# dict

Words: 扶餘
Pinyin: fú yú
Hanviet: 扶phù 餘dư
Meaning:
variant of 扶餘, 扶余 Korean: Buyeo (c. 200 BC-494 AD), ancient kingdom in northeast frontier region of China/


Words: 批
Pinyin: pī
Hanviet: 批
Meaning:
to ascertain/to act on/to criticize/to pass on/classifier for batches, lots, military flights/tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)/


Words: 批八字
Pinyin: pī bā zì
Hanviet: 批 八bát 字tự
Meaning:
to have one’s fortune read/system of fortune telling based on a person’s date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle)/


Words: 批改
Pinyin: pī gǎi
Hanviet: 批 改cải
Meaning:
to mark (homework, exam scripts etc)/to correct and criticize (an article)/to check/to correct/a correction (to a piece of writing)/


Words: 批鬥
Pinyin: pī dòu
Hanviet: 批 鬥đấu
Meaning:
(during the cultural revolution) to criticize and denounce sb publicly for their errors (often imaginary)/


Words: 承
Pinyin: chéng
Hanviet: 承thừa
Meaning:
surname Cheng/Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God/


Words: 承上起下
Pinyin: chéng shàng qǐ xià
Hanviet: 承thừa 上thượng 起khởi 下hạ
Meaning:
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition/forming a bridge between earlier and later stages/


Words: 承乏
Pinyin: chéng fá
Hanviet: 承thừa 乏phạp
Meaning:
to accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)/


Words: 抄
Pinyin: chāo
Hanviet: 抄sao
Meaning:
to make a copy/to plagiarize/to search and seize/to raid/to grab/to go off with/to take a shortcut/to make a turning move/to fold one’s arms/


Words: 把
Pinyin: bǎ
Hanviet: 把bả
Meaning:
to hold/to contain/to grasp/to take hold of/handle/particle marking the following noun as a direct object/classifier for objects with handle/classifier for small objects: handful/


Words: 抑揚
Pinyin: yì yáng
Hanviet: 抑ức 揚dương
Meaning:
modulation (rising and falling pitch)/intonation/a cadence/to rise and fall (of a body floating in water)/


Words: 抓周
Pinyin: zhuā zhōu
Hanviet: 抓trảo 周chu
Meaning:
custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child’s inclinations, future career etc.)/


Words: 抓耳撓腮
Pinyin: zhuā ěr náo sāi
Hanviet: 抓trảo 耳nhĩ 撓nạo 腮tai
Meaning:
to tweak one’s ears and scratch one’s cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)/


Words: 投
Pinyin: tóu
Hanviet: 投đầu
Meaning:
to cast/to send/to throw oneself (into the river etc)/to seek refuge/to place oneself into the hands of/


Words: 投壺
Pinyin: tóu hú
Hanviet: 投đầu 壺hồ
Meaning:
ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment/


Words: 投桃報李
Pinyin: tóu táo bào lǐ
Hanviet: 投đầu 桃đào 報báo 李
Meaning:
toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor/to exchange gifts/Scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours./


Words: 投考
Pinyin: tóu kǎo
Hanviet: 投đầu 考khảo
Meaning:
to sign up for an examination/to apply for admission (to a university etc)/to apply (for a position)/


Words: 投鼠忌器
Pinyin: tóu shǔ jì qì
Hanviet: 投đầu 鼠thử 忌kỵ 器khí
Meaning:
lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom)/to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents/


Words: 抗日救亡運動
Pinyin: kàng rì jiù wáng yùn dòng
Hanviet: 抗kháng 日nhật 救cứu 亡vong 運vận 動động
Meaning:
the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變, 九一八事变/


Words: 抗辯
Pinyin: kàng biàn
Hanviet: 抗kháng 辯biện
Meaning:
to counter accusations/to protest/to remonstrate/to retort/to plead/to demur/a plea (of not guilty)/a defense (against an allegation)/to enter a plea to a charge (in a law court)/


Words: 折
Pinyin: zhé
Hanviet: 折chiết
Meaning:
to break/to fracture/to snap/to suffer loss/to bend/to twist/to turn/to change direction/convinced/to convert into (currency)/discount/rebate/tenth (in price)/classifier for theatrical scenes/to fold/accounts book/


Words: 折衝樽俎
Pinyin: zhé chōng zūn zǔ
Hanviet: 折chiết 衝xung 樽 俎
Meaning:
lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table/fig. to get the better of an enemy during diplomatic functions/


Words: 折騰
Pinyin: zhē teng
Hanviet: 折chiết 騰đằng
Meaning:
to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)/to repeat sth over and over again/to torment sb/to play crazy/to squander (time, money)/


Words: 披荊斬棘
Pinyin: pī jīng zhǎn jí
Hanviet: 披phi 荊kinh 斬trảm 棘cức
Meaning:
lit. to cut one’s way through thistles and thorns (idiom)/fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way/to break through hardships/to blaze a new trail/


Words: 抬槓
Pinyin: tái gàng
Hanviet: 抬 槓
Meaning:
to bicker/to argue for the sake of arguing/to carry on poles (together with sb else)/to carry a coffin on poles/


Words: 抬舉
Pinyin: tái jǔ
Hanviet: 抬 舉cử
Meaning:
to lift sth up/to elevate sb/to honor sb (with compliments, gifts, promotions etc)/to show great regard/to speak highly/


Words: 抬頭
Pinyin: tái tóu
Hanviet: 抬 頭đầu
Meaning:
to raise one’s head/to gain ground/account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc/


Words: 抱佛腳
Pinyin: bào fó jiǎo
Hanviet: 抱bão 佛Phật 腳cước
Meaning:
lit. to clasp the Buddha’s feet (without ever having burned incense) (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble/panic measures in place of timely preparation/


Words: 抱持
Pinyin: bào chí
Hanviet: 抱bão 持trì
Meaning:
to hold (expectations, hopes etc)/to maintain (an attitude etc)/to harbor (doubts etc)/to clinch (boxing)/


Words: 抱薪救火
Pinyin: bào xīn jiù huǒ
Hanviet: 抱bão 薪tân 救cứu 火hỏa
Meaning:
lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action/


Words: 抱頭
Pinyin: bào tóu
Hanviet: 抱bão 頭đầu
Meaning:
to put one’s hands behind one’s head, fingers interlaced/to hold one’s head in one’s hands (in dismay, fright etc)/to cover one’s head with one’s hands (for protection)/


Words: 抱頭鼠躥
Pinyin: bào tóu shǔ cuān
Hanviet: 抱bão 頭đầu 鼠thử 躥
Meaning:
to cover one’s head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously/also written 抱頭鼠竄, 抱头鼠窜/


Words: 抵
Pinyin: dǐ
Hanviet: 抵để
Meaning:
to press against/to support/to prop up/to resist/to equal/to balance/to make up for/to mortgage/to arrive at/to clap (one’s hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr.  for this sense)/


Words: 抵用
Pinyin: dǐ yòng
Hanviet: 抵để 用dụng
Meaning:
to exchange for (sth of equal value or utility)/to use in lieu/to redeem (a coupon etc)/to use to offset (an amount owed etc)/


Words: 抹黑
Pinyin: mǒ hēi
Hanviet: 抹mạt 黑hắc
Meaning:
to discredit/to defame/to smear sb’s name/to bring shame upon (oneself or one’s family etc)/to blacken (e.g. commando’s face for camouflage)/to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)/


Words: 押平聲韻
Pinyin: yā píng shēng yùn
Hanviet: 押áp 平bình 聲thanh 韻vận
Meaning:
to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲, 平声)/


Words: 抽
Pinyin: chōu
Hanviet: 抽trừu
Meaning:
to draw out/to pull out from in between/to remove part of the whole/(of certain plants) to sprout or bud/to whip or thrash/


Words: 抽頭
Pinyin: chōu tóu
Hanviet: 抽trừu 頭đầu
Meaning:
to take a percentage of the winnings (in gambling)/tap (in an electromagnetic coil)/drawer (of a desk etc)/


Words: 拃
Pinyin: zhǎ
Hanviet: 拃
Meaning:
span (unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand)/to span (measure with one’s hand)/


Words: 拆東牆補西牆
Pinyin: chāi dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng
Hanviet: 拆 東đông 牆tường 補bổ 西tây 牆tường
Meaning:
lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom); fig. temporary expedient/Rob Peter to pay Paul/


Words: 拆東補西
Pinyin: chāi dōng bǔ xī
Hanviet: 拆 東đông 補bổ 西tây
Meaning:
lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient/Rob Peter to pay Paul/


Words: 拈花惹草
Pinyin: niān huā rě cǎo
Hanviet: 拈niêm 花hoa 惹nhạ 草thảo
Meaning:
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)/fig. to womanize/to frequent brothels/to sow one’s wild oats/


Words: 拉卜楞寺
Pinyin: lā bǔ lèng sì
Hanviet: 拉lạp 卜bốc 楞lăng 寺tự
Meaning:
Labrang monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-’khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河縣, 夏河县, Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet/


Words: 拉場子
Pinyin: lā chǎng zi
Hanviet: 拉lạp 場tràng 子tử
Meaning:
(of a performer) to put on a show at an outdoor venue (temple fair, marketplace etc)/(fig.) to enhance sb’s reputation/to make a name for oneself/


Words: 拉大旗作虎皮
Pinyin: lā dà qí zuò hǔ pí
Hanviet: 拉lạp 大đại 旗kỳ 作tác 虎hổ 皮bì
Meaning:
lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)/fig. to borrow sb’s prestige/to take the name of a great cause as a shield/


Words: 拉夫羅夫
Pinyin: lā fū luó fū
Hanviet: 拉lạp 夫phu 羅la 夫phu
Meaning:
Lavrov (name)/Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004/


Words: 拉拉扯扯
Pinyin: lā lā chě chě
Hanviet: 拉lạp 拉lạp 扯xả 扯xả
Meaning:
to tug at/to pull at sb aggressively/to take sb’s hand or arm in a too familiar way/(derog.) to hobnob/to consort/


Words: 拉法格
Pinyin: lā fǎ gé
Hanviet: 拉lạp 法pháp 格cách
Meaning:
Lafargue (name)/Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx/


Words: 拉狄克
Pinyin: lā dí kè
Hanviet: 拉lạp 狄địch 克khắc
Meaning:
Karl Bernardovich Radek (1995-1939), bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen university, died in prison during Stalin’s purges/


Words: 拉瓦錫
Pinyin: lā wǎ xī
Hanviet: 拉lạp 瓦ngõa 錫tích
Meaning:
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry/


Words: 拉米夫定
Pinyin: lā mǐ fū dìng
Hanviet: 拉lạp 米mễ 夫phu 定định
Meaning:
Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS/brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV/


Words: 拉達克
Pinyin: lā dá kè
Hanviet: 拉lạp 達đạt 克khắc
Meaning:
Ladakh, the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir in northwest India, adjacent to Kashmir and Tibet, know as "Little Tibet"/


Words: 拉魯
Pinyin: lā lǔ
Hanviet: 拉lạp 魯lỗ
Meaning:
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name/Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician/Lhalu suburb of Lhasa/


Words: 拉黑
Pinyin: lā hēi
Hanviet: 拉lạp 黑hắc
Meaning:
to add sb to one’s blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc)/abbr. for 拉到黑名單, 拉到黑名单/


Words: 拋磚引玉
Pinyin: pāo zhuān yǐn yù
Hanviet: 拋phao 磚 引dẫn 玉ngọc
Meaning:
lit. to throw a brick to attract jade (idiom); fig. I offer a humble remark, please give us your valued opinion (e.g. commonplace remarks as a foreword to a distinguished speech)/


Words: 拋繡球
Pinyin: pāo xiù qiú
Hanviet: 拋phao 繡tú 球
Meaning:
throwing the embroidered ball (traditional Zhuang flirting game at festivals)/(fig.) to make overtures/to court/


Words: 拍案
Pinyin: pāi àn
Hanviet: 拍phách 案án
Meaning:
lit. to slap the table (in amazement, praise, anger, resentment etc)/fig. astonishing!, wonderful!, dreadful! etc/


Words: 拍案而起
Pinyin: pāi àn ér qǐ
Hanviet: 拍phách 案án 而nhi 起khởi
Meaning:
lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one’s tether/unable to take it any more/


Words: 拐
Pinyin: guǎi
Hanviet: 拐
Meaning:
to turn (a corner etc)/to kidnap/to swindle/to misappropriate/walking stick/crutch/seven (used as a substitute for 七)/


Words: 拐彎抹角
Pinyin: guǎi wān mò jiǎo
Hanviet: 拐 彎loan 抹mạt 角giác
Meaning:
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)/fig. to speak in a roundabout way/to equivocate/to beat about the bush/


Words: 拐點
Pinyin: guǎi diǎn
Hanviet: 拐 點điểm
Meaning:
turning point/breaking point/inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)/


Words: 拓拔
Pinyin: tuò bá
Hanviet: 拓thác 拔bạt
Meaning:
branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑, 鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534)/also written 拓跋/


Words: 拓跋
Pinyin: tuò bá
Hanviet: 拓thác 跋bạt
Meaning:
branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑, 鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (386-534)/also written 拓拔/


Words: 拔
Pinyin: bá
Hanviet: 拔bạt
Meaning:
to pull up/to pull out/to draw out by suction/to select/to pick/to stand out (above level)/to surpass/to seize/


Words: 拔毛連茹
Pinyin: bá máo lián rú
Hanviet: 拔bạt 毛mao 連liên 茹như
Meaning:
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others/inextricably tangled together/Invite one and he’ll tell all his friends./


Words: 拔火罐
Pinyin: bá huǒ guàn
Hanviet: 拔bạt 火hỏa 罐quán
Meaning:
suction cup (used in Chinese medicine to draw the blood and qi 氣, 气)/detachable suction chimney to make a stove draw/


Words: 拔罐
Pinyin: bá guàn
Hanviet: 拔bạt 罐quán
Meaning:
cupping glass/fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin)/ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)/


Words: 拔罐法
Pinyin: bá guàn fǎ
Hanviet: 拔bạt 罐quán 法pháp
Meaning:
fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin)/ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)/


Words: 拔茅茹
Pinyin: bá máo rú
Hanviet: 拔bạt 茅mao 茹như
Meaning:
lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow/fig. also involving others/inextricably tangled together/Invite one and he’ll tell all his friends./


Words: 拖拉
Pinyin: tuō lā
Hanviet: 拖tha 拉lạp
Meaning:
to drag along/to haul/(fig.) to procrastinate/shilly-shallying/sluggish/(computing) drag and drop/(loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams/


Words: 拖油瓶
Pinyin: tuō yóu píng
Hanviet: 拖tha 油du 瓶bình
Meaning:
(derog.) (of a woman) to bring one’s children into a second marriage/children by a previous marriage/


Words: 招
Pinyin: zhāo
Hanviet: 招chiêu
Meaning:
to recruit/to provoke/to beckon/to incur/to infect/contagious/a move (chess)/a maneuver/device/trick/to confess/


Words: 招兵買馬
Pinyin: zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ
Hanviet: 招chiêu 兵binh 買mãi 馬mã
Meaning:
to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army/fig. to expand business/to recruit new staff/


Words: 招財貓
Pinyin: zhāo cái māo
Hanviet: 招chiêu 財tài 貓miêu
Meaning:
maneki-neko or "lucky cat", Japanese figurine cat usually found at the entrance of shops, restaurants etc, believed to bring good fortune/


Words: 招財進寶
Pinyin: zhāo cái jìn bǎo
Hanviet: 招chiêu 財tài 進tiến 寶bảo
Meaning:
ushering in wealth and prosperity (idiom and traditional greeting, esp. at New Year); We wish you wealth and success!/


Words: 拜堂
Pinyin: bài táng
Hanviet: 拜bái 堂đường
Meaning:
ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony/same as 拜天地/


Words: 拜天地
Pinyin: bài tiān dì
Hanviet: 拜bái 天thiên 地địa
Meaning:
to worship heaven and earth/ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony/also called 拜堂/


Words: 拜拜
Pinyin: bái bái
Hanviet: 拜bái 拜bái
Meaning:
(loanword) bye-bye/also pr.  etc/(coll.) to part ways (with sb)/(fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth)/


Words: 拜拜
Pinyin: bài bai
Hanviet: 拜bái 拜bái
Meaning:
to pay one’s respects by bowing with hands in front of one’s chest clasping joss sticks, or with palms pressed together/(Taiwan) religious ceremony in which offerings are made to a deity/


Words: 拜登
Pinyin: bài dēng
Hanviet: 拜bái 登đăng
Meaning:
Baden or Biden (name)/Joe Biden (1942-), US democrat politician, senator for Delaware from 1972, several times chair of Senate foreign relations committee, vice-president of USA from 2009/


Words: 拼命
Pinyin: pīn mìng
Hanviet: 拼bính 命mạng
Meaning:
to do one’s utmost/with all one’s might/at all costs/(to work or fight) as if one’s life depends on it/


Words: 拼餐
Pinyin: pīn cān
Hanviet: 拼bính 餐xan
Meaning:
(of people with tight budget) to enjoy various dishes at the restaurant by ordering the food together and then sharing the costs/


Words: 拿
Pinyin: ná
Hanviet: 拿
Meaning:
to hold/to seize/to catch/to apprehend/to take/(used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object)/


Words: 拿得起放得下
Pinyin: ná de qǐ fàng de xià
Hanviet: 拿 得đắc 起khởi 放phóng 得đắc 下hạ
Meaning:
lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom)/fig. to take what comes/to meet gains or losses with equanimity/


Words: 拿著雞毛當令箭
Pinyin: ná zhe jī máo dàng lìng jiàn
Hanviet: 拿 著trước 雞kê 毛mao 當đương 令linh 箭tiễn
Meaning:
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext/


Words: 指
Pinyin: zhǐ
Hanviet: 指chỉ
Meaning:
finger/to point at or to/to indicate or refer to/to depend on/to count on/(of hair) to stand on end/


Words: 指事
Pinyin: zhǐ shì
Hanviet: 指chỉ 事sự
Meaning:
ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down/also known as self-explanatory character/


Words: 指手劃腳
Pinyin: zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
Hanviet: 指chỉ 手thủ 劃hoạch 腳cước
Meaning:
to gesticulate while talking (idiom); to explain by waving one’s hands/to criticize or give orders summarily/also written 指手畫腳, 指手画脚/


Words: 指手畫腳
Pinyin: zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
Hanviet: 指chỉ 手thủ 畫họa 腳cước
Meaning:
to gesticulate while talking (idiom)/to explain by waving one’s hands/to criticize or give orders summarily/


Words: 指桑罵槐
Pinyin: zhǐ sāng mà huái
Hanviet: 指chỉ 桑tang 罵mạ 槐
Meaning:
lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree/fig. to scold sb indirectly/to make oblique accusations (idiom)/


Words: 指點江山
Pinyin: zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
Hanviet: 指chỉ 點điểm 江giang 山sơn
Meaning:
to talk idly about important matters (idiom)/to set the world to rights/to pass judgment on everything/


Words: 按
Pinyin: àn
Hanviet: 按án
Meaning:
to press/to push/to leave aside or shelve/to control/to restrain/to keep one’s hand on/to check or refer to/according to/in the light of/(of an editor or author) to make a comment/


Words: 按圖索驥
Pinyin: àn tú suǒ jì
Hanviet: 按án 圖đồ 索sách 驥kí
Meaning:
lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom)/fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines/to try and find sth with the help of a clue/


Words: 挑燈夜戰
Pinyin: tiǎo dēng yè zhàn
Hanviet: 挑thiêu 燈đăng 夜dạ 戰chiến
Meaning:
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night/to burn the midnight oil/


Words: 挖肉補瘡
Pinyin: wā ròu bǔ chuāng
Hanviet: 挖 肉nhục 補bổ 瘡sang
Meaning:
to cut one’s flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient/


Words: 挨邊
Pinyin: āi biān
Hanviet: 挨ai 邊biên
Meaning:
to keep close to the edge/near the mark/close to (the true figure)/relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant)/


Words: 挪用
Pinyin: nuó yòng
Hanviet: 挪na 用dụng
Meaning:
to shift (funds)/to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another/to embezzle/to misappropriate/


Words: 挫折
Pinyin: cuò zhé
Hanviet: 挫tỏa 折chiết
Meaning:
setback/reverse/check/defeat/frustration/disappointment/to frustrate/to discourage/to set sb back/to blunt/to subdue/


Words: 振振有辭
Pinyin: zhèn zhèn yǒu cí
Hanviet: 振chấn 振chấn 有hữu 辭từ
Meaning:
to speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one’s convictions/also written 振振有詞, 振振有词/


Words: 挺
Pinyin: tǐng
Hanviet: 挺đĩnh
Meaning:
straight/erect/to stick out (a part of the body)/to (physically) straighten up/to support/to withstand/outstanding/(coll.) quite/very/classifier for machine guns/


Words: 挽
Pinyin: wǎn
Hanviet: 挽vãn
Meaning:
to pull/to draw (a cart or a bow)/to roll up/to coil/to carry on the arm/to lament the dead/(fig.) to pull against/to recover/


Words: 捂
Pinyin: wǔ
Hanviet: 捂
Meaning:
to enclose/to cover with the hand (one’s eyes, nose or ears)/to cover up (an affair)/contrary/to contradict/


Words: 捏脊
Pinyin: niē jǐ
Hanviet: 捏niết 脊tích
Meaning:
form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, working from the base of the spine to the neck (TCM)/


Words: 捕風捉影
Pinyin: bǔ fēng zhuō yǐng
Hanviet: 捕bộ 風phong 捉tróc 影ảnh
Meaning:
lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom); fig. groundless accusations/to act on hearsay evidence/


Words: 捧
Pinyin: pěng
Hanviet: 捧phủng
Meaning:
to clasp/to cup the hands/to hold up with both hands/to offer (esp. in cupped hands)/to praise/to flatter/


Words: 捨己為人
Pinyin: shě jǐ wèi rén
Hanviet: 捨xả 己kỷ 為vi 人nhân
Meaning:
to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one’s own interest for other people/altruism/


Words: 捨己為公
Pinyin: shě jǐ wèi gōng
Hanviet: 捨xả 己kỷ 為vi 公công
Meaning:
to give up one’s private interests for the public good (idiom); to behave altruistically/selfless and public spirited/


Words: 捨得一身剮，敢把皇帝拉下馬
Pinyin: shě de yī shēn guǎ , gǎn bǎ huáng dì lā xià mǎ
Hanviet: 捨xả 得đắc 一nhất 身thân 剮 敢cảm 把bả 皇hoàng 帝đế 拉lạp 下hạ 馬mã
Meaning:
one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb)/to a fearless person, no fence is high enough/


Words: 捨生取義
Pinyin: shě shēng qǔ yì
Hanviet: 捨xả 生sanh 取thủ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius); to choose honor over life/would rather sacrifice one’s life than one’s principles/


Words: 捨車保帥
Pinyin: shě jū bǎo shuài
Hanviet: 捨xả 車xa 保bảo 帥súy
Meaning:
rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling/to pass the buck/


Words: 捻軍
Pinyin: niǎn jūn
Hanviet: 捻nẫm 軍quân
Meaning:
Nien Army, leading a peasant rebellion against Qing dynasty in Northern China from 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion in South China/


Words: 掇臀捧屁
Pinyin: duō tún pěng pì
Hanviet: 掇xuyết 臀 捧phủng 屁
Meaning:
to hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants/to toady/boot-licking/


Words: 授之以魚不如授之以漁
Pinyin: shòu zhī yǐ yú bù rú shòu zhī yǐ yú
Hanviet: 授thọ 之chi 以dĩ 魚ngư 不bất 如như 授thọ 之chi 以dĩ 漁ngư
Meaning:
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)/


Words: 授人以魚不如授人以漁
Pinyin: shòu rén yǐ yú bù rú shòu rén yǐ yú
Hanviet: 授thọ 人nhân 以dĩ 魚ngư 不bất 如như 授thọ 人nhân 以dĩ 漁ngư
Meaning:
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime/knowledge is the best charity/


Words: 掉
Pinyin: diào
Hanviet: 掉trạo
Meaning:
to fall/to drop/to lag behind/to lose/to go missing/to reduce/fall (in prices)/to lose (value, weight etc)/to wag/to swing/to turn/to change/to exchange/to swap/to show off/to shed (hair)/(used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)/


Words: 掉包
Pinyin: diào bāo
Hanviet: 掉trạo 包bao
Meaning:
to steal sb’s valuable item and substitute a similar-looking but worthless item/to sell a fake for the genuine article/to palm off/


Words: 掉書袋
Pinyin: diào shū dài
Hanviet: 掉trạo 書thư 袋đại
Meaning:
lit. to drop a bag of books (idiom); fig. to drop quotations to appear learned/to quote classical texts as a parade of erudition/


Words: 掌握
Pinyin: zhǎng wò
Hanviet: 掌chưởng 握ác
Meaning:
to grasp (often fig.)/to control/to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny)/to master/to know well/to understand sth well and know how to use it/fluency/


Words: 排
Pinyin: pái
Hanviet: 排bài
Meaning:
a row/a line/to set in order/to arrange/to line up/to eliminate/to drain/to push open/platoon/raft/classifier for lines, rows etc/


Words: 排山倒海
Pinyin: pái shān dǎo hǎi
Hanviet: 排bài 山sơn 倒đảo 海hải
Meaning:
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering/fig. gigantic/of spectacular significance/


Words: 排簫
Pinyin: pái xiāo
Hanviet: 排bài 簫tiêu
Meaning:
xiao, a free reed mouth organ with five or more pipes blown from the bottom/also translated as pan pipes/


Words: 排量
Pinyin: pái liàng
Hanviet: 排bài 量lượng
Meaning:
discharge volume/engine capacity/engine displacement (volume of air fuel mixture drawn in during one cycle)/


Words: 掛
Pinyin: guà
Hanviet: 掛quải
Meaning:
to hang or suspend (from a hook etc)/to hang up (the phone)/(of a line) to be dead/to be worried or concerned/to make a phone call (dialect)/to register or record/classifier for sets or clusters of objects/(slang) to kill/to die/to be finished/to fail (an exam)/


Words: 掛機
Pinyin: guà jī
Hanviet: 掛quải 機cơ
Meaning:
to hang up (a phone)/to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a game in one’s stead etc)/


Words: 掛羊頭賣狗肉
Pinyin: guà yáng tóu mài gǒu ròu
Hanviet: 掛quải 羊dương 頭đầu 賣mại 狗cẩu 肉nhục
Meaning:
lit. to hang a sheep’s head while selling dog meat (idiom)/fig. to cheat/dishonest advertising/wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue/


Words: 掛鉤
Pinyin: guà gōu
Hanviet: 掛quải 鉤câu
Meaning:
hook (on which to hang sth)/to couple/to link together/to establish contact with/hook/coupling links (e.g. between two railway coaches)/


Words: 探子
Pinyin: tàn zi
Hanviet: 探thám 子tử
Meaning:
intelligence gatherer/spy/detective/scout/sound (medical instrument)/long and narrow probing and sampling utensil/


Words: 探驪得珠
Pinyin: tàn lí dé zhū
Hanviet: 探thám 驪 得đắc 珠châu
Meaning:
to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)/to see through to the nub/


Words: 接
Pinyin: jiē
Hanviet: 接tiếp
Meaning:
to receive/to answer (the phone)/to meet or welcome sb/to connect/to catch/to join/to extend/to take one’s turn on duty/to take over for sb/


Words: 接收
Pinyin: jiē shōu
Hanviet: 接tiếp 收thu
Meaning:
reception (of transmitted signal)/to receive/to accept/to admit/to take over (e.g. a factory)/to expropriate/


Words: 接機
Pinyin: jiē jī
Hanviet: 接tiếp 機cơ
Meaning:
jointing machine/riveter/welder/sealer/to meet a plane (i.e. to meet sb at airport)/to service a plane (of airport workers)/


Words: 接班
Pinyin: jiē bān
Hanviet: 接tiếp 班ban
Meaning:
to take over (from those working the previous shift)/to take over (in a leadership role etc)/to succeed sb/


Words: 接著
Pinyin: jiē zhe
Hanviet: 接tiếp 著trước
Meaning:
to catch and hold on/to continue/to go on to do sth/to follow/to carry on/then/after that/subsequently/to proceed/to ensue/in turn/in one’s turn/


Words: 接軌
Pinyin: jiē guǐ
Hanviet: 接tiếp 軌quỹ
Meaning:
railtrack connection/to integrate into sth/to dock/to connect/to be in step with/to bring into line with/to align/


Words: 接頭
Pinyin: jiē tóu
Hanviet: 接tiếp 頭đầu
Meaning:
to join/to connect/connection/junction/fitting (plumbing)/connector/terminal (electrical engineering)/


Words: 控
Pinyin: kòng
Hanviet: 控khống
Meaning:
to control/to accuse/to charge/to sue/to invert a container to empty it/(suffix) (slang) buff/enthusiast/devotee/-phile or -philia/


Words: 推
Pinyin: tuī
Hanviet: 推thôi
Meaning:
to push/to cut/to refuse/to reject/to decline/to shirk (responsibility)/to put off/to delay/to push forward/to nominate/to elect/massage/


Words: 推心置腹
Pinyin: tuī xīn zhì fù
Hanviet: 推thôi 心tâm 置trí 腹phúc
Meaning:
to give one’s bare heart into sb else’s keeping (idiom); sb has one’s absolute confidence/to trust completely/to confide in sb with entire sincerity/


Words: 推波助瀾
Pinyin: tuī bō zhù lán
Hanviet: 推thôi 波ba 助trợ 瀾lan
Meaning:
to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum/to encourage sth to get bigger/to add fuel to the fire/


Words: 推甄
Pinyin: tuī zhēn
Hanviet: 推thôi 甄chân
Meaning:
to recommend a student for admission to a higher-level school/to put a student on the recommendation track (one of several ways of gaining admission to a higher-level school in Taiwan)/abbr. for 推薦甄選, 推荐甄选/


Words: 推諉
Pinyin: tuī wěi
Hanviet: 推thôi 諉
Meaning:
to decline/to avoid/shirking responsibilities/to blame others/to pass the buck/to unload one’s responsibilities/to try to get out of a task/


Words: 推陳佈新
Pinyin: tuī chén bù xīn
Hanviet: 推thôi 陳trần 佈 新tân
Meaning:
to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate/to go beyond old ideas/advancing all the time/


Words: 掩耳盜鈴
Pinyin: yǎn ěr dào líng
Hanviet: 掩yểm 耳nhĩ 盜đạo 鈴linh
Meaning:
lit. to cover one’s ears whilst stealing a bell/to deceive oneself/to bury one’s head in the sand (idiom)/


Words: 提
Pinyin: tí
Hanviet: 提đề
Meaning:
to carry (hanging down from the hand)/to lift/to put forward/to mention/to raise (an issue)/upwards character stroke/lifting brush stroke (in painting)/scoop for measuring liquid/


Words: 提神
Pinyin: tí shén
Hanviet: 提đề 神thần
Meaning:
to freshen up/to be cautious or vigilant/to watch out/stimulant to enhance mental performance/stay-awake drug/agrypnotic/


Words: 提起
Pinyin: tí qǐ
Hanviet: 提đề 起khởi
Meaning:
to mention/to speak of/to lift/to pick up/to arouse/to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one’s fist, one’s spirits etc)/


Words: 插播
Pinyin: chā bō
Hanviet: 插sáp 播bá
Meaning:
to interrupt (a radio or TV program) with a commercial insert, breaking news etc/to put a call on hold/


Words: 插曲
Pinyin: chā qǔ
Hanviet: 插sáp 曲khúc
Meaning:
music played during a movie, play etc/incidental music/music played in a theatrical interlude/(fig.) incident/episode/


Words: 揚
Pinyin: yáng
Hanviet: 揚dương
Meaning:
to raise/to hoist/the action of tossing or winnowing/scattering (in the wind)/to flutter/to propagate/


Words: 揚子江
Pinyin: yáng zǐ jiāng
Hanviet: 揚dương 子tử 江giang
Meaning:
Changjiang 長江, 长江 or Yangtze River/old name for Changjiang, especially lower reaches around Yangzhou 揚州, 扬州/


Words: 揚清激濁
Pinyin: yáng qīng jī zhuó
Hanviet: 揚dương 清thanh 激kích 濁trược
Meaning:
lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good/eliminate vice and exalt virtue/


Words: 揚言
Pinyin: yáng yán
Hanviet: 揚dương 言ngôn
Meaning:
to put about (a story, plan, threat etc)/to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story)/to threaten/


Words: 揚雄
Pinyin: yáng xióng
Hanviet: 揚dương 雄hùng
Meaning:
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言/


Words: 換湯不換藥
Pinyin: huàn tāng bù huàn yào
Hanviet: 換hoán 湯thang 不bất 換hoán 藥dược
Meaning:
different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only/a change in form but not in substance/


Words: 換班
Pinyin: huàn bān
Hanviet: 換hoán 班ban
Meaning:
to change shift/the next work shift/to relieve (a workman on the previous shift)/to take over the job/


Words: 揪心扒肝
Pinyin: jiū xīn bā gān
Hanviet: 揪 心tâm 扒 肝can
Meaning:
lit. grips the heart, seizes the liver (idiom); fear grips the heart/worried out of one’s wits/scared stiff/


Words: 揪痧
Pinyin: jiū shā
Hanviet: 揪 痧
Meaning:
folk remedy involving repeatedly pinching the neck, throat, back etc to increase blood flow to the area and relieve inflammation/


Words: 揪鬥
Pinyin: jiū dòu
Hanviet: 揪 鬥đấu
Meaning:
to seize and struggle with/to tussle with/fig. to seize and subject to public criticism (e.g. right-roaders during cultural revolution)/


Words: 援助交際
Pinyin: yuán zhù jiāo jì
Hanviet: 援viện 助trợ 交giao 際tế
Meaning:
Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors/


Words: 搋
Pinyin: chuāi
Hanviet: 搋trỉ
Meaning:
to knead/to rub/to clear a drain with a pump/to conceal sth in one’s bosom/to carry sth under one’s coat/


Words: 損
Pinyin: sǔn
Hanviet: 損tổn
Meaning:
to decrease/to lose/to damage/to harm/(coll.) to speak sarcastically/to deride/caustic/mean/one of the 64 trigrams of the Book of Changes (old)/


Words: 損公肥私
Pinyin: sǔn gōng féi sī
Hanviet: 損tổn 公công 肥phì 私tư
Meaning:
to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expense/venal and selfish behavior/


