# dict

Words: 解
Pinyin: jiě
Hanviet: 解giải
Meaning:
to divide/to break up/to split/to separate/to dissolve/to solve/to melt/to remove/to untie/to loosen/to open/to emancipate/to explain/to understand/to know/a solution/a dissection/


Words: 解放
Pinyin: jiě fàng
Hanviet: 解giải 放phóng
Meaning:
to liberate/to emancipate/liberation/refers to the Communists’ victory over the Nationalists in 1949/CL:次/


Words: 解放戰爭
Pinyin: jiě fàng zhàn zhēng
Hanviet: 解giải 放phóng 戰chiến 爭tranh
Meaning:
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝, 共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東, 毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府, 国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石, 蒋介石/


Words: 解民倒懸
Pinyin: jiě mín dào xuán
Hanviet: 解giải 民dân 倒đảo 懸huyền
Meaning:
lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits/


Words: 解深密經
Pinyin: jiě shēn mì jīng
Hanviet: 解giải 深thâm 密mật 經kinh
Meaning:
Sandhinir mokcana vyuha sutra, a yogic text on awareness and meditation, translated as the Wisdom of Buddha/


Words: 解脫
Pinyin: jiě tuō
Hanviet: 解giải 脫thoát
Meaning:
to untie/to free/to absolve of/to get free of/to extirpate oneself/(Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries/


Words: 解鈴還須繫鈴人
Pinyin: jiě líng hái xū xì líng rén
Hanviet: 解giải 鈴linh 還hoàn 須tu 繫hệ 鈴linh 人nhân
Meaning:
lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger’s neck must untie it (idiom)/fig. whoever started the trouble should end it/


Words: 解除
Pinyin: jiě chú
Hanviet: 解giải 除trừ
Meaning:
to remove/to sack/to get rid of/to relieve (sb of their duties)/to free/to lift (an embargo)/to rescind (an agreement)/


Words: 觥籌交錯
Pinyin: gōng chóu jiāo cuò
Hanviet: 觥 籌trù 交giao 錯thác
Meaning:
wine goblets and gambling chips lie intertwined/to drink and gamble together in a large group (idiom)/a big (drinking) party/


Words: 觸景生情
Pinyin: chù jǐng shēng qíng
Hanviet: 觸xúc 景cảnh 生sanh 情tình
Meaning:
scene which recalls past memories (idiom)/evocative of the past/reminiscent/to arouse deep feelings/


Words: 觸鬥蠻爭
Pinyin: chù dòu mán zhēng
Hanviet: 觸xúc 鬥đấu 蠻 爭tranh
Meaning:
constant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other’s throats/struggle for personal gain/


Words: 言不由衷
Pinyin: yán bù yóu zhōng
Hanviet: 言ngôn 不bất 由do 衷
Meaning:
to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek/saying one thing but meaning sth different/


Words: 言教不如身教
Pinyin: yán jiào bù rú shēn jiào
Hanviet: 言ngôn 教giáo 不bất 如như 身thân 教giáo
Meaning:
Explaining in words is not as good as teaching by example (idiom). Action speaks louder than words./


Words: 言者無罪，聞者足戒
Pinyin: yán zhě wú zuì , wén zhě zú jiè
Hanviet: 言ngôn 者giả 無vô 罪tội 聞văn 者giả 足túc 戒giới
Meaning:
don’t blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one’s mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously/


Words: 言行一致
Pinyin: yán xíng yī zhì
Hanviet: 言ngôn 行hành 一nhất 致trí
Meaning:
word and actions coincide (idiom); to live up to one’s word/to match words with deeds/Practice what you preach./


Words: 計都
Pinyin: jì dū
Hanviet: 計kế 都đô
Meaning:
concept from Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit Ketu), the opposite point to 羅睺, 罗睺/imaginary star presaging disaster/


Words: 討
Pinyin: tǎo
Hanviet: 討thảo
Meaning:
to invite/to provoke/to demand or ask for/to send armed forces to suppress/to denounce or condemn/to marry (a woman)/to discuss or study/


Words: 討好
Pinyin: tǎo hǎo
Hanviet: 討thảo 好hảo/hiếu
Meaning:
to get the desired outcome/to win favor by fawning on sb/to curry favor with/a fruitful outcome to reward one’s labor/


Words: 託洛茨基
Pinyin: tuō luò cí jī
Hanviet: 託thác 洛lạc 茨tì 基cơ
Meaning:
Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940/


Words: 許仲琳
Pinyin: xǔ zhòng lín
Hanviet: 許hứa 仲trọng 琳
Meaning:
Xu Zhonglin or Chen Zhonglin 陳仲琳, 陈仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investure of the Gods 封神演義, 封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星, 陆西星/


Words: 詐
Pinyin: zhà
Hanviet: 詐trá
Meaning:
to cheat/to swindle/to pretend/to feign/to draw sb out/to try to extract information by deceit or bluff/


Words: 評頭論足
Pinyin: píng tóu lùn zú
Hanviet: 評bình 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/to remark upon a person’s appearance/nitpicking/overcritical/judgmental/


Words: 詞話
Pinyin: cí huà
Hanviet: 詞từ 話thoại
Meaning:
form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty/


Words: 詞語
Pinyin: cí yǔ
Hanviet: 詞từ 語ngữ
Meaning:
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases)/term (e.g. technical term)/expression/


Words: 詩篇
Pinyin: shī piān
Hanviet: 詩thi 篇thiên
Meaning:
a poem/a composition in verse/fig. epic (compared with historical epic)/the biblical Book of Psalms/


Words: 詩經
Pinyin: shī jīng
Hanviet: 詩thi 經kinh
Meaning:
Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經, 五经/


Words: 詮釋
Pinyin: quán shì
Hanviet: 詮thuyên 釋thích
Meaning:
to interpret/to comment and explain/to annotate/to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role)/to decode/interpretation/annotation/


Words: 話又說回來
Pinyin: huà yòu shuō huí lai
Hanviet: 話thoại 又hựu 說thuyết 回hồi 來lai
Meaning:
returning to our main topic,.../that said,.../again,.../in this connection/in passing/nevertheless,.../anyhow/


Words: 話裡套話
Pinyin: huà lǐ tào huà
Hanviet: 話thoại 裡 套sáo 話thoại
Meaning:
to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information/to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed/


Words: 該
Pinyin: gāi
Hanviet: 該cai
Meaning:
should/ought to/probably/must be/to deserve/to owe/to be sb’s turn to do sth/that/the above-mentioned/


Words: 認定
Pinyin: rèn dìng
Hanviet: 認nhận 定định
Meaning:
to maintain (that sth is true)/to determine (a fact)/determination (of an amount)/of the firm opinion/to believe firmly/to set one’s mind on/to identify with/


Words: 認識
Pinyin: rèn shi
Hanviet: 認nhận 識thức
Meaning:
to know/to recognize/to be familiar with/to get acquainted with sb/knowledge/understanding/awareness/cognition/


Words: 認賊作父
Pinyin: rèn zéi zuò fù
Hanviet: 認nhận 賊tặc 作tác 父phụ
Meaning:
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one’s father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal/to sell oneself to the enemy/


Words: 認養
Pinyin: rèn yǎng
Hanviet: 認nhận 養dưỡng
Meaning:
to sponsor/to adopt (pledge to give sb or sth one’s special attention or support)/to adopt (choose to raise a child or animal as one’s own)/


Words: 語音
Pinyin: yǔ yīn
Hanviet: 語ngữ 音âm
Meaning:
speech sounds/pronunciation/colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character/phonetic/audio/voice/(Internet) to voice chat/voice message/


Words: 誤人子弟
Pinyin: wù rén zǐ dì
Hanviet: 誤ngộ 人nhân 子tử 弟đệ
Meaning:
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students’ progress/(of media) to propagate errors/to lead people astray/


Words: 說
Pinyin: shuō
Hanviet: 說thuyết
Meaning:
to speak/to say/to explain/to scold/to tell off/a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)/


Words: 說唱
Pinyin: shuō chàng
Hanviet: 說thuyết 唱xướng
Meaning:
speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞, 弹词 and 相聲, 相声/(music) rapping/


Words: 說文解字
Pinyin: shuō wén jiě zì
Hanviet: 說thuyết 文văn 解giải 字tự
Meaning:
Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎, 许慎 in 2nd century/


Words: 說法
Pinyin: shuō fa
Hanviet: 說thuyết 法Pháp
Meaning:
way of speaking/wording/formulation/one’s version (of events)/statement/theory/hypothesis/interpretation/


Words: 調
Pinyin: diào
Hanviet: 調điều
Meaning:
to transfer/to move (troops or cadres)/to investigate/to enquire into/accent/view/argument/key (in music)/mode (music)/tune/tone/melody/


Words: 調
Pinyin: tiáo
Hanviet: 調điều
Meaning:
to harmonize/to reconcile/to blend/to suit well/to adjust/to regulate/to season (food)/to provoke/to incite/


Words: 調休
Pinyin: tiáo xiū
Hanviet: 調điều 休hưu
Meaning:
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday/to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday/


Words: 調和
Pinyin: tiáo hé
Hanviet: 調điều 和hòa
Meaning:
harmonious/to mediate/to reconcile/to compromise/mediation/to mix/to blend/blended/to season/seasoning/to placate/


Words: 調準
Pinyin: tiáo zhǔn
Hanviet: 調điều 準chuẩn
Meaning:
to adjust to the right value/to tune/to focus (a camera etc)/to set (the date, the time) to the correct value/


Words: 調理
Pinyin: tiáo lǐ
Hanviet: 調điều 理lý
Meaning:
to nurse one’s health/to recuperate/to take care of/to look after/to discipline/to educate/to train/to prepare food/(dialect) to make fun of/(medicine) to opsonize/


Words: 調用
Pinyin: diào yòng
Hanviet: 調điều 用dụng
Meaning:
to transfer (for a specific purpose)/to allocate/(computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)/


Words: 調虎離山
Pinyin: diào hǔ lí shān
Hanviet: 調điều 虎hổ 離ly 山sơn
Meaning:
to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom)/to lure an enemy away from his territory/


Words: 調製
Pinyin: tiáo zhì
Hanviet: 調điều 製chế
Meaning:
to concoct by mixing ingredients/to prepare according to a recipe/to make (a salad, a cocktail, cosmetics etc)/


Words: 談情說愛
Pinyin: tán qíng shuō ài
Hanviet: 談đàm 情tình 說thuyết 愛ái
Meaning:
to discuss passion and talk of love (idiom); to express love with terms of endearment/billing and cooing/


Words: 請喝茶
Pinyin: qǐng hē chá
Hanviet: 請thỉnh 喝hát 茶trà
Meaning:
(lit.) to invite to tea/(fig.) (of police etc) to interrogate sb about their subversive political activities and warn them against further involvement/


Words: 請將不如激將
Pinyin: qǐng jiàng bù rú jī jiàng
Hanviet: 請thỉnh 將tương 不bất 如như 激kích 將tương
Meaning:
lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general/fig. inciting people to action is more effective than dispatching orders/


Words: 論
Pinyin: lùn
Hanviet: 論luận
Meaning:
opinion/view/theory/doctrine/to discuss/to talk about/to regard/to consider/per/by the (kilometer, hour etc)/


Words: 諱疾忌醫
Pinyin: huì jí jì yī
Hanviet: 諱húy 疾tật 忌kỵ 醫y
Meaning:
hiding a sickness for fear of treatment (idiom); fig. concealing a fault to avoid criticism/to keep one’s shortcomings secret/to refuse to listen to advice/


Words: 諸侯
Pinyin: zhū hóu
Hanviet: 諸chư 侯hầu
Meaning:
feudal vassal/feudal princes, esp. the monarchs (dukes or princes) of the several vassal states 諸侯國, 诸侯国 of Zhou during Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods 11th-5th century BC/subordinate warlord/local official/


Words: 諸子
Pinyin: zhū zǐ
Hanviet: 諸chư 子tử
Meaning:
various sages/refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子, 孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子, 韩非子, and numerous others/


Words: 諸子十家
Pinyin: zhū zǐ shí jiā
Hanviet: 諸chư 子tử 十thập 家gia
Meaning:
various sages and ten schools of thought/refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子, 孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子, 韩非子, and numerous others/


Words: 諸子百家
Pinyin: zhū zǐ bǎi jiā
Hanviet: 諸chư 子tử 百bách 家gia
Meaning:
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)/


Words: 諸葛亮
Pinyin: zhū gě liàng
Hanviet: 諸chư 葛cát 亮lượng
Meaning:
Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢, 蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period/the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius/mastermind/


Words: 諾矩羅
Pinyin: nuò jǔ luó
Hanviet: 諾nặc 矩củ 羅la
Meaning:
Nuojuluo, monk at start of Tang dynasty, possibly originally immigrant, lived in Qingshen county 青神, Sichuan/


Words: 講
Pinyin: jiǎng
Hanviet: 講giảng
Meaning:
to speak/to explain/to negotiate/to emphasise/to be particular about/as far as sth is concerned/speech/lecture/


Words: 謫
Pinyin: zhé
Hanviet: 謫
Meaning:
to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China)/to banish or exile/(of immortals) to banish from Heaven/to censure/to blame/


Words: 證奴
Pinyin: zhèng nú
Hanviet: 證chứng 奴nô
Meaning:
"a slave to certificates", sb who does one’s utmost to obtain as many certificates as possible so to be more employable/


Words: 識時務者為俊傑
Pinyin: shí shí wù zhě wèi jùn jié
Hanviet: 識thức 時thời 務vụ 者giả 為vi 俊 傑kiệt
Meaning:
Only an outstanding talent can recognize current trends (idiom). A wise man submits to circumstances./


Words: 譚嗣同
Pinyin: tán sì tóng
Hanviet: 譚đàm 嗣tự 同đồng
Meaning:
Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898/


Words: 譚震林
Pinyin: tán zhèn lín
Hanviet: 譚đàm 震chấn 林lâm
Meaning:
Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the cultural revolution/


Words: 護國戰
Pinyin: hù guó zhàn
Hanviet: 護hộ 國quốc 戰chiến
Meaning:
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱, 袁世凯 as emperor/


Words: 護國運動
Pinyin: hù guó yùn dòng
Hanviet: 護hộ 國quốc 運vận 動động
Meaning:
Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱, 袁世凯 as emperor/


Words: 護法戰爭
Pinyin: hù fǎ zhàn zhēng
Hanviet: 護hộ 法Pháp 戰chiến 爭tranh
Meaning:
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor/


Words: 讀破
Pinyin: dú pò
Hanviet: 讀đọc 破phá
Meaning:
to read extensively and thoroughly/nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. reading  in compound 愛好, 爱好 "hobby" in place of /


Words: 變文
Pinyin: biàn wén
Hanviet: 變biến 文văn
Meaning:
a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)/


Words: 變本加厲
Pinyin: biàn běn jiā lì
Hanviet: 變biến 本bổn 加gia 厲lệ
Meaning:
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming)/to aggravate/to intensify/


Words: 變生肘腋
Pinyin: biàn shēng zhǒu yè
Hanviet: 變biến 生sanh 肘trửu 腋dịch
Meaning:
lit. calamity in one’s armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one’s doorstep/trouble or danger in one’s own backyard/


Words: 變臉
Pinyin: biàn liǎn
Hanviet: 變biến 臉liệm
Meaning:
to turn hostile suddenly/face changing, a device of Sichuan Opera, a dramatic change of attitude expressing fright, anger etc/


Words: 讓
Pinyin: ràng
Hanviet: 讓nhượng
Meaning:
to yield/to permit/to let sb do sth/to have sb do sth/to make sb (feel sad etc)/by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被)/


Words: 讓畔
Pinyin: ràng pàn
Hanviet: 讓nhượng 畔bạn
Meaning:
to be accommodating in negotiating the boundary of one’s field/fig. (of farmers in ancient times) to be good-hearted and honest/


Words: 讖緯
Pinyin: chèn wěi
Hanviet: 讖sấm 緯
Meaning:
divination combined with mystical Confucian philosopy, prevalent during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)/


Words: 豁然開朗
Pinyin: huò rán kāi lǎng
Hanviet: 豁hoát 然nhiên 開khai 朗lãng
Meaning:
suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing/fig. everything becomes clear at once/to achieve speedy enlightenment/


Words: 豆滿江
Pinyin: dòu mǎn jiāng
Hanviet: 豆đậu 滿mãn 江giang
Meaning:
Dumangang, Korean name of Tumen river 圖們江, 图们江 in Jilin province, forming the eastern border between China and North Korea/


Words: 豎起
Pinyin: shù qǐ
Hanviet: 豎thụ 起khởi
Meaning:
to erect (a tent etc)/to prick up (one’s ears)/to raise (one’s eyebrows)/to stick up (one’s thumb)/to turn up (one’s collar)/(of a bird) to puff up (one’s feathers)/


Words: 豐沛
Pinyin: fēng pèi
Hanviet: 豐phong 沛
Meaning:
copious/plentiful (of water)/surging (of waves)/refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖, 汉高祖/fig. majestic/


Words: 豐溪
Pinyin: fēng xī
Hanviet: 豐phong 溪khê
Meaning:
Fengxi, common place name/P’unggye in Kilju county, North Hamgyeong province, the North Korean nuclear test site/


Words: 象形
Pinyin: xiàng xíng
Hanviet: 象tượng 形hình
Meaning:
pictogram/one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters/Chinese character derived from a picture/sometimes called hieroglyph/


Words: 象形字
Pinyin: xiàng xíng zì
Hanviet: 象tượng 形hình 字tự
Meaning:
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/Chinese character derived from a picture/sometimes called hieroglyph/


Words: 象拔蚌
Pinyin: xiàng bá bàng
Hanviet: 象tượng 拔bạt 蚌
Meaning:
elephant trunk clam/geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (mainly from Washington State and British Columbia)/


Words: 豢養
Pinyin: huàn yǎng
Hanviet: 豢 養dưỡng
Meaning:
to keep (an animal)/to look after the needs of (a person or an animal)/(fig.) to keep (a spy, lackey etc) in one’s pay/


Words: 豬八戒
Pinyin: zhū bā jiè
Hanviet: 豬trư 八bát 戒giới
Meaning:
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake/Pigsy in Arthur Waley’s translation/


Words: 豺狼虎豹
Pinyin: chái láng hǔ bào
Hanviet: 豺sài 狼lang 虎hổ 豹báo
Meaning:
jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom)/animals who are dangerous to man and cattle/fierce and cruel people/


Words: 貂蟬
Pinyin: diāo chán
Hanviet: 貂 蟬thiền
Meaning:
Diaochan (-192), one of the Four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布, 吕布/


Words: 貂裘換酒
Pinyin: diāo qiú huàn jiǔ
Hanviet: 貂 裘cừu 換hoán 酒tửu
Meaning:
lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom)/fig. (of wealthy people) to lead a dissolute and extravagant life/


Words: 貉
Pinyin: hé
Hanviet: 貉
Meaning:
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)/raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki)/also pr. /


Words: 貉子
Pinyin: háo zi
Hanviet: 貉 子tử
Meaning:
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)/raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki)/also called 狸/


Words: 貌合心離
Pinyin: mào hé xīn lí
Hanviet: 貌mạo 合hợp 心tâm 離ly
Meaning:
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement/


Words: 貎
Pinyin: ní
Hanviet: 貎
Meaning:
wild beast/wild horse/lion/trad. form used erroneously for 貌/simplified form used erroneously for 狻/


Words: 貔貅
Pinyin: pí xiū
Hanviet: 貔 貅
Meaning:
mythical animal that brings luck and wards off evil, having head of a dragon and lion’s body, often with hoofs, wings and tail/also written 辟邪/fig. valiant soldier/


Words: 貝·佈托
Pinyin: bèi �� bù tuō
Hanviet: 貝bối · 佈 托thác
Meaning:
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda/


Words: 貝多
Pinyin: bèi duō
Hanviet: 貝bối 多đa
Meaning:
pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras/


Words: 貝盧斯科尼
Pinyin: bèi lú sī kē ní
Hanviet: 貝bối 盧lô 斯tư 科khoa 尼ni
Meaning:
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011/


Words: 貝葉
Pinyin: bèi yè
Hanviet: 貝bối 葉diệp
Meaning:
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras/


Words: 貞德
Pinyin: zhēn dé
Hanviet: 貞trinh 德đức
Meaning:
Jeanne d’Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English/also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan/


Words: 財閥
Pinyin: cái fá
Hanviet: 財tài 閥
Meaning:
plutocracy/monopolistic corporation, esp. prewar Japanese zaibatsu/Korean chaebol/plutocrat/tycoon/oligarch/financial magnate/


Words: 貢士
Pinyin: gòng shì
Hanviet: 貢cống 士sĩ
Meaning:
(old) candidate who has successfully passed the first grades of the examination system, but not yet the court examination (殿試, 殿试)/


Words: 貢山
Pinyin: gòng shān
Hanviet: 貢cống 山sơn
Meaning:
Gongshan Derung and Nu autonomous county in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture 怒江傈僳族自治州 in northwest Yunnan/


Words: 貧下中農
Pinyin: pín xià zhōng nóng
Hanviet: 貧bần 下hạ 中trung 農nông
Meaning:
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)/


Words: 貪生怕死
Pinyin: tān shēng pà sǐ
Hanviet: 貪tham 生sanh 怕phạ 死tử
Meaning:
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly/clinging abjectly to life/only interested in saving one’s neck/


Words: 貫氣
Pinyin: guàn qì
Hanviet: 貫quán 氣khí
Meaning:
beneficial influence, esp. from one’s ancestral graves 墳山, 坟山 in fengshui 風水, 风水/to confer beneficial influence/


Words: 貴賤
Pinyin: guì jiàn
Hanviet: 貴quý 賤tiện
Meaning:
noble and lowly/high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism/


Words: 買帳
Pinyin: mǎi zhàng
Hanviet: 買mãi 帳trướng
Meaning:
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative)/to accept (a version of events)/to buy it/


Words: 買空賣空
Pinyin: mǎi kōng mài kōng
Hanviet: 買mãi 空không 賣mại 空không
Meaning:
to speculate/to play the market/(fig.) to sell hot air/to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator/


Words: 買路錢
Pinyin: mǎi lù qián
Hanviet: 買mãi 路lộ 錢tiền
Meaning:
money extorted as a right of passage/illegal toll/(old) paper money thrown along the way of a funeral procession/


Words: 費曼
Pinyin: fèi màn
Hanviet: 費phí 曼mạn
Meaning:
Feinman or Feynman (name)/Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate together with TOMONAGA Shin’ichirō and Julian Schwinger/


Words: 費神
Pinyin: fèi shén
Hanviet: 費phí 神thần
Meaning:
to spend effort/to take trouble/May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request)/Please would you mind...?/


Words: 貼
Pinyin: tiē
Hanviet: 貼
Meaning:
to stick/to paste/to post (e.g. on a blog)/to keep close to/to fit snugly/to subsidize/allowance (e.g. money for food or housing)/sticker/classifier for sticking plaster: strip/


Words: 賀龍
Pinyin: hè lóng
Hanviet: 賀hạ 龍long
Meaning:
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution/


Words: 資治通鑒
Pinyin: zī zhì tōng jiàn
Hanviet: 資tư 治trị 通thông 鑒giám
Meaning:
A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光, 司马光 Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls/


Words: 賈寶玉
Pinyin: jiǎ bǎo yù
Hanviet: 賈cổ 寶bảo 玉ngọc
Meaning:
Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵, 薛宝钗/


Words: 賈思勰
Pinyin: jiǎ sī xié
Hanviet: 賈cổ 思tư 勰
Meaning:
Jia Sixie, sixth century writer and author of agricultural encyclopedia Essential skill to benefit the people 齊民要術, 齐民要术/


Words: 賈第蟲病
Pinyin: jiǎ dì chóng bìng
Hanviet: 賈cổ 第đệ 蟲trùng 病bệnh
Meaning:
Giardiasis, a form of gastro-enteritis caused by infection of gut by Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite/


Words: 賞
Pinyin: shǎng
Hanviet: 賞thưởng
Meaning:
to bestow (a reward)/to give (to an inferior)/to hand down/a reward (bestowed by a superior)/to appreciate (beauty)/


Words: 賠了夫人又折兵
Pinyin: péi le fū rén yòu zhé bīng
Hanviet: 賠 了liễu 夫phu 人nhân 又hựu 折chiết 兵binh
Meaning:
having given away a bride, to lose one’s army on top of it (idiom)/to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy/


Words: 賣命
Pinyin: mài mìng
Hanviet: 賣mại 命mạng
Meaning:
to throw one’s life in for/to haplessly give one’s life for/to sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group/to pour in one’s utmost effort/to shed one’s last ounce of strength for/


Words: 賣面子
Pinyin: mài miàn zi
Hanviet: 賣mại 面diện 子tử
Meaning:
to obsequiously bequeath favors on behalf of another/to give face to somebody by doing favors on their behalf/to curry favor for a third party/to intercede on another’s behalf/


