/fresh or confectionery peaches offered as a birthday gift/


Words: 壽終
Pinyin: shòu zhōng
Hanviet: 壽thọ 終chung
Meaning:
to die of old age/to live to a ripe old age/(fig.) (of sth) to come to an end (after a long period of service)/


Words: 夏敬渠
Pinyin: xià jìng qú
Hanviet: 夏hạ 敬kính 渠cừ
Meaning:
Xia Jingqu (1705-1787), Qing novelist, author of monumental novel 野叟曝言 Humble Words of a Rustic Elder/


Words: 夏河
Pinyin: xià hé
Hanviet: 夏hạ 河hà
Meaning:
Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet/


Words: 夏洛特·勃良特
Pinyin: xià luò tè �� bó liáng tè
Hanviet: 夏hạ 洛lạc 特đặc · 勃bột 良lương 特đặc
Meaning:
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛, 简·爱/


Words: 夏黃公
Pinyin: xià huáng gōng
Hanviet: 夏hạ 黃hoàng 公công
Meaning:
Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黃石公, 黄石公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author of ”Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黃石公三略, 黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 夔
Pinyin: kuí
Hanviet: 夔
Meaning:
one-legged mountain demon of Chinese mythology/Chinese mythical figure who invented music and dancing/Chinese rain god/surname Kui/


Words: 外企
Pinyin: wài qǐ
Hanviet: 外ngoại 企xí
Meaning:
foreign enterprise/company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong/abbr. for 外資企業, 外资企业/


Words: 外側裂周區
Pinyin: wài cè liè zhōu qū
Hanviet: 外ngoại 側trắc 裂liệt 周chu 區khu
Meaning:
perisylvian (the part of the brain surrounding the lateral sulcus or Sylvian fissure), involved in speech/


Words: 外剛內柔
Pinyin: wài gāng nèi róu
Hanviet: 外ngoại 剛cang 內nội 柔nhu
Meaning:
soft on the inside despite one’s hard shell/appearing tough on the outside as to mask one’s inner vulnerability/also written 內柔外剛, 内柔外刚/


Words: 外場
Pinyin: wài chǎng
Hanviet: 外ngoại 場tràng
Meaning:
outer area (of a place that has an inner area)/dining area of a restaurant (as opposed to the kitchen)/outfield (baseball etc)/area outside a venue (e.g. exterior of a stadium)/field (maintenance, testing etc)/(Chinese opera) the area in front of the table on the stage/


Words: 外心
Pinyin: wài xīn
Hanviet: 外ngoại 心tâm
Meaning:
(of a married person) interest in a third person/(old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition/(math.) circumcenter (of a polygon)/


Words: 外掛
Pinyin: wài guà
Hanviet: 外ngoại 掛quải
Meaning:
attached externally (e.g. fuel tank)/plug-in/add-on/special software used to cheat in an online game/


Words: 外放
Pinyin: wài fàng
Hanviet: 外ngoại 放phóng
Meaning:
extroverted/outgoing/to play audio through speakers (rather than through earphones)/(old) to appoint to a post outside the capital/


Words: 外教
Pinyin: wài jiào
Hanviet: 外ngoại 教giáo
Meaning:
foreign teacher (abbr. for 外國教師, 外国教师)/greenhorn/novice/amateurish/religion other than Buddhism (term used by Buddhists)/


Words: 夙興夜寐
Pinyin: sù xīng yè mèi
Hanviet: 夙túc 興hưng 夜dạ 寐mị
Meaning:
to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard/to study diligently/to burn the candle at both ends/


Words: 多
Pinyin: duō
Hanviet: 多đa
Meaning:
many/much/often/a lot of/numerous/more/in excess/how (to what extent)/multi-/Taiwan pr.  when it means "how"/


Words: 多爾袞
Pinyin: duō ěr gǔn
Hanviet: 多đa 爾nhĩ 袞cổn
Meaning:
Dorgon (1612-1651), fourteenth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤, 努尔哈赤, successful general, instrumental in Manchu conquest of China, ruled China as regent 1644-1650 for his nephew Emperor Shunzhi 順治帝/


Words: 多那太羅
Pinyin: duō nǎ tài luó
Hanviet: 多đa 那na 太thái 羅la
Meaning:
Donatello (c. 1386-1466)/Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, famous early Renaissance painter and sculptor/


Words: 多頭
Pinyin: duō tóu
Hanviet: 多đa 頭đầu
Meaning:
many-headed/many-layered (authority)/devolved (as opposed to centralized)/pluralistic/(as classifier) number of animals/long term (finance)/long (investment)/


Words: 多麼
Pinyin: duō me
Hanviet: 多đa 麼ma
Meaning:
how (wonderful etc)/what (a great idea etc)/however (difficult it may be etc)/(in interrogative sentences) how (much etc)/to what extent/


Words: 夠
Pinyin: gòu
Hanviet: 夠
Meaning:
enough (sufficient)/enough (too much)/(coll.) (before adj.) really/(coll.) to reach by stretching out/


Words: 夢溪筆談
Pinyin: mèng xī bǐ tán
Hanviet: 夢mộng 溪khê 筆bút 談đàm
Meaning:
Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括, book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass/


Words: 夢話
Pinyin: mèng huà
Hanviet: 夢mộng 話thoại
Meaning:
talking in one’s sleep/words spoken during sleep/fig. speech bearing no relation to reality/delusions/


Words: 夤緣攀附
Pinyin: yín yuán pān fù
Hanviet: 夤 緣duyên 攀phàn 附phụ
Meaning:
to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one’s career by currying favor/social climbing/


Words: 大
Pinyin: dà
Hanviet: 大đại
Meaning:
big/huge/large/major/great/wide/deep/older (than)/oldest/eldest/greatly/very much/(dialect) father/father’s elder or younger brother/


Words: 大一統誌
Pinyin: dà yī tǒng zhì
Hanviet: 大đại 一nhất 統thống 誌chí
Meaning:
Dayuan Dayi Tongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁, 扎马剌丁 and Yu Yinglong 虞應龍, 虞应龙, 755 scrolls/


Words: 大中華
Pinyin: dà zhōng huá
Hanviet: 大đại 中trung 華hoa
Meaning:
Greater China/refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics)/refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas/


Words: 大乘
Pinyin: dà shèng
Hanviet: 大Đại 乘Thừa
Meaning:
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle/Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond/also pr. /


Words: 大事
Pinyin: dà shì
Hanviet: 大đại 事sự
Meaning:
major event/major political event (war or change of regime)/major social event (wedding or funeral)/(do sth) in a big way/CL:件,樁, 桩/


Words: 大人不記小人過
Pinyin: dà rén bù jì xiǎo rén guò
Hanviet: 大đại 人nhân 不bất 記ký 小tiểu 人nhân 過quá
Meaning:
a person of great moral stature does not remember the offenses committed by one of low moral stature/


Words: 大公報
Pinyin: dà gōng bào
Hanviet: 大đại 公công 報báo
Meaning:
Dagong Bao, popular newspaper name/Ta Kung Pao, newspaper founded 1902 in Beijing, now published in Hong Kong/


Words: 大刀會
Pinyin: dà dāo huì
Hanviet: 大đại 刀đao 會hội
Meaning:
Great Sword Society, an offshoot of the White Lotus in the late Qing dynasty, involved in anti-Western activity at the time of the Boxer rebellion/


Words: 大勇若怯，大智若愚
Pinyin: dà yǒng ruò qiè , dà zhì ruò yú
Hanviet: 大đại 勇dũng 若nhược 怯khiếp 大đại 智trí 若nhược 愚ngu
Meaning:
a great hero may appear timid, the wise may appear stupid (idiom); the general public may not recognize great talent/


Words: 大叔
Pinyin: dà shū
Hanviet: 大đại 叔thúc
Meaning:
eldest of father’s younger brothers/uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one’s father)/


Words: 大同
Pinyin: dà tóng
Hanviet: 大đại 同đồng
Meaning:
Datong or Great community in neo-Confucian philosophy, sim. New Jerusalem/Datong or Tatung district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Datong prefecture level city in Shanxi 山西/Datong or Tatung township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣, 宜兰县, Taiwan/


Words: 大同區
Pinyin: dà tóng qū
Hanviet: 大đại 同đồng 區khu
Meaning:
Datong or Tatung district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Datong district of Daqing city 大慶, 大庆, Heilongjiang/


Words: 大和
Pinyin: dà hé
Hanviet: 大đại 和hòa
Meaning:
Yamato (possibly 3rd century AD), Japanese state before written records began in 7th century AD, its real dating is controversial/


Words: 大哥
Pinyin: dà gē
Hanviet: 大đại 哥ca
Meaning:
eldest brother/big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself)/gang leader/boss/


Words: 大唐狄公案
Pinyin: dà táng dí gōng àn
Hanviet: 大đại 唐đường 狄địch 公công 案án
Meaning:
Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee, 1949 novel by R.H. van Gulik, featuring Tang Dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑, 狄仁杰 as master sleuth/


Words: 大唐西域記
Pinyin: dà táng xī yù jì
Hanviet: 大đại 唐đường 西tây 域vực 記ký
Meaning:
Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘, compiled by 辯機, 辩机 in 646/


Words: 大喊大叫
Pinyin: dà hǎn dà jiào
Hanviet: 大đại 喊 大đại 叫khiếu
Meaning:
shouting and screaming (idiom); to scream loudly/to rant/to kick up a racket/to conduct vigorous propaganda/


Words: 大器晚成
Pinyin: dà qì wǎn chéng
Hanviet: 大đại 器khí 晚vãn 成thành
Meaning:
lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly/in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state/Rome wasn’t built in a day/


Words: 大坂
Pinyin: dà bǎn
Hanviet: 大đại 坂
Meaning:
old name for Ōsaka 大阪 (city in Japan), changed in the beginning of the Meiji 明治 Era because 坂 could, if the radicals were read separately, be interpreted as "(will) return to soil"/


Words: 大埔
Pinyin: dà bù
Hanviet: 大đại 埔
Meaning:
Dabu county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong/Tai Po district of New Territories, Hong Kong/Dabu or Tabu township in Chiayi county 嘉義縣, 嘉义县, west Taiwan/


Words: 大姐
Pinyin: dà jiě
Hanviet: 大đại 姐
Meaning:
big sister/elder sister/older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)/


Words: 大嫂
Pinyin: dà sǎo
Hanviet: 大đại 嫂
Meaning:
older brother’s wife/sister-in-law/elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)/


Words: 大安
Pinyin: dà ān
Hanviet: 大đại 安an
Meaning:
Da’an or Ta’an district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Ta’an township in Taichung county 臺中縣, 台中县, Taiwan/Da’an county level city in Baicheng 白城, Jilin/


Words: 大安區
Pinyin: dà ān qū
Hanviet: 大đại 安an 區khu
Meaning:
Da’an or Ta’an district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Da’an district of Zigong city 自貢市, 自贡市, Sichuan/Ta’an township in Taichung county 臺中縣, 台中县, Taiwan/


Words: 大小
Pinyin: dà xiǎo
Hanviet: 大đại 小tiểu
Meaning:
dimension/magnitude/size/measurement/large and small/at any rate/adults and children/consideration of seniority/


Words: 大小姐
Pinyin: dà xiǎo jie
Hanviet: 大đại 小tiểu 姐
Meaning:
eldest daughter of an affluent family/(polite) your daughter/bossy or indulged young woman/Miss High and Mighty/


Words: 大山
Pinyin: dà shān
Hanviet: 大đại 山sơn
Meaning:
Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV personality in PRC/


Words: 大敵當前
Pinyin: dà dí dāng qián
Hanviet: 大đại 敵địch 當đương 前tiền
Meaning:
facing a powerful enemy (idiom); fig. confronting grave difficulties/Enemy at the Gates, 1991 movie by Jean-Jacques Annaud/


Words: 大方廣佛華嚴經
Pinyin: dà fāng guǎng fó huá yán jīng
Hanviet: 大đại 方Phương 廣Quảng 佛Phật 華hoa 嚴nghiêm 經kinh
Meaning:
Avatamsaka sutra of the Huayan school/also called Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra, the Flower adornment sutra or the Garland sutra/


Words: 大旱望雲霓
Pinyin: dà hàn wàng yún ní
Hanviet: 大đại 旱hạn 望vọng 雲vân 霓nghê
Meaning:
lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom)/fig. desperate for an escape from a difficult situation/


Words: 大東亞共榮圈
Pinyin: dà dōng yà gòng róng quān
Hanviet: 大đại 東đông 亞 共cộng 榮vinh 圈quyển
Meaning:
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿, 近卫文麿 in 1938/


Words: 大柴旦
Pinyin: dà chái dàn
Hanviet: 大đại 柴sài 旦đán
Meaning:
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 大樹底下好乘涼
Pinyin: dà shù dǐ xià hǎo chéng liáng
Hanviet: 大đại 樹thụ 底để 下hạ 好hảo/hiếu 乘thừa 涼lương
Meaning:
lit. under a big tree the shade is plentiful (idiom)/fig. to benefit by proximity to an influential person/


Words: 大橋
Pinyin: dà qiáo
Hanviet: 大đại 橋kiều
Meaning:
Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China/


Words: 大水沖了龍王廟
Pinyin: dà shuǐ chōng le lóng wáng miào
Hanviet: 大đại 水thủy 沖 了liễu 龍long 王vương 廟miếu
Meaning:
lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom)/fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person/a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other/


Words: 大沽口砲臺
Pinyin: dà gū kǒu pào tái
Hanviet: 大đại 沽cô 口khẩu 砲 臺đài
Meaning:
Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)/


Words: 大灶
Pinyin: dà zào
Hanviet: 大đại 灶
Meaning:
large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth/(PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged)/


Words: 大烏蘇里島
Pinyin: dà wū sū lǐ dǎo
Hanviet: 大đại 烏ô 蘇tô 里lý 島đảo
Meaning:
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk/same as Heixiazi Island 黑瞎子島, 黑瞎子岛/


Words: 大田
Pinyin: dà tián
Hanviet: 大đại 田điền
Meaning:
Datian county in Sanming 三明, Fujian/Daejeon Metropolitan City, capital of South Chungcheong Province 忠清南道, South Korea/


Words: 大義滅親
Pinyin: dà yì miè qīn
Hanviet: 大đại 義nghĩa 滅diệt 親thân
Meaning:
to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one’s own family if justice demands it/


Words: 大肚子經濟
Pinyin: dà dù zi jīng jì
Hanviet: 大đại 肚đỗ 子tử 經kinh 濟tế
Meaning:
"Pregnancy-oriented Economy", new market conditions brought about by a predicted baby boom in China/


Words: 大腳
Pinyin: dà jiǎo
Hanviet: 大đại 腳cước
Meaning:
naturally-formed feet (as opposed to bound feet 小腳, 小脚)/long kick (soccer)/Bigfoot (mythological animal)/


Words: 大興安嶺
Pinyin: dà xīng ān lǐng
Hanviet: 大đại 興hưng 安an 嶺lĩnh
Meaning:
Daxing’anling mountain range in northwest Heilongjiang province 黑龍江, 黑龙江 in northeast China/Daxing’anling prefecture/


Words: 大計
Pinyin: dà jì
Hanviet: 大đại 計kế
Meaning:
large scale program of lasting importance/project of paramount importance/to think big/annual national audit/


Words: 大起大落
Pinyin: dà qǐ dà luò
Hanviet: 大đại 起khởi 大đại 落lạc
Meaning:
(of market prices etc) to rapidly fluctuate (idiom)/volatile/significant ups and downs/roller coaster/


Words: 大躍進
Pinyin: dà yuè jìn
Hanviet: 大đại 躍dược 進tiến
Meaning:
Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies/


Words: 大逆不道
Pinyin: dà nì bù dào
Hanviet: 大đại 逆nghịch 不bất 道đạo
Meaning:
disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)/


Words: 大通
Pinyin: dà tōng
Hanviet: 大đại 通thông
Meaning:
Datong district of Huainan city 淮南市, Anhui/Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining 西寧, 西宁, Qinghai/


Words: 大運
Pinyin: dà yùn
Hanviet: 大đại 運vận
Meaning:
Mandate of Heaven/the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC/usually written 大運河, 大运河/


Words: 大鍋飯
Pinyin: dà guō fàn
Hanviet: 大đại 鍋oa 飯phạn
Meaning:
lit. big rice pan/communal feeding/fig. egalitarianism (equal treatment for everyone in same institution)/


Words: 大關
Pinyin: dà guān
Hanviet: 大đại 關quan
Meaning:
strategic pass/barrier or mark (i.e. a level considered impressive, usually a round figure such as 10,000)/instrument of torture used to break limbs/


Words: 大題小作
Pinyin: dà tí xiǎo zuò
Hanviet: 大đại 題đề 小tiểu 作tác
Meaning:
to cut a long story short/a brief treatment of a complicated subject/fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter/


Words: 大體
Pinyin: dà tǐ
Hanviet: 大đại 體thể
Meaning:
in general/more or less/in rough terms/basically/on the whole/overall situation/the big picture/(Tw) remains (of a dead person)/


Words: 大鬧天宮
Pinyin: dà nào tiān gōng
Hanviet: 大đại 鬧náo 天thiên 宮cung
Meaning:
Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven, story about the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空, 孙悟空 from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/


Words: 大麥地
Pinyin: dà mài dì
Hanviet: 大đại 麥mạch 地địa
Meaning:
place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Chinese characters/


Words: 天低吳楚，眼空無物
Pinyin: tiān dī wú chǔ , yǎn kōng wú wù
Hanviet: 天thiên 低đê 吳ngô 楚sở 眼nhãn 空không 無vô 物vật
Meaning:
the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon/


Words: 天兵
Pinyin: tiān bīng
Hanviet: 天thiên 兵binh
Meaning:
celestial soldier/(old) imperial troops/(Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit/(more generally) bungler/screw-up/


Words: 天台
Pinyin: tiān tāi
Hanviet: 天thiên 台thai
Meaning:
Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興, 绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗/Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang/


Words: 天后
Pinyin: tiān hòu
Hanviet: 天thiên 后hậu
Meaning:
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖, 妈祖/Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)/


Words: 天壤之別
Pinyin: tiān rǎng zhī bié
Hanviet: 天thiên 壤nhưỡng 之chi 別biệt
Meaning:
lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom)/fig. night and day difference/opposite extremes/a world of difference/a far cry from/


Words: 天妒英才
Pinyin: tiān dù yīng cái
Hanviet: 天thiên 妒đố 英anh 才tài
Meaning:
heaven is jealous of heroic genius (idiom); the great have great hardship to contend with/those whom the Gods love die young/


Words: 天峻
Pinyin: tiān jùn
Hanviet: 天thiên 峻tuấn
Meaning:
Tianjun county (Tibetan: then cun rdzong) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 天崩地裂
Pinyin: tiān bēng dì liè
Hanviet: 天thiên 崩băng 地địa 裂liệt
Meaning:
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster/fig. violent revolution/major social upheaval/


Words: 天干
Pinyin: tiān gān
Hanviet: 天thiên 干can
Meaning:
the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸, used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc/


Words: 天才出自勤奮
Pinyin: tiān cái chū zì qín fèn
Hanviet: 天thiên 才tài 出xuất 自tự 勤cần 奮phấn
Meaning:
genius comes from hard effort/Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration (Thomas Edison)/


Words: 天旋地轉
Pinyin: tiān xuán dì zhuàn
Hanviet: 天thiên 旋toàn 地địa 轉chuyển
Meaning:
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one’s head spinning/fig. huge changes in the world/


Words: 天時地利人和
Pinyin: tiān shí dì lì rén hé
Hanviet: 天thiên 時thời 地địa 利lợi 人nhân 和hòa
Meaning:
the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war/


Words: 天有不測風雲，人有旦夕禍福
Pinyin: tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fú
Hanviet: 天thiên 有hữu 不bất 測trắc 風phong 雲vân 人nhân 有hữu 旦đán 夕tịch 禍họa 福phước
Meaning:
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment/


Words: 天梯
Pinyin: tiān tī
Hanviet: 天thiên 梯thê
Meaning:
stairway to heaven/high mountain road/tall ladder on a building or other large structure/space elevator/