Words: 搏擊
Pinyin: bó jī
Hanviet: 搏bác 擊kích
Meaning:
to fight, esp. with hands/wrestling (as a sport)/to wrestle/to wrestle (against fate, with a problem etc)/to capture prey/


Words: 搖頭擺尾
Pinyin: yáo tóu bǎi wěi
Hanviet: 搖dao 頭đầu 擺bãi 尾vĩ
Meaning:
to nod one’s head and wag one’s tail (idiom)/to be well pleased with oneself/to have a lighthearted air/


Words: 搜神記
Pinyin: sōu shén jì
Hanviet: 搜sưu 神thần 記ký
Meaning:
In Search of the Supernatural, compilation of legends about spirits, ghosts and other supernatural phenomena, written and compiled by 干寶, 干宝 in Jin dynasty/


Words: 搬
Pinyin: bān
Hanviet: 搬
Meaning:
to move (i.e. relocate oneself)/to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky)/to shift/to copy indiscriminately/


Words: 搬弄
Pinyin: bān nòng
Hanviet: 搬 弄lộng
Meaning:
to fiddle with/to play and move sth about/to show off (what one can do)/to parade (one’s capabilities)/to cause trouble/


Words: 搬起石頭砸自己的腳
Pinyin: bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo
Hanviet: 搬 起khởi 石thạch 頭đầu 砸 自tự 己kỷ 的đích 腳cước
Meaning:
to crush one’s own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one’s enemy) (idiom)/hoisted by one’s own petard/


Words: 搭
Pinyin: dā
Hanviet: 搭
Meaning:
to put up/to build (scaffolding)/to hang (clothes on a pole)/to connect/to join/to arrange in pairs/to match/to add/to throw in (resources)/to take (boat, train)/variant of 褡/


Words: 搭扣
Pinyin: dā kòu
Hanviet: 搭 扣khấu
Meaning:
a buckle or fastener for clothing that does not use a button and buttonhole (e.g. the buckle on metal wristwatches)/


Words: 搭訕
Pinyin: dā shàn
Hanviet: 搭 訕san
Meaning:
to hit on someone/to strike up a conversation/to start talking to end an awkward silence or embarrassing situation/


Words: 搭鐵
Pinyin: dā tiě
Hanviet: 搭 鐵thiết
Meaning:
abbr. for 搭鐵接線, 搭铁接线/chassis grounding (i.e. using the chassis as ground, to serve as a return path for current in an electric circuit)/


Words: 摘
Pinyin: zhāi
Hanviet: 摘trích
Meaning:
to take/to borrow/to pick (flowers, fruit etc)/to pluck/to select/to remove/to take off (glasses, hat etc)/


Words: 摘下
Pinyin: zhāi xià
Hanviet: 摘trích 下hạ
Meaning:
to take off/to remove (one’s hat, a door from its hinges etc)/to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc)/(sports) to pick off (a rebound etc)/


Words: 摩亨佐·達羅
Pinyin: mó hēng zuǒ �� dá luó
Hanviet: 摩ma 亨 佐tá · 達đạt 羅la
Meaning:
Moenjo-daro, capital of Indus valley civilization c. 2000 BC, Sind province, Pakistan, UNESCO World Heritage Site/


Words: 摩拳擦掌
Pinyin: mó quán cā zhǎng
Hanviet: 摩ma 拳quyền 擦sát 掌chưởng
Meaning:
fig. to rub one’s fists and wipe one’s palms (idiom)/to roll up one’s sleeves for battle/eager to get into action or start on a task/


Words: 摩頂放踵
Pinyin: mó dǐng fàng zhǒng
Hanviet: 摩ma 頂đảnh 放phóng 踵chủng
Meaning:
to rub one’s head and heels (idiom); to slave for the benefit of others/to wear oneself out for the general good/


Words: 摳
Pinyin: kōu
Hanviet: 摳
Meaning:
to dig out/to pick out (with one’s fingers)/to carve/to cut/to study meticulously/to lift one’s clothes/stingy/miserly/


Words: 摺線
Pinyin: zhé xiàn
Hanviet: 摺 線tuyến
Meaning:
variant of 折線, 折线, broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)/polygonal line/dog leg/


Words: 摽
Pinyin: biào
Hanviet: 摽phiếu/phiêu
Meaning:
to bind tightly/to link (arms)/to hang around with/to stick close to (sb)/to compete/(literary) to beat/


Words: 撇清
Pinyin: piě qīng
Hanviet: 撇 清thanh
Meaning:
to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasise one is innocent or in the clear/


Words: 撐
Pinyin: chēng
Hanviet: 撐xanh
Meaning:
to support/to prop up/to push or move with a pole/to maintain/to open or unfurl/to fill to bursting point/brace/stay/support/


Words: 撒切爾
Pinyin: sā qiē ěr
Hanviet: 撒tản 切thiết 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Thatcher (name)/Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990/


Words: 撒切爾夫人
Pinyin: sā qiē ěr fū ren
Hanviet: 撒tản 切thiết 爾nhĩ 夫phu 人nhân
Meaning:
Mrs Thatcher/Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990/


Words: 撞車
Pinyin: zhuàng chē
Hanviet: 撞chàng 車xa
Meaning:
to crash (into another car)/(fig.) (of opinions, schedules etc) to clash/(of subject matter) to be the same/


Words: 撥
Pinyin: bō
Hanviet: 撥bát
Meaning:
to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc/to dial/to allocate/to set aside (money)/to poke (the fire)/to pluck (a string instrument)/to turn round/classifier: group, batch/


Words: 撩
Pinyin: liāo
Hanviet: 撩
Meaning:
to lift up (sth hanging down)/to raise (hem of skirt)/to pull up (sleeve)/to sprinkle (water with cupped hands)/


Words: 撫卹
Pinyin: fǔ xù
Hanviet: 撫phủ 卹tuất
Meaning:
(of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury/


Words: 撮
Pinyin: cuō
Hanviet: 撮toát
Meaning:
to pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips/to scoop up/to collect together/to extract/to gather up/classifier: pinch/


Words: 撲
Pinyin: pū
Hanviet: 撲phác
Meaning:
to throw oneself at/to pounce on/to devote one’s energies/to flap/to flutter/to dab/to pat/to bend over/


Words: 撲面
Pinyin: pū miàn
Hanviet: 撲phác 面diện
Meaning:
lit. sth hits one in the face/directly in one’s face/sth assaults the senses/blatant (advertising)/eye catching/(a smell) assaults the nostrils/


Words: 擂鼓鳴金
Pinyin: léi gǔ míng jīn
Hanviet: 擂 鼓cổ 鳴minh 金kim
Meaning:
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat/to egg people on or to call them back/


Words: 擊鼓傳花
Pinyin: jī gǔ chuán huā
Hanviet: 擊kích 鼓cổ 傳truyền 花hoa
Meaning:
beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)/


Words: 擋
Pinyin: dǎng
Hanviet: 擋
Meaning:
to resist/to obstruct/to hinder/to keep off/to block (a blow)/to get in the way of/cover/gear (e.g. in a car’s transmission)/


Words: 操
Pinyin: cāo
Hanviet: 操thao
Meaning:
to grasp/to hold/to operate/to manage/to control/to steer/to exercise/to drill (practice)/to play/to speak (a language)/


Words: 擒人節
Pinyin: qín rén jié
Hanviet: 擒cầm 人nhân 節tiết
Meaning:
(jocularly) Valentine’s Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day/


Words: 擔
Pinyin: dàn
Hanviet: 擔đảm
Meaning:
picul (100 catties, 50 kg)/two buckets full/carrying pole and its load/classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole/


Words: 擠
Pinyin: jǐ
Hanviet: 擠
Meaning:
to crowd in/to cram in/to force others aside/to press/to squeeze/to find (time in one’s busy schedule)/


Words: 擰開
Pinyin: nǐng kāi
Hanviet: 擰 開khai
Meaning:
to unscrew/to twist off (a lid)/to turn on (a faucet)/to switch on (by turning a knob)/to turn (a door handle)/to wrench apart/


Words: 擲地有聲
Pinyin: zhì dì yǒu shēng
Hanviet: 擲trịch 地địa 有hữu 聲thanh
Meaning:
lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom)/fig. (of one’s words) powerful and resonating/to have substance/


Words: 擺脫
Pinyin: bǎi tuō
Hanviet: 擺bãi 脫thoát
Meaning:
to break away from/to cast off (old ideas etc)/to get rid of/to break away (from)/to break out (of)/to free oneself from/to extricate oneself/


Words: 攀枝花市
Pinyin: pān zhī huā shì
Hanviet: 攀phàn 枝chi 花hoa 市thị
Meaning:
Panzhihua prefecture level city in south Sichuan, bordering Yunnan, famous for steel production and pollution/


Words: 攀登
Pinyin: pān dēng
Hanviet: 攀phàn 登đăng
Meaning:
to climb/to pull oneself up/to clamber/to scale/fig. to forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger/


Words: 攀附
Pinyin: pān fù
Hanviet: 攀phàn 附phụ
Meaning:
to climb (of climbing plants)/to creep/to cling on to/fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful)/social climbing/


Words: 攀高結貴
Pinyin: pān gāo jié guì
Hanviet: 攀phàn 高cao 結kết 貴quý
Meaning:
lit. to cling to the high, connect to the rich (idiom); to try to attach oneself to the rich and powerful/social climbing/


Words: 攝
Pinyin: shè
Hanviet: 攝nhiếp
Meaning:
to take in/to absorb/to assimilate/to act for/to take a photo/photo shoot/photo/to conserve (one’s health)/


Words: 攬
Pinyin: lǎn
Hanviet: 攬lãm
Meaning:
to monopolize/to seize/to take into one’s arms/to embrace/to fasten (with a rope etc)/to take on (responsibility etc)/to canvass/


Words: 支
Pinyin: zhī
Hanviet: 支chi
Meaning:
to support/to sustain/to erect/to raise/branch/division/to draw money/classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions/


Words: 支書
Pinyin: zhī shū
Hanviet: 支chi 書thư
Meaning:
branch secretary/secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League/abbr. for 支部書記, 支部书记/


Words: 支那
Pinyin: zhī nà
Hanviet: 支chi 那na
Meaning:
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory/


Words: 收
Pinyin: shōu
Hanviet: 收thu
Meaning:
to receive/to accept/to collect/to put away/to restrain/to stop/in care of (used on address line after name)/


Words: 收兵
Pinyin: shōu bīng
Hanviet: 收thu 兵binh
Meaning:
to retreat/to withdraw troops/to recall troops/fig. to finish work/to wind up/to call it a day/used with negatives: the task is far from over/


Words: 收攏
Pinyin: shōu lǒng
Hanviet: 收thu 攏
Meaning:
to draw to oneself/to gather up/to collect/to fold up (an umbrella, wings etc)/to assemble (a party of persons)/to rope in (some people)/


Words: 收斂
Pinyin: shōu liǎn
Hanviet: 收thu 斂liểm
Meaning:
to vanish/to moderate/to exercise restraint/to curb (one’s mirth, arrogance etc)/to astringe/(math.) to converge/


Words: 收音
Pinyin: shōu yīn
Hanviet: 收thu 音âm
Meaning:
to receive a radio signal/to make an audio recording/(of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics/(vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)/


Words: 改口費
Pinyin: gǎi kǒu fèi
Hanviet: 改cải 口khẩu 費phí
Meaning:
a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law/


Words: 改弦易轍
Pinyin: gǎi xián yì zhé
Hanviet: 改cải 弦huyền 易dị/dịch 轍triệt
Meaning:
change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction/to dance to a different tune/


Words: 改換門庭
Pinyin: gǎi huàn mén tíng
Hanviet: 改cải 換hoán 門môn 庭đình
Meaning:
to improve one’s family’s social status by moving up in the world/to switch one’s allegiance to a new patron/


Words: 改訂伊犁條約
Pinyin: gǎi dìng yī lí tiáo yuē
Hanviet: 改cải 訂 伊y 犁lê 條điều 約ước
Meaning:
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights/


Words: 改頭換面
Pinyin: gǎi tóu huàn miàn
Hanviet: 改cải 頭đầu 換hoán 面diện
Meaning:
to adjust one’s head and turn one’s face (idiom); cosmetic changes/Despite superficially new policies, the substance remains unchanged./


Words: 攻占
Pinyin: gōng zhàn
Hanviet: 攻công 占chiêm
Meaning:
to seize control of (an enemy position)/(fig.) to take by storm/to gain (awards, control of a market etc)/


Words: 放下屠刀，立地成佛
Pinyin: fàng xià tú dāo , lì dì chéng fó
Hanviet: 放phóng 下hạ 屠đồ 刀đao 立lập 地địa 成thành 佛Phật
Meaning:
lay down butcher’s knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation/to repent and be absolved of one’s crimes/


Words: 放下身段
Pinyin: fàng xià shēn duàn
Hanviet: 放phóng 下hạ 身thân 段đoạn
Meaning:
to get off one’s high horse (idiom)/to dispense with posturing (and adopt a more humble or empathetic attitude)/


Words: 放任自流
Pinyin: fàng rèn zì liú
Hanviet: 放phóng 任nhậm 自tự 流lưu
Meaning:
to let sb do whatever they want/to indulge/to give free reins to/to let things slide/to drift aimlessly/laissez-faire/


Words: 放空
Pinyin: fàng kōng
Hanviet: 放phóng 空không
Meaning:
to relax completely/to empty one’s mind/(finance) to sell short/(of a commercial vehicle) to travel empty (no cargo or passengers)/to deadhead/


Words: 放空炮
Pinyin: fàng kōng pào
Hanviet: 放phóng 空không 炮bào
Meaning:
(lit.) to fire blank shots/(fig.) to be all talk and no action/to shoot one’s mouth off/to make empty promises/


Words: 放縱
Pinyin: fàng zòng
Hanviet: 放phóng 縱túng
Meaning:
to indulge/to pamper/to connive at/permissive/indulgent/self-indulgent/unrestrained/undisciplined/uncultured/boorish/


Words: 放羊
Pinyin: fàng yáng
Hanviet: 放phóng 羊dương
Meaning:
to tend a flock of sheep/to let sheep out to pasture/fig. to throw off the reins/to leave sb alone/acting freely and irresponsibly/


Words: 故
Pinyin: gù
Hanviet: 故cố
Meaning:
happening/instance/reason/cause/intentional/former/old/friend/therefore/hence/(of people) to die, dead/


Words: 效價
Pinyin: xiào jià
Hanviet: 效hiệu 價giá
Meaning:
potency/titer (measure of effective concentration in virology or chemical pathology, defined in terms of potency after dilution by titration)/valence (perceived value in psychology)/valency/


Words: 效價能
Pinyin: xiào jià néng
Hanviet: 效hiệu 價giá 能năng
Meaning:
potency/titer (measure of effective concentration in virology or chemical pathology, defined in terms of potency after dilution by titration)/


Words: 救焚益薪
Pinyin: jiù fén yì xīn
Hanviet: 救cứu 焚phần 益ích 薪tân
Meaning:
add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse/to add fuel to the fire/


Words: 敔
Pinyin: yǔ
Hanviet: 敔
Meaning:
percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick/


Words: 敗落
Pinyin: bài luò
Hanviet: 敗bại 落lạc
Meaning:
(of status or wealth) to decline/(of buildings etc) to become dilapidated/run-down/(of plants) to wilt/


Words: 敘述
Pinyin: xù shù
Hanviet: 敘tự 述thuật
Meaning:
to relate (a story or information)/to tell or talk about/to recount/narration/telling/narrative/account/


Words: 教案
Pinyin: jiào àn
Hanviet: 教giáo 案án
Meaning:
lesson plan/teaching plan/a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing)/


Words: 敝帚千金
Pinyin: bì zhǒu qiān jīn
Hanviet: 敝tệ 帚trửu 千thiên 金kim
Meaning:
lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value/I wouldn’t be parted with it for anything./


Words: 敝帚自珍
Pinyin: bì zhǒu zì zhēn
Hanviet: 敝tệ 帚trửu 自tự 珍trân
Meaning:
to value the broom as one’s own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one’s own/a sentimental attachment/


Words: 敢做敢當
Pinyin: gǎn zuò gǎn dāng
Hanviet: 敢cảm 做tố 敢cảm 當đương
Meaning:
daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it/a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions/the buck stops here/


Words: 敢怒而不敢言
Pinyin: gǎn nù ér bù gǎn yán
Hanviet: 敢cảm 怒nộ 而nhi 不bất 敢cảm 言ngôn
Meaning:
angry, but not daring to speak out (idiom); obliged to remain silent about one’s resentment/unable to voice objections/


Words: 敬悉
Pinyin: jìng xī
Hanviet: 敬kính 悉tất
Meaning:
(honorific) revered news/the most valuable information (in your recent letter, book etc)/Thank you for your letter./


Words: 敬祝
Pinyin: jìng zhù
Hanviet: 敬kính 祝chúc
Meaning:
to offer humbly (written at the end of letter from sb of lower status to higher status)/your humble servant/


Words: 敬酒不吃吃罰酒
Pinyin: jìng jiǔ bù chī chī fá jiǔ
Hanviet: 敬kính 酒tửu 不bất 吃cật 吃cật 罰phạt 酒tửu
Meaning:
to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit/fig. to hesitate to do sth until forced to do even more/


Words: 敲門磚
Pinyin: qiāo mén zhuān
Hanviet: 敲 門môn 磚
Meaning:
lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient/to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune/


Words: 整
Pinyin: zhěng
Hanviet: 整chỉnh
Meaning:
exactly/in good order/whole/complete/entire/in order/orderly/to repair/to mend/to renovate/(coll.) to fix sb/to give sb a hard time/to mess with sb/


Words: 整治
Pinyin: zhěng zhì
Hanviet: 整chỉnh 治trị
Meaning:
to bring under control/to regulate/to restore to good condition/(coll.) to fix (a person)/to prepare (a meal etc)/


Words: 整理
Pinyin: zhěng lǐ
Hanviet: 整chỉnh 理lý
Meaning:
to arrange/to tidy up/to sort out/to straighten out/to list systematically/to collate (data, files)/to pack (luggage)/


Words: 整風
Pinyin: zhěng fēng
Hanviet: 整chỉnh 風phong
Meaning:
Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan/cf Rectification campaign 整風運動, 整风运动, army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957/


Words: 整風運動
Pinyin: zhěng fēng yùn dòng
Hanviet: 整chỉnh 風phong 運vận 動động
Meaning:
Rectification campaign/political purge/cf Mao’s 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 and 1957 anti-rightist purges/


Words: 整體
Pinyin: zhěng tǐ
Hanviet: 整chỉnh 體thể
Meaning:
whole entity/entire body/synthesis/as a whole (situation, construction, team etc)/global/macrocosm/integral/holistic/whole/


Words: 敵敵畏
Pinyin: dí dí wèi
Hanviet: 敵địch 敵địch 畏úy
Meaning:
dichlorvos C4H7Cl2PO4, organic phosphate used as insecticide (loanword)/also called dimethyl dichloro-vinyl phosphate DDVP/


Words: 敵眾我寡
Pinyin: dí zhòng wǒ guǎ
Hanviet: 敵địch 眾chúng 我ngã 寡quả
Meaning:
multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius)/heavily outnumbered/beaten by the weight of numbers/


Words: 敷衍
Pinyin: fū yǎn
Hanviet: 敷phu 衍diễn
Meaning:
to elaborate (on a theme)/to expound (the classics)/perfunctory/to skimp/to botch/to do sth half-heartedly or just for show/barely enough to get by/


Words: 數伏
Pinyin: shǔ fú
Hanviet: 數số 伏phục
Meaning:
same as 三伏天, three periods forming the hottest periods of summer, from mid-July to mid-August, namely: 初伏 (mid-July), 中伏 (late July to early August), 末伏 (mid-August)/


Words: 數黃道黑
Pinyin: shǔ huáng dào hēi
Hanviet: 數số 黃hoàng 道đạo 黑hắc
Meaning:
to enumerate what is black and yellow (idiom); to criticize sb behind his back to incite quarrels/also written 數黑論黃, 数黑论黄/


Words: 文天祥
Pinyin: wén tiān xiáng
Hanviet: 文văn 天thiên 祥tường
Meaning:
Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283), Song dynasty politician and poet, folk hero in resisting Mongol invasion in Jiangxi in 1275/


Words: 文山
Pinyin: wén shān
Hanviet: 文văn 山sơn
Meaning:
Wenshan county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州, 文山壮族苗族自治州, Yunnan/Wenshan district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/


Words: 文房四寶
Pinyin: wén fáng sì bǎo
Hanviet: 文văn 房phòng 四tứ 寶bảo
Meaning:
Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆, 笔, 墨, 紙, 纸 and 硯, 砚/the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)/


Words: 文明小史
Pinyin: wén míng xiǎo shǐ
Hanviet: 文văn 明minh 小tiểu 史sử
Meaning:
Short History of Civilization, late Qing novel by Li Boyuan 李伯元 or Li Baojia 李寶嘉, 李宝嘉 describing the turmoil after the 1900 Eight-Nation Alliance 八國聯軍, 八国联军/


Words: 文武雙全
Pinyin: wén wǔ shuāng quán
Hanviet: 文văn 武võ 雙song 全toàn
Meaning:
well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier/master of pen and sword/


Words: 文苑英華
Pinyin: wén yuàn yīng huá
Hanviet: 文văn 苑uyển 英anh 華hoa
Meaning:
Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature, Song dynasty collection of poetry, odes, songs and writings compiled during 982-986 under Li Fang 李昉, Xu Xuan 徐鉉, 徐铉, Song Bai 宋白 and Su Yijian 蘇易簡, 苏易简, 1000 scrolls/


Words: 文部
Pinyin: wén bù
Hanviet: 文văn 部bộ
Meaning:
Wenbu or Ombu village in Nyima county 尼瑪縣, 尼玛县, Nagchu prefecture, central Tibet/Tang dynasty equivalent of 吏部, personnel office/


Words: 文部省
Pinyin: wén bù shěng
Hanviet: 文văn 部bộ 省tỉnh
Meaning:
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Japan), ceased to exist in 2001 when it was merged with another ministry/


Words: 斗
Pinyin: dǒu
Hanviet: 斗đẩu
Meaning:
dry measure for grain equal to ten 升 or one-tenth of a 石/decaliter/peck/cup or dipper shaped object/old variant of 陡/


Words: 斗拱
Pinyin: dǒu gǒng
Hanviet: 斗đẩu 拱củng
Meaning:
interlocking wooden brackets between the top of a column and crossbeams used in traditional Chinese architecture/


Words: 斗酒隻雞
Pinyin: dǒu jiǔ zhī jī
Hanviet: 斗đẩu 酒tửu 隻chỉ 雞kê
Meaning:
lit. a chicken and a bottle of wine (idiom); fig. ready to make an offering to the deceased, or to entertain guests/


Words: 斛
Pinyin: hú
Hanviet: 斛hộc
Meaning:
ancient measuring vessel/fifty liters/dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)/


Words: 斥
Pinyin: chì
Hanviet: 斥xích
Meaning:
to blame/to reprove/to reprimand/to expel/to oust/to reconnoiter/(of territory) to expand/saline marsh/


Words: 斬釘截鐵
Pinyin: zhǎn dīng jié tiě
Hanviet: 斬trảm 釘đinh/đính 截tiệt 鐵thiết
Meaning:
lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom)/fig. resolute and decisive/unhesitating/categorical/


Words: 斯坦因
Pinyin: sī tǎn yīn
Hanviet: 斯tư 坦thản 因nhân
Meaning:
Stein (name)/Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), British adventurer and archaeologist who explorer Xinjiang in early 20th century/


Words: 斯大林格勒戰役
Pinyin: sī dà lín gé lè zhàn yì
Hanviet: 斯tư 大đại 林lâm 格cách 勒lặc 戰chiến 役dịch
Meaning:
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces/


Words: 斯文·海定
Pinyin: sī wén �� hǎi dìng
Hanviet: 斯tư 文văn · 海hải 定định
Meaning:
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭, 楼兰/also written 斯文·赫定/


Words: 斯文·赫定
Pinyin: sī wén �� hè dìng
Hanviet: 斯tư 文văn · 赫hách 定định
Meaning:
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭, 楼兰/


Words: 斯普拉特利群島
Pinyin: sī pǔ lā tè lì qún dǎo
Hanviet: 斯tư 普phổ 拉lạp 特đặc 利lợi 群quần 島đảo
Meaning:
Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam/same as 南沙群島, 南沙群岛/


Words: 斯特拉特福
Pinyin: sī tè lā tè fú
Hanviet: 斯tư 特đặc 拉lạp 特đặc 福phước
Meaning:
Stratford (place name)/Stratford-upon-Avon, UK city in Warwickshire and birthplace of William Shakespeare 莎士比亞, 莎士比亚/


Words: 斯當東
Pinyin: sī dāng dōng
Hanviet: 斯tư 當đương 東đông
Meaning:
Staunton (name)/Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, the second-in-command of the Macartney Mission of 1793/


Words: 斯維爾德洛夫
Pinyin: sī wéi ěr dé luò fū
Hanviet: 斯tư 維duy 爾nhĩ 德đức 洛lạc 夫phu
Meaning:
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar’s family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza/


Words: 斯蒂文
Pinyin: sī dì wén
Hanviet: 斯tư 蒂 文văn
Meaning:
Steven (name)/Simon Stevin (1548-1620), Flemish engineer and mathematician, played a key role in introducing the decimal system to Europe/


Words: 斯諾
Pinyin: sī nuò
Hanviet: 斯tư 諾nặc
Meaning:
Snow (name)/Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China/


Words: 新丁
Pinyin: xīn dīng
Hanviet: 新tân 丁đinh
Meaning:
new addition to a family (i.e. a birth)/a boy who has just come of age/(in a job etc) newcomer/novice/


Words: 新五代史
Pinyin: xīn wǔ dài shǐ
Hanviet: 新tân 五ngũ 代đại 史sử
Meaning:
Later History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), nineteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修, 欧阳修 in 1053 during Northern Song Dynasty, 74 scrolls/


Words: 新儒家
Pinyin: xīn rú jiā
Hanviet: 新tân 儒nho 家gia
Meaning:
New Confucianism, a social and political movement founded in 1920s China that combines aspects of Western and Eastern philosophy/see also 當代新儒家, 当代新儒家/


Words: 新元史
Pinyin: xīn yuán shǐ
Hanviet: 新tân 元nguyên 史sử
Meaning:
New history of the Yuan Dynasty, sometimes listed as one of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Ke Shaomin 柯邵忞 in 1920/


Words: 新劇同志會
Pinyin: xīn jù tóng zhì huì
Hanviet: 新tân 劇kịch 同đồng 志chí 會hội
Meaning:
New Dramatic Society, Chinese theatrical company from 1912, a continuation of Tokyo Spring Willow Society 春柳社/


Words: 新唐書
Pinyin: xīn táng shū
Hanviet: 新tân 唐đường 書thư
Meaning:
History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修, 欧阳修 and Song Qi 宋祁 in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋, 225 scrolls/


Words: 新文化運動
Pinyin: xīn wén huà yùn dòng
Hanviet: 新tân 文văn 化hóa 運vận 動động
Meaning:
the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science/


Words: 新朝
Pinyin: xīn cháo
Hanviet: 新tân 朝triêu
Meaning:
the Xin dynasty (8-23 AD) of Wang Mang 王莽, forming the interregnum between the former and later Han/


Words: 新竹
Pinyin: xīn zhú
Hanviet: 新tân 竹trúc
Meaning:
Xinzhu or Hsinchu city in northern Taiwan, noted for high tech industries/Xinzhu or Hsinchu county in northwest Taiwan/


Words: 新羅
Pinyin: xīn luó
Hanviet: 新tân 羅la
Meaning:
Silla, Korean kingdom 57 BC-935 AD/one of the Korean Three Kingdoms from 1st century AD, defeating its rivals Paikche 百濟, 百济 and Koguryo 高句麗, 高句丽 around 660 in alliance with Tang China/unified Silla 658-935/


Words: 新興
Pinyin: xīn xīng
Hanviet: 新tân 興hưng
Meaning:
Xinxing county in Yunfu 雲浮, 云浮, Guangdong/Xinxing or Hsinhsing district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan/


Words: 新興區
Pinyin: xīn xīng qū
Hanviet: 新tân 興hưng 區khu
Meaning:
Xinxing district of Qitaihe city 七台河, Heilongjiang/Xinxing or Hsinhsing district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan/


Words: 新華區
Pinyin: xīn huá qū
Hanviet: 新tân 華hoa 區khu
Meaning:
Xinhua District/Xinhua District of Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市, 石家庄市, Hebei/Xinhua District of Cangzhou City 滄州市, 沧州市, Hebei/


Words: 新豐
Pinyin: xīn fēng
Hanviet: 新tân 豐phong
Meaning:
Xinfeng County in Shaoguan 韶關, 韶关, Guangdong/Xinfeng or Hsinfeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣, 新竹县, northwest Taiwan/


Words: 新軍
Pinyin: xīn jūn
Hanviet: 新tân 軍quân
Meaning:
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan’s victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)/


Words: 新龍
Pinyin: xīn lóng
Hanviet: 新tân 龍long
Meaning:
Xinlong county (Tibetan: nyag rong rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 斷
Pinyin: duàn
Hanviet: 斷đoạn
Meaning:
to break/to snap/to cut off/to give up or abstain from sth/to judge/(usu. used in the negative) absolutely/definitely/decidedly/


Words: 斷層
Pinyin: duàn céng
Hanviet: 斷đoạn 層tằng
Meaning:
fault (geology)/CL:道,個, 个/(fig.) gap/rupture (in the transmission of some skill)/(tomography) cross-sectional/


Words: 斷線
Pinyin: duàn xiàn
Hanviet: 斷đoạn 線tuyến
Meaning:
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break/(of a tradition etc) to be discontinued/(telephone or Internet connection) disconnected/cut off/


Words: 斷袖之癖
Pinyin: duàn xiù zhī pǐ
Hanviet: 斷đoạn 袖tụ 之chi 癖
Meaning:
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書, 汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor’s long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve./


Words: 方
Pinyin: fāng
Hanviet: 方phương
Meaning:
square/power or involution (mathematics)/upright/honest/fair and square/direction/side/party (to a contract, dispute etc)/place/method/prescription (medicine)/just when/only or just/classifier for square things/abbr. for square or cubic meter/


Words: 方丈
Pinyin: fāng zhang
Hanviet: 方phương 丈trượng
Meaning:
square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square)/monastic room 10 feet square/Buddhist or Daoist abbot/abbot’s chamber/


Words: 方便
Pinyin: fāng biàn
Hanviet: 方phương 便tiện
Meaning:
convenient/suitable/to facilitate/to make things easy/having money to spare/(euphemism) to relieve oneself/


Words: 方言
Pinyin: fāng yán
Hanviet: 方phương 言ngôn
Meaning:
the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄, 扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters/


Words: 施明德
Pinyin: shī míng dé
Hanviet: 施thí 明minh 德đức
Meaning:
Shih Ming-te (1941-), Taiwanese politician, imprisoned 1962-1977 and 1980-1990 under the Guomindang, subsequently a leader of DPP 民進黨, 民进党, since 2006 leader of protests against Chen Shui-Bian 陳水扁, 陈水扁/


Words: 施特勞斯
Pinyin: shī tè láo sī
Hanviet: 施thí 特đặc 勞lao 斯tư
Meaning:
Strauss (name)/Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer/Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer/


Words: 旁觀者清
Pinyin: páng guān zhě qīng
Hanviet: 旁bàng 觀quán 者giả 清thanh
Meaning:
The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear (idiom). The spectator sees more of the game./


Words: 旅順
Pinyin: lǚ shùn
Hanviet: 旅lữ 順thuận
Meaning:
Lüshun/Lüshunkou district of Dalian city 大連市, 大连市, Liaoning/called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905/


Words: 旅順港
Pinyin: lǚ shùn gǎng
Hanviet: 旅lữ 順thuận 港cảng
Meaning:
Lüshun port, on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula/called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905/in Lüshunkou district of Dalian 大連, 大连, Liaoning/


Words: 旗
Pinyin: qí
Hanviet: 旗kỳ
Meaning:
banner/flag/(in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗)/administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣, 县 county/CL:面/


Words: 旗開得勝
Pinyin: qí kāi dé shèng
Hanviet: 旗kỳ 開khai 得đắc 勝thắng
Meaning:
lit. to win a victory on raising the flag (idiom); fig. to start on sth and have immediate success/success in a single move/


Words: 旗鼓相當
Pinyin: qí gǔ xiāng dāng
Hanviet: 旗kỳ 鼓cổ 相tương 當đương
Meaning:
lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched/roughly comparable (opponents)/


Words: 既來之，則安之
Pinyin: jì lái zhī , zé ān zhī
Hanviet: 既ký 來lai 之chi 則tắc 安an 之chi
Meaning:
Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we’re here, take it easy./Since this is so, we should accept it./Now we have come, let’s stay and take the rough with the smooth./If you can’t do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it./


Words: 既往不咎
Pinyin: jì wǎng bù jiù
Hanviet: 既ký 往vãng 不bất 咎cữu
Meaning:
to forget and not bear recriminations (idiom); to let bygones be bygones/There is no point in crying over spilt milk./


Words: 日出而作，日入而息
Pinyin: rì chū ér zuò , rì rù ér xī
Hanviet: 日nhật 出xuất 而nhi 作tác 日nhật 入nhập 而nhi 息tức
Meaning:
lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb)/fig. to lead a plain and hardworking life/


Words: 日落西山
Pinyin: rì luò xī shān
Hanviet: 日nhật 落lạc 西tây 山sơn
Meaning:
the sun sets over western hills (idiom); the day approaches its end/fig. time of decline/the end of an era/Sic transit gloria mundi/


Words: 日薄崦嵫
Pinyin: rì bó yān zī
Hanviet: 日nhật 薄bạc 崦yêm 嵫tư
Meaning:
lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom)/fig. the day is drawing to an end/the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)/


Words: 旦
Pinyin: dàn
Hanviet: 旦đán
Meaning:
dawn/morning/daybreak/day/dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)/


Words: 早操
Pinyin: zǎo cāo
Hanviet: 早tảo 操thao
Meaning:
morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries)/


Words: 早知今日何必當初
Pinyin: zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chū
Hanviet: 早tảo 知tri 今kim 日nhật 何hà 必tất 當đương 初sơ
Meaning:
if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom)/to regret vainly one’s past behavior/