Words: 賦閒
Pinyin: fù xián
Hanviet: 賦phú 閒gian/nhàn
Meaning:
to stay idle at home/to have resigned from office/to be unemployed/to have been fired/to be on a sabbatical/


Words: 質子
Pinyin: zhì zǐ
Hanviet: 質chất 子tử
Meaning:
proton (positively charged nuclear particle)/a prince sent to be held as a hostage in a neighbouring state in ancient China/


Words: 賴
Pinyin: lài
Hanviet: 賴lại
Meaning:
to depend on/to hang on in a place/bad/to renege (on promise)/to disclaim/to rat (on debts)/rascally/to blame/to put the blame on/


Words: 賴昌星
Pinyin: lài chāng xīng
Hanviet: 賴lại 昌xương 星tinh
Meaning:
Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008/


Words: 賽珍珠
Pinyin: sài zhēn zhū
Hanviet: 賽tái 珍trân 珠châu
Meaning:
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate/


Words: 赤壁
Pinyin: chì bì
Hanviet: 赤xích 壁bích
Meaning:
Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei/Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區, 黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208/


Words: 赤壁之戰
Pinyin: chì bì zhī zhàn
Hanviet: 赤xích 壁bích 之chi 戰chiến
Meaning:
Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區, 黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu/famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义/


Words: 赤壁市
Pinyin: chì bì shì
Hanviet: 赤xích 壁bích 市thị
Meaning:
Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei/Chibi or Redcliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區, 黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Redcliff of 208/


Words: 赫德
Pinyin: hè dé
Hanviet: 赫hách 德đức
Meaning:
Hart or Herd (name)/Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office/


Words: 赫胥黎
Pinyin: hè xū lí
Hanviet: 赫hách 胥 黎lê
Meaning:
Huxley (name)/Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin/Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist/


Words: 赫茲
Pinyin: hè zī
Hanviet: 赫hách 茲tư
Meaning:
Hertz (name)/Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist and meteorologist, pioneer of electromagnetic radiation/Herz (Hz) or cycles per second, unit of frequency/


Words: 走
Pinyin: zǒu
Hanviet: 走tẩu
Meaning:
to walk/to go/to run/to move (of vehicle)/to visit/to leave/to go away/to die (euph.)/from/through/away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走)/to change (shape, form, meaning)/


Words: 走內線
Pinyin: zǒu nèi xiàn
Hanviet: 走tẩu 內nội 線tuyến
Meaning:
insider contacts/via private channels/to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand)/


Words: 走動
Pinyin: zǒu dòng
Hanviet: 走tẩu 動động
Meaning:
to walk around/to move about/to stretch one’s legs/to go for a walk/to be mobile (e.g. after an illness)/to visit one another/to pay a visit (go to the toilet)/


Words: 走向
Pinyin: zǒu xiàng
Hanviet: 走tẩu 向hướng
Meaning:
direction/strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology)/inclination/trend/to move towards/to head for/


Words: 走失
Pinyin: zǒu shī
Hanviet: 走tẩu 失thất
Meaning:
lost/missing/to lose (sb in one’s charge)/to get lost/to wander away/to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one’s good looks etc)/to lose meaning (in translation)/


Words: 走後門
Pinyin: zǒu hòu mén
Hanviet: 走tẩu 後hậu 門môn
Meaning:
lit. to enter by the back door/fig. to gain influence by pull or unofficial channels/back door or under the counter connections/


Words: 走板
Pinyin: zǒu bǎn
Hanviet: 走tẩu 板bản
Meaning:
to be off the beat/to sound awful (of singing)/(fig.) to wander off the topic/(diving) to step toward the end of the board/approach/


Words: 走資派
Pinyin: zǒu zī pài
Hanviet: 走tẩu 資tư 派phái
Meaning:
capitalist-roader/person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution/


Words: 走馬上任
Pinyin: zǒu mǎ shàng rèn
Hanviet: 走tẩu 馬mã 上thượng 任nhậm
Meaning:
to ride to take up an official appointment (idiom); to take on a job with alacrity/to undertake a task/


Words: 走馬燈
Pinyin: zǒu mǎ dēng
Hanviet: 走tẩu 馬mã 燈đăng
Meaning:
lantern with carousel of paper horses, rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節, 元宵节/fig. constant busy circulation of people/


Words: 走馬看花
Pinyin: zǒu mǎ kàn huā
Hanviet: 走tẩu 馬mã 看khán 花hoa
Meaning:
lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation/to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information/


Words: 走馬觀花
Pinyin: zǒu mǎ guān huā
Hanviet: 走tẩu 馬mã 觀quán 花hoa
Meaning:
lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); a fleeting glance in passing/fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation/to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information/


Words: 起
Pinyin: qǐ
Hanviet: 起khởi
Meaning:
to rise/to raise/to get up/to set out/to start/to appear/to launch/to initiate (action)/to draft/to establish/to get (from a depot or counter)/verb suffix, to start/starting from (a time, place, price etc)/classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance/classifier for groups: batch, group/


Words: 起來
Pinyin: qi lai
Hanviet: 起khởi 來lai
Meaning:
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state/indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站)/bringing things together (e.g. after 收拾)/(after a perception verb, e.g. 看) expressing preliminary judgment/also pr. /


Words: 起居作息
Pinyin: qǐ jū zuò xī
Hanviet: 起khởi 居cư 作tác 息tức
Meaning:
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom)/fig. everyday life/daily routine/to go about one’s daily life/


Words: 超前
Pinyin: chāo qián
Hanviet: 超siêu 前tiền
Meaning:
to be ahead of one’s time/to surpass or outdo one’s predecessors/to be ahead of the pack/to take the lead/advanced/


Words: 越
Pinyin: yuè
Hanviet: 越việt
Meaning:
generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods/abbr. for Vietnam 越南/


Words: 越俎代庖
Pinyin: yuè zǔ dài páo
Hanviet: 越việt 俎 代đại 庖bào
Meaning:
lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one’s place and meddle in other people’s affairs/to take matters into one’s own hands/


Words: 越飛
Pinyin: yuè fēi
Hanviet: 越việt 飛phi
Meaning:
Adolph Abramovich Joffe (1883-1927), Soviet and Comintern diplomat and spy in 1922-23 in Republican China/


Words: 趕
Pinyin: gǎn
Hanviet: 趕
Meaning:
to overtake/to catch up with/to hurry/to rush/to try to catch (the bus etc)/to drive (cattle etc) forward/to drive (sb) away/to avail oneself of (an opportunity)/until/


Words: 趙
Pinyin: zhào
Hanviet: 趙triệu
Meaning:
surname Zhao/one of the seven states during the Warring States Period (476-220 BC)/the Former Zhao 前趙 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms/


Words: 趙州橋
Pinyin: zhào zhōu qiáo
Hanviet: 趙triệu 州châu 橋kiều
Meaning:
Zhaozhou Bridge over Xiao River 洨河 in Zhao county 趙縣, 赵县, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, dating back to the Sui dynasty 隋代 (581-617) and the world’s oldest extant stone arch bridge/


Words: 趙括
Pinyin: zhào kuò
Hanviet: 趙triệu 括quát
Meaning:
Zhao Kuo (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國, 赵国, who famously led an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰, 长平之战 in 260 BC/also called Ma Fuzi 馬服子, 马服子/


Words: 趙紫陽
Pinyin: zhào zǐ yáng
Hanviet: 趙triệu 紫tử 陽dương
Meaning:
Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then/


Words: 趙翼
Pinyin: zhào yì
Hanviet: 趙triệu 翼dực
Meaning:
Zhao Yi (1727-1814), Qing dynasty poet and historian, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家/


Words: 趙高
Pinyin: zhào gāo
Hanviet: 趙triệu 高cao
Meaning:
Zhao Gao (?-207 BC), one of the most vile, corrupt and powerful eunuchs in Chinese history, responsible for the fall of Qin Dynasty/


Words: 趨之若鶩
Pinyin: qū zhī ruò wù
Hanviet: 趨xu 之chi 若nhược 鶩
Meaning:
to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable/an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase/


Words: 趴
Pinyin: pā
Hanviet: 趴
Meaning:
to lie on one’s stomach/to lean forward, resting one’s upper body (on a desktop etc)/(Taiwan) percent/


Words: 跑
Pinyin: pǎo
Hanviet: 跑
Meaning:
to run/to run away/to escape/to run around (on errands etc)/(of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate/(verb complement) away/off/


Words: 跑了和尚，跑不了寺
Pinyin: pǎo le hé shàng , pǎo bù liǎo sì
Hanviet: 跑 了liễu 和hòa 尚thượng 跑 不bất 了liễu 寺tự
Meaning:
the monk can run away, but the temple won’t run with him (idiom)/you can run this time, but you’ll have to come back/I’ll get you sooner or later/


Words: 跑酷
Pinyin: pǎo kù
Hanviet: 跑 酷khốc
Meaning:
parkour, French sport invented by David Belle in 1980s, with the aim of efficiently traversing obstacles in the environment/


Words: 跟
Pinyin: gēn
Hanviet: 跟cân
Meaning:
heel/to follow closely/to go with/(of a woman) to marry sb/with/compared with/to/towards/and (joining two nouns)/


Words: 路氹
Pinyin: lù dàng
Hanviet: 路lộ 氹
Meaning:
Cotai, portmanteau term referring to the islands of 路環, 路环 (Coloane) and 氹仔 (Taipa) in Macau/the strip of reclaimed land between Coloane and Taipa/the island formed by Coloane, Taipa and the reclaimed land between them/


Words: 路遙知馬力，日久見人心
Pinyin: lù yáo zhī mǎ lì , rì jiǔ jiàn rén xīn
Hanviet: 路lộ 遙diêu 知tri 馬mã 力lực 日nhật 久cửu 見kiến 人nhân 心tâm
Meaning:
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person’s true heart (proverb)/


Words: 路霸
Pinyin: lù bà
Hanviet: 路lộ 霸
Meaning:
brigand/(modern) uncivil driver/road hog/(PRC) person who sets up an illegal toll/(Tw) person who uses a part of the street as their private parking place/


Words: 跳出火坑
Pinyin: tiào chū huǒ kēng
Hanviet: 跳khiêu 出xuất 火hỏa 坑khanh
Meaning:
lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell/to free oneself from a life of torture/


Words: 跳水
Pinyin: tiào shuǐ
Hanviet: 跳khiêu 水thủy
Meaning:
to dive (into water)/(sports) diving/to commit suicide by jumping into water/(fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically/


Words: 跳進黃河洗不清
Pinyin: tiào jìn huáng hé xǐ bù qīng
Hanviet: 跳khiêu 進tiến 黃hoàng 河hà 洗tẩy 不bất 清thanh
Meaning:
lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can’t get you clean/fig. to become inexorably mixed up/mired in controversy/in deep trouble/


Words: 踏青
Pinyin: tà qīng
Hanviet: 踏đạp 青thanh
Meaning:
lit. tread the green; go for a walk in the spring (when the grass has turned green)/spring hike season around Qingming festival 清明, 4th-6th April/


Words: 踩線
Pinyin: cǎi xiàn
Hanviet: 踩 線tuyến
Meaning:
to scout for a tour operator/to reconnoiter a potential tour itinerary/(tennis) to commit a foot fault/


Words: 蹲點
Pinyin: dūn diǎn
Hanviet: 蹲tồn 點điểm
Meaning:
(of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience/(dialect) taking a crap/


Words: 躍然紙上
Pinyin: yuè rán zhǐ shàng
Hanviet: 躍dược 然nhiên 紙chỉ 上thượng
Meaning:
to appear vividly on paper (idiom); to show forth vividly (in writing, painting etc)/to stand out markedly/


Words: 躡足
Pinyin: niè zú
Hanviet: 躡niếp 足túc
Meaning:
to walk on tiptoe/to step on sb’s foot/to join (a trade, profession etc)/to associate with (a certain group of people)/


Words: 躥房越脊
Pinyin: cuān fáng yuè jǐ
Hanviet: 躥 房phòng 越việt 脊tích
Meaning:
lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客, 侠客 in fiction)/


Words: 身
Pinyin: shēn
Hanviet: 身thân
Meaning:
body/life/oneself/personally/one’s morality and conduct/the main part of a structure or body/pregnant/classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset/Kangxi radical 158/


Words: 身不由己
Pinyin: shēn bù yóu jǐ
Hanviet: 身thân 不bất 由do 己kỷ
Meaning:
without the freedom to act independently (idiom); involuntary/not of one’s own volition/in spite of oneself/


Words: 身價
Pinyin: shēn jià
Hanviet: 身thân 價giá
Meaning:
social status/price of a slave/price of a person (a sportsman etc)/worth/value (of stocks, valuables etc)/


Words: 身在曹營心在漢
Pinyin: shēn zài cáo yíng xīn zài hàn
Hanviet: 身thân 在tại 曹tào 營doanh 心tâm 在tại 漢hán
Meaning:
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom.)/to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else/


Words: 身處
Pinyin: shēn chǔ
Hanviet: 身thân 處xứ
Meaning:
in (some place)/to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc)/to find oneself in/placed in/surrounded by/


Words: 躺槍
Pinyin: tǎng qiāng
Hanviet: 躺 槍thương
Meaning:
(Internet slang) to get unjustly ridiculed, attacked, implicated in sth etc while just being present/abbr. for 躺著也中槍, 躺着也中枪/


Words: 躺著也中槍
Pinyin: tǎng zhe yě zhòng qiāng
Hanviet: 躺 著trước 也dã 中trung 槍thương
Meaning:
(lit.) to get shot even when lying down/(fig.) to get unjustly ridiculed, attacked, implicated in sth etc while just being present (Internet slang)/abbr. to 躺槍, 躺枪/


Words: 車到山前必有路
Pinyin: chē dào shān qián bì yǒu lù
Hanviet: 車xa 到đáo 山sơn 前tiền 必tất 有hữu 路lộ
Meaning:
lit. When we get to the mountain, there’ll be a way through. (idiom)/fig. Everything will turn out for the best./Let’s worry about it when it happens./It will be all right on the night./cf couplet 車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直, 车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直/


Words: 車到山前必有路，船到橋頭自然直
Pinyin: chē dào shān qián bì yǒu lù , chuán dào qiáo tóu zì rán zhí
Hanviet: 車xa 到đáo 山sơn 前tiền 必tất 有hữu 路lộ 船thuyền 到đáo 橋kiều 頭đầu 自tự 然nhiên 直trực
Meaning:
lit. When we get to the mountain, there’ll be a way through and when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current. (idiom)/fig. Everything will turn out for the best./Let’s worry about it when it happens./It will be all right on the night./


Words: 車斗
Pinyin: chē dǒu
Hanviet: 車xa 斗đẩu
Meaning:
open-topped container (mounted on a truck or cart) for carrying loads/dump box (of a dump truck)/bucket (of a front loader)/wheelbarrow/


Words: 車裂
Pinyin: chē liè
Hanviet: 車xa 裂liệt
Meaning:
to tear off a person’s four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)/to tear limb from limb/


Words: 車輪餅
Pinyin: chē lún bǐng
Hanviet: 車xa 輪luân 餅bính
Meaning:
imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)/


Words: 軍訓
Pinyin: jūn xùn
Hanviet: 軍quân 訓huấn
Meaning:
military practice, esp. for reservists or new recruits/military training as a (sometimes compulsory) subject in schools and colleges/drill/


Words: 較勁
Pinyin: jiào jìn
Hanviet: 較giảo 勁
Meaning:
to match one’s strength with/to compete/more competitive/to set oneself against sb/disobliging/to make a special effort/


Words: 載入
Pinyin: zǎi rù
Hanviet: 載tái 入nhập
Meaning:
to load into/to record/to write into/to enter (data)/to go into (the records)/to go down (in history)/


Words: 載舟覆舟
Pinyin: zài zhōu fù zhōu
Hanviet: 載tái 舟chu 覆phú 舟chu
Meaning:
to carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it./


Words: 載道
Pinyin: zài dào
Hanviet: 載tái 道đạo
Meaning:
to fill the road (also fig. clamor, cries of complaint)/to communicate a moral/to convey the Way/to express (idea, preference, complaint)/


Words: 輔仁大學
Pinyin: fǔ rén dà xué
Hanviet: 輔phụ 仁nhân 大đại 學học
Meaning:
Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking (from 1925), forerunner of Beijing Normal University 北京師範大學, 北京师范大学/Fu Jen Catholic University in New Taipei City, Taiwan/


Words: 輕
Pinyin: qīng
Hanviet: 輕khinh
Meaning:
light/easy/gentle/soft/reckless/unimportant/frivolous/small in number/unstressed/neutral/to disparage/


Words: 輕型軌道交通
Pinyin: qīng xíng guǐ dào jiāo tōng
Hanviet: 輕khinh 型 軌quỹ 道đạo 交giao 通thông
Meaning:
light rail/transit system (underground, at street level or elevated)/streetcar/metro/abbr. to 輕軌, 轻轨/


Words: 輕車熟路
Pinyin: qīng chē shú lù
Hanviet: 輕khinh 車xa 熟thục 路lộ
Meaning:
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom)/fig. to do sth routinely and with ease/a walk in the park/


Words: 輕車簡從
Pinyin: qīng chē jiǎn cóng
Hanviet: 輕khinh 車xa 簡giản 從tùng
Meaning:
(of an official) to travel with little luggage and just a small escort/to travel without ostentation/


Words: 輕軌
Pinyin: qīng guǐ
Hanviet: 輕khinh 軌quỹ
Meaning:
light rail/transit system (underground, at street level or elevated)/streetcar/metro/abbr. for 輕型軌道交通, 轻型轨道交通/


Words: 輕重主次
Pinyin: qīng zhòng zhǔ cì
Hanviet: 輕khinh 重trọng 主chủ 次thứ
Meaning:
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point)/lacking a sense of perspective/to put the cart before the horse/


Words: 輕重倒置
Pinyin: qīng zhòng dào zhì
Hanviet: 輕khinh 重trọng 倒đảo 置trí
Meaning:
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important)/lacking a sense of perspective/to put the cart before the horse/


Words: 輕重緩急
Pinyin: qīng zhòng huǎn jí
Hanviet: 輕khinh 重trọng 緩hoãn 急cấp
Meaning:
slight or important, urgent or non-urgent (idiom); to deal with important matters first/sense of priority/


Words: 輩
Pinyin: bèi
Hanviet: 輩bối
Meaning:
lifetime/generation/group of people/class/classifier for generations/(literary) classifier for people/


Words: 輪
Pinyin: lún
Hanviet: 輪luân
Meaning:
wheel/disk/ring/steamship/to take turns/to rotate/by turn/classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn/


Words: 輪台
Pinyin: lún tái
Hanviet: 輪luân 台thai
Meaning:
Bügür nahiyisi or Luntai county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 輪台古城
Pinyin: lún tái gǔ chéng
Hanviet: 輪luân 台thai 古cổ 城thành
Meaning:
ruins of Luntai city, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 輪迴
Pinyin: lún huí
Hanviet: 輪luân 迴hồi
Meaning:
to reincarnate/reincarnation (Buddhism)/(of the seasons etc) to follow each other cyclically/cycle/CL:個, 个/


Words: 轉
Pinyin: zhuàn
Hanviet: 轉chuyển
Meaning:
to revolve/to turn/to circle about/to walk about/classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm/classifier for repeated actions/


Words: 轉圈
Pinyin: zhuàn quān
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 圈quyển
Meaning:
to rotate/to twirl/to run around/to encircle/rotation/(coll.) to speak indirectly/to beat about the bush/


Words: 轉嫁
Pinyin: zhuǎn jià
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 嫁giá
Meaning:
to remarry (of widow)/to pass on (blame, cost, obligation, unpleasant consequence etc)/to transfer (blame, guilt)/to pass the buck/


Words: 轉戰千里
Pinyin: zhuǎn zhàn qiān lǐ
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 戰chiến 千thiên 里lý
Meaning:
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country/never-ending struggle/


Words: 轉注
Pinyin: zhuǎn zhù
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 注chú
Meaning:
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/character with meanings influenced by other words/sometimes called mutually explanatory character/


Words: 轉發
Pinyin: zhuǎn fā
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 發phát
Meaning:
to transmit/to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data)/to pass on/to republish (an article from another publication)/


Words: 轉科
Pinyin: zhuǎn kē
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 科khoa
Meaning:
to change major (at college)/to take up a new specialist subject/to transfer to a different medical department/


Words: 轉移
Pinyin: zhuǎn yí
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 移di
Meaning:
to shift/to divert or distract (attention etc)/to change/to transform/metastasis (medicine)/to evacuate (people)/


Words: 轉移支付
Pinyin: zhuǎn yí zhī fù
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 移di 支chi 付phó
Meaning:
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)/


Words: 轉運
Pinyin: zhuǎn yùn
Hanviet: 轉chuyển 運vận
Meaning:
to forward goods/to ship/to distribute/transshipment/a lucky break/change of fortune (for the better)/


Words: 辛
Pinyin: xīn
Hanviet: 辛tân
Meaning:
(of taste) hot or pungent/hard/laborious/suffering/eighth in order/eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/letter "H" or roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 285°/octa/


Words: 辛丑
Pinyin: xīn chǒu
Hanviet: 辛tân 丑sửu
Meaning:
thirty eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021/cf 辛丑條約, 辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising/


Words: 辛丑條約
Pinyin: xīn chǒu tiáo yuē
Hanviet: 辛tân 丑sửu 條điều 約ước
Meaning:
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising/


Words: 辜負
Pinyin: gū fù
Hanviet: 辜cô 負phụ
Meaning:
to fail to live up (to expectations)/unworthy (of trust)/to let down/to betray (hopes)/to disappoint/


Words: 辜鴻銘
Pinyin: gū hóng míng
Hanviet: 辜cô 鴻hồng 銘minh
Meaning:
Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views/


Words: 辣妹子
Pinyin: là mèi zi
Hanviet: 辣lạt 妹muội 子tử
Meaning:
sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China’s spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)/


Words: 辯機
Pinyin: biàn jī
Hanviet: 辯biện 機cơ
Meaning:
Bianji (c. 620-648), Tang dynasty buddhist monk and disciple of 玄奘, author and translator of Great Tang Records on the Western Regions 大唐西域記, 大唐西域记/


Words: 辯解
Pinyin: biàn jiě
Hanviet: 辯biện 解giải
Meaning:
to explain/to justify/to defend (a point of view etc)/to provide an explanation/to try to defend oneself/


Words: 辰
Pinyin: chén
Hanviet: 辰thần
Meaning:
5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon/ancient Chinese compass point: 120°/


Words: 辱
Pinyin: rǔ
Hanviet: 辱nhục
Meaning:
disgrace/dishonor/to insult/to bring disgrace or humiliation to/to be indebted to/self-deprecating/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 農村家庭聯產承包責任制
Pinyin: nóng cūn jiā tíng lián chǎn chéng bāo zé rèn zhì
Hanviet: 農nông 村thôn 家gia 庭đình 聯liên 產sản 承thừa 包bao 責trách 任nhậm 制chế
Meaning:
rural household contract responsibility system, PRC government policy linking rural income to productivity/


Words: 迂回曲折
Pinyin: yū huí qū zhé
Hanviet: 迂 回hồi 曲khúc 折chiết
Meaning:
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere/going around in circles/


Words: 迎來送往
Pinyin: yíng lái sòng wǎng
Hanviet: 迎nghênh 來lai 送tống 往vãng
Meaning:
lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom); busy entertaining guests/all time taken over with social niceties/


Words: 近代
Pinyin: jìn dài
Hanviet: 近cận 代đại
Meaning:
the not-very-distant past/modern times, excluding recent decades/(in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)/capitalist times (pre-1949)/


Words: 近代史
Pinyin: jìn dài shǐ
Hanviet: 近cận 代đại 史sử
Meaning:
modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century)/


Words: 近墨者黑
Pinyin: jìn mò zhě hēi
Hanviet: 近cận 墨mặc 者giả 黑hắc
Meaning:
proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修, 欧阳修); different environments provide different influence./Nurture determines a person’s character./


Words: 近朱者赤，近墨者黑
Pinyin: jìn zhū zhě chì , jìn mò zhě hēi
Hanviet: 近cận 朱chu 者giả 赤xích 近cận 墨mặc 者giả 黑hắc
Meaning:
proximity to cinnabar makes you red, to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修, 欧阳修); different environments provide different influence./Nurture determines a person’s character./


Words: 近水樓臺先得月
Pinyin: jìn shuǐ lóu tái xiān dé yuè
Hanviet: 近cận 水thủy 樓lâu 臺đài 先tiên 得đắc 月nguyệt
Meaning:
the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first (idiom)/to benefit from intimacy with an influential person/


Words: 近畿地方
Pinyin: jìn jī dì fāng
Hanviet: 近cận 畿 地địa 方phương
Meaning:
Kinki chihō, region of Japan around the old capital Kyōto, including Kyōto prefecture 京都府, Ōsaka prefecture 大阪府, Shiga prefecture 滋賀縣, 滋贺县, Nara prefecture 奈良縣, 奈良县, Mi’e prefecture 三重縣, 三重县, Wakayama prefecture 和歌山縣, 和歌山县, Hyōgo prefecture 兵庫縣, 兵库县/