Words: 天橋
Pinyin: tiān qiáo
Hanviet: 天thiên 橋kiều
Meaning:
Tianqiao district of Ji’nan city 濟南市, 济南市, Shandong/Tianqiao district in Beijing, formerly a center of folk culture/


Words: 天機不可泄漏
Pinyin: tiān jī bù kě xiè lòu
Hanviet: 天thiên 機cơ 不bất 可khả 泄tiết 漏lậu
Meaning:
lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed/I am not at liberty to inform you./


Words: 天津會議專條
Pinyin: tiān jīn huì yì zhuān tiáo
Hanviet: 天thiên 津tân 會hội 議nghị 專chuyên 條điều
Meaning:
Tianjin agreement of 1885 between Li Hongzhang 李鴻章, 李鸿章 and ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 to pull Qing and Japanese troops out of Korea/


Words: 天津條約
Pinyin: tiān jīn tiáo yuē
Hanviet: 天thiên 津tân 條điều 約ước
Meaning:
Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約, 不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China/


Words: 天無絕人之路
Pinyin: tiān wú jué rén zhī lù
Hanviet: 天thiên 無vô 絕tuyệt 人nhân 之chi 路lộ
Meaning:
Heaven never bars one’s way (idiom); don’t despair and you will find a way through./Never give up hope./Never say die./


Words: 天珠
Pinyin: tiān zhū
Hanviet: 天thiên 珠châu
Meaning:
dzi bead, a type of stone bead highly prized in Tibet for many centuries, reputed to hold supernatural power/


Words: 天經地義
Pinyin: tiān jīng dì yì
Hanviet: 天thiên 經kinh 地địa 義nghĩa
Meaning:
lit. heaven’s law and earth’s principle (idiom); fig. right and proper/right and unalterable/a matter of course/


Words: 天網恢恢
Pinyin: tiān wǎng huī huī
Hanviet: 天thiên 網võng 恢khôi 恢khôi
Meaning:
lit. heaven’s net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73)/fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape/you can’t run from the long arm of the law/


Words: 天翻地覆
Pinyin: tiān fān dì fù
Hanviet: 天thiên 翻phiên 地địa 覆phú
Meaning:
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion/everything turned on its head/


Words: 天要落雨，娘要嫁人
Pinyin: tiān yào luò yǔ , niáng yào jià rén
Hanviet: 天thiên 要yếu 落lạc 雨vũ 娘nương 要yếu 嫁giá 人nhân
Meaning:
the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)/fig. the natural order of things/something you can’t go against/


Words: 天造地設
Pinyin: tiān zào dì shè
Hanviet: 天thiên 造tạo 地địa 設thiết
Meaning:
lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom)/ideal/perfect/(of a match) made in heaven/to be made for one another/


Words: 天順
Pinyin: tiān shùn
Hanviet: 天thiên 順thuận
Meaning:
Tianshun Emperor, reign name of eighth Ming Emperor 朱祁鎮, 朱祁镇 (1427-1464), reigned 1457-1464, Temple name Yingzong 英宗/


Words: 天馬行空
Pinyin: tiān mǎ xíng kōng
Hanviet: 天thiên 馬mã 行hành 空không
Meaning:
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom)/(of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative/unconstrained in style/


Words: 太僕寺
Pinyin: tài pú sì
Hanviet: 太thái 僕bộc 寺tự
Meaning:
Court of imperial stud, office originally charged with horse breeding/Taibus banner in Xilin Gol league 錫林郭勒盟, 锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 太公兵法
Pinyin: tài gōng bīng fǎ
Hanviet: 太thái 公công 兵binh 法pháp
Meaning:
alternative name for ”Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黃石公三略, 黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 太公釣魚，願者上鉤
Pinyin: tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu
Hanviet: 太thái 公công 釣điếu 魚ngư 願nguyện 者giả 上thượng 鉤câu
Meaning:
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 薑子牙, 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one’s head in the noose/


Words: 太史公
Pinyin: tài shǐ gōng
Hanviet: 太thái 史sử 公công
Meaning:
Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷, 司马迁 refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記, 史记/


Words: 太子丹
Pinyin: tài zǐ dān
Hanviet: 太thái 子tử 丹đan
Meaning:
Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荆轲 in 227 BC/


Words: 太子十三峰
Pinyin: tài zǐ shí sān fēng
Hanviet: 太thái 子tử 十thập 三tam 峰phong
Meaning:
thirteen peaks of Meri snow mountains in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, Yunnan/also written 梅里雪山/


Words: 太學
Pinyin: tài xué
Hanviet: 太thái 學học
Meaning:
Imperial College of Supreme Learning, established in 124 BC, and the highest educational institute in ancient China until the Sui Dynasty/


Words: 太宗
Pinyin: tài zōng
Hanviet: 太thái 宗tông
Meaning:
posthumous name given to second emperor of a dynasty/King Taejong of Joseon Korea (1367-1422), reigned 1400-1418/


Words: 太平公主
Pinyin: tài píng gōng zhǔ
Hanviet: 太thái 平bình 公công 主chủ
Meaning:
Princess Taiping (c. 665-713), Tang Dynasty princess, politically powerful and known for her beauty/


Words: 太平御覽
Pinyin: tài píng yù lǎn
Hanviet: 太thái 平bình 御ngự 覽lãm
Meaning:
Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era, general Song dynasty encyclopedia compiled during 977-983 under Li Fang 李昉, 1000 scrolls/


Words: 太極
Pinyin: tài jí
Hanviet: 太thái 極cực
Meaning:
the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology/


Words: 太極圖說
Pinyin: tài jí tú shuō
Hanviet: 太thái 極cực 圖đồ 說thuyết
Meaning:
philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤, 周敦颐, starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes/


Words: 太極拳
Pinyin: tài jí quán
Hanviet: 太thái 極cực 拳quyền
Meaning:
shadowboxing or Taiji, T’aichi or T’aichichuan/traditional form of physical exercise or relaxation/a martial art/


Words: 太歲
Pinyin: tài suì
Hanviet: 太thái 歲tuế
Meaning:
Tai Sui, God of the year/archaic name for the planet Jupiter 木星/nickname for sb who is the most powerful in an area/


Words: 太湖
Pinyin: tài hú
Hanviet: 太thái 湖hồ
Meaning:
Lake Tai near Wuxi City 無錫, 无锡, bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China’s largest fresh water lakes, currently heavily polluted/


Words: 太爺
Pinyin: tài yé
Hanviet: 太thái 爺
Meaning:
(respectful for) one’s grandfather/sb’s father/older people/the head of the house (used by servants)/a district magistrate/


Words: 夫
Pinyin: fú
Hanviet: 夫phu
Meaning:
(classical) this, that/he, she, they/(exclamatory final particle)/(initial particle, introduces an opinion)/


Words: 夫妻相
Pinyin: fū qī xiàng
Hanviet: 夫phu 妻thê 相tương/tướng
Meaning:
similarity in features of an old couple/common facial traits that show predestination to be married together/


Words: 夫子自道
Pinyin: fū zǐ zì dào
Hanviet: 夫phu 子tử 自tự 道đạo
Meaning:
appearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself/one’s criticism of others exposes one’s own faults/


Words: 失之東隅，收之桑榆
Pinyin: shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú
Hanviet: 失thất 之chi 東đông 隅ngung 收thu 之chi 桑tang 榆
Meaning:
to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)/to compensate later for one’s earlier loss/what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts/


Words: 失事
Pinyin: shī shì
Hanviet: 失thất 事sự
Meaning:
(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc)/to mess things up/


Words: 失職
Pinyin: shī zhí
Hanviet: 失thất 職chức
Meaning:
to lose one’s job/unemployment/not to fulfil one’s obligations/to neglect one’s job/dereliction of duty/


Words: 失道寡助
Pinyin: shī dào guǎ zhù
Hanviet: 失thất 道đạo 寡quả 助trợ
Meaning:
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)/cf 得道多助 a just cause attracts much support/


Words: 夷
Pinyin: yí
Hanviet: 夷di
Meaning:
non-Han people, esp. to the East of China/barbarians/to wipe out/to exterminate/to tear down/to raze/


Words: 夷陵
Pinyin: yí líng
Hanviet: 夷di 陵lăng
Meaning:
Yiling (barbarian mound), historical place name in Yichang county 宜昌縣, 宜昌县 Hubei, first mentioned in history (after its destruction by Qin) as burial place of the former Chu kings/Yiling district of Yichang city 宜昌市, Hubei/


Words: 夾
Pinyin: jiā
Hanviet: 夾giáp
Meaning:
to press from either side/to place in between/to sandwich/to carry sth under armpit/wedged between/between/to intersperse/to mix/to mingle/clip/folder/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 夾山寺
Pinyin: jiā shān sì
Hanviet: 夾giáp 山sơn 寺tự
Meaning:
Jiashan Temple, Buddhist temple in Shimen 石门, Changde 常德, Hunan, the purported final home and burial place of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成/


Words: 夾帶
Pinyin: jiā dài
Hanviet: 夾giáp 帶đái
Meaning:
to carry within it/to be mixed in/to slip sth in/to intersperse/(hydrology etc) to entrain/to smuggle/notes smuggled into an exam/


Words: 夾心餅乾
Pinyin: jiā xīn bǐng gān
Hanviet: 夾giáp 心tâm 餅bính 乾can/kiền/càn
Meaning:
sandwich cookie/(jocularly) sb who is caught between two opposing parties/sb who is between the hammer and the anvil/


Words: 夾擊
Pinyin: jiā jī
Hanviet: 夾giáp 擊kích
Meaning:
pincer attack/attack from two or more sides/converging attack/attack on a flank/fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks/


Words: 夾攻
Pinyin: jiā gōng
Hanviet: 夾giáp 攻công
Meaning:
attack from two sides/pincer movement/converging attack/attack on a flank/fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks/


Words: 夾生飯
Pinyin: jiā shēng fàn
Hanviet: 夾giáp 生sanh 飯phạn
Meaning:
half cooked rice/(fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 奇文共賞
Pinyin: qí wén gòng shǎng
Hanviet: 奇kỳ 文văn 共cộng 賞thưởng
Meaning:
lit. remarkable work appreciated by all (idiom); universally praised (original meaning)/incomprehensible nonsense/preposterous bullshit/


Words: 奉
Pinyin: fèng
Hanviet: 奉phụng
Meaning:
to offer (tribute)/to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc)/to esteem/to revere/to believe in (a religion)/to wait upon/to accept orders (from superior)/


Words: 奉若神明
Pinyin: fèng ruò shén míng
Hanviet: 奉phụng 若nhược 神thần 明minh
Meaning:
to honor sb as a God (idiom); to revere/to worship/to deify/to make a holy cow of sth/to put sb on a pedestal/


Words: 契丹
Pinyin: qì dān
Hanviet: 契khế 丹đan
Meaning:
Qidan or Khitan, ethnic group in ancient China, a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liao River 遼河, 辽河/


Words: 奔奔族
Pinyin: bēn bēn zú
Hanviet: 奔bôn 奔bôn 族tộc
Meaning:
lit. Rushing Clan, generation born between 1975-1985 and China’s most hedonistic and hard-working social group (netspeak)/


Words: 奕訢
Pinyin: yì xīn
Hanviet: 奕dịch 訢hân
Meaning:
Grand Prince Yixin (1833-1898), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, prominent politician, diplomat and modernizer in late Qing/


Words: 套
Pinyin: tào
Hanviet: 套sáo
Meaning:
to cover/to encase/cover/sheath/to overlap/to interleave/to model after/to copy/formula/harness/loop of rope/(fig.) to fish for/to obtain slyly/classifier for sets, collections/bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names)/tau (Greek letter Ττ)/


Words: 套數
Pinyin: tào shù
Hanviet: 套sáo 數số
Meaning:
song cycle in Chinese opera/(fig.) a series of tricks/polite remarks/number of (things that are counted in 套, like houses)/


Words: 奧姆真理教
Pinyin: ào mǔ zhēn lǐ jiào
Hanviet: 奧áo 姆 真chân 理lý 教giáo
Meaning:
Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway/


Words: 奧威爾
Pinyin: ào wēi ěr
Hanviet: 奧áo 威uy 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Orwell (name)/George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal farm 動物農場, 动物农场 and 1984 一九八四年/


Words: 奧康納
Pinyin: ào kāng nà
Hanviet: 奧áo 康khang 納nạp
Meaning:
O’Connor (name)/Thomas Power O’Connor (1848-1929), Irish journalist and nationalist political leader/


Words: 奧斯特洛夫斯基
Pinyin: ào sī tè luò fū sī jī
Hanviet: 奧áo 斯tư 特đặc 洛lạc 夫phu 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer/Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright/


Words: 奧特萊斯
Pinyin: ào tè lái sī
Hanviet: 奧áo 特đặc 萊 斯tư
Meaning:
outlets (loanword)/retail outlet (e.g. specializing in seconds of famous brands)/factory outlet retail store/


Words: 奪
Pinyin: duó
Hanviet: 奪đoạt
Meaning:
to seize/to take away forcibly/to wrest control of/to compete or strive for/to force one’s way through/to leave out/to lose/


Words: 奮不顧身
Pinyin: fèn bù gù shēn
Hanviet: 奮phấn 不bất 顧cố 身thân
Meaning:
to dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety (idiom); undaunted by dangers/regardless of perils/


Words: 女大十八變
Pinyin: nǚ dà shí bā biàn
Hanviet: 女nữ 大đại 十thập 八bát 變biến
Meaning:
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)/fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was/


Words: 女書
Pinyin: nǚ shū
Hanviet: 女nữ 書thư
Meaning:
Nü Shu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑶族 瑤族 dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣, 江永县 in southern Hunan/


Words: 女真
Pinyin: nǚ zhēn
Hanviet: 女nữ 真chân
Meaning:
Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金, 后金 and Qing Dynasty/


Words: 奶奶
Pinyin: nǎi nai
Hanviet: 奶 奶
Meaning:
(informal) grandma (paternal grandmother)/(respectful) mistress of the house/CL:位/(coll.) boobies/breasts/


Words: 好
Pinyin: hǎo
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu
Meaning:
good/well/proper/good to/easy to/very/so/(suffix indicating completion or readiness)/(of two people) close/on intimate terms/


Words: 好事
Pinyin: hǎo shì
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 事sự
Meaning:
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed")/charity/happy occasion/Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead/


Words: 好事不出門，惡事傳千里
Pinyin: hǎo shì bù chū mén , è shì chuán qiān lǐ
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 事sự 不bất 出xuất 門môn 惡ác 事sự 傳truyền 千thiên 里lý
Meaning:
lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles/a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom)/


Words: 好學近乎知，力行近乎仁，知恥近乎勇
Pinyin: hào xué jìn hū zhī , lì xíng jìn hū rén , zhī chǐ jìn hū yǒng
Hanviet: 好hiếu 學học 近cận 乎hồ 知tri 力lực 行hành 近cận 乎hồ 仁nhân 知tri 恥sỉ 近cận 乎hồ 勇dũng
Meaning:
to love learning is akin to knowledge, to study diligently is akin to benevolence, to know shame is akin to courage (Confucius)/


Words: 好心倒做了驢肝肺
Pinyin: hǎo xīn dào zuò le lǘ gān fēi
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 心tâm 倒đảo 做tố 了liễu 驢lư 肝can 肺phế
Meaning:
lit. to mistake good intentions for a donkey’s liver and lungs (idiom)/fig. to mistake good intentions for ill intent/


Words: 好意思
Pinyin: hǎo yì si
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 意ý 思tư
Meaning:
to have the nerve/what a cheek!/to feel no shame/to overcome the shame/(is it) proper? (rhetorical question)/


Words: 好戲還在後頭
Pinyin: hǎo xì hái zài hòu tou
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 戲hí 還hoàn 在tại 後hậu 頭đầu
Meaning:
the best part of the show is yet to come/(with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come/you ain’t seen nothin’ yet/


Words: 好漢做事好漢當
Pinyin: hǎo hàn zuò shì hǎo hàn dāng
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 漢hán 做tố 事sự 好hảo/hiếu 漢hán 當đương
Meaning:
daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it (idiom)/a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions/the buck stops here/


Words: 好話
Pinyin: hǎo huà
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 話thoại
Meaning:
friendly advice/words spoken on sb’s behalf/a good word/kind words/words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions/


Words: 好飯不怕晚
Pinyin: hǎo fàn bù pà wǎn
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 飯phạn 不bất 怕phạ 晚vãn
Meaning:
the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten/the good things in life are worth waiting for/


Words: 好馬不吃回頭草
Pinyin: hǎo mǎ bù chī huí tóu cǎo
Hanviet: 好hảo/hiếu 馬mã 不bất 吃cật 回hồi 頭đầu 草thảo
Meaning:
lit. a good horse doesn’t come back to the same pasture (idiom)/fig. one should not go back to one’s past experiences (of love, job etc)/


Words: 如人飲水，冷暖自知
Pinyin: rú rén yǐn shuǐ , lěng nuǎn zì zhī
Hanviet: 如như 人nhân 飲ẩm 水thủy 冷lãnh 暖noãn 自tự 知tri
Meaning:
the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within/to know best by personal experience/


Words: 如來
Pinyin: rú lái
Hanviet: 如Như 來Lai
Meaning:
tathagata (Buddha’s name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)/


Words: 如是我聞
Pinyin: rú shì wǒ wén
Hanviet: 如như 是thị 我ngã 聞văn
Meaning:
so I have heard (idiom)/the beginning clause of Buddha’s quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)/


Words: 如蛆附骨
Pinyin: rú qū fù gǔ
Hanviet: 如như 蛆thư 附phụ 骨cốt
Meaning:
lit. like maggots feeding on a corpse (idiom)/fig. fixed on sth/to cling on without letting go/to pester obstinately/


Words: 如蟻附膻
Pinyin: rú yǐ fù shān
Hanviet: 如như 蟻nghĩ 附phụ 膻
Meaning:
like ants pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful/the crowd runs after trash/


Words: 如蠅逐臭
Pinyin: rú yíng zhú chòu
Hanviet: 如như 蠅dăng 逐trục 臭xú
Meaning:
like flies pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful/the crowd runs after trash/


Words: 如醉如癡
Pinyin: rú zuì rú chī
Hanviet: 如như 醉túy 如như 癡si
Meaning:
lit. as if drunk and stupefied (idiom)/intoxicated by sth/obsessed with/mad about sth/also written 如癡如醉, 如痴如醉/


Words: 如鯁在喉
Pinyin: rú gěng zài hóu
Hanviet: 如như 鯁 在tại 喉hầu
Meaning:
lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one’s throat (idiom)/fig. very upset and needing to express one’s displeasure/


Words: 妥壩
Pinyin: tuǒ bà
Hanviet: 妥 壩
Meaning:
former county from 1983 in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區, 昌都地区, Tibet/replaced by Qamdo, Zhag’yab and Jomdo counties in 1999/


Words: 妥壩縣
Pinyin: tuǒ bà xiàn
Hanviet: 妥 壩 縣huyện
Meaning:
former county from 1983 in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區, 昌都地区, Tibet/divided into Qamdo, Zhag’yab and Jomdo counties in 1999/


Words: 妥帖
Pinyin: tuǒ tiē
Hanviet: 妥 帖
Meaning:
properly/satisfactorily/firmly/very fitting/appropriate/proper/to be in good order/also written 妥貼, 妥贴/


Words: 妲己
Pinyin: dá jǐ
Hanviet: 妲 己kỷ
Meaning:
Daji (c. 11th century BC), mythical fox spirit and concubine of the last Shang Dynasty Emperor Zhou Xin 紂辛, 纣辛/


Words: 姆拉迪奇
Pinyin: mǔ lā dí qí
Hanviet: 姆 拉lạp 迪 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Mladić (name)/Ratko Mladić (1942-), army chief of Bosnian Serbs 1965-1996 and indicted war criminal/


Words: 始發
Pinyin: shǐ fā
Hanviet: 始thỉ 發phát
Meaning:
(of trains etc) to set off (on a journey)/to start (being issued or circulated)/to start (happening)/originating/


Words: 委
Pinyin: wěi
Hanviet: 委ủy
Meaning:
to entrust/to cast aside/to shift (blame etc)/to accumulate/roundabout/winding/dejected/listless/committee member/council/end/actually/certainly/