Words: 昂山
Pinyin: áng shān
Hanviet: 昂ngang 山sơn
Meaning:
Aung San (1915-1947), Burmese general and politician, hero of Myanmar independence movement and father of Aung San Su Kyi 昂山素季/


Words: 昂山素季
Pinyin: áng shān sù jì
Hanviet: 昂ngang 山sơn 素tố 季quý
Meaning:
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-), Myanmar opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace laureate/also written 昂山素姬/


Words: 昂納克
Pinyin: áng nà kè
Hanviet: 昂ngang 納nạp 克khắc
Meaning:
Honecker (name)/Erich Honecker (1912-1994), East German communist politician, party general secretary 1971-1989, tried for treason after German unification/


Words: 昌江
Pinyin: chāng jiāng
Hanviet: 昌xương 江giang
Meaning:
Changjiang district of Jingdezhen city 景德鎮市, 景德镇市, Jiangxi/Changjiang Lizu autonomous county, Hainan/


Words: 昌都
Pinyin: chāng dū
Hanviet: 昌xương 都đô
Meaning:
Kham or Chamdo, Tibetan: Chab mdo historic capital of Kham prefecture of Tibet (Chinese Qamdo or Changdu)/also Qamdo county/


Words: 明
Pinyin: míng
Hanviet: 明minh
Meaning:
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)/surname Ming/Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God/


Words: 明
Pinyin: míng
Hanviet: 明minh
Meaning:
bright/opposite: dark 暗/(of meaning) clear/to understand/next/public or open/wise/generic term for a sacrifice to the gods/


Words: 明人不做暗事
Pinyin: míng rén bù zuò àn shì
Hanviet: 明minh 人nhân 不bất 做tố 暗ám 事sự
Meaning:
The honest person does nothing underhand (idiom)./fig. Do what you want to do openly and without dissimulation./


Words: 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉
Pinyin: míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù chén cāng
Hanviet: 明minh 修tu 棧sạn 道đạo 暗ám 渡độ 陳trần 倉thương
Meaning:
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦, 刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽, 项羽 of Chu)/fig. to feign one thing while doing another/to cheat under cover of a diversion/


Words: 明史
Pinyin: míng shǐ
Hanviet: 明minh 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉, 张廷玉 in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls/


Words: 明和
Pinyin: míng hé
Hanviet: 明minh 和hòa
Meaning:
Minghe, rail station in South Taiwan/Meiwa (Japanese reign name 1764-1772)/Meiwa (common name for Japanese companies or schools)/


Words: 明天啟
Pinyin: míng tiān qǐ
Hanviet: 明minh 天thiên 啟khải
Meaning:
Tianqi Emperor, reign name of fifteenth Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao 朱由校 (1605-1627), reigned 1620-1627, Temple name 明熹宗/


Words: 明察暗訪
Pinyin: míng chá àn fǎng
Hanviet: 明minh 察sát 暗ám 訪phỏng
Meaning:
open enquiries and secret search (idiom); to investigate openly and in secret/taking information from all sides/


Words: 明察秋毫
Pinyin: míng chá qiū háo
Hanviet: 明minh 察sát 秋thu 毫hào
Meaning:
lit. seeing clearly the downy feather of autumn (idiom, from Mencius); fig. sensitive to the finest detail/to distinguish right and wrong with acuity/omniscient/


Words: 明日黃花
Pinyin: míng rì huáng huā
Hanviet: 明minh 日nhật 黃hoàng 花hoa
Meaning:
lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom)/fig. outdated/thing of the past/dead letter/


Words: 明槍好躲，暗箭難防
Pinyin: míng qiāng hǎo duǒ , àn jiàn nán fáng
Hanviet: 明minh 槍thương 好hảo/hiếu 躲 暗ám 箭tiễn 難nạn/nan 防phòng
Meaning:
lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies/


Words: 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行
Pinyin: míng zhī shān yǒu hǔ , piān xiàng hǔ shān xíng
Hanviet: 明minh 知tri 山sơn 有hữu 虎hổ 偏thiên 向hướng 虎hổ 山sơn 行hành
Meaning:
lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom)/fig. to take a risk despite knowing the dangers/


Words: 明鏡
Pinyin: míng jìng
Hanviet: 明minh 鏡kính
Meaning:
mirror (as a metaphor for sth beautiful, bright and flat -- such as a lake -- or sth that provides clarity and insight)/


Words: 星宿
Pinyin: xīng xiù
Hanviet: 星tinh 宿tú
Meaning:
constellation (arch., now 星座)/one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology/motion of stars since one’s birth (predetermining one’s fate in astrology)/


Words: 星羅棋布
Pinyin: xīng luó qí bù
Hanviet: 星tinh 羅la 棋 布bố
Meaning:
scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place/


Words: 春光
Pinyin: chūn guāng
Hanviet: 春xuân 光quang
Meaning:
scenes of springtime/the radiance of spring/(fig.) a sight of sth sexy or erotic/an indication of a love affair/


Words: 春光乍泄
Pinyin: chūn guāng zhà xiè
Hanviet: 春xuân 光quang 乍sạ 泄tiết
Meaning:
spring sunshine emerges to bring the world alive (idiom)/to give a glimpse of sth intimate (e.g. one’s underwear)/


Words: 春柳
Pinyin: chūn liǔ
Hanviet: 春xuân 柳liễu
Meaning:
Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動, 新文化运动, continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會, 新剧同志会/


Words: 春江水暖鴨先知
Pinyin: chūn jiāng shuǐ nuǎn yā xiān zhī
Hanviet: 春xuân 江giang 水thủy 暖noãn 鴨áp 先tiên 知tri
Meaning:
lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom)/fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows/


Words: 春燈謎
Pinyin: chūn dēng mí
Hanviet: 春xuân 燈đăng 謎mê
Meaning:
Spring lantern riddles (guessing game at Lantern Festival 元宵節, 元宵节, at the end of Spring festival 春節, 春节)/


Words: 春秋三傳
Pinyin: chūn qiū sān zhuàn
Hanviet: 春xuân 秋thu 三tam 傳truyền
Meaning:
Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋, including Mr Gongyang’s annals 公羊傳, 公羊传, Mr Guliang’s annals 穀梁傳, 谷梁传 and Mr Zuo’s annals or Zuo Zhuan 左傳, 左传/


Words: 春秋五霸
Pinyin: chūn qiū wǔ bà
Hanviet: 春xuân 秋thu 五ngũ 霸
Meaning:
the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊桓公, 齐桓公, Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公, 晋文公, King Zhuang of Chu 楚莊王, 楚庄王, and alternatively Duke Xiang of Song 宋襄公 and Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公 or King Helu of Wu 吳王闔閭, 吴王阖闾 and King Gou Jian of Yue 越王勾踐, 越王勾践/


Words: 春秋戰國時代
Pinyin: chūn qiū zhàn guó shí dài
Hanviet: 春xuân 秋thu 戰chiến 國quốc 時thời 代đại
Meaning:
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods/Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC)/


Words: 春秋繁露
Pinyin: chūn qiū fán lù
Hanviet: 春xuân 秋thu 繁phồn 露lộ
Meaning:
Rich dew of spring and autumn, ideological tract by Han dynasty political philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒/


Words: 春聯
Pinyin: chūn lián
Hanviet: 春xuân 聯liên
Meaning:
Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)/


Words: 春蠶
Pinyin: chūn cán
Hanviet: 春xuân 蠶tằm
Meaning:
Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾/


Words: 春闈
Pinyin: chūn wéi
Hanviet: 春xuân 闈vi
Meaning:
metropolitan civil service examination (held triennially in spring in imperial times)/Crown Prince’s chambers/by extension, the Crown Prince/


Words: 昭蘇
Pinyin: zhāo sū
Hanviet: 昭chiêu 蘇tô
Meaning:
Zhaosu county or Mongghulküre nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州, 伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 是非自有公論
Pinyin: shì fēi zì yǒu gōng lùn
Hanviet: 是thị 非phi 自tự 有hữu 公công 論luận
Meaning:
to determine right and wrong based on public opinion (idiom)/Public opinion will judge what’s right and wrong./


Words: 時間是把殺豬刀
Pinyin: shí jiān shì bǎ shā zhū dāo
Hanviet: 時thời 間gian 是thị 把bả 殺sát 豬trư 刀đao
Meaning:
lit. time is a butcher’s knife/fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving/nothing gold can stay/


Words: 晉
Pinyin: jìn
Hanviet: 晉tấn
Meaning:
surname Jin/the Jin Dynasties (265-420)/Western Jin 西晉, 西晋 (265-316), Eastern Jin 東晉, 东晋 (317-420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936-946)/short name for Shanxi province 山西/


Words: 晉察冀
Pinyin: jìn chá jì
Hanviet: 晉tấn 察sát 冀ký
Meaning:
Shanxi 山西, Chahar 察哈爾, 察哈尔 and Hebei 河北 (three provinces of the Republic of China in the period 1912-1936)/


Words: 晉惠帝
Pinyin: jìn huì dì
Hanviet: 晉tấn 惠huệ 帝đế
Meaning:
Emperor Hui of Jin (259-307), personal name 司馬衷, 司马衷, 2nd emperor of Jin Dynasty 晉朝, 晋朝, reigned 290-307/


Words: 晉書
Pinyin: jìn shū
Hanviet: 晉tấn 書thư
Meaning:
History of the Jin Dynasty, fifth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Fang Xuanling 房玄齡, 房玄龄 in 648 during Tang Dynasty 唐朝, 130 scrolls/


Words: 晏嬰
Pinyin: yàn yīng
Hanviet: 晏 嬰anh
Meaning:
Yanzi (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as 晏子, hero of book 晏子春秋/


Words: 晏子
Pinyin: yàn zǐ
Hanviet: 晏 子tử
Meaning:
Yanzi (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as 晏婴, hero of book 晏子春秋/


Words: 晏子春秋
Pinyin: yàn zǐ chūn qiū
Hanviet: 晏 子tử 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
Tales of Yanzi, book describing the life and wisdom of Yanzi 晏子 (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States/


Words: 晏平仲
Pinyin: yàn píng zhòng
Hanviet: 晏 平bình 仲trọng
Meaning:
another name for Yan Ying 晏嬰, 晏婴 or Yanzi 晏子 (-500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States 齊國, 齐国/


Words: 晨鐘暮鼓
Pinyin: chén zhōng mù gǔ
Hanviet: 晨thần 鐘chung 暮mộ 鼓cổ
Meaning:
lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement to study or progress/


Words: 普加喬夫
Pinyin: pǔ jiā qiáo fū
Hanviet: 普phổ 加gia 喬kiều 夫phu
Meaning:
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great/


Words: 普朗克常數
Pinyin: pǔ lǎng kè cháng shù
Hanviet: 普phổ 朗lãng 克khắc 常thường 數số
Meaning:
Planck’s constant h, approximately equal to 6.626 x 10^-34 joule.seconds or 4.135 x 10^-15 electron volt.seconds/


Words: 普氏
Pinyin: pǔ shì
Hanviet: 普phổ 氏thị
Meaning:
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基, 普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870/


Words: 普氏野馬
Pinyin: pǔ shì yě mǎ
Hanviet: 普phổ 氏thị 野dã 馬mã
Meaning:
Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基, 普尔热瓦尔斯基/


Words: 普洱
Pinyin: pǔ ěr
Hanviet: 普phổ 洱
Meaning:
Pu’er prefecture level city in Yunnan/county capital of Ning’er Hani and Yi autonomous county 寧洱哈尼族彞族自治縣, 宁洱哈尼族彝族自治县/


Words: 普洱哈尼族彞族自治縣
Pinyin: pǔ ěr hā ní zú yí zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 普phổ 洱 哈 尼ni 族tộc 彞 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
former Pu’er Hani and Yi autonomous county in Yunnan, renamed in 2007 Ning’er Hani and Yi autonomous county 寧洱哈尼族彞族自治縣, 宁洱哈尼族彝族自治县, capital Pu’er city 普洱市/


Words: 普爾熱瓦爾斯基
Pinyin: pǔ ěr rè wǎ ěr sī jī
Hanviet: 普phổ 爾nhĩ 熱nhiệt 瓦ngõa 爾nhĩ 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870/abbr. to 普氏/


Words: 普陀山
Pinyin: pǔ tuó shān
Hanviet: 普phổ 陀đà 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音, 观音 (Avalokiteśvara)/


Words: 景泰
Pinyin: jǐng tài
Hanviet: 景cảnh 泰thái
Meaning:
Jingtai county in Baiyin 白銀, 白银, Gansu/Jiangtai Emperor, reign name of seventh Ming Emperor Zhu Qiyu 朱祁鈺, 朱祁钰 (1428-1457), reigned 1449-1457, Temple name 代宗/


Words: 智者千慮，必有一失
Pinyin: zhì zhě qiān lǜ , bì yǒu yī shī
Hanviet: 智trí 者giả 千thiên 慮lự 必tất 有hữu 一nhất 失thất
Meaning:
lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible/


Words: 暗渡陳倉
Pinyin: àn dù chén cāng
Hanviet: 暗ám 渡độ 陳trần 倉thương
Meaning:
lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦, 刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽, 项羽 of Chu)/fig. to feign one thing while doing another/to cheat under cover of a diversion/


Words: 暢所欲言
Pinyin: chàng suǒ yù yán
Hanviet: 暢sướng 所sở 欲dục 言ngôn
Meaning:
lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one’s favorite topic/to hold forth to one’s heart’s content/


Words: 暮鼓晨鐘
Pinyin: mù gǔ chén zhōng
Hanviet: 暮mộ 鼓cổ 晨thần 鐘chung
Meaning:
lit. evening drum, morning bell (idiom); fig. Buddhist monastic practice/the passage of time in a disciplined existence/


Words: 暴虎馮河
Pinyin: bào hǔ píng hé
Hanviet: 暴bạo 虎hổ 馮bằng 河hà
Meaning:
lit. fight tigers with one’s bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)/fig. to display foolhardy courage/


Words: 曬
Pinyin: shài
Hanviet: 曬sái
Meaning:
(of the sun) to shine on/to bask in (the sunshine)/to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun/(fig.) to expose and share (one’s experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share")/(coll.) to give the cold shoulder to/


Words: 曲突徙薪
Pinyin: qū tū xǐ xīn
Hanviet: 曲khúc 突đột 徙tỉ 薪tân
Meaning:
lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom)/fig. to take preventive measures/


Words: 曲麻萊
Pinyin: qǔ má lái
Hanviet: 曲khúc 麻ma 萊
Meaning:
Qumarleb county (Tibetan: chu dmar leb rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州, 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 更
Pinyin: gēng
Hanviet: 更cánh
Meaning:
to change or replace/to experience/one of the five two hour periods into which the night was formerly divided/watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)/


Words: 書中自有黃金屋，書中自有顏如玉
Pinyin: shū zhōng zì yǒu huáng jīn wū , shū zhōng zì yǒu yán rú yù
Hanviet: 書thư 中trung 自tự 有hữu 黃hoàng 金kim 屋ốc 書thư 中trung 自tự 有hữu 顏nhan 如như 玉ngọc
Meaning:
lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb)/fig. be diligent in your studies, success and glory will follow/


Words: 書經
Pinyin: shū jīng
Hanviet: 書thư 經kinh
Meaning:
the Book of History, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經, 五经, a compendium of documents which make up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the time of Confucius, also known as 尚書經, 尚书经, 尚書, 尚书, 書, 书/


Words: 書聖
Pinyin: shū shèng
Hanviet: 書thư 聖thánh
Meaning:
great calligraphy master/the Sage of Calligraphy, traditional reference to Wang Xizhi 王羲之 (303-361)/


Words: 書館
Pinyin: shū guǎn
Hanviet: 書thư 館quán
Meaning:
teashop with performance by 評書, 评书 story tellers/(attached to name of publishing houses)/(in former times) private school/library (of classic texts)/


Words: 曹不興
Pinyin: cáo bù xīng
Hanviet: 曹tào 不bất 興hưng
Meaning:
Cao Buxing or Ts’ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semi-legendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six dynasties 六朝四大家/


Words: 曹丕
Pinyin: cáo pī
Hanviet: 曹tào 丕
Meaning:
Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher/


Words: 曹參
Pinyin: cáo cān
Hanviet: 曹tào 參tham
Meaning:
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang’s 劉邦, 刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭, 楚汉战争/also pr. /


Words: 曹操
Pinyin: cáo cāo
Hanviet: 曹tào 操thao
Meaning:
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕/the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义/


Words: 曹魏
Pinyin: cáo wèi
Hanviet: 曹tào 魏ngụy
Meaning:
Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265/


Words: 曼陀羅
Pinyin: màn tuó luó
Hanviet: 曼mạn 陀đà 羅la
Meaning:
flower of north India (Datura stramonium, Sanskrit: mandara), considered sacred and grown in temples, similar to belladonna/


Words: 曾參
Pinyin: zēng shēn
Hanviet: 曾tằng 參tham
Meaning:
Zeng Shen (505-435 BC), a.k.a. 曾子, student of Confucius, presumed editor or author of Confucian classic the Great Learning 大學, 大学/


Words: 曾子
Pinyin: zēng zǐ
Hanviet: 曾tằng 子tử
Meaning:
Zengzi (505-435 BC), student of Confucius, presumed editor or author of Confucian classic the Great Learning 大學, 大学/


Words: 曾紀澤
Pinyin: zēng jì zé
Hanviet: 曾tằng 紀kỷ 澤trạch
Meaning:
Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia/


Words: 曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲
Pinyin: céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què wū shān bù shì yún
Hanviet: 曾tằng 經kinh 滄thương 海hải 難nạn/nan 為vi 水thủy 除trừ 卻khước 巫 山sơn 不bất 是thị 雲vân
Meaning:
there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom)/one who has seen the world doesn’t stop at small things/


Words: 曾金燕
Pinyin: zēng jīn yàn
Hanviet: 曾tằng 金kim 燕yên
Meaning:
Zeng Jinyan (1983-), Chinese blogger and human rights activist, wife of dissident activist Hu Jia 胡佳/


Words: 替古人擔憂
Pinyin: tì gǔ rén dān yōu
Hanviet: 替thế 古cổ 人nhân 擔đảm 憂ưu
Meaning:
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily/crying over spilt milk/often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues/


Words: 會
Pinyin: huì
Hanviet: 會hội
Meaning:
can/to be possible/to be able to/will/to be likely to/to be sure to/to assemble/to meet/to gather/to see/union/group/association/CL:個, 个/a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is )/


Words: 會元
Pinyin: huì yuán
Hanviet: 會hội 元nguyên
Meaning:
provincial imperial examination graduate who ranked 1st in metropolitan examination (in Ming and Qing dynasties)/


Words: 會士
Pinyin: huì shì
Hanviet: 會hội 士sĩ
Meaning:
member of religious order/penitent/frater/translation of French agregé (holder of teaching certificate)/


Words: 會意
Pinyin: huì yì
Hanviet: 會hội 意ý
Meaning:
combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements/also known as joint ideogram or associative compounds/to comprehend without being told explicitly/to cotton on/knowing (smile, glance etc)/


Words: 會意字
Pinyin: huì yì zì
Hanviet: 會hội 意ý 字tự
Meaning:
combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書, 六书 of forming Chinese characters)/Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements/also known as joint ideogram or associative compounds/


Words: 會期
Pinyin: huì qī
Hanviet: 會hội 期kỳ
Meaning:
the duration of a conference/the period over which a conference (or expo etc) is held/session/the date of a meeting/


Words: 會盟
Pinyin: huì méng
Hanviet: 會hội 盟minh
Meaning:
meetings conducted by rulers in feudal China for the purpose of formalizing alliances, finalizing treaties/


Words: 會社
Pinyin: huì shè
Hanviet: 會hội 社xã
Meaning:
a guild/(in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild/the Japanese word for company/


Words: 月光族
Pinyin: yuè guāng zú
Hanviet: 月nguyệt 光quang 族tộc
Meaning:
lit. moonlight group/fig. those who spend their monthly income even before they earn their next salary (slang)/


Words: 月孛
Pinyin: yuè bèi
Hanviet: 月nguyệt 孛bột
Meaning:
lunar apogee (point in the moon’s orbit furthest from earth)/imaginary heavenly body occupying the second focus of the moon’s elliptic orbit/dark moon/Lilith/


Words: 月相
Pinyin: yuè xiàng
Hanviet: 月nguyệt 相tương/tướng
Meaning:
phases of moon, namely: new moon 朔, first quarter or waxing moon 上弦, full moon 望 and last quarter or waning moon 下弦/


Words: 有奶便是娘
Pinyin: yǒu nǎi biàn shì niáng
Hanviet: 有hữu 奶 便tiện 是thị 娘nương
Meaning:
lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom)/fig. to follow whoever is feeding you/to put one’s loyalties where one’s interests lie/


Words: 有始無終
Pinyin: yǒu shǐ wú zhōng
Hanviet: 有hữu 始thỉ 無vô 終chung
Meaning:
to start but not finish (idiom); to fail to carry things through/lack of sticking power/short attention span/


Words: 有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰
Pinyin: yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn
Hanviet: 有hữu 意ý 栽tài 花hoa 花hoa 不bất 發phát 無vô 心tâm 插sáp 柳liễu 柳liễu 成thành 陰ấm
Meaning:
lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree/fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect/well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it/


Words: 有意義
Pinyin: yǒu yì yì
Hanviet: 有hữu 意ý 義nghĩa
Meaning:
to make sense/to have meaning/to have significance/meaningful/significant/worthwhile/important/interesting/


Words: 有目無睹
Pinyin: yǒu mù wú dǔ
Hanviet: 有hữu 目mục 無vô 睹đổ
Meaning:
has eyes but can’t see (idiom); unable or unwilling to see the importance of sth/blind (to sth great)/


Words: 有眼不識泰山
Pinyin: yǒu yǎn bù shí tài shān
Hanviet: 有hữu 眼nhãn 不bất 識thức 泰thái 山sơn
Meaning:
lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom)/fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb’s great talent/to be blind to the fact/


Words: 有臉
Pinyin: yǒu liǎn
Hanviet: 有hữu 臉liệm
Meaning:
lit. having face/to have prestige/to command respect/to have the nerve (e.g. to ask sth outrageous)/to have the gall/not ashamed to/


Words: 有色無膽
Pinyin: yǒu sè wú dǎn
Hanviet: 有hữu 色sắc 無vô 膽đảm
Meaning:
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it/to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it/to be all talk and no action/


Words: 有錢能使鬼推磨
Pinyin: yǒu qián néng shǐ guǐ tuī mò
Hanviet: 有hữu 錢tiền 能năng 使sử 鬼quỷ 推thôi 磨ma
Meaning:
lit. money will make the Devil turn millstones (idiom)/fig. with money, you can do anything you like/


Words: 服
Pinyin: fú
Hanviet: 服phục
Meaning:
clothes/dress/garment/to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc)/to obey/to convince/to admire/to acclimatize/to take (medicine)/mourning clothes/to wear mourning clothes/


Words: 服他靈
Pinyin: fú tā líng
Hanviet: 服phục 他tha 靈linh
Meaning:
voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as pain-killer/also called 扶他林/


Words: 服侍
Pinyin: fú shi
Hanviet: 服phục 侍thị
Meaning:
to attend to/to care for (patients etc)/to look after/to wait upon/to serve/also written 伏侍, see also 服事/


Words: 望子成龍
Pinyin: wàng zǐ chéng lóng
Hanviet: 望vọng 子tử 成thành 龍long
Meaning:
lit. to hope one’s son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one’ s child to succeed in life/to have great hopes for one’s offspring/to give one’s child the best education as a career investment/


Words: 望文生義
Pinyin: wàng wén shēng yì
Hanviet: 望vọng 文văn 生sanh 義nghĩa
Meaning:
lit. view a text and interpret (idiom); to interpret word-by-word without understanding the meaning/a far-fetched interpretation/


Words: 望洋興嘆
Pinyin: wàng yáng xīng tàn
Hanviet: 望vọng 洋dương 興hưng 嘆thán
Meaning:
lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one’s inadequacy (idiom)/fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)/


Words: 朝
Pinyin: cháo
Hanviet: 朝triêu
Meaning:
imperial or royal court/government/dynasty/reign of a sovereign or emperor/court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor/to make a pilgrimage to/facing/towards/


Words: 朝三暮四
Pinyin: zhāo sān mù sì
Hanviet: 朝triêu 三tam 暮mộ 四tứ
Meaning:
lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon/indecisive/to blow hot and cold/


Words: 朝不保夕
Pinyin: zhāo bù bǎo xī
Hanviet: 朝triêu 不bất 保bảo 夕tịch
Meaning:
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state/imminent crisis/living from hand to mouth/


Words: 朝永振一郎
Pinyin: cháo yǒng zhèn yī láng
Hanviet: 朝triêu 永vĩnh 振chấn 一nhất 郎lang
Meaning:
TOMONAGA Shin’ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger/


Words: 朝陽
Pinyin: cháo yáng
Hanviet: 朝triêu 陽dương
Meaning:
Chaoyang district in east and northeast Beijing, a county level district of Beijing municipality/Chaoyang prefecture level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省, 辽宁省 in northeast China/Chaoyang district of Changchun city 長春市, 长春市, Jilin/Chaoyang county in Chaoyang 朝陽, 朝阳, Liaoning/


Words: 朝露溘至
Pinyin: zhāo lù kè zhì
Hanviet: 朝triêu 露lộ 溘 至chí
Meaning:
the morning dew will swiftly dissipate (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence/


Words: 朝饔夕飧
Pinyin: zhāo yōng xī sūn
Hanviet: 朝triêu 饔 夕tịch 飧
Meaning:
lit. breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening (idiom)/fig. to do nothing but eat and drink/


Words: 朝鮮族
Pinyin: cháo xiǎn zú
Hanviet: 朝triêu 鮮tiên 族tộc
Meaning:
Korean ethnic group in China (mainly in northeast China)/the Koreans (major ethnic group on the Korean Peninsula)/


Words: 期
Pinyin: qī
Hanviet: 期kỳ
Meaning:
a period of time/phase/stage/classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study/time/term/period/to hope/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 期房
Pinyin: qī fáng
Hanviet: 期kỳ 房phòng
Meaning:
forward delivery apartment/unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within certain time frame/


Words: 木壘哈薩克自治縣
Pinyin: mù lěi hā sà kè zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 木mộc 壘lũy 哈 薩tát 克khắc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Mori Kazakh autonomous county or Mori Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 木柵
Pinyin: mù zhà
Hanviet: 木mộc 柵
Meaning:
Muzha (old spelling, Mucha), was a district in Taipei City merged with Jingmei is now called Wenshan/


Words: 木格措
Pinyin: mù gé cuò
Hanviet: 木mộc 格cách 措thố
Meaning:
Lake Mibgai Co or Miga Tso, in Dartsendo or Kangding 康定, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan/


Words: 木瓜
Pinyin: mù guā
Hanviet: 木mộc 瓜qua
Meaning:
papaya (Carica papaya)/genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae/Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)/


Words: 木里藏族自治縣
Pinyin: mù lǐ zàng zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 木mộc 里lý 藏tạng 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Muli Tibetan autonomous county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州, 凉山彝族自治州, south Sichuan/


Words: 未
Pinyin: wèi
Hanviet: 未vị
Meaning:
not yet/did not/have not/not/8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep/ancient Chinese compass point: 210°/


Words: 未雨綢繆
Pinyin: wèi yǔ chóu móu
Hanviet: 未vị 雨vũ 綢trù 繆mâu
Meaning:
lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經, 诗经); fig. to plan ahead/to prepare for a rainy day/


Words: 本
Pinyin: běn
Hanviet: 本bổn
Meaning:
root/stem/origin/source/this/the current/original/inherent/originally/classifier for books, periodicals, files etc/


Words: 本分
Pinyin: běn fèn
Hanviet: 本bổn 分phần/phân
Meaning:
(to play) one’s part/one’s role/one’s duty/(to stay within) one’s bounds/dutiful/keeping to one’s role/


Words: 本因坊
Pinyin: běn yīn fāng
Hanviet: 本bổn 因nhân 坊phường
Meaning:
Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940)/title held by the winner of the Honinbo Go tournament (1941-)/


Words: 本性難移
Pinyin: běn xìng nán yí
Hanviet: 本bổn 性tánh 難nan 移di
Meaning:
It is hard to change one’s essential nature (idiom). You can’t change who you are./Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)/


Words: 本末倒置
Pinyin: běn mò dào zhì
Hanviet: 本bổn 末mạt 倒đảo 置trí
Meaning:
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect/to stress the incidental over the fundamental/to put the cart before the horse/


Words: 本業
Pinyin: běn yè
Hanviet: 本bổn 業nghiệp
Meaning:
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying)/original business/core business/(literary) agriculture/


Words: 本省人
Pinyin: běn shěng rén
Hanviet: 本bổn 省tỉnh 人nhân
Meaning:
people of this province/(in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants/


Words: 本體
Pinyin: běn tǐ
Hanviet: 本bổn 體thể
Meaning:
main part/torso/the thing in itself/noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)/


Words: 札
Pinyin: zhá
Hanviet: 札
Meaning:
thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China)/a kind of official document (in former times)/letter/note/


Words: 朱利亞尼
Pinyin: zhū lì yà ní
Hanviet: 朱chu 利lợi 亞 尼ni
Meaning:
Giuliani (name)/Rudolph W (Rudy) Giuliani (1944-), US Republican politician, Mayor of New York City 1994-2001/


Words: 朱溫
Pinyin: zhū wēn
Hanviet: 朱chu 溫ôn
Meaning:
Zhu Wen (852-912), military governor 節度使, 节度使 at the end of Tang, founder of Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923)/also called 后梁太祖, 後梁太祖/


Words: 朱熹
Pinyin: zhū xī
Hanviet: 朱chu 熹
Meaning:
Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子, Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism/


Words: 朱祁鎮
Pinyin: zhū qí zhèn
Hanviet: 朱chu 祁kỳ 鎮trấn
Meaning:
Zhu Qizhen, personal name of sixth and eighth Ming emperor Zhengtong 正統, 正统, afterwards Tianshun Emperor 天順, 天顺 (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449 and 1457-1464/


Words: 朴槿惠
Pinyin: piáo jǐn huì
Hanviet: 朴phác 槿 惠huệ
Meaning:
Park Geun-hye (1952-), Korean politician, daughter of former dictator Park Chung-Hee 朴正熙, President of Korea from 2013/


Words: 朴正熙
Pinyin: piáo zhèng xī
Hanviet: 朴phác 正chánh 熙hi
Meaning:
Park Chung-Hee (1917-1979), South Korean military man and dictator, president 1963-1979, influential in developing Korean industry, murdered by his bodyguard/


Words: 李代桃僵
Pinyin: lǐ dài táo jiāng
Hanviet: 李 代đại 桃đào 僵cương
Meaning:
lit. the plum tree withers in place of the peach tree/to substitute one thing for another/to carry the can for sb/


Words: 李伯元
Pinyin: lǐ bó yuán
Hanviet: 李 伯bá 元nguyên
Meaning:
Li Boyuan or Li Baojia 李寶嘉, 李宝嘉 (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記, 官场现形记/


Words: 李卜克內西
Pinyin: lǐ bo kè nèi xī
Hanviet: 李 卜bốc 克khắc 內nội 西tây
Meaning:
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900), political activist and founding member of the German Socialist Party SPD/


Words: 李叔同
Pinyin: lǐ shū tóng
Hanviet: 李 叔thúc 同đồng
Meaning:
Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement 新文化運動, 新文化运动 after the Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命 of 1911/


Words: 李四
Pinyin: lǐ sì
Hanviet: 李 四tứ
Meaning:
Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三, 张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry/


Words: 李四光
Pinyin: lǐ sì guāng
Hanviet: 李 四tứ 光quang
Meaning:
Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration/


Words: 李娃傳
Pinyin: lǐ wá zhuàn
Hanviet: 李 娃 傳truyền
Meaning:
Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡, 白行简 along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot/


Words: 李娜
Pinyin: lǐ nà
Hanviet: 李 娜na
Meaning:
Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women’s singles)/


Words: 李安
Pinyin: lǐ ān
Hanviet: 李 安an
Meaning:
Ang Li (1954-), Taiwanese-American film director (films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍, 卧虎藏龙 and Brokeback Mountain 斷背山, 断背山)/


Words: 李寶嘉
Pinyin: lǐ bǎo jiā
Hanviet: 李 寶bảo 嘉gia
Meaning:
Li Boyuan 李伯元 or Li Baojia (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記, 官场现形记/


Words: 李希霍芬
Pinyin: lǐ xī huò fēn
Hanviet: 李 希hy 霍hoắc 芬phân
Meaning:
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路, 丝绸之路/


Words: 李廣
Pinyin: lǐ guǎng
Hanviet: 李 廣quảng
Meaning:
Li Guang (-119 BC), Han dynasty general, nicknamed Flying General 飛將軍, 飞将军 and much feared by the Xiongnu 匈奴/


Words: 李建成
Pinyin: lǐ jiàn chéng
Hanviet: 李 建kiến 成thành
Meaning:
Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵, 唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變, 玄武门之变/Professor Li Jiancheng (1993-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy/


Words: 李後主
Pinyin: lǐ hòu zhǔ
Hanviet: 李 後hậu 主chủ
Meaning:
Li Houzhu (c. 937-978), the final Southern Tang ruler (ruled 961-975) and a renowned poet/given name Li Yu 李煜/


Words: 李承晚
Pinyin: lǐ chéng wǎn
Hanviet: 李 承thừa 晚vãn
Meaning:
Syngman Rhee (1875-1965), US trained Korean politician and dictator, president of Republic of Korea 1948-1960/


Words: 李斯
Pinyin: lǐ sī
Hanviet: 李 斯tư
Meaning:
Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and Prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC/


Words: 李斯特
Pinyin: lǐ sī tè
Hanviet: 李 斯tư 特đặc
Meaning:
Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer/Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist/


Words: 李明博
Pinyin: lǐ míng bó
Hanviet: 李 明minh 博bác
Meaning:
Lee Myung-bak (1941-), South Korean businessman, one-time chairman of Hyundai, president of South Korea 2008-2013/


Words: 李時珍
Pinyin: lǐ shí zhēn
Hanviet: 李 時thời 珍trân
Meaning:
Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Ming botanist and pharmacologist, author of Compendium of Medical Herbs 本草綱目, 本草纲目/


Words: 李格非
Pinyin: lǐ gé fēi
Hanviet: 李 格cách 非phi
Meaning:
Li Gefei (active c. 1090), Northern Song writer and father of southern Song female poet Li Qingzhao 李清照/