Words: 近衛文麿
Pinyin: jìn wèi wén mǒ
Hanviet: 近cận 衛vệ 文văn 麿
Meaning:
Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 1937-1939 and 1940-1941/


Words: 返券黃牛
Pinyin: fǎn quàn huáng niú
Hanviet: 返phản 券khoán 黃hoàng 牛ngưu
Meaning:
"shopping coupon scalper", sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit/


Words: 迪戈·加西亞島
Pinyin: dí gē �� jiā xī yà dǎo
Hanviet: 迪 戈qua · 加gia 西tây 亞 島đảo
Meaning:
Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chago archipelago 查戈斯群島, 查戈斯群岛/


Words: 迪斯雷利
Pinyin: dí sī léi lì
Hanviet: 迪 斯tư 雷lôi 利lợi
Meaning:
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880/


Words: 迴避
Pinyin: huí bì
Hanviet: 迴hồi 避tị
Meaning:
to shun/to avoid (sb)/to skirt/to evade (an issue)/to step back/to withdraw/to recuse (a judge etc)/


Words: 退場
Pinyin: tuì chǎng
Hanviet: 退thoái 場tràng
Meaning:
to leave a place where some event is taking place/(of an actor) to exit/(sports) to leave the field/(of an audience) to leave/


Words: 退步
Pinyin: tuì bù
Hanviet: 退thoái 步bộ
Meaning:
to do less well than before/to make a concession/setback/backward step/leeway/room to maneuver/fallback/


Words: 退避三捨
Pinyin: tuì bì sān shè
Hanviet: 退thoái 避tị 三tam 捨xả
Meaning:
lit. to retreat three day’s march (idiom); fig. to give way in the face of superior strength/a strategic withdrawal/


Words: 逃之夭夭
Pinyin: táo zhī yāo yāo
Hanviet: 逃đào 之chi 夭yểu 夭yểu
Meaning:
to escape without trace (idiom); to make one’s getaway (from the scene of a crime)/to show a clean pair of heels/


Words: 逆來順受
Pinyin: nì lái shùn shòu
Hanviet: 逆nghịch 來lai 順thuận 受thọ
Meaning:
to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it/to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc/


Words: 逆斷層
Pinyin: nì duàn céng
Hanviet: 逆nghịch 斷đoạn 層tằng
Meaning:
reverse fault (geology)/compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees/


Words: 逆流
Pinyin: nì liú
Hanviet: 逆nghịch 流lưu
Meaning:
against the stream/adverse current/a countercurrent/fig. reactionary tendency/to go against the trend/


Words: 逍遙法外
Pinyin: xiāo yáo fǎ wài
Hanviet: 逍tiêu 遙diêu 法pháp 外ngoại
Meaning:
unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution/getting away with it (e.g. crimes)/still at large/


Words: 透氣
Pinyin: tòu qì
Hanviet: 透thấu 氣khí
Meaning:
to flow freely (of air)/to ventilate/to breathe (of fabric etc)/to take a breath of fresh air/to divulge/


Words: 逐客令
Pinyin: zhú kè lìng
Hanviet: 逐trục 客khách 令linh
Meaning:
the First Emperor’s order to expel foreigners/(fig.) notice to leave/words or behavior intended at turning visitors out/


Words: 逗
Pinyin: dòu
Hanviet: 逗đậu
Meaning:
to stay/to stop/to tease (play with)/amusing/short pause in reading aloud, equivalent to comma (also written 讀, 读)/


Words: 這山望著那山高
Pinyin: zhè shān wàng zhe nà shān gāo
Hanviet: 這giá 山sơn 望vọng 著trước 那na 山sơn 高cao
Meaning:
lit. the next mountain looks taller (idiom); fig. not satisfied with one’s current position/the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence/


Words: 通
Pinyin: tōng
Hanviet: 通thông
Meaning:
to go through/to know well/(suffix) expert/to connect/to communicate/open/to clear/classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc/


Words: 通
Pinyin: tòng
Hanviet: 通thông
Meaning:
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)/


Words: 通州
Pinyin: tōng zhōu
Hanviet: 通thông 州châu
Meaning:
Tongzhou district east of Beijing, formerly Tong county/Tongzhou county level city in Nantong 南通, Jiangsu/


Words: 通行
Pinyin: tōng xíng
Hanviet: 通thông 行hành
Meaning:
to go through/a passage through/in general use/a pass or laissez-passer/a license (to a computer account)/


Words: 通行證
Pinyin: tōng xíng zhèng
Hanviet: 通thông 行hành 證chứng
Meaning:
a pass (authorization through a checkpoint)/a laissez-passer or safe conduct/to authenticate/to confirm name and password on a website/fig. a condition giving access to benefits (e.g. a diploma as a pass to a career)/


Words: 通識課程
Pinyin: tōng shí kè chéng
Hanviet: 通thông 識thức 課khóa 程
Meaning:
general course/general education course/core course/general curriculum/general education curriculum/core curriculum/


Words: 通車
Pinyin: tōng chē
Hanviet: 通thông 車xa
Meaning:
to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc)/(of a locality) to have a transportation service/(Tw) to commute/


Words: 通過
Pinyin: tōng guò
Hanviet: 通thông 過quá
Meaning:
by means of/through/via/to pass through/to get through/to adopt/to pass (a bill or inspection etc)/to switch over/


Words: 通電
Pinyin: tōng diàn
Hanviet: 通thông 電điện
Meaning:
to set up an electric circuit/to electrify/to switch on/to be connected to an electricity grid/open telegram/


Words: 造
Pinyin: zào
Hanviet: 造tạo
Meaning:
to make/to build/to manufacture/to invent/to fabricate/to go to/party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement)/crop/classifier for crops/


Words: 逢
Pinyin: féng
Hanviet: 逢phùng
Meaning:
to meet by chance/to come across/(of a calendar event) to come along/(of an event) to fall on (a particular day)/to fawn upon/


Words: 逢場作戲
Pinyin: féng chǎng zuò xì
Hanviet: 逢phùng 場tràng 作tác 戲hí
Meaning:
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun/to play along according to local conditions/


Words: 連
Pinyin: lián
Hanviet: 連liên
Meaning:
to link/to join/to connect/continuously/in succession/including/(used with 也, 都 etc) even/company (military)/


Words: 連寫
Pinyin: lián xiě
Hanviet: 連liên 寫tả
Meaning:
to write without lifting one’s pen from the paper/(in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)/


Words: 連橫
Pinyin: lián héng
Hanviet: 連liên 橫hoạnh/hoành
Meaning:
Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)/


Words: 連江
Pinyin: lián jiāng
Hanviet: 連liên 江giang
Meaning:
Lianjiang county in Fuzhou 福州, Fujian/Lienchiang county of Taiwan, i.e. the Matsu Islands 馬祖列島, 马祖列岛/


Words: 連珠
Pinyin: lián zhū
Hanviet: 連liên 珠châu
Meaning:
joined as a string of pearls/in rapid succession/alignment/Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row/


Words: 連綿
Pinyin: lián mián
Hanviet: 連liên 綿miên
Meaning:
continuous/unbroken/uninterrupted/extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)/


Words: 連線
Pinyin: lián xiàn
Hanviet: 連liên 線tuyến
Meaning:
electrical lead/connecting line/(Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc)/to go online/connection/(congressional) caucus/


Words: 連連看
Pinyin: lián lián kàn
Hanviet: 連liên 連liên 看khán
Meaning:
pattern matching (puzzle game)/matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up)/


Words: 連鑣並軫
Pinyin: lián biāo bìng zhěn
Hanviet: 連liên 鑣 並tịnh 軫
Meaning:
lit. reins together and carriages level (idiom); keeping exactly abreast of one another/running neck and neck/


Words: 進
Pinyin: jìn
Hanviet: 進tiến
Meaning:
to go forward/to advance/to go in/to enter/to put in/to submit/to take in/to admit/(math.) base of a number system/classifier for sections in a building or residential compound/


Words: 進退不得
Pinyin: jìn tuì bù dé
Hanviet: 進tiến 退thoái 不bất 得đắc
Meaning:
can’t advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver/stalled/in a dilemma/stuck in a difficult position/


Words: 進退兩難
Pinyin: jìn tuì liǎng nán
Hanviet: 進tiến 退thoái 兩lưỡng 難nan
Meaning:
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma/trapped/in an impossible situation/


Words: 進道若蜷
Pinyin: jìn dào ruò quán
Hanviet: 進tiến 道đạo 若nhược 蜷
Meaning:
entering the Way, you seem to coil back (Laozi 老子, the Book of Dao 道德经, Chap. 14)/progress in the Dao can seem illusory/


Words: 進門
Pinyin: jìn mén
Hanviet: 進tiến 門môn
Meaning:
to enter a door/to go in/to learn the basics of a subject/to join one’s husband’s household upon marriage/


Words: 逼
Pinyin: bī
Hanviet: 逼bức
Meaning:
to force (sb to do sth)/to compel/to press for/to extort/to press on towards/to press up to/to close in on/used in the place of 屄, cunt/


Words: 遊說
Pinyin: yóu shuì
Hanviet: 遊du 說thuyết
Meaning:
to lobby/to campaign/to promote (an idea, a product)/(old) to visit various rulers and promote one’s political ideas (in the Warring States period)/


Words: 運算法則
Pinyin: yùn suàn fǎ zé
Hanviet: 運vận 算toán 法pháp 則tắc
Meaning:
rules of calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)/algorithm/fig. to scheme/to calculate (i.e. plot)/


Words: 運籌帷幄之中，決勝千里之外
Pinyin: yùn chóu wéi wò zhī zhōng , jué shèng qiān lǐ zhī wài
Hanviet: 運vận 籌trù 帷duy 幄 之chi 中trung 決quyết 勝thắng 千thiên 里lý 之chi 外ngoại
Meaning:
a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)/


Words: 運行
Pinyin: yùn xíng
Hanviet: 運vận 行hành
Meaning:
to move along one’s course (of celestial bodies etc)/(fig.) to function/to be in operation/(of a train service etc) to operate/to run/(of a computer) to run/


Words: 過五關斬六將
Pinyin: guò wǔ guān zhǎn liù jiàng
Hanviet: 過quá 五ngũ 關quan 斬trảm 六lục 將tương
Meaning:
lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom)/fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)/


Words: 過勞肥
Pinyin: guò láo féi
Hanviet: 過quá 勞lao 肥phì
Meaning:
overweight from overwork (the supposition that white collar workers become fat as a consequence of factors associated with being under pressure at work, including irregular diet, lack of exercise and inadequate rest)/


Words: 過庭錄
Pinyin: guò tíng lù
Hanviet: 過quá 庭đình 錄lục
Meaning:
lit. Notes on passing the hall, historical jottings by 12th century Southern Song poet Fan Gongcheng 範公偁, 范公偁, containing moral instructions derived from great men of Song dynasty/


Words: 過得去
Pinyin: guò dé qù
Hanviet: 過quá 得đắc 去khứ
Meaning:
lit. can pass through (an opening)/fig. can get by (in life)/tolerably well/not too bad/How are you getting by?/How’s life?/


Words: 過河拆橋
Pinyin: guò hé chāi qiáo
Hanviet: 過quá 河hà 拆 橋kiều
Meaning:
lit. to destroy the bridge after crossing the river (idiom)/fig. to abandon one’s benefactor upon achieving one’s goal/


Words: 遏止
Pinyin: è zhǐ
Hanviet: 遏át 止chỉ
Meaning:
to hold back/to check (i.e. to stop sb’s advance)/to resist/esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc/


Words: 道
Pinyin: dào
Hanviet: 道đạo
Meaning:
road/path/CL:條, 条,股/principle/truth/morality/reason/skill/method/Dao (of Daoism)/to say/to speak/to talk/classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process/(old) administrative division (similar to province in Tang times)/


Words: 道之所存，師之所存
Pinyin: dào zhī suǒ cún , shī zhī suǒ cún
Hanviet: 道đạo 之chi 所sở 存tồn 師sư 之chi 所sở 存tồn
Meaning:
If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈, 韩愈)./We should learn from one who knows the way./


Words: 道孚
Pinyin: dào fú
Hanviet: 道đạo 孚phu
Meaning:
Dawu county (Tibetan: rta ’u rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 道學
Pinyin: dào xué
Hanviet: 道đạo 學học
Meaning:
Confucian study of ethics/study of Daoism/school for Daoism in Tang and Song times/Daoist magic/another name for 理學, 理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism/


Words: 道家
Pinyin: dào jiā
Hanviet: 道đạo 家gia
Meaning:
Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子 (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 庄子 (369-286 BC)/


Words: 道山學海
Pinyin: dào shān xué hǎi
Hanviet: 道đạo 山sơn 學học 海hải
Meaning:
mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas/ars longa, vita brevis/


Words: 道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟
Pinyin: dào gé lā sī �� mài kè ā sè
Hanviet: 道đạo 格cách 拉lạp 斯tư · 麥mạch 克khắc 阿a 瑟sắt
Meaning:
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war/


Words: 道高一尺，魔高一丈
Pinyin: dào gāo yī chǐ , mó gāo yī zhàng
Hanviet: 道đạo 高cao 一nhất 尺xích 魔ma 高cao 一nhất 丈trượng
Meaning:
virtue is one foot tall, the devil ten foot (idiom); It takes constant vigilance to stave off evil./


Words: 道高益安，勢高益危
Pinyin: dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi
Hanviet: 道đạo 高cao 益ích 安an 勢thế 高cao 益ích 危nguy
Meaning:
More moral strength increases one’s safety, more power and influence increases one’s danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記, 史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770)./


Words: 達日
Pinyin: dá rì
Hanviet: 達đạt 日nhật
Meaning:
Darlag or Dari county (Tibetan: dar lag rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai/


Words: 達爾文
Pinyin: dá ěr wén
Hanviet: 達đạt 爾nhĩ 文văn
Meaning:
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist and author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源, 物种起源/Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia) 北領地, 北领地/


Words: 違利赴名
Pinyin: wéi lì fù míng
Hanviet: 違vi 利lợi 赴phó 名danh
Meaning:
to renounce profit and seek fame (idiom); to abandon greed for reputation/to choose fame over fortune/


Words: 遠勞
Pinyin: yuǎn láo
Hanviet: 遠viễn 勞lao
Meaning:
you have made a long and exhausting journey (套语 polite talk)/you will make a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a far away place)/


Words: 遠志
Pinyin: yuǎn zhì
Hanviet: 遠viễn 志chí
Meaning:
far-reaching ambition/lofty ideal/milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia), with roots used in Chinese medicine/


Words: 遠日點
Pinyin: yuǎn rì diǎn
Hanviet: 遠viễn 日nhật 點điểm
Meaning:
aphelion, the furthest point of a planet in elliptic orbit to the sun/opposite: perihelion 近日點, 近日点/higher apsis/


Words: 遠期
Pinyin: yuǎn qī
Hanviet: 遠viễn 期kỳ
Meaning:
long-term (loan)/at a fixed date in the future (e.g. for repayment)/abbr. for 遠期合約, 远期合约, forward contract (finance)/


Words: 遠水不解近渴
Pinyin: yuǎn shuǐ bù jiě jìn kě
Hanviet: 遠viễn 水thủy 不bất 解giải 近cận 渴khát
Meaning:
lit. distant water does not cure present thirst; fig. urgent need/a slow remedy does not address immediate needs/


Words: 遠水救不了近火
Pinyin: yuǎn shuǐ jiù bu liǎo jìn huǒ
Hanviet: 遠viễn 水thủy 救cứu 不bất 了liễu 近cận 火hỏa
Meaning:
lit. water from afar quenches not fire; fig. urgent need/a slow remedy does not address the current emergency/


Words: 遠親不如近鄰
Pinyin: yuǎn qīn bù rú jìn lín
Hanviet: 遠viễn 親thân 不bất 如như 近cận 鄰lân
Meaning:
A relative afar is less use than a close neighbor (idiom). Take whatever help is on hand, even from strangers./


Words: 適可而止
Pinyin: shì kě ér zhǐ
Hanviet: 適thích 可khả 而nhi 止chỉ
Meaning:
to stop before going too far (idiom); to stop while one can/don’t overdo it/stop while you’re ahead/


Words: 遮天蔽日
Pinyin: zhē tiān bì rì
Hanviet: 遮già 天thiên 蔽tế 日nhật
Meaning:
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering/omnipresent/of universal importance/


Words: 遶
Pinyin: rào
Hanviet: 遶nhiễu
Meaning:
variant of 繞, 绕, to rotate around/to spiral/to move around/to go round (an obstacle)/to by-pass/to make a detour/


Words: 遼史
Pinyin: liáo shǐ
Hanviet: 遼liêu 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Liao Dynasty, twenty first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed under Toktoghan 脫脫, 脱脱 in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元, 116 scrolls/


Words: 遼東
Pinyin: liáo dōng
Hanviet: 遼liêu 東đông
Meaning:
Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea/east and south of Liaoning province/east of Liao river 遼河, 辽河/


Words: 遼瀋戰役
Pinyin: liáo shěn zhàn yì
Hanviet: 遼liêu 瀋 戰chiến 役dịch
Meaning:
Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People’s Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War/


Words: 遼金
Pinyin: liáo jīn
Hanviet: 遼liêu 金kim
Meaning:
Liao and Jin dynasties, namely: Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125) and Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)/


Words: 避重就輕
Pinyin: bì zhòng jiù qīng
Hanviet: 避tị 重trọng/trùng 就tựu 輕khinh
Meaning:
to avoid the important and dwell on the trivial/to keep silent about major charges while admitting minor ones/


Words: 還
Pinyin: hái
Hanviet: 還hoàn
Meaning:
still/still in progress/still more/yet/even more/in addition/fairly/passably (good)/as early as/even/also/else/


Words: 還鄉女
Pinyin: huán xiāng nǚ
Hanviet: 還hoàn 鄉hương 女nữ
Meaning:
(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families/


Words: 邊幣
Pinyin: biān bì
Hanviet: 邊biên 幣tệ
Meaning:
Border Region currency, issued by the Communist Border Region governments during the War against Japan and the War of Liberation/


Words: 邊緣人
Pinyin: biān yuán rén
Hanviet: 邊biên 緣duyên 人nhân
Meaning:
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society)/marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)/


Words: 那木巴爾·恩赫巴亞爾
Pinyin: nǎ mù bā ěr �� ēn hè bā yà ěr
Hanviet: 那na 木mộc 巴ba 爾nhĩ · 恩ân 赫hách 巴ba 亞 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mongolia 2005-2009/


Words: 邪氣
Pinyin: xié qì
Hanviet: 邪tà 氣khí
Meaning:
evil influence/unhealthy trend/pathogeny (cause of disease) in TCM/as opposed to vital energy 正氣, 正气/


Words: 邯鄲學步
Pinyin: hán dān xué bù
Hanviet: 邯 鄲 學học 步bộ
Meaning:
to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom)/slavishly copying others, one risks becoming a caricature/


Words: 邱吉爾
Pinyin: qiū jí ěr
Hanviet: 邱 吉cát 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955/surname Churchill/


Words: 邵飄萍
Pinyin: shào piāo píng
Hanviet: 邵 飄phiêu 萍bình
Meaning:
Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報, 京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖, 张作霖/


Words: 郢書燕說
Pinyin: yǐng shū yān shuō
Hanviet: 郢 書thư 燕yên 說thuyết
Meaning:
lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it/fig. to misinterpret the original meaning/to pile up errors/refers to the letter from capital 郢 of 楚 in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕 as "promote the wise"/


Words: 部
Pinyin: bù
Hanviet: 部bộ
Meaning:
ministry/department/section/part/division/troops/board/classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc/


Words: 郭小川
Pinyin: guō xiǎo chuān
Hanviet: 郭quách 小tiểu 川xuyên
Meaning:
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution/


Words: 郭松燾
Pinyin: guō sōng dào
Hanviet: 郭quách 松tùng 燾
Meaning:
Guo Songdao or Kuo Sun-tao (1818-1891), China’s first imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK and France/


Words: 郭泉
Pinyin: guō quán
Hanviet: 郭quách 泉tuyền
Meaning:
Guo Quan, formerly Professor of Nanjing Normal University, sacked after founding New People’s Party of China 中國新民黨, 中国新民党/


Words: 郭茂倩
Pinyin: guō mào qiàn
Hanviet: 郭quách 茂mậu 倩thiến
Meaning:
Guo Maoqian (11th-12th century), Song poetry collector, editor of Collection of yuefu lyric poems 樂府詩集, 乐府诗集/


Words: 郵品
Pinyin: yóu pǐn
Hanviet: 郵bưu 品phẩm
Meaning:
items issued by a postal service and collected by philatelists (stamps, postcards, first day covers etc)/


Words: 都市傳奇
Pinyin: dū shì chuán qí
Hanviet: 都đô 市thị 傳truyền 奇kỳ
Meaning:
urban legend (translation of recent Western term)/story or theory circulated as true/same as 都會傳奇, 都会传奇/


Words: 都會傳奇
Pinyin: dū huì chuán qí
Hanviet: 都đô 會hội 傳truyền 奇kỳ
Meaning:
urban legend (translation of recent Western term)/story or theory circulated as true/same as 都市傳奇, 都市传奇/


Words: 都江堰
Pinyin: dū jiāng yàn
Hanviet: 都đô 江giang 堰yển
Meaning:
Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site/Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan/


Words: 都督
Pinyin: dū dū
Hanviet: 都đô 督
Meaning:
(army) commander-in-chief (archaic)/provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)/


Words: 鄂爾多斯
Pinyin: è ěr duō sī
Hanviet: 鄂 爾nhĩ 多đa 斯tư
Meaning:
Ordos, region of Inner Mongolia administered as a prefecture-level city, and a people of the region/


Words: 鄉城
Pinyin: xiāng chéng
Hanviet: 鄉hương 城thành
Meaning:
Xiangcheng county (Tibetan: phyag ’phreng rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 鄉民
Pinyin: xiāng mín
Hanviet: 鄉hương 民dân
Meaning:
villager/(Tw) (Internet slang) person who likes to follow online discussions and add their opinions/


Words: 鄒
Pinyin: zōu
Hanviet: 鄒
Meaning:
surname Zou/vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong Province/


Words: 鄧世昌
Pinyin: dèng shì chāng
Hanviet: 鄧đặng 世thế 昌xương
Meaning:
Deng Shichang (1849-1894), Qing dynasty naval specialist, founded naval dockyards and two naval colleges, died heroically in action against the Japanese/


Words: 鄧小平
Pinyin: dèng xiǎo píng
Hanviet: 鄧đặng 小tiểu 平bình
Meaning:
Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"/


Words: 鄧小平理論
Pinyin: dèng xiǎo píng lǐ lùn
Hanviet: 鄧đặng 小tiểu 平bình 理lý 論luận
Meaning:
Deng Xiaoping Theory/Dengism/the foundation of PRC economic development after the cultural revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese communist party control/


Words: 鄧拓
Pinyin: dèng tuò
Hanviet: 鄧đặng 拓thác
Meaning:
Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution/wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨, 马南邨/


Words: 鄭光祖
Pinyin: zhèng guāng zǔ
Hanviet: 鄭trịnh 光quang 祖tổ
Meaning:
Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇, 杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家/


Words: 鄭碼
Pinyin: zhèng mǎ
Hanviet: 鄭trịnh 碼mã
Meaning:
Zheng coding/original Chinese character coding based on component shapes, created by Zheng Yili 鄭易里, 郑易里, underlying most stroke-based Chinese input methods/also called common coding 字根通用碼, 字根通用码/


Words: 酉
Pinyin: yǒu
Hanviet: 酉dậu
Meaning:
10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster/ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)/


Words: 酋長
Pinyin: qiú zhǎng
Hanviet: 酋tù 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
headman (of primitive people)/tribal chief/used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir/


Words: 配合
Pinyin: pèi hé
Hanviet: 配phối 合hợp
Meaning:
matching/fitting in with/compatible with/to correspond/to fit/to conform to/rapport/to coordinate with/to act in concert with/to cooperate/to become man and wife/to combine parts of machine/


Words: 配角
Pinyin: pèi jué
Hanviet: 配phối 角giác
Meaning:
supporting role (in play, film etc)/minor role/to play a secondary role (in business etc)/to play second fiddle/


Words: 酒不醉人人自醉，色不迷人人自迷
Pinyin: jiǔ bù zuì rén rén zì zuì , sè bù mí rén rén zì mí
Hanviet: 酒tửu 不bất 醉túy 人nhân 人nhân 自tự 醉túy 色sắc 不bất 迷mê 人nhân 人nhân 自tự 迷mê
Meaning:
wine doesn’t make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust/


Words: 醉翁之意不在酒
Pinyin: zuì wēng zhī yì bù zài jiǔ
Hanviet: 醉túy 翁ông 之chi 意ý 不bất 在tại 酒tửu
Meaning:
wine-lover’s heart is not in the cup (idiom); a drinker not really interested in alcohol/having an ulterior motive/to have other things in mind/with an ax to grind/accomplishing something besides what one set out to do/