Words: 委身
Pinyin: wěi shēn
Hanviet: 委ủy 身thân
Meaning:
to give oneself wholly to/to put oneself at sb’s service/(of a woman) to give one’s body to/to marry/


Words: 姚明
Pinyin: yáo míng
Hanviet: 姚diêu 明minh
Meaning:
Yao Ming (1980-), retired Chinese basketball player, played for CBA Shanghai Sharks 1997-2002 and for NBA Houston Rockets 2002-2011/


Words: 姚濱
Pinyin: yáo bīn
Hanviet: 姚diêu 濱tân
Meaning:
Yao Bin (1957-), PRC champion ice skater during early 1980s and more recently national skating coach/


Words: 威妥瑪
Pinyin: wēi tuǒ mǎ
Hanviet: 威uy 妥 瑪mã
Meaning:
Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system/


Words: 威靈頓
Pinyin: wēi líng dùn
Hanviet: 威uy 靈linh 頓đốn
Meaning:
Wellington, capital of New Zealand (Tw)/Wellington (name)/Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1851)/


Words: 娘娘
Pinyin: niáng niang
Hanviet: 娘nương 娘nương
Meaning:
queen/empress/imperial concubine/Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West/mother/aunt/


Words: 媒合
Pinyin: méi hé
Hanviet: 媒môi 合hợp
Meaning:
to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc)/


Words: 媳婦熬成婆
Pinyin: xí fù áo chéng pó
Hanviet: 媳 婦phụ 熬ngao 成thành 婆bà
Meaning:
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)/fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor/what goes around comes around/


Words: 嫁雞隨雞
Pinyin: jià jī suí jī
Hanviet: 嫁giá 雞kê 隨tùy 雞kê
Meaning:
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders./We must learn to accept the people around us./


Words: 嫡系
Pinyin: dí xì
Hanviet: 嫡đích 系hệ
Meaning:
direct line of descent/under one’s personal command/school or faction passing on faithfully one’s doctrine/


Words: 嫦娥
Pinyin: cháng é
Hanviet: 嫦 娥
Meaning:
Chang’e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology)/one of the Chang’e series of PRC lunar spacecraft/


Words: 嫪毐
Pinyin: lào ǎi
Hanviet: 嫪 毐
Meaning:
Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis/in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng’s mother lady Zhao/


Words: 嬉笑怒罵
Pinyin: xī xiào nù mà
Hanviet: 嬉hi 笑tiếu 怒nộ 罵mạ
Meaning:
lit. laughs, jeers, anger and invective (idiom)/fig. all kinds of emotions/to mock and scold/(of writing) freely roving/following the author’s fancy/


Words: 子
Pinyin: zǐ
Hanviet: 子tử
Meaning:
son/child/seed/egg/small thing/1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat/Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位/ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)/


Words: 孔叢子
Pinyin: kǒng cóng zǐ
Hanviet: 孔khổng 叢tùng 子tử
Meaning:
the K’ung family Masters’ anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, possibly forged in third century by Wang Su 王肅, 王肃/


Words: 孔子學院
Pinyin: kǒng zǐ xué yuàn
Hanviet: 孔khổng 子tử 學học 院viện
Meaning:
Confucius Institute, organization established internationally by the PRC, promoting Chinese language and culture/


Words: 孔子家語
Pinyin: kǒng zǐ jiā yǔ
Hanviet: 孔khổng 子tử 家gia 語ngữ
Meaning:
Book of Sayings of Confucius and his disciples, probably by 3rd century forger Wang Su 王肅, 王肃, abbr. to 家語, 家语/


Words: 孔融讓梨
Pinyin: kǒng róng ràng lí
Hanviet: 孔khổng 融dung 讓nhượng 梨lê
Meaning:
Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融 picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty/


Words: 孕育
Pinyin: yùn yù
Hanviet: 孕dựng 育dục
Meaning:
to be pregnant/to produce offspring/to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc)/fig. replete with (culture etc)/


Words: 字
Pinyin: zì
Hanviet: 字tự
Meaning:
letter/symbol/character/word/CL:個, 个/courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China/


Words: 字樣
Pinyin: zì yàng
Hanviet: 字tự 樣
Meaning:
model or template character/written slogan or phrase/mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)/


Words: 存有
Pinyin: cún yǒu
Hanviet: 存tồn 有hữu
Meaning:
to hold in storage/to retain/to harbor (feelings)/to entertain (sentiments)/(of abstract things) to exist/there is/


Words: 孜孜不倦
Pinyin: zī zī bù juàn
Hanviet: 孜tư 孜tư 不bất 倦quyện
Meaning:
lit. diligent and never slacking (idiom); continuous concentrated effort/assiduous (in study)/to concentrate/


Words: 孝廉
Pinyin: xiào lián
Hanviet: 孝hiếu 廉liêm
Meaning:
xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing/successful second degree candidate/


Words: 孝悌忠信
Pinyin: xiào tì zhōng xìn
Hanviet: 孝hiếu 悌đễ 忠trung 信tín
Meaning:
Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity/piety to one’s parents, respect to one’s older brother, loyalty to one’s monarch, faith to one’s male friends/


Words: 孝敬
Pinyin: xiào jìng
Hanviet: 孝hiếu 敬kính
Meaning:
to show filial respect/to give presents (to one’s elders or superiors)/to support one’s aged parents/


Words: 孝聖憲
Pinyin: xiào shèng xiàn
Hanviet: 孝hiếu 聖thánh 憲hiến
Meaning:
Empress Xiaoshengxian (1693-1777), consort of Emperor Yongzheng 雍正 and mother of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆/


Words: 孝肅
Pinyin: xiào sù
Hanviet: 孝hiếu 肅túc
Meaning:
Xiaosu, posthumous name of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty/


Words: 孟姜女
Pinyin: mèng jiāng nǚ
Hanviet: 孟 姜 女nữ
Meaning:
heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body/


Words: 孟子
Pinyin: mèng zǐ
Hanviet: 孟 子tử
Meaning:
Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius/book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism/


Words: 孟思誠
Pinyin: mèng sī chéng
Hanviet: 孟 思tư 誠thành
Meaning:
Maeng Saseong (1360-1438), Korean politician of the Goryeo-Joseon transition, famous for his honesty and wisdom/


Words: 季
Pinyin: jì
Hanviet: 季quý
Meaning:
season/the last month of a season/fourth or youngest amongst brothers/classifier for seasonal crop yields/


Words: 孤家寡人
Pinyin: gū jiā guǎ rén
Hanviet: 孤cô 家gia 寡quả 人nhân
Meaning:
one who is cut off from others (idiom)/one who has chosen to follow a solitary path/(can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)/


Words: 孤拔
Pinyin: gū bá
Hanviet: 孤cô 拔bạt
Meaning:
Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War/


Words: 孤掌難鳴
Pinyin: gū zhǎng nán míng
Hanviet: 孤cô 掌chưởng 難nạn/nan 鳴minh
Meaning:
It’s hard to clap with only one hand./It takes two to tango/It’s difficult to achieve anything without support./


Words: 孤男寡女
Pinyin: gū nán guǎ nǚ
Hanviet: 孤cô 男nam 寡quả 女nữ
Meaning:
a single man and a single woman/bachelors/a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)/


Words: 孤軍奮戰
Pinyin: gū jūn fèn zhàn
Hanviet: 孤cô 軍quân 奮phấn 戰chiến
Meaning:
lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom)/fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support/


Words: 孩奴
Pinyin: hái nú
Hanviet: 孩hài 奴nô
Meaning:
"a slave to one’s children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their children’s well-being, in disregard of their own needs/


Words: 孫中山
Pinyin: sūn zhōng shān
Hanviet: 孫tôn 中trung 山sơn
Meaning:
Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨, 国民党/same as 孫逸仙, 孙逸仙/


Words: 孫堅
Pinyin: sūn jiān
Hanviet: 孫tôn 堅kiên
Meaning:
Sun Jian (155-191), famous general at end of Han dynasty, forerunner of the southern kingdom of Wu of the Three Kingdoms/


Words: 孫子
Pinyin: sūn zǐ
Hanviet: 孫tôn 子tử
Meaning:
Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武, 孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 孫子兵法
Pinyin: sūn zǐ bīng fǎ
Hanviet: 孫tôn 子tử 兵binh 法pháp
Meaning:
“Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书, written by Sun Tzu 孫子, 孙子/


Words: 孫思邈
Pinyin: sūn sī miǎo
Hanviet: 孫tôn 思tư 邈mạc
Meaning:
Sun Simiao (c. 581-682), doctor and herbalist of the Sui and Tang dynasty, author of Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 千金要方/


Words: 孫悅
Pinyin: sūn yuè
Hanviet: 孫tôn 悅duyệt
Meaning:
Sun Yue (1973-), PRC female pop star/Sun Yue (1985-), PRC basketball star, plays for Los Angeles Lakers from 2007/


Words: 孫悟空
Pinyin: sūn wù kōng
Hanviet: 孫tôn 悟ngộ 空không
Meaning:
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠, 七龙珠/


Words: 孫權
Pinyin: sūn quán
Hanviet: 孫tôn 權quyền
Meaning:
Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳, 吴 in the Three Kingdoms period/


Words: 孫武
Pinyin: sūn wǔ
Hanviet: 孫tôn 武võ
Meaning:
Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子, 孙子 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 孫武子
Pinyin: sūn wǔ zǐ
Hanviet: 孫tôn 武võ 子tử
Meaning:
Sun Wu, famous general, strategist and Legalist philosopher, contemporary with Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC), author of "The Art of War" 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法/also known as Sun Tzu 孫子, 孙子/


Words: 孫臏
Pinyin: sūn bìn
Hanviet: 孫tôn 臏bận
Meaning:
Sun Bin (-316 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)/


Words: 孫行者
Pinyin: sūn xíng zhě
Hanviet: 孫tôn 行hành 者giả
Meaning:
Sun Wukong 孫悟空, 孙悟空, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/


Words: 孫誅
Pinyin: sūn zhū
Hanviet: 孫tôn 誅tru
Meaning:
Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three hundred Tang dynasty poems 唐詩三百首, 唐诗三百首/also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士/


Words: 孫逸仙
Pinyin: sūn yì xiān
Hanviet: 孫tôn 逸dật 仙tiên
Meaning:
Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Kuomintang/same as 孫中山, 孙中山/


Words: 學名
Pinyin: xué míng
Hanviet: 學học 名danh
Meaning:
scientific name/Latin name (of plant or animal)/(according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students/


Words: 學海無涯
Pinyin: xué hǎi wú yá
Hanviet: 學học 海hải 無vô 涯nhai
Meaning:
sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn/ars longa, vita brevis/


Words: 宅男
Pinyin: zhái nán
Hanviet: 宅trạch 男nam
Meaning:
male addicted to computers, computer games, adult cartoons etc (2000s Taiwan slang, derived from Japanese otaku 御宅男 house male)/fan of computer games/by extension, nerd/


Words: 守成
Pinyin: shǒu chéng
Hanviet: 守thủ 成thành
Meaning:
to preserve the accomplishments of previous generations/to carry on the good work of one’s predecessors/


Words: 守望相助
Pinyin: shǒu wàng xiāng zhù
Hanviet: 守thủ 望vọng 相tương 助trợ
Meaning:
to keep watch and defend one another (idiom, from Mencius); to join forces to defend against external aggressors/mutual help and protection/


Words: 守株待兔
Pinyin: shǒu zhū dài tù
Hanviet: 守thủ 株chu 待đãi 兔thố
Meaning:
lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom)/to wait idly for opportunities/to trust to chance rather than show initiative/


Words: 守株待兔，緣木求魚
Pinyin: shǒu zhū dài tù , yuán mù qiú yú
Hanviet: 守thủ 株chu 待đãi 兔thố 緣duyên 木mộc 求cầu 魚ngư
Meaning:
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action/


Words: 守業
Pinyin: shǒu yè
Hanviet: 守thủ 業nghiệp
Meaning:
to preserve one’s heritage/to defend the accomplishments of previous generations/to carry on the good work/to keep one’s business going/


Words: 安
Pinyin: ān
Hanviet: 安an
Meaning:
content/calm/still/quiet/safe/secure/in good health/to find a place for/to install/to fix/to fit/to bring (a charge against sb)/to pacify/to harbor (good intentions)/security/safety/peace/ampere/


Words: 安南
Pinyin: ān nán
Hanviet: 安an 南nam
Meaning:
Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam)/Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century)/Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period)/old name for Vietnam/Annan district of Tainan City 臺南市, 台南市, Taiwan/Kofi Annan (1938-), UN secretary-general 1997-2007/


Words: 安南山脈
Pinyin: ān nán shān mài
Hanviet: 安an 南nam 山sơn 脈mạch
Meaning:
old term for Truong Son Ra 長山山脈, 长山山脉, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam and Laos and Kampuchea/


Words: 安土重遷
Pinyin: ān tǔ zhòng qiān
Hanviet: 安an 土thổ/độ 重trọng/trùng 遷thiên
Meaning:
to hate to leave a place where one has lived long/to be attached to one’s native land and unwilling to leave it/


Words: 安德海
Pinyin: ān dé hǎi
Hanviet: 安an 德đức 海hải
Meaning:
An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后, executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci’an 慈安皇太后/


Words: 安瓦爾
Pinyin: ān wǎ ěr
Hanviet: 安an 瓦ngõa 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Anwar (name)/Anwar bin Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, deputy prime minister 1993-1998, imprisoned 1999-2004 on charges including alleged homosexual acts, subsequently overturned/


Words: 安祿山
Pinyin: ān lù shān
Hanviet: 安an 祿lộc 山sơn
Meaning:
An Lushan (703-757), famous general and favorite of Tang emperor Xuanzong, eventually precipitated catastrophic An Shi rebellion (755-763)/


Words: 安重根
Pinyin: ān zhòng gēn
Hanviet: 安an 重trọng/trùng 根căn
Meaning:
An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (1879-1910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文 in 1909/


Words: 宋史
Pinyin: sòng shǐ
Hanviet: 宋tống 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Song Dynasty, twentieth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed under Toktoghan 脫脫, 脱脱 in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元, 496 scrolls/(not to be confused with 宋書, 宋书)/


Words: 宋四家
Pinyin: sòng sì jiā
Hanviet: 宋tống 四tứ 家gia
Meaning:
four famous Song calligraphers, namely: Su Shi 蘇軾, 苏轼, Huang Tingjian 黃庭堅, 黄庭坚, Mi Fu 米芾 and Cai Xiang 蔡襄/


Words: 宋太祖
Pinyin: sòng tài zǔ
Hanviet: 宋tống 太thái 祖tổ
Meaning:
Emperor Taizu of Song, posthumous title of the founding Song emperor Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤, 赵匡胤 (927-976), reigned from 960/


Words: 宋慈
Pinyin: sòng cí
Hanviet: 宋tống 慈từ
Meaning:
Song Ci (1186-1249), Southern Song lawyer, editor of Record of Washed Grievances 洗冤集錄, 洗冤集录 (1247), said to be the world’s first legal forensic text/


Words: 宋教仁
Pinyin: sòng jiào rén
Hanviet: 宋tống 教giáo 仁nhân
Meaning:
Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913/


Words: 宋書
Pinyin: sòng shū
Hanviet: 宋tống 書thư
Meaning:
History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋 or Liu Song 劉宋, 刘宋, sixth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Shen Yue 沈約, 沈约 in 488 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁, 100 scrolls/(not to be confused with 宋史)/


Words: 宋楚瑜
Pinyin: sòng chǔ yú
Hanviet: 宋tống 楚sở 瑜du
Meaning:
James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 親民黨, 亲民党/


Words: 宋武帝
Pinyin: sòng wǔ dì
Hanviet: 宋tống 武võ 帝đế
Meaning:
Emperor Wu of Song (363-422), personal name Liu Yu 劉裕, 刘裕, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋, 刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned 420-422/


Words: 宋祁
Pinyin: sòng qí
Hanviet: 宋tống 祁kỳ
Meaning:
Song Qi (998-1061), Song dynasty poet and writer, coauthor of History of the Later Tang Dynasty 新唐書, 新唐书/


Words: 完璧歸趙
Pinyin: wán bì guī zhào
Hanviet: 完hoàn 璧bích 歸quy 趙triệu
Meaning:
lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner/


Words: 宗
Pinyin: zōng
Hanviet: 宗tông
Meaning:
school/sect/purpose/model/ancestor/clan/to take as one’s model (in academic or artistic work)/classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs/


Words: 官渡之戰
Pinyin: guān dù zhī zhàn
Hanviet: 官quan 渡độ 之chi 戰chiến
Meaning:
battle of Guandu of 199 that established Cao Cao’s 曹操 domination over north China, at Guandu (near modern 許昌, 许昌 in north Henan)/


Words: 官能
Pinyin: guān néng
Hanviet: 官quan 能năng
Meaning:
function/capability/sense (i.e. the five senses of sight 視, 视, hearing 聽, 听, smell 嗅, taste 味 and touch 觸, 触)/faculty (i.e. specific ability)/


Words: 官逼民反
Pinyin: guān bī mín fǎn
Hanviet: 官quan 逼bức 民dân 反phản
Meaning:
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people/


Words: 定性
Pinyin: dìng xìng
Hanviet: 定định 性tánh
Meaning:
to determine the nature (usually of error or crime)/to determine chemical composition/qualitative/fixed/


Words: 定數
Pinyin: dìng shù
Hanviet: 定định 數số
Meaning:
constant (math.)/quota/fixed number (e.g. of places on a bus)/fixed quantity (e.g. load of truck)/destiny/


Words: 定點
Pinyin: dìng diǎn
Hanviet: 定định 點điểm
Meaning:
to determine a location/designated/appointed/specific/fixed (time)/fixed point (geometry)/fixed-point (number)/


Words: 定鼎
Pinyin: dìng dǐng
Hanviet: 定định 鼎đỉnh
Meaning:
lit. to set up the sacred tripods (following Yu the Great)/to fix the capital/to found a dynasty/used in advertising/


Words: 客串
Pinyin: kè chuàn
Hanviet: 客khách 串xuyến
Meaning:
to appear on stage in an amateur capacity/(of a professional) to make a guest appearance/(fig.) to assume a role outside one’s usual duties/to substitute for/


Words: 宣德
Pinyin: xuān dé
Hanviet: 宣tuyên 德đức
Meaning:
Xuande Emperor, reign name of fifth Ming emperor Zhu Zhanji 朱瞻基 (1398-1435), reigned 1426-1436, Temple name 明宣宗/


Words: 宦門
Pinyin: huàn mén
Hanviet: 宦 門môn
Meaning:
family of officials/family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)/


Words: 宮商角徵羽
Pinyin: gōng shāng jué zhǐ yǔ
Hanviet: 宮cung 商thương 角giác 徵trưng 羽vũ
Meaning:
pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la/


Words: 宰予晝寢
Pinyin: zǎi yǔ zhòu qǐn
Hanviet: 宰tể 予 晝trú 寢tẩm
Meaning:
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures/


Words: 害喜
Pinyin: hài xǐ
Hanviet: 害hại 喜hỷ
Meaning:
to have morning sickness during pregnancy/to have a strong appetite for certain foods (during pregnancy)/


Words: 家
Pinyin: jiā
Hanviet: 家gia
Meaning:
home/family/(polite) my (sister, uncle etc)/classifier for families or businesses/refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China/noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian/CL:個, 个/


Words: 家親
Pinyin: jiā qīn
Hanviet: 家gia 親thân
Meaning:
older generation in one’s household (often referring to one’s parents)/one’s deceased close relatives/


Words: 家醜不可外傳，流言切莫輕信
Pinyin: jiā chǒu bù kě wài chuán , liú yán qiè mò qīng xìn
Hanviet: 家gia 醜xú 不bất 可khả 外ngoại 傳truyền 流lưu 言ngôn 切thiết 莫mạc 輕khinh 信tín
Meaning:
Don’t spread abroad the shame of the family, don’t believe rumors lightly. (idiom)/Don’t wash your dirty linen in public, don’t listen to others’ gossip./


Words: 宿草
Pinyin: sù cǎo
Hanviet: 宿túc 草thảo
Meaning:
grass that has grown on a grave since last year/(fig.) grave/to have died long ago/fodder provided to animals for the night/