Words: 李汝珍
Pinyin: lǐ rǔ zhēn
Hanviet: 李 汝nhữ 珍trân
Meaning:
Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-c. 1830), Qing novelist and phonologist, author of fantasy novel Jinghua Yuan 鏡花緣, 镜花缘 or Flowers in the Mirror/


Words: 李煜
Pinyin: lǐ yù
Hanviet: 李 煜
Meaning:
Li Yu (c. 937-978), given name of the final ruler of Tang of the Five Southern dynasties Li Houzhu 李後主, 李后主, a renowned poet/


Words: 李百藥
Pinyin: lǐ bǎi yào
Hanviet: 李 百bách 藥dược
Meaning:
Li Baiyao (565-648), Tang dynasty writer and historian, compiler of History of Qi of the Northern dynasties 北齊書, 北齐书/


Words: 李翱
Pinyin: lǐ áo
Hanviet: 李 翱cao
Meaning:
Li Ao (774-836), Tang dynasty scholar and writer, colleague of Han Yu 韓愈 in promoting classical writing 古文運動, 古文运动/


Words: 李舜臣
Pinyin: lǐ shùn chén
Hanviet: 李 舜thuấn 臣thần
Meaning:
Yi Sunshin (1545-1598), Korean admiral and folk hero, famous for sea victories over the Japanese invaders/


Words: 李英儒
Pinyin: lǐ yīng rú
Hanviet: 李 英anh 儒nho
Meaning:
Li Yingru (1913-1989), calligrapher and writer, author of many novels about the war as seen by the communists/


Words: 李鐵拐
Pinyin: lǐ tiě guǎi
Hanviet: 李 鐵thiết 拐
Meaning:
Iron-Crutch Li, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙 in Chinese mythology, walking around with an iron crutch and carrying a gourd with special medicine/


Words: 李開復
Pinyin: lǐ kāi fù
Hanviet: 李 開khai 復phục
Meaning:
Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009/


Words: 李陵
Pinyin: lǐ líng
Hanviet: 李 陵lăng
Meaning:
Li Ling (-74 BC), Han dynasty general whose defeat by the Xiongnu 匈奴 in 104 BC led to a major scandal/


Words: 李雲娜
Pinyin: lǐ yún nà
Hanviet: 李 雲vân 娜na
Meaning:
Euna Lee (phonetic transcription), US woman journalist imprisoned as spy by North Korea in 2009/also written 李誠恩, 李诚恩/


Words: 李靖
Pinyin: lǐ jìng
Hanviet: 李 靖tĩnh
Meaning:
Li Jing (570-649 AD), Tang Dynasty general and purported author of "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李衛公問對, 唐太宗李卫公问对, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 李顯龍
Pinyin: lǐ xiǎn lóng
Hanviet: 李 顯hiển 龍long
Meaning:
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004/


Words: 李鵬
Pinyin: lǐ péng
Hanviet: 李 鵬
Meaning:
Li Peng (1928-), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown/


Words: 杏林
Pinyin: xìng lín
Hanviet: 杏hạnh 林lâm
Meaning:
forest of apricot trees/fig. honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)/Xinglin district of Xiamen city (renamed Haicang 海沧区 in 2003)/


Words: 杏花村
Pinyin: xìng huā cūn
Hanviet: 杏hạnh 花hoa 村thôn
Meaning:
village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by 杜牧)/


Words: 村證房
Pinyin: cūn zhèng fáng
Hanviet: 村thôn 證chứng 房phòng
Meaning:
"village-certificated house", residence supposedly only transferable to other village residents but often sold on the open market/


Words: 杜鵑
Pinyin: dù juān
Hanviet: 杜đỗ 鵑
Meaning:
cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp., also written 杜鵑鳥, 杜鹃鸟)/Indian azalea (Rhododendron simsii Planch, also written 杜鵑花, 杜鹃花)/


Words: 杞國
Pinyin: qǐ guó
Hanviet: 杞 國quốc
Meaning:
the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣, 杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence/


Words: 杞梓之林
Pinyin: qǐ zǐ zhī lín
Hanviet: 杞 梓 之chi 林lâm
Meaning:
forest of wolfberry and catalpa (Lycium chinense and Catalpa ovata, idiom); fig. great quantity of talent/


Words: 束手無策
Pinyin: shù shǒu wú cè
Hanviet: 束thúc 手thủ 無vô 策sách
Meaning:
lit. to have one’s hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis/


Words: 杯弓蛇影
Pinyin: bēi gōng shé yǐng
Hanviet: 杯 弓cung 蛇xà 影ảnh
Meaning:
lit. to see a bow reflected in a cup as a snake (idiom); fig. unnecessary suspicions/overly fearful/


Words: 杯酒釋兵權
Pinyin: bēi jiǔ shì bīng quán
Hanviet: 杯 酒tửu 釋thích 兵binh 權quyền
Meaning:
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups/cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces/


Words: 東三省
Pinyin: dōng sān shěng
Hanviet: 東đông 三tam 省tỉnh
Meaning:
the three provinces of Northeast China, namely: Liaoning Province 遼寧省, 辽宁省, Jilin Province 吉林省 and Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省, 黑龙江省/


Words: 東交民巷
Pinyin: dōng jiāo mín xiàng
Hanviet: 東đông 交giao 民dân 巷hạng
Meaning:
a street to the south of the Forbidden City that was the Legation quarter during the Boxer uprising/


Words: 東吳
Pinyin: dōng wú
Hanviet: 東đông 吳ngô
Meaning:
Eastern Wu (222-280)/the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權, 孙权/


Words: 東坡肘子
Pinyin: dōng pō zhǒu zi
Hanviet: 東đông 坡 肘trửu 子tử
Meaning:
Dongpo pork shoulder, traditional dish said to have been created by Northern Song dynasty writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡, 苏东坡/


Words: 東奔西走
Pinyin: dōng bēn xī zǒu
Hanviet: 東đông 奔bôn 西tây 走tẩu
Meaning:
to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily/to bustle about/to hopscotch/also 東跑西顛, 东跑西颠/


Words: 東山再起
Pinyin: dōng shān zài qǐ
Hanviet: 東đông 山sơn 再tái 起khởi
Meaning:
lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback/


Words: 東山區
Pinyin: dōng shān qū
Hanviet: 東đông 山sơn 區khu
Meaning:
Dongshan district (Uighur: Dungsen Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市, 乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang/Dongshan district of Hegang city 鶴崗, 鹤岗, Heilongjiang/


Words: 東施效顰
Pinyin: dōng shī xiào pín
Hanviet: 東đông 施thí 效hiệu 顰tần
Meaning:
lit. Dong Shi imitates Xi Shi’s frown (idiom)/fig. to mimick sb’s idiosyncrasies but make a fool of oneself/


Words: 東突
Pinyin: dōng tū
Hanviet: 東đông 突đột
Meaning:
East Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO), Chinese dissident group/abbr. for 東突厥斯坦解放組織, 东突厥斯坦解放组织/


Words: 東興
Pinyin: dōng xīng
Hanviet: 東đông 興hưng
Meaning:
Dongxing district of Neijiang city 內江市, 内江市, Sichuan/Dongxing county level city in Fangchenggang 防城港, Guangxi/


Words: 東西德
Pinyin: dōng xī dé
Hanviet: 東đông 西tây 德đức
Meaning:
East and West Germany/refers to German democratic republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)/


Words: 東觀漢記
Pinyin: dōng guān hàn jì
Hanviet: 東đông 觀quán 漢hán 記ký
Meaning:
History of Later Han dynasty, internal palace record by many 1st and 2nd century authors, 143 scrolls/


Words: 東鄉
Pinyin: dōng xiāng
Hanviet: 東đông 鄉hương
Meaning:
Dongxiang or East village (place name)/Donxiang (ethnic group)/Dongxiang County in Fuzhou 撫州, 抚州, Jiangxi/


Words: 東魏
Pinyin: dōng wèi
Hanviet: 東đông 魏ngụy
Meaning:
Eastern Wei of the Northern dynasties (534-550), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏/


Words: 松山區
Pinyin: sōng shān qū
Hanviet: 松tùng 山sơn 區khu
Meaning:
Songshan or Sungshan district of Taipei City 臺北市, 台北市, Taiwan/Songshan district of Chifeng city 赤峰市, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 松潘
Pinyin: sōng pān
Hanviet: 松tùng 潘phan
Meaning:
Songpan county (Tibetan: zung 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: 松遼平原
Pinyin: sōng liáo píng yuán
Hanviet: 松tùng 遼liêu 平bình 原nguyên
Meaning:
Songliao Plain of northeast China including Songhua River 松花江 through the Liaoning Peninsula, also called the Northeast Plain 東北平原, 东北平原/


Words: 板
Pinyin: bǎn
Hanviet: 板bản
Meaning:
board/plank/plate/shutter/table tennis bat/clappers (music)/CL:塊, 块/accented beat in Chinese music/hard/stiff/to stop smiling or look serious/


Words: 枕戈待旦
Pinyin: zhěn gē dài dàn
Hanviet: 枕chẩm 戈qua 待đãi 旦đán
Meaning:
to wait for dawn, one’s head resting on a spear (idiom)/fully prepared and biding one’s time before the battle/


Words: 林則徐
Pinyin: lín zé xú
Hanviet: 林lâm 則tắc 徐từ
Meaning:
Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842/


Words: 林旭
Pinyin: lín xù
Hanviet: 林lâm 旭
Meaning:
Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898/


Words: 林森
Pinyin: lín sēn
Hanviet: 林lâm 森sâm
Meaning:
Lin Sen (1868-1943), revolutionary politician, colleague of Sun Yat-sen, chairman of the Chinese nationalist government (1928-1932)/


Words: 林紓
Pinyin: lín shū
Hanviet: 林lâm 紓
Meaning:
Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into classical Chinese/


Words: 林黛玉
Pinyin: lín dài yù
Hanviet: 林lâm 黛 玉ngọc
Meaning:
Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉, 贾宝玉/


Words: 枚
Pinyin: méi
Hanviet: 枚mai
Meaning:
classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc/tree trunk/whip/wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)/


Words: 果實累累
Pinyin: guǒ shí léi léi
Hanviet: 果quả 實thật 累lũy/lụy/luy 累lũy/lụy/luy
Meaning:
lit. prodigious abundance of fruit (idiom)/fruit hangs heavy on the bough/fig. countless accomplishments/one great result after another/


Words: 枯木逢春
Pinyin: kū mù féng chūn
Hanviet: 枯khô 木mộc 逢phùng 春xuân
Meaning:
lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom)/fig. to get a new lease on life/to be revived/(of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve/


Words: 架空
Pinyin: jià kōng
Hanviet: 架 空không
Meaning:
built above the ground (on stilts)/fig. unfounded/impractical (cf castles in the air)/fig. a mere figurehead/


Words: 柄
Pinyin: bǐng
Hanviet: 柄bính
Meaning:
handle or shaft (of an axe etc)/(of a flower, leaf or fruit) stem/sth that affords an advantage to an opponent/classifier for knives or blades/


Words: 柏克萊
Pinyin: bǎi kè lái
Hanviet: 柏 克khắc 萊
Meaning:
Berkeley (name)/George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, famous British philosopher/Berkeley, university city in the San Francisco bay area, California/


Words: 柏崎
Pinyin: bǎi qí
Hanviet: 柏 崎
Meaning:
Kashiwazaki (Japanese surname)/Kashiwazaki, town in Niigata prefecture, Japan/Kashiwazaki, title of a Noh play/


Words: 染
Pinyin: rǎn
Hanviet: 染nhiễm
Meaning:
to dye/to catch (a disease)/to acquire (bad habits etc)/to contaminate/to add color washes to a painting/


Words: 染指
Pinyin: rǎn zhǐ
Hanviet: 染nhiễm 指chỉ
Meaning:
to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one’s finger in the pie/to get a share of the action/abbr. for 染指於鼎, 染指于鼎/


Words: 染指於鼎
Pinyin: rǎn zhǐ yú dǐng
Hanviet: 染nhiễm 指chỉ 於ư 鼎đỉnh
Meaning:
lit. dip one’s finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one’s finger in the pie/to get a share of the action/


Words: 柘
Pinyin: zhè
Hanviet: 柘chá
Meaning:
a thorny tree/sugarcane/Cudrania triloba/three-bristle cudrania (Cudrania tricuspidata)/Chinese mulberry (Cudrania)/


Words: 查
Pinyin: chá
Hanviet: 查
Meaning:
to research/to check/to investigate/to examine/to refer to/to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)/


Words: 查戈斯群島
Pinyin: chá gē sī qún dǎo
Hanviet: 查 戈qua 斯tư 群quần 島đảo
Meaning:
Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島, 迪戈·加西亚岛 as largest island/


Words: 查抄
Pinyin: chá chāo
Hanviet: 查 抄sao
Meaning:
to take inventory of and confiscate a criminal’s possessions/to search and confiscate (forbidden items)/to raid/


Words: 查水表
Pinyin: chá shuǐ biǎo
Hanviet: 查 水thủy 表biểu
Meaning:
(Internet slang) (of the police) to ask to be let in on the pretext of checking the water meter/to barge into people’s home on false pretences/


Words: 柯林頓
Pinyin: kē lín dùn
Hanviet: 柯kha 林lâm 頓đốn
Meaning:
(Tw) Clinton (name)/Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001/Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician/


Words: 柯棣華
Pinyin: kē dì huá
Hanviet: 柯kha 棣 華hoa
Meaning:
Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942), one of five Indian doctors sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War/


Words: 柳宗元
Pinyin: liǔ zōng yuán
Hanviet: 柳liễu 宗tông 元nguyên
Meaning:
Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動, 古文运动 and neoclassical 復古, 复古 movements/


Words: 柳暗花明
Pinyin: liǔ àn huā míng
Hanviet: 柳liễu 暗ám 花hoa 明minh
Meaning:
lit. the willow trees make the shade, the flowers give the light (idiom); at one’s darkest hour, a glimmer of hope/light at the end of the tunnel/


Words: 柳條湖事件
Pinyin: liǔ tiáo hú shì jiàn
Hanviet: 柳liễu 條điều 湖hồ 事sự 件
Meaning:
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria/also known as 9-18 incident 九一八事變, 九一八事变/


Words: 柳毅傳
Pinyin: liǔ yì zhuàn
Hanviet: 柳liễu 毅nghị 傳truyền
Meaning:
story of Liu Yi, Tang fantasy fiction by Li Chaowei 李朝威, popular with dramatist of subsequent dynasties/


Words: 柳琴
Pinyin: liǔ qín
Hanviet: 柳liễu 琴cầm
Meaning:
liuqin lute, smaller soprano version of the pipa 琵琶, with holes in the soundbox, and range equivalent to that of a violin/


Words: 柴科夫斯基
Pinyin: chái kē fū sī jī
Hanviet: 柴sài 科khoa 夫phu 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin/


Words: 柴達木
Pinyin: chái dá mù
Hanviet: 柴sài 達đạt 木mộc
Meaning:
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau./


Words: 株
Pinyin: zhū
Hanviet: 株chu
Meaning:
tree trunk/stump (tree root)/a plant/classifier for trees or plants/to involve others (in shady business)/


Words: 核四
Pinyin: hé sì
Hanviet: 核hạch 四tứ
Meaning:
Fourth Nuclear Power Plant near New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan/also called Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant/


Words: 核定
Pinyin: hé dìng
Hanviet: 核hạch 定định
Meaning:
to audit and determine/to check and ratify/to appraise and decide/determination/on a deemed basis (taxation)/to deem/


Words: 根
Pinyin: gēn
Hanviet: 根căn
Meaning:
root/basis/classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings/CL:條, 条/radical (chemistry)/


Words: 格
Pinyin: gé
Hanviet: 格cách
Meaning:
square/frame/rule/(legal) case/style/character/standard/pattern/(grammar) case/(classical) to obstruct/to hinder/(classical) to arrive/to come/(classical) to investigate/to study exhaustively/


Words: 格律
Pinyin: gé lǜ
Hanviet: 格cách 律luật
Meaning:
forms of versification/conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of classical Chinese poetic composition/metrical verse/


Words: 格斯塔
Pinyin: gé sī tǎ
Hanviet: 格cách 斯tư 塔tháp
Meaning:
Gestalt (loanword)/coherent whole/technical word used in psychology meaning the whole is more than the sum of its parts/holistic/integrated/total/also written 格式塔/


Words: 格林尼治
Pinyin: gé lín ní zhì
Hanviet: 格cách 林lâm 尼ni 治trị
Meaning:
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude)/refers to Greenwich mean time/


Words: 格洛納斯
Pinyin: gé luò nà sī
Hanviet: 格cách 洛lạc 納nạp 斯tư
Meaning:
GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelitnaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russian equivalent of GPS/


Words: 格爾木
Pinyin: gé ěr mù
Hanviet: 格cách 爾nhĩ 木mộc
Meaning:
Golmud or Ge’ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 格物
Pinyin: gé wù
Hanviet: 格cách 物vật
Meaning:
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學, 理学/word for Western natural sciences during late Qing/


Words: 格緻
Pinyin: gé zhì
Hanviet: 格cách 緻trí
Meaning:
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge/abbr. for 格物致知/word for Western natural sciences during late Qing/


Words: 桀王
Pinyin: jié wáng
Hanviet: 桀 王vương
Meaning:
King Jie, the final ruler of the Xia dynasty (until c. 1600 BC), a notoriously cruel and immoral tyrant/


Words: 桃園三結義
Pinyin: táo yuán sān jié yì
Hanviet: 桃đào 園viên 三tam 結kết 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Oath of the Peach Garden, sworn by Liu Bei 劉備, 刘备, Zhang Fei 張飛, 张飞 and Guan Yu 關羽, 关羽 at the start of the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义/


Words: 桃源
Pinyin: táo yuán
Hanviet: 桃đào 源nguyên
Meaning:
Taoyuan county in Changde 常德, Hunan/Taoyuan township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣, 高雄县, southwest Taiwan/


Words: 桃花扇
Pinyin: táo huā shàn
Hanviet: 桃đào 花hoa 扇thiên/phiến
Meaning:
The Peach Blossom Fan, historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty by Kong Shangren 孔尚任/


Words: 框
Pinyin: kuàng
Hanviet: 框
Meaning:
frame (e.g. door frame)/casing/fig. framework/template/to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth)/to frame/to restrict/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 案首
Pinyin: àn shǒu
Hanviet: 案án 首thủ
Meaning:
candidate who ranked 1st in imperial examination on prefecture or county level (in Ming and Qing dynasties)/


Words: 桑帕約
Pinyin: sāng pà yuē
Hanviet: 桑tang 帕 約ước
Meaning:
Sampaio (name)/Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, President of Portugal 1996-2006/Sampaio, town in Brazil/


Words: 桑間濮上
Pinyin: sāng jiān pú shàng
Hanviet: 桑tang 間gian 濮 上thượng
Meaning:
Sangjian by the Pu River, a place in the ancient state of Wei known for wanton behavior/lovers’ rendezvous/


Words: 桴鼓相應
Pinyin: fú gǔ xiāng yìng
Hanviet: 桴phù 鼓cổ 相tương 應ứng
Meaning:
lit. the hammer fits the drum (idiom); appropriate relation between the different parts/closely interrelated/


Words: 梁啟超
Pinyin: liáng qǐ chāo
Hanviet: 梁lương 啟khải 超siêu
Meaning:
Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898/


Words: 梁書
Pinyin: liáng shū
Hanviet: 梁lương 書thư
Meaning:
History of Liang of the Southern Dynasties, eighth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉 in 636 during Tang dynasty, 56 scrolls/


Words: 梁木
Pinyin: liáng mù
Hanviet: 梁lương 木mộc
Meaning:
beam/rafter/lintel/person able to bear heavy responsibility/mainstay (of organization)/pillar (of state)/


Words: 梅德韋傑夫
Pinyin: méi dé wéi jié fū
Hanviet: 梅mai 德đức 韋vi 傑kiệt 夫phu
Meaning:
Medvedyev (name)/Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, President of Russian Federation from 2008/


Words: 梅里美
Pinyin: méi lǐ měi
Hanviet: 梅mai 里lý 美mỹ
Meaning:
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera/


Words: 梅里雪山
Pinyin: méi lǐ xuě shān
Hanviet: 梅mai 里lý 雪Tuyết 山Sơn
Meaning:
Meilixue or Meri snow mountains, with peaks up to 6000 m., in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, Yunnan/


Words: 條
Pinyin: tiáo
Hanviet: 條điều
Meaning:
strip/item/article/clause (of law or treaty)/classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)/


Words: 條條框框
Pinyin: tiáo tiáo kuàng kuàng
Hanviet: 條điều 條điều 框 框
Meaning:
fixed framework (idiom); restriction of social conventions and taboos (usually derogatory)/regulations and restrictions/


Words: 棄暗投明
Pinyin: qì àn tóu míng
Hanviet: 棄khí 暗ám 投đầu 明minh
Meaning:
to renounce the dark and seek the light/to give up one’s wrong way of life and turn to a better one/


Words: 棟梁
Pinyin: dòng liáng
Hanviet: 棟đống 梁lương
Meaning:
ridgepole/ridgepole and beams/person able to bear heavy responsibility/mainstay (of organization)/pillar (of state)/


Words: 棧道
Pinyin: zhàn dào
Hanviet: 棧sạn 道đạo
Meaning:
plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff/(archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers/


Words: 森喜朗
Pinyin: sēn xǐ lǎng
Hanviet: 森sâm 喜hỷ 朗lãng
Meaning:
MORI Yoshirō (1937-), Japanese rugby player and politician, prime minister 2000-2001, famous for numerous gaffes/


Words: 楊守仁
Pinyin: yáng shǒu rén
Hanviet: 楊dương 守thủ 仁nhân
Meaning:
Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist/Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar/


Words: 楊家將
Pinyin: yáng jiā jiàng
Hanviet: 楊dương 家gia 將tương
Meaning:
Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業, 杨业 of warriors/


Words: 楊業
Pinyin: yáng yè
Hanviet: 楊dương 業nghiệp
Meaning:
famous Song dynasty family of warriors (c. 10th century AD), resisted the Liao 遼, 辽 and defended the Song/the subject of the popular fiction Yang Saga 楊家將, 杨家将/


Words: 楊深秀
Pinyin: yáng shēn xiù
Hanviet: 楊dương 深thâm 秀tú
Meaning:
Yang Shenxiu (1849-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898/


Words: 楊玉環
Pinyin: yáng yù huán
Hanviet: 楊dương 玉ngọc 環hoàn
Meaning:
Yang Yuhuan or Yang Guifei 楊貴妃, 杨贵妃 (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂, 安史之乱/


Words: 楊貴妃
Pinyin: yáng guì fēi
Hanviet: 楊dương 貴quý 妃phi
Meaning:
Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環, 杨玉环 or Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂, 安史之乱/


Words: 楊銳
Pinyin: yáng ruì
Hanviet: 楊dương 銳duệ
Meaning:
Yang Rui (1855-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898/Yang Rui (1963-), host of "Dialogue" on CCTV News/


Words: 楗
Pinyin: jiàn
Hanviet: 楗
Meaning:
material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike/(literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)/


Words: 楚
Pinyin: chǔ
Hanviet: 楚sở
Meaning:
surname Chu/abbr. for Hubei 湖北省 and Hunan 湖南省 provinces together/Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722-221 BC)/


Words: 楚
Pinyin: chǔ
Hanviet: 楚sở
Meaning:
distinct/clear/orderly/pain/suffering/deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex)/punishment cane (old)/


Words: 楚河漢界
Pinyin: chǔ hé hàn jiè
Hanviet: 楚sở 河hà 漢hán 界giới
Meaning:
lit. the river that divides Chu and Han/fig. a line that divides rival territories/the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard/


Words: 楚漢戰爭
Pinyin: chǔ hàn zhàn zhēng
Hanviet: 楚sở 漢hán 戰chiến 爭tranh
Meaning:
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦, 刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽, 项羽 of Chu/


Words: 楚辭
Pinyin: chǔ cí
Hanviet: 楚sở 辭từ
Meaning:
Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)/


Words: 楚雄
Pinyin: chǔ xióng
Hanviet: 楚sở 雄hùng
Meaning:
Chuxiong county level city, capital of Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture 楚雄彞族自治州, 楚雄彝族自治州 in central Yunnan/


Words: 楞
Pinyin: léng
Hanviet: 楞lăng
Meaning:
variant of 稜, 棱, corner/square beam/edge/arris (curve formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge)/see 楞迦 Sri Lanka/


Words: 業
Pinyin: yè
Hanviet: 業nghiệp
Meaning:
line of business/industry/occupation/job/employment/school studies/enterprise/property/(Buddhism) karma/deed/to engage in/already/


Words: 業精於勤
Pinyin: yè jīng yú qín
Hanviet: 業nghiệp 精tinh 於ư 勤cần
Meaning:
mastery of study lies in diligence (idiom). You can only master a subject by assiduous study./Excellence in work is only possible with diligence./Practice makes perfect./


Words: 業績
Pinyin: yè jì
Hanviet: 業nghiệp 績
Meaning:
achievement/accomplishment/(in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc)/results/


Words: 業障
Pinyin: yè zhàng
Hanviet: 業nghiệp 障chướng
Meaning:
karmic hindrance (buddhism)/karmic consequences that stand in the way of enlightenment/(term of abuse, especially toward the younger generation) devil spawn/(fig.) money/


Words: 極品
Pinyin: jí pǐn
Hanviet: 極cực 品phẩm
Meaning:
best quality/item of the highest quality/(slang) outrageous/annoying in the extreme/gross/person with these qualities/


Words: 榮毅仁
Pinyin: róng yì rén
Hanviet: 榮vinh 毅nghị 仁nhân
Meaning:
Rong Yiren (1916-2005), PRC Vice President from 1993-1998, played an important role in opening Chinese economy to Western investors/


Words: 榮辱觀
Pinyin: róng rǔ guān
Hanviet: 榮vinh 辱nhục 觀quán
Meaning:
precepts regarding what is honorable and what is shameful (in particular, refers to the Socialist Concepts on Honors and Disgraces, PRC official moral principles promulgated from 2006)/abbr. for 社會主義榮辱觀, 社会主义荣辱观/also known as the Eight Honors and Eight Shames 八榮八恥, 八荣八耻/


Words: 構
Pinyin: gòu
Hanviet: 構
Meaning:
to construct/to form/to make up/to compose/literary composition/paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)/


Words: 槍
Pinyin: qiāng
Hanviet: 槍thương
Meaning:
gun/firearm/rifle/spear/thing with shape or function similar to a gun/CL:支,把,桿, 杆,條, 条,枝/to substitute for another person in a test/to knock/classifier for rifle shots/


Words: 槍手
Pinyin: qiāng shǒu
Hanviet: 槍thương 手thủ
Meaning:
gunman/sharpshooter/sb who takes an exam for sb else/sb who produces a piece of work for sb else to pass off as their own/


Words: 槓
Pinyin: gàng
Hanviet: 槓
Meaning:
thick pole/bar/rod/thick line/to mark with a thick line/to sharpen (knife)/(old) coffin-bearing pole/


Words: 樁腳
Pinyin: zhuāng jiǎo
Hanviet: 樁 腳cước
Meaning:
pier foundation (architecture)/(Tw) politically influential figure enlisted to support one side in an election/


Words: 樂經
Pinyin: yuè jīng
Hanviet: 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc 經kinh
Meaning:
Book of Music, said to be one of the Six Classics lost after Qin’s burning of the books in 212 BC, but may simply refer to Book of Songs 詩經, 诗经/


Words: 標
Pinyin: biāo
Hanviet: 標tiêu
Meaning:
mark/sign/label/to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc/to bear (a brand name, registration number etc)/prize/award/bid/target/quota/(old) the topmost branches of a tree/visible symptom/classifier for military units/


Words: 標會
Pinyin: biāo huì
Hanviet: 標tiêu 會hội
Meaning:
private loan association where money is allocated through bidding/meeting of such an association/to win the bidding at such a meeting/


Words: 標注
Pinyin: biāo zhù
Hanviet: 標tiêu 注chú
Meaning:
to mark out/to tag/to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to/to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin)/


Words: 標題黨
Pinyin: biāo tí dǎng
Hanviet: 標tiêu 題đề 黨đảng
Meaning:
"sensational headline writers", people who write misleading titles in order to generate clicks from Internet users/clickbait/


Words: 樹倒猢猻散
Pinyin: shù dǎo hú sūn sàn
Hanviet: 樹thụ 倒đảo 猢 猻 散tán
Meaning:
When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause/Rats leave a sinking ship./


Words: 樹欲靜而風不止
Pinyin: shù yù jìng ér fēng bù zhǐ
Hanviet: 樹thụ 欲dục 靜tĩnh 而nhi 風phong 不bất 止chỉ
Meaning:
lit. the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (idiom)/fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not/


Words: 樹碑立傳
Pinyin: shù bēi lì zhuàn
Hanviet: 樹thụ 碑bi 立lập 傳truyền
Meaning:
lit. to erect a stele and write a biography (idiom)/to monumentalize/to glorify/to sing the praises of/


Words: 樹高千丈，葉落歸根
Pinyin: shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn
Hanviet: 樹thụ 高cao 千thiên 丈trượng 葉diệp 落lạc 歸quy 根căn
Meaning:
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)/fig. everything has its ancestral home/in old age, an expatriate returns home/


Words: 機
Pinyin: jī
Hanviet: 機cơ
Meaning:
machine/engine/opportunity/intention/aircraft/pivot/crucial point/flexible (quick-witted)/organic/CL:臺, 台/


Words: 機車
Pinyin: jī chē
Hanviet: 機cơ 車xa
Meaning:
locomotive/train engine car/scooter (Tw)/(slang) (Tw) hard to get along with/a pain in the ass/damn!/crap!/


Words: 機關
Pinyin: jī guān
Hanviet: 機cơ 關quan
Meaning:
mechanism/gear/machine-operated/office/agency/organ/organization/establishment/institution/body/strategum/scheme/intrigue/plot/trick/CL:個, 个/


Words: 橫山
Pinyin: héng shān
Hanviet: 橫hoạnh/hoành 山sơn
Meaning:
Hengshan County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi/Hengshan township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣, 新竹县, northwest Taiwan/Yokoyama (Japanese surname)/


Words: 橫斷山脈
Pinyin: héng duàn shān mài
Hanviet: 橫hoạnh/hoành 斷đoạn 山sơn 脈mạch
Meaning:
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet/


Words: 橫眉冷對千夫指
Pinyin: héng méi lěng duì qiān fū zhǐ
Hanviet: 橫hoạnh/hoành 眉mi 冷lãnh 對đối 千thiên 夫phu 指chỉ
Meaning:
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun)/to treat with disdain/to defy/


Words: 橫衝直撞
Pinyin: héng chōng zhí zhuàng
Hanviet: 橫hoạnh/hoành 衝xung 直trực 撞chàng
Meaning:
lit. bashing sideways and colliding straight on (idiom); to push through shoving and bumping/to barge/to charge around violently/


Words: 檔
Pinyin: dàng
Hanviet: 檔
Meaning:
official records/grade (of goods)/file/records/shelves/slot/gap/crosspiece/classifier for crosspieces/classifier for events, affairs etc/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 檔期
Pinyin: dàng qī
Hanviet: 檔 期kỳ
Meaning:
slot within a schedule/timeslot (for a TV program, a session with a photographer etc)/range of dates in which an event is to be held (film screening, exhibition etc)/


Words: 檟
Pinyin: jiǎ
Hanviet: 檟
Meaning:
Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees/old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant 茶/also called Thea sinensis/small evergreen shrub (Mallotus japonicus)/


Words: 檢察官
Pinyin: jiǎn chá guān
Hanviet: 檢kiểm 察sát 官quan
Meaning:
public prosecutor/public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution)/


Words: 檳榔西施
Pinyin: bīng lang xī shī
Hanviet: 檳 榔 西tây 施thí
Meaning:
betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth (Tw)/


Words: 櫛風沐雨
Pinyin: zhì fēng mù yǔ
Hanviet: 櫛 風phong 沐mộc 雨vũ
Meaning:
lit. to comb one’s hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom)/fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather/


Words: 櫻花
Pinyin: yīng huā
Hanviet: 櫻 花hoa
Meaning:
oriental cherry (Prunus serrulata or Prunus yedoensis), prized for its blossom/also known as sakura (Japanese) or Yoshino cherry/


Words: 欀
Pinyin: xiāng
Hanviet: 欀
Meaning:
inner lining of wooden utensils/component beam used in building construction/species of oak tree with medicinal bark (old)/


Words: 次
Pinyin: cì
Hanviet: 次thứ
Meaning:
next in sequence/second/the second (day, time etc)/secondary/vice-/sub-/infra-/inferior quality/substandard/order/sequence/hypo- (chemistry)/classifier for enumerated events: time/


Words: 欲加之罪，何患無辭
Pinyin: yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí
Hanviet: 欲dục 加gia 之chi 罪tội 何hà 患hoạn 無vô 辭từ
Meaning:
If you want to condemn sb, don’t worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳, 左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb/Give a dog a bad name, then hang him./


Words: 欲益反損
Pinyin: yù yì fǎn sǔn
Hanviet: 欲dục 益ích 反phản 損tổn
Meaning:
wishing for profit, but causing loss (idiom); good intentions that lead to disaster/It all ends in tears./


Words: 欲速則不達
Pinyin: yù sù zé bù dá
Hanviet: 欲dục 速tốc 則tắc 不bất 達đạt
Meaning:
lit. to want sth in haste, but cannot get there (idiom, from Analects); more haste, less speed/don’t try to run before you can walk/


Words: 欲速而不達
Pinyin: yù sù ér bù dá
Hanviet: 欲dục 速tốc 而nhi 不bất 達đạt
Meaning:
lit. to want sth in haste, but cannot get there (idiom, from Analects); more haste, less speed/also written 慾速則不達, 欲速则不达/


Words: 欺生
Pinyin: qī shēng
Hanviet: 欺khi 生sanh
Meaning:
to cheat strangers/to bully strangers/(of domesticated animals) to be rebellious with unfamiliar people/


Words: 欽奈
Pinyin: qīn nài
Hanviet: 欽khâm 奈nại
Meaning:
Chennai, capital of southeast Indian state Tamil Nadu 泰米爾納德邦, 泰米尔纳德邦/formerly called Madras 馬德拉斯, 马德拉斯/


Words: 歇後語
Pinyin: xiē hòu yǔ
Hanviet: 歇hiết 後hậu 語ngữ
Meaning:
saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part/


Words: 歌舞升平
Pinyin: gē wǔ shēng píng
Hanviet: 歌ca 舞vũ 升thăng 平bình
Meaning:
lit. to celebrate peace with songs and dance (idiom)/fig. to make a show of happiness and prosperity/