Words: 醍醐
Pinyin: tí hú
Hanviet: 醍đề 醐hồ
Meaning:
refined cream cheese/fig. crème de la crème/nirvana/Buddha nature/Buddhist truth/broth/flawless personal character/


Words: 醍醐灌頂
Pinyin: tí hú guàn dǐng
Hanviet: 醍đề 醐hồ 灌quán 頂đảnh
Meaning:
lit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom); fig. to enlighten people with perfect wisdom/flawless Buddhist teaching/


Words: 醞釀
Pinyin: yùn niàng
Hanviet: 醞 釀
Meaning:
(of alcohol) to ferment/(of a crisis) to be brewing/to mull over (an issue)/to hold exploratory discussions/


Words: 醫藥分離
Pinyin: yī yào fēn lí
Hanviet: 醫y 藥dược 分phân 離ly
Meaning:
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫, 以药养医/


Words: 釀
Pinyin: niàng
Hanviet: 釀
Meaning:
to ferment/to brew/to make honey (of bees)/to lead to/to form gradually/wine/stuffed vegetables (cooking method)/


Words: 釋名
Pinyin: shì míng
Hanviet: 釋thích 名danh
Meaning:
"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning/


Words: 釋義
Pinyin: shì yì
Hanviet: 釋thích 義nghĩa
Meaning:
the meaning of sth/an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases/definition/an interpretation (of doctrine)/religious doctrine/


Words: 釋迦佛
Pinyin: shì jiā fó
Hanviet: 釋Thích 迦Ca 佛Phật
Meaning:
Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)/Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism/


Words: 釋迦牟尼
Pinyin: shì jiā móu ní
Hanviet: 釋Thích 迦Ca 牟Mâu 尼Ni
Meaning:
Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism/Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)/


Words: 里
Pinyin: lǐ
Hanviet: 里lý
Meaning:
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m/neighborhood/ancient administrative unit of 25 families/(Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮, 镇 and neighborhood 鄰, 邻 levels/


Words: 里人
Pinyin: lǐ rén
Hanviet: 里lý 人nhân
Meaning:
person from the same village, town or province/peasant (derog.)/(of a school of thought etc) follower/


Words: 里克特
Pinyin: lǐ kè tè
Hanviet: 里lý 克khắc 特đặc
Meaning:
Richter (name)/Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named/


Words: 里弄
Pinyin: lǐ lòng
Hanviet: 里lý 弄lộng
Meaning:
lanes and alleys/neighborhood/lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families/


Words: 里瓦幾亞條約
Pinyin: lǐ wǎ jī yà tiáo yuē
Hanviet: 里lý 瓦ngõa 幾kỷ 亞 條điều 約ước
Meaning:
Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)/


Words: 重挫
Pinyin: zhòng cuò
Hanviet: 重trọng/trùng 挫tỏa
Meaning:
devastating setback/slump (in stock market etc)/crushing defeat/to cause a serious setback/to plummet/


Words: 重整旗鼓
Pinyin: chóng zhěng qí gǔ
Hanviet: 重trọng/trùng 整chỉnh 旗kỳ 鼓cổ
Meaning:
lit. to reorganize flags and drums (idiom); to regroup after a setback/to prepare for new initiatives/to attempt a comeback/


Words: 重文輕武
Pinyin: zhòng wén qīng wǔ
Hanviet: 重trọng/trùng 文văn 輕khinh 武võ
Meaning:
to value letters and belittle arms (idiom); to stress civil matters and neglect the military/to prefer the pen to the sword/


Words: 重疊
Pinyin: chóng dié
Hanviet: 重trùng 疊điệp
Meaning:
to overlap/to superimpose/to telescope/to run together/to duplicate/one over another/superposition/an overlap/redundancy/reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll)/


Words: 重譯
Pinyin: chóng yì
Hanviet: 重trọng/trùng 譯dịch
Meaning:
to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation)/to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors)/


Words: 野天鵝
Pinyin: yě tiān é
Hanviet: 野dã 天thiên 鵝nga
Meaning:
Wild Swans, family autobiography by British-Chinese writer Jung Chang 張戎, 张戎/alternative title 鴻, 鸿, after the author’s original name 張二鴻, 张二鸿/


Words: 野火燒不盡，春風吹又生
Pinyin: yě huǒ shāo bù jìn , chūn fēng chuī yòu shēng
Hanviet: 野dã 火hỏa 燒thiêu 不bất 盡tận 春xuân 風phong 吹xuy 又hựu 生sanh
Meaning:
lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb)/fig. cannot be easily eliminated/abbr. to 野火春風, 野火春风/


Words: 量
Pinyin: liàng
Hanviet: 量lượng
Meaning:
capacity/quantity/amount/to estimate/abbr. for 量詞, 量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar)/measure word/


Words: 量入為出
Pinyin: liàng rù wéi chū
Hanviet: 量lượng 入nhập 為vi 出xuất
Meaning:
to assess one’s income and spend accordingly (idiom); to live within one’s means/You can only spend what you earn./


Words: 量力而為
Pinyin: liàng lì ér wéi
Hanviet: 量lượng 力lực 而nhi 為vi
Meaning:
to weigh one’s abilities and act accordingly/to act according to one’s means/to cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth/


Words: 量力而行
Pinyin: liàng lì ér xíng
Hanviet: 量lượng 力lực 而nhi 行hành
Meaning:
to assess one’s capabilities and act accordingly (idiom); to act within one’s competence/One does what one can./


Words: 量才錄用
Pinyin: liàng cái lù yòng
Hanviet: 量lượng 才tài 錄lục 用dụng
Meaning:
to assess sb’s capabilities and employ him accordingly (idiom); to employ sb competent for the task/


Words: 量體裁衣
Pinyin: liáng tǐ cái yī
Hanviet: 量lượng 體thể 裁tài 衣y
Meaning:
lit. measure the body then tailor the suit (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances/To live within one’s means./


Words: 釐
Pinyin: lí
Hanviet: 釐li
Meaning:
Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀/


Words: 金
Pinyin: jīn
Hanviet: 金kim
Meaning:
gold/chemical element Au/generic term for lustrous and ductile metals/money/golden/highly respected/one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音/


Words: 金代
Pinyin: jīn dài
Hanviet: 金kim 代đại
Meaning:
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty/


Words: 金剛
Pinyin: jīn gāng
Hanviet: 金kim 剛cang
Meaning:
diamond/(used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon)/guardian deity (in Buddhist iconography)/


Words: 金史
Pinyin: jīn shǐ
Hanviet: 金kim 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, twenty second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed under Toktoghan 脫脫, 脱脱 in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元, 135 scrolls/


Words: 金國汗
Pinyin: jīn guó hán
Hanviet: 金kim 國quốc 汗hãn
Meaning:
the Later Jin dynasty (from 1616-)/the Manchu khanate or kingdom that took over as the Qing dynasty in 1644/


Words: 金城鎮
Pinyin: jīn chéng zhèn
Hanviet: 金kim 城thành 鎮trấn
Meaning:
Jincheng (common place name)/Chincheng town in Kinmen County 金門縣, 金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan/


Words: 金大中
Pinyin: jīn dà zhōng
Hanviet: 金kim 大đại 中trung
Meaning:
Kim Dae-jung (1926-2009), South Korea politician, president 1998-2003, Nobel peace prize laureate 2000/


Words: 金富軾
Pinyin: jīn fù shì
Hanviet: 金kim 富phú 軾thức
Meaning:
Kim Busik (1075-1151), court historian of the Korean Georyo dynasty 高麗, 高丽, compiler of History of Three Kingdoms 三國史記, 三国史记/


Words: 金川
Pinyin: jīn chuān
Hanviet: 金kim 川xuyên
Meaning:
Jinchuan county (Tibetan: chu chen rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 金平縣
Pinyin: jīn píng xiàn
Hanviet: 金kim 平bình 縣huyện
Meaning:
Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州, 红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan/


Words: 金枝玉葉
Pinyin: jīn zhī yù yè
Hanviet: 金kim 枝chi 玉ngọc 葉diệp
Meaning:
golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty/


Words: 金毛狗
Pinyin: jīn máo gǒu
Hanviet: 金kim 毛mao 狗cẩu
Meaning:
golden retriever (dog breed)/Cibotium barometz, Asian tropical tree fern with hairy fronds (used in TCM)/


Words: 金永南
Pinyin: jīn yǒng nán
Hanviet: 金kim 永vĩnh 南nam
Meaning:
Kim Yong-nam (1928-), North Korean politician, foreign minister 1983-1998 and president of Supreme people’s assembly from 1998 (nominal head of state and described as deputy leader)/


Words: 金沙
Pinyin: jīn shā
Hanviet: 金kim 沙sa
Meaning:
Jinsha county in Bijie prefecture 畢節地區, 毕节地区, Guizhou/Chinsha town in Kinmen County 金門縣, 金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan/


Words: 金湖
Pinyin: jīn hú
Hanviet: 金kim 湖hồ
Meaning:
Jinhu county in Huai’an 淮安, Jiangsu/Chinhu town in Kinmen County 金門縣, 金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan/


Words: 金烏西墜，玉兔東昇
Pinyin: jīn wū xī zhuì , yù tù dōng shēng
Hanviet: 金kim 烏ô 西tây 墜trụy 玉ngọc 兔thố 東đông 昇thăng
Meaning:
lit. the golden bird of the sun sets in the west, the jade hare of the moon rises in the east/fig. at sunset/


Words: 金瓜石
Pinyin: jīn guā shí
Hanviet: 金kim 瓜qua 石thạch
Meaning:
Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945)/


Words: 金瓶梅
Pinyin: jīn píng méi
Hanviet: 金kim 瓶bình 梅mai
Meaning:
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content/


Words: 金田村
Pinyin: jīn tián cūn
Hanviet: 金kim 田điền 村thôn
Meaning:
Jintian village in Guiping county 桂平, Gveigangj or Guigang prefecture 貴港, 贵港, Guangxi, starting point of the Taiping Tianguo 太平天國, 太平天国 rebellion in 1851/


Words: 金童玉女
Pinyin: jīn tóng yù nǚ
Hanviet: 金kim 童đồng 玉ngọc 女nữ
Meaning:
lit. golden boys and jade maidens (idiom)/attendants of the Daoist immortals/fig. lovely young children/a golden couple/(of a couple who are in the public eye) a lovely young couple/


Words: 金蟬脫殼
Pinyin: jīn chán tuō qiào
Hanviet: 金kim 蟬thiền 脫thoát 殼xác
Meaning:
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell/a crafty escape plan/


Words: 金衡
Pinyin: jīn héng
Hanviet: 金kim 衡hành
Meaning:
troy weight, system of weights for precious metals and gemstones based on the 12-ounce pound (or 5,760 grains)/


Words: 金針菇
Pinyin: jīn zhēn gū
Hanviet: 金kim 針châm 菇
Meaning:
enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes, Japanese えのき茸 enokitake), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white/abbr. to 金菇/


Words: 金門
Pinyin: jīn mén
Hanviet: 金kim 門môn
Meaning:
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan/Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian, PRC/


Words: 金門縣
Pinyin: jīn mén xiàn
Hanviet: 金kim 門môn 縣huyện
Meaning:
Kinmen County, Taiwan (the Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast)/Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian/


Words: 金閣寺
Pinyin: jīn gé sì
Hanviet: 金kim 閣các 寺tự
Meaning:
Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan/informal name of Buddhist temple Rokuonji 鹿苑寺/


Words: 釘
Pinyin: dìng
Hanviet: 釘đinh/đính
Meaning:
to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points/to nail/to pin/to staple/to sew on/


Words: 釣魚島
Pinyin: diào yú dǎo
Hanviet: 釣điếu 魚ngư 島đảo
Meaning:
Senkaku Islands (administered by Japan as part of Okinawa prefecture)/Diaoyu Islands/Pinnacle Islands/


Words: 釣魚臺
Pinyin: diào yú tái
Hanviet: 釣điếu 魚ngư 臺đài
Meaning:
Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands between Taiwan and Okinawa (administered by Japan), also known as the Pinnacle Islands/


Words: 鉉
Pinyin: xuàn
Hanviet: 鉉
Meaning:
stick-like implement inserted into the handles of a tripod cauldron in ancient times in order to lift the cauldron/commonly used in Korean names, transcribed as "hyun"/


Words: 鉗
Pinyin: qián
Hanviet: 鉗kiềm
Meaning:
pincers/pliers/tongs/claw (of animal)/to grasp with pincers/to pinch/to clamp/to restrain/to restrict/to gag/


Words: 銀點
Pinyin: yín diǎn
Hanviet: 銀ngân 點điểm
Meaning:
the silver point/the melting point of silver 962°C used as a calibration point in some temperature scales/


Words: 銅錘花臉
Pinyin: tóng chuí huā liǎn
Hanviet: 銅đồng 錘chùy 花hoa 臉liệm
Meaning:
(Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified as a jing 淨, 净 role/


Words: 銘心刻骨
Pinyin: míng xīn kè gǔ
Hanviet: 銘minh 心tâm 刻khắc 骨cốt
Meaning:
engraved in one’s heart and carved in one’s bones (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives/undying gratitude/


Words: 鋪設
Pinyin: pū shè
Hanviet: 鋪phô 設thiết
Meaning:
to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline)/to install (wiring, cable)/to construct (road, concrete slab)/


Words: 鋼鐵學院
Pinyin: gāng tiě xué yuàn
Hanviet: 鋼cương 鐵thiết 學học 院viện
Meaning:
Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (the former name of 北京科技大學, 北京科技大学, University of Science and Technology Beijing)/


Words: 錒系元素
Pinyin: ā xì yuán sù
Hanviet: 錒 系hệ 元nguyên 素tố
Meaning:
actinoids (rare earth series), namely: actinium Ac89 錒, 锕, thorium Th90 釷, 钍, protoactinium Pa91 鏷, 镤, uranium U92 鈾, 铀, neptunium Ne93 鎿, 镎, plutonium Pu94 鈈, 钚, americium Am95 鎇, 镅, curium Cm96 鋦, 锔, berkelium Bk97 錇, 锫, californium Cf98 鐦, 锎, einsteinium Es99 鎄, 锿, fermium Fm100 鐨, 镄, mendelevium Md101 鍆, 钔, nobelium No102 鍩, 锘, lawrencium Lr103 鐒, 铹/


Words: 錠
Pinyin: dìng
Hanviet: 錠đĩnh
Meaning:
(weaving) spindle/ingot/pressed cake of medicine etc/classifier for: gold and silver ingots, ink sticks/


Words: 錢鐘書
Pinyin: qián zhōng shū
Hanviet: 錢tiền 鐘chung 書thư
Meaning:
Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), literary academic and novelist, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城, 围城/


Words: 錦囊妙計
Pinyin: jǐn náng miào jì
Hanviet: 錦cẩm 囊nang 妙diệu 計kế
Meaning:
brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom); bag of tricks/fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag)/


Words: 錯
Pinyin: cuò
Hanviet: 錯thác
Meaning:
mistake/wrong/bad/interlocking/complex/to grind/to polish/to alternate/to stagger/to miss/to let slip/to evade/to inlay with gold or silver/


Words: 錯位
Pinyin: cuò wèi
Hanviet: 錯thác 位vị
Meaning:
to misplace/displacement (e.g. of broken bones)/out of alignment/faulty contact/erroneous judgment/inversion (medical, e.g. breach delivery)/


Words: 鍛鍊
Pinyin: duàn liàn
Hanviet: 鍛đoán 鍊luyện
Meaning:
to toughen/to temper/to engage in physical exercise/to work out/(fig.) to develop one’s skills/to train oneself/


Words: 鍥而不捨
Pinyin: qiè ér bù shě
Hanviet: 鍥 而nhi 不bất 捨xả
Meaning:
to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at sth/to persevere/unflagging efforts/


Words: 鍾繇
Pinyin: zhōng yáo
Hanviet: 鍾chung 繇
Meaning:
Zhong Yao (151-230), minister of Cao Wei 曹魏 and noted calligrapher, said to have developed the regular script 楷書, 楷书/


Words: 鎋
Pinyin: xiá
Hanviet: 鎋
Meaning:
variant of 轄, 辖, to govern/to control/having jurisdiction over/linchpin of a wheel (archaic)/noise of a barrow/


Words: 鎖定
Pinyin: suǒ dìng
Hanviet: 鎖tỏa 定định
Meaning:
to lock (a door)/to close with a latch/to lock into place/a lock/a latch/to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten)/to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection)/to focus attention on/to target/


Words: 鎮
Pinyin: zhèn
Hanviet: 鎮trấn
Meaning:
to press down/to calm/to subdue/to suppress/to guard/garrison/small town/to cool or chill (food or drinks)/


Words: 鏈
Pinyin: liàn
Hanviet: 鏈
Meaning:
chain/cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m)/chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m)/to chain/to enchain/


Words: 鏡花水月
Pinyin: jìng huā shuǐ yuè
Hanviet: 鏡kính 花hoa 水thủy 月nguyệt
Meaning:
lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom)/fig. an unrealistic rosy view/viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles/also written 水月鏡花, 水月镜花/


Words: 鏡花緣
Pinyin: jìng huā yuán
Hanviet: 鏡kính 花hoa 緣duyên
Meaning:
Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍/


Words: 鐘山
Pinyin: zhōng shān
Hanviet: 鐘chung 山sơn
Meaning:
Zhongshan district of Liupanshui city 六盤水市, 六盘水市, Guizhou/Zhongshan county in Hezhou 賀州, 贺州, Guangxi/


Words: 鐘馗
Pinyin: zhōng kuí
Hanviet: 鐘chung 馗
Meaning:
Zhong Kui (mythological figure, supposed to drive away evil spirits)/(fig.) a person with the courage to fight against evil/


Words: 鐵打的衙門，流水的官
Pinyin: tiě dǎ de yá men , liú shuǐ de guān
Hanviet: 鐵thiết 打đả 的đích 衙 門môn 流lưu 水thủy 的đích 官quan
Meaning:
lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)/fig. government officials come and go/


Words: 鐵托
Pinyin: tiě tuō
Hanviet: 鐵thiết 托thác
Meaning:
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav military and communist political leader, President of Yugoslavia 1945-1980/


Words: 鐵血宰相
Pinyin: tiě xuè zǎi xiàng
Hanviet: 鐵thiết 血huyết 宰tể 相tướng
Meaning:
Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890/


Words: 鐵道部
Pinyin: tiě dào bù
Hanviet: 鐵thiết 道đạo 部bộ
Meaning:
Ministry of Railways (MOR), disbanded in 2013 with its regulatory functions taken over by the Ministry of Transport 交通運輸部, 交通运输部/


Words: 鑒往知來
Pinyin: jiàn wǎng zhī lái
Hanviet: 鑒giám 往vãng 知tri 來lai
Meaning:
to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs); studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come/


Words: 鑒真
Pinyin: jiàn zhēn
Hanviet: 鑒giám 真chân
Meaning:
Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism/


Words: 鑒真和尚
Pinyin: jiàn zhēn hé shang
Hanviet: 鑒giám 真chân 和hòa 尚thượng
Meaning:
Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism/


Words: 鑭系元素
Pinyin: lán xì yuán sù
Hanviet: 鑭 系hệ 元nguyên 素tố
Meaning:
lanthanoid (rare earth series), namely: lanthanum La57 鑭, 镧, cerium Ce58 鈰, 铈, praseodymium Pr59 鐠, 镨, neodymium Nd60 釹, 钕, promethium Pm61 鉕, 钷, samarium Sm62 釤, 钐, europium Eu63 銪, 铕, gadolinium Gd64 釓, 钆, terbium Tb65 鋱, 铽, dysprosium Dy66 鏑, 镝, holmium Ho67 鈥, 钬, erbium Er68 鉺, 铒, thulium Tm69 銩, 铥, ytterbium Yb70 鐿, 镱, lutetium Lu71 鑥, 镥/


Words: 鑽
Pinyin: zuān
Hanviet: 鑽toàn
Meaning:
to drill/to bore/to get into/to make one’s way into/to enter (a hole)/to thread one’s way through/to study intensively/to dig into/to curry favor for personal gain/


Words: 鑽堅仰高
Pinyin: zuān jiān yǎng gāo
Hanviet: 鑽toàn 堅kiên 仰ngưỡng 高cao
Meaning:
lit. looking up to it, it gets higher; boring into it, it gets harder (idiom) (from Analects)/fig. to delve deeply into one’s studies/meticulous and diligent study/


Words: 鑽牛角
Pinyin: zuān niú jiǎo
Hanviet: 鑽toàn 牛ngưu 角giác
Meaning:
lit. honing a bull’s horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem/to bash one’s head against a brick wall/a wild goose chase/a blind alley/to split hairs/same as idiom 鑽牛角尖, 钻牛角尖/


Words: 鑽牛角尖
Pinyin: zuān niú jiǎo jiān
Hanviet: 鑽toàn 牛ngưu 角giác 尖tiêm
Meaning:
lit. to penetrate into a bull’s horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem/to bash one’s head against a brick wall/a wild goose chase/a blind alley/to split hairs/


Words: 鑽空子
Pinyin: zuān kòng zi
Hanviet: 鑽toàn 空không 子tử
Meaning:
lit. to drill a hole/to take advantage of a loophole/to exploit an advantage/to seize the opportunity (esp. to do sth bad)/


Words: 鑽謀
Pinyin: zuān móu
Hanviet: 鑽toàn 謀mưu
Meaning:
to use influence to get what one wants/to find a way through (esp. corrupt)/to succeed by means fair or foul/


Words: 長坂坡七進七出
Pinyin: cháng bǎn pō qī jìn qī chū
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 坂 坡 七thất 進tiến 七thất 出xuất
Meaning:
famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhao Yun 趙雲, 赵云 charges seven times through the ranks of Cao Cao’s armies/


Words: 長安
Pinyin: cháng ān
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 安an
Meaning:
Chang’an (ancient name of Xi’an 西安) capital of China during Tang Dynasty 唐朝/now 長安區, 长安区, a district of Xi’an/


Words: 長平
Pinyin: cháng píng
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 平bình
Meaning:
Changping, place name in Gaoping County 高平縣, 高平县, southern Shanxi, the scene of the great battle of 262-260 BC between Qin and Zhao/


Words: 長平之戰
Pinyin: cháng píng zhī zhàn
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 平bình 之chi 戰chiến
Meaning:
battle of Changping of 260 BC, at which the Qin army 秦軍, 秦军 encircled and annihilated a Zhao army of 400,000/


Words: 長樂
Pinyin: cháng lè
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
Changle county level city in Fuzhou 福州, Fujian/Princess Changle of Western Wei of the Northern dynasties 西魏, given in marriage c. 545 to Bumin Khan 土門, 土门/


Words: 長樂公主
Pinyin: cháng lè gōng zhǔ
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 公công 主chủ
Meaning:
Princess Changle of Western Wei of the Northern dynasties 西魏, given in marriage c. 545 to Bumin Khan 土門, 土门/


Words: 長江三峽
Pinyin: cháng jiāng sān xiá
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 江giang 三tam 峽
Meaning:
Three Gorges or Yangtze Gorges, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽, 瞿塘峡, Wuxia Gorge 巫峽, 巫峡 and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽, 西陵峡/


Words: 長江後浪推前浪
Pinyin: cháng jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 江giang 後hậu 浪lãng 推thôi 前tiền 浪lãng
Meaning:
lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom)/fig. the new is constantly replacing the old/each new generation excels the previous/(of things) to be constantly evolving/


Words: 長白山
Pinyin: cháng bái shān
Hanviet: 長trường/trưởng 白bạch 山sơn
Meaning:
Changbai or Baekdu mountains 白頭山, 白头山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology/


Words: 門
Pinyin: mén
Hanviet: 門môn
Meaning:
gate/door/CL:扇/gateway/doorway/CL:個, 个/opening/valve/switch/way to do something/knack/family/house/(religious) sect/school (of thought)/class/category/phylum or division (taxonomy)/classifier for large guns/classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology/(suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)/


Words: 門子
Pinyin: mén zi
Hanviet: 門môn 子tử
Meaning:
door/doorman (old)/hanger-on of an aristocrat/social influence/pull/classifier for relatives, marriages etc/


Words: 門戶開放
Pinyin: mén hù kāi fàng
Hanviet: 門môn 戶hộ 開khai 放phóng
Meaning:
open door policy/Egyptian President Sadat’s infitah policy towards investment and relations with Israel/


Words: 門當戶對
Pinyin: mén dāng hù duì
Hanviet: 門môn 當đương 戶hộ 對đối
Meaning:
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom)/(of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match/


Words: 閃
Pinyin: shǎn
Hanviet: 閃thiểm
Meaning:
to dodge/to duck out of the way/to beat it/shaken (by a fall)/to sprain/to pull a muscle/lightning/spark/a flash/to flash (across one’s mind)/to leave behind/(Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine/