Words: 寄
Pinyin: jì
Hanviet: 寄ký
Meaning:
to send/to mail/to entrust/to depend on/to attach oneself to/to live (in a house)/to lodge/foster (son etc)/


Words: 寄生
Pinyin: jì shēng
Hanviet: 寄ký 生sanh
Meaning:
to live in or on another organism as a parasite/to live by taking advantage of others/parasitism/parasitic/


Words: 寄託
Pinyin: jì tuō
Hanviet: 寄ký 託thác
Meaning:
to entrust (to sb)/to place (one’s hope, energy etc) in/a thing in which you invest (your hope, energy etc)/


Words: 寅
Pinyin: yín
Hanviet: 寅
Meaning:
3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger/ancient Chinese compass point: 60°/


Words: 寅吃卯糧
Pinyin: yín chī mǎo liáng
Hanviet: 寅 吃cật 卯mão 糧lương
Meaning:
lit. eating away next year’s food in advance/fig. to dip into the next month’s check/live now, pay later/


Words: 富二代
Pinyin: fù èr dài
Hanviet: 富phú 二nhị 代đại
Meaning:
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in the 1980s/see also 窮二代, 穷二代/


Words: 富國強兵
Pinyin: fù guó qiáng bīng
Hanviet: 富phú 國quốc 強cường/cưỡng 兵binh
Meaning:
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times/Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)/


Words: 富農
Pinyin: fù nóng
Hanviet: 富phú 農nông
Meaning:
rich peasant/social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主 and poor peasant 貧農, 贫农/


Words: 寒食
Pinyin: hán shí
Hanviet: 寒hàn 食thực
Meaning:
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節, 清明节)/the Qingming festival/


Words: 察哈爾右翼中旗
Pinyin: chá hā ěr yòu yì zhōng qí
Hanviet: 察sát 哈 爾nhĩ 右hữu 翼dực 中trung 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Chahar Right Center banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Dund khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布, 乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 察哈爾右翼前旗
Pinyin: chá hā ěr yòu yì qián qí
Hanviet: 察sát 哈 爾nhĩ 右hữu 翼dực 前tiền 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Chahar Right Front banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Ömnöd khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布, 乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 察哈爾右翼後旗
Pinyin: chá hā ěr yòu yì hòu qí
Hanviet: 察sát 哈 爾nhĩ 右hữu 翼dực 後hậu 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Chahar Right Rear banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布, 乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 察言觀色
Pinyin: chá yán guān sè
Hanviet: 察sát 言ngôn 觀quán 色sắc
Meaning:
to weigh up sb’s words and observe their facial expression (idiom)/to discern what sb thinks from his body language/


Words: 寢苫枕塊
Pinyin: qǐn shān zhěn kuài
Hanviet: 寢tẩm 苫thiêm 枕chẩm 塊khối
Meaning:
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom)/the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period/


Words: 寥寥可數
Pinyin: liáo liáo kě shǔ
Hanviet: 寥liêu 寥liêu 可khả 數số
Meaning:
just a very few (idiom); tiny number/just a handful/not many at all/You count them on your fingers./


Words: 實景
Pinyin: shí jǐng
Hanviet: 實thật 景cảnh
Meaning:
real scene (not set up or posed)/real location (not a film studio set or theater)/live action (not animation)/


Words: 實測
Pinyin: shí cè
Hanviet: 實thật 測trắc
Meaning:
to take measurements/measured (speed etc)/observed (as opposed to "estimated")/observational (astronomy)/


Words: 實物
Pinyin: shí wù
Hanviet: 實thật 物vật
Meaning:
material object/concrete object/original object/in kind/object for practical use/definite thing/reality/matter (physics)/


Words: 實踐是檢驗真理的唯一標準
Pinyin: shí jiàn shì jiǎn yàn zhēn lǐ de wéi yī biāo zhǔn
Hanviet: 實thật 踐tiễn 是thị 檢kiểm 驗nghiệm 真chân 理lý 的đích 唯duy 一nhất 標tiêu 準chuẩn
Meaning:
Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)/


Words: 實體
Pinyin: shí tǐ
Hanviet: 實thật 體thể
Meaning:
entity/substance/thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtual or online existence)/the real thing (as opposed to an image or model of it)/


Words: 寧做雞頭，不做鳳尾
Pinyin: nìng zuò jī tóu , bù zuò fèng wěi
Hanviet: 寧ninh 做tố 雞kê 頭đầu 不bất 做tố 鳳phượng 尾vĩ
Meaning:
lit. would rather be a chicken’s head than a phoenix’s tail (idiom)/fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond/


Words: 寧可
Pinyin: nìng kě
Hanviet: 寧ninh 可khả
Meaning:
preferably/one would prefer to...(or not to...)/would rather/(would) be better to/(to pick) the lesser of two evils/


Words: 寧岡
Pinyin: níng gāng
Hanviet: 寧ninh 岡
Meaning:
former Ninggang county in Jiangxi, now within Jinggangshan county level city 井岡山市, 井冈山市 in Ji’an 吉安, Jiangxi/


Words: 寧洱哈尼族彞族自治縣
Pinyin: níng ěr hā ní zú yí zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 寧ninh 洱 哈 尼ni 族tộc 彞 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Ning’er Hani and Yi Autonomous County in Yunnan, capital Pu’er city 普洱市/formerly Pu’er Hani and Yi autonomous county/


Words: 寧缺毋濫
Pinyin: nìng quē wú làn
Hanviet: 寧ninh 缺khuyết 毋vô 濫lạm
Meaning:
better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option/


Words: 寫意
Pinyin: xiě yì
Hanviet: 寫tả 意ý
Meaning:
to suggest (rather than depict in detail)/freehand style of Chinese painting, characterized by bold strokes rather than accurate details/


Words: 寫手
Pinyin: xiě shǒu
Hanviet: 寫tả 手thủ
Meaning:
person who writes articles - newspapers, magazines, blogs (informal)/scribe/copyist/a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy/


Words: 寬城
Pinyin: kuān chéng
Hanviet: 寬khoan 城thành
Meaning:
Kuancheng district of Changchun city 長春市, 长春市, Jilin/Kuancheng Manchu autonomous county in Chengde 承德, Hebei/


Words: 寶刀不老
Pinyin: bǎo dāo bù lǎo
Hanviet: 寶bảo 刀đao 不bất 老lão
Meaning:
lit. a good sword always remains sharp (idiom)/fig. (of one’s skills etc) to be as good as ever/the old man still has it/


Words: 寶嘉康蒂
Pinyin: bǎo jiā kāng dì
Hanviet: 寶bảo 嘉gia 康khang 蒂
Meaning:
Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617), native American noted for her association with the colony of Jamestown, Virginia/


Words: 寶山
Pinyin: bǎo shān
Hanviet: 寶bảo 山sơn
Meaning:
Baoshang District of Shanghai/Baoshan District of Shuangyashan city 雙鴨山, 双鸭山, Heilongjiang/Baoshan or Paoshan township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣, 新竹县, northwest Taiwan/


Words: 寶馬香車
Pinyin: bǎo mǎ xiāng chē
Hanviet: 寶bảo 馬mã 香hương 車xa
Meaning:
precious horses and magnificent carriage (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle/ostentatious display of luxury/


Words: 寸金難買寸光陰
Pinyin: cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn
Hanviet: 寸thốn 金kim 難nạn/nan 買mãi 寸thốn 光quang 陰ấm
Meaning:
An ounce of gold can’t buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can’t buy you time./Time is precious./


Words: 封神榜
Pinyin: fēng shén bǎng
Hanviet: 封phong 神thần 榜bảng
Meaning:
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou’s 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc/


Words: 封頂
Pinyin: fēng dǐng
Hanviet: 封phong 頂đảnh
Meaning:
to put a roof (on a building)/to cap the roof (finishing a building project)/fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc)/to top off/fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates)/to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)/


Words: 射鵰英雄傳
Pinyin: shè diāo yīng xióng zhuàn
Hanviet: 射xạ 鵰điêu 英anh 雄hùng 傳truyền
Meaning:
Legend of the Condor Heroes, wuxia (武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations/


Words: 將
Pinyin: jiāng
Hanviet: 將tương
Meaning:
will/shall/to use/to take/to checkmate/just a short while ago/(introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把)/


Words: 將軍
Pinyin: jiāng jūn
Hanviet: 將tướng 軍quân
Meaning:
general/high-ranking military officer/to check or checkmate/fig. to embarrass/to challenge/to put sb on the spot/


Words: 將錯就錯
Pinyin: jiāng cuò jiù cuò
Hanviet: 將tương 錯thác 就tựu 錯thác
Meaning:
lit. if it’s wrong, it’s wrong (idiom); to make the best after a mistake/to accept an error and adapt to it/to muddle through/


Words: 專
Pinyin: zhuān
Hanviet: 專chuyên
Meaning:
for a particular person, occasion, purpose/focused on one thing/special/expert/particular (to sth)/concentrated/specialized/


Words: 專線
Pinyin: zhuān xiàn
Hanviet: 專chuyên 線tuyến
Meaning:
special-purpose phone line or communications link/hotline/special rail line (e.g. between airport and city)/CL:條, 条/


Words: 專訪
Pinyin: zhuān fǎng
Hanviet: 專chuyên 訪phỏng
Meaning:
to interview (a particular person or on a particular topic)/special interview/special report based on such an interview/


Words: 專車
Pinyin: zhuān chē
Hanviet: 專chuyên 車xa
Meaning:
special (or reserved) train (or bus etc)/limousine/private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app/


Words: 尉犁
Pinyin: yù lí
Hanviet: 尉úy 犁lê
Meaning:
Lopnur nahiyisi or Yuli county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 尉繚
Pinyin: wèi liáo
Hanviet: 尉úy 繚liễu
Meaning:
Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子, 尉缭子 text on military strategy/


Words: 尉繚子
Pinyin: wèi liáo zi
Hanviet: 尉úy 繚liễu 子tử
Meaning:
Wei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书, possibly written by Wei Liao 尉繚, 尉缭 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 尊
Pinyin: zūn
Hanviet: 尊tôn
Meaning:
senior/of a senior generation/to honor/to respect/honorific/classifier for cannons and statues/ancient wine vessel/


Words: 尋花問柳
Pinyin: xún huā wèn liǔ
Hanviet: 尋tầm 花hoa 問vấn 柳liễu
Meaning:
lit. to enjoy the beautiful spring scenery (idiom)/fig. to frequent brothels/to sow one’s wild oats/


Words: 對
Pinyin: duì
Hanviet: 對đối
Meaning:
right/correct/couple/pair/towards/at/for/to face/opposite/to treat (sb a certain way)/to match together/to adjust/to fit/to suit/to answer/to reply/classifier: couple/


Words: 對了
Pinyin: duì le
Hanviet: 對đối 了liễu
Meaning:
Correct!/Oh, that’s right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention)/Oh, by the way, .../


Words: 對口
Pinyin: duì kǒu
Hanviet: 對đối 口khẩu
Meaning:
(of two performers) to speak or sing alternately/to be fit for the purposes of a job or task/(of food) to suit sb’s taste/


Words: 對口相聲
Pinyin: duì kǒu xiàng shēng
Hanviet: 對đối 口khẩu 相tương/tướng 聲thanh
Meaning:
comic crosstalk/formalized comic dialog between two stand-up comics: leading role 逗哏 and fall-guy 捧哏/


Words: 對外聯絡部
Pinyin: duì wài lián luò bù
Hanviet: 對đối 外ngoại 聯liên 絡lạc 部bộ
Meaning:
CPC central committee’s external affairs department (i.e. Chinese communist party’s foreign office)/


Words: 對牛彈琴
Pinyin: duì niú tán qín
Hanviet: 對đối 牛ngưu 彈đàn 琴cầm
Meaning:
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)/fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience/to cast pearls before swine/caviar to the general/to preach to deaf ears/to talk over sb’s head/


Words: 對症下藥
Pinyin: duì zhèng xià yào
Hanviet: 對đối 症 下hạ 藥dược
Meaning:
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it/to take appropriate steps/


Words: 對立
Pinyin: duì lì
Hanviet: 對đối 立lập
Meaning:
to oppose/to set sth against/to be antagonistic to/antithetical/relative opposite/opposing/diametrical/


Words: 對著和尚罵賊禿
Pinyin: duì zhe hé shang mà zéi tū
Hanviet: 對đối 著trước 和hòa 尚thượng 罵mạ 賊tặc 禿ngốc
Meaning:
lit. to curse a baldhead to a monk’s face (idiom)/fig. to scold sb indirectly/to criticize obliquely/


Words: 對號入座
Pinyin: duì hào rù zuò
Hanviet: 對đối 號hiệu 入nhập 座tòa
Meaning:
to take one’s seat according to the ticket number/(fig.) to put (things or people) in their right place/to take a general comment as a personal attack/to take a criticism for oneself/


Words: 小人
Pinyin: xiǎo rén
Hanviet: 小tiểu 人nhân
Meaning:
person of low social status (old)/I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself)/nasty person/vile character/


Words: 小兒科
Pinyin: xiǎo ér kē
Hanviet: 小tiểu 兒nhi 科khoa
Meaning:
pediatrics/pediatric (department)/sth of little importance/trifle/a child’s play/(slang) childish/petty/stingy/


Words: 小子
Pinyin: xiǎo zǐ
Hanviet: 小tiểu 子tử
Meaning:
(literary) youngster/(old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation)/(old) I, me (used in speaking to one’s elders)/


Words: 小巫見大巫
Pinyin: xiǎo wū jiàn dà wū
Hanviet: 小tiểu 巫 見kiến 大đại 巫
Meaning:
lit. minor magician in the presence of a great one (idiom)/fig. to pale into insignificance by comparison/


Words: 小懲大誡
Pinyin: xiǎo chéng dà jiè
Hanviet: 小tiểu 懲 大đại 誡giới
Meaning:
lit. to punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition/


Words: 小數
Pinyin: xiǎo shù
Hanviet: 小tiểu 數số
Meaning:
small figure/small amount/the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point)/fractional part of a number/number between 0 and 1/decimal fraction/


Words: 小樣
Pinyin: xiǎo yàng
Hanviet: 小tiểu 樣
Meaning:
galley proof (printing)/unimpressive/(coll.) little guy (mild insult also used as an affectionate term)/


Words: 小橋
Pinyin: xiǎo qiáo
Hanviet: 小tiểu 橋kiều
Meaning:
Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China/


Words: 小洞不堵，大洞難補
Pinyin: xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng nán bǔ
Hanviet: 小tiểu 洞đỗng 不bất 堵đổ 大đại 洞đỗng 難nạn/nan 補bổ
Meaning:
If you don’t plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine./


Words: 小確幸
Pinyin: xiǎo què xìng
Hanviet: 小tiểu 確xác 幸hạnh
Meaning:
sth small that one can find pleasure in (e.g. a cold beer after a hard day or a serendipitous find in a second-hand store)/


Words: 小花遠志
Pinyin: xiǎo huā yuǎn zhì
Hanviet: 小tiểu 花hoa 遠viễn 志chí
Meaning:
small-flowered milkwort (Polygala arvensis Willd. or P. telephioides), with roots used in Chinese medicine/


Words: 小說家
Pinyin: xiǎo shuō jiā
Hanviet: 小tiểu 說thuyết 家gia
Meaning:
School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家, 诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)/


Words: 小道
Pinyin: xiǎo dào
Hanviet: 小tiểu 道đạo
Meaning:
bypath/trail/bribery as a means of achieving a goal/minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)/


Words: 小金
Pinyin: xiǎo jīn
Hanviet: 小tiểu 金kim
Meaning:
Xiaojin county (Tibetan: btsan lha 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, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 少年先鋒隊
Pinyin: shào nián xiān fēng duì
Hanviet: 少thiếu 年niên 先tiên 鋒phong 隊đội
Meaning:
Young Pioneers of China (primary school league, a preparation for Communist Youth League)/abbr. to 少先隊, 少先队/


Words: 少突膠質
Pinyin: shǎo tū jiāo zhì
Hanviet: 少thiểu 突đột 膠giao 質chất
Meaning:
oligodendrocytes (Greek: cells with few branches), a type of cell in central nervous system/oligodendroglia/


Words: 少見多怪
Pinyin: shǎo jiàn duō guài
Hanviet: 少thiểu 見kiến 多đa 怪quái
Meaning:
lit. rarely seen, very strange (idiom); to express amazement due to lack of experience/naive expression of excitement due to ignorance/


Words: 尚方劍
Pinyin: shàng fāng jiàn
Hanviet: 尚thượng 方phương 劍kiếm
Meaning:
imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers)/in fiction, Chinese version of 007’s license to kill/


Words: 尚方寶劍
Pinyin: shàng fāng bǎo jiàn
Hanviet: 尚thượng 方phương 寶bảo 劍kiếm
Meaning:
variant of 尚方劍, 尚方剑/imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers)/in fiction, Chinese version of 007’s license to kill/


Words: 尚書經
Pinyin: shàng shū jīng
Hanviet: 尚thượng 書thư 經kinh
Meaning:
Book of History/a compendium of documents in various styles, making up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the times of Confucius/


Words: 尤德
Pinyin: yóu dé
Hanviet: 尤vưu 德đức
Meaning:
Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador to Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986/


Words: 尤爾欽科
Pinyin: yóu ěr qīn kē
Hanviet: 尤vưu 爾nhĩ 欽khâm 科khoa
Meaning:
Yurchenko (name)/Natalia Yurchenko (1965-), Russian gymnast/Yurchenko, a type of jump-off for vaulting/


Words: 尥蹶子
Pinyin: liào juě zi
Hanviet: 尥 蹶quyết 子tử
Meaning:
(of mules, horses etc) to kick backward/to kick with the hind legs/fig. to flare up in anger/to display defiance/


Words: 就
Pinyin: jiù
Hanviet: 就tựu
Meaning:
at once/right away/only/just (emphasis)/as early as/already/as soon as/then/in that case/as many as/even if/to approach/to move towards/to undertake/to engage in/to suffer/subjected to/to accomplish/to take advantage of/to go with (of foods)/with regard to/concerning/


Words: 尸
Pinyin: shī
Hanviet: 尸thi
Meaning:
person representing the dead (during burial ceremonies)/to put a corpse on display (after execution)/variant of 屍, 尸/corpse/


Words: 尹潽善
Pinyin: yǐn pǔ shàn
Hanviet: 尹 潽 善thiện
Meaning:
Yun Poseon (1897-1990), South Korean Democratic party politician, mayor of Seoul from 1948, president 1960-1962/


Words: 尺
Pinyin: chǐ
Hanviet: 尺xích
Meaning:
a Chinese foot/one-third of a meter/a ruler/a tape-measure/one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine/CL:支,把/


Words: 尺有所短，寸有所長
Pinyin: chǐ yǒu suǒ duǎn , cùn yǒu suǒ cháng
Hanviet: 尺xích 有hữu 所sở 短đoản 寸thốn 有hữu 所sở 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb)/fig. everyone has their strong and weak points/everything has its advantages and disadvantages/


Words: 尾張國
Pinyin: wěi zhāng guó
Hanviet: 尾vĩ 張trương 國quốc
Meaning:
Owari or Owari-no-kuni, Japanese fiefdom during 11th-15th century, current Aichi prefecture around Nagoya/


Words: 尾數
Pinyin: wěi shù
Hanviet: 尾vĩ 數số
Meaning:
remainder (after rounding a number)/decimal part (of number after the decimal point)/mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.)/small change/balance (of an account)/


Words: 尾生
Pinyin: wěi shēng
Hanviet: 尾vĩ 生sanh
Meaning:
Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters)/sb who keeps to their word no matter what/


Words: 尾翼
Pinyin: wěi yì
Hanviet: 尾vĩ 翼dực
Meaning:
empennage (of an aircraft)/fletching (of an arrow)/fins (of a missile, rocket etc)/rear spoiler (of a car)/


Words: 居
Pinyin: jū
Hanviet: 居cư
Meaning:
to reside/to be (in a certain position)/to store up/to be at a standstill/residence/house/restaurant/classifier for bedrooms/


Words: 居功自傲
Pinyin: jū gōng zì ào
Hanviet: 居cư 功công 自tự 傲ngạo
Meaning:
satisfied with one’s accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one’s laurels and despising others/