Words: 正
Pinyin: zhèng
Hanviet: 正chánh
Meaning:
straight/upright/proper/main/principal/to correct/to rectify/exactly/just (at that time)/right (in that place)/(math.) positive/


Words: 正倉院
Pinyin: zhēng cāng yuàn
Hanviet: 正chánh 倉thương 院viện
Meaning:
Shōsō-in, treasure house belonging to Tōdai-ji 東大寺, Nara 奈良, Japan, an extensive repository of imperial treasures from Tang times/described as the east-most end of the Silk road/


Words: 正史
Pinyin: zhèng shǐ
Hanviet: 正chánh 史sử
Meaning:
the 24 or 25 official dynastic histories/true history, as opposed to fictional adaptation or popular legends/


Words: 正名
Pinyin: zhèng míng
Hanviet: 正chánh 名danh
Meaning:
to replace the current name or title of sth with a new one that reflects its true nature/rectification of names (a tenet of Confucian philosophy)/


Words: 正字
Pinyin: zhèng zì
Hanviet: 正chánh 字tự
Meaning:
to correct an erroneously written character/regular script (calligraphy)/standard form (of a character or spelling)/


Words: 正字通
Pinyin: zhèng zì tōng
Hanviet: 正chánh 字tự 通thông
Meaning:
Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈, 张自烈 in 17th century/


Words: 正德
Pinyin: zhèng dé
Hanviet: 正chánh 德đức
Meaning:
Zhengde Emperor, reign name of eleventh Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao 朱厚照 (1491-1521), reigned 1505-1521, Temple name 明武宗/


Words: 正教
Pinyin: zhèng jiào
Hanviet: 正chánh 教giáo
Meaning:
lit. true religion/orthodox religion/orthodox Christianity/Islam (in the writing of Chinese or Hui theologians)/


Words: 正教真詮
Pinyin: zhèng jiào zhēn quán
Hanviet: 正chánh 教giáo 真chân 詮thuyên
Meaning:
Exegesis of true religion by Wang Daiyu 王岱輿, 王岱舆, a study of Islam/also translated as Real hermeneutics of orthodox religion/


Words: 正統
Pinyin: zhèng tǒng
Hanviet: 正chánh 統thống
Meaning:
Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen 朱祁鎮, 朱祁镇 (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, Temple name Yingzong 英宗/


Words: 正職
Pinyin: zhèng zhí
Hanviet: 正chánh 職chức
Meaning:
main job/day job/steady full-time job (as opposed to temporary or casual)/chief or principal post (as opposed to deputy)/


Words: 正藍旗
Pinyin: zhèng lán qí
Hanviet: 正chánh 藍lam 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Plain Blue banner or Shuluun Höh khoshuu in Xilin Gol league 錫林郭勒盟, 锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia/also written 正蘭旗, 正兰旗/


Words: 正邪相爭
Pinyin: zhèng xié xiāng zhēng
Hanviet: 正chánh 邪tà 相tương 爭tranh
Meaning:
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣, 正气 and pathogeny 邪氣, 邪气/


Words: 正鑲白旗
Pinyin: zhèng xiāng bái qí
Hanviet: 正chánh 鑲 白bạch 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Plain and Bordered White banner or Shuluun Hövööt Chagaan khoshuu in Xilin Gol league 錫林郭勒盟, 锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 正體
Pinyin: zhèng tǐ
Hanviet: 正chánh 體thể
Meaning:
standard form (of a Chinese character)/plain font style (as opposed to bold or italic)/printed style (as opposed to cursive)/(Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters/


Words: 此起彼伏
Pinyin: cǐ qǐ bǐ fú
Hanviet: 此thử 起khởi 彼bỉ 伏phục
Meaning:
up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession/no sooner one subsides, the next arises/repeating continuously/occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)/


Words: 武侯祠
Pinyin: wǔ hóu cí
Hanviet: 武võ 侯hầu 祠từ
Meaning:
memorial hall to Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮, 诸葛亮 (many of them in different town)/refers to tourist attraction in Chengdu 成都/


Words: 武定
Pinyin: wǔ dìng
Hanviet: 武võ 定định
Meaning:
Wuding reign name (543-550) during Eastern Wei of the Northern Dynasties 東魏, 东魏/Wuding county in Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture 楚雄彞族自治州, 楚雄彝族自治州, Yunnan/


Words: 武昌起義
Pinyin: wǔ chāng qǐ yì
Hanviet: 武võ 昌xương 起khởi 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen’s Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty/


Words: 武松
Pinyin: wǔ sōng
Hanviet: 武võ 松tùng
Meaning:
Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan po 梁山泊 in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳, 水浒传, whose exploits including killing a tiger with his bare hands/


Words: 武經七書
Pinyin: wǔ jīng qī shū
Hanviet: 武võ 經kinh 七thất 書thư
Meaning:
Seven Military Classics of ancient China viz "Six Secret Strategic Teachings" 六韜, 六韬, "Methods of Sima" 司馬法, 司马法, "The Art of War" 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法, "Wuzi" 吳子, 吴子, "Wei Liaozi" 尉繚子, 尉缭子, "Three Strategies of Huang Shigong" 黃石公三略, 黄石公三略 and "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李衛公問對, 唐太宗李卫公问对/


Words: 武經總要
Pinyin: wǔ jīng zǒng yào
Hanviet: 武võ 經kinh 總tổng 要yếu
Meaning:
"Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques", book published in 1044 during the Northern Song Dynasty/


Words: 武術
Pinyin: wǔ shù
Hanviet: 武võ 術thuật
Meaning:
military skill or technique (in former times)/all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development)/self-defense/tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage)/also called kungfu 功夫/CL:種, 种/


Words: 歷任
Pinyin: lì rèn
Hanviet: 歷lịch 任nhậm
Meaning:
(of one person) to hold the successive posts of/(of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)/


Words: 歸
Pinyin: guī
Hanviet: 歸quy
Meaning:
to return/to go back to/to give back to/(of a responsibility) to be taken care of by/to belong to/to gather together/(used between two identical verbs) despite/to marry (of a woman) (old)/division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor/


Words: 歸口
Pinyin: guī kǒu
Hanviet: 歸quy 口khẩu
Meaning:
to return to one’s original trade/to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority/(the) relevant (department in charge of sth)/


Words: 歸屬
Pinyin: guī shǔ
Hanviet: 歸quy 屬thuộc
Meaning:
to belong to/to be affiliated to/to fall under the jurisdiction of/a place where one feels that one belongs/one’s final destination (where one need look no further)/


Words: 死亡筆記
Pinyin: sǐ wáng bǐ jì
Hanviet: 死tử 亡vong 筆bút 記ký
Meaning:
Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇, 大场鸫 (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健/


Words: 死心
Pinyin: sǐ xīn
Hanviet: 死tử 心tâm
Meaning:
to give up/to admit failure/to drop the matter/to reconcile oneself to loss/to have no more illusions about/


Words: 死有餘辜
Pinyin: sǐ yǒu yú gū
Hanviet: 死tử 有hữu 餘dư 辜cô
Meaning:
death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead/


Words: 死灰復燃
Pinyin: sǐ huī fù rán
Hanviet: 死tử 灰hôi 復phục 燃nhiên
Meaning:
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence/sth malevolent returns to haunt one/


Words: 死神
Pinyin: sǐ shén
Hanviet: 死tử 神thần
Meaning:
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die/(fig.) death/


Words: 死緩
Pinyin: sǐ huǎn
Hanviet: 死tử 緩hoãn
Meaning:
deferred death sentence/commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)/


Words: 死馬當活馬醫
Pinyin: sǐ mǎ dàng huó mǎ yī
Hanviet: 死tử 馬mã 當đương 活hoạt 馬mã 醫y
Meaning:
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom)/fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation/


Words: 殘
Pinyin: cán
Hanviet: 殘tàn
Meaning:
to destroy/to spoil/to ruin/to injure/cruel/oppressive/savage/brutal/incomplete/disabled/to remain/to survive/remnant/surplus/


Words: 殫精極慮
Pinyin: dān jīng jí lǜ
Hanviet: 殫đàn 精tinh 極cực 慮lự
Meaning:
to exhaust one’s thoughts and ingenuity (idiom); to think sth through thoroughly/to rack one’s brains/to leave no stone unturned/


Words: 殲擊
Pinyin: jiān jī
Hanviet: 殲 擊kích
Meaning:
to annihilate/to attack and destroy/Jianji, PRC fighter plane based on Soviet MiG/usually 殲擊8型, 歼击8型/


Words: 段
Pinyin: duàn
Hanviet: 段đoạn
Meaning:
paragraph/section/segment/stage (of a process)/classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc/


Words: 段祺瑞
Pinyin: duàn qí ruì
Hanviet: 段đoạn 祺 瑞thụy
Meaning:
Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord/


Words: 殷
Pinyin: yīn
Hanviet: 殷ân
Meaning:
surname Yin/dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province/


Words: 殺一儆百
Pinyin: shā yī jǐng bǎi
Hanviet: 殺sát 一nhất 儆 百bách
Meaning:
lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres/


Words: 殺人不過頭點地
Pinyin: shā rén bù guò tóu diǎn dì
Hanviet: 殺sát 人nhân 不bất 過quá 頭đầu 點điểm 地địa
Meaning:
It’s all exaggeration, you don’t need to take it seriously/a fuss about nothing/nothing to write home about/


Words: 殺人如麻
Pinyin: shā rén rú má
Hanviet: 殺sát 人nhân 如như 麻ma
Meaning:
to kill people like scything flax (idiom); human life as grass/a politician acting with total disregard for the life of his countrymen/


Words: 殺進殺出
Pinyin: shā jìn shā chū
Hanviet: 殺sát 進tiến 殺sát 出xuất
Meaning:
to execute a lightning raid/(investment) to buy, then quickly sell/(tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay/


Words: 殺雞儆猴
Pinyin: shā jī jǐng hóu
Hanviet: 殺sát 雞kê 儆 猴hầu
Meaning:
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres/


Words: 殺雞嚇猴
Pinyin: shā jī xià hóu
Hanviet: 殺sát 雞kê 嚇 猴hầu
Meaning:
lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others/pour encourager les autres/


Words: 殺雞給猴看
Pinyin: shā jī gěi hóu kàn
Hanviet: 殺sát 雞kê 給cấp 猴hầu 看khán
Meaning:
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others/


Words: 殺青
Pinyin: shā qīng
Hanviet: 殺sát 青thanh
Meaning:
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc)/to finalize/to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)/


Words: 殺馬特
Pinyin: shā mǎ tè
Hanviet: 殺sát 馬mã 特đặc
Meaning:
Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy make-up, flamboyant costumes, piercings etc (loanword from "smart")/


Words: 母體
Pinyin: mǔ tǐ
Hanviet: 母mẫu 體thể
Meaning:
(zoology, medicine) mother’s body/(chemistry etc) parent/matrix/(statistics) population/parent population/


Words: 毒奶
Pinyin: dú nǎi
Hanviet: 毒độc 奶
Meaning:
poisoned milk/contaminated milk/refers to 2008 PRC scandal involving milk products adulterated with melamine 三聚氰胺/


Words: 毒奶粉
Pinyin: dú nǎi fěn
Hanviet: 毒độc 奶 粉phấn
Meaning:
poisoned milk powder/refers to 2008 PRC scandal involving milk powder adulterated with melamine 三聚氰胺/


Words: 比劃
Pinyin: bǐ hua
Hanviet: 比tỉ 劃hoạch
Meaning:
to gesture/to gesticulate/to practice the moves of a martial art by imitating the teacher/to fight/to come to blows/


Words: 比爛
Pinyin: bǐ làn
Hanviet: 比tỉ 爛lạn
Meaning:
to compare two unsatisfactory things/to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism)/whataboutery/


Words: 比翼雙飛
Pinyin: bǐ yì shuāng fēi
Hanviet: 比tỉ 翼dực 雙song 飛phi
Meaning:
lit. a pair of birds flying close together (idiom)/fig. two hearts beating as one/name of a sweet and sour chicken wing dish/


Words: 毛
Pinyin: máo
Hanviet: 毛mao
Meaning:
hair/feather/down/wool/mildew/mold/coarse or semifinished/young/raw/careless/unthinking/nervous/scared/(of currency) to devalue or depreciate/classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分)/


Words: 毛出在羊身上
Pinyin: máo chū zài yáng shēn shàng
Hanviet: 毛mao 出xuất 在tại 羊dương 身thân 上thượng
Meaning:
lit. wool comes from the sheep’s back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid./Nothing comes for free./


Words: 毛遂
Pinyin: máo suì
Hanviet: 毛mao 遂toại
Meaning:
Mao Sui (third century BC), who proverbially offered his services to the King of Chu 楚, see 毛遂自薦, 毛遂自荐/


Words: 毛遂自薦
Pinyin: máo suì zì jiàn
Hanviet: 毛mao 遂toại 自tự 薦tiến
Meaning:
Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one’s services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states)/


Words: 毛鄧三
Pinyin: máo dèng sān
Hanviet: 毛mao 鄧đặng 三tam
Meaning:
Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory & the Three Represents/abbr. for 毛澤東思想, 毛泽东思想, 鄧小平理論, 邓小平理论 and 三個代表, 三个代表/


Words: 毫無效果
Pinyin: háo wú xiào guǒ
Hanviet: 毫hào 無vô 效hiệu 果quả
Meaning:
to no avail/achieving nothing/totally ineffective/to have no effect/to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)/


Words: 民不聊生
Pinyin: mín bù liáo shēng
Hanviet: 民dân 不bất 聊liêu 生sanh
Meaning:
The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記, 史记)/no way of getting by/


Words: 民主革命
Pinyin: mín zhǔ gé mìng
Hanviet: 民dân 主chủ 革cách 命mạng
Meaning:
democratic revolution/bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)/


Words: 民以食為天
Pinyin: mín yǐ shí wéi tiān
Hanviet: 民dân 以dĩ 食thực 為vi 天thiên
Meaning:
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need./Food first, ethical niceties second/


Words: 民國
Pinyin: mín guó
Hanviet: 民dân 國quốc
Meaning:
Republic of China (1912-1949)/used instead of reign name by the nationalist government, then by Taiwan/used in PRC as reign name of a former dynasty/


Words: 民國通俗演義
Pinyin: mín guó tōng sú yǎn yì
Hanviet: 民dân 國quốc 通thông 俗tục 演diễn 義nghĩa
Meaning:
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩, 蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父, 许廑父/


Words: 民建聯
Pinyin: mín jiàn lián
Hanviet: 民dân 建kiến 聯liên
Meaning:
abbr. for 民主建港協進聯盟, 民主建港协进联盟, Democratic alliance for the betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), Hong Kong pro-Beijing party/


Words: 民族主義
Pinyin: mín zú zhǔ yì
Hanviet: 民dân 族tộc 主chủ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
nationalism/national self-determination/principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen’s 孫中山, 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義, 三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers)/racism/


Words: 民權主義
Pinyin: mín quán zhǔ yì
Hanviet: 民dân 權quyền 主chủ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
democracy/civil liberties/principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen’s 孫中山, 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義, 三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)/


Words: 民生主義
Pinyin: mín shēng zhǔ yì
Hanviet: 民dân 生sanh 主chủ 義nghĩa
Meaning:
principle of people’s livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen’s 孫中山, 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義, 三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)/


Words: 民脂民膏
Pinyin: mín zhī mín gāo
Hanviet: 民dân 脂chi 民dân 膏cao
Meaning:
lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation’s hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)/the people’s blood, sweat and tears/


Words: 氕
Pinyin: piē
Hanviet: 氕
Meaning:
protium 1H/light hydrogen, the most common isotope of hydrogen, having no neutron, so atomic weight 1/


Words: 氘
Pinyin: dāo
Hanviet: 氘
Meaning:
deuterium 2H/heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so atomic weight 2/


Words: 氣化
Pinyin: qì huà
Hanviet: 氣khí 化hóa
Meaning:
to vaporize/evaporation/carburetion/氣, 气 transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath)/unvoicing of voiced consonant/


Words: 氣管炎
Pinyin: qì guǎn yán
Hanviet: 氣khí 管quản 炎diễm
Meaning:
bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus)/henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得严 used in comic theater)/


Words: 氣量
Pinyin: qì liàng
Hanviet: 氣khí 量lượng
Meaning:
(lit. quantity of spirit)/moral character/degree of forbearance/broad-mindedness or otherwise/tolerance/magnanimity/


Words: 水
Pinyin: shuǐ
Hanviet: 水thủy
Meaning:
water/river/liquid/beverage/additional charges or income/(of clothes) classifier for number of washes/


Words: 水仙
Pinyin: shuǐ xiān
Hanviet: 水thủy 仙tiên
Meaning:
narcissus/daffodil/legendary aquatic immortal/refers to those buried at sea/person who wanders abroad and does not return/


Words: 水到渠成
Pinyin: shuǐ dào qú chéng
Hanviet: 水thủy 到đáo 渠cừ 成thành
Meaning:
lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom)/fig. when conditions are right, success will follow naturally/


Words: 水客
Pinyin: shuǐ kè
Hanviet: 水thủy 客khách
Meaning:
smuggler, esp. of electronic goods from Macao or Hong Kong to Guangdong/boatman/fisherman/itinerant trader/


Words: 水幕
Pinyin: shuǐ mù
Hanviet: 水thủy 幕mạc
Meaning:
water screen (screen formed of sprayed water droplets, used for displaying projected images, for temperature control, or for air purification)/


Words: 水性
Pinyin: shuǐ xìng
Hanviet: 水thủy 性tánh
Meaning:
swimming ability/characteristics of a body of water (depth, currents etc)/aqueous/water-based (paint etc)/


Words: 水滴石穿
Pinyin: shuǐ dī shí chuān
Hanviet: 水thủy 滴tích 石thạch 穿xuyên
Meaning:
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success/You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up./Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty./


Words: 水滸傳
Pinyin: shuǐ hǔ zhuàn
Hanviet: 水thủy 滸 傳truyền
Meaning:
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai’an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature/


Words: 水滸全傳
Pinyin: shuǐ hǔ quán zhuàn
Hanviet: 水thủy 滸 全toàn 傳truyền
Meaning:
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai’an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature/also written 水滸傳, 水浒传/


Words: 水漲船高
Pinyin: shuǐ zhǎng chuán gāo
Hanviet: 水thủy 漲trương 船thuyền 高cao
Meaning:
the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend/to develop according to the situation/


Words: 水立方
Pinyin: shuǐ lì fāng
Hanviet: 水thủy 立lập 方phương
Meaning:
Water Cube, nickname of Beijing national aquatics center 北京國家游泳中心, 北京国家游泳中心, swimming venue of Beijing 2008 Olympic games/


Words: 水能載舟，亦能覆舟
Pinyin: shuǐ néng zài zhōu , yì néng fù zhōu
Hanviet: 水thủy 能năng 載tái 舟chu 亦diệc 能năng 覆phú 舟chu
Meaning:
lit. water may keep the boat afloat but may also sink it (proverb)/fig. the people can support a regime or overturn it/if sth is used properly, one can benefit from it, otherwise it can do harm/things can be double-edged/


Words: 水蕹菜
Pinyin: shuǐ wèng cài
Hanviet: 水thủy 蕹 菜thái
Meaning:
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia/


Words: 氵
Pinyin: shuǐ
Hanviet: 氵
Meaning:
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 没, 法, 流 etc/see also 三點水, 三点水/


Words: 永安
Pinyin: yǒng ān
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 安an
Meaning:
Yong’an county level city in Sanming 三明, Fujian/Yong’an or Yung’an township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣, 高雄县, southwest Taiwan/


Words: 永定
Pinyin: yǒng dìng
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 定định
Meaning:
Yongding county level city in Longyan 龍岩, 龙岩, Fujian/Yongding district of Zhangjiajie city 張家界市, 张家界市, Hunan/


Words: 永定門
Pinyin: yǒng dìng mén
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 定định 門môn
Meaning:
Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing’s old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005/


Words: 永康
Pinyin: yǒng kāng
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 康khang
Meaning:
Yongkang county level city in Jinhua 金華, 金华, Zhejiang/Yungkang city in Tainan county 台南縣, 台南县, Taiwan/


Words: 永昌
Pinyin: yǒng chāng
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 昌xương
Meaning:
Yongchang county in Jinchang 金昌, Gansu 甘肅, 甘肃/ancient prefecture in Yunnan 雲南, 云南, modern Baoshan 保山/


Words: 永樂
Pinyin: yǒng lè
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣 (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, Temple name 明成祖/


Words: 永靖
Pinyin: yǒng jìng
Hanviet: 永vĩnh 靖tĩnh
Meaning:
Yongjing county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州, 临夏回族自治州, Gansu/Yungching township in Changhua county 彰化縣, 彰化县, Taiwan/


Words: 求好心切
Pinyin: qiú hǎo xīn qiè
Hanviet: 求cầu 好hảo/hiếu 心tâm 切thiết
Meaning:
to demand the highest standards of sb (or oneself) (idiom)/to strive to achieve the best possible results/to be a perfectionist/


Words: 求死願望
Pinyin: qiú sǐ yuàn wàng
Hanviet: 求cầu 死tử 願nguyện 望vọng
Meaning:
death wish (translated from English)/Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson is translated as 猛龍怪客, 猛龙怪客/


Words: 求田問舍
Pinyin: qiú tián wèn shè
Hanviet: 求cầu 田điền 問vấn 舍xá
Meaning:
lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom)/fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life/


Words: 汗
Pinyin: hàn
Hanviet: 汗hãn
Meaning:
perspiration/sweat/CL:滴,頭, 头,身/to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc) (Internet slang used as an interjection)/


Words: 汗牛充棟
Pinyin: hàn niú chōng dòng
Hanviet: 汗hãn 牛ngưu 充sung 棟đống
Meaning:
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books/


Words: 江北
Pinyin: jiāng běi
Hanviet: 江giang 北bắc
Meaning:
Jiangbei district of central Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan/Chongqing’s main airport/Jiangbei district of Ningbo city 寧波市, 宁波市, Zhejiang/


Words: 江南
Pinyin: jiāng nán
Hanviet: 江giang 南nam
Meaning:
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river/south of the lower reaches of Changjiang/often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces/a province during Qing times/in literature, refers to the sunny south/Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)/


Words: 江南四大才子
Pinyin: jiāng nán sì dà cái zǐ
Hanviet: 江giang 南nam 四tứ 大đại 才tài 子tử
Meaning:
Four great southern talents of the Ming, namely: Tang Bohu 唐伯虎, Zhu Zhishan 祝枝山, Wen Zhengming 文徵明, 文征明 and Xu Zhenqing 徐禎卿, 徐祯卿/


Words: 江南省
Pinyin: jiāng nán shěng
Hanviet: 江giang 南nam 省tỉnh
Meaning:
name of Qing dynasty province covering south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces, with capital at Nanjing/


Words: 江原道
Pinyin: jiāng yuán dào
Hanviet: 江giang 原nguyên 道đạo
Meaning:
Gangwon Province of Korea during Joseon Dynasty/Kangwon province of North Korea/Gangwon province in northeast South Korea, capital Chuncheon 春川/


Words: 江山易改，本性難移
Pinyin: jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí
Hanviet: 江giang 山sơn 易dị/dịch 改cải 本bổn 性tánh 難nan 移di
Meaning:
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one’s character (idiom)/you can’t change who you are/Can the leopard change his spots?/


Words: 江湖
Pinyin: jiāng hú
Hanviet: 江giang 湖hồ
Meaning:
rivers and lakes/around the whole country/cf 两江 and 两湖, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan provinces in Qing times/vagrant/itinerant (esp. entertainer, swindler, quack doctor etc)/


Words: 江郎才盡
Pinyin: jiāng láng cái jìn
Hanviet: 江giang 郎lang 才tài 盡tận
Meaning:
Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)/fig. to have used up one’s creative powers/to have writer’s block/


Words: 汪汪
Pinyin: wāng wāng
Hanviet: 汪uông 汪uông
Meaning:
gleaming with tears/woof woof (sound of a dog barking)/(literary) (of a body of water) broad and deep/


Words: 汪道涵
Pinyin: wāng dào hán
Hanviet: 汪uông 道đạo 涵
Meaning:
Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits/


Words: 汶
Pinyin: wèn
Hanviet: 汶
Meaning:
Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川)/classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國, 齐国/


Words: 汶上
Pinyin: wèn shàng
Hanviet: 汶 上thượng
Meaning:
Wenshang County in Jining 濟寧, 济宁, Shandong/classically, upper reaches of Wen River in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國, 齐国/


Words: 汶川
Pinyin: wèn chuān
Hanviet: 汶 川xuyên
Meaning:
Wenchuan county (Tibetan: wun khron rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 沃倫·巴菲特
Pinyin: wò lún �� bā fēi tè
Hanviet: 沃ốc 倫luân · 巴ba 菲 特đặc
Meaning:
Warren Buffett (1930-), the Sage of Omaha, US investor and philanthropist, principal owner of holding company Berkshire Hathaway/


Words: 沈括
Pinyin: shěn kuò
Hanviet: 沈trầm 括quát
Meaning:
Shen Kuo (1031-1095), Chinese polymath, scientist and statesman of Song dynasty, author of Dream Pool Essays 夢溪筆談, 梦溪笔谈/


Words: 沈瑩
Pinyin: shěn yíng
Hanviet: 沈trầm 瑩oánh
Meaning:
Shen ying of Wu, governor (268-280) of coastal province of Wu and compiler of Seaboard geographic gazetteer 臨海水土誌, 临海水土志/


Words: 沈約
Pinyin: shěn yuē
Hanviet: 沈trầm 約ước
Meaning:
Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書, 宋书/


Words: 沈葆禎
Pinyin: shěn bǎo zhēn
Hanviet: 沈trầm 葆 禎
Meaning:
Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政學堂, 船政学堂 in 1866/


Words: 沈陽市
Pinyin: shěn yáng shì
Hanviet: 沈trầm 陽dương 市thị
Meaning:
Shenyang prefecture level city and capital of Liaoning province 遼寧省, 辽宁省 in northeast China/old names include Fengtian 奉天, Shengjing 盛京 and Mukden/


Words: 沉浮
Pinyin: chén fú
Hanviet: 沉trầm 浮phù
Meaning:
lit. sinking and floating/to bob up and down on water/ebb and flow/fig. rise and fall/ups and downs of fortune/vicissitudes/


Words: 沉湎酒色
Pinyin: chén miǎn jiǔ sè
Hanviet: 沉trầm 湎miện 酒tửu 色sắc
Meaning:
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women/an incorrigible drunkard and lecher/


Words: 沉潛
Pinyin: chén qián
Hanviet: 沉trầm 潛tiềm
Meaning:
to lurk under water/to immerse oneself in (study etc)/to lie low/to keep a low profile/quiet/reserved/self-possessed/


Words: 沉魚落雁
Pinyin: chén yú luò yàn
Hanviet: 沉trầm 魚ngư 落lạc 雁nhạn
Meaning:
lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts/


Words: 沒事
Pinyin: méi shì
Hanviet: 沒một 事sự
Meaning:
it’s not important/it’s nothing/never mind/to have nothing to do/to be free/to be all right (out of danger or trouble)/


Words: 沒齒不忘
Pinyin: mò chǐ bù wàng
Hanviet: 沒một 齒xỉ 不bất 忘vong
Meaning:
lit. will not be forgotten even after one’s teeth fall out/to remember as long as one lives/unforgettable (idiom)/


Words: 沒齒難忘
Pinyin: mò chǐ nán wàng
Hanviet: 沒một 齒xỉ 難nan 忘vong
Meaning:
hard to forget even after one’s teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives/undying gratitude/


Words: 沖
Pinyin: chōng
Hanviet: 沖
Meaning:
(of water) to dash against/to mix with water/to infuse/to rinse/to flush/to develop (a film)/to rise in the air/to clash/to collide with/


Words: 沖昏頭腦
Pinyin: chōng hūn tóu nǎo
Hanviet: 沖 昏hôn 頭đầu 腦não
Meaning:
lit. to be muddled in the brain (idiom); fig. excited and unable to act rationally/to go to one’s head/


Words: 沖泡
Pinyin: chōng pào
Hanviet: 沖 泡bào
Meaning:
to add water (or other liquid) to (another ingredient such as powdered milk or tea leaves)/to infuse (tea)/


Words: 沙丁胺醇
Pinyin: shā dīng àn chún
Hanviet: 沙sa 丁đinh 胺 醇thuần
Meaning:
salbutamol (a beta 2 agonist used in treating asthma)/also known as albuterol, proventil and ventolin/


Words: 沙灣
Pinyin: shā wān
Hanviet: 沙sa 灣loan
Meaning:
Shawan district of Leshan city 樂山市, 乐山市, Sichuan/Shawan county or Saven nahisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區, 塔城地区, Xinjiang/


Words: 沙琪瑪
Pinyin: shā qí mǎ
Hanviet: 沙sa 琪 瑪mã
Meaning:
sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut into blocks/


Words: 沙盤推演
Pinyin: shā pán tuī yǎn
Hanviet: 沙sa 盤bàn 推thôi 演diễn
Meaning:
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)/to rehearse a planned action or activity/to conduct a dry run/


Words: 沱茶
Pinyin: tuó chá
Hanviet: 沱 茶trà
Meaning:
a cake of tea, commonly Pu’er tea 普洱茶, compacted into a bowl or nest shape/dome shaped tea-brick/caked tea/


Words: 河北
Pinyin: hé běi
Hanviet: 河hà 北bắc
Meaning:
Hebei province (Hopeh) in north China surrounding Beijing, short name 冀, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊, 石家庄/


Words: 河北省
Pinyin: hé běi shěng
Hanviet: 河hà 北bắc 省tỉnh
Meaning:
Hebei Province (Hopeh) in north China surrounding Beijing, short name 冀, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊, 石家庄/


Words: 河南縣
Pinyin: hé nán xiàn
Hanviet: 河hà 南nam 縣huyện
Meaning:
He’nan Mengguzu autonomous county in Qinghai/in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 黃南藏族自治州, 黄南藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 河口瑤族自治縣
Pinyin: hé kǒu yáo zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 河hà 口khẩu 瑤dao 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Hekou Yaozu autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州, 红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan/


Words: 河殤
Pinyin: hé shāng
Hanviet: 河hà 殤thương
Meaning:
River Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the Beijing Spring democracy movement of 1980s/


Words: 河水不犯井水
Pinyin: hé shuǐ bù fàn jǐng shuǐ
Hanviet: 河hà 水thủy 不bất 犯phạm 井tỉnh 水thủy
Meaning:
lit. river water does not interfere with well water (idiom); Do not interfere with one another./Mind your own business./


Words: 河蟹
Pinyin: hé xiè
Hanviet: 河hà 蟹
Meaning:
river crab/Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧, 和谐, which is blocked by the great firewall of China)/


Words: 河西走廊
Pinyin: hé xī zǒu láng
Hanviet: 河hà 西tây 走tẩu 廊lang
Meaning:
Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road/


Words: 油症
Pinyin: yóu zhèng
Hanviet: 油du 症
Meaning:
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)/


Words: 治
Pinyin: zhì
Hanviet: 治trị
Meaning:
to rule/to govern/to manage/to control/to harness (a river)/to treat (a disease)/to wipe out (a pest)/to punish/to research/


Words: 治保
Pinyin: zhì bǎo
Hanviet: 治trị 保bảo
Meaning:
law enforcement and protection of the public (as provided in the PRC by local security committees 治保會, 治保会)/


Words: 治外法權
Pinyin: zhì wài fǎ quán
Hanviet: 治trị 外ngoại 法pháp 權quyền
Meaning:
diplomatic immunity/(history) extraterritoriality, the rights (under unequal treaties) of a foreigner to live in China outside Chinese jurisdiction/


Words: 治多
Pinyin: zhì duō
Hanviet: 治trị 多đa
Meaning:
Zhidoi county (Tibetan: ’bri stod rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州, 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 治大國若烹小鮮
Pinyin: zhì dà guó ruò pēng xiǎo xiān
Hanviet: 治trị 大đại 國quốc 若nhược 烹phanh 小tiểu 鮮tiên
Meaning:
ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom)/effective government requires minimal intervention/


Words: 沾唇
Pinyin: zhān chún
Hanviet: 沾triêm 唇thần
Meaning:
to moisten one’s lips/to sip (wine, tea etc)/esp. used with negatives: never touch a drop of the stuff/


Words: 沾花惹草
Pinyin: zhān huā rě cǎo
Hanviet: 沾triêm 花hoa 惹nhạ 草thảo
Meaning:
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)/to womanize/to frequent brothels/to sow one’s wild oats/


Words: 沿
Pinyin: yán
Hanviet: 沿duyên
Meaning:
along/to follow (a line, tradition etc)/to carry on/to trim (a border with braid, tape etc)/border/edge/


Words: 泄
Pinyin: xiè
Hanviet: 泄tiết
Meaning:
to leak (of water or gas)/to drip/to drain/to discharge/to leak out/to divulge (secrets)/to give vent (to anger, spite etc)/to disperse/to reduce/


Words: 法商
Pinyin: fǎ shāng
Hanviet: 法pháp 商thương
Meaning:
"legal quotient" (LQ), a measure of one’s awareness and knowledge of the law and one’s standard of honorable conduct/


Words: 法定代表人
Pinyin: fǎ dìng dài biǎo rén
Hanviet: 法pháp 定định 代đại 表biểu 人nhân
Meaning:
(law) legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)/


Words: 法家
Pinyin: fǎ jiā
Hanviet: 法pháp 家gia
Meaning:
Legalist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Han Fei 韓非, 韩非 and Li Si 李斯, later adopted by Shang Yang 商鞅 whose reforms helped establish the supremacy of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 (221-207 BC)/


Words: 法寶
Pinyin: fǎ bǎo
Hanviet: 法Pháp 寶bảo
Meaning:
Buddha’s teaching/Buddhist monk’s apparel, staff etc/(Daoism) magic weapon/talisman/fig. specially effective device/magic wand/


Words: 法拉第
Pinyin: fǎ lā dì
Hanviet: 法pháp 拉lạp 第đệ
Meaning:
Faraday (name)/Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity/


Words: 法耶德
Pinyin: fǎ yē dé
Hanviet: 法pháp 耶da 德đức
Meaning:
Fayed (name)/Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (1933-), controversial Egyptian-born businessman and philanthropist, owner of Harrods (London) and Fulham football club/