Words: 閃靈
Pinyin: shǎn líng
Hanviet: 閃thiểm 靈linh
Meaning:
The Shining (1980 Stanley Kubrick film from Stephen King’s 1977 novel)/ChthoniC (Taiwanese metal band)/


Words: 閉合
Pinyin: bì hé
Hanviet: 閉bế 合hợp
Meaning:
to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel)/to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit)/closed-loop/


Words: 閉月羞花
Pinyin: bì yuè xiū huā
Hanviet: 閉bế 月nguyệt 羞tu 花hoa
Meaning:
lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom)/fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world/


Words: 閉門造車
Pinyin: bì mén zào chē
Hanviet: 閉bế 門môn 造tạo 車xa
Meaning:
lit. to build a cart behind closed doors/to be overly subjective and disregard the outside world (idiom)/


Words: 開
Pinyin: kāi
Hanviet: 開khai
Meaning:
to open/to start/to turn on/to boil/to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)/to operate (a vehicle)/carat (gold)/abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文, 开尔文/abbr. for 開本, 开本, book format/


Words: 開元
Pinyin: kāi yuán
Hanviet: 開khai 元nguyên
Meaning:
Tang emperor Xuanzong’s 唐玄宗 reign name used during the Kaiyuan era (713-741), a peak of Tang prosperity/


Words: 開光
Pinyin: kāi guāng
Hanviet: 開khai 光quang
Meaning:
eye-opening ceremony for a religious idol (Buddhism)/to consecrate/to bless/transparent/translucent/haircut/shaving the head or face (humorous)/a method of decoration/first light (astronomy)/


Words: 開刀
Pinyin: kāi dāo
Hanviet: 開khai 刀đao
Meaning:
(of a surgeon) to perform an operation/(of a patient) to have an operation/to decapitate/to behead/to single out as a point of attack/


Words: 開國元勛
Pinyin: kāi guó yuán xūn
Hanviet: 開khai 國quốc 元nguyên 勛
Meaning:
variant of 開國元勳, 开国元勋, founding figure (of country or dynasty)/founding father/fig. also used of company, school etc/


Words: 開國功臣
Pinyin: kāi guó gōng chén
Hanviet: 開khai 國quốc 功công 臣thần
Meaning:
outstanding founding minister (title given to reward loyal general or vassal of new dynasty or state)/


Words: 開城
Pinyin: kāi chéng
Hanviet: 開khai 城thành
Meaning:
Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies/


Words: 開封
Pinyin: kāi fēng
Hanviet: 開khai 封phong
Meaning:
Kaifeng prefecture level city in Henan, old capital of Northern Song, former provincial capital of Henan/old name Bianliang 汴梁/


Words: 開平
Pinyin: kāi píng
Hanviet: 開khai 平bình
Meaning:
Kaiping county level city in Jiangmen 江門, 江门, Guangdong/Kaiping district of Tangshan city 唐山市, Hebei/


Words: 開弓不放箭
Pinyin: kāi gōng bù fàng jiàn
Hanviet: 開khai 弓cung 不bất 放phóng 箭tiễn
Meaning:
lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom)/fig. to bluff/to be all talk and no action/false bravado/


Words: 開弓沒有回頭箭
Pinyin: kāi gōng méi yǒu huí tóu jiàn
Hanviet: 開khai 弓cung 沒một 有hữu 回hồi 頭đầu 箭tiễn
Meaning:
lit. once you’ve shot the arrow, there’s no getting it back (idiom)/fig. once you started sth, there’s no turning back/to have to finish what one started/to be determined to reach one’s goals in spite of setbacks/


Words: 開後門
Pinyin: kāi hòu mén
Hanviet: 開khai 後hậu 門môn
Meaning:
to open the back door/fig. under the counter/to do a secret or dishonest deal/to let sth in by the back door/


Words: 開打
Pinyin: kāi dǎ
Hanviet: 開khai 打đả
Meaning:
(of a sports competition or match) to commence/(of a war or battle) to break out/to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera)/to brawl/to come to blows/


Words: 開拍
Pinyin: kāi pāi
Hanviet: 開khai 拍phách
Meaning:
to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc)/to start the bidding (auction)/to start a trading session (stock market)/


Words: 開拓
Pinyin: kāi tuò
Hanviet: 開khai 拓thác
Meaning:
to break new ground (for agriculture)/to open up (a new seam)/to develop (border regions)/fig. to open up (new horizons)/


Words: 開放
Pinyin: kāi fàng
Hanviet: 開khai 放phóng
Meaning:
to bloom/to open/to be open (to the public)/to open up (to the outside)/to be open-minded/unrestrained by convention/unconstrained in one’s sexuality/


Words: 開機
Pinyin: kāi jī
Hanviet: 開khai 機cơ
Meaning:
to start an engine/to boot up (a computer)/to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete/to begin shooting a film or TV show/


Words: 開源節流
Pinyin: kāi yuán jié liú
Hanviet: 開khai 源nguyên 節tiết 流lưu
Meaning:
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending/to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure/


Words: 開漳聖王
Pinyin: kāi zhāng shèng wáng
Hanviet: 開khai 漳 聖thánh 王vương
Meaning:
Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou, posthumous title of Tang dynasty general Chen Yuanguang (657-711) 陳元光, 陈元光/


Words: 開紅盤
Pinyin: kāi hóng pán
Hanviet: 開khai 紅hồng 盤bàn
Meaning:
(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year/(of a business) to be profitable/(of a stock market) to rise/(sport) to win one’s first match of a competition/


Words: 開誠布公
Pinyin: kāi chéng bù gōng
Hanviet: 開khai 誠thành 布bố 公công
Meaning:
lit. deal sincerely and fairly (idiom); frank and open-minded/plain speaking/Let’s talk frankly and openly between ourselves./to put one’s cards on the table/


Words: 開門揖盜
Pinyin: kāi mén yī dào
Hanviet: 開khai 門môn 揖ấp 盜đạo
Meaning:
leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom); to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand/


Words: 開黑店
Pinyin: kāi hēi diàn
Hanviet: 開khai 黑hắc 店điếm
Meaning:
lit. to open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction)/fig. to carry out a scam/to run a protection racket/daylight robbery/


Words: 閑居
Pinyin: xián jū
Hanviet: 閑nhàn 居cư
Meaning:
to lead a quiet and peaceful life in retirement/to stay home with nothing to do/to lead a solitary life/


Words: 閑章
Pinyin: xián zhāng
Hanviet: 閑nhàn 章chương
Meaning:
recreative seal, bearing not the owner’s name but a well-known verse or such, and used for artistic purposes on paintings etc/


Words: 間
Pinyin: jiān
Hanviet: 間gian
Meaning:
between/among/within a definite time or space/room/section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars/classifier for rooms/


Words: 間不容髮
Pinyin: jiān bù róng fà
Hanviet: 間gian 不bất 容dung 髮phát
Meaning:
(to escape danger etc) by a hair’s breadth (idiom)/in a critical state/on the brink of crisis/very close (to happening)/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 閱微草堂筆記
Pinyin: yuè wēi cǎo táng bǐ jì
Hanviet: 閱duyệt 微vi 草thảo 堂đường 筆bút 記ký
Meaning:
Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀, 纪昀, novel of the supernatural/The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny/


Words: 閻王好見，小鬼難當
Pinyin: yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng
Hanviet: 閻diêm 王vương 好hảo/hiếu 見kiến 小tiểu 鬼quỷ 難nạn/nan 當đương
Meaning:
lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)/


Words: 闖王
Pinyin: chuǎng wáng
Hanviet: 闖 王vương
Meaning:
Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645)/


Words: 闖王陵
Pinyin: chuǎng wáng líng
Hanviet: 闖 王vương 陵lăng
Meaning:
mausoleum to late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (who styled himself Chuang Wang): one in Jiugongshan 九宫山 nature reserve, Tongshan county, Xianning prefecture, Hubei, and another in Shimen 石门, Changde 常德, Hunan, built starting in 1980/


Words: 闖紅燈
Pinyin: chuǎng hóng dēng
Hanviet: 闖 紅hồng 燈đăng
Meaning:
to run a red light/failing to stop at a red traffic light/(slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating/


Words: 關東煮
Pinyin: guān dōng zhǔ
Hanviet: 關quan 東đông 煮chử
Meaning:
oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth/


Words: 關漢卿
Pinyin: guān hàn qīng
Hanviet: 關quan 漢hán 卿khanh
Meaning:
Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇, 杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家/


Words: 關羽
Pinyin: guān yǔ
Hanviet: 關quan 羽vũ
Meaning:
Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty/posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama/


Words: 關防
Pinyin: guān fáng
Hanviet: 關quan 防phòng
Meaning:
security measures (esp. border security)/official seal (esp. military seal during Qing and Ming times)/


Words: 阮
Pinyin: ruǎn
Hanviet: 阮
Meaning:
surname Ruan/small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of modern-day Gansu Province/


Words: 阮安
Pinyin: ruǎn ān
Hanviet: 阮 安an
Meaning:
Nguyen An (1381-1453), aka Ruan An, Vietnamese architect and engineer, principal designer of the Forbidden City/


Words: 防不勝防
Pinyin: fáng bù shèng fáng
Hanviet: 防phòng 不bất 勝thắng 防phòng
Meaning:
you can’t guard against it (idiom)/impossible to defend effectively/not much one can do about it/It can’t be prevented./


Words: 防城各族自治縣
Pinyin: fáng chéng gè zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 防phòng 城thành 各các 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Fangcheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County in Guangxi (temporary name during 1950s for Fangcheng district 防城區, 防城区 of Fangchenggang city)/


Words: 防毒
Pinyin: fáng dú
Hanviet: 防phòng 毒độc
Meaning:
defense against poison/defense against poison gas/anti-narcotics measures/defense against computer viruses/


Words: 阿
Pinyin: ā
Hanviet: 阿a
Meaning:
prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity/used in transliteration/also pr. /


Words: 阿不來提·阿不都熱西提
Pinyin: ā bù lái tí �� ā bù dū rè xī tí
Hanviet: 阿a 不bất 來lai 提đề · 阿a 不bất 都đô 熱nhiệt 西tây 提đề
Meaning:
Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference/


Words: 阿伊莎
Pinyin: ā yī shā
Hanviet: 阿a 伊y 莎sa
Meaning:
Ayshe, Aise or Ayesha (name)/Aishah bint Abi Bakr (c. 614-678), youngest wife of prophet Mohamed 穆罕默德/


Words: 阿伏伽德羅
Pinyin: ā fú jiā dé luó
Hanviet: 阿a 伏phục 伽già 德đức 羅la
Meaning:
Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist, noted for contributions to molecular weight and molarity, the originator of Avogadro’s number 阿伏伽德羅數, 阿伏伽德罗数/


Words: 阿來
Pinyin: ā lái
Hanviet: 阿a 來lai
Meaning:
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定, 尘埃落定 "Red Poppies"/


Words: 阿依莎
Pinyin: ā yī shā
Hanviet: 阿a 依y 莎sa
Meaning:
Ayshe, Aise or Ayesha (name)/Aishah bint Abi Bakr (c. 614-678), youngest wife of prophet Mohamed 穆罕默德/also written 阿伊莎/


Words: 阿公
Pinyin: ā gōng
Hanviet: 阿a 公công
Meaning:
(old) grandfather/polite address for an elderly man, or a woman’s father-in-law/(Taiwanese) grandfather/


Words: 阿合奇
Pinyin: ā hé qí
Hanviet: 阿a 合hợp 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Aqchi Nahiyisi or Aheqi county in Kizilsu Kirghiz autonomous prefecture 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州, 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 阿圖什
Pinyin: ā tú shí
Hanviet: 阿a 圖đồ 什thập
Meaning:
Atush or Artux city and county in Qizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州, 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州/Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang/


Words: 阿圖什市
Pinyin: ā tú shí shì
Hanviet: 阿a 圖đồ 什thập 市thị
Meaning:
Atush or Artux city in Qizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州, 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州/Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang/


Words: 阿壩
Pinyin: ā bà
Hanviet: 阿a 壩
Meaning:
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha’ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮, 马尔康镇/also Ngawa county/


Words: 阿壩州
Pinyin: ā bà zhōu
Hanviet: 阿a 壩 州châu
Meaning:
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha’ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮, 马尔康镇/


Words: 阿壩縣
Pinyin: ā bà xiàn
Hanviet: 阿a 壩 縣huyện
Meaning:
Ngawa county (Tibetan: rnga ba rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 阿多諾
Pinyin: ā duō nuò
Hanviet: 阿a 多đa 諾nặc
Meaning:
surname Adorno/Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno 狄奧多·阿多諾, 狄奥多·阿多诺 (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer/


Words: 阿姆河
Pinyin: ā mǔ hé
Hanviet: 阿a 姆 河hà
Meaning:
Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan/formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers/


Words: 阿姨
Pinyin: ā yí
Hanviet: 阿a 姨di
Meaning:
maternal aunt/step-mother/childcare worker/nursemaid/woman of similar age to one’s parents (term of address used by child)/CL:個, 个/


Words: 阿巴斯
Pinyin: ā bā sī
Hanviet: 阿a 巴ba 斯tư
Meaning:
Abbas (name)/Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005/


Words: 阿彌陀佛
Pinyin: ē mí tuó fó
Hanviet: 阿A 彌Di 陀Đà 佛Phật
Meaning:
Amitabha Buddha/the Buddha of the Western paradise/may the lord Buddha preserve us!/merciful Buddha!/


Words: 阿拉伯國家聯盟
Pinyin: ā lā bó guó jiā lián méng
Hanviet: 阿a 拉lạp 伯bá 國quốc 家gia 聯liên 盟minh
Meaning:
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States/


Words: 阿拉善右旗
Pinyin: ā lā shàn yòu qí
Hanviet: 阿a 拉lạp 善thiện 右hữu 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)/


Words: 阿拉善左旗
Pinyin: ā lā shàn zuǒ qí
Hanviet: 阿a 拉lạp 善thiện 左tả 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Züün khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)/


Words: 阿拉法特
Pinyin: ā lā fǎ tè
Hanviet: 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 亞西爾·阿拉法特, 亚西尔·阿拉法特/


Words: 阿斗
Pinyin: ā dǒu
Hanviet: 阿a 斗đẩu
Meaning:
A-dou, nickname of Liu Chan 劉禪, 刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263/fig. weak and inept person/


Words: 阿斯圖里亞斯
Pinyin: ā sī tú lǐ yà sī
Hanviet: 阿a 斯tư 圖đồ 里lý 亞 斯tư
Meaning:
Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay/ancient Spanish kingdom from which the reconquista was based/


Words: 阿旺曲培
Pinyin: ā wàng qū péi
Hanviet: 阿a 旺 曲khúc 培bồi
Meaning:
Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US/


Words: 阿普爾頓
Pinyin: ā pǔ ěr dùn
Hanviet: 阿a 普phổ 爾nhĩ 頓đốn
Meaning:
Appleton (name)/Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere/


Words: 阿爾坎塔拉
Pinyin: ā ěr kǎn tǎ lā
Hanviet: 阿a 爾nhĩ 坎khảm 塔tháp 拉lạp
Meaning:
Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain/Alcantara, Brazil space launch site/


Words: 阿的平
Pinyin: ā dì píng
Hanviet: 阿a 的đích 平bình
Meaning:
atabrine or quinacrine, used as antimalarial drug and antibiotic against intestinal parasite giardiasis/


Words: 阿羅漢
Pinyin: ā luó hàn
Hanviet: 阿A 羅La 漢Hán
Meaning:
arhat (Sanskrit)/a holy man who has left behind all earthly desires and concerns and attained nirvana (Buddhism)/


Words: 阿芙樂爾號
Pinyin: ā fú lè ěr hào
Hanviet: 阿a 芙phù 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 爾nhĩ 號hiệu
Meaning:
Russian cruiser Aurora, firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography/


Words: 阿諾·施瓦辛格
Pinyin: ā nuò �� shī wǎ xīn gé
Hanviet: 阿a 諾nặc · 施thí 瓦ngõa 辛tân 格cách
Meaning:
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011/also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格, 阿诺德·施瓦辛格/


Words: 阿赫蒂薩里
Pinyin: ā hè dì sà lǐ
Hanviet: 阿a 赫hách 蒂 薩tát 里lý
Meaning:
Martti Ahtisaari (1937-), Finnish diplomat and politician, veteran peace negotiator and 2008 Nobel peace laureate/


Words: 阿里
Pinyin: ā lǐ
Hanviet: 阿a 里lý
Meaning:
Ali (proper name)/Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (c. 600-661), cousin, aid and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德, the fourth Caliph 哈里發, 哈里发 of Islam, reigned 656-661, and the first Imam 伊瑪目, 伊玛目 of Shia Islam/Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga’ ris/


Words: 阿里郎
Pinyin: ā lǐ láng
Hanviet: 阿a 里lý 郎lang
Meaning:
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty/Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites/


Words: 陀思妥也夫斯基
Pinyin: tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī
Hanviet: 陀đà 思tư 妥 也dã 夫phu 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰, 罪与罚/also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基/


Words: 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Pinyin: tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī
Hanviet: 陀đà 思tư 妥 耶da 夫phu 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰, 罪与罚/


Words: 附小
Pinyin: fù xiǎo
Hanviet: 附phụ 小tiểu
Meaning:
subsidiary primary school (originally attached to an institute, university etc)/abbreviation of 附屬小學, 附属小学/


Words: 附帶
Pinyin: fù dài
Hanviet: 附phụ 帶đái
Meaning:
supplementary/incidentally/in parentheses/by chance/in passing/additionally/secondary/subsidiary/to attach/


Words: 附庸風雅
Pinyin: fù yōng fēng yǎ
Hanviet: 附phụ 庸dong 風phong 雅nhã
Meaning:
(of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti/to pose as a culture lover/to be a culture snob/having pretensions to culture/


Words: 附會
Pinyin: fù huì
Hanviet: 附phụ 會hội
Meaning:
to add parallels and interpretations (to a story etc)/to develop and embellish/to interpret (often in a strained manner)/


Words: 降壓
Pinyin: jiàng yā
Hanviet: 降giáng/hàng 壓áp
Meaning:
to reduce the pressure (of a fluid)/to lower one’s blood pressure/to lower (or step down) the voltage/


Words: 陝北
Pinyin: shǎn běi
Hanviet: 陝 北bắc
Meaning:
Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan’an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao’s revolution 革命聖地, 革命圣地/


Words: 院試
Pinyin: yuàn shì
Hanviet: 院viện 試thí
Meaning:
the last of the three entry-level exams in the imperial examination system of Ming and Qing dynasties/


Words: 陣
Pinyin: zhèn
Hanviet: 陣trận
Meaning:
disposition of troops/wave/spate/burst/spell/short period of time/classifier for events or states of short duration/


Words: 陪襯
Pinyin: péi chèn
Hanviet: 陪bồi 襯
Meaning:
to enhance by contrast/to set off/to serve as a background in order to bring out the subject with greater brilliance/to serve as a prop/a foil/


Words: 陪讀
Pinyin: péi dú
Hanviet: 陪bồi 讀đọc
Meaning:
to accompany one’s child or spouse who is studying overseas/to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together/


Words: 陰
Pinyin: yīn
Hanviet: 陰ấm
Meaning:
overcast (weather)/cloudy/shady/Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang)/negative (electric.)/feminine/moon/implicit/hidden/genitalia/


Words: 陰魂不散
Pinyin: yīn hún bù sàn
Hanviet: 陰ấm 魂hồn 不bất 散tán
Meaning:
lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom)/fig. the influence still lingers on/the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive/


Words: 陳
Pinyin: chén
Hanviet: 陳trần
Meaning:
surname Chen/vassal state during the Spring and Autumn Period 770-475 BC/Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589)/


Words: 陳仲琳
Pinyin: chén zhòng lín
Hanviet: 陳trần 仲trọng 琳
Meaning:
Xu Zhonglin or Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳, 许仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investure of the Gods 封神演義, 封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星, 陆西星/


Words: 陳元光
Pinyin: chén yuán guāng
Hanviet: 陳trần 元nguyên 光quang
Meaning:
Chen Yuanguang (657-711), Tang dynasty general with posthumous title 開漳聖王, 开漳圣王, i.e. Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou 漳州, Fujian/


Words: 陳忱
Pinyin: chén chén
Hanviet: 陳trần 忱
Meaning:
Chen Chen (1613-1670), novelist and poet at the Ming-Qing transition, author of Water Margin sequel 水滸後傳, 水浒后传/


Words: 陳書
Pinyin: chén shū
Hanviet: 陳trần 書thư
Meaning:
History of Chen of the Southern Dynasties, ninth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉 in 636 during Tang dynasty, 36 scrolls/


Words: 陳毅
Pinyin: chén yì
Hanviet: 陳trần 毅nghị
Meaning:
Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972/


Words: 陳水扁
Pinyin: chén shuǐ biǎn
Hanviet: 陳trần 水thủy 扁
Meaning:
Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨, 民进党 politician, President of the Republic of China 2000-2008/


Words: 陳炯明
Pinyin: chén jiǒng míng
Hanviet: 陳trần 炯 明minh
Meaning:
Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong/


Words: 陳獨秀
Pinyin: chén dú xiù
Hanviet: 陳trần 獨độc 秀tú
Meaning:
Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), Chinese Marxist and leading communist, blamed for the failures of Chinese communism from 1927, posthumously rehabilitated/


Words: 陳雲林
Pinyin: chén yún lín
Hanviet: 陳trần 雲vân 林lâm
Meaning:
Chen Yunlin (1941-), Chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會, 海峡两岸关系协会/


Words: 陳香梅
Pinyin: chén xiāng méi
Hanviet: 陳trần 香hương 梅mai
Meaning:
Chen Xiangmei (1925-), a.k.a. Anna Chennault, born in Beijing, US Republican Party politician, widow of Claire Lee Chennault 陳納德, 陈纳德/


Words: 陷
Pinyin: xiàn
Hanviet: 陷hãm
Meaning:
pitfall/trap/to get stuck/to sink/to cave in/to frame (false charge)/to capture (a city in battle)/to fall (to the enemy)/defect/


Words: 陸克文
Pinyin: lù kè wén
Hanviet: 陸lục 克khắc 文văn
Meaning:
Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician, proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013/


Words: 陸榮廷
Pinyin: lù róng tíng
Hanviet: 陸lục 榮vinh 廷đình
Meaning:
Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction/


Words: 陸西星
Pinyin: lù xī xīng
Hanviet: 陸lục 西tây 星tinh
Meaning:
Lu Xixing (1520-c. 1601), Ming Daoist author, to whom the fantasy novel Investure of the Gods 封神演義, 封神演义 is attributed, together with Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳, 许仲琳/


Words: 陽奉陰違
Pinyin: yáng fèng yīn wéi
Hanviet: 陽dương 奉phụng 陰ấm 違vi
Meaning:
outward devotion but inner opposition (idiom); to pay lip service/to agree overtly, but oppose in secret/


Words: 隆格爾
Pinyin: lóng gé ěr
Hanviet: 隆long 格cách 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
former Lunggar county 1983-1999 occupying parts of Zhongba county 仲巴縣, 仲巴县, Ngari prefecture, Tibet/


Words: 隋書
Pinyin: suí shū
Hanviet: 隋tùy 書thư
Meaning:
History of the Sui Dynasty, thirteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Wei Zheng 魏徵, 魏征 in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 85 scrolls/


Words: 隋煬帝
Pinyin: suí yáng dì
Hanviet: 隋tùy 煬 帝đế
Meaning:
Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618/


Words: 隒
Pinyin: yǎn
Hanviet: 隒
Meaning:
the appearance of a mountain, as if two pots were standing one upon the other/the steep bank of a stream a rough mountain path/


Words: 隔岸觀火
Pinyin: gé àn guān huǒ
Hanviet: 隔cách 岸ngạn 觀quán 火hỏa
Meaning:
to watch the fires burning across the river/to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)/


Words: 隨風倒舵
Pinyin: suí fēng dǎo duò
Hanviet: 隨tùy 風phong 倒đảo 舵
Meaning:
to trim one’s sails with the wind/to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances (idiom)/


Words: 隱生宙
Pinyin: yǐn shēng zhòu
Hanviet: 隱ẩn 生sanh 宙trụ
Meaning:
Cryptozoic/geological eon before the appearance of abundant fossils/hidden life, as opposed to Phanerozoic/


Words: 隱花植物
Pinyin: yǐn huā zhí wù
Hanviet: 隱ẩn 花hoa 植thực 物vật
Meaning:
Cryptogamae/cryptogamous plant (botany)/plants such as algae 藻類, 藻类, moss 苔蘚, 苔藓 and fern 蕨類, 蕨类 that reproduce by spores 孢子 in place of flowers/


Words: 隱藏
Pinyin: yǐn cáng
Hanviet: 隱ẩn 藏tàng
Meaning:
to hide/to conceal/to mask/to shelter/to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden)/to hide oneself/to lie low/to nestle/hidden/implicit/private/covert/recessed (lighting)/