Words: 居家
Pinyin: jū jiā
Hanviet: 居cư 家gia
Meaning:
to live at home/to stay at home/home (schooling etc)/in-home (care etc)/household (repairs etc)/living (environment etc)/


Words: 居禮夫人
Pinyin: jū lǐ fū ren
Hanviet: 居cư 禮lễ 夫phu 人nhân
Meaning:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867-1934), double Nobel prize-winner in Physics 1903 and Chemistry 1911/


Words: 居高臨下
Pinyin: jū gāo lín xià
Hanviet: 居cư 高cao 臨lâm 下hạ
Meaning:
to live high and look down (idiom)/to overlook/to tower above/to occupy the high ground/fig. arrogance based on one’s social position/


Words: 屆
Pinyin: jiè
Hanviet: 屆giới
Meaning:
to arrive at (place or time)/period/to become due/classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)/


Words: 屈原
Pinyin: qū yuán
Hanviet: 屈khuất 原nguyên
Meaning:
Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷, 离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭, 楚辞/


Words: 屈原紀念館
Pinyin: qū yuán jì niàn guǎn
Hanviet: 屈khuất 原nguyên 紀kỷ 念niệm 館quán
Meaning:
Qu Yuan memorial hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣, 秭归县, Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then/


Words: 屏邊苗族自治縣
Pinyin: píng biān miáo zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 屏bính 邊biên 苗miêu 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Pingbian Mianzu 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, Yunnan/


Words: 展位
Pinyin: zhǎn wèi
Hanviet: 展triển 位vị
Meaning:
relative position of exhibition booth/allocated floor space for display stall/allotted exhibit area/


Words: 履險如夷
Pinyin: lǚ xiǎn rú yí
Hanviet: 履lý 險hiểm 如như 夷di
Meaning:
lit. to make one’s way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom)/fig. to handle a crisis effortlessly/


Words: 屬
Pinyin: shǔ
Hanviet: 屬thuộc
Meaning:
category/genus (taxonomy)/family members/dependents/to belong to/subordinate to/affiliated with/be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals)/to be/to prove to be/to constitute/


Words: 屯區
Pinyin: tún qū
Hanviet: 屯truân 區khu
Meaning:
Tun District – area of Taichung (in Taiwan) between the coastal (western) part of the city and the mountains to the east/


Words: 山
Pinyin: shān
Hanviet: 山sơn
Meaning:
mountain/hill/anything that resembles a mountain/CL:座/bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons/gable/


Words: 山口
Pinyin: shān kǒu
Hanviet: 山sơn 口khẩu
Meaning:
Yamaguchi (Japanese surname and place name)/Yamaguchi prefecture in southwest of Japan’s main island Honshū 本州/


Words: 山寨
Pinyin: shān zhài
Hanviet: 山sơn 寨
Meaning:
fortified hill village/mountain stronghold (esp. of bandits)/(fig.) knockoff (goods)/counterfeit/imitation/


Words: 山海經
Pinyin: shān hǎi jīng
Hanviet: 山sơn 海hải 經kinh
Meaning:
Classic of Mountain and Sea, probably compiled c. 500 BC-200 BC, contains wide range of geography, mythology, witchcraft, popular customs etc/


Words: 山海關
Pinyin: shān hǎi guān
Hanviet: 山sơn 海hải 關quan
Meaning:
Shanhai pass, the Eastern pass of the Great Wall/Shanhaiguan district of Qinhuangdao city 秦皇島市, 秦皇岛市, Hebei/


Words: 岔
Pinyin: chà
Hanviet: 岔
Meaning:
fork in road/bifurcation/branch in road, river, mountain range etc/to branch off/to turn off/to diverge/to stray (from the path)/to change the subject/to interrupt/to stagger (times)/


Words: 岡山
Pinyin: gāng shān
Hanviet: 岡 山sơn
Meaning:
Kangshan town in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣, 高雄县, southwest Taiwan/Okayama prefecture in southwest of Japan’s main island Honshū 本州/


Words: 岱宗
Pinyin: dài zōng
Hanviet: 岱 宗tông
Meaning:
another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽, 五岳/Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls/


Words: 岳陽樓
Pinyin: yuè yáng lóu
Hanviet: 岳nhạc 陽dương 樓lâu
Meaning:
Yueyang Tower, famous beauty spot in Yueyang, north Hunan, overlooking Dongting Lake 洞庭湖/one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓, 黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣, 滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi/


Words: 峇峇娘惹
Pinyin: bā bā niáng rě
Hanviet: 峇 峇 娘nương 惹nhạ
Meaning:
Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)/


Words: 峨眉山
Pinyin: é méi shān
Hanviet: 峨 眉mi 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Emei in Sichuan, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Samantabhadra 普賢, 普贤/Emeishan city/


Words: 峰
Pinyin: fēng
Hanviet: 峰phong
Meaning:
(of a mountain) high and tapered peak or summit/mountain-like in appearance/highest level/classifier for camels/


Words: 峰回路轉
Pinyin: fēng huí lù zhuǎn
Hanviet: 峰phong 回hồi 路lộ 轉chuyển
Meaning:
the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom)/(of a mountain road) twisting and turning/fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly/things have taken a new turn/


Words: 峰火臺
Pinyin: fēng huǒ tái
Hanviet: 峰phong 火hỏa 臺đài
Meaning:
fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)/


Words: 崇洋媚外
Pinyin: chóng yáng mèi wài
Hanviet: 崇sùng 洋dương 媚mị 外ngoại
Meaning:
to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas/


Words: 崛起
Pinyin: jué qǐ
Hanviet: 崛quật 起khởi
Meaning:
to rise abruptly (to a towering position)/to tower over/to spring up/to emerge suddenly/the emergence (e.g. of a power)/


Words: 嶋
Pinyin: dǎo
Hanviet: 嶋
Meaning:
variant of 島, 岛, island/used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or -jima/


Words: 川震
Pinyin: chuān zhèn
Hanviet: 川xuyên 震chấn
Meaning:
Sichuan great earthquake, the magnitude 8 earthquake of May 2008 at Wenchuan 汶川, Sichuan, that killed more than 80,000 people/same as 四川大地震/


Words: 州
Pinyin: zhōu
Hanviet: 州châu
Meaning:
prefecture/(old) province/(old) administrative division/state (e.g. of US)/oblast (Russia)/canton (Switzerland)/


Words: 工分
Pinyin: gōng fēn
Hanviet: 工công 分phần/phân
Meaning:
work point (measure of work completed in a rural commune in the PRC during the planned economy era)/


Words: 工欲善其事，必先利其器
Pinyin: gōng yù shàn qí shì , bì xiān lì qí qì
Hanviet: 工công 欲dục 善thiện 其kỳ 事sự 必tất 先tiên 利lợi 其kỳ 器khí
Meaning:
To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job/


Words: 工筆
Pinyin: gōng bǐ
Hanviet: 工công 筆bút
Meaning:
gongbi, traditional Chinese painting method characterized by meticulous brush technique and detailed description/


Words: 左丘明
Pinyin: zuǒ qiū míng
Hanviet: 左tả 丘khâu 明minh
Meaning:
Zuo Qiuming or Zuoqiu Ming (556-451), famous blind historian from Lu 魯國, 鲁国 to whom the history Zuo Zhuan 左傳, 左传 is attributed/


Words: 左傳
Pinyin: zuǒ zhuàn
Hanviet: 左tả 傳truyền
Meaning:
Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo’s Annals or Mr Zuo’s commentary on 春秋, early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明/


Words: 左傾機會主義
Pinyin: zuǒ qīng jī huì zhǔ yì
Hanviet: 左tả 傾khuynh 機cơ 會hội 主chủ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
leftist opportunism (blamed for failures of Chinese communists from 1927)/left adventurism/cf Mao’s purges following 1935 Zunyi conference 遵義會議, 遵义会议/


Words: 左右逢源
Pinyin: zuǒ yòu féng yuán
Hanviet: 左tả 右hữu 逢phùng 源nguyên
Meaning:
lit. to strike water right and left (idiom)/fig. to turn everything into gold/to have everything going one’s way/to benefit from both sides/


Words: 左右開弓
Pinyin: zuǒ yòu kāi gōng
Hanviet: 左tả 右hữu 開khai 弓cung
Meaning:
lit. to shoot from both sides (idiom)/fig. to display ambidexterity/to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession/to use both feet equally (football)/


Words: 左氏春秋
Pinyin: zuǒ shì chūn qiū
Hanviet: 左tả 氏thị 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
Mr Zuo’s Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明/usually called Zuo Zhuan 左傳, 左传/


Words: 左聯
Pinyin: zuǒ lián
Hanviet: 左tả 聯liên
Meaning:
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930/abbr. for 中國左翼作家聯盟, 中国左翼作家联盟/


Words: 巧婦難為無米之炊
Pinyin: qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī
Hanviet: 巧xảo 婦phụ 難nạn/nan 為vi 無vô 米mễ 之chi 炊xuy
Meaning:
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won’t get anywhere without equipment./


Words: 巫蠱之禍
Pinyin: wū gǔ zhī huò
Hanviet: 巫 蠱cổ 之chi 禍họa
Meaning:
91 BC attempted coup d’etat against Emperor Wu of Han 漢武帝, 汉武帝, beginning with accusations of witchcraft/


Words: 己
Pinyin: jǐ
Hanviet: 己kỷ
Meaning:
self/oneself/sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/sixth in order/letter "F" or roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/hexa/


Words: 己所不欲，勿施於人
Pinyin: jǐ suǒ bù yù , wù shī yú rén
Hanviet: 己kỷ 所sở 不bất 欲dục 。 勿vật 施thí 於ư 人nhân
Meaning:
What you don’t want done to you, don’t do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects)/Do as you would be done by./Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you./


Words: 巳
Pinyin: sì
Hanviet: 巳tị
Meaning:
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake/ancient Chinese compass point: 150°/


Words: 巴
Pinyin: bā
Hanviet: 巴ba
Meaning:
Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan)/abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing/surname Ba/abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian/abbr. for Pakistan/


Words: 巴
Pinyin: bā
Hanviet: 巴ba
Meaning:
to long for/to wish/to cling to/to stick to/sth that sticks/close to/next to/spread open/informal abbr. for bus 巴士/bar (unit of pressure)/nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail/


Words: 巴塘
Pinyin: bā táng
Hanviet: 巴ba 塘đường
Meaning:
Batang county (Tibetan: ’ba’ thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 巴山夜雨
Pinyin: bā shān yè yǔ
Hanviet: 巴ba 山sơn 夜dạ 雨vũ
Meaning:
rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land/Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural revolution/


Words: 巴山越嶺
Pinyin: bā shān yuè lǐng
Hanviet: 巴ba 山sơn 越việt 嶺lĩnh
Meaning:
to climb hills and pass over mountains (idiom); to cross mountain after mountain/good at climbing mountains/


Words: 巴州
Pinyin: bā zhōu
Hanviet: 巴ba 州châu
Meaning:
East Sichuan and Chongqing/also abbr. for Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang/abbr. for 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州/


Words: 巴希爾
Pinyin: bā xī ěr
Hanviet: 巴ba 希hy 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Bashir (name)/Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir (1944-), Sudanese military man and politician, President of Sudan from 1989/


Words: 巴德爾
Pinyin: bā dé ěr
Hanviet: 巴ba 德đức 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology/Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group/


Words: 巴拉迪
Pinyin: bā lā dí
Hanviet: 巴ba 拉lạp 迪
Meaning:
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942-), Director of International Atomic Energy Agency 1997-2009 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate/


Words: 巴羅佐
Pinyin: bā luó zuǒ
Hanviet: 巴ba 羅la 佐tá
Meaning:
José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal 2002-04, President of EU Commission from 2004/


Words: 巴豆
Pinyin: bā dòu
Hanviet: 巴ba 豆đậu
Meaning:
croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科/croton seed, a strong purgative/


Words: 巴豆樹
Pinyin: bā dòu shù
Hanviet: 巴ba 豆đậu 樹thụ
Meaning:
croton bush (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科, with seed having strong purgative properties/


Words: 巴里坤
Pinyin: bā lǐ kūn
Hanviet: 巴ba 里lý 坤
Meaning:
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區, 哈密地区, Xinjiang/


Words: 巴鐵
Pinyin: bā tiě
Hanviet: 巴ba 鐵thiết
Meaning:
Transit Elevated Bus (TEB)/(coll.) Pakistani brethren/Pakistani comrades/abbr. for 巴基斯坦鐵哥們, 巴基斯坦铁哥们/


Words: 巴音滿都呼
Pinyin: bā yīn mǎn dū hū
Hanviet: 巴ba 音âm 滿mãn 都đô 呼hô
Meaning:
Bayan Mandahu, village in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾, 巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia, noted for Cretaceous dinosaur fossils/


Words: 巽
Pinyin: xùn
Hanviet: 巽
Meaning:
to obey/one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing wood and wind/☴/ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)/


Words: 布什
Pinyin: bù shí
Hanviet: 布bố 什thập
Meaning:
Bush (name)/George H.W. Bush (1924-), US president 1988-1992/George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008/


Words: 布什爾
Pinyin: bù shí ěr
Hanviet: 布bố 什thập 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Bushehr Province of south Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf/Bushehr, port city, capital of Bushehr Province/


Words: 布哈林
Pinyin: bù hā lín
Hanviet: 布bố 哈 林lâm
Meaning:
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937/


Words: 布托
Pinyin: bù tuō
Hanviet: 布bố 托thác
Meaning:
Bhutto (name)/Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq/Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda/


Words: 布拉戈維申斯克
Pinyin: bù lā gē wéi shēn sī kè
Hanviet: 布bố 拉lạp 戈qua 維duy 申thân 斯tư 克khắc
Meaning:
Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Oblast 阿穆爾州, 阿穆尔州/


Words: 布熱津斯基
Pinyin: bù rè jīn sī jī
Hanviet: 布bố 熱nhiệt 津tân 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Brzezinski (name)/Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-), Polish-American academic and politician, US National Security Adviser 1977-1981/


Words: 布萊爾
Pinyin: bù lái ěr
Hanviet: 布bố 萊 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Blair (name)/Braille (name)/Louis Braille (1809-1852), the inventor of the Braille alphabet for the blind/


Words: 布袋
Pinyin: bù dài
Hanviet: 布bố 袋đại
Meaning:
pouch/sack/bag/Budai (the Laughing Buddha)/Budai or Putai town in Chiayi county 嘉義縣, 嘉义县, west Taiwan/


Words: 布魯圖斯
Pinyin: bù lǔ tú sī
Hanviet: 布bố 魯lỗ 圖đồ 斯tư
Meaning:
Brutus (name)/Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar/Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic/


Words: 希格斯
Pinyin: xī gé sī
Hanviet: 希hy 格cách 斯tư
Meaning:
Higgs (name)/Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles/


Words: 希沃特
Pinyin: xī wò tè
Hanviet: 希hy 沃ốc 特đặc
Meaning:
Sievert (Sv), unit of radiation damage used in radiotherapy/Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896-1966), Swedish physicist/


Words: 帕拉塞爾士
Pinyin: pà lā sè ěr shì
Hanviet: 帕 拉lạp 塞tắc 爾nhĩ 士sĩ
Meaning:
Paracelsius (Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), Swiss alchemist and prominent early European scientist/


Words: 師出有名
Pinyin: shī chū yǒu míng
Hanviet: 師sư 出xuất 有hữu 名danh
Meaning:
lit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom)/to do something with good reason/to have just cause/


Words: 師父領進門，修行在個人
Pinyin: shī fu lǐng jìn mén , xiū xíng zài gè rén
Hanviet: 師sư 父phụ 領lãnh 進tiến 門môn 修tu 行hành 在tại 個cá 人nhân
Meaning:
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you/you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink/


Words: 席勒
Pinyin: xí lè
Hanviet: 席tịch 勒lặc
Meaning:
Schiller (name)/Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist/


Words: 帶
Pinyin: dài
Hanviet: 帶đái
Meaning:
band/belt/girdle/ribbon/tire/area/zone/region/CL:條, 条/to wear/to carry/to take along/to bear (i.e. to have)/to lead/to bring/to look after/to raise/


Words: 帶分數
Pinyin: dài fēn shù
Hanviet: 帶đái 分phần/phân 數số
Meaning:
mixed fraction/mixed number (i.e. with an integer part and a fraction part, e.g. four and three quarters)/see also: improper fraction 假分數, 假分数 and proper fraction 真分數, 真分数/


Words: 常勝軍
Pinyin: cháng shèng jūn
Hanviet: 常thường 勝thắng 軍quân
Meaning:
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels/


Words: 常德絲弦
Pinyin: cháng dé sī xián
Hanviet: 常thường 德đức 絲ti 弦huyền
Meaning:
Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments/


Words: 幕府
Pinyin: mù fǔ
Hanviet: 幕mạc 府phủ
Meaning:
(orig.) tents forming the offices of a commanding officer/administration of a military government/(medieval Japan) "bakufu", administration of the shogun/


Words: 幫
Pinyin: bāng
Hanviet: 幫
Meaning:
to help/to assist/to support/for sb (i.e. as a help)/hired (as worker)/side (of pail, boat etc)/outer layer/upper (of a shoe)/group/gang/clique/party/secret society/


Words: 平型關大捷
Pinyin: píng xíng guān dà jié
Hanviet: 平bình 型 關quan 大đại 捷tiệp
Meaning:
victory of Pingxingguan pass, famous victory of Republican Chinese forces over the Japanese in Sep 1937/


Words: 平安道
Pinyin: píng ān dào
Hanviet: 平bình 安an 道đạo
Meaning:
P’yong’ando Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into South Pyong’an Province 平安南道 and North Pyong’an Province 平安北道 of North Korea/


Words: 平易近人
Pinyin: píng yì jìn rén
Hanviet: 平bình 易dị/dịch 近cận 人nhân
Meaning:
amiable and approachable (idiom); easy-going/modest and unassuming/(of writing) plain and simple/easy to understand/


Words: 平時不燒香，臨時抱佛腳
Pinyin: píng shí bù shāo xiāng , lín shí bào fó jiǎo
Hanviet: 平bình 時thời 不bất 燒thiêu 香hương 臨lâm 時thời 抱bão 佛Phật 腳cước
Meaning:
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/to make a hasty last-minute effort (often refers to cramming for exams)/


Words: 平津戰役
Pinyin: píng jīn zhàn yì
Hanviet: 平bình 津tân 戰chiến 役dịch
Meaning:
Pingjin 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/


Words: 平話
Pinyin: píng huà
Hanviet: 平bình 話thoại
Meaning:
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary/


Words: 年號
Pinyin: nián hào
Hanviet: 年niên 號hiệu
Meaning:
reign title/era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it)/year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)/


Words: 幸災樂禍
Pinyin: xìng zāi lè huò
Hanviet: 幸hạnh 災tai 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 禍họa
Meaning:
lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people’s misfortune/Schadenfreude/


Words: 幻滅
Pinyin: huàn miè
Hanviet: 幻huyễn 滅diệt
Meaning:
(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish/to evaporate/(of a person) to become disillusioned/disillusionment/


Words: 幽
Pinyin: yōu
Hanviet: 幽u
Meaning:
remote/hidden away/secluded/serene/peaceful/to imprison/in superstition indicates the underworld/ancient district spanning Liaonang and Hebei provinces/


Words: 幽州
Pinyin: yōu zhōu
Hanviet: 幽u 州châu
Meaning:
Youzhou, ancient province in north Hebei and Liaoning/Fanyang 範陽, 范阳 ancient city near modern Beijing/


Words: 幽明
Pinyin: yōu míng
Hanviet: 幽u 明minh
Meaning:
the hidden and the visible/that which can be seen and that which cannot/darkness and light/night and day/wisdom and ignorance/evil and good/the living and the dead/men and ghosts/


Words: 幾歲
Pinyin: jǐ suì
Hanviet: 幾kỷ 歲tuế
Meaning:
some years/How many years?/How old are you? (familiar, or to child, equivalent to 多大 for older person)/


Words: 庚
Pinyin: gēng
Hanviet: 庚canh
Meaning:
age/seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/seventh in order/letter "G" or roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 255°/hepta/