Words: 法蘭西斯·斐迪南
Pinyin: fǎ lán xī sī �� fěi dí nán
Hanviet: 法pháp 蘭lan 西tây 斯tư · 斐 迪 南nam
Meaning:
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I/


Words: 法衣
Pinyin: fǎ yī
Hanviet: 法Pháp 衣y
Meaning:
robe of a Buddhist priest/ceremonial garment of a Daoist priest/robe of a judge, nun, priest etc/cassock/vestment/


Words: 法隆寺
Pinyin: fǎ lōng sì
Hanviet: 法pháp 隆long 寺tự
Meaning:
Hōryūji, complex of Buddhist temples near Nara 奈良, Japan, dating back to the Asuka period 飛鳥時代, 飞鸟时代 (c. 600)/


Words: 泛珠三角
Pinyin: fàn zhū sān jiǎo
Hanviet: 泛phiếm 珠châu 三tam 角giác
Meaning:
Pan-Pearl River delta/The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta/South China/


Words: 泡
Pinyin: pào
Hanviet: 泡bào
Meaning:
bubble/foam/blister (i.e. skin bubble)/to soak/to steep/to infuse/to dawdle/to shilly-shally/to hang about/to pick up (a girl)/to get off with (a sexual partner)/classifier for occurrences of an action/classifier for number of infusions/


Words: 波茨坦會議
Pinyin: bō cí tǎn huì yì
Hanviet: 波ba 茨tì 坦thản 會hội 議nghị
Meaning:
Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee/


Words: 泥菩薩過江，自身難保
Pinyin: ní pú sà guò jiāng , zì shēn nán bǎo
Hanviet: 泥nê 菩Bồ 薩Tát 過quá 江giang 自tự 身thân 難nan 保bảo
Meaning:
like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can’t guarantee his own safety/unable to save oneself, let alone others/


Words: 注
Pinyin: zhù
Hanviet: 注chú
Meaning:
to inject/to pour into/to concentrate/to pay attention/stake (gambling)/classifier for sums of money/variant of 註, 注/


Words: 注音
Pinyin: zhù yīn
Hanviet: 注chú 音âm
Meaning:
Annotated Sounds, a phonetic transliteration for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan/also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ/


Words: 注音符號
Pinyin: zhù yīn fú hào
Hanviet: 注chú 音âm 符phù 號hiệu
Meaning:
Zhuyin Fuhao, phonetic transliteration system for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known as Bopomofo ㄅㄆㄇㄈ/


Words: 泰安
Pinyin: tài ān
Hanviet: 泰thái 安an
Meaning:
Tai’an city prefecture level city in Shandong/Tai’an township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣, 苗栗县, northwest Taiwan/


Words: 泰山
Pinyin: tài shān
Hanviet: 泰thái 山sơn
Meaning:
Tarzan (fictional character reared by apes in the jungle)/Taishan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan/


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


Words: 洛陽紙貴
Pinyin: luò yáng zhǐ guì
Hanviet: 洛lạc 陽dương 紙chỉ 貴quý
Meaning:
lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)/fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes/


Words: 津塔
Pinyin: jīn tǎ
Hanviet: 津tân 塔tháp
Meaning:
Jin Tower/abbr. for 天津環球金融中心, 天津环球金融中心 Tianjin World Financial Center, skyscraper a.k.a. the Tianjin Tower/


Words: 洩氣
Pinyin: xiè qì
Hanviet: 洩duệ 氣khí
Meaning:
to leak (gas)/to be discouraged/to despair/(disparaging) pathetic/to vent one’s anger/(of a tire) to be flat/


Words: 洪博培
Pinyin: hóng bó péi
Hanviet: 洪hồng 博bác 培bồi
Meaning:
Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-) Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, US Ambassador to China since August 2009/


Words: 洪武
Pinyin: hóng wǔ
Hanviet: 洪hồng 武võ
Meaning:
Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, Temple name 明太祖/


Words: 洪水猛獸
Pinyin: hóng shuǐ měng shòu
Hanviet: 洪hồng 水thủy 猛mãnh 獸thú
Meaning:
lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom)/fig. great scourges/extremely dangerous or threatening things/


Words: 洪江
Pinyin: hóng jiāng
Hanviet: 洪hồng 江giang
Meaning:
Hongjiang county level city in Huaihua 懷化, 怀化, Hunan/Hongjiang district of Huaihua city 懷化市, 怀化市, Hunan/


Words: 洪熙
Pinyin: hóng xī
Hanviet: 洪hồng 熙hi
Meaning:
Hongxi Emperor, reign name of fourth Ming emperor Zhu Gaochi 朱高熾, 朱高炽 (1378-1425), reigned (1424-1425), Temple name 明仁宗/


Words: 洪秀全
Pinyin: hóng xiù quán
Hanviet: 洪hồng 秀tú 全toàn
Meaning:
Hong Xiuquan or Hung Hsiu-ch’üan (1814-1864), leader of the Taiping rebellion or Taiping Heavenly Kingdom/


Words: 活動
Pinyin: huó dòng
Hanviet: 活hoạt 動động
Meaning:
to exercise/to move about/to operate/to use connections (personal influence)/loose/shaky/active/movable/activity/campaign/maneuver/behavior/CL:項, 项,個, 个/


Words: 活用
Pinyin: huó yòng
Hanviet: 活hoạt 用dụng
Meaning:
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly/to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)/


Words: 派
Pinyin: pài
Hanviet: 派phái
Meaning:
clique/school/group/faction/to dispatch/to send/to assign/to appoint/pi (Greek letter Ππ)/the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926/(loanword) pie/


Words: 派駐
Pinyin: pài zhù
Hanviet: 派phái 駐trú
Meaning:
to dispatch (sb) in an official capacity/to be posted (as an ambassador, foreign correspondent etc)/


Words: 流
Pinyin: liú
Hanviet: 流lưu
Meaning:
to flow/to disseminate/to circulate or spread/to move or drift/to degenerate/to banish or send into exile/stream of water or sth resembling one/class, rate or grade/


Words: 流竄
Pinyin: liú cuàn
Hanviet: 流lưu 竄thoán
Meaning:
to roam all over the place/to go into every nook and corner/to infiltrate/(of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run/to flee and try to hide/


Words: 流行
Pinyin: liú xíng
Hanviet: 流lưu 行hành
Meaning:
(of a contagious disease etc) to spread/to propagate/(of a style of clothing, song etc) popular/fashionable/


Words: 浜
Pinyin: bīn
Hanviet: 浜
Meaning:
Japanese variant of 濱, 滨/used in Japanese place names such as Yokohama 橫浜, 横浜 with phonetic value hama/


Words: 浣
Pinyin: huàn
Hanviet: 浣hoán
Meaning:
to wash/to rinse/any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty)/Taiwan pr. /also pr. /


Words: 浣紗記
Pinyin: huàn shā jì
Hanviet: 浣hoán 紗 記ký
Meaning:
Huansahji or Washing the Silken Gauze, Yuan and Ming saga reworked by 梁辰魚, 梁辰鱼 from History of the Southern States Wu and Yue, 吳越春秋, 吴越春秋, a popular opera subject/


Words: 浩繁
Pinyin: hào fán
Hanviet: 浩hạo 繁phồn
Meaning:
vast/voluminous/many and varied/numerous/extensive amount of/exhaustive/heavy (expenditure)/arduous/strenuous/exhausting/draining/burdensome/


Words: 浮
Pinyin: fú
Hanviet: 浮phù
Meaning:
to float/superficial/floating/unstable/movable/provisional/temporary/transient/impetuous/hollow/inflated/to exceed/superfluous/excessive/surplus/


Words: 浮現
Pinyin: fú xiàn
Hanviet: 浮phù 現hiện
Meaning:
to appear before one’s eyes/to come into view/to float into appearance/to come back (of images from the past)/to emerge/it emerges/it occurs (to me that..)/


Words: 浮生六記
Pinyin: fú shēng liù jì
Hanviet: 浮phù 生sanh 六lục 記ký
Meaning:
Six records of a floating life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復, 沈复, published 1808/


Words: 海上奇書
Pinyin: hǎi shàng qí shū
Hanviet: 海hải 上thượng 奇kỳ 書thư
Meaning:
literary journal published in 1892-93 by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶, 韩邦庆 featuring serialized novels in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular/


Words: 海上花列傳
Pinyin: hǎi shàng huā liè zhuàn
Hanviet: 海hải 上thượng 花hoa 列liệt 傳truyền
Meaning:
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶, 韩邦庆, long novel of lower life in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular/translated into Putonghua as 海上花 by Iris Chang/


Words: 海倫·凱勒
Pinyin: hǎi lún �� kǎi lē
Hanviet: 海hải 倫luân · 凱 勒lặc
Meaning:
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)/


Words: 海南
Pinyin: hǎi nán
Hanviet: 海hải 南nam
Meaning:
Hainan Province, in the South China Sea, short name 瓊, 琼, capital Haikou 海口/Hainan Island/Hainan District of Wuhai City 烏海市, 乌海市, Inner Mongolia/Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 海印寺
Pinyin: hǎi yìn sì
Hanviet: 海hải 印ấn 寺tự
Meaning:
Haeinsa in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea, the repository of Tripitaka Koreana 高麗大藏經, 高丽大藏经, a World Heritage site/


Words: 海州
Pinyin: hǎi zhōu
Hanviet: 海hải 州châu
Meaning:
Haizhou district of Lianyungang city 連雲港市, 连云港市, Jiangsu/Haizhou district of Fuxin city 阜新市, Liaoning/


Words: 海歸
Pinyin: hǎi guī
Hanviet: 海hải 歸quy
Meaning:
to return to one’s country after a period of study or work overseas/returnee/student returning after study abroad/


Words: 海澱
Pinyin: hǎi diàn
Hanviet: 海hải 澱
Meaning:
Haidian inner district of northeast Beijing, includes Peking University, Tsinghua University 清華大學, 清华大学 and Zhongguancun 中關村, 中关村/


Words: 海砂
Pinyin: hǎi shā
Hanviet: 海hải 砂sa
Meaning:
sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)/


Words: 海綿
Pinyin: hǎi mián
Hanviet: 海hải 綿miên
Meaning:
sponge (zoology)/sponge (piece of absorbent material, either natural or made from plastic etc)/foam rubber/


Words: 海西
Pinyin: hǎi xī
Hanviet: 海hải 西tây
Meaning:
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul) in Qinghai/


Words: 海選
Pinyin: hǎi xuǎn
Hanviet: 海hải 選tuyển
Meaning:
direct, winner-takes-all system of election in use for village committees/pre-selection for a competition/


Words: 海闊天空
Pinyin: hǎi kuò tiān kōng
Hanviet: 海hải 闊khoát 天thiên 空không
Meaning:
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas/the whole wide world/chatting about everything under the sun/


Words: 消愁解悶
Pinyin: xiāo chóu jiě mèn
Hanviet: 消tiêu 愁sầu 解giải 悶muộn
Meaning:
lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom/to dispel depression or melancholy/to relieve stress/a relaxing pass-time/


Words: 消渴
Pinyin: xiāo kě
Hanviet: 消tiêu 渴khát
Meaning:
condition characterized by thirst, hunger, frequent urination and weight loss, identified in TCM with type 2 diabetes/


Words: 涮
Pinyin: shuàn
Hanviet: 涮
Meaning:
to rinse/to trick/to fool sb/to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)/


Words: 涮鍋子
Pinyin: shuàn guō zi
Hanviet: 涮 鍋oa 子tử
Meaning:
hot pot/a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces/


Words: 液態奶
Pinyin: yè tài nǎi
Hanviet: 液dịch 態thái 奶
Meaning:
general term for milk packaged for the consumer, including long-life (UHT) milk, pasteurized milk and reconstituted milk/


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


Words: 淋漓盡致
Pinyin: lín lí jìn zhì
Hanviet: 淋lâm 漓 盡tận 致trí
Meaning:
lit. extreme saturation (idiom)/fig. vividly and thoroughly/in great detail/without restraint/(of a performance) brilliant/


Words: 淘汰
Pinyin: táo tài
Hanviet: 淘đào 汰
Meaning:
to wash out/elimination (by selection)/natural selection/to knock out (in a competition)/to die out/to phase out/


Words: 淡化
Pinyin: dàn huà
Hanviet: 淡đạm 化hóa
Meaning:
to water down/to play down/to trivialize/to weaken/to become dull with time/to desalinate/desalination/


Words: 淨土
Pinyin: jìng tǔ
Hanviet: 淨tịnh 土độ
Meaning:
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha’s Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)/


Words: 淫羊藿
Pinyin: yín yáng huò
Hanviet: 淫dâm 羊dương 藿hoắc
Meaning:
Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac/also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to resemble crushed goat’s testicles)/


Words: 淮海
Pinyin: huái hǎi
Hanviet: 淮hoài 海hải
Meaning:
Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州, including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces/


Words: 淮海戰役
Pinyin: huái hǎi zhàn yì
Hanviet: 淮hoài 海hải 戰chiến 役dịch
Meaning:
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People’s Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war/


Words: 深不可測
Pinyin: shēn bù kě cè
Hanviet: 深thâm 不bất 可khả 測trắc
Meaning:
deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths/incomprehensible/enigmatic and impossible to predict/


Words: 深入淺出
Pinyin: shēn rù qiǎn chū
Hanviet: 深thâm 入nhập 淺thiển 出xuất
Meaning:
to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom)/(of language) simple and easy to understand/


Words: 深藍
Pinyin: shēn lán
Hanviet: 深thâm 藍lam
Meaning:
Deep Blue, chess-playing computer, first to defeat reigning world champion, developed by IBM (1985-1997)/


Words: 深藏若虛
Pinyin: shēn cáng ruò xū
Hanviet: 深thâm 藏tạng 若nhược 虛hư
Meaning:
to hide one’s treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one’s talents/to hide one’s light under a bushel/


Words: 混
Pinyin: hùn
Hanviet: 混hỗn
Meaning:
to mix/to mingle/muddled/to drift along/to muddle along/to pass for/to get along with sb/thoughtless/reckless/


Words: 混水摸魚
Pinyin: hún shuǐ mō yú
Hanviet: 混hỗn 水thủy 摸mạc 魚ngư
Meaning:
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain/also written 渾水摸魚, 浑水摸鱼/


Words: 淺嘗輒止
Pinyin: qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ
Hanviet: 淺thiển 嘗thường 輒triếp 止chỉ
Meaning:
to dabble and stop (idiom); to dip into/to attempt half-heartedly/content with a smattering of knowledge/


Words: 淺嚐輒止
Pinyin: qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ
Hanviet: 淺thiển 嚐thường 輒triếp 止chỉ
Meaning:
to dabble and stop (idiom); to dip into/to attempt half-heartedly/content with a smattering of knowledge/also written 淺嘗輒止, 浅尝辄止/


Words: 淺草
Pinyin: qiǎn cǎo
Hanviet: 淺thiển 草thảo
Meaning:
Asakusa, district of Tokyo with an atmosphere of old Japan, famous for the 7th century Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji/


Words: 添油加醋
Pinyin: tiān yóu jiā cù
Hanviet: 添 油du 加gia 醋thố
Meaning:
lit. to add oil and vinegar/fig. adding details while telling a story (to make it more interesting)/


Words: 清史列傳
Pinyin: qīng shǐ liè zhuàn
Hanviet: 清thanh 史sử 列liệt 傳truyền
Meaning:
Biographic History of Qing Dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls/


Words: 清史稿
Pinyin: qīng shǐ gǎo
Hanviet: 清thanh 史sử 稿
Meaning:
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, sometimes listed as number 25 or 26 of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhao Erxun 趙爾巽, 赵尔巽 in 1927 during the Northern Warlords period, 536 scrolls/


Words: 清太宗
Pinyin: qīng tài zōng
Hanviet: 清thanh 太thái 宗tông
Meaning:
posthumous title of Hung Taiji 皇太極, 皇太极 (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤, 努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金, 后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor/


Words: 清太祖
Pinyin: qīng tài zǔ
Hanviet: 清thanh 太thái 祖tổ
Meaning:
posthumous title of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤, 努尔哈赤 (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金, 后金 (from 1616)/


Words: 清明
Pinyin: qīng míng
Hanviet: 清thanh 明minh
Meaning:
Qingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣, 二十四节气 5th-19th April/Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)/


Words: 清明節
Pinyin: qīng míng jié
Hanviet: 清thanh 明minh 節tiết
Meaning:
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)/


Words: 清脆
Pinyin: qīng cuì
Hanviet: 清thanh 脆thúy
Meaning:
sharp and clear/crisp/melodious/ringing/tinkling/silvery (of sound)/fragile/frail/also written 輕脆, 轻脆/


Words: 清風明月
Pinyin: qīng fēng míng yuè
Hanviet: 清thanh 風phong 明minh 月nguyệt
Meaning:
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom)/fig. peaceful and clear night/(allusively) living a solitary and quiet life/


Words: 減損
Pinyin: jiǎn sǔn
Hanviet: 減giảm 損tổn
Meaning:
to impair/to degrade/to decrease/to reduce/to weaken/to detract from/impairment (e.g. of financial assets)/


Words: 渝水
Pinyin: yú shuǐ
Hanviet: 渝du 水thủy
Meaning:
old name of Jialing River 嘉陵江 in Sichuan through Chongqing/Yushui district of Xinyu city 新餘市 新余市, Jiangxi/


Words: 渤海
Pinyin: bó hǎi
Hanviet: 渤bột 海hải
Meaning:
Bohai Sea, or Bo Hai, between Liaoning and Shandong/Parhae, Korean kingdom in Manchuria and Siberia 698-926/


Words: 渤澥桑田
Pinyin: bó xiè sāng tián
Hanviet: 渤bột 澥giải 桑tang 田điền
Meaning:
lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記, 史记, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes/life’s vicissitudes/


Words: 渲染
Pinyin: xuàn rǎn
Hanviet: 渲 染nhiễm
Meaning:
rendering (computing)/to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting)/to exaggerate/to embellish/


Words: 湯武革命
Pinyin: tāng wǔ gé mìng
Hanviet: 湯thang 武võ 革cách 命mạng
Meaning:
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯, 商汤, of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王/


Words: 湯玉麟
Pinyin: tāng yù lín
Hanviet: 湯thang 玉ngọc 麟lân
Meaning:
Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth/


Words: 源賴朝
Pinyin: yuán lài cháo
Hanviet: 源nguyên 賴lại 朝triêu
Meaning:
MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府, 镰仓幕府/


Words: 源遠流長
Pinyin: yuán yuǎn liú cháng
Hanviet: 源nguyên 遠viễn 流lưu 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom); fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past/a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then/


Words: 溜鬚拍馬
Pinyin: liū xū pāi mǎ
Hanviet: 溜 鬚tu 拍phách 馬mã
Meaning:
to smooth whiskers and pat a horse’s bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants/to toady/boot-licking/


Words: 溥儀
Pinyin: pǔ yí
Hanviet: 溥phổ 儀nghi
Meaning:
Puyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci’s biopic The Last Emperor/


Words: 溪黃草
Pinyin: xī huáng cǎo
Hanviet: 溪khê 黃hoàng 草thảo
Meaning:
Rabdosia lophanthoides (no common name), herb plant of Lamiaceae family (together with mint and lavender), used in TCM/


Words: 溫
Pinyin: wēn
Hanviet: 溫ôn
Meaning:
warm/lukewarm/temperature/to warm up/mild/soft/tender/to review (a lesson etc)/fever (TCM)/old variant of 瘟/


Words: 溫故知新
Pinyin: wēn gù zhī xīn
Hanviet: 溫ôn 故cố 知tri 新tân
Meaning:
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)/to recall the past to understand the future/


Words: 溫泉
Pinyin: wēn quán
Hanviet: 溫ôn 泉tuyền
Meaning:
Arishang Nahiyisi or Wenquan county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州, 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 溵
Pinyin: yīn
Hanviet: 溵
Meaning:
used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture/


Words: 溶血病
Pinyin: róng xuè bìng
Hanviet: 溶 血huyết 病bệnh
Meaning:
hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)/


Words: 滑稽
Pinyin: huá jī
Hanviet: 滑hoạt 稽khể
Meaning:
comical/funny/amusing/old pr. /huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang/


Words: 滕王閣
Pinyin: téng wáng gé
Hanviet: 滕 王vương 閣các
Meaning:
Tengwang Tower in Nanchang, Jiangxi/one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓, 岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓, 黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei/


Words: 滾刀塊
Pinyin: gǔn dāo kuài
Hanviet: 滾 刀đao 塊khối
Meaning:
chunks obtained by repeatedly cutting a vegetable diagonally and rotating the vegetable after each cut/


Words: 滾動
Pinyin: gǔn dòng
Hanviet: 滾 動động
Meaning:
to roll/(to do sth) in a loop/to scroll (computing)/to progressively expand (economics)/to rumble (of thunder)/


Words: 滾瓜爛熟
Pinyin: gǔn guā làn shú
Hanviet: 滾 瓜qua 爛lạn 熟thục
Meaning:
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently/to know sth inside out/to know sth by heart/


Words: 滿
Pinyin: mǎn
Hanviet: 滿mãn
Meaning:
to fill/full/filled/packed/fully/completely/quite/to reach the limit/to satisfy/satisfied/contented/


Words: 滿不在乎
Pinyin: mǎn bù zài hu
Hanviet: 滿mãn 不bất 在tại 乎hồ
Meaning:
not in the least concerned (idiom)/reckless/couldn’t give a damn about it/unperturbed/couldn’t care less/harum scarum/


Words: 滿口
Pinyin: mǎn kǒu
Hanviet: 滿mãn 口khẩu
Meaning:
a full mouth of (sth physical)/to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc)/(to agree etc) unreservedly/


Words: 滿嘴
Pinyin: mǎn zuǐ
Hanviet: 滿mãn 嘴chủy
Meaning:
a full mouth of (sth physical)/to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc)/


Words: 滿地找牙
Pinyin: mǎn dì zhǎo yá
Hanviet: 滿mãn 地địa 找 牙nha
Meaning:
to be looking for one’s teeth all over the floor/(fig.) to get beaten up badly/to beat the crap out of (sb)/


Words: 滿目琳琅
Pinyin: mǎn mù lín láng
Hanviet: 滿mãn 目mục 琳 琅lang
Meaning:
lit. to fill one’s eyes with glittering jewels/a literary masterpiece or sb of extraordinary talent (idiom)/


Words: 演繹
Pinyin: yǎn yì
Hanviet: 演diễn 繹
Meaning:
(of a story etc) to unfold/to play out/to develop (a technique etc)/to enact/(logic) to deduce/to infer/


Words: 漢他病毒
Pinyin: hàn tā bìng dú
Hanviet: 漢hán 他tha 病bệnh 毒độc
Meaning:
Hantavirus (a family deadly rodent-borne viruses) responsible for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome or cardiopulmonary syndrome/


Words: 漢城
Pinyin: hàn chéng
Hanviet: 漢hán 城thành
Meaning:
Hanseong, old name of Seoul as traditional capital of Korea and capital of South Korea/adopted new Chinese spelling 首爾, 首尔 in 2005/


Words: 漢城特別市
Pinyin: hàn chéng tè bié shì
Hanviet: 漢hán 城thành 特đặc 別biệt 市thị
Meaning:
Hanseong Metropolitan City, old name for Seoul, capital of Korea/adopted new Chinese spelling 首爾, 首尔 in 2005/


Words: 漢學
Pinyin: hàn xué
Hanviet: 漢hán 學học
Meaning:
sinology/Chinese studies (in foreign schools)/Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics/


Words: 漢文帝
Pinyin: hàn wén dì
Hanviet: 漢hán 文văn 帝đế
Meaning:
Emperor Wen of Han (202-157 BC), fourth Han emperor, personal name Liu Heng 劉恆, 刘恒, reigned 180-157 BC/


Words: 漢獻帝
Pinyin: hàn xiàn dì
Hanviet: 漢hán 獻hiến 帝đế
Meaning:
Emperor Xian of Han (181-234), the final Han emperor, set up by Dong Zhuo 董卓, reigned 189-220, forced to abdicate 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕/


Words: 漢語大字典
Pinyin: hàn yǔ dà zì diǎn
Hanviet: 漢hán 語ngữ 大đại 字tự 典điển
Meaning:
Hanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678 (and later 60,370) entries, first published between 1986-1990/


Words: 漢語大詞典
Pinyin: hàn yǔ dà cí diǎn
Hanviet: 漢hán 語ngữ 大đại 詞từ 典điển
Meaning:
Hanyu Da Cidian, the most comprehensive Chinese dictionary with over 375,000 word entries, first published between 1986-1994/


Words: 漢賊不兩立
Pinyin: hàn zéi bù liǎng lì
Hanviet: 漢hán 賊tặc 不bất 兩lưỡng 立lập
Meaning:
lit. Shu Han 蜀漢, 蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom)/fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky/(former KMT slogan against CPC) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"/


Words: 漤
Pinyin: lǎn
Hanviet: 漤
Meaning:
to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste/to marinate in salt etc/to pickle/


Words: 漫山遍野
Pinyin: màn shān biàn yě
Hanviet: 漫mạn 山sơn 遍biến 野dã
Meaning:
lit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom)/fig. as far as the eye can see/covering everything/omnipresent/


Words: 漫無邊際
Pinyin: màn wú biān jì
Hanviet: 漫mạn 無vô 邊biên 際tế
Meaning:
extremely vast/boundless/limitless/digressing/discursive/going off on tangents/straying far off topic/


Words: 潔身自好
Pinyin: jié shēn zì hào
Hanviet: 潔khiết 身thân 自tự 好hảo/hiếu
Meaning:
clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality/to shun evil influence/to mind one’s own business and keep out of trouble/to keep one’s hands clean/


Words: 潘岳
Pinyin: pān yuè
Hanviet: 潘phan 岳nhạc
Meaning:
Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安, famous handsome and elegant writer from the Western Jin dynasty/


Words: 潘金蓮
Pinyin: pān jīn lián
Hanviet: 潘phan 金kim 蓮liên
Meaning:
Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅/


Words: 潞西
Pinyin: lù xī
Hanviet: 潞 西tây
Meaning:
Luxi city in Yunnan, capital of Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州, 德宏傣族景颇族自治州 in west Yunnan/


Words: 潤色
Pinyin: rùn sè
Hanviet: 潤nhuận 色sắc
Meaning:
to polish (a piece of writing)/to add a few finishing touches to (a piece of writing, painting etc)/


Words: 潮州
Pinyin: cháo zhōu
Hanviet: 潮triều 州châu
Meaning:
Chaozhou prefecture level city in Guangdong 廣東省, 广东省/Chaochou town in Pingtung County 屏東縣, 屏东县, Taiwan/


Words: 潮洲
Pinyin: cháo zhōu
Hanviet: 潮triều 洲châu
Meaning:
Chaozhou or Teochew, a town near Guangdong, with famous cuisine/Chaozhou, variant of Minnan dialect 閩南語, 闽南语 spoken in east Guangdong/


Words: 澄清
Pinyin: dèng qīng
Hanviet: 澄trừng 清thanh
Meaning:
to settle (of liquid)/to become clear (by precipitation of impurities)/precipitate (chemistry)/to put in order/to quell disturbances/


Words: 澡身浴德
Pinyin: zǎo shēn yù dé
Hanviet: 澡táo 身thân 浴dục 德đức
Meaning:
to bathe the body and cleanse virtue (idiom); to improve oneself by meditation/cleanliness is next to godliness/


Words: 激將法
Pinyin: jī jiàng fǎ
Hanviet: 激kích 將tương 法pháp
Meaning:
indirect, psychological method of getting sb to do as one wishes (e.g. questioning whether they are up to the task)/


Words: 濃度
Pinyin: nóng dù
Hanviet: 濃nồng 度độ
Meaning:
concentration (percentage of dissolved material in a solution)/consistency/thickness/density/viscosity/


Words: 濫竽充數
Pinyin: làn yú chōng shù
Hanviet: 濫lạm 竽 充sung 數số
Meaning:
lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products/to masquerade as having an ability/token member of a group/


Words: 濱海
Pinyin: bīn hǎi
Hanviet: 濱tân 海hải
Meaning:
Binhai (place name)/Binhai New District, subprovincial district of Tianjin/Binhai county in Yancheng 鹽城, 盐城, Jiangsu/fictitious city Binhai in political satire/


Words: 瀋陽
Pinyin: shěn yáng
Hanviet: 瀋 陽dương
Meaning:
Shenyang subprovincial city and capital of Liaoning province 遼寧省, 辽宁省 in northeast China/old names include Fengtian 奉天, Shengjing 盛京 and Mukden/


Words: 瀘定
Pinyin: lú dìng
Hanviet: 瀘 定định
Meaning:
Luding county (Tibetan: lcags zam rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 瀘定橋
Pinyin: lú dìng qiáo
Hanviet: 瀘 定định 橋kiều
Meaning:
Luding Bridge over Dadu river 大渡河 in Sichuan, built by Kangxi in 1706, linking Luding county Sichuan Luding county 瀘定縣, 泸定县 with Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州甘孜藏族自治州/


Words: 瀛洲
Pinyin: yíng zhōu
Hanviet: 瀛doanh 洲châu
Meaning:
Yingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and source of elixir of immortality/


Words: 瀛臺
Pinyin: yíng tái
Hanviet: 瀛doanh 臺đài
Meaning:
Ocean platform in Zhongnanhai 中南海 surrounded by water on three sides, recreation area for imperial wives and concubines, more recently for communist top brass/


Words: 火
Pinyin: huǒ
Hanviet: 火hỏa
Meaning:
fire/urgent/ammunition/fiery or flaming/internal heat (Chinese medicine)/hot (popular)/classifier for military units (old)/


Words: 火上加油
Pinyin: huǒ shàng jiā yóu
Hanviet: 火hỏa 上thượng 加gia 油du
Meaning:
to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation/to enrage people and make matters worse/


Words: 火上澆油
Pinyin: huǒ shàng jiāo yóu
Hanviet: 火hỏa 上thượng 澆kiêu 油du
Meaning:
to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation/to enrage people and make matters worse/


Words: 火星文
Pinyin: huǒ xīng wén
Hanviet: 火hỏa 星tinh 文văn
Meaning:
lit. Martian language/fig. Internet slang used to communicate secret messages that the general public or government can’t understand/


Words: 火焰山
Pinyin: huǒ yàn shān
Hanviet: 火hỏa 焰diễm 山sơn
Meaning:
Mountain of Flames of legend/fig. insurmountable obstacle/Mountain of Flames in Turpan depression in Xinjiang/


Words: 灰飛煙滅
Pinyin: huī fēi yān miè
Hanviet: 灰hôi 飛phi 煙yên 滅diệt
Meaning:
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)/fig. to be annihilated/to vanish in a puff of smoke/


Words: 灶神星
Pinyin: zào shén xīng
Hanviet: 灶 神thần 星tinh
Meaning:
Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers/


Words: 災變說
Pinyin: zāi biàn shuō
Hanviet: 災tai 變biến 說thuyết
Meaning:
catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)/


Words: 災變論
Pinyin: zāi biàn lùn
Hanviet: 災tai 變biến 論luận
Meaning:
catastrophism/the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood/


Words: 炙手可熱
Pinyin: zhì shǒu kě rè
Hanviet: 炙chích 手thủ 可khả 熱nhiệt
Meaning:
lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); arrogance of the powerful/a mighty figure no-one dares approach/hot (exciting or in favor)/


Words: 炸醬麵
Pinyin: zhá jiàng miàn
Hanviet: 炸 醬tương 麵miến
Meaning:
zha jiang mian: ground pork simmered with salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce) over thick wheat noodles/


Words: 為
Pinyin: wéi
Hanviet: 為vi
Meaning:
as (in the capacity of)/to take sth as/to act as/to serve as/to behave as/to become/to be/to do/by (in the passive voice)/


Words: 為仁不富
Pinyin: wéi rén bù fù
Hanviet: 為vi 仁nhân 不bất 富phú
Meaning:
the rich man cannot be benevolent (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24)./


Words: 為富不仁
Pinyin: wéi fù bù rén
Hanviet: 為vi 富phú 不bất 仁nhân
Meaning:
the benevolent man cannot be rich (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24)./


Words: 為富不仁，為仁不富
Pinyin: wéi fù bù rén , wéi rén bù fù
Hanviet: 為vi 富phú 不bất 仁nhân 為vi 仁nhân 不bất 富phú
Meaning:
the benevolent man cannot be rich and vice versa (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24)./


Words: 為德不卒
Pinyin: wéi dé bù zú
Hanviet: 為vi 德đức 不bất 卒thốt
Meaning:
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through/lack of sticking power/short attention span/


Words: 為難
Pinyin: wéi nán
Hanviet: 為vi 難nạn/nan
Meaning:
to feel embarrassed or awkward/to make things difficult (for someone)/to find things difficult (to do or manage)/


Words: 烏蘇里斯克
Pinyin: wū sū lǐ sī kè
Hanviet: 烏ô 蘇tô 里lý 斯tư 克khắc
Meaning:
Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region/previous names include 雙城子, 双城子 and Voroshilov 伏羅希洛夫, 伏罗希洛夫/


Words: 烏魯克恰提
Pinyin: wū lǔ kè qià tí
Hanviet: 烏ô 魯lỗ 克khắc 恰kháp 提đề
Meaning:
Wuqia county in Xinjiang/name of county in Xinjiang from early 20th century now called Wuqia 烏恰縣, 乌恰县/


Words: 烏魯木齊
Pinyin: wū lǔ mù qí
Hanviet: 烏ô 魯lỗ 木mộc 齊tề
Meaning:
Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區, 新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China/


Words: 烏魯汝
Pinyin: wū lǔ rǔ
Hanviet: 烏ô 魯lỗ 汝nhữ
Meaning:
Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site/also known as Ayers Rock/


Words: 烏龍球
Pinyin: wū lóng qiú
Hanviet: 烏ô 龍long 球
Meaning:
own goal (football)/a goal in a sports match where the player accidentally puts the ball into his own goal/


Words: 烘托
Pinyin: hōng tuō
Hanviet: 烘 托thác
Meaning:
background (of a painting)/backdrop/a foil (to set off something to advantage)/to offset (something to advantage)/


Words: 烘雲托月
Pinyin: hōng yún tuō yuè
Hanviet: 烘 雲vân 托thác 月nguyệt
Meaning:
lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil/a contrasting character to a main hero/


Words: 焉耆回族自治縣
Pinyin: yān qí huí zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 焉yên 耆kỳ 回hồi 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 焉耆縣
Pinyin: yān qí xiàn
Hanviet: 焉yên 耆kỳ 縣huyện
Meaning:
Yenji Xuyzu aptonom nahiyisi or Yanqi Hui autonomous county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 焌
Pinyin: qū
Hanviet: 焌
Meaning:
to extinguish a burning object/to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one’s trousers with a cigarette)/to stir-fry/to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food/