Words: 隻字不提
Pinyin: zhī zì bù tí
Hanviet: 隻chỉ 字tự 不bất 提đề
Meaning:
not to mention (idiom); to say not one word/fig. to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic)/to censor/


Words: 雅各賓派
Pinyin: yǎ gè bīn pài
Hanviet: 雅nhã 各các 賓tân 派phái
Meaning:
Jacobin club, French revolutionary party that played a leading role in the reign of terror 1791-1794/


Words: 雅樂
Pinyin: yǎ yuè
Hanviet: 雅nhã 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou/Korean a’ak/Japanese gagaku/


Words: 雅歌
Pinyin: yǎ gē
Hanviet: 雅nhã 歌ca
Meaning:
part of the Book of Songs 詩經, 诗经/a song/a poem set to elegant music/a refined chant/the biblical Song of Solomon/


Words: 雅正
Pinyin: yǎ zhèng
Hanviet: 雅nhã 正chánh
Meaning:
correct (literary)/upright/(hon.) Please point out my shortcomings./I await your esteemed corrections./


Words: 雅江
Pinyin: yǎ jiāng
Hanviet: 雅nhã 江giang
Meaning:
Yajiang county (Tibetan: nyag chu rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 雅魯藏布大峽谷
Pinyin: yǎ lǔ zàng bù dà xiá gǔ
Hanviet: 雅nhã 魯lỗ 藏tạng 布bố 大đại 峽 谷cốc
Meaning:
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)/


Words: 雅魯藏布江
Pinyin: yǎ lǔ zàng bù jiāng
Hanviet: 雅nhã 魯lỗ 藏tạng 布bố 江giang
Meaning:
Yarlung Tsangpo river of Tibet, Tibetan: yar kLungs gTsang po/the Brahmaputra River of Assam and Bangladesh/


Words: 集思廣益
Pinyin: jí sī guǎng yì
Hanviet: 集tập 思tư 廣quảng 益ích
Meaning:
collecting opinions is of wide benefit (idiom); to pool wisdom for mutual benefit/to profit from widespread suggestions/


Words: 集腋成裘
Pinyin: jí yè chéng qiú
Hanviet: 集tập 腋dịch 成thành 裘cừu
Meaning:
many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big/many a mickle makes a muckle/


Words: 雙十節
Pinyin: shuāng shí jié
Hanviet: 雙song 十thập 節tiết
Meaning:
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義, 武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911/(Taiwan) National Day/


Words: 雙喜
Pinyin: shuāng xǐ
Hanviet: 雙song 喜hỷ
Meaning:
double happiness/the combined symmetric character 囍 (similar to 喜喜) as symbol of good luck, esp. marriage/


Words: 雙子葉
Pinyin: shuāng zǐ yè
Hanviet: 雙song 子tử 葉diệp
Meaning:
dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants)/


Words: 雙橋區
Pinyin: shuāng qiáo qū
Hanviet: 雙song 橋kiều 區khu
Meaning:
Shuangqia suburban district of Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan/Shuangqia district of Chengde city 承德市, Hebei/


Words: 雙氯芬酸鈉
Pinyin: shuāng lǜ fēn suān nà
Hanviet: 雙song 氯 芬phân 酸toan 鈉
Meaning:
diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as pain-killer/also called voltaren 扶他林/


Words: 雙湖
Pinyin: shuāng hú
Hanviet: 雙song 湖hồ
Meaning:
two lakes/Shuanghu special district, Tibetan: Mtsho gnyis don gcod khru’u, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區, 那曲地区, central Tibet/


Words: 雙湖特別區
Pinyin: shuāng hú tè bié qū
Hanviet: 雙song 湖hồ 特đặc 別biệt 區khu
Meaning:
Shuanghu special district, Tibetan: Mtsho gnyis don gcod khru’u, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區, 那曲地区, central Tibet/


Words: 雙管齊下
Pinyin: shuāng guǎn qí xià
Hanviet: 雙song 管quản 齊tề 下hạ
Meaning:
lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time/to attack one problem from two angles at the same time/


Words: 雙簧
Pinyin: shuāng huáng
Hanviet: 雙song 簧
Meaning:
a form or theatrical double act, popular since Qing times, with one player seated stage front and acting out the poem or song of the second player hidden at the back (also written 雙黄, 双黄)/double reed (as used in oboe or bassoon)/an oboe or bassoon/


Words: 雙規
Pinyin: shuāng guī
Hanviet: 雙song 規quy
Meaning:
shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace/


Words: 雜多
Pinyin: zá duō
Hanviet: 雜tạp 多đa
Meaning:
Zadoi county (Tibetan: rdza stod rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州, 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 雜家
Pinyin: zá jiā
Hanviet: 雜tạp 家gia
Meaning:
Miscellaneous School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocate was Lü Buwei 呂不韋, 吕不韦/


Words: 雜處
Pinyin: zá chǔ
Hanviet: 雜tạp 處xứ
Meaning:
(of disparate elements) to mix in with one another/(of diverse groups of people) to live in the same area/to coexist/


Words: 雞同鴨講
Pinyin: jī tóng yā jiǎng
Hanviet: 雞kê 同đồng 鴨áp 講giảng
Meaning:
lit. chicken speaking with duck/fig. talking without communicating/people not understanding each other/


Words: 雞掰
Pinyin: jī bāi
Hanviet: 雞kê 掰
Meaning:
(Taiwanese) cunt (Minnan: tsi-bai)/(slang, used as an intensifier) fucking/fucked up/to fuck around with/


Words: 雞犬升天
Pinyin: jī quǎn shēng tiān
Hanviet: 雞kê 犬khuyển 升thăng 天thiên
Meaning:
lit. poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)/fig. to ride on sb else’s success/Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too/Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it/


Words: 雞肋
Pinyin: jī lèi
Hanviet: 雞kê 肋lặc
Meaning:
chicken ribs/sth of little value or interest/sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant to give up/to be physically weak/


Words: 離
Pinyin: lí
Hanviet: 離ly
Meaning:
to leave/to part from/to be away from/(in giving distances) from/without (sth)/independent of/one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire/☲/


Words: 難兄難弟
Pinyin: nán xiōng nán dì
Hanviet: 難nạn/nan 兄huynh 難nạn/nan 弟đệ
Meaning:
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom)/fig. one is just as bad as the other/


Words: 難為
Pinyin: nán wei
Hanviet: 難nạn/nan 為vi
Meaning:
to bother/to press sb, usu. to do sth/it’s a tough job/sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)/


Words: 雨後春筍
Pinyin: yǔ hòu chūn sǔn
Hanviet: 雨vũ 後hậu 春xuân 筍duẩn
Meaning:
lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth/many new things emerge in rapid succession/


Words: 雨過天晴
Pinyin: yǔ guò tiān qíng
Hanviet: 雨vũ 過quá 天thiên 晴tình
Meaning:
sky clears after rain/new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom)/every cloud has a silver lining (idiom)/see also 雨過天青, 雨过天青/


Words: 雨過天青
Pinyin: yǔ guò tiān qīng
Hanviet: 雨vũ 過quá 天thiên 青thanh
Meaning:
sky clears after rain/new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom)/every cloud has a silver lining (idiom)/see also 雨過天晴, 雨过天晴/


Words: 雪上加霜
Pinyin: xuě shàng jiā shuāng
Hanviet: 雪tuyết 上thượng 加gia 霜sương
Meaning:
to add hail to snow (idiom); one disaster on top of another/to make things worse in a bad situation/


Words: 雪山太子
Pinyin: xuě shān tài zǐ
Hanviet: 雪Tuyết 山Sơn 太thái 子tử
Meaning:
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: 雪山獅子旗
Pinyin: xuě shān shī zi qí
Hanviet: 雪Tuyết 山Sơn 獅sư 子tử 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Snow lion banner, banned flag of Tibetan independence movement, featuring mythological Snow Leopard/


Words: 雪泥鴻爪
Pinyin: xuě ní hóng zhǎo
Hanviet: 雪tuyết 泥nê 鴻hồng 爪trảo
Meaning:
a goose’s footprint in the snow/vestiges of the past (idiom)/the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)/


Words: 雲南
Pinyin: yún nán
Hanviet: 雲vân 南nam
Meaning:
Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇 or 雲, 云, capital Kunming 昆明/


Words: 雲南省
Pinyin: yún nán shěng
Hanviet: 雲vân 南nam 省tỉnh
Meaning:
Yunnan Province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇 or 雲, 云, capital Kunming 昆明/


Words: 雲散風流
Pinyin: yún sàn fēng liú
Hanviet: 雲vân 散tán 風phong 流lưu
Meaning:
lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down/people disperse home/things return to normal/


Words: 雲窗霧檻
Pinyin: yún chuāng wù kǎn
Hanviet: 雲vân 窗song 霧vụ 檻hạm
Meaning:
cloud around the window, mist on the threshold (idiom); tall building with the windows in the clouds/


Words: 雲貴高原
Pinyin: yún guì gāo yuán
Hanviet: 雲vân 貴quý 高cao 原nguyên
Meaning:
Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, west of Guangxi and southern margins of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan/


Words: 雲龍
Pinyin: yún lóng
Hanviet: 雲vân 龍long
Meaning:
Yunlong district of Xuzhou city 徐州市, Jiangsu/Yunlong county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州, Yunnan/


Words: 零
Pinyin: líng
Hanviet: 零linh
Meaning:
zero/nought/zero sign/fractional/fragmentary/odd (of numbers)/(placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)/fraction/(in mathematics) remainder (after division)/extra/to wither and fall/to wither/


Words: 零聲母
Pinyin: líng shēng mǔ
Hanviet: 零linh 聲thanh 母mẫu
Meaning:
absence of initial consonant/a Chinese syllable having no initial consonant (starting directly with the medial vowel)/


Words: 雷大雨小
Pinyin: léi dà yǔ xiǎo
Hanviet: 雷lôi 大đại 雨vũ 小tiểu
Meaning:
lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action/his bark is worse than his bite/


Words: 雷打不動
Pinyin: léi dǎ bù dòng
Hanviet: 雷lôi 打đả 不bất 動động
Meaning:
not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable/to adhere rigidly to regulations/will go ahead whatever happens (of an arrangement or plan)/


Words: 雷聲大，雨點小
Pinyin: léi shēng dà , yǔ diǎn xiǎo
Hanviet: 雷lôi 聲thanh 大đại 雨vũ 點điểm 小tiểu
Meaning:
loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom); a lot of talk, but no action/action speaks louder than words/his bite is worse than his bark/


Words: 雷鋒
Pinyin: léi fēng
Hanviet: 雷lôi 鋒phong
Meaning:
Lei Feng (1940-1962), made into a model of altruism and dedication to the Party by propaganda from 1963 onwards/


Words: 電傳
Pinyin: diàn chuán
Hanviet: 電điện 傳truyền
Meaning:
to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc)/a message transmitted using electronic means/telex/teleprinter/


Words: 震
Pinyin: zhèn
Hanviet: 震chấn
Meaning:
to shake/to vibrate/to jolt/to quake/excited/shocked/one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing thunder/☳/


Words: 震古爍今
Pinyin: zhèn gǔ shuò jīn
Hanviet: 震chấn 古cổ 爍thước 今kim
Meaning:
shaking the old and illuminating the new (idiom); surpassing the ancients and dazzling contemporaries/glorious and world-shattering/


Words: 霍城
Pinyin: huò chéng
Hanviet: 霍hoắc 城thành
Meaning:
Huocheng county or Qorghas nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州, 伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 霍夫曼
Pinyin: huò fū màn
Hanviet: 霍hoắc 夫phu 曼mạn
Meaning:
Hofmann or Hoffman (name)/August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist/Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor/


Words: 霍爾布魯克
Pinyin: huò ěr bù lǔ kè
Hanviet: 霍hoắc 爾nhĩ 布bố 魯lỗ 克khắc
Meaning:
Holbrook (name)/Richard C.A. Holbrooke (1941-2010), US diplomat, influential in brokering 1995 Dayton Bosnian peace deal, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009/


Words: 霍金
Pinyin: huò jīn
Hanviet: 霍hoắc 金kim
Meaning:
Hawkins or Hawking/Stephen Hawking (1942-), British physicist and author of A Brief History of Time 時間簡史, 时间简史/


Words: 露臺
Pinyin: lù tái
Hanviet: 露lộ 臺đài
Meaning:
balcony/patio/flat roof/terrace/deck (unroofed platform)/outdoor stage/ancient imperial celestial observation terrace/


Words: 霸機
Pinyin: bà jī
Hanviet: 霸 機cơ
Meaning:
(of passengers) to stage a sit-in after the plane has landed (as a protest against bad service etc) (Tw)/


Words: 霸王別姬
Pinyin: bà wáng bié jī
Hanviet: 霸 王vương 別biệt 姬
Meaning:
Xiang Yu bids farewell to his favorite concubine (classic subject)/Farewell my concubine (film by Chen Kaige)/


Words: 霸道
Pinyin: bà dào
Hanviet: 霸 道đạo
Meaning:
the Way of the Hegemon/abbr. for 霸王之道/despotic rule/rule by might/evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道/overbearing/tyranny/(of liquor, medicine etc) strong/potent/


Words: 靈渠
Pinyin: líng qú
Hanviet: 靈linh 渠cừ
Meaning:
Lingqu canal in Xing’an county 興安, 兴安, Guanxi, build in 214 BC to join Changjiang 長江, 长江 with Pearl River 珠江/


Words: 靈犀
Pinyin: líng xī
Hanviet: 靈linh 犀
Meaning:
rhinoceros horn, reputed to confer telepathic powers/fig. mutual sensitivity/tacit exchange of romantic feelings/a meeting of minds/


Words: 青出於藍而勝於藍
Pinyin: qīng chū yú lán ér shèng yú lán
Hanviet: 青thanh 出xuất 於ư 藍lam 而nhi 勝thắng 於ư 藍lam
Meaning:
lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom)/fig. the student surpasses the master/


Words: 青山
Pinyin: qīng shān
Hanviet: 青thanh 山sơn
Meaning:
Qingshan district of Wuhan city 武漢市, 武汉市, Hubei/Qingshan district of Baotou city 包頭市, 包头市, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 青梅竹馬
Pinyin: qīng méi zhú mǎ
Hanviet: 青thanh 梅mai 竹trúc 馬mã
Meaning:
lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom)/fig. innocent children’s games/childhood sweethearts/a couple who grew up as childhood friends/


Words: 青黃不接
Pinyin: qīng huáng bù jiē
Hanviet: 青thanh 黃hoàng 不bất 接tiếp
Meaning:
lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop/temporary deficit in manpower or resources/unable to make ends meet/


Words: 青龍
Pinyin: qīng lóng
Hanviet: 青thanh 龍long
Meaning:
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍, 东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍, 东方苍龙/(slang) man without pubic hair/


Words: 靖國神社
Pinyin: jìng guó shén shè
Hanviet: 靖tĩnh 國quốc 神thần 社xã
Meaning:
Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals/


Words: 靜坐不能
Pinyin: jìng zuò bù néng
Hanviet: 靜tĩnh 坐tọa 不bất 能năng
Meaning:
akathisia (condition of restlessness, a side-effect of neuroleptic antipsychotic drug)/unable to sit still/hyperactivity/restlessness/


Words: 靜山
Pinyin: jìng shān
Hanviet: 靜tĩnh 山sơn
Meaning:
Cheng San (precinct in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore)/Cheng Shan GRC, formerly (until the 1997 elections) a group representation constituency (electoral division) in Singapore/


Words: 非
Pinyin: fēi
Hanviet: 非phi
Meaning:
to not be/not/wrong/incorrect/non-/un-/in-/to reproach or blame/(colloquial) to insist on/simply must/


Words: 靠
Pinyin: kào
Hanviet: 靠
Meaning:
to lean against or on/to stand by the side of/to come near to/to depend on/to trust/to fuck (vulgar)/traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)/


Words: 靠北
Pinyin: kào běi
Hanviet: 靠 北bắc
Meaning:
(lit.) to cry over one’s dad’s death (from Taiwanese 哭爸, POJ pr. )/(slang) (Tw) to rattle on/to carp/stop whining!/shut the hell up!/fuck!/damn!/


Words: 靠山吃山，靠水吃水
Pinyin: kào shān chī shān , kào shuǐ chī shuǐ
Hanviet: 靠 山sơn 吃cật 山sơn 靠 水thủy 吃cật 水thủy
Meaning:
lit. the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea (idiom)/fig. to make the best use of local resources/to exploit one’s position to advance oneself/to find one’s niche/to live off the land/


Words: 靠腰
Pinyin: kào yāo
Hanviet: 靠 腰yêu
Meaning:
(lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese 哭枵, POJ pr. )/(slang) (Tw) to whine/shut the hell up!/fuck!/damn!/


Words: 靡不有初，鮮克有終
Pinyin: mǐ bù yǒu chū , xiǎn kè yǒu zhōng
Hanviet: 靡mĩ 不bất 有hữu 初sơ 鮮tiên 克khắc 有hữu 終chung
Meaning:
almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don’t start sth you can’t handle/


Words: 面嚮
Pinyin: miàn xiàng
Hanviet: 面diện 嚮hướng
Meaning:
to face/to turn towards/to incline to/geared towards/catering for/-oriented/facial feature/appearance/aspect/facet/


Words: 面壁
Pinyin: miàn bì
Hanviet: 面diện 壁bích
Meaning:
to face the wall/to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism)/(fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc/


Words: 面壁思過
Pinyin: miàn bì sī guò
Hanviet: 面diện 壁bích 思tư 過quá
Meaning:
to face the wall and ponder about one’s misdeeds/to stand in the corner (punishment)/(fig.) to examine one’s conscience/


Words: 面子
Pinyin: miàn zi
Hanviet: 面diện 子tử
Meaning:
outer surface/outside/honor/reputation/face (as in "losing face")/self-respect/feelings/(medicinal) powder/


Words: 革蘭氏
Pinyin: gé lán shì
Hanviet: 革cách 蘭lan 氏thị
Meaning:
Mr Gram/Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法, 革兰氏染色法/


Words: 革面洗心
Pinyin: gé miàn xǐ xīn
Hanviet: 革cách 面diện 洗tẩy 心tâm
Meaning:
lit. to renew one’s face and wash one’s heart (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one’s mistaken ways/to turn over a new leaf/


Words: 鞍點
Pinyin: ān diǎn
Hanviet: 鞍yên 點điểm
Meaning:
saddle point (math.), a critical point of a function of several variables that is neither a maximum nor a minimum/


Words: 鞏留
Pinyin: gǒng liú
Hanviet: 鞏 留lưu
Meaning:
Gongliu county or Toqquztara nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州, 伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已
Pinyin: jū gōng jìn cuì , sǐ ér hòu yǐ
Hanviet: 鞠cúc 躬cung 盡tận 瘁 死tử 而nhi 後hậu 已dĩ
Meaning:
to bend to a task and spare no effort unto one’s dying day (idiom); striving to the utmost one’s whole life/with every breath in one’s body, unto one’s dying day/


Words: 鞭
Pinyin: biān
Hanviet: 鞭tiên
Meaning:
whip or lash/to flog/to whip/conductor’s baton/segmented iron weapon (old)/penis (of animal, served as food)/


Words: 韋格納
Pinyin: wéi gé nà
Hanviet: 韋vi 格cách 納nạp
Meaning:
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift/also written 魏格納, 魏格纳/


Words: 韓
Pinyin: hán
Hanviet: 韓
Meaning:
Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄, 战国七雄/Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897/Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國, 大韩民国/surname Han/


Words: 韓國
Pinyin: hán guó
Hanviet: 韓 國quốc
Meaning:
South Korea (Republic of Korea)/Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄, 战国七雄/Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897/


Words: 韓復榘
Pinyin: hán fù jǔ
Hanviet: 韓 復phục 榘
Meaning:
Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石, 蒋介石 after he abandoned Ji’nan to the Japanese/


Words: 韓愈
Pinyin: hán yù
Hanviet: 韓 愈dũ
Meaning:
Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動, 古文运动 and neoclassical 復古, 复古 movements/


Words: 韓愛晶
Pinyin: hán ài jīng
Hanviet: 韓 愛ái 晶tinh
Meaning:
Han Aijing (1945-), notorious red guard leader during Cultural Revolution, spent 15 years in prison for imprisoning and torturing political leaders/


Words: 韓邦慶
Pinyin: hán bāng qìng
Hanviet: 韓 邦bang 慶khánh
Meaning:
Han Bangqing (1856-1894), writer and publisher of experimental literary journal in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular, author of novel 海上花列傳, 海上花列传/


Words: 韓非
Pinyin: hán fēi
Hanviet: 韓 非phi
Meaning:
Han Fei, also known as Han Feizi 韓非子, 韩非子 (c. 280-233 BC), Legalist philosopher of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 韓非子
Pinyin: hán fēi zǐ
Hanviet: 韓 非phi 子tử
Meaning:
Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非, 韩非 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 韜略
Pinyin: tāo lüè
Hanviet: 韜 略lược
Meaning:
military strategy/military tactics/originally refers to military classics Six Secret Teachings 六韜, 六韬 and Three Strategies 三略/


Words: 音譯
Pinyin: yīn yì
Hanviet: 音âm 譯dịch
Meaning:
transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)/characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)/transcription (linguistics)/to transcribe phonetic symbols/


Words: 韻
Pinyin: yùn
Hanviet: 韻vận
Meaning:
beautiful sound/appeal/charm/vowel/rhyme/in Chinese phonetics, the medial and final sound of a syllable (i.e. excluding the initial consonant)/


Words: 韻尾
Pinyin: yùn wěi
Hanviet: 韻vận 尾vĩ
Meaning:
the rhyming part of a syllable/in a Chinese syllable, the medial vowel plus final consonant (if any)/


Words: 韻書
Pinyin: yùn shū
Hanviet: 韻vận 書thư
Meaning:
rhyming dictionary/traditional Chinese phonetic dictionary with words ordered first by four tones 四聲, 四声 then rhyme 韻, 韵 (i.e. medial consonant and final)/


Words: 韻母
Pinyin: yùn mǔ
Hanviet: 韻vận 母mẫu
Meaning:
medial and final of a Chinese syllable (excluding initial consonant and tone)/the rhyming part of a Chinese syllable/rhyme/vowel/character used in traditional phonetics to indicate value of rhyme/final sound/phoneme/


Words: 頂
Pinyin: dǐng
Hanviet: 頂đảnh
Meaning:
apex/crown of the head/top/roof/most/to carry on the head/to push to the top/to go against/to replace/to substitute/to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc)/(slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile/classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc/


Words: 頂罪
Pinyin: dǐng zuì
Hanviet: 頂đảnh 罪tội
Meaning:
to take the blame for sb else/to compensate for one’s crime/to get charges dropped (by paying money etc)/


Words: 頃
Pinyin: qǐng
Hanviet: 頃khoảnh
Meaning:
unit of area equal to 100 畝, 亩 or 6.67 hectares/a short while/a little while ago/circa. (for approximate dates)/


Words: 項
Pinyin: xiàng
Hanviet: 項hạng
Meaning:
back of neck/item/thing/term (in a mathematical formula)/sum (of money)/classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc/


Words: 項英
Pinyin: xiàng yīng
Hanviet: 項hạng 英anh
Meaning:
Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍, killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事变/


Words: 項莊舞劍
Pinyin: xiàng zhuāng wǔ jiàn
Hanviet: 項hạng 莊trang 舞vũ 劍kiếm
Meaning:
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦, 刘邦 (idiom, refers to plot to kill Liu Bang during Feast at Hongmen 鴻門宴, 鸿门宴 in 206 BC)/fig. an elaborate deception hiding malicious intent/


Words: 項莊舞劍，意在沛公
Pinyin: xiàng zhuāng wǔ jiàn , yì zài pèi gōng
Hanviet: 項hạng 莊trang 舞vũ 劍kiếm 意ý 在tại 沛 公công
Meaning:
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦, 刘邦 (idiom); refers to 206 BC plot to murder Liu Bang, aka Duke of Pei 沛公 and the future Han emperor, during a sword dance at Feast at Hongmen 鴻門宴, 鸿门宴/an elaborate deception to hide malicious intent/


Words: 順手牽羊
Pinyin: shùn shǒu qiān yáng
Hanviet: 順thuận 手thủ 牽khiên 羊dương
Meaning:
lit. to lead away a goat in passing (idiom); to steal sth under cover of an emergency/to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain/


Words: 順水推舟
Pinyin: shùn shuǐ tuī zhōu
Hanviet: 順thuận 水thủy 推thôi 舟chu
Meaning:
lit. to push the boat with the current/fig. to take advantage of the situation for one’s own benefit/


Words: 順產
Pinyin: shùn chǎn
Hanviet: 順thuận 產sản
Meaning:
to give birth without complications/easy childbirth/safe delivery/natural birth (without surgical operation)/


Words: 順風車
Pinyin: shùn fēng chē
Hanviet: 順thuận 風phong 車xa
Meaning:
vehicle that gives one a free ride/(fig.) (ride on sb’s) coattails/(take advantage of) an opportunity/