Words: 庚子
Pinyin: gēng zǐ
Hanviet: 庚canh 子tử
Meaning:
thirty seventh year G1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020/cf 庚子國變, 庚子国变, the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion/


Words: 府
Pinyin: fǔ
Hanviet: 府phủ
Meaning:
seat of government/government repository (archive)/official residence/mansion/presidential palace/(honorific) Your home/prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)/


Words: 府試
Pinyin: fǔ shì
Hanviet: 府phủ 試thí
Meaning:
prefectural exam, the 2nd of the three entry-level exams in the imperial examination system of Ming and Qing dynasties/


Words: 度
Pinyin: dù
Hanviet: 度độ
Meaning:
to pass/to spend (time)/measure/limit/extent/degree of intensity/degree (angles, temperature etc)/kilowatt-hour/classifier for events and occurrences/


Words: 庫爾勒
Pinyin: kù ěr lè
Hanviet: 庫khố 爾nhĩ 勒lặc
Meaning:
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku’erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 庫爾勒市
Pinyin: kù ěr lè shì
Hanviet: 庫khố 爾nhĩ 勒lặc 市thị
Meaning:
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku’erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州/


Words: 庫爾特·瓦爾德海姆
Pinyin: kù ěr tè �� wǎ ěr dé hǎi mǔ
Hanviet: 庫khố 爾nhĩ 特đặc · 瓦ngõa 爾nhĩ 德đức 海hải 姆
Meaning:
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992/


Words: 庶吉士
Pinyin: shù jí shì
Hanviet: 庶thứ 吉cát 士sĩ
Meaning:
title of the temporary position in the Hanlin Academy, conferred to meritorious candidates until the next examination/


Words: 康定
Pinyin: kāng dìng
Hanviet: 康khang 定định
Meaning:
Dartsendo, Dardo or Kangding county (Tibetan: dar mdo rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 康巴
Pinyin: kāng bā
Hanviet: 康khang 巴ba
Meaning:
Khampa, subdivision of Tibetan ethnic group/former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan/


Words: 康廣仁
Pinyin: kāng guǎng rén
Hanviet: 康khang 廣quảng 仁nhân
Meaning:
Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康有為, 康有为 and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898/


Words: 康有為
Pinyin: kāng yǒu wéi
Hanviet: 康khang 有hữu 為vi
Meaning:
Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898/


Words: 康熙字典
Pinyin: kāng xī zì diǎn
Hanviet: 康khang 熙hi 字tự 典điển
Meaning:
the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries/


Words: 康生
Pinyin: kāng shēng
Hanviet: 康khang 生sanh
Meaning:
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses/


Words: 庸人自擾
Pinyin: yōng rén zì rǎo
Hanviet: 庸dong 人nhân 自tự 擾nhiễu
Meaning:
lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom)/fig. to get upset over nothing/to make problems for oneself/


Words: 庾信
Pinyin: yǔ xìn
Hanviet: 庾dữu 信tín
Meaning:
Yu Xin (513-581), poet from Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝 and author of Lament for the South 哀江南賦, 哀江南赋/


Words: 廉
Pinyin: lián
Hanviet: 廉liêm
Meaning:
incorruptible/honest/inexpensive/to investigate (old)/side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)/


Words: 廉頗
Pinyin: lián pō
Hanviet: 廉liêm 頗phả
Meaning:
Lian Po (327-243 BC), famous general of Zhao 趙國, 赵国, repeatedly victorious over Qin 秦國, 秦国 and Qi 齊國, 齐国/


Words: 廖沫沙
Pinyin: liào mò shā
Hanviet: 廖 沫mạt 沙sa
Meaning:
Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution/


Words: 廢寢忘食
Pinyin: fèi qǐn wàng shí
Hanviet: 廢phế 寢tẩm 忘vong 食thực
Meaning:
to neglect sleep and forget about food (idiom)/to skip one’s sleep and meals/to be completely wrapped up in one’s work/


Words: 廢寢忘餐
Pinyin: fèi qǐn wàng cān
Hanviet: 廢phế 寢tẩm 忘vong 餐xan
Meaning:
to neglect sleep and food (idiom); to skip one’s sleep and meals/to be completely wrapped up in one’s work/


Words: 廢藩置縣
Pinyin: fèi fān zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 廢phế 藩 置trí 縣huyện
Meaning:
to abolish the feudal Han and introduce modern prefectures (refers to reorganization during Meiji Japan)/


Words: 廣西
Pinyin: guǎng xī
Hanviet: 廣quảng 西tây
Meaning:
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region 廣西壯族自治區, 广西壮族自治区 (Zhuang: Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih) in southwest China on the border with Vietnam, abbr. 桂, capital Nanning 南寧, 南宁/until 1959, Guangxi province/


Words: 廣西壯族自治區
Pinyin: guǎng xī zhuàng zú zì zhì qū
Hanviet: 廣quảng 西tây 壯tráng 族tộc 自tự 治trị 區khu
Meaning:
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in southwest China on the border with Vietnam, abbr. 桂, capital Nanning 南寧, 南宁/until 1959, Guangxi province/


Words: 廣西省
Pinyin: guǎng xī shěng
Hanviet: 廣quảng 西tây 省tỉnh
Meaning:
Guangxi province in south China/since 1959, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region 廣西壯族自治區, 广西壮族自治区, location of the Zhuang ethnic group, abbr. 桂, capital Nanning 南寧, 南宁/


Words: 廣雅
Pinyin: guǎng yǎ
Hanviet: 廣quảng 雅nhã
Meaning:
earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, 3rd century, modeled on Erya 爾雅, 尔雅, 18150 entries/


Words: 廣電總局
Pinyin: guǎng diàn zǒng jú
Hanviet: 廣quảng 電điện 總tổng 局cục
Meaning:
State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) (terminated 2013)/(as of 2013) abbr. for 國家新聞出版廣電總局, 国家新闻出版光电总局/


Words: 延平
Pinyin: yán píng
Hanviet: 延diên 平bình
Meaning:
Yanping district of Nanping city 南平市 Fujian/Yanping township in Taitung county 臺東縣, 台东县, southeast Taiwan/


Words: 延邊
Pinyin: yán biān
Hanviet: 延diên 邊biên
Meaning:
Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州, 延边朝鲜族自治州 in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China, capital Yanji city 延吉市/


Words: 延邊朝鮮族自治州
Pinyin: yán biān cháo xiǎn zú zì zhì zhōu
Hanviet: 延diên 邊biên 朝triêu 鮮tiên 族tộc 自tự 治trị 州châu
Meaning:
Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China, capital Yanji city 延吉市/


Words: 建塘鎮
Pinyin: jiàn táng zhèn
Hanviet: 建kiến 塘đường 鎮trấn
Meaning:
Jiantang, capital of Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, northwest Yunnan/


Words: 建文帝
Pinyin: jiàn wén dì
Hanviet: 建kiến 文văn 帝đế
Meaning:
reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402 (mysterious disappearance is ongoing conspiracy theory)/


Words: 建構
Pinyin: jiàn gòu
Hanviet: 建kiến 構
Meaning:
to construct (often sth abstract, such as good relations)/to set up/to develop/construction (abstract)/architecture/


Words: 引
Pinyin: yǐn
Hanviet: 引dẫn
Meaning:
to draw (e.g. a bow)/to pull/to stretch sth/to extend/to lengthen/to involve or implicate in/to attract/to lead/to guide/to leave/to provide evidence or justification for/old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters/


Words: 引狗入寨
Pinyin: yǐn gǒu rù zhài
Hanviet: 引dẫn 狗cẩu 入nhập 寨
Meaning:
to lead the wolf into the woodpile (idiom); to leave oneself open to attack/to act imprudently, asking for trouble/


Words: 引狼入室
Pinyin: yǐn láng rù shì
Hanviet: 引dẫn 狼lang 入nhập 室thất
Meaning:
to lead the wolf into the house (idiom); to leave oneself open to attack/to act imprudently, asking for trouble/


Words: 引而不發
Pinyin: yǐn ér bù fā
Hanviet: 引dẫn 而nhi 不bất 發phát
Meaning:
to pull the bow without shooting (idiom from Mencius); ready and waiting for action/to go through the motions/to practice/a trial run/


Words: 引鬼上門
Pinyin: yǐn guǐ shàng mén
Hanviet: 引dẫn 鬼quỷ 上thượng 門môn
Meaning:
to lead the devil to the door (idiom); to invite the attention of criminals/to leave oneself open to attack/


Words: 弗里德里希·席勒
Pinyin: fú lǐ dé lǐ xī �� xí lè
Hanviet: 弗phất 里lý 德đức 里lý 希hy · 席tịch 勒lặc
Meaning:
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist/


Words: 弘治
Pinyin: hóng zhì
Hanviet: 弘hoằng 治trị
Meaning:
Hongzhi Emperor, reign name of ninth Ming emperor 朱祐樘 (1470-1505), reigned 1487-1505, Temple name 明孝宗/


Words: 弦歌
Pinyin: xián gē
Hanviet: 弦huyền 歌ca
Meaning:
to sing to a string accompaniment/education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times)/


Words: 弦而鼓之
Pinyin: xián ér gǔ zhī
Hanviet: 弦huyền 而nhi 鼓cổ 之chi
Meaning:
lit. to tune one’s zither then play it; fig. to live by the consequences of one’s actions/to make one’s bed then lie on it/


Words: 弱勢群體
Pinyin: ruò shì qún tǐ
Hanviet: 弱nhược 勢thế 群quần 體thể
Meaning:
disadvantaged social groups (e.g. the handicapped)/the economically and politically marginalized/the dispossessed/


Words: 張三
Pinyin: zhāng sān
Hanviet: 張trương 三tam
Meaning:
John Doe/Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三, 张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry/


Words: 張二鴻
Pinyin: zhāng èr hóng
Hanviet: 張trương 二nhị 鴻hồng
Meaning:
Jung Chang 張戎, 张戎 (1952-), British-Chinese writer, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝, 野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事, 毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事/


Words: 張儀
Pinyin: zhāng yí
Hanviet: 張trương 儀nghi
Meaning:
Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)/


Words: 張冠李戴
Pinyin: zhāng guān lǐ dài
Hanviet: 張trương 冠quan 李 戴đái
Meaning:
lit. to put Zhang’s hat on Li’s head/to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom)/to confuse one thing with another/


Words: 張國燾
Pinyin: zhāng guó tāo
Hanviet: 張trương 國quốc 燾
Meaning:
Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938/


Words: 張大千
Pinyin: zhāng dà qiān
Hanviet: 張trương 大Đại 千Thiên
Meaning:
Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the 20th century/


Words: 張天翼
Pinyin: zhāng tiān yì
Hanviet: 張trương 天thiên 翼dực
Meaning:
Zhang Tian’yi (1906-1985), children’s writer, author of prize-winning fairy tale Secret of the Magic Gourd 寶葫蘆的秘密, 宝葫芦的秘密/


Words: 張學良
Pinyin: zhāng xué liáng
Hanviet: 張trương 學học 良lương
Meaning:
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People’s Liberation Army/


Words: 張居正
Pinyin: zhāng jū zhèng
Hanviet: 張trương 居cư 正chánh
Meaning:
Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee/


Words: 張廷玉
Pinyin: zhāng tíng yù
Hanviet: 張trương 廷đình 玉ngọc
Meaning:
Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, oversaw compilation of History of the Ming Dynasty 明史 and the Kangxi Dictionary 康熙字典/


Words: 張志新
Pinyin: zhāng zhì xīn
Hanviet: 張trương 志chí 新tân
Meaning:
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979/


Words: 張戎
Pinyin: zhāng róng
Hanviet: 張trương 戎nhung
Meaning:
Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻, 张二鸿, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝, 野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事, 毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事/


Words: 張成澤
Pinyin: zhāng chéng zé
Hanviet: 張trương 成thành 澤trạch
Meaning:
Jang Seong-taek or Chang Sŏngt’aek (1946-2013), brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il 金正日, uncle and regent of Kim Jong-un 金正恩/


Words: 張揖
Pinyin: zhāng yī
Hanviet: 張trương 揖ấp
Meaning:
Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓, 稚让, named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅, 广雅 and several lost works/


Words: 張揚
Pinyin: zhāng yáng
Hanviet: 張trương 揚dương
Meaning:
to display ostentatiously/to bring out into the open/to make public/to spread around/flamboyant/brash/


Words: 張旭
Pinyin: zhāng xù
Hanviet: 張trương 旭
Meaning:
Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書, 草书/


Words: 張溥
Pinyin: zhāng pǔ
Hanviet: 張trương 溥phổ
Meaning:
Zhang Pu (1602-1641), Ming dynasty scholar and prolific writer, proponent of 複社, 复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five tombstone inscriptions 五人墓碑記, 五人墓碑记/


Words: 張自忠
Pinyin: zhāng zì zhōng
Hanviet: 張trương 自tự 忠trung
Meaning:
Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War/


Words: 張華
Pinyin: zhāng huà
Hanviet: 張trương 華hoa
Meaning:
Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician/Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank/other Zhang Hua’s too numerous to mention/


Words: 張飛
Pinyin: zhāng fēi
Hanviet: 張trương 飛phi
Meaning:
Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine/


Words: 強中自有強中手
Pinyin: qiáng zhōng zì yǒu qiáng zhōng shǒu
Hanviet: 強cường/cưỡng 中trung 自tự 有hữu 強cường/cưỡng 中trung 手thủ
Meaning:
However strong you are, there is always someone stronger/There is always sth more to learn (applied to art or learning)./Never be satisfied to rest on you laurels./There is no room for complacency./


Words: 強詞奪理
Pinyin: qiǎng cí duó lǐ
Hanviet: 強cường/cưỡng 詞từ 奪đoạt 理lý
Meaning:
to twist words and force logic (idiom)/sophistry/loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument/shoving false arguments down people’s throats/


Words: 彈
Pinyin: tán
Hanviet: 彈đàn
Meaning:
to pluck (a string)/to play (a string instrument)/to spring or leap/to shoot (e.g. with a catapult)/(of cotton) to fluff or tease/to flick/to flip/to accuse/to impeach/elastic (of materials)/


Words: 彈冠相慶
Pinyin: tán guān xiāng qìng
Hanviet: 彈đàn 冠quan 相tương/tướng 慶khánh
Meaning:
lit. to flick dust off sb’s cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment/to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)/


Words: 彈幕
Pinyin: dàn mù
Hanviet: 彈đàn 幕mạc
Meaning:
barrage (military)/"bullet screen", function which allows viewers to post on-screen comments in videos, movies etc in real time/danmaku (video game sub-genre)/


Words: 彈指之間
Pinyin: tán zhǐ zhī jiān
Hanviet: 彈đàn 指chỉ 之chi 間gian
Meaning:
a snap of the fingers (idiom); in an instant/in a short moment/in a flash/in the twinkling of an eye/


Words: 彌勒
Pinyin: mí lè
Hanviet: 彌Di 勒Lặc
Meaning:
Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan/Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha/


Words: 彌漫
Pinyin: mí màn
Hanviet: 彌di 漫mạn
Meaning:
to pervade/to fill the air/diffuse/everywhere present/about to inundate (water)/permeated by (smoke)/filled with (dust)/to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)/


Words: 彌陀
Pinyin: mí tuó
Hanviet: 彌di 陀đà
Meaning:
Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Paradise/abbr. for 阿彌陀佛, 阿弥陀佛/Mituo or Mito township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣, 高雄县, southwest Taiwan/


Words: 彎道超車
Pinyin: wān dào chāo chē
Hanviet: 彎loan 道đạo 超siêu 車xa
Meaning:
to overtake on a bend (driving)/(fig.) taking opportunity of tight corners to make swift progress (economy etc)/


Words: 形聲
Pinyin: xíng shēng
Hanviet: 形hình 聲thanh
Meaning:
ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character/


Words: 形聲字
Pinyin: xíng shēng zì
Hanviet: 形hình 聲thanh 字tự
Meaning:
radical plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character/


Words: 形譯
Pinyin: xíng yì
Hanviet: 形hình 譯dịch
Meaning:
derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合, 场合, derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba’ai")/


Words: 彬馬那
Pinyin: bīn mǎ nà
Hanviet: 彬 馬mã 那na
Meaning:
Pyinmana, former jungle county town in central Myanmar (Burma), redesignated the national capital and renamed Naypyidaw 內比都 in November 2005/


Words: 彭博
Pinyin: péng bó
Hanviet: 彭 博bác
Meaning:
Bloomberg (name)/Michael Bloomberg (1942-), US billionaire businessman, politician and philanthropist/


Words: 彭德懷
Pinyin: péng dé huái
Hanviet: 彭 德đức 懷hoài
Meaning:
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao’s failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution/


Words: 彰善癉惡
Pinyin: zhāng shàn dàn è
Hanviet: 彰chương 善thiện 癉 惡ác
Meaning:
to distinguish good and evil (idiom); to uphold virtue and condemn evil/to praise good and expose vice/


Words: 役
Pinyin: yì
Hanviet: 役dịch
Meaning:
forced labor/corvée/obligatory task/military service/to use as servant/to enserf/servant (old)/war/campaign/battle/


Words: 往復
Pinyin: wǎng fù
Hanviet: 往vãng 復phục
Meaning:
to go and come back/to make a return trip/backwards and forwards (e.g. of piston or pump action)/to reciprocate (of machine part)/


Words: 徇
Pinyin: xùn
Hanviet: 徇
Meaning:
to give in to/to be swayed by (personal considerations etc)/Taiwan pr. /to follow/to expose publicly/variant of 侚/variant of 殉/


Words: 後來居上
Pinyin: hòu lái jū shàng
Hanviet: 後hậu 來lai 居cư 上thượng
Meaning:
lit. late-comer lives above (idiom); the up-and-coming youngster outstrips the older generation/the pupil surpasses the master/


Words: 後周
Pinyin: hòu zhōu
Hanviet: 後hậu 周chu
Meaning:
Later Zhou of the Five Dynasties (951-960), centered on Shandong and Hebei, with capital at Kaifeng 开封/


Words: 後漢書
Pinyin: hòu hàn shū
Hanviet: 後hậu 漢hán 書thư
Meaning:
History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 範曄, 范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls/


Words: 後生可畏
Pinyin: hòu shēng kě wèi
Hanviet: 後hậu 生sanh 可khả 畏úy
Meaning:
the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom)/the younger generations will surpass us in time/


Words: 後路
Pinyin: hòu lù
Hanviet: 後hậu 路lộ
Meaning:
escape route/retreat route/communication lines to the rear/alternative course of action/room for maneuver/


Words: 後車之鑒
Pinyin: hòu chē zhī jiàn
Hanviet: 後hậu 車xa 之chi 鑒giám
Meaning:
lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don’t follow the track of an overturned cart/fig. draw lesson from the failure of one’s predecessor/learn from past mistake/once bitten twice shy/


Words: 後顧之憂
Pinyin: hòu gù zhī yōu
Hanviet: 後hậu 顧cố 之chi 憂ưu
Meaning:
fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action)/worries about the future consequences/often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"/


Words: 後鼻音
Pinyin: hòu bí yīn
Hanviet: 後hậu 鼻tị 音âm
Meaning:
velar nasal/consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate/


Words: 徐世昌
Pinyin: xú shì chāng
Hanviet: 徐từ 世thế 昌xương
Meaning:
Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921/


Words: 徐熙媛
Pinyin: xú xī yuán
Hanviet: 徐từ 熙hi 媛viện
Meaning:
Xu Xiyuan or Hsu Hsiyuan or Barbie Hsu (1976-), Taiwan pop star and actress, F4 band member/also called 大S/


Words: 徐霞客
Pinyin: xú xiá kè
Hanviet: 徐từ 霞hà 客khách
Meaning:
Xu Xiake (1587-1641), Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer, author of Xu Xiake’s Travel Diaries 徐霞客遊記, 徐霞客游记/


Words: 徒有其名
Pinyin: tú yǒu qí míng
Hanviet: 徒đồ 有hữu 其kỳ 名danh
Meaning:
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame/nowhere near as good as he’s made out to be/


Words: 得
Pinyin: dé
Hanviet: 得đắc
Meaning:
to obtain/to get/to gain/to catch (a disease)/proper/suitable/proud/contented/to allow/to permit/ready/finished/