Words: 焚書坑儒
Pinyin: fén shū kēng rú
Hanviet: 焚phần 書thư 坑khanh 儒nho
Meaning:
to burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)/


Words: 焚琴煮鶴
Pinyin: fén qín zhǔ hè
Hanviet: 焚phần 琴cầm 煮chử 鶴hạc
Meaning:
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes/fig. to waste valuable resources/to destroy wantonly beautiful things/


Words: 無事不登三寶殿
Pinyin: wú shì bù dēng sān bǎo diàn
Hanviet: 無vô 事sự 不bất 登đăng 三Tam 寶Bảo 殿điện
Meaning:
lit. One doesn’t visit a temple without a cause. (idiom)/fig. to visit sb with an ulterior motive (esp. to ask for sth)/having a hidden agenda/


Words: 無厘頭
Pinyin: wú lí tóu
Hanviet: 無vô 厘 頭đầu
Meaning:
silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century/


Words: 無堅不摧
Pinyin: wú jiān bù cuī
Hanviet: 無vô 堅kiên 不bất 摧tồi
Meaning:
no stronghold one cannot overcome (idiom); to conquer every obstacle/nothing one can’t do/to carry everything before one/


Words: 無奈
Pinyin: wú nài
Hanviet: 無vô 奈nại
Meaning:
helpless/without choice/for lack of better option/grudgingly/willy-nilly/nolens volens/abbr. for 無可奈何, 无可奈何/


Words: 無常
Pinyin: wú cháng
Hanviet: 無vô 常thường
Meaning:
variable/changeable/fickle/impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya)/ghost taking away the soul after death/to pass away/to die/


Words: 無心插柳柳成陰
Pinyin: wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn
Hanviet: 無vô 心tâm 插sáp 柳liễu 柳liễu 成thành 陰ấm
Meaning:
lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you/(fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success/also written 無心插柳柳成蔭, 无心插柳柳成荫/


Words: 無期
Pinyin: wú qī
Hanviet: 無vô 期kỳ
Meaning:
unspecified period/in the indefinite future/no fixed time/indefinite sentence (i.e. life imprisonment)/


Words: 無疾而終
Pinyin: wú jí ér zhōng
Hanviet: 無vô 疾tật 而nhi 終chung
Meaning:
to die peacefully/(fig.) to result in failure (without any outside interference)/to come to nothing/to fizzle out/


Words: 無病自灸
Pinyin: wú bìng zì jiǔ
Hanviet: 無vô 病bệnh 自tự 灸
Meaning:
lit. to prescribe moxibustion for oneself when not ill; to cause oneself trouble with superfluous action/


Words: 無的放矢
Pinyin: wú dì fàng shǐ
Hanviet: 無vô 的đích 放phóng 矢thỉ
Meaning:
to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking/firing blindly/to shoot in the air/a shot in the dark/


Words: 無緣
Pinyin: wú yuán
Hanviet: 無vô 緣duyên
Meaning:
to have no opportunity/no way (of doing sth)/no chance/no connection/not placed (in a competition)/(in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc/


Words: 無記名
Pinyin: wú jì míng
Hanviet: 無vô 記ký 名danh
Meaning:
(of a document) not bearing a name/unregistered (financial securities etc)/bearer (bond)/secret (ballot etc)/anonymous/unattributed (remarks)/(of a check) payable to the bearer/


Words: 無量壽
Pinyin: wú liàng shòu
Hanviet: 無vô 量lượng 壽thọ
Meaning:
boundless life (expression of good wishes)/Amitayus, the Buddha of measureless life, good fortune and wisdom/


Words: 焦頭爛額
Pinyin: jiāo tóu làn é
Hanviet: 焦tiêu 頭đầu 爛lạn 額ngạch
Meaning:
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom)/fig. hard-pressed/under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)/


Words: 煉丹八卦爐
Pinyin: liàn dān bā guà lú
Hanviet: 煉luyện 丹đan 八bát 卦 爐lô
Meaning:
eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality/symbol of the alchemist’s art/Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble/


Words: 煙
Pinyin: yān
Hanviet: 煙yên
Meaning:
cigarette or pipe tobacco/CL:根/smoke/mist/vapour/CL:縷, 缕/tobacco plant/(of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke/


Words: 煞有介事
Pinyin: shà yǒu jiè shì
Hanviet: 煞sát 有hữu 介giới 事sự
Meaning:
to make a show of being very much in earnest (idiom)/to act as if one is taking things very seriously/


Words: 照
Pinyin: zhào
Hanviet: 照chiếu
Meaning:
according to/in accordance with/to shine/to illuminate/to reflect/to look at (one’s reflection)/to take (a photo)/photo/as requested/as before/


Words: 照貓畫虎
Pinyin: zhào māo huà hǔ
Hanviet: 照chiếu 貓miêu 畫họa 虎hổ
Meaning:
lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject/uninspired imitation/


Words: 熄
Pinyin: xī
Hanviet: 熄
Meaning:
to extinguish/to put out (fire)/to quench/to stop burning/to go out (of fire, lamp etc)/to come to an end/to wither away/to die out/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 熒
Pinyin: yíng
Hanviet: 熒
Meaning:
a glimmer/glimmering/twinkling/fluorescence/phosphorescence/perplexed/dazzled and confused/planet Mars (arch.)/


Words: 熗
Pinyin: qiàng
Hanviet: 熗
Meaning:
to stir-fry then cook with sauce and water/to boil food briefly then dress with soy etc/to choke/to irritate (throat etc)/


Words: 熟地
Pinyin: shú dì
Hanviet: 熟thục 地địa
Meaning:
cultivated land/in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)/


Words: 熰
Pinyin: oǔ
Hanviet: 熰
Meaning:
copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood/half alight/to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects/


Words: 熱比亞
Pinyin: rè bǐ yà
Hanviet: 熱nhiệt 比tỉ 亞
Meaning:
Rabiye or Rebiya (name)/Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress/


Words: 熱比亞·卡德爾
Pinyin: rè bǐ yà �� kǎ dé ěr
Hanviet: 熱nhiệt 比tỉ 亞 · 卡 德đức 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress/


Words: 熱河
Pinyin: rè hé
Hanviet: 熱nhiệt 河hà
Meaning:
Rehe, Qing dynasty province abolished in 1955 and divided among Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia/refers to the Qing imperial resort at Chengde/see also 避暑山莊, 避暑山庄 (history)/


Words: 熱炒熱賣
Pinyin: rè chǎo rè mài
Hanviet: 熱nhiệt 炒sao 熱nhiệt 賣mại
Meaning:
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned/enthusiasm of the new convert/


Words: 熱臉貼冷屁股
Pinyin: rè liǎn tiē lěng pì gu
Hanviet: 熱nhiệt 臉liệm 貼 冷lãnh 屁 股cổ
Meaning:
to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom)/to be snubbed despite showing good intentions/


Words: 燈會
Pinyin: dēng huì
Hanviet: 燈đăng 會hội
Meaning:
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance/


Words: 燈泡
Pinyin: dēng pào
Hanviet: 燈đăng 泡bào
Meaning:
light bulb/see also 電燈泡, 电灯泡/third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple’s date (slang)/CL:個, 个/


Words: 燈頭
Pinyin: dēng tóu
Hanviet: 燈đăng 頭đầu
Meaning:
electric light socket/burner (component of a kerosene lamp)/light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)/


Words: 燒
Pinyin: shāo
Hanviet: 燒thiêu
Meaning:
to burn/to cook/to stew/to bake/to roast/to heat/to boil (tea, water etc)/fever/to run a temperature/(coll.) to let things go to one’s head/


Words: 燒炭
Pinyin: shāo tàn
Hanviet: 燒thiêu 炭thán
Meaning:
to manufacture charcoal/to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)/


Words: 燕
Pinyin: yān
Hanviet: 燕yên
Meaning:
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning/north Hebei/the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕, 后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436)/surname Yan/


Words: 燕國
Pinyin: yān guó
Hanviet: 燕yên 國quốc
Meaning:
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning/north Hebei/the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕, 后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436)/


Words: 燕趙
Pinyin: yān zhào
Hanviet: 燕yên 趙triệu
Meaning:
Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi/beautiful women/women dancers and singers/


Words: 燕雀安知鴻鵠之志
Pinyin: yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì
Hanviet: 燕yên 雀tước 安an 知tri 鴻hồng 鵠hộc 之chi 志chí
Meaning:
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)/fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?/


Words: 燕雀焉知鴻鵠之志
Pinyin: yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhì
Hanviet: 燕yên 雀tước 焉yên 知tri 鴻hồng 鵠hộc 之chi 志chí
Meaning:
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?/


Words: 燕雀相賀
Pinyin: yàn què xiàng hè
Hanviet: 燕yên 雀tước 相tương/tướng 賀hạ
Meaning:
lit. sparrow and swallow’s congratulation (idiom); fig. to congratulate sb on completion of a building project/congratulations on your new house!/


Words: 燕雀處堂
Pinyin: yàn què chù táng
Hanviet: 燕yên 雀tước 處xứ 堂đường
Meaning:
lit. a caged bird in a pavilion (idiom); fig. to lose vigilance by comfortable living/unaware of the disasters ahead/a fool’s paradise/


Words: 燙
Pinyin: tàng
Hanviet: 燙
Meaning:
to scald/to burn (by scalding)/to blanch (cooking)/to heat (sth) up in hot water/to perm/to iron/scalding hot/


Words: 營盤
Pinyin: yíng pán
Hanviet: 營doanh 盤bàn
Meaning:
Yingpan, common place name ("army camp")/place near Jintian village 金田村 in Guangxi where the Taiping Tianguo rebels took their oaths in 1851/place in Xinfeng county 新豐縣, 新丰县 traditional camping place of brigands/Yingpan township, place name/Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi/Yingpan township in Yunnan/(many others)/


Words: 營盤鎮
Pinyin: yíng pán zhèn
Hanviet: 營doanh 盤bàn 鎮trấn
Meaning:
Yingpan township, place name/Yingpan in Shangluo prefecture, Shaanxi/Yingpan township in Yunnan/(many others)/


Words: 爆料
Pinyin: bào liào
Hanviet: 爆bộc 料liệu
Meaning:
to expose (in the media)/to talk about sth often overlooked or non-confirmable/to scoop (esp. Taiwan media)/


Words: 爆炒
Pinyin: bào chǎo
Hanviet: 爆bộc 炒sao
Meaning:
to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame/to conduct a media blitz/to manipulate a stock market through large-scale buying and selling/


Words: 爐火純青
Pinyin: lú huǒ chún qīng
Hanviet: 爐lô 火hỏa 純thuần 青thanh
Meaning:
lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom)/fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection/


Words: 爐霍
Pinyin: lú huò
Hanviet: 爐lô 霍hoắc
Meaning:
Luhuo county (Tibetan: brag ’go rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 爛
Pinyin: làn
Hanviet: 爛lạn
Meaning:
soft/mushy/well-cooked and soft/to rot/to decompose/rotten/worn out/chaotic/messy/utterly/thoroughly/crappy/bad/


Words: 爭名奪利
Pinyin: zhēng míng duó lì
Hanviet: 爭tranh 名danh 奪đoạt 利lợi
Meaning:
to fight for fame, grab profit (idiom); scrambling for fame and wealth/only interested in personal gain/


Words: 爰
Pinyin: yuán
Hanviet: 爰viên
Meaning:
therefore/consequently/thus/hence/thereupon/it follows that/where?/to change (into)/ancient unit of weight and money/


Words: 爲
Pinyin: wéi
Hanviet: 爲
Meaning:
variant of 為, 为/as (i.e. in the capacity of)/to take sth as/to act as/to serve as/to behave as/to become/to be/to do/


Words: 爽
Pinyin: shuǎng
Hanviet: 爽sảng
Meaning:
bright/clear/crisp/open/frank/straightforward/to feel well/fine/pleasurable/invigorating/to deviate/


Words: 爾虞我詐
Pinyin: ěr yú wǒ zhà
Hanviet: 爾nhĩ 虞ngu 我ngã 詐trá
Meaning:
lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. mutual deception/each tries to outwit the other/dog eats dog and devil take the hindmost/


Words: 爾雅
Pinyin: ěr yǎ
Hanviet: 爾nhĩ 雅nhã
Meaning:
"Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts/


Words: 爿
Pinyin: pán
Hanviet: 爿
Meaning:
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc/slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)/


Words: 牆頭草
Pinyin: qiáng tóu cǎo
Hanviet: 牆tường 頭đầu 草thảo
Meaning:
sb who goes whichever way the wind blows/sb with no mind of one’s own/easily swayed person/opportunist/


Words: 片
Pinyin: piàn
Hanviet: 片phiến
Meaning:
thin piece/flake/a slice/film/TV play/to slice/to carve thin/partial/incomplete/one-sided/classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water/classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc/used with numeral 一: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc/


Words: 版面
Pinyin: bǎn miàn
Hanviet: 版 面diện
Meaning:
page of a publication (e.g. newspaper or website)/printing space (reserved for some content)/page layout/


Words: 牛腩
Pinyin: niú nǎn
Hanviet: 牛ngưu 腩nạm
Meaning:
brisket (esp. Cantonese)/belly beef/spongy meat from cow’s underside and neighboring ribs/erroneously translated as sirloin/


Words: 牛驥同槽
Pinyin: niú jì tóng cáo
Hanviet: 牛ngưu 驥kí 同đồng 槽tào
Meaning:
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike/also written 牛驥同皂, 牛骥同皂/


Words: 牝雞司晨
Pinyin: pìn jī sī chén
Hanviet: 牝tẫn 雞kê 司ty 晨thần
Meaning:
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority/women meddle in politics/The female wears the trousers./


Words: 牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶
Pinyin: mǔ dan suī hǎo , quán zhàng lǜ yè fú
Hanviet: 牡 丹đan 雖tuy 好hảo/hiếu 全toàn 仗trượng 綠lục 葉diệp 扶phù
Meaning:
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can’t do anything without support from others./


Words: 牢籠
Pinyin: láo lóng
Hanviet: 牢lao 籠lung
Meaning:
cage/trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)/fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)/shackles (of past misconceptions)/to trap/to shackle/


Words: 物以類聚，人以群分
Pinyin: wù yǐ lèi jù , rén yǐ qún fēn
Hanviet: 物vật 以dĩ 類loại 聚tụ 人nhân 以dĩ 群quần 分phần/phân
Meaning:
Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together./


Words: 物色
Pinyin: wù sè
Hanviet: 物vật 色sắc
Meaning:
to look for/to seek/to choose/color of object/color of fleece (of domestic animal)/to see/to notice/all kinds of things/odds and ends/


Words: 物質文明和精神文明
Pinyin: wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng
Hanviet: 物vật 質chất 文văn 明minh 和hòa 精tinh 神thần 文văn 明minh
Meaning:
material and spiritual culture/matter and mind/material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)/


Words: 特克斯
Pinyin: tè kè sī
Hanviet: 特đặc 克khắc 斯tư
Meaning:
Tekesi county or Tékes Nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州, 伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang/tex, unit of fiber density used in textile industry defined as mass in grams per 1000 m of fiber (loan)/


Words: 特別行政區
Pinyin: tè bié xíng zhèng qū
Hanviet: 特đặc 別biệt 行hành 政chánh 區khu
Meaning:
Special Administrative Region, namely: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門, 澳门/refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government/refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia/


Words: 特首
Pinyin: tè shǒu
Hanviet: 特đặc 首thủ
Meaning:
chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao)/abbr. for 特別行政區首席執行官, 特别行政区首席执行官/


Words: 牽一髮而動全身
Pinyin: qiān yī fà ér dòng quán shēn
Hanviet: 牽khiên 一nhất 髮phát 而nhi 動động 全toàn 身thân
Meaning:
lit. pull one hair and the whole body moves/fig. a slight change will affect everything else/the butterfly effect/


Words: 牽羊擔酒
Pinyin: qiān yáng dān jiǔ
Hanviet: 牽khiên 羊dương 擔đảm 酒tửu
Meaning:
pulling a lamb and bringing wine on a carrying pole (idiom); fig. to offer elaborate congratulations/to kill the fatted calf/


Words: 牽頭
Pinyin: qiān tóu
Hanviet: 牽khiên 頭đầu
Meaning:
to lead (an animal by the head)/to take the lead/to coordinate (a combined operation)/to mediate/a go-between (e.g. marriage broker)/


Words: 犁靬
Pinyin: lí jiān
Hanviet: 犁lê 靬
Meaning:
Han dynasty name for countries in far West/may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire/


Words: 犯
Pinyin: fàn
Hanviet: 犯phạm
Meaning:
to violate/to offend/to assault/criminal/crime/to make a mistake/recurrence (of mistake or sth bad)/


Words: 狀元
Pinyin: zhuàng yuán
Hanviet: 狀trạng 元nguyên
Meaning:
top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system)/see 榜眼 and 探花/top scorer in college entrance examination 高考/(fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field/leading light/


Words: 狄
Pinyin: dí
Hanviet: 狄địch
Meaning:
surname Di/generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)/


Words: 狄仁傑
Pinyin: dí rén jié
Hanviet: 狄địch 仁nhân 傑kiệt
Meaning:
Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends/master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮, 高罗佩/


Words: 狄公案
Pinyin: dí gōng àn
Hanviet: 狄địch 公công 案án
Meaning:
Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee’s) Cases, 18th century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑, 狄仁杰 as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee/


Words: 狄奧多·阿多諾
Pinyin: dí ào duō �� ā duō nuò
Hanviet: 狄địch 奧áo 多đa · 阿a 多đa 諾nặc
Meaning:
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer/


Words: 狐假虎威
Pinyin: hú jiǎ hǔ wēi
Hanviet: 狐hồ 假giả 虎hổ 威uy
Meaning:
lit. the fox exploits the tiger’s might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people/


Words: 狐狸尾巴
Pinyin: hú li wěi ba
Hanviet: 狐hồ 狸li 尾vĩ 巴ba
Meaning:
lit. fox’s tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions/to reveal one’s evil nature/evidence that reveals the villain/


Words: 狗尾續貂
Pinyin: gǒu wěi xù diāo
Hanviet: 狗cẩu 尾vĩ 續tục 貂
Meaning:
lit. to use a dog’s tail as a substitute for sable fur (idiom)/fig. a worthless sequel to a masterpiece/


Words: 狡兔三窟
Pinyin: jiǎo tù sān kū
Hanviet: 狡 兔thố 三tam 窟quật
Meaning:
lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows/a sly individual has more than one plan to fall back on (idiom)/


Words: 猴子偷桃
Pinyin: hóu zi tōu táo
Hanviet: 猴hầu 子tử 偷thâu 桃đào
Meaning:
"monkey steals the peach" (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and seizing his testicles with the other/(coll.) grabbing sb by the balls/


Words: 猴王
Pinyin: hóu wáng
Hanviet: 猴hầu 王vương
Meaning:
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記, 西游记/


Words: 獅尾狒
Pinyin: shī wěi fèi
Hanviet: 獅sư 尾vĩ 狒
Meaning:
gelada (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian herbivorous monkey similar to baboon/also written 吉爾達, 吉尔达/


Words: 獨佔鰲頭
Pinyin: dú zhàn áo tóu
Hanviet: 獨độc 佔 鰲 頭đầu
Meaning:
to come first in triennial palace examinations (idiom, refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successful candidate in the imperial examinations was entitled to stand)/to be the champion/to be the very best in any field/


Words: 獨尊
Pinyin: dú zūn
Hanviet: 獨độc 尊tôn
Meaning:
to revere as sole orthodoxy/to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc)/to be dominant/


Words: 獨立自主
Pinyin: dú lì zì zhǔ
Hanviet: 獨độc 立lập 自tự 主chủ
Meaning:
independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination/to act independently/to maintain control over one’s own affairs/


Words: 獨霸一方
Pinyin: dú bà yī fāng
Hanviet: 獨độc 霸 一nhất 方phương
Meaning:
to exercise sole hegemony (idiom); to dominate a whole area (market, resources etc)/to hold as one’s personal fiefdom/


Words: 獨龍江
Pinyin: dú lóng jiāng
Hanviet: 獨độc 龍long 江giang
Meaning:
Dulong river in northwest Yunnan on border with Myanmar, tributary of Salween or Nujiang 怒江, sometimes referred to as number four of Three parallel rivers 三江並流, 三江并流, wildlife protection unit/


Words: 獫狁
Pinyin: xiǎn yǔn
Hanviet: 獫 狁
Meaning:
Zhou Dynasty term for a northern nomadic tribe later called the Xiongnu 匈奴 in the Qin and Han Dynasties/


Words: 獸腳亞目
Pinyin: shòu jiǎo yà mù
Hanviet: 獸thú 腳cước 亞 目mục
Meaning:
suborder Theropoda (beast-footed dinosaur group) within order Saurischia containing carnivorous dinosaurs/


Words: 獸腳類恐龍
Pinyin: shòu jiǎo lèi kǒng lóng
Hanviet: 獸thú 腳cước 類loại 恐khủng 龍long
Meaning:
theropod (beast-footed dinosaur group)/suborder Theropoda within order Saurischia containing carnivorous dinosaurs/


Words: 獸術
Pinyin: shòu shù
Hanviet: 獸thú 術thuật
Meaning:
animal training/skill with animals/shoushu - "Animal skill" or "Beast-fist" - Martial Art (esp. fictional)/


Words: 獻殷勤
Pinyin: xiàn yīn qín
Hanviet: 獻hiến 殷ân 勤cần
Meaning:
to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc)/to fawn upon (an influential politician etc)/to court sb’s favor/to ingratiate oneself/


Words: 獻身
Pinyin: xiàn shēn
Hanviet: 獻hiến 身thân
Meaning:
to commit one’s energy to/to devote oneself to/to sacrifice one’s life for/(coll.) (of a woman) to give one’s virginity to/


Words: 玄學
Pinyin: xuán xué
Hanviet: 玄huyền 學học
Meaning:
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals/translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學, 形而上学)/


Words: 玄武門之變
Pinyin: xuán wǔ mén zhī biàn
Hanviet: 玄huyền 武võ 門môn 之chi 變biến
Meaning:
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗/


Words: 玉人吹簫
Pinyin: yù rén chuī xiāo
Hanviet: 玉ngọc 人nhân 吹xuy 簫tiêu
Meaning:
virtuoso piper wins a beauty/the xiao 箫 (mouth organ) virtuoso 萧史 won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公/


Words: 玉女
Pinyin: yù nǚ
Hanviet: 玉ngọc 女nữ
Meaning:
beautiful woman/fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals/(polite) sb else’s daughter/Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM/


Words: 玉樹縣
Pinyin: yù shù xiàn
Hanviet: 玉ngọc 樹thụ 縣huyện
Meaning:
Yushu county (Tibetan: yus hru’u rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州, 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 玉玦
Pinyin: yù jué
Hanviet: 玉ngọc 玦quyết
Meaning:
penannular jade pendant (often used as a symbol of separation or resolution, for homophony reasons)/


Words: 玉門關
Pinyin: yù mén guān
Hanviet: 玉ngọc 門môn 關quan
Meaning:
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu/


Words: 王丹
Pinyin: wáng dān
Hanviet: 王vương 丹đan
Meaning:
Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989/


Words: 王五
Pinyin: wáng wǔ
Hanviet: 王vương 五ngũ
Meaning:
Wang Wu, name for an unspecified person, third of a series of three: 張三, 张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry/


Words: 王伾
Pinyin: wáng pī
Hanviet: 王vương 伾
Meaning:
Wang Pi (-c. 806), Tang dynasty chancellor and a leader of failed Yongzhen reform 永貞革新, 永贞革新 of 805/


Words: 王叔文
Pinyin: wáng shū wén
Hanviet: 王vương 叔thúc 文văn
Meaning:
Wang Shuwen (735-806), famous Tang dynasty scholar, Go player and politician, a leader of failed Yongzhen Reform 永貞革新, 永贞革新 of 805/


Words: 王家瑞
Pinyin: wáng jiā ruì
Hanviet: 王vương 家gia 瑞thụy
Meaning:
Wang Jiarui (1949-), PRC politician and diplomat, from 2006 head of CPC central committee’s external affairs department 對外聯絡部, 对外联络部/


Words: 王導
Pinyin: wáng dǎo
Hanviet: 王vương 導đạo
Meaning:
Wang Dao (276-339), powerful official of Jin dynasty and brother of general Wang Dun 王敦, regent of Jin from 325/


Words: 王希孟
Pinyin: wáng xī mèng
Hanviet: 王vương 希hy 孟
Meaning:
Wang Ximeng (c. 1096-c. 1119), Song artist, probably teenage prodigy who died young, painter of Thousand Miles of Landscape 千里江山/


Words: 王建民
Pinyin: wáng jiàn mín
Hanviet: 王vương 建kiến 民dân
Meaning:
Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball/


Words: 王敦
Pinyin: wáng dūn
Hanviet: 王vương 敦đôn
Meaning:
Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導, 王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324/


Words: 王明
Pinyin: wáng míng
Hanviet: 王vương 明minh
Meaning:
Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956/


Words: 王昭君
Pinyin: wáng zhāo jūn
Hanviet: 王vương 昭chiêu 君quân
Meaning:
Wang Zhaojun (52-19 BC), famous beauty at the court of Han emperor Yuan 漢元帝, 汉元帝, one of the Four legendary beauties 四大美女/


Words: 王碼
Pinyin: wáng mǎ
Hanviet: 王vương 碼mã
Meaning:
Wang code, same as 五筆字型, 五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983/


Words: 王肅
Pinyin: wáng sù
Hanviet: 王vương 肅túc
Meaning:
Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts/


Words: 王顧左右而言他
Pinyin: wáng gù zuǒ yòu ér yán tā
Hanviet: 王vương 顧cố 左tả 右hữu 而nhi 言ngôn 他tha
Meaning:
the king looked left and right and then talked of other things/to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom)/


Words: 玩
Pinyin: wán
Hanviet: 玩ngoạn
Meaning:
to play/to have fun/to trifle with/toy/sth used for amusement/curio or antique (Taiwan pr. )/to keep sth for entertainment/


Words: 玩火自焚
Pinyin: wán huǒ zì fén
Hanviet: 玩ngoạn 火hỏa 自tự 焚phần
Meaning:
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences/to get one’s fingers burnt/


Words: 玩物喪志
Pinyin: wán wù sàng zhì
Hanviet: 玩ngoạn 物vật 喪táng 志chí
Meaning:
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress/excessive attention to trivia saps the will/


Words: 珠山
Pinyin: zhū shān
Hanviet: 珠châu 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Everest/abbr. for 珠穆朗瑪峰, 珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan)/Nepalese: Sagarmatha/Mt Pearl (place name)/Zhushan district of Jingdezhen city 景德鎮市, 景德镇市, Jiangxi/


Words: 班次
Pinyin: bān cì
Hanviet: 班ban 次thứ
Meaning:
grade/class number (in school)/flight or run number/flight or run (seen as an item)/shift (work period)/


Words: 現炒現賣
Pinyin: xiàn chǎo xiàn mài
Hanviet: 現hiện 炒sao 現hiện 賣mại
Meaning:
lit. to fry and sell on the spot/fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school/


Words: 現貨
Pinyin: xiàn huò
Hanviet: 現hiện 貨hóa
Meaning:
merchandise or commodities available immediately after sale/merchandise in stock/available item/actuals (investment)/actual commodities/


Words: 琅威理
Pinyin: láng wēi lǐ
Hanviet: 琅lang 威uy 理lý
Meaning:
Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北洋水師, 北洋水师 during the 1880s/


Words: 理
Pinyin: lǐ
Hanviet: 理lý
Meaning:
texture/grain (of wood)/inner essence/intrinsic order/reason/logic/truth/science/natural science (esp. physics)/to manage/to pay attention to/to run (affairs)/to handle/to put in order/to tidy up/


Words: 理塘
Pinyin: lǐ táng
Hanviet: 理lý 塘đường
Meaning:
Litang county (Tibetan: li thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 理學
Pinyin: lǐ xué
Hanviet: 理lý 學học
Meaning:
School of Principle/Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥, 程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤, 程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹)/


Words: 理屈詞窮
Pinyin: lǐ qū cí qióng
Hanviet: 理lý 屈khuất 詞từ 窮cùng
Meaning:
faulty argument and poor rhetoric (idiom); unable to put forward any convincing arguments/without a leg to stand on/


Words: 理所當然
Pinyin: lǐ suǒ dāng rán
Hanviet: 理lý 所sở 當đương 然nhiên
Meaning:
as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course/inevitable and right/


Words: 理直氣壯
Pinyin: lǐ zhí qì zhuàng
Hanviet: 理lý 直trực 氣khí 壯tráng
Meaning:
in the right and self-confident (idiom); bold and confident with justice on one’s side/to have the courage of one’s convictions/just and forceful/


Words: 理縣
Pinyin: lǐ xiàn
Hanviet: 理lý 縣huyện
Meaning:
Li county (Tibetan: li rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 理雅各
Pinyin: lǐ yǎ gè
Hanviet: 理lý 雅nhã 各các
Meaning:
James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English/


Words: 琉球
Pinyin: liú qiú
Hanviet: 琉lưu 球
Meaning:
Ryūkyū/refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島, 琉球群岛 stretching from Japan to Taiwan/Liuchiu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣, 屏东县, Taiwan/


Words: 琳·戴維斯
Pinyin: lín �� dài wéi sī
Hanviet: 琳 · 戴đái 維duy 斯tư
Meaning:
Lynn E. Davis, US academic and arms control expert, Under-secretary at US State Department 1993-1997/


Words: 瑪多
Pinyin: mǎ duō
Hanviet: 瑪mã 多đa
Meaning:
Madoi or Maduo county (Tibetan: rma stod rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai/


Words: 瑪沁
Pinyin: mǎ qìn
Hanviet: 瑪mã 沁
Meaning:
Maqên or Maqin county (Tibetan: rma chen rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai/


Words: 瑪納斯
Pinyin: mǎ nà sī
Hanviet: 瑪mã 納nạp 斯tư
Meaning:
Manas, hero of Kyrghiz epic saga/Manas county and town in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 瓜代
Pinyin: guā dài
Hanviet: 瓜qua 代đại
Meaning:
a changeover of personnel/a new shift/(lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season/


Words: 瓜田不納履，李下不整冠
Pinyin: guā tián bù nà lǚ , lǐ xià bù zhěng guān
Hanviet: 瓜qua 田điền 不bất 納nạp 履lý 李 下hạ 不bất 整chỉnh 冠quan
Meaning:
lit. don’t tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don’t adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)/fig. don’t do anything that might arouse suspicion/innocent acts may be misconstrued/


Words: 瓣
Pinyin: bàn
Hanviet: 瓣
Meaning:
petal/segment/clove (of garlic)/piece/section/fragment/valve/lamella/classifier for pieces, segments etc/


Words: 瓦德西
Pinyin: wǎ dé xī
Hanviet: 瓦ngõa 德đức 西tây
Meaning:
Waldersee (name)/Alfred Graf Von Waldersee (1832-1904), commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance 八國聯軍, 八国联军/


Words: 甘之如飴
Pinyin: gān zhī rú yí
Hanviet: 甘cam 之chi 如như 飴di
Meaning:
lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly/a glutton for punishment/


Words: 甘孜
Pinyin: gān zī
Hanviet: 甘cam 孜tư
Meaning:
Garze or Kandze, capital of Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, formerly in Kham province of Tibet, present Sichuan/


Words: 甘孜州
Pinyin: gān zī zhōu
Hanviet: 甘cam 孜tư 州châu
Meaning:
Garze or Kandze, Tibetan autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul), formerly in Kham province of Tibet, present Sichuan/


Words: 甘孜縣
Pinyin: gān zī xiàn
Hanviet: 甘cam 孜tư 縣huyện
Meaning:
Garzê county (Tibetan: dkar mdzes rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 甘巴里
Pinyin: gān bā lǐ
Hanviet: 甘cam 巴ba 里lý
Meaning:
Professor Ibrahim Gambari (1944-), Nigerian scholar and diplomat, ambassador to UN 1990-1999, UN envoy to Burma from 2007/


Words: 甘德
Pinyin: gān dé
Hanviet: 甘cam 德đức
Meaning:
Gadê or Gande county (Tibetan: dga’ bde rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai/


Words: 甜菊
Pinyin: tián jú
Hanviet: 甜điềm 菊
Meaning:
Stevia, South American sunflower genus/sugarleaf (Stevia rebaudiana), bush whose leaves produce sugar substitute/


Words: 生不逢時
Pinyin: shēng bù féng shí
Hanviet: 生sanh 不bất 逢phùng 時thời
Meaning:
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one’s fate)/born under an unlucky star/ahead of his time/


Words: 生命在於運動
Pinyin: shēng mìng zài yú yùn dòng
Hanviet: 生sanh 命mạng 在tại 於ư 運vận 動động
Meaning:
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations)/Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle)./Life derives from physical exercise./


Words: 生於憂患，死於安樂
Pinyin: shēng yú yōu huàn , sǐ yú ān lè
Hanviet: 生sanh 於ư 憂ưu 患hoạn 死tử 於ư 安an 樂lạc
Meaning:
to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom)/life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure/


Words: 生炒熱賣
Pinyin: shēng chǎo rè mài
Hanviet: 生sanh 炒sao 熱nhiệt 賣mại
Meaning:
to sell while it’s still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)/


Words: 生米做成熟飯
Pinyin: shēng mǐ zuò chéng shú fàn
Hanviet: 生sanh 米mễ 做tố 成thành 熟thục 飯phạn
Meaning:
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can’t be changed/It’s too late to change anything now./also written 生米煮成熟飯, 生米煮成熟饭/


Words: 生米熟飯
Pinyin: shēng mǐ shú fàn
Hanviet: 生sanh 米mễ 熟thục 飯phạn
Meaning:
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯, 生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can’t be changed/It’s too late to change anything now./


Words: 生財有道
Pinyin: shēng cái yǒu dào
Hanviet: 生sanh 財tài 有hữu 道đạo
Meaning:
lit. there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business/knowing how to accumulate wealth/good at feathering one’s own nest/


Words: 生辰八字
Pinyin: shēng chén bā zì
Hanviet: 生sanh 辰thần 八bát 字tự
Meaning:
one’s birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch/