Words: 須彌
Pinyin: xū mí
Hanviet: 須Tu 彌Di
Meaning:
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition/Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原, Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues/


Words: 頓
Pinyin: dùn
Hanviet: 頓đốn
Meaning:
to stop/to pause/to arrange/to lay out/to kowtow/to stamp (one’s foot)/at once/classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal/


Words: 頓挫
Pinyin: dùn cuò
Hanviet: 頓đốn 挫tỏa
Meaning:
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes/a cadence/punctuated by a transition/with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)/


Words: 領走
Pinyin: lǐng zǒu
Hanviet: 領lãnh 走tẩu
Meaning:
to lead (sb, or an animal) away/to collect (e.g. a child left in sb’s care beforehand)/to take away/


Words: 頤指氣使
Pinyin: yí zhǐ qì shǐ
Hanviet: 頤di 指chỉ 氣khí 使sử
Meaning:
lit. to order people by pointing the chin (idiom); to signal orders by facial gesture/arrogant and bossy/


Words: 頭
Pinyin: tóu
Hanviet: 頭đầu
Meaning:
head/hair style/the top/end/beginning or end/a stub/remnant/chief/boss/side/aspect/first/leading/classifier for pigs or livestock/CL:個, 个/


Words: 頭家
Pinyin: tóu jiā
Hanviet: 頭đầu 家gia
Meaning:
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings/banker (gambling)/preceding player (in a game)/(dialect) boss/proprietor/


Words: 頭懸梁，錐刺股
Pinyin: tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔ
Hanviet: 頭đầu 懸huyền 梁lương 錐trùy 刺thứ 股cổ
Meaning:
lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)/fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly/


Words: 頭痛醫頭，腳痛醫腳
Pinyin: tóu tòng yī tóu , jiǎo tòng yī jiǎo
Hanviet: 頭đầu 痛thống 醫y 頭đầu 腳cước 痛thống 醫y 腳cước
Meaning:
to treat the symptoms rather than getting to the root of the problem (proverb)/reactive (rather than proactive)/


Words: 頭香
Pinyin: tóu xiāng
Hanviet: 頭đầu 香hương
Meaning:
the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities)/(slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc/


Words: 頭髮鬍子一把抓
Pinyin: tóu fa hú zi yī bǎ zhuā
Hanviet: 頭đầu 髮phát 鬍 子tử 一nhất 把bả 抓trảo
Meaning:
lit. hair and beard all in one stroke/fig. to handle different things by the same method/one method to solve all problems/one size fits all/


Words: 題序
Pinyin: tí xù
Hanviet: 題đề 序tự
Meaning:
to compose a preface (or introductory remarks, etc)/question (or section) order (on an exam paper)/question (or section) number/


Words: 額勒貝格·道爾吉
Pinyin: é lè bèi gé �� dào ěr jí
Hanviet: 額ngạch 勒lặc 貝bối 格cách · 道đạo 爾nhĩ 吉cát
Meaning:
Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009/


Words: 額爾古納右旗
Pinyin: é ěr gǔ nà yòu qí
Hanviet: 額ngạch 爾nhĩ 古cổ 納nạp 右hữu 旗kỳ
Meaning:
former Ergun Right banner, now in Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾, 呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 額爾古納左旗
Pinyin: é ěr gǔ nà zuǒ qí
Hanviet: 額ngạch 爾nhĩ 古cổ 納nạp 左tả 旗kỳ
Meaning:
former Ergun Left banner, now in Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾, 呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 額爾齊斯河
Pinyin: é ěr qí sī hé
Hanviet: 額ngạch 爾nhĩ 齊tề 斯tư 河hà
Meaning:
Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean/


Words: 額菲爾士
Pinyin: é fēi ěr shì
Hanviet: 額ngạch 菲 爾nhĩ 士sĩ
Meaning:
Everest (name)/Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843/transliteration refers to Mt Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰, 珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan)/Nepalese: Sagarmatha/


Words: 額菲爾士峰
Pinyin: é fēi ěr shì fēng
Hanviet: 額ngạch 菲 爾nhĩ 士sĩ 峰phong
Meaning:
Mt Everest (transliteration), Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan), Chinese 珠穆朗瑪峰, 珠穆朗玛峰/Nepalese: Sagarmatha/


Words: 顓頊
Pinyin: zhuān xū
Hanviet: 顓 頊
Meaning:
Zhuan Xu, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝, grandson of Yellow Emperor 黃帝, 黄帝, trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC/


Words: 顛倒黑白
Pinyin: diān dǎo hēi bái
Hanviet: 顛điên 倒đảo 黑hắc 白bạch
Meaning:
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately/to misrepresent the facts/to invert right and wrong/


Words: 顛覆
Pinyin: diān fù
Hanviet: 顛điên 覆phú
Meaning:
to topple (i.e. knock over)/to capsize/fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion)/to undermine/to subvert/


Words: 類篇
Pinyin: lèi piān
Hanviet: 類loại 篇thiên
Meaning:
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光, 司马光 et al in 11th century/


Words: 顧愷之
Pinyin: gù kǎi zhī
Hanviet: 顧cố 愷 之chi
Meaning:
Gu Kaizhi or Ku K’aichih (346-407), famous painter of Eastern Jin dynasty, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six dynasties 六朝四大家/


Words: 顧此失彼
Pinyin: gù cǐ shī bǐ
Hanviet: 顧cố 此thử 失thất 彼bỉ
Meaning:
lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom)/fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once/cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other/


Words: 顧炎武
Pinyin: gù yán wǔ
Hanviet: 顧cố 炎diễm 武võ
Meaning:
Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄, 日知录/


Words: 風中燭，瓦上霜
Pinyin: fēng zhōng zhú , wǎ shàng shuāng
Hanviet: 風phong 中trung 燭chúc 瓦ngõa 上thượng 霜sương
Meaning:
lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom)/fig. (of sb’s life) feeble/hanging on a thread/


Words: 風向
Pinyin: fēng xiàng
Hanviet: 風phong 向hướng
Meaning:
wind direction/the way the wind is blowing/fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones)/how things are developing/course of events/


Words: 風平浪靜
Pinyin: fēng píng làng jìng
Hanviet: 風phong 平bình 浪lãng 靜tĩnh
Meaning:
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment/all is quiet/a dead calm (at sea)/


Words: 風恬浪靜
Pinyin: fēng tián làng jìng
Hanviet: 風phong 恬điềm 浪lãng 靜tĩnh
Meaning:
lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment/All is quiet./a dead calm (at sea)/


Words: 風情
Pinyin: fēng qíng
Hanviet: 風phong 情tình
Meaning:
mien/bearing/grace/amorous feelings/flirtatious expressions/local conditions and customs/wind force, direction etc/


Words: 風流
Pinyin: fēng liú
Hanviet: 風phong 流lưu
Meaning:
distinguished and accomplished/outstanding/talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle/romantic/dissolute/loose/


Words: 風流債
Pinyin: fēng liú zhài
Hanviet: 風phong 流lưu 債trái
Meaning:
lit. love debt/fig. moral obligation in consequence of a love affair/karmic consequences of a love affair/


Words: 風流雲散
Pinyin: fēng liú yún sàn
Hanviet: 風phong 流lưu 雲vân 散tán
Meaning:
lit. dispersed by wind and scattered like clouds (idiom); fig. scattered far and wide (of friends and relatives)/


Words: 風花雪月
Pinyin: fēng huā xuě yuè
Hanviet: 風phong 花hoa 雪tuyết 月nguyệt
Meaning:
wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance/love affair/romance is in the air/dissipated life/


Words: 風頭
Pinyin: fēng tóu
Hanviet: 風phong 頭đầu
Meaning:
wind direction/the way the wind blows/fig. trend/direction of events/how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself)/public opinion (concerning one’s actions)/publicity (usually derog.)/limelight/


Words: 飛虎隊
Pinyin: fēi hǔ duì
Hanviet: 飛phi 虎hổ 隊đội
Meaning:
Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two/Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit/


Words: 食不厭精，膾不厭細
Pinyin: shí bù yàn jīng , kuài bù yàn xì
Hanviet: 食thực 不bất 厭yếm 精tinh 膾khoái 不bất 厭yếm 細tế
Meaning:
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects)/fig. to be fastidious about one’s food/


Words: 食之無味，棄之可惜
Pinyin: shí zhī wú wèi , qì zhī kě xī
Hanviet: 食thực 之chi 無vô 味vị 棄khí 之chi 可khả 惜tích
Meaning:
lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom)/fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them/


Words: 食古不化
Pinyin: shí gǔ bù huà
Hanviet: 食thực 古cổ 不bất 化hóa
Meaning:
to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom)/to be pedantic without having a mastery of one’s subject/


Words: 食火雞
Pinyin: shí huǒ jī
Hanviet: 食thực 火hỏa 雞kê
Meaning:
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea/CL:隻, 只/


Words: 食玉炊桂
Pinyin: shí yù chuī guì
Hanviet: 食thực 玉ngọc 炊xuy 桂quế
Meaning:
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)/the cost of living is very high/


Words: 食肉寢皮
Pinyin: shí ròu qǐn pí
Hanviet: 食thực 肉nhục 寢tẩm 皮bì
Meaning:
to eat sb’s flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb/implacable hatred/to have sb’s guts for garters/


Words: 飢不擇食
Pinyin: jī bù zé shí
Hanviet: 飢cơ 不bất 擇trạch 食thực
Meaning:
when hungry, you can’t pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can’t be choosers/When matters are urgent, don’t spend time choosing alternatives./


Words: 飲水思源
Pinyin: yǐn shuǐ sī yuán
Hanviet: 飲ẩm 水thủy 思tư 源nguyên
Meaning:
lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring/Don’t forget where your happiness come from./Be grateful for all your blessings!/


Words: 飲鴆止渴
Pinyin: yǐn zhèn zhǐ kě
Hanviet: 飲ẩm 鴆chậm 止chỉ 渴khát
Meaning:
lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one’s thirst (idiom)/fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse/


Words: 飾
Pinyin: shì
Hanviet: 飾sức
Meaning:
decoration/ornament/to decorate/to adorn/to hide/to conceal (a fault)/excuse (to hide a fault)/to play a role (in opera)/to impersonate/


Words: 養兵千日，用兵一時
Pinyin: yǎng bīng qiān rì , yòng bīng yī shí
Hanviet: 養dưỡng 兵binh 千thiên 日nhật 用dụng 兵binh 一nhất 時thời
Meaning:
lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off/


Words: 養兵千日，用在一朝
Pinyin: yǎng bīng qiān rì , yòng zài yī zhāo
Hanviet: 養dưỡng 兵binh 千thiên 日nhật 用dụng 在tại 一nhất 朝triêu
Meaning:
lit. train an army for a thousand days to use it for one morning (idiom)/fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off/


Words: 養活
Pinyin: yǎng huo
Hanviet: 養dưỡng 活hoạt
Meaning:
to provide for/to keep (animals, a family etc)/to raise animals/to feed and clothe/support/the necessities of life/to give birth/


Words: 養癰貽患
Pinyin: yǎng yōng yí huàn
Hanviet: 養dưỡng 癰ung 貽 患hoạn
Meaning:
lit. to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity (idiom); tolerating budding evil can only lead to disaster/to cherish a viper in one’s bosom/


Words: 養虎傷身
Pinyin: yǎng hǔ shāng shēn
Hanviet: 養dưỡng 虎hổ 傷thương 身thân
Meaning:
Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you’re too lenient with sb, he will damage you later/to cherish a snake in one’s bosom/


Words: 餘
Pinyin: yú
Hanviet: 餘dư
Meaning:
extra/surplus/remaining/remainder after division/(following numerical value) or more/in excess of (some number)/residue (math.)/after/I/me/


Words: 餘勇可賈
Pinyin: yú yǒng kě gǔ
Hanviet: 餘dư 勇dũng 可khả 賈cổ
Meaning:
lit. spare valor for sale (idiom); fig. after former successes, still ready for more work/not resting on one’s laurels/


Words: 餘孽
Pinyin: yú niè
Hanviet: 餘dư 孽nghiệt
Meaning:
remaining evil element/surviving members (of evil former regime)/dregs (of colonial administration)/


Words: 餳
Pinyin: xíng
Hanviet: 餳
Meaning:
maltose syrup/molasses/heavy (eyelids)/drowsy-eyed/listless/(of dough, candy etc) to soften/to become soft and sticky/


Words: 饕餮
Pinyin: tāo tiè
Hanviet: 饕thao 餮thiết
Meaning:
ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king/zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes/gluttonous/sumptuous (banquet)/


Words: 香
Pinyin: xiāng
Hanviet: 香hương
Meaning:
fragrant/sweet smelling/aromatic/savory or appetizing/(to eat) with relish/(of sleep) sound/perfume or spice/joss or incense stick/CL:根/


Words: 香格里拉
Pinyin: xiāng gé lǐ lā
Hanviet: 香hương 格cách 里lý 拉lạp
Meaning:
Shangri-La (mythical location)/Shangri-La town and county in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, northwest Yunnan/formerly Gyeltang or Gyalthang, Chinese 中甸 in Tibetan province of Kham/


Words: 香格里拉縣
Pinyin: xiāng gé lǐ lā xiàn
Hanviet: 香hương 格cách 里lý 拉lạp 縣huyện
Meaning:
Shangri-La county in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, northwest Yunnan/formerly Gyeltang or Gyalthang, Chinese 中甸 in Tibetan province of Kham/


Words: 香草
Pinyin: xiāng cǎo
Hanviet: 香hương 草thảo
Meaning:
aromatic herb/vanilla/alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei/(fig.) loyal and dependable person (old)/


Words: 香蕉人
Pinyin: xiāng jiāo rén
Hanviet: 香hương 蕉tiêu 人nhân
Meaning:
banana person (yellow outside, white inside)/mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans/Westernized person of Asian appearance/


Words: 香車寶馬
Pinyin: xiāng chē bǎo mǎ
Hanviet: 香hương 車xa 寶bảo 馬mã
Meaning:
magnificent carriage and precious horses (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle/ostentatious display of luxury/


Words: 馬三家
Pinyin: mǎ sān jiā
Hanviet: 馬mã 三tam 家gia
Meaning:
Masanjia town in Yuhong District 于洪區, 于洪区 in Liaoning, known for its labor camp where Falun Gong practitioners etc are believed to have been detained and tortured/


Words: 馬中錫
Pinyin: mǎ zhōng xī
Hanviet: 馬mã 中trung 錫tích
Meaning:
Ma Zhongxi, Ming writer (1446-1512), author of the fable 中山狼传 of Mr Dongguo and the ungrateful Wolf/


Words: 馬克·吐溫
Pinyin: mǎ kè �� tǔ wēn
Hanviet: 馬mã 克khắc · 吐thổ 溫ôn
Meaning:
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克貝利·芬歷險記, 哈克贝利·芬历险记/


Words: 馬卡龍
Pinyin: mǎ kǎ lóng
Hanviet: 馬mã 卡 龍long
Meaning:
macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells (loanword)/


Words: 馬可波羅
Pinyin: mǎ kě bō luó
Hanviet: 馬mã 可khả 波ba 羅la
Meaning:
Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)/


Words: 馬噶爾尼
Pinyin: mǎ gá ěr ní
Hanviet: 馬mã 噶 爾nhĩ 尼ni
Meaning:
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793/Paul McCartney, former Beatle/


Words: 馬失前蹄
Pinyin: mǎ shī qián tí
Hanviet: 馬mã 失thất 前tiền 蹄đề
Meaning:
lit. the horse loses its front hooves/fig. sudden failure through miscalculation or inattentiveness/


Words: 馬尾水師學堂
Pinyin: mǎ wěi shuǐ shī xué táng
Hanviet: 馬mã 尾vĩ 水thủy 師sư 學học 堂đường
Meaning:
Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福州船政學堂, 福州船政学堂, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty/


Words: 馬服子
Pinyin: mǎ fú zǐ
Hanviet: 馬mã 服phục 子tử
Meaning:
Ma Fuzi (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國, 赵国, who famously led an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰, 长平之战 in 260 BC/also called Zhao Kuo 趙括, 赵括/


Words: 馬歇爾
Pinyin: mǎ xiē ěr
Hanviet: 馬mã 歇hiết 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Marshall (name)/George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate/


Words: 馬無夜草不肥，人無外快不富
Pinyin: mǎ wú yè cǎo bù féi , rén wú wài kuài bù fù
Hanviet: 馬mã 無vô 夜dạ 草thảo 不bất 肥phì 人nhân 無vô 外ngoại 快khoái 不bất 富phú
Meaning:
a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income (idiom)/


Words: 馬爾康
Pinyin: mǎ ěr kāng
Hanviet: 馬mã 爾nhĩ 康khang
Meaning:
Barkam town (Tibetan: ’bar khams), capital of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 馬爾康縣
Pinyin: mǎ ěr kāng xiàn
Hanviet: 馬mã 爾nhĩ 康khang 縣huyện
Meaning:
Barkam county (Tibetan: ’bar khams rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 馬爾賈
Pinyin: mǎ ěr jiǎ
Hanviet: 馬mã 爾nhĩ 賈cổ
Meaning:
Marja (also spelled Marjah or Marjeh), agricultural district in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan/


Words: 馬致遠
Pinyin: mǎ zhì yuǎn
Hanviet: 馬mã 致trí 遠viễn
Meaning:
Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇, 杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家/


Words: 馬英九
Pinyin: mǎ yīng jiǔ
Hanviet: 馬mã 英anh 九cửu
Meaning:
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, President of Republic of China 2008-2016/


Words: 馬蘇德
Pinyin: mǎ sū dé
Hanviet: 馬mã 蘇tô 德đức
Meaning:
Massoud (name)/Ahmed Shah Massoud (1953-2001), Tajik Afghan engineer, military man and anti-Taleban leader/


Words: 馬蘭
Pinyin: mǎ lán
Hanviet: 馬mã 蘭lan
Meaning:
Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 馬赫
Pinyin: mǎ hè
Hanviet: 馬mã 赫hách
Meaning:
Mach (name)/Ernst Mach (1838-1916), German physicist/Mach (aeronautics), unit of speed based on speed of sound = 1 Mach = 1224 km per hr/


Words: 馮夢龍
Pinyin: féng mèng lóng
Hanviet: 馮bằng 夢mộng 龍long
Meaning:
Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說, 古今小说/


Words: 馮驥才
Pinyin: féng jì cái
Hanviet: 馮bằng 驥kí 才tài
Meaning:
Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人/


Words: 駕
Pinyin: jià
Hanviet: 駕giá
Meaning:
to harness/to draw (a cart etc)/to drive/to pilot/to sail/to ride/your good self/prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞)/


Words: 駕輕就熟
Pinyin: jià qīng jiù shú
Hanviet: 駕giá 輕khinh 就tựu 熟thục
Meaning:
lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy/a task that is so familiar one can do it with one’s hand tied behind one’s back/


Words: 駢
Pinyin: pián
Hanviet: 駢biền
Meaning:
(of a pair of horses) to pull side by side/to be side by side/to be fused together/parallel (literary style)/


Words: 騏驎
Pinyin: qí lín
Hanviet: 騏kỳ 驎lân
Meaning:
variant of 麒麟/qilin (mythical Chinese animal)/kylin/Chinese unicorn/commonly mistranslated as giraffe/


Words: 騷
Pinyin: sāo
Hanviet: 騷
Meaning:
trouble/disturbance/rumpus/flirty/coquettish/abbr. for 離騷, 离骚/literary writings/smell of urine/foul smell/male (animal) (dialect)/


Words: 驅動
Pinyin: qū dòng
Hanviet: 驅khu 動động
Meaning:
to drive/to propel/drive (vehicle wheel)/drive mechanism (tape or disk)/device driver (computing software)/


Words: 驚弓之鳥
Pinyin: jīng gōng zhī niǎo
Hanviet: 驚kinh 弓cung 之chi 鳥điểu
Meaning:
lit. a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow (idiom)/fig. sb who frightens easily, due to past experiences/


Words: 驚風
Pinyin: jīng fēng
Hanviet: 驚kinh 風phong
Meaning:
infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)/


Words: 驪姬之亂
Pinyin: lí jī zhī luàn
Hanviet: 驪 姬 之chi 亂loạn
Meaning:
Li Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公, 晋文公/


Words: 骨鯁在喉
Pinyin: gǔ gěng zài hóu
Hanviet: 骨cốt 鯁 在tại 喉hầu
Meaning:
fish bone stuck in one’s throat (idiom); fig. to feel obliged to speak out candidly/sth on one’s mind/


Words: 高不成低不就
Pinyin: gāo bù chéng dī bù jiù
Hanviet: 高cao 不bất 成thành 低đê 不bất 就tựu
Meaning:
can’t reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one/


Words: 高仙芝
Pinyin: gāo xiān zhī
Hanviet: 高cao 仙tiên 芝chi
Meaning:
Gao Xianzhi or Go Seonji (c. 702-756), Tang dynasty general of Goguryeo 高句麗, 高句丽 extraction, active in Central Asia/


Words: 高位
Pinyin: gāo wèi
Hanviet: 高cao 位vị
Meaning:
high position/eminent status/top job/raised position/upper (limbs)/a high (i.e. local maximum)/high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc/


Words: 高低
Pinyin: gāo dī
Hanviet: 高cao 低đê
Meaning:
height/altitude (aviation)/pitch (music)/ups and downs (success or failure)/whether sth is right or wrong/comparative strength, weight, depth, stature/(spoken interjection) anyway, whatever/eventually, in the end/


Words: 高宗
Pinyin: gāo zōng
Hanviet: 高cao 宗tông
Meaning:
Gaozong Emperor, Temple name of the tenth Song Emperor Zhao Gou 趙構, 赵构 (1107-1187 AD), reigned (1127-1162 AD)/


Words: 高村正彥
Pinyin: gāo cūn zhēng yàn
Hanviet: 高cao 村thôn 正chánh 彥ngạn
Meaning:
KOMURA Masahiko (1942-), Japanese politician, foreign minister from 1998, minister of defense from 2007/


Words: 高發
Pinyin: gāo fā
Hanviet: 高cao 發phát
Meaning:
(of diseases, accidents) to occur with a high incidence/(old) to score highly in the imperial exams/


Words: 高考
Pinyin: gāo kǎo
Hanviet: 高cao 考khảo
Meaning:
college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試, 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试)/entrance exam for senior government service posts (Taiwan)/


Words: 鬥牛士之歌
Pinyin: dòu niú shì zhī gē
Hanviet: 鬥đấu 牛ngưu 士sĩ 之chi 歌ca
Meaning:
Toreador Song (Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre), famous aria from opera Carmen 卡門, 卡门 by Georges Bizet/


Words: 鬧
Pinyin: nào
Hanviet: 鬧náo
Meaning:
noisy/cacophonous/to make noise/to disturb/to vent (feelings)/to fall ill/to have an attack (of sickness)/to go in (for some activity)/to joke/


Words: 鬧洞房
Pinyin: nào dòng fáng
Hanviet: 鬧náo 洞đỗng 房phòng
Meaning:
disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)/


Words: 鬲
Pinyin: lì
Hanviet: 鬲lịch
Meaning:
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs/


Words: 鬼
Pinyin: guǐ
Hanviet: 鬼quỷ
Meaning:
ghost/demon/terrible/damnable/clever/sly/crafty/(suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc)/one of the 28 constellations/


Words: 鬼使神差
Pinyin: guǐ shǐ shén chāi
Hanviet: 鬼quỷ 使sứ 神thần 差sai
Meaning:
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation/curious coincidence/


Words: 魁星
Pinyin: kuí xīng
Hanviet: 魁khôi 星tinh
Meaning:
stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the rectangular body of the dipper/Kuixing, Daoist God of fate/


Words: 魂飛魄散
Pinyin: hún fēi pò sàn
Hanviet: 魂hồn 飛phi 魄phách 散tán
Meaning:
lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom)/fig. to be frightened stiff/spooked out of one’s mind/terror-stricken/


Words: 魏
Pinyin: wèi
Hanviet: 魏ngụy
Meaning:
surname Wei/name of vassal state of Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States/Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms from the fall of the Han/the Wei dynasty 221-265/Wei prefecture and Wei county at different historical periods/


Words: 魏京生
Pinyin: wèi jīng shēng
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 京kinh 生sanh
Meaning:
Wei Jingsheng (1950-), Beijing-based Chinese dissident, imprisoned 1978-1993 and 1995-1997, released to the US in 1997/


Words: 魏國
Pinyin: wèi guó
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 國quốc
Meaning:
Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄, 战国七雄/Wei State or Cao Wei 曹魏 (220-265), the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms/


Words: 魏巍
Pinyin: wèi wēi
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 巍nguy
Meaning:
Wei Wei (1920-2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The East 東方, 东方 about the Korean war/


Words: 魏徵
Pinyin: wèi zhēng
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 徵trưng
Meaning:
Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書, 隋书/