Words: 得
Pinyin: de
Hanviet: 得đắc
Meaning:
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc/


Words: 得中
Pinyin: dé zhòng
Hanviet: 得đắc 中trung
Meaning:
to succeed in an imperial examination/successful/to hit the target/to win (the lottery)/suitable/proper/just right/


Words: 得寸進尺
Pinyin: dé cùn jìn chǐ
Hanviet: 得đắc 寸thốn 進tiến 尺xích
Meaning:
lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains/give him an inch, and he’ll want a mile/


Words: 得心應手
Pinyin: dé xīn yìng shǒu
Hanviet: 得đắc 心tâm 應ưng 手thủ
Meaning:
lit. what the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes (idiom) skilled at the job/entirely in one’s element/going smoothly and easily/


Words: 得榮
Pinyin: dé róng
Hanviet: 得đắc 榮vinh
Meaning:
Dêrong county (Tibetan: sde rong rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 得榮縣
Pinyin: dé róng xiàn
Hanviet: 得đắc 榮vinh 縣huyện
Meaning:
Dêrong county (Tibetan: sde rong rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 得氣
Pinyin: dé qì
Hanviet: 得đắc 氣khí
Meaning:
"to obtain qi", the sensation of electrical tingling, numbness, soreness etc at the meridian where accupuncture needle is inserted/


Words: 得饒人處且饒人
Pinyin: dé ráo rén chù qiě ráo rén
Hanviet: 得đắc 饒nhiêu 人nhân 處xứ 且thả 饒nhiêu 人nhân
Meaning:
where it is possible to let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible/


Words: 從
Pinyin: cóng
Hanviet: 從tùng
Meaning:
from/through/via/to follow/to obey/to engage in (an activity)/never (in negative sentence)/(Taiwan pr. ) retainer/assistant/accomplice/related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor/


Words: 從天而降
Pinyin: cóng tiān ér jiàng
Hanviet: 從tùng 天thiên 而nhi 降giáng/hàng
Meaning:
lit. to drop from the sky (idiom)/fig. to appear unexpectedly/to arise abruptly/out of the blue/to drop into one’s lap/


Words: 從諫如流
Pinyin: cóng jiàn rú liú
Hanviet: 從tùng 諫gián 如như 流lưu
Meaning:
to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one’s inferiors)/


Words: 御宅族
Pinyin: yù zhái zú
Hanviet: 御ngự 宅trạch 族tộc
Meaning:
otaku, a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests such as anime, manga, and video games/see also 宅男/see also 宅女/


Words: 復
Pinyin: fù
Hanviet: 復phục
Meaning:
to go and return/to return/to resume/to return to a normal or original state/to repeat/again/to recover/to restore/to turn over/to reply/to answer/to reply to a letter/to retaliate/to carry out/


Words: 復位
Pinyin: fù wèi
Hanviet: 復phục 位vị
Meaning:
to restore sb or sth to its original position/to regain the throne/to reset (a dislocated joint, an electronic device etc)/reset/


Words: 復古
Pinyin: fù gǔ
Hanviet: 復phục 古cổ
Meaning:
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration)/to turn back the clock/neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文/retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)/


Words: 復興
Pinyin: fù xīng
Hanviet: 復phục 興hưng
Meaning:
Fuxing district of Handan city 邯鄲市, 邯郸市, Hebei/Fuxing or Fuhsing township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣, 桃园县, north Taiwan/


Words: 復讀
Pinyin: fù dú
Hanviet: 復phục 讀đọc
Meaning:
to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one’s desired higher-level school/


Words: 循規蹈矩
Pinyin: xún guī dǎo jǔ
Hanviet: 循tuần 規quy 蹈đạo 矩củ
Meaning:
to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly/to act according to convention/


Words: 徵
Pinyin: zhēng
Hanviet: 徵trưng
Meaning:
to invite/to recruit/to levy (taxes)/to draft (troops)/phenomenon/symptom/characteristic sign (used as proof)/evidence/


Words: 徵選
Pinyin: zhēng xuǎn
Hanviet: 徵trưng 選tuyển
Meaning:
to call for entries and select the best/to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc)/to select (the best candidate)/contest/competition/


Words: 德先生
Pinyin: dé xiān sheng
Hanviet: 德đức 先tiên 生sanh
Meaning:
"Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動, 五四运动/abbr. for 德謨克拉西, 德谟克拉西/see also 賽先生, 赛先生/


Words: 德古拉
Pinyin: dé gǔ lā
Hanviet: 德đức 古cổ 拉lạp
Meaning:
Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker/Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula/


Words: 德國統一社會黨
Pinyin: dé guó tǒng yī shè huì dǎng
Hanviet: 德đức 國quốc 統thống 一nhất 社xã 會hội 黨đảng
Meaning:
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany 1949-1990), the ruling communist party of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)/


Words: 德宏傣族景頗族自治州
Pinyin: dé hóng dǎi zú jǐng pō zú zì zhì zhōu
Hanviet: 德đức 宏hoành 傣 族tộc 景cảnh 頗phả 族tộc 自tự 治trị 州châu
Meaning:
Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture in west Yunnan, surrounded on three sides by Myanmar (Burma), capital Luxi 潞西市/


Words: 德宏州
Pinyin: dé hóng zhōu
Hanviet: 德đức 宏hoành 州châu
Meaning:
abbr. for 德宏傣族景頗族自治州, 德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture in west Yunnan surrounded on three sides by Myanmar (Burma)/


Words: 德布勒森
Pinyin: dé bù lè sēn
Hanviet: 德đức 布bố 勒lặc 森sâm
Meaning:
Debrecen, Hungary’s second city, capital of Hajdú-Bihar county 豪伊杜·比豪爾州, 豪伊杜·比豪尔州 in east Hungary on the border with Romania/


Words: 德格
Pinyin: dé gé
Hanviet: 德đức 格cách
Meaning:
Dêgê county (Tibetan: sde dge rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 德欽
Pinyin: dé qīn
Hanviet: 德đức 欽khâm
Meaning:
Dechen county in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, Yunnan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 德沃夏克
Pinyin: dé wò xià kè
Hanviet: 德đức 沃ốc 夏hạ 克khắc
Meaning:
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904), Bohemian composer, author of nine symphonies including the New World symphony/


Words: 德法年鑒
Pinyin: dé fǎ nián jiàn
Hanviet: 德đức 法pháp 年niên 鑒giám
Meaning:
Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge)/


Words: 德薄能鮮
Pinyin: dé bó néng xiǎn
Hanviet: 德đức 薄bạc 能năng 鮮tiên
Meaning:
little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I’m a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修)/


Words: 德雷爾
Pinyin: dé léi ěr
Hanviet: 德đức 雷lôi 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Dreyer (name)/June Teufel Dreyer, China expert at Univ. of Miami and Foreign Policy Research Institute/


Words: 德雷福斯
Pinyin: dé léi fú sī
Hanviet: 德đức 雷lôi 福phước 斯tư
Meaning:
Dreyfus (name)/Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish background, infamously imprisoned 1894 in miscarriage of justice/


Words: 德雷福斯案件
Pinyin: dé léi fú sī àn jiàn
Hanviet: 德đức 雷lôi 福phước 斯tư 案án 件
Meaning:
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice/


Words: 心口不一
Pinyin: xīn kǒu bù yī
Hanviet: 心tâm 口khẩu 不bất 一nhất
Meaning:
heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one’s real intentions to oneself/saying one thing but meaning sth different/


Words: 心學
Pinyin: xīn xué
Hanviet: 心tâm 學học
Meaning:
School of Mind/Neo-Confucian Idealistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Wang Yangming 王陽明, 王阳明)/


Words: 心得
Pinyin: xīn dé
Hanviet: 心tâm 得đắc
Meaning:
what one has learned (through experience, reading etc)/knowledge/insight/understanding/tips/CL:項, 项,個, 个/


Words: 心有靈犀一點通
Pinyin: xīn yǒu líng xī yī diǎn tōng
Hanviet: 心tâm 有hữu 靈linh 犀 一nhất 點điểm 通thông
Meaning:
hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one/


Words: 心有餘，力不足
Pinyin: xīn yǒu yú , lì bù zú
Hanviet: 心tâm 有hữu 餘dư 力lực 不bất 足túc
Meaning:
The will is there, but not the strength (idiom, from Confucian Analects)./I really want to do it, but don’t have the resources./The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak./


Words: 心猿意馬
Pinyin: xīn yuán yì mǎ
Hanviet: 心tâm 猿viên 意ý 馬mã
Meaning:
lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.)/to have ants in one’s pants/hyperactive/adventurous and uncontrollable/


Words: 心理作用
Pinyin: xīn lǐ zuò yòng
Hanviet: 心tâm 理lý 作tác 用dụng
Meaning:
psychological effect/subjective experience affected more by one’s expectations than by objective reality/figment of the imagination/


Words: 心裡美蘿蔔
Pinyin: xīn li měi luó bo
Hanviet: 心tâm 裡 美mỹ 蘿 蔔bặc
Meaning:
Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable/


Words: 忍者神龜
Pinyin: rěn zhě shén guī
Hanviet: 忍nhẫn 者giả 神thần 龜quy
Meaning:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc/


Words: 忘恩負義
Pinyin: wàng ēn fù yì
Hanviet: 忘vong 恩ân 負phụ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend/to kick a benefactor in the teeth/


Words: 忠清
Pinyin: zhōng qīng
Hanviet: 忠trung 清thanh
Meaning:
Chungcheong Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Chungcheong province 忠清北道 and South Chungcheong province 忠清南道 of South Korea/


Words: 快
Pinyin: kuài
Hanviet: 快khoái
Meaning:
rapid/quick/speed/rate/soon/almost/to make haste/clever/sharp (of knives or wits)/forthright/plainspoken/gratified/pleased/pleasant/


Words: 快刀斬亂麻
Pinyin: kuài dāo zhǎn luàn má
Hanviet: 快khoái 刀đao 斬trảm 亂loạn 麻ma
Meaning:
lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom); decisive action in a complex situation/cutting the Gordian knot/


Words: 念
Pinyin: niàn
Hanviet: 念niệm
Meaning:
to read/to study (a subject)/to attend (a school)/to read aloud/to miss (sb)/idea/remembrance/twenty (banker’s anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿, 20)/


Words: 忽必烈
Pinyin: hū bì liè
Hanviet: 忽hốt 必tất 烈liệt
Meaning:
Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗, first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294/


Words: 忽悠
Pinyin: hū you
Hanviet: 忽hốt 悠du
Meaning:
to rock/to sway/to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water)/to flutter (e.g. of a flag)/to trick sb into doing sth/to dupe/to con/


Words: 怎麼回事
Pinyin: zěn me huí shì
Hanviet: 怎chẩm 麼ma 回hồi 事sự
Meaning:
what’s the matter?/what’s going on?/how could that be?/how did that come about?/what’s it all about?/


Words: 怒江
Pinyin: nù jiāng
Hanviet: 怒nộ 江giang
Meaning:
Nujiang river of south Tibet and northwest Yunnan, the upper reaches of Salween river 薩爾溫江, 萨尔温江, forming border of Myanmar and Thailand/


Words: 怒江州
Pinyin: nù jiāng zhōu
Hanviet: 怒nộ 江giang 州châu
Meaning:
abbr. for 怒江傈僳族自治州, Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture in northwest Yunnan, capital Liuku or Lutku 六庫鎮, 六库镇/


Words: 怒髮衝冠
Pinyin: nù fà chōng guān
Hanviet: 怒nộ 髮phát 衝xung 冠quan
Meaning:
lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one’s hat (idiom)/fig. seething in anger/raise one’s hackles/


Words: 思前想後
Pinyin: sī qián xiǎng hòu
Hanviet: 思tư 前tiền 想tưởng 後hậu
Meaning:
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future/to ponder over reasons and connection/


Words: 急嘴急舌
Pinyin: jí zuǐ jí shé
Hanviet: 急cấp 嘴chủy 急cấp 舌thiệt
Meaning:
lit. quick mouth and quick tongue/fig. to interrupt sb urgently and say one’s piece/to chime in rapidly/


Words: 急難
Pinyin: jí nàn
Hanviet: 急cấp 難nạn/nan
Meaning:
misfortune/crisis/grave danger/critical situation/disaster/emergency/to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament/


Words: 性
Pinyin: xìng
Hanviet: 性tánh
Meaning:
nature/character/property/quality/attribute/sexuality/sex/gender/suffix forming adjective from verb/suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity/essence/CL:個, 个/


Words: 怨天載道
Pinyin: yuàn tiān zài dào
Hanviet: 怨oán 天thiên 載tái 道đạo
Meaning:
lit. cries of complaint fill the roads (idiom); complaints rise all around/discontent is openly voiced/


Words: 怵目驚心
Pinyin: chù mù jīng xīn
Hanviet: 怵truật 目mục 驚kinh 心tâm
Meaning:
lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom); shocking/horrible to see/a ghastly sight/also written 觸目驚心, 触目惊心/


Words: 恆山
Pinyin: héng shān
Hanviet: 恆hằng 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽, 五岳/Hengshan district of Jixi city 雞西, 鸡西, Heilongjiang/


Words: 恨鐵不成鋼
Pinyin: hèn tiě bù chéng gāng
Hanviet: 恨hận 鐵thiết 不bất 成thành 鋼cương
Meaning:
lit. to hate iron for not becoming steel/to feel resentful towards sb for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement (idiom)/


Words: 恩准
Pinyin: ēn zhǔn
Hanviet: 恩ân 准chuẩn
Meaning:
approved by His (or Her) Majesty/permission graciously granted (from highly authoritative position)/to graciously permit/to condescend to allow/


Words: 恩施
Pinyin: ēn shī
Hanviet: 恩ân 施thí
Meaning:
Enshi prefecture level city in southwest Hubei, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州/


Words: 恩施市
Pinyin: ēn shī shì
Hanviet: 恩ân 施thí 市thị
Meaning:
Enshi prefecture level city in Hubei, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州/


Words: 恭祝
Pinyin: gōng zhù
Hanviet: 恭cung 祝chúc
Meaning:
to congratulate respectfully/to wish good luck and success (esp. to a superior)/with best wishes (in writing)/


Words: 悍然不顧
Pinyin: hàn rán bù gù
Hanviet: 悍hãn 然nhiên 不bất 顧cố
Meaning:
outrageous and unconventional (idiom); flying in the face of (authority, convention, public opinion etc)/


Words: 悟空
Pinyin: wù kōng
Hanviet: 悟ngộ 空không
Meaning:
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/


Words: 悠悠
Pinyin: yōu yōu
Hanviet: 悠du 悠du
Meaning:
lasting for ages/long drawn out/remote in time or space/unhurried/a great number (of events)/preposterous/pensive/


Words: 悠遊卡
Pinyin: yōu yóu kǎ
Hanviet: 悠du 遊du 卡
Meaning:
EasyCard, smartcard used for payment on public transport and at other businesses such as convenience stores in Taipei and surrounding areas/


Words: 情同手足
Pinyin: qíng tóng shǒu zú
Hanviet: 情tình 同đồng 手thủ 足túc
Meaning:
as close as one’s hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers/deep friendship/closely attached to one another/


Words: 惠子
Pinyin: huì zi
Hanviet: 惠huệ 子tử
Meaning:
Hui-zi also known as Hui Shi 惠施 (c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家  during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 惠施
Pinyin: huì shī
Hanviet: 惠huệ 施thí
Meaning:
Hui Shi, also known as Hui-zi 惠子(c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家  during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 惡搞
Pinyin: è gǎo
Hanviet: 惡ác 搞
Meaning:
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)/


Words: 惡搞文化
Pinyin: è gǎo wén huà
Hanviet: 惡ác 搞 文văn 化hóa
Meaning:
spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)/


Words: 惡有惡報
Pinyin: è yǒu è bào
Hanviet: 惡ác 有hữu 惡ác 報báo
Meaning:
evil has its retribution (idiom); to suffer the consequences of one’s bad deeds/sow the wind and reap the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7)/


Words: 惡貫滿盈
Pinyin: è guàn mǎn yíng
Hanviet: 惡ác 貫quán 滿mãn 盈doanh
Meaning:
lit. strung through and filled with evil (idiom); filled with extreme evil/replete with vice/guilty of monstrous crimes/


Words: 想
Pinyin: xiǎng
Hanviet: 想tưởng
Meaning:
to think/to believe/to suppose/to wish/to want/to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)/


Words: 想不開
Pinyin: xiǎng bu kāi
Hanviet: 想tưởng 不bất 開khai
Meaning:
cannot figure out/to be unable to take a lighter view/to take things too hard/to be depressed/to fret over trifles/


Words: 想得開
Pinyin: xiǎng de kāi
Hanviet: 想tưởng 得đắc 開khai
Meaning:
to not take to heart/to be free of worried thoughts/to adopt a lighthearted perspective/lighthearted/


Words: 想方設法
Pinyin: xiǎng fāng shè fǎ
Hanviet: 想tưởng 方phương 設thiết 法pháp
Meaning:
to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means/to try this, that and the other/


Words: 想開
Pinyin: xiǎng kāi
Hanviet: 想tưởng 開khai
Meaning:
to get over (a shock, bereavement etc)/to avoid dwelling on unpleasant things/to accept the situation and move on/


Words: 惹火燒身
Pinyin: rě huǒ shāo shēn
Hanviet: 惹nhạ 火hỏa 燒thiêu 身thân
Meaning:
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one’s fingers burnt/fig. to suffer on account of one’s own meddling/


Words: 意存筆先，畫盡意在
Pinyin: yì cún bǐ xiān , huà jìn yì zài
Hanviet: 意ý 存tồn 筆bút 先tiên 畫họa 盡tận 意ý 在tại
Meaning:
the idea is present before the first stroke of the brush, when the last stroke is placed the idea shines through/


Words: 意思
Pinyin: yì si
Hanviet: 意ý 思tư
Meaning:
idea/opinion/meaning/wish/desire/interest/fun/token of appreciation, affection etc/CL:個, 个/to give as a small token/to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc/


Words: 意譯
Pinyin: yì yì
Hanviet: 意ý 譯dịch
Meaning:
meaning (of foreign expression)/translation of the meaning (as opposed to literal translation 直譯, 直译)/paraphrase/free translation/


Words: 愛屋及烏
Pinyin: ài wū jí wū
Hanviet: 愛ái 屋ốc 及cập 烏ô
Meaning:
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected/Love me, love my dog./


Words: 愛憎分明
Pinyin: ài zēng fēn míng
Hanviet: 愛ái 憎tăng 分phân 明minh
Meaning:
to make a clear difference between what one likes and what one hates/to have well-defined likes and dislikes/


Words: 愛玉冰
Pinyin: ài yù bīng
Hanviet: 愛ái 玉ngọc 冰băng
Meaning:
jelly snack made by kneading jelly fig seeds 愛玉子, 爱玉子 in water and combining with flavorings (popular in Taiwan and Singapore)/


Words: 愛莫能助
Pinyin: ài mò néng zhù
Hanviet: 愛ái 莫mạc 能năng 助trợ
Meaning:
unable to help however much one would like to (idiom); Although we sympathize, there is no way to help you./My hands are tied./


Words: 愛面子
Pinyin: ài miàn zi
Hanviet: 愛ái 面diện 子tử
Meaning:
to save face/to worry about losing face/proud of one’s reputation/sensitive about losing prestige/sense of propriety/


Words: 感冒
Pinyin: gǎn mào
Hanviet: 感cảm 冒mạo
Meaning:
to catch cold/(common) cold/CL:場, 场,次/(coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative)/(Tw) to detest/can’t stand/


Words: 感化
Pinyin: gǎn huà
Hanviet: 感cảm 化hóa
Meaning:
corrective influence/to reform (a criminal)/redemption (of a sinner)/to influence (a malefactor to a better life)/to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example/


Words: 感受
Pinyin: gǎn shòu
Hanviet: 感cảm 受thọ
Meaning:
to sense/perception/to feel (through the senses)/to experience/a feeling/an impression/an experience/


Words: 感同身受
Pinyin: gǎn tóng shēn shòu
Hanviet: 感cảm 同đồng 身thân 受thọ
Meaning:
to feel as if it had happened to oneself/to sympathize/(polite expression of gratitude for a favor received by a friend etc) I take it as a personal favor/


Words: 愧不敢當
Pinyin: kuì bù gǎn dāng
Hanviet: 愧quý 不bất 敢cảm 當đương
Meaning:
lit. I’m ashamed and dare not (accept the honor); fig. I do not deserve your praise./You flatter me too much./


Words: 慈悲為本
Pinyin: cí bēi wéi běn
Hanviet: 慈từ 悲bi 為vi 本bổn
Meaning:
mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion/


Words: 慶尚道
Pinyin: qìng shàng dào
Hanviet: 慶khánh 尚thượng 道đạo
Meaning:
Gyeongsang Province of Joseon Korea, now divided into North Gyeongsang Province 慶尚北道, 庆尚北道 and South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道, 庆尚南道/


Words: 慾壑難填
Pinyin: yù hè nán tián
Hanviet: 慾dục 壑hác 難nạn/nan 填điền
Meaning:
bottomless pit of desire (idiom); insatiable greed/carnal cravings are never satisfied and are a main obstruction on the path to enlightenment/


Words: 憤青
Pinyin: fèn qīng
Hanviet: 憤phẫn 青thanh
Meaning:
angry youth/positive term used to describe young Chinese with extreme nationalistic tendencies/see also 糞青, 粪青/


Words: 憲兵隊
Pinyin: xiàn bīng duì
Hanviet: 憲hiến 兵binh 隊đội
Meaning:
the Kempeitai or Japanese Military Police 1881-1945 (Japanese counterpart of the Gestapo during WWII)/


Words: 應卯
Pinyin: yìng mǎo
Hanviet: 應ưng 卯mão
Meaning:
to answer the roll call at 卯時, 卯时, i.e. between 5 and 7 am/fig. to put in a conventional appearance/


Words: 應天承運
Pinyin: yìng tiān chéng yùn
Hanviet: 應ưng 天thiên 承thừa 運vận
Meaning:
lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven/the Divine Right of kings/


Words: 應接不暇
Pinyin: yìng jiē bù xiá
Hanviet: 應ưng 接tiếp 不bất 暇hạ
Meaning:
more than one can attend to (idiom)/deluged (with inquiries etc)/overwhelmed (by the beauty of the scenery)/


Words: 應有盡有
Pinyin: yīng yǒu jìn yǒu
Hanviet: 應ưng 有hữu 盡tận 有hữu
Meaning:
everything that should be here is here (idiom); all one can think of is on hand/to have all one needs/


Words: 應運而生
Pinyin: yìng yùn ér shēng
Hanviet: 應ưng 運vận 而nhi 生sanh
Meaning:
to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom)/to arise at an opportune time/able to take advantage of an opportunity/to rise to the occasion/


Words: 懲前毖後
Pinyin: chéng qián bì hòu
Hanviet: 懲 前tiền 毖bí 後hậu
Meaning:
lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again/


Words: 懶驢上磨屎尿多
Pinyin: lǎn lǘ shàng mò shǐ niào duō
Hanviet: 懶lãn 驢lư 上thượng 磨ma 屎thỉ 尿niệu 多đa
Meaning:
(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working/lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing/


Words: 懷璧其罪
Pinyin: huái bì qí zuì
Hanviet: 懷hoài 璧bích 其kỳ 罪tội
Meaning:
lit. treasuring a jade ring becomes a crime (idiom); to get into trouble on account of a cherished item/fig. A person’s talent will arouse the envy of others./


Words: 懸河
Pinyin: xuán hé
Hanviet: 懸huyền 河hà
Meaning:
"hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain)/(literary) waterfall/cataract/(fig.) torrent of words/


Words: 戀念
Pinyin: liàn niàn
Hanviet: 戀luyến 念niệm
Meaning:
to have a sentimental attachment to (a place)/to miss (one’s ancestral home etc)/to be nostalgic about/


Words: 戈爾
Pinyin: gē ěr
Hanviet: 戈qua 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Gore (name)/Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate/


Words: 戊
Pinyin: wù
Hanviet: 戊
Meaning:
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/fifth in order/letter "E" or roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/penta/


Words: 戊戌六君子
Pinyin: wù xū liù jūn zǐ
Hanviet: 戊 戌tuất 六lục 君quân 子tử
Meaning:
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同, 谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀, 杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第, 刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁, 康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳, 杨锐/


Words: 戌
Pinyin: xū
Hanviet: 戌tuất
Meaning:
11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the Dog/ancient Chinese compass point: 300°/


Words: 成
Pinyin: chéng
Hanviet: 成thành
Meaning:
to succeed/to finish/to complete/to accomplish/to become/to turn into/to be all right/OK!/one tenth/


Words: 成也蕭何，敗也蕭何
Pinyin: chéng yě xiāo hé , bài yě xiāo hé
Hanviet: 成thành 也dã 蕭tiêu 何hà 敗bại 也dã 蕭tiêu 何hà
Meaning:
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信, 韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍, 大将军/fig. a situation where one’s success and failure are both due to the same factor/


Words: 成事不足，敗事有餘
Pinyin: chéng shì bù zú , bài shì yǒu yú
Hanviet: 成thành 事sự 不bất 足túc 敗bại 事sự 有hữu 餘dư
Meaning:
unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom)/unable to do anything right/never make, but always mar/


Words: 成則為王，敗則為寇
Pinyin: chéng zé wéi wáng , bài zé wéi kòu
Hanviet: 成thành 則tắc 為vi 王vương 敗bại 則tắc 為vi 寇khấu
Meaning:
lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom)/fig. losers are always in the wrong/


Words: 成均館
Pinyin: chéng jūn guǎn
Hanviet: 成thành 均quân 館quán
Meaning:
Koryo Seonggyungwan, university dating back to Korean Goryeo dynasty, in Gaesong, North Korea/Sungkyun kwan university, Seoul/


Words: 成敗利鈍
Pinyin: chéng bài lì dùn
Hanviet: 成thành 敗bại 利lợi 鈍độn
Meaning:
succeed or fail, sharp or blunt (idiom); advantages and disadvantages/success and failure/You win some, you lose some./


Words: 成材
Pinyin: chéng cái
Hanviet: 成thành 材tài
Meaning:
to make sth of oneself/to become a person who is worthy of respect/(of a tree) to grow to full size/to become useful for timber/


Words: 成語
Pinyin: chéng yǔ
Hanviet: 成thành 語ngữ
Meaning:
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation/idiom/proverb/saying/adage/CL:條, 条,本,句/


Words: 成軍
Pinyin: chéng jūn
Hanviet: 成thành 軍quân
Meaning:
lit. to form an army/to set up (team, group, band, organization etc)/to found/opening (ceremony)/to commission (arms system, naval vessel)/to graduate from an apprenticeship/


Words: 我醉欲眠
Pinyin: wǒ zuì yù mián
Hanviet: 我ngã 醉túy 欲dục 眠miên
Meaning:
lit. I’m drunk and would like to sleep (idiom)/(used to indicate one’s sincere and straightforward nature)/


Words: 戒
Pinyin: jiè
Hanviet: 戒giới
Meaning:
to guard against/to exhort/to admonish or warn/to give up or stop doing sth/Buddhist monastic discipline/ring (for a finger)/


Words: 截拳道
Pinyin: jié quán dào
Hanviet: 截tiệt 拳quyền 道đạo
Meaning:
Jeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts led by Bruce Lee 李小龍, 李小龙/


Words: 截斷
Pinyin: jié duàn
Hanviet: 截tiệt 斷đoạn
Meaning:
to break or cut in two/to sever/to cut off/(fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc)/to interrupt/(math.) to truncate/


Words: 截長補短
Pinyin: jié cháng bǔ duǎn
Hanviet: 截tiệt 長trường/trưởng 補bổ 短đoản
Meaning:
take from the long to supplement the short (idiom)/to offset each other’s deficiencies/to complement each other/


Words: 戰國策
Pinyin: zhàn guó cè
Hanviet: 戰chiến 國quốc 策sách
Meaning:
"Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦, 苏秦/


Words: 戰無不勝，攻無不克
Pinyin: zhàn wú bù shèng , gōng wú bù kè
Hanviet: 戰chiến 無vô 不bất 勝thắng 攻công 無vô 不bất 克khắc
Meaning:
to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering/ever victorious/nothing they can’t do/


Words: 戲說
Pinyin: xì shuō
Hanviet: 戲hí 說thuyết
Meaning:
dramatic form consisting of historical narration/history as jocular narrative/to stretch history for a joking story/amusing story with strained interpretations of history/to make an unreasonable comparison in jest/


Words: 戴盆望天
Pinyin: dài pén wàng tiān
Hanviet: 戴đái 盆bồn 望vọng 天thiên
Meaning:
lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one’s head; it is hard to get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one’s head/fig. it is hard to get on in one’s career while encumbered by family obligations/one can’t perform a major task while bothered by other duties/


Words: 戴高樂
Pinyin: dài gāo lè
Hanviet: 戴đái 高cao 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and President of the Republic 1959-1969/


Words: 戶口
Pinyin: hù kǒu
Hanviet: 戶hộ 口khẩu
Meaning:
population (counted as number of households for census or taxation)/registered residence/residence permit/(in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account/


Words: 房魔
Pinyin: fáng mó
Hanviet: 房phòng 魔ma
Meaning:
"housing devil", real estate developer or realtor accused of manipulating the property market in their favor/


Words: 所
Pinyin: suǒ
Hanviet: 所sở
Meaning:
actually/place/classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc/that which/particle introducing a relative clause or passive/CL:個, 个/


Words: 所屬
Pinyin: suǒ shǔ
Hanviet: 所sở 屬thuộc
Meaning:
one’s affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with)/subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself)/belonging to/affiliated/under one’s command/


Words: 扁鵲
Pinyin: biǎn què
Hanviet: 扁 鵲thước
Meaning:
秦越人 (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills, nicknamed Bian Que after the earliest known Chinese physician allegedly from the 黃帝, 黄帝 era/


Words: 手
Pinyin: shǒu
Hanviet: 手thủ
Meaning:
hand/(formal) to hold/person engaged in certain types of work/person skilled in certain types of work/personal(ly)/convenient/classifier for skill/CL:雙, 双,隻, 只/


Words: 手下
Pinyin: shǒu xià
Hanviet: 手thủ 下hạ
Meaning:
under one’s control or administration/subordinates/(money etc) on hand/sb’s financial means/to take action/


Words: 手下留情
Pinyin: shǒu xià liú qíng
Hanviet: 手thủ 下hạ 留lưu 情tình
Meaning:
lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me/Do not judge me too harshly./Look favorably on my humble efforts./


Words: 手套箱
Pinyin: shǒu tào xiāng
Hanviet: 手thủ 套sáo 箱tương
Meaning:
glove compartment (of a car)/glovebox (sealed compartment with attached gloves for handling hazardous materials etc)/


Words: 手心手背都是肉
Pinyin: shǒu xīn shǒu bèi dōu shì ròu
Hanviet: 手thủ 心tâm 手thủ 背bối/bội 都đô 是thị 肉nhục
Meaning:
lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom)/fig. to both be of equal importance/to value both equally/


Words: 手捲
Pinyin: shǒu juǎn
Hanviet: 手thủ 捲quyển
Meaning:
hand scroll (horizontal format for Chinese landscape painting)/hand roll (Japanese: temaki, style of fish cuisine)/hand rolled cigarette/hand roll (many contexts)/roll up/


Words: 手筆
Pinyin: shǒu bǐ
Hanviet: 手thủ 筆bút
Meaning:
sth written or painted in one’s own hand/(of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill/style/hand/(fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc/scale/


Words: 手足口病
Pinyin: shǒu zú kǒu bìng
Hanviet: 手thủ 足túc 口khẩu 病bệnh
Meaning:
hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children/


Words: 扎爾達里
Pinyin: zā ěr dá lǐ
Hanviet: 扎 爾nhĩ 達đạt 里lý
Meaning:
Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People’s Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir Bhutto, president of Pakistan from 2008/


Words: 扎賚特
Pinyin: zhā lài tè
Hanviet: 扎 賚lãi 特đặc
Meaning:
Jalaid or Zhalaid (name)/Jalaid banner, Mongolian Zhalaid khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟, 兴安盟, east Inner Mongolia/


Words: 扒高踩低
Pinyin: pá gāo cǎi dī
Hanviet: 扒 高cao 踩 低đê
Meaning:
crawl high, step low (idiom); unprincipled crawling, flattering one’s superiors and trampling on one’s juniors/toadying and bullying/


Words: 打
Pinyin: dǎ
Hanviet: 打đả
Meaning:
to beat/to strike/to hit/to break/to type/to mix up/to build/to fight/to fetch/to make/to tie up/to issue/to shoot/to calculate/to play (a game)/since/from/


Words: 打前站
Pinyin: dǎ qián zhàn
Hanviet: 打đả 前tiền 站
Meaning:
to set out in advance to make arrangements (board, lodging etc)/(military) to dispatch an advance party/


Words: 打千
Pinyin: dǎ qiān
Hanviet: 打đả 千thiên
Meaning:
genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand/


Words: 打口
Pinyin: dǎ kǒu
Hanviet: 打đả 口khẩu
Meaning:
(of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc/


Words: 打坐坡
Pinyin: dǎ zuò pō
Hanviet: 打đả 坐tọa 坡
Meaning:
(of a horse, dog etc) to sit back on one’s haunches and refuse to be coaxed forward/(of a person) to brace oneself to resist being made to go forward/(fig.) to dig one’s heels in/


Words: 打小算盤
Pinyin: dǎ xiǎo suàn pán
Hanviet: 打đả 小tiểu 算toán 盤bàn
Meaning:
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly/concerned with petty interests/selfish and uncaring of the interests of others/bean counter/


Words: 打工
Pinyin: dǎ gōng
Hanviet: 打đả 工công
Meaning:
to work a temporary or casual job/(of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation/


Words: 打底
Pinyin: dǎ dǐ
Hanviet: 打đả 底để
Meaning:
to lay a foundation (also fig.)/to make a first sketch/to eat sth before drinking/to apply an undercoat/


Words: 打情罵俏
Pinyin: dǎ qíng mà qiào
Hanviet: 打đả 情tình 罵mạ 俏
Meaning:
to tease a woman by pretending to be displeased with her/to flirt with a member of the opposite sex/to banter flirtatiously/


Words: 打把勢
Pinyin: dǎ bǎ shi
Hanviet: 打đả 把bả 勢thế
Meaning:
drill (in sword play)/to thrash around/to demonstrate gymnastic skills/to solicit financial help (in an indirect way)/to show off/


Words: 打檔車
Pinyin: dǎ dǎng chē
Hanviet: 打đả 檔 車xa
Meaning:
(Tw) manual transmission motorcycle (usually denotes a traditional-style motorcycle, as opposed to a scooter)/


Words: 打炮
Pinyin: dǎ pào
Hanviet: 打đả 炮bào
Meaning:
to open fire with artillery/to set off firecrackers/to make one’s stage debut/(slang) to have sex/to masturbate/


Words: 打爆
Pinyin: dǎ bào
Hanviet: 打đả 爆bộc
Meaning:
to blow out/to blow off/(computer games) to zap/(phone) to ring off the hook/to be jammed/to max out (credit card etc)/


Words: 打發
Pinyin: dǎ fa
Hanviet: 打đả 發phát
Meaning:
to dispatch sb to do sth/to make sb leave/to pass (the time)/(old) to make arrangements/(old) to bestow (alms etc)/


Words: 打腫臉充胖子
Pinyin: dǎ zhǒng liǎn chōng pàng zi
Hanviet: 打đả 腫thũng 臉liệm 充sung 胖 子tử
Meaning:
lit. to swell one’s face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one’s abilities/


Words: 打草驚蛇
Pinyin: dǎ cǎo jīng shé
Hanviet: 打đả 草thảo 驚kinh 蛇xà
Meaning:
lit. beat the grass to scare the snake/to inadvertently alert an enemy/to punish sb as a warning to others (idiom)/


Words: 打落水狗
Pinyin: dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu
Hanviet: 打đả 落lạc 水thủy 狗cẩu
Meaning:
lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom)/fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy/to hit sb when he’s down/


Words: 打麻雀運動
Pinyin: dǎ má què yùn dòng
Hanviet: 打đả 麻ma 雀tước 運vận 動động
Meaning:
the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進, 大跃进 aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows/


Words: 托
Pinyin: tuō
Hanviet: 托thác
Meaning:
prop/support (for weight)/rest (e.g. arm rest)/thanks to/to hold in one’s hand/to support in one’s palm/to give/to base/to commit/to set/Torr (unit of pressure)/


Words: 托克托
Pinyin: tuō kè tuō
Hanviet: 托thác 克khắc 托thác
Meaning:
Togtoh county, Mongolian Togtox khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia/alternative spelling of 脫脫, 脱脱, Yuan dynasty politician Toktoghan (1314-1355)/


Words: 托勒密
Pinyin: tuō lè mì
Hanviet: 托thác 勒lặc 密mật
Meaning:
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great’s Empire in 305 BC/Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成, 天文学大成/see also 托勒玫/


Words: 托勒玫
Pinyin: tuō lè méi
Hanviet: 托thác 勒lặc 玫mai
Meaning:
Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成, 天文学大成/see also 托勒密/


Words: 托拉爾
Pinyin: tuō lā ěr
Hanviet: 托thác 拉lạp 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
(loanword) tolar, former currency of Slovenia/name for the silver coin and the main currency in Bohemia from 16th-18th century/


Words: 托木爾
Pinyin: tuō mù ěr
Hanviet: 托thác 木mộc 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Mt Tomur (Russian: Pik Pobeda), the highest peak of Tianshan mountains on the border between Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan/


Words: 托爾金
Pinyin: tuō ěr jīn
Hanviet: 托thác 爾nhĩ 金kim
Meaning:
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒/


Words: 托馬斯·阿奎納
Pinyin: tuō mǎ sī �� ā kuí nà
Hanviet: 托thác 馬mã 斯tư · 阿a 奎 納nạp
Meaning:
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition/


Words: 扣
Pinyin: kòu
Hanviet: 扣khấu
Meaning:
to fasten/to button/button/buckle/knot/to arrest/to confiscate/to deduct (money)/discount/to knock/to smash, spike or dunk (a ball)/to cover (with a bowl etc)/fig. to tag a label on sb/


Words: 扣分
Pinyin: kòu fēn
Hanviet: 扣khấu 分phần/phân
Meaning:
to deduct marks (when grading school work)/to have marks deducted/penalty points/to lose points for a penalty or error/


Words: 扣屎盔子
Pinyin: kòu shǐ kuī zi
Hanviet: 扣khấu 屎thỉ 盔 子tử
Meaning:
(northern dialect) lit. to cap in excrement/fig. to discredit with absurd unfounded accusations/to vilify/


Words: 扦
Pinyin: qiān
Hanviet: 扦
Meaning:
short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc/skewer/prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc/(dialect) to stick in/to bolt (a door)/to arrange (flowers in a vase)/to graft (tree)/to pedicure/to peel (an apple etc)/


Words: 扳回
Pinyin: bān huí
Hanviet: 扳 回hồi
Meaning:
to pull back/to regain (one’s dignity etc)/to recover from (an adverse situation)/to turn the tables/


Words: 扳指
Pinyin: bān zhǐ
Hanviet: 扳 指chỉ
Meaning:
ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring)/


Words: 扳龍附鳳
Pinyin: bān lóng fù fèng
Hanviet: 扳 龍long 附phụ 鳳phượng
Meaning:
hitching a ride to the sky on the dragon and phoenix (idiom); fig. currying favor with the rich and powerful in the hope of advancement/


Words: 扶他林
Pinyin: fú tā lín
Hanviet: 扶phù 他tha 林lâm
Meaning:
voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as pain-killer/


Words: 扶正
Pinyin: fú zhèng
Hanviet: 扶phù 正chánh
Meaning:
to set sth upright or straight/to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal)/(old) to raise from concubine to wife status/


Words: 扶餘
Pinyin: fú yú
Hanviet: 扶phù 餘dư
Meaning:
Fuyu county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin/Pu’yo, Korean Buyeo (c. 200 BC-494 AD), ancient kingdom in northeast frontier region of China/