Words: 魏收
Pinyin: wèi shōu
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 收thu
Meaning:
Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齊, 北齐, compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏書, 魏书/


Words: 魏書
Pinyin: wèi shū
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 書thư
Meaning:
History of Wei of the Northern Dynasties, tenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Wei Shou 魏收 in 554 during Northern Qi Dynasty 北齊, 北齐, 114 scrolls/


Words: 魏格納
Pinyin: wèi gé nà
Hanviet: 魏ngụy 格cách 納nạp
Meaning:
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift/


Words: 魔高一丈，道高一尺
Pinyin: mó gāo yī zhàng , dào gāo yī chǐ
Hanviet: 魔ma 高cao 一nhất 丈trượng 道đạo 高cao 一nhất 尺xích
Meaning:
the devil is ten foot tall, virtue one foot (idiom); It takes constant vigilance to stave off evil./


Words: 魚沉雁杳
Pinyin: yú chén yàn yǎo
Hanviet: 魚ngư 沉trầm 雁nhạn 杳
Meaning:
lit. the fish sinks, the goose vanishes into the distance (idiom); a letter does not arrive/lost in transmission/


Words: 魚與熊掌
Pinyin: yú yǔ xióng zhǎng
Hanviet: 魚ngư 與dữ 熊hùng 掌chưởng
Meaning:
lit. the fish and the bear’s paw, you can’t have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other/you can’t always get everything you want/you can’t have your cake and eat it/


Words: 魚香
Pinyin: yú xiāng
Hanviet: 魚ngư 香hương
Meaning:
yuxiang, a seasoning of Chinese cuisine that typically contains garlic, scallions, ginger, sugar, salt, chili peppers etc, but no seafood, although yuxiang literally means "fish fragrance"/


Words: 魯
Pinyin: lǔ
Hanviet: 魯lỗ
Meaning:
surname Lu/Shandong Province 山東省, 山东省/vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066-221 BC) in modern day Shandong Province/


Words: 鮮花插在牛糞上
Pinyin: xiān huā chā zài niú fèn shàng
Hanviet: 鮮tiên 花hoa 插sáp 在tại 牛ngưu 糞phẩn 上thượng
Meaning:
lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure/fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)/


Words: 鯤鵬展翅
Pinyin: kūn péng zhǎn chì
Hanviet: 鯤 鵬 展triển 翅sí
Meaning:
lit. the giant Peng bird spreads its wings and begins to fly/displaying awesome power and momentum at the outset/to have the world at one’s feet/


Words: 鳥不拉屎，雞不生蛋
Pinyin: niǎo bù lā shǐ , jī bù shēng dàn
Hanviet: 鳥điểu 不bất 拉lạp 屎thỉ 雞kê 不bất 生sanh 蛋
Meaning:
lit. (a place where) birds don’t defecate and hens don’t lay eggs (idiom)/fig. god-forsaken/remote and desolate/


Words: 鳥不生蛋，狗不拉屎
Pinyin: niǎo bù shēng dàn , gǒu bù lā shǐ
Hanviet: 鳥điểu 不bất 生sanh 蛋 狗cẩu 不bất 拉lạp 屎thỉ
Meaning:
lit. (a place where) birds don’t lay eggs and dogs don’t defecate (idiom)/fig. god-forsaken/remote and desolate/


Words: 鳥盡弓藏
Pinyin: niǎo jìn gōng cáng
Hanviet: 鳥điểu 盡tận 弓cung 藏tạng
Meaning:
lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose/


Words: 鳥蟲書
Pinyin: niǎo chóng shū
Hanviet: 鳥điểu 蟲trùng 書thư
Meaning:
bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆书, but with characters decorated as birds and insects/


Words: 鳩山
Pinyin: jiū shān
Hanviet: 鳩cưu 山sơn
Meaning:
Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name/Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister from 2009/


Words: 鳳凰古城
Pinyin: fèng huáng gǔ chéng
Hanviet: 鳳phượng 凰hoàng 古cổ 城thành
Meaning:
Fenghuang Ancient Town, in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan, added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2008 in the Cultural category/


Words: 鳳眼
Pinyin: fèng yǎn
Hanviet: 鳳phượng 眼nhãn
Meaning:
elegant, almond-shaped eyes with the inner canthus pointing down and the outer canthus up, like the eye of a phoenix/


Words: 鳴叫
Pinyin: míng jiào
Hanviet: 鳴minh 叫khiếu
Meaning:
to emit a sound/(of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc/(of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound/


Words: 鴉雀無聲
Pinyin: yā què wú shēng
Hanviet: 鴉 雀tước 無vô 聲thanh
Meaning:
lit. crow and peacock make no sound/absolute silence (idiom); not a single voice can be heard/absolute silence/


Words: 鴛鴦
Pinyin: yuān yāng
Hanviet: 鴛uyên 鴦ương
Meaning:
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)/affectionate couple/happily married couple/


Words: 鴛鴦蝴蝶
Pinyin: yuān yang hú dié
Hanviet: 鴛uyên 鴦ương 蝴 蝶
Meaning:
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)/derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900/


Words: 鴛鴦蝴蝶派
Pinyin: yuān yang hú dié pài
Hanviet: 鴛uyên 鴦ương 蝴 蝶 派phái
Meaning:
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists/


Words: 鴛鴦鍋
Pinyin: yuān yang guō
Hanviet: 鴛uyên 鴦ương 鍋oa
Meaning:
"Mandarin Ducks" pot/hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other/


Words: 鴻毛泰山
Pinyin: hóng máo tài shān
Hanviet: 鴻hồng 毛mao 泰thái 山sơn
Meaning:
lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)/fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another/


Words: 鴻毛泰岱
Pinyin: hóng máo tài dài
Hanviet: 鴻hồng 毛mao 泰thái 岱
Meaning:
light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another/


Words: 鴻溝
Pinyin: hóng gōu
Hanviet: 鴻hồng 溝câu
Meaning:
wide gap/gulf/chasm/lit. name of old canal in Henan that formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 and Han 漢, 汉/


Words: 鴻門宴
Pinyin: hóng mén yàn
Hanviet: 鴻hồng 門môn 宴yến
Meaning:
Feast at Hongmen/(fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest/refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦, 刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽, 项羽/


Words: 鵲橋
Pinyin: què qiáo
Hanviet: 鵲thước 橋kiều
Meaning:
magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女, 牛郎织女 are allowed an annual meeting/


Words: 鶤
Pinyin: kūn
Hanviet: 鶤
Meaning:
variant of 鵾, 鹍, large bird, possibly related to crane or swan (archaic)/mythical monstrous bird, cf Sinbad’s roc/


Words: 鶴山
Pinyin: hè shān
Hanviet: 鶴hạc 山sơn
Meaning:
Heshan district of Hebi city 鶴壁市, 鹤壁市, Henan/Heshan county level city in Jiangmen 江門, 江门, Guangdong/


Words: 鷴
Pinyin: xián
Hanviet: 鷴
Meaning:
silver pheasant (Phasianus nycthemerus)/silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade/


Words: 鷸蚌相爭
Pinyin: yù bàng xiāng zhēng
Hanviet: 鷸 蚌 相tương 爭tranh
Meaning:
lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both) (idiom); fig. neighbors who can’t agree lose out to a third party/


Words: 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利
Pinyin: yù bàng xiāng zhēng , yú wēng dé lì
Hanviet: 鷸 蚌 相tương 爭tranh 漁ngư 翁ông 得đắc 利lợi
Meaning:
lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom); fig. neighbors who can’t agree lose out to a third party/


Words: 鸞飄鳳泊
Pinyin: luán piāo fèng bó
Hanviet: 鸞loan 飄phiêu 鳳phượng 泊bạc
Meaning:
lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom); fig. exquisite bold calligraphy/fig. marriage breaks up/fig. scholar unsuccessful/


Words: 鹵代烴
Pinyin: lǔ dài tīng
Hanviet: 鹵lỗ 代đại 烴
Meaning:
haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)/


Words: 鹹水妹
Pinyin: xián shuǐ mèi
Hanviet: 鹹hàm 水thủy 妹muội
Meaning:
(dialect) prostitute from Guangdong (esp. one in Shanghai before the Revolution) (loanword from "handsome maid")/


Words: 鹼土金屬
Pinyin: jiǎn tǔ jīn shǔ
Hanviet: 鹼 土thổ/độ 金kim 屬thuộc
Meaning:
alkaline earth (i.e. beryllium Be 鈹, 铍, magnesium Mg 鎂, 镁, calcium Ca 鈣, 钙, strontium Sr 鍶, 锶, barium Ba 鋇, 钡 and radium Ra 鐳, 镭)/


Words: 鹼基對
Pinyin: jiǎn jī duì
Hanviet: 鹼 基cơ 對đối
Meaning:
base pair (bp) consisting of two complementary nucleotides (adenine A 腺嘌呤 paired with thymine T 胸腺嘧啶 in DNA)/


Words: 鹽井
Pinyin: yán jǐng
Hanviet: 鹽diêm 井tỉnh
Meaning:
Yanjing, common place name/former county 1983-1999, now part of Markam county 芒康縣, 芒康县 in Chamdo prefecture, Tibet/


Words: 鹿死誰手
Pinyin: lù sǐ shéi shǒu
Hanviet: 鹿lộc 死tử 誰thùy 手thủ
Meaning:
to whom the deer falls (idiom); the one to emerge victor (i.e. to seize the empire)/prize winner/champion/


Words: 鹿苑寺
Pinyin: lù yuàn sì
Hanviet: 鹿lộc 苑uyển 寺tự
Meaning:
Rokuonji in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan/the formal name of Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion 金閣寺, 金阁寺 as Buddhist temple/


Words: 麗水
Pinyin: lí shuǐ
Hanviet: 麗lệ 水thủy
Meaning:
Lishui prefecture level city in Zhejiang/Yeosu city in South Jeolla province, Korea, the site of World Expo 2012/


Words: 麥克斯韋
Pinyin: mài kè sī wéi
Hanviet: 麥mạch 克khắc 斯tư 韋vi
Meaning:
Maxwell (name)/James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves/


Words: 麥克米蘭
Pinyin: mài kè mǐ lán
Hanviet: 麥mạch 克khắc 米mễ 蘭lan
Meaning:
McMillan or MacMillan (name)/Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963/


Words: 麻
Pinyin: má
Hanviet: 麻ma
Meaning:
generic name for hemp, flax etc/hemp or flax fiber for textile materials/sesame/CL:縷, 缕/(of materials) rough or coarse/pocked/pitted/to have pins and needles or tingling/to feel numb/


Words: 麻花
Pinyin: má huā
Hanviet: 麻ma 花hoa
Meaning:
fried dough twist (crisp snack food made by deep-frying plaited dough)/worn out or worn smooth (of clothes)/


Words: 麻雀雖小，五臟俱全
Pinyin: má què suī xiǎo , wǔ zàng jù quán
Hanviet: 麻ma 雀tước 雖tuy 小tiểu 五ngũ 臟tạng 俱câu 全toàn
Meaning:
The sparrow may be small but all its vital organs are there (idiom)./small but complete in every detail/


Words: 黃以靜
Pinyin: huáng yǐ jìng
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 以dĩ 靜tĩnh
Meaning:
Wong Yee Ching or Flossie Wong-Staal (1947-) Hong Kong American virologist, joint discoverer of the HIV AIDS virus/


Words: 黃光裕
Pinyin: huáng guāng yù
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 光quang 裕
Meaning:
Huang Guang’yu (1969-), PRC entrepreneur and millionaire, founder of Guo mei or Gome electronics 國美電器, 国美电器/


Words: 黃山
Pinyin: huáng shān
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Huang/Yellow mountains/Huangshan prefecture level city centered around Huangshan Mountains in south Anhui/


Words: 黃海道
Pinyin: huáng hǎi dào
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 海hải 道đạo
Meaning:
former Hwanghae Province of northwest Korea, divided into North and South Hwanghae Province of North Korea in 1954/


Words: 黃石公
Pinyin: huáng shí gōng
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 石thạch 公công
Meaning:
Huang Shigong, also known as Xia Huanggong 夏黃公, 夏黄公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author/


Words: 黃石公三略
Pinyin: huáng shí gōng sān lüè
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 石thạch 公công 三tam 略lược
Meaning:
“Three Strategies of Huang Shigong”, also known as Taigong Bingfa 太公兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书, variously attributed to Jiang Ziya 薑子牙, 姜子牙, Huang Shigong 黃石公, 黄石公 or an anonymous author/


Words: 黃禍
Pinyin: huáng huò
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 禍họa
Meaning:
yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)/


Words: 黃興
Pinyin: huáng xīng
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 興hưng
Meaning:
Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命, murdered in Shanghai in 1916/


Words: 黃花
Pinyin: huáng huā
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 花hoa
Meaning:
yellow flowers (of various types)/chrysanthemum/cauliflower/(yellow) daylily/a young virgin (boy or girl)/


Words: 黃花崗起義
Pinyin: huáng huā gǎng qǐ yì
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 花hoa 崗 起khởi 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911 in Guangzhou, one a long series of unsuccessful uprisings of Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary party/


Words: 黃遵憲
Pinyin: huáng zūn xiàn
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 遵tuân 憲hiến
Meaning:
Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A record of Japan 日本國誌, 日本国志, an extended analysis of Meiji Japan/


Words: 黃金海岸
Pinyin: huáng jīn hǎi àn
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 金kim 海hải 岸ngạn
Meaning:
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)/


Words: 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴
Pinyin: huáng zhōng huǐ qì wǎ fǔ léi míng
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 鐘chung 譭 棄khí 瓦ngõa 釜phủ 雷lôi 鳴minh
Meaning:
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells/good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)/


Words: 黃鶴樓
Pinyin: huáng hè lóu
Hanviet: 黃hoàng 鶴hạc 樓lâu
Meaning:
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985/favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes/Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥, 崔颢, with theme ’the past will never return’/one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓, 岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣, 滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi/


Words: 黑
Pinyin: hēi
Hanviet: 黑hắc
Meaning:
black/dark/sinister/secret/shady/illegal/to hide (sth) away/to vilify/(loanword) to hack (computing)/


Words: 黑五類
Pinyin: hēi wǔ lèi
Hanviet: 黑hắc 五ngũ 類loại
Meaning:
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists/


Words: 黑店
Pinyin: hēi diàn
Hanviet: 黑hắc 店điếm
Meaning:
lit. inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction)/fig. a scam/protection racket/daylight robbery/


Words: 黑心
Pinyin: hēi xīn
Hanviet: 黑hắc 心tâm
Meaning:
ruthless and lacking in conscience/vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy/black core (flaw in pottery)/


Words: 黑水
Pinyin: hēi shuǐ
Hanviet: 黑hắc 水thủy
Meaning:
Heishui county (Tibetan: khro chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 黑水城
Pinyin: hēi shuǐ chéng
Hanviet: 黑hắc 水thủy 城thành
Meaning:
ruins of Heishui Town of Xixia 西夏 people, in Ejin Banner 額濟納旗, 额济纳旗, Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 黑白無常
Pinyin: hēi bái wú cháng
Hanviet: 黑hắc 白bạch 無vô 常thường
Meaning:
Two deities, one short, one tall, chained together at the ankle, responsible for rewarding the good and punishing the bad/


Words: 黑瞎子島
Pinyin: hēi xiā zi dǎo
Hanviet: 黑hắc 瞎hạt 子tử 島đảo
Meaning:
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk/Heixiazi (black blind man) Island/


Words: 黑籍冤魂
Pinyin: hēi jí yuān hún
Hanviet: 黑hắc 籍tịch 冤oan 魂hồn
Meaning:
Black Register of Lost Souls, long novel by Peng Yangou 彭養鷗, 彭养鸥 about the destructive influence of opium, published in 1897 and 1909/


Words: 黑龍江
Pinyin: hēi lóng jiāng
Hanviet: 黑hắc 龍long 江giang
Meaning:
Heilongjiang province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑, capital Harbin 哈尔滨/Heilongjiang river forming the border between northeast China and Russia/Amur river/


Words: 黔南州
Pinyin: qián nán zhōu
Hanviet: 黔kiềm 南nam 州châu
Meaning:
Qiannan, abbr. for Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州, Guizhou, capital Duyun city 都勻市/


Words: 黔東南州
Pinyin: qián dōng nán zhōu
Hanviet: 黔kiềm 東đông 南nam 州châu
Meaning:
Qiandongnan, abbr. for Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州, 黔东南苗族侗族自治州, Guizhou, capital Kaili city 凱里市, 凯里市/


Words: 黔西南州
Pinyin: qián xī nán zhōu
Hanviet: 黔kiềm 西tây 南nam 州châu
Meaning:
Qianxinan, abbr. for Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州, Guizhou, capital Xing’yi city 興義市, 兴义市/


Words: 默契
Pinyin: mò qì
Hanviet: 默mặc 契khế
Meaning:
tacit understanding/mutual understanding/rapport/connected at a deep level with each other/(of team members) well coordinated/tight/


Words: 點
Pinyin: diǎn
Hanviet: 點điểm
Meaning:
point/dot/drop/speck/o’clock/point (in space or time)/to draw a dot/to check on a list/to choose/to order (food in a restaurant)/to touch briefly/to hint/to light/to ignite/to pour a liquid drop by drop/(old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更/dot stroke in Chinese characters/classifier for items/


Words: 點睛
Pinyin: diǎn jīng
Hanviet: 點điểm 睛tình
Meaning:
to dot in the eyes/fig. to add finishing touch/abbr. for idiom 畫龍點睛, 画龙点睛, to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes/the crucial point that brings the subject to life/


Words: 點睛之筆
Pinyin: diǎn jīng zhī bǐ
Hanviet: 點điểm 睛tình 之chi 筆bút
Meaning:
the brush stroke that dots in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch/the crucial point that brings the subject to life/a few words to clinch the point/


Words: 黨同伐異
Pinyin: dǎng tóng fá yì
Hanviet: 黨đảng 同đồng 伐phạt 異dị
Meaning:
to be narrowly partisan/to unite with those of the same views but alienate those with different views/


Words: 黨項
Pinyin: dǎng xiàng
Hanviet: 黨đảng 項hạng
Meaning:
Tangut branch of the Qiang 羌 ethnic group/ancient ethnic group who made up the Xixia dynasty 西夏 1038-1227/


Words: 鼎
Pinyin: dǐng
Hanviet: 鼎đỉnh
Meaning:
ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs/pot (dialect)/to enter upon a period of (classical)/Kangxi radical 206/one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes/


Words: 鼎鐺玉石
Pinyin: dǐng chēng yù shí
Hanviet: 鼎đỉnh 鐺 玉ngọc 石thạch
Meaning:
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material/casting pearls before swine/


Words: 鼓樓區
Pinyin: gǔ lóu qū
Hanviet: 鼓cổ 樓lâu 區khu
Meaning:
Drumtower city district (various)/Gulou district of Nanjing City 南京市, Jiangsu/Gulou or Drumtower district of Fuzhou city 福州市, Fujian/


Words: 鼓盆
Pinyin: gǔ pén
Hanviet: 鼓cổ 盆bồn
Meaning:
lit. to drum on a bowl/refers to Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子 grieving for his lost wife/fig. grief for a lost wife/


Words: 鼓盆之戚
Pinyin: gǔ pén zhī qī
Hanviet: 鼓cổ 盆bồn 之chi 戚thích
Meaning:
drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子 grieving for his lost wife)/fig. grief for a lost wife/


Words: 鼓風
Pinyin: gǔ fēng
Hanviet: 鼓cổ 風phong
Meaning:
a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal)/blast (in blast furnace)/bellows/to draw air using bellows/


Words: 齊人之福
Pinyin: qí rén zhī fú
Hanviet: 齊tề 人nhân 之chi 福phước
Meaning:
lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom)/fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners/the life of a pasha/


Words: 齊天大聖
Pinyin: qí tiān dà shèng
Hanviet: 齊tề 天thiên 大đại 聖thánh
Meaning:
Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空, 孙悟空 in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/


Words: 齊書
Pinyin: qí shū
Hanviet: 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/usually 南齊書, 南齐书 to distinguish from Northern Qi/


Words: 齊柏林
Pinyin: qí bó lín
Hanviet: 齊tề 柏 林lâm
Meaning:
Zeppelin (name)/Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), inventor of the Zeppelin dirigible airship/


Words: 齊民要術
Pinyin: qí mín yào shù
Hanviet: 齊tề 民dân 要yếu 術thuật
Meaning:
Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈思勰, 贾思勰/


Words: 齋
Pinyin: zhāi
Hanviet: 齋trai
Meaning:
to fast or abstain from meat, wine etc/vegetarian diet/study room/building/to give alms (to a monk)/


Words: 龍井
Pinyin: lóng jǐng
Hanviet: 龍long 井tỉnh
Meaning:
Longjing county level city in Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州, 延边朝鲜族自治州, Jilin/Lungching township in Taichung county 臺中縣, 台中县, Taiwan/also Longjing tea 龍井茶, 龙井茶/


Words: 龍山
Pinyin: lóng shān
Hanviet: 龍long 山sơn
Meaning:
Dragon mountain/Longshan district of Liaoyuan city 遼源市, 辽源市, Jilin/Longshan county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州/


Words: 龍泉
Pinyin: lóng quán
Hanviet: 龍long 泉tuyền
Meaning:
Longquanyi district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan/Longquan county level city in Lishui 麗水, 丽水, Zhejiang/


Words: 龍潭
Pinyin: lóng tán
Hanviet: 龍long 潭đàm
Meaning:
Longtan district of Jilin city 吉林市, Jilin province/see also 龍潭, 龙潭/Longtan or Lungtan township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣, 桃园县, north Taiwan/


Words: 龍生九子
Pinyin: lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ
Hanviet: 龍long 生sanh 九cửu 子tử
Meaning:
lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters/good and bad intermingled/It takes all sorts to make a world./


Words: 龍羊峽
Pinyin: lóng yáng xiá
Hanviet: 龍long 羊dương 峽
Meaning:
Longyangxia canyon on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Gonghe county 共和縣, 共和县 in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai/


Words: 龍華
Pinyin: lóng huá
Hanviet: 龍long 華hoa
Meaning:
Longhua, name of numerous entities, notably Longhua Temple 龍華寺, 龙华寺 in Shanghai and Longhua District of Haikou City 海口市, Hainan/


Words: 龍門
Pinyin: lóng mén
Hanviet: 龍long 門môn
Meaning:
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州, Guangdong/mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon/


Words: 龍門山
Pinyin: lóng mén shān
Hanviet: 龍long 門môn 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line/Mt Longmen in Shandong/Mt Longmen in Henan/


Words: 龍門山斷層
Pinyin: lóng mén shān duàn céng
Hanviet: 龍long 門môn 山sơn 斷đoạn 層tằng
Meaning:
Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin/


Words: 龍頭
Pinyin: lóng tóu
Hanviet: 龍long 頭đầu
Meaning:
faucet/water tap/bicycle handle bar/chief (esp. of gang)/boss/decision maker/(market) leader (of companies)/front end of mud-flow/figurehead on prow of dragon boat 龍船, 龙船/


Words: 龍鳳呈祥
Pinyin: lóng fèng chéng xiáng
Hanviet: 龍long 鳳phượng 呈trình 祥tường
Meaning:
the dragon and phoenix are symbols of good fortune (idiom)/auspicious/decorated with auspicious symbols such as the dragon and the phoenix/


Words: 龍龕手鑑
Pinyin: lóng kān shǒu jiàn
Hanviet: 龍long 龕khám 手thủ 鑑giám
Meaning:
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical/


Words: 龐培
Pinyin: páng péi
Hanviet: 龐 培bồi
Meaning:
Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79/Pompey (Roman general)/


Words: 龐德
Pinyin: páng dé
Hanviet: 龐 德đức
Meaning:
Pang De (-219), general of Cao Wei at the start of the Three Kingdoms period, victor over Guan Yu 關羽, 关羽/Pound (name)/Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet and translator/


Words: 龐涓
Pinyin: páng juān
Hanviet: 龐 涓
Meaning:
Pang Juan (-342 BC), military leader and political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)/


Words: 龜笑鱉無尾
Pinyin: guī xiào biē wú wěi
Hanviet: 龜quy 笑tiếu 鱉miết 無vô 尾vĩ
Meaning:
lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom)/fig. the pot calling the kettle black/


Words: 龜船
Pinyin: guī chuán
Hanviet: 龜quy 船thuyền
Meaning:
"turtle ship", armored warship used by Koreans in fighting the Japanese during the Imjin war of 1592-1598 壬辰倭亂, 壬辰倭乱/


Words: 龜苓膏
Pinyin: guī líng gāo
Hanviet: 龜quy 苓 膏cao
Meaning:
turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs/a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert/


Words: 龜茲
Pinyin: qiū cí
Hanviet: 龜quy 茲tư
Meaning:
ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區, 阿克苏地区, Xinjiang/


Words: �
Pinyin: gīng
Hanviet: �
Meaning:
uptight/to awkwardly force oneself to do sth/(Note: This word has no generally accepted hanzi form. It is typically written as ㄍㄧㄥ.)/