Words: 產生
Pinyin: chǎn shēng
Hanviet: 產sản 生sanh
Meaning:
to arise/to come into being/to come about/to give rise to/to bring into being/to bring about/to produce/to engender/to generate/to appear/appearance/emergence/generation/production/yield/


Words: 甩包袱
Pinyin: shuǎi bāo fu
Hanviet: 甩 包bao 袱
Meaning:
lit. to fling off a bundle/fig. to abandon one’s responsibility for sth/to wash one’s hands of the matter/


Words: 田文
Pinyin: tián wén
Hanviet: 田điền 文văn
Meaning:
birth name of Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)/


Words: 田格本
Pinyin: tián gé běn
Hanviet: 田điền 格cách 本bổn
Meaning:
exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)/


Words: 田漢
Pinyin: tián hàn
Hanviet: 田điền 漢hán
Meaning:
Tian Han (1898-1968), author of the words of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲, 义勇军进行曲/


Words: 田長霖
Pinyin: tián cháng lín
Hanviet: 田điền 長trường/trưởng 霖lâm
Meaning:
Chang-lin Tien (1935-2002), Chinese-American professor and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1990-1997/


Words: 由
Pinyin: yóu
Hanviet: 由do
Meaning:
to follow/from/it is for...to/reason/cause/because of/due to/to/to leave it (to sb)/by (introduces passive verb)/


Words: 由表及裡
Pinyin: yóu biǎo jí lǐ
Hanviet: 由do 表biểu 及cập 裡
Meaning:
to proceed from the outside to the inside/to see the essence merely by looking at the superficial appearance/


Words: 甲
Pinyin: jiǎ
Hanviet: 甲giáp
Meaning:
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/(used for an unspecified person or thing)/first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)/letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/armor plating/shell or carapace/(of the fingers or toes) nail/bladed leather or metal armor (old)/ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)/civil administration unit (old)/ancient Chinese compass point: 75°/


Words: 甲子
Pinyin: jiǎ zǐ
Hanviet: 甲giáp 子tử
Meaning:
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支)/the sixty-year cycle/


Words: 甲申政變
Pinyin: jiǎ shēn zhèng biàn
Hanviet: 甲giáp 申thân 政chánh 變biến
Meaning:
unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops/


Words: 甲骨
Pinyin: jiǎ gǔ
Hanviet: 甲giáp 骨cốt
Meaning:
tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination/oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)/


Words: 申
Pinyin: shēn
Hanviet: 申thân
Meaning:
to extend/to state/to explain/9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey/ancient Chinese compass point: 240°/


Words: 男人膝下有黃金
Pinyin: nán rén xī xià yǒu huáng jīn
Hanviet: 男nam 人nhân 膝tất 下hạ 有hữu 黃hoàng 金kim
Meaning:
lit. the man has gold under his knees; fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing to pride or moral integrity)/


Words: 甸
Pinyin: diàn
Hanviet: 甸
Meaning:
suburbs or outskirts/one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China/official in charge of fields (old)/


Words: 界畫
Pinyin: jiè huà
Hanviet: 界giới 畫họa
Meaning:
accurate depiction of architectural forms with the aid of a ruler (technique of Chinese art)/picture created using this technique/


Words: 畏首畏尾
Pinyin: wèi shǒu wèi wěi
Hanviet: 畏úy 首thủ 畏úy 尾vĩ
Meaning:
afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous/afraid of the slightest thing/


Words: 留守兒童
Pinyin: liú shǒu ér tóng
Hanviet: 留lưu 守thủ 兒nhi 童đồng
Meaning:
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them/


Words: 留白
Pinyin: liú bái
Hanviet: 留lưu 白bạch
Meaning:
to leave a message/to leave some empty space in a work of art/to leave idle moments (in one’s life, a theater play etc)/


Words: 畜牲
Pinyin: chù shēng
Hanviet: 畜súc 牲
Meaning:
livestock, or specifically the six farm animals cow, horse, sheep, cock, dog, pig 牛馬羊雞狗豬, 牛马羊鸡狗猪/an insult, You animal!/


Words: 番
Pinyin: fān
Hanviet: 番phiên
Meaning:
foreign (non-Chinese)/barbarian/classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance)/classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc)/classifier for situations: kind, sort/


Words: 畫地為牢
Pinyin: huà dì wéi láo
Hanviet: 畫họa 地địa 為vi 牢lao
Meaning:
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom)/fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities/


Words: 畫荻教子
Pinyin: huà dí jiào zǐ
Hanviet: 畫họa 荻 教giáo 子tử
Meaning:
to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one’s son (idiom)/mother’s admirable dedication to her children’s education/


Words: 畫龍點睛
Pinyin: huà lóng diǎn jīng
Hanviet: 畫họa 龍long 點điểm 睛tình
Meaning:
to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch/the crucial point that brings the subject to life/a few words to clinch the point/


Words: 異丁苯丙酸
Pinyin: yì dīng běn bǐng suān
Hanviet: 異dị 丁đinh 苯 丙bính 酸toan
Meaning:
Ibuprofen or Nurofen/nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), trade names Advil, Motrin, Nuprin etc, used as analgesic and antipyretic, e.g. for arthritis sufferers/also called 布洛芬/


Words: 異事
Pinyin: yì shì
Hanviet: 異dị 事sự
Meaning:
sth else/a separate matter/not the same thing/with different jobs (not colleagues)/a remarkable thing/sth special/an odd thing/sth strange or incomprehensible/


Words: 異形詞
Pinyin: yì xíng cí
Hanviet: 異dị 形hình 詞từ
Meaning:
variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃, 笔划 and 筆畫, 笔画/exact synonym and homonym written with different characters/


Words: 異曲同工
Pinyin: yì qǔ tóng gōng
Hanviet: 異dị 曲khúc 同đồng 工công
Meaning:
different tunes played with equal skill (idiom)/different methods leading to the same result/different approach but equally satisfactory outcome/


Words: 當
Pinyin: dāng
Hanviet: 當đương
Meaning:
to be/to act as/manage/withstand/when/during/ought/should/match equally/equal/same/obstruct/just at (a time or place)/on the spot/right/just at/


Words: 當
Pinyin: dàng
Hanviet: 當đương
Meaning:
at or in the very same.../suitable/adequate/fitting/proper/to replace/to regard as/to think/to pawn/(coll.) to fail (a student)/


Words: 當回事
Pinyin: dàng huí shì
Hanviet: 當đương 回hồi 事sự
Meaning:
to take seriously (often with negative expression: "don’t take it too seriously")/to treat conscientiously/


Words: 當局者迷，旁觀者清
Pinyin: dāng jú zhě mí , páng guān zhě qīng
Hanviet: 當đương 局cục 者giả 迷mê 旁bàng 觀quán 者giả 清thanh
Meaning:
The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear (idiom). The onlooker sees more of the game./


Words: 畹町
Pinyin: wǎn dīng
Hanviet: 畹 町
Meaning:
Wanding town Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州, 德宏傣族景颇族自治州, Yunnan, on border with Myanmar (Burma)/


Words: 疏
Pinyin: shū
Hanviet: 疏sớ/sơ
Meaning:
to dredge/to clear away obstruction/thin/sparse/scanty/distant (relation)/not close/to neglect/negligent/to present a memorial to the Emperor/commentary/annotation/


Words: 疏而不漏
Pinyin: shū ér bù lòu
Hanviet: 疏sớ/sơ 而nhi 不bất 漏lậu
Meaning:
loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape/


Words: 疏通
Pinyin: shū tōng
Hanviet: 疏sớ/sơ 通thông
Meaning:
to unblock/to dredge/to clear the way/to get things flowing/to facilitate/to mediate/to lobby/to explicate (a text)/


Words: 疾風勁草
Pinyin: jí fēng jìng cǎo
Hanviet: 疾tật 風phong 勁 草thảo
Meaning:
the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister/to show one’s true colors after a stern test/


Words: 疾風知勁草
Pinyin: jí fēng zhī jìng cǎo
Hanviet: 疾tật 風phong 知tri 勁 草thảo
Meaning:
the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister/to show one’s true colors after a stern test/also written 疾風勁草, 疾风劲草/


Words: 疾風知勁草，烈火見真金
Pinyin: jí fēng zhī jìn cǎo , liè huǒ jiàn zhēn jīn
Hanviet: 疾tật 風phong 知tri 勁 草thảo 烈liệt 火hỏa 見kiến 真chân 金kim
Meaning:
the storm put strong grass to the test, fire tests true gold (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister/to show one’s true colors after a stern test/


Words: 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲
Pinyin: bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī
Hanviet: 病bệnh 來lai 如như 山sơn 倒đảo 病bệnh 去khứ 如như 抽trừu 絲ti
Meaning:
sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly/


Words: 病從口入
Pinyin: bìng cóng kǒu rù
Hanviet: 病bệnh 從tùng 口khẩu 入nhập
Meaning:
Illness enters by the mouth (idiom). Mind what you eat!/fig. A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble./


Words: 病從口入，禍從口出
Pinyin: bìng cóng kǒu rù , huò cóng kǒu chū
Hanviet: 病bệnh 從tùng 口khẩu 入nhập 禍họa 從tùng 口khẩu 出xuất
Meaning:
Illness enters by the mouth, trouble comes out by the mouth (idiom). A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble./


Words: 病急亂投醫
Pinyin: bìng jí luàn tóu yī
Hanviet: 病bệnh 急cấp 亂loạn 投đầu 醫y
Meaning:
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis/


Words: 痛失
Pinyin: tòng shī
Hanviet: 痛thống 失thất
Meaning:
to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc)/to miss out on (an opportunity)/to fail to gain (victory etc)/


Words: 痛改前非
Pinyin: tòng gǎi qián fēi
Hanviet: 痛thống 改cải 前tiền 非phi
Meaning:
completely correcting one’s former misdeeds (idiom); to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf/a reformed character/


Words: 癥結
Pinyin: zhēng jié
Hanviet: 癥 結kết
Meaning:
hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine)/crux of an issue/main point in an argument/sticking point/deadlock in negotiations/


Words: 癸
Pinyin: guǐ
Hanviet: 癸quý
Meaning:
tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干/tenth in order/letter "J" or roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc/ancient Chinese compass point: 15°/deca/


Words: 登
Pinyin: dēng
Hanviet: 登đăng
Meaning:
to scale (a height)/to ascend/to mount/to publish or record/to enter (e.g. in a register)/to press down with the foot/to step or tread on/to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect)/to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)/


Words: 登堂入室
Pinyin: dēng táng rù shì
Hanviet: 登đăng 堂đường 入nhập 室thất
Meaning:
from the main room, enter the inner chamber (idiom)/to go to the next level/to attain a higher level/


Words: 發
Pinyin: fā
Hanviet: 發phát
Meaning:
to send out/to show (one’s feeling)/to issue/to develop/to make a bundle of money/classifier for gunshots (rounds)/


Words: 發射
Pinyin: fā shè
Hanviet: 發phát 射xạ
Meaning:
to shoot (a projectile)/to fire (a rocket)/to launch/to emit (a particle)/to discharge/emanation/emission/


Words: 發揮
Pinyin: fā huī
Hanviet: 發phát 揮huy
Meaning:
to display/to exhibit/to bring out implicit or innate qualities/to express (a thought or moral)/to develop (an idea)/to elaborate (on a theme)/


Words: 發改委
Pinyin: fā gǎi wěi
Hanviet: 發phát 改cải 委ủy
Meaning:
abbr. for 國家發展和改革委員會, 国家发展和改革委员会, PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003/


Words: 發案
Pinyin: fā àn
Hanviet: 發phát 案án
Meaning:
occurrence (refers to time and place esp. of a criminal act)/to take place/to occur/to advertise freelance work/


Words: 發起
Pinyin: fā qǐ
Hanviet: 發phát 起khởi
Meaning:
to originate/to initiate/to launch (an attack, an initiative etc)/to start/to propose sth (for the first time)/


Words: 白
Pinyin: bái
Hanviet: 白bạch
Meaning:
white/snowy/pure/bright/empty/blank/plain/clear/to make clear/in vain/gratuitous/free of charge/reactionary/anti-communist/funeral/to stare coldly/to write wrong character/to state/to explain/vernacular/spoken lines in opera/


Words: 白崇禧
Pinyin: bái chóng xǐ
Hanviet: 白bạch 崇sùng 禧
Meaning:
Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek’s campaigns 1926-1949/


Words: 白樸
Pinyin: bái pǔ
Hanviet: 白bạch 樸phác
Meaning:
Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇, 杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家/


Words: 白求恩
Pinyin: bái qiú ēn
Hanviet: 白bạch 求cầu 恩ân
Meaning:
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan’an, where he died of blood poisoning/


Words: 白沙
Pinyin: bái shā
Hanviet: 白bạch 沙sa
Meaning:
Baisha (common place name)/Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan/Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣, 澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan/


Words: 白沙工農區
Pinyin: bái shā gōng nóng qū
Hanviet: 白bạch 沙sa 工công 農nông 區khu
Meaning:
Baisha Gongnong area in Dazhou 達州, 达州, Sichuan northeast Sichuan, amalgamated into Wanyuan county level city 萬源, 万源 in 1993/


Words: 白湯
Pinyin: bái tāng
Hanviet: 白bạch 湯thang
Meaning:
clear soup/white broth, also called 奶湯, 奶汤/decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs/


Words: 白玉
Pinyin: bái yù
Hanviet: 白bạch 玉ngọc
Meaning:
Baiyü county (Tibetan: dpal yul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 白莧
Pinyin: bái xiàn
Hanviet: 白bạch 莧
Meaning:
white amaranth (Amaranthus albus)/sprouts and tender leaves of Chinese spinach (Amaranthus spp.) used as food/


Words: 白行簡
Pinyin: bái xíng jiǎn
Hanviet: 白bạch 行hành 簡giản
Meaning:
Bai Xingjian (c. 776-826), younger brother of Bai Juyi 白居易, Tang novelist and poet, author of novel Tale of Courtesan Li Wa 李娃傳, 李娃传/


Words: 白衣蒼狗
Pinyin: bái yī cāng gǒu
Hanviet: 白bạch 衣y 蒼thương 狗cẩu
Meaning:
lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom)/fig. the impermanence of all things/


Words: 白軍
Pinyin: bái jūn
Hanviet: 白bạch 軍quân
Meaning:
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)/


Words: 白銀書
Pinyin: bái yín shū
Hanviet: 白bạch 銀ngân 書thư
Meaning:
valuable book decorated with silver, gold and jewels etc, commonly regarded as a disguised form of bribe/


Words: 白雲
Pinyin: bái yún
Hanviet: 白bạch 雲vân
Meaning:
Baiyun district of Guiyang city 貴陽市, 贵阳市, Guizhou/Baiyun district of Guangzhou city 廣州市, 广州市, Guangdong/


Words: 白面書生
Pinyin: bái miàn shū shēng
Hanviet: 白bạch 面diện 書thư 生sanh
Meaning:
lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience/still wet behind the ears/


Words: 白頭偕老
Pinyin: bái tóu xié lǎo
Hanviet: 白bạch 頭đầu 偕giai 老lão
Meaning:
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss/until death do us part/


Words: 白頭山
Pinyin: bái tóu shān
Hanviet: 白bạch 頭đầu 山sơn
Meaning:
Baekdu or Changbai mountains 長白山, 长白山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology/


Words: 白香詞譜
Pinyin: bái xiāng cí pǔ
Hanviet: 白bạch 香hương 詞từ 譜
Meaning:
Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭, 舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times/


Words: 白馬雪山
Pinyin: bái mǎ xuě shān
Hanviet: 白bạch 馬mã 雪Tuyết 山Sơn
Meaning:
Baimaxue mountains, up to 5430 m., in Dechen or Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, Yunnan/


Words: 白鶴梁
Pinyin: bái hè liáng
Hanviet: 白bạch 鶴hạc 梁lương
Meaning:
White Crane Ridge at Fuling, Sichuan on the Changjiang River, that used to show above the water at dry periods, with famous carvings/


Words: 百團大戰
Pinyin: bǎi tuán dà zhàn
Hanviet: 百bách 團đoàn 大đại 戰chiến
Meaning:
Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists/


Words: 百家爭鳴
Pinyin: bǎi jiā zhēng míng
Hanviet: 百bách 家gia 爭tranh 鳴minh
Meaning:
a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC/


Words: 百尺竿頭，更盡一步
Pinyin: bǎi chǐ gān tóu , gèng jìn yī bù
Hanviet: 百bách 尺xích 竿can/cán 頭đầu 更cánh 盡tận 一nhất 步bộ
Meaning:
lit. hundred foot pole, progress still further (idiom); fig. much accomplished, still some work to do/to continue to further successes/not to rest on one’s laurels/


Words: 百年樹人
Pinyin: bǎi nián shù rén
Hanviet: 百bách 年niên 樹thụ 人nhân
Meaning:
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom)/fig. a good education program takes a long time to develop/cf. 十年樹木，百年樹人, 十年树木，百年树人/


Words: 百思不解
Pinyin: bǎi sī bù jiě
Hanviet: 百bách 思tư 不bất 解giải
Meaning:
to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom)/to remain perplexed despite much thought/


Words: 百戰不殆
Pinyin: bǎi zhàn bù dài
Hanviet: 百bách 戰chiến 不bất 殆đãi
Meaning:
to come unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi’s "The Art of War" 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法); to win every fight/


Words: 百折不撓
Pinyin: bǎi zhé bù náo
Hanviet: 百bách 折chiết 不bất 撓nạo
Meaning:
to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)/to be undaunted by repeated setbacks/to be indomitable/


Words: 百發百中
Pinyin: bǎi fā bǎi zhòng
Hanviet: 百bách 發phát 百bách 中trung
Meaning:
lit. one hundred shots, one hundred hits/to carry out a task with great precision/to shoot with unfailing accuracy/be a crack shot (idiom)/


Words: 百聞不如一見
Pinyin: bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn
Hanviet: 百bách 聞văn 不bất 如như 一nhất 見kiến
Meaning:
seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others/seeing is believing/


Words: 百花運動
Pinyin: bǎi huā yùn dòng
Hanviet: 百bách 花hoa 運vận 動động
Meaning:
Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP to be lifted/


Words: 百花齊放，百家爭鳴
Pinyin: bǎi huā qí fàng , bǎi jiā zhēng míng
Hanviet: 百bách 花hoa 齊tề 放phóng 百bách 家gia 爭tranh 鳴minh
Meaning:
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao’s campaign of 1956/


Words: 百葉箱
Pinyin: bǎi yè xiāng
Hanviet: 百bách 葉diệp 箱tương
Meaning:
Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments)/thermometer screen/instrument shelter/


Words: 的
Pinyin: de
Hanviet: 的đích
Meaning:
of/~’s (possessive particle)/(used after an attribute)/(used to form a nominal expression)/(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)/


Words: 皇天不負苦心人
Pinyin: huáng tiān bù fù kǔ xīn rén
Hanviet: 皇hoàng 天thiên 不bất 負phụ 苦khổ 心tâm 人nhân
Meaning:
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you’re bound to succeed eventually./


Words: 皇太極
Pinyin: huáng tài jí
Hanviet: 皇hoàng 太thái 極cực
Meaning:
Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤, 努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金, 后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor/posthumous name 清太宗/


Words: 皇太極清太宗
Pinyin: huáng tài jí qīng tài zōng
Hanviet: 皇hoàng 太thái 極cực 清thanh 太thái 宗tông
Meaning:
Hung Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤, 努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金, 后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor/


Words: 皇帝不急急死太監
Pinyin: huáng dì bù jí jí sǐ tài jiàn
Hanviet: 皇hoàng 帝đế 不bất 急cấp 急cấp 死tử 太thái 監giám
Meaning:
lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are worried to death (idiom)/fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved/


Words: 盈虧自負
Pinyin: yíng kuī zì fù
Hanviet: 盈doanh 虧khuy 自tự 負phụ
Meaning:
responsible for its profit and losses (of organization)/financially autonomous/personal financial responsibility/


Words: 盜取
Pinyin: dào qǔ
Hanviet: 盜đạo 取thủ
Meaning:
to steal (including identity theft, credit card fraud or theft of computer account)/to misappropriate/


Words: 盜版黨
Pinyin: dào bǎn dǎng
Hanviet: 盜đạo 版 黨đảng
Meaning:
Pirate Party, political movement whose main goal is to reform copyright law in line with the Internet era/


Words: 盡
Pinyin: jìn
Hanviet: 盡tận
Meaning:
to use up/to exhaust/to end/to finish/to the utmost/exhausted/finished/to the limit (of sth)/all/entirely/


Words: 監牧
Pinyin: jiān mù
Hanviet: 監giám 牧mục
Meaning:
shepherd/Tang dynasty official with responsibility for animal husbandry/pastor (cleric in charge of a Christian parish)/


Words: 盤
Pinyin: pán
Hanviet: 盤bàn
Meaning:
plate/dish/tray/board/hard drive (computing)/to build/to coil/to check/to examine/to transfer (property)/to make over/classifier for food: dish, helping/to coil/classifier for coils of wire/classifier for games of chess/


Words: 盤根錯節
Pinyin: pán gēn cuò jié
Hanviet: 盤bàn 根căn 錯thác 節tiết
Meaning:
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky/knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties/


Words: 盧因
Pinyin: lú yīn
Hanviet: 盧lô 因nhân
Meaning:
Lewin (name)/Kurt Lewing (1890-1944), German American psychologist of the Gestalt school, the author of Field Theory/


Words: 盧溝橋
Pinyin: lú gōu qiáo
Hanviet: 盧lô 溝câu 橋kiều
Meaning:
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of the incident of 7th July 1937 that sparked WW2 between Japan and China/


Words: 目不斜視
Pinyin: mù bù xié shì
Hanviet: 目mục 不bất 斜tà 視thị
Meaning:
not to glance sideways (idiom)/to gaze fixedly/to be fully concentrated/to preserve a correct attitude/


Words: 目不見睫
Pinyin: mù bù jiàn jié
Hanviet: 目mục 不bất 見kiến 睫tiệp
Meaning:
lit. the eye cannot see the eyelashes (idiom); fig. unable to see one’s own faults/to lack self-awareness/truths too close to home/


Words: 目中無人
Pinyin: mù zhōng wú rén
Hanviet: 目mục 中trung 無vô 人nhân
Meaning:
to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters/condescending/to go about with one’s nose in the air/


Words: 目無全牛
Pinyin: mù wú quán niú
Hanviet: 目mục 無vô 全toàn 牛ngưu
Meaning:
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled/able to see through the problem at one glance/


Words: 目無法紀
Pinyin: mù wú fǎ jì
Hanviet: 目mục 無vô 法pháp 紀kỷ
Meaning:
with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules/in complete disorder/


Words: 盲人摸象
Pinyin: máng rén mō xiàng
Hanviet: 盲manh 人nhân 摸mạc 象tượng
Meaning:
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經, 大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture/to mistake the part for the whole/unable to see the wood for the trees/


Words: 盲流
Pinyin: máng liú
Hanviet: 盲manh 流lưu
Meaning:
(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities/rural migrant without definite prospects/drifter/


Words: 直
Pinyin: zhí
Hanviet: 直trực
Meaning:
surname Zhi/Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God/


Words: 直
Pinyin: zhí
Hanviet: 直trực
Meaning:
straight/to straighten/fair and reasonable/frank/straightforward/(indicates continuing motion or action)/vertical/vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters/


Words: 直呼其名
Pinyin: zhí hū qí míng
Hanviet: 直trực 呼hô 其kỳ 名danh
Meaning:
to address sb directly by name (idiom)/to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating either familiarity or overfamiliarity)/


Words: 直皖戰爭
Pinyin: zhí wǎn zhàn zhēng
Hanviet: 直trực 皖 戰chiến 爭tranh
Meaning:
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government/


Words: 直通車
Pinyin: zhí tōng chē
Hanviet: 直trực 通thông 車xa
Meaning:
"through train" (refers to the idea of retaining previous legislature after transition to Chinese rule in Hong Kong or Macao)/


Words: 直隸
Pinyin: zhí lì
Hanviet: 直trực 隸lệ
Meaning:
Ming and Qing dynasty province directly administered by Beijing, including Beijing, Tianjin, most of Hebei and Henan and part of Shandong/


Words: 相
Pinyin: xiàng
Hanviet: 相tương/tướng
Meaning:
appearance/portrait/picture/government minister/(physics) phase/(literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features)/to read sb’s fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)/


Words: 相公
Pinyin: xiàng gong
Hanviet: 相tương/tướng 公công
Meaning:
lord/master/young gentleman/male prostitute/catamite/mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes/(old form of address for one’s husband) husband/


Words: 相應
Pinyin: xiāng yìng
Hanviet: 相tương 應ứng
Meaning:
to correspond/answering (one another)/to agree (among the part)/corresponding/relevant/appropriate/(modify) accordingly/


Words: 相提並論
Pinyin: xiāng tí bìng lùn
Hanviet: 相tương/tướng 提đề 並tịnh 論luận
Meaning:
to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms/to place on a par with/(often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y)/


Words: 相見恨晚
Pinyin: xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn
Hanviet: 相tương 見kiến 恨hận 晚vãn
Meaning:
to regret not having met earlier (idiom); It is nice to meet you finally./It feels like we have known each other all along./


Words: 相親
Pinyin: xiāng qīn
Hanviet: 相tương 親thân
Meaning:
blind date/arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. )/to be deeply attached to each other/


Words: 盾
Pinyin: dùn
Hanviet: 盾
Meaning:
shield/(currency) Vietnamese dong/currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)/


Words: 眉目
Pinyin: méi mù
Hanviet: 眉mi 目mục
Meaning:
general facial appearance/features/arrangement/sequence of ideas/logic (of writing)/rough sketch or general idea of things/


Words: 看
Pinyin: kàn
Hanviet: 看khán
Meaning:
to see/to look at/to read/to watch/to visit/to call on/to consider/to regard as/to look after/to treat (an illness)/to depend on/to feel (that)/(after verb) to give it a try/Watch out! (for a danger)/


Words: 看人下菜碟兒
Pinyin: kàn rén xià cài dié kàn rén xià cài diér
Hanviet: 看khán 人nhân 下hạ 菜thái 碟 兒nhi
Meaning:
(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)/not to treat everyone equally favorably/


Words: 看破紅塵
Pinyin: kān pò hóng chén
Hanviet: 看khán 破phá 紅hồng 塵trần
Meaning:
to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk)/disillusioned with human society/to reject the world for a monastic life/


Words: 看菜吃飯
Pinyin: kān cài chī fàn
Hanviet: 看khán 菜thái 吃cật 飯phạn
Meaning:
to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances/to live within one’s means/


Words: 看菜吃飯，量體裁衣
Pinyin: kān cài chī fàn , liáng tǐ cái yī
Hanviet: 看khán 菜thái 吃cật 飯phạn 量lượng 體thể 裁tài 衣y
Meaning:
eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure/to act according to actual circumstances/to live within one’s means/


Words: 看起來
Pinyin: kàn qǐ lai
Hanviet: 看khán 起khởi 來lai
Meaning:
seemingly/apparently/looks as if/appear to be/gives the impression that/seems on the face of it to be/


Words: 看錯
Pinyin: kàn cuò
Hanviet: 看khán 錯thác
Meaning:
to misinterpret what one sees or reads/to misjudge (sb)/to mistake (sb for sb else)/to misread (a document)/


Words: 看齊
Pinyin: kàn qí
Hanviet: 看khán 齊tề
Meaning:
to follow sb’s example/to emulate/(of troops etc) to dress (come into alignment for parade formation)/


Words: 真偽莫辨
Pinyin: zhēn wěi mò biàn
Hanviet: 真chân 偽ngụy 莫mạc 辨biện
Meaning:
can’t judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake/not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)/


Words: 真刀真槍
Pinyin: zhēn dāo zhēn qiāng
Hanviet: 真chân 刀đao 真chân 槍thương
Meaning:
real swords, real spears (idiom)/real weapons/very much for real/every bit real/the genuine article/


Words: 真分數
Pinyin: zhēn fēn shù
Hanviet: 真chân 分phần/phân 數số
Meaning:
proper fraction (with numerator < denominator, e.g. five sevenths)/see also: improper fraction 假分數, 假分数 and mixed number 帶分數, 带分数/


Words: 真象
Pinyin: zhēn xiàng
Hanviet: 真chân 象tượng
Meaning:
the whole elephant (i.e. not the small parts felt by the proverbial blind feelers)/fig. the whole picture/a realistic overall view of the whole situation/


Words: 眩暈
Pinyin: xuàn yūn
Hanviet: 眩huyễn 暈vựng
Meaning:
vertigo/dizziness/fainting/feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke)/


Words: 眷村
Pinyin: juàn cūn
Hanviet: 眷quyến 村thôn
Meaning:
military dependents’ village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)/


Words: 眼
Pinyin: yǎn
Hanviet: 眼nhãn
Meaning:
eye/small hole/crux (of a matter)/CL:隻, 只,雙, 双/classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)/


Words: 眼不見為淨
Pinyin: yǎn bù jiàn wéi jìng
Hanviet: 眼nhãn 不bất 見kiến 為vi 淨tịnh
Meaning:
what remains unseen is deemed to be clean/what the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over (idiom)/


Words: 眼底
Pinyin: yǎn dǐ
Hanviet: 眼nhãn 底để
Meaning:
fundus of the eye (containing the choroid, retina, optic nerve etc)/inside the eye/right in front of one’s eyes/in full view as a panorama/


Words: 眼裡容不得沙子
Pinyin: yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi
Hanviet: 眼nhãn 裡 容dung 不bất 得đắc 沙sa 子tử
Meaning:
can’t bear having grit in one’s eye (idiom)/unable to put sth objectionable out of one’s mind/not prepared to turn a blind eye/


Words: 眼見為實，耳聽為虛
Pinyin: yǎn jiàn wéi shí , ěr tīng wéi xū
Hanviet: 眼nhãn 見kiến 為vi 實thật 耳nhĩ 聽thính 為vi 虛hư
Meaning:
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don’t believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself./It ain’t necessarily so./


Words: 眼觀六路耳聽八方
Pinyin: yǎn guān liù lù ěr tīng bā fāng
Hanviet: 眼nhãn 觀quán 六lục 路lộ 耳nhĩ 聽thính 八bát 方phương
Meaning:
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions/to be observant and alert (idiom)/


Words: 眼觀四面，耳聽八方
Pinyin: yǎn guān sì miàn , ěr tīng bā fāng
Hanviet: 眼nhãn 觀quán 四tứ 面diện 耳nhĩ 聽thính 八bát 方phương
Meaning:
lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom)/fig. to be observant and alert/


Words: 眾口鑠金
Pinyin: zhòng kǒu shuò jīn
Hanviet: 眾chúng 口khẩu 鑠thước 金kim
Meaning:
lit. public opinion is powerful enough to melt metal (idiom)/fig. public clamor can obscure the actual truth/mass spreading of rumors can confuse right and wrong/


Words: 眾寡懸殊
Pinyin: zhòng guǎ xuán shū
Hanviet: 眾chúng 寡quả 懸huyền 殊thù
Meaning:
the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered/unequally matched/overwhelmed by weight of numbers/


Words: 眾星拱辰
Pinyin: zhòng xīng gǒng chén
Hanviet: 眾chúng 星tinh 拱củng 辰thần
Meaning:
lit. all the stars revolve around Polaris 北辰 (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure/to group around a revered leader/


Words: 眾星捧月
Pinyin: zhòng xīng pěng yuè
Hanviet: 眾chúng 星tinh 捧phủng 月nguyệt
Meaning:
lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure/to group around a revered leader/to revolve around sb/


Words: 眾盲摸象
Pinyin: zhòng máng mō xiàng
Hanviet: 眾chúng 盲manh 摸mạc 象tượng
Meaning:
multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經, 大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture/to mistake the part for the whole/unable to see the wood for the trees/


Words: 睽違
Pinyin: kuí wéi
Hanviet: 睽 違vi
Meaning:
to be separated (from a friend, one’s homeland etc) for a period of time/after a hiatus of (x years)/


Words: 瞎說
Pinyin: xiā shuō
Hanviet: 瞎hạt 說thuyết
Meaning:
to talk drivel/to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact/not to know what one is talking about/


Words: 瞿塘峽
Pinyin: qū táng xiá
Hanviet: 瞿cù 塘đường 峽
Meaning:
Qutang Gorge, 8 km long gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze in Chongqing 重慶, 重庆, the upper of the Three Gorges 三峽, 三峡/


Words: 瞿秋白
Pinyin: qū qiū bái
Hanviet: 瞿cù 秋thu 白bạch
Meaning:
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March/


Words: 知人善任
Pinyin: zhī rén shàn rèn
Hanviet: 知tri 人nhân 善thiện 任nhậm
Meaning:
expert at appointing people according to their abilities (idiom)/to put the right people in the right places/


Words: 知人者智，自知者明
Pinyin: zhī rén zhě zhì , zì zhī zhě míng
Hanviet: 知tri 人nhân 者giả 智trí 自tự 知tri 者giả 明minh
Meaning:
those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi’s 道德經, 道德经/


Words: 知己知彼，百戰不殆
Pinyin: zhī jǐ zhī bǐ , bǎi zhàn bù dài
Hanviet: 知tri 己kỷ 知tri 彼bỉ 百bách 戰chiến 不bất 殆đãi
Meaning:
know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi’s "The Art of War" 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法)/


Words: 知彼知己，百戰不殆
Pinyin: zhī bǐ zhī jǐ , bǎi zhàn bù dài
Hanviet: 知tri 彼bỉ 知tri 己kỷ 百bách 戰chiến 不bất 殆đãi
Meaning:
knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi’s "The Art of War")/


Words: 知識越多越反動
Pinyin: zhī shi yuè duō yuè fǎn dòng
Hanviet: 知tri 識thức 越việt 多đa 越việt 反phản 動động
Meaning:
the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫, 四人帮)/


Words: 知難而退
Pinyin: zhī nán ér tuì
Hanviet: 知tri 難nạn/nan 而nhi 退thoái
Meaning:
to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom); fig. to back out of an awkward situation/to get out on finding out what it’s really like/


Words: 短兵相接
Pinyin: duǎn bīng xiāng jiē
Hanviet: 短đoản 兵binh 相tương 接tiếp
Meaning:
lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat/to fight at close quarters/


Words: 矮子裡拔將軍
Pinyin: ǎi zi li bá jiāng jūn
Hanviet: 矮ải 子tử 裡 拔bạt 將tướng 軍quân
Meaning:
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs/fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)/


Words: 矯枉過正
Pinyin: jiǎo wǎng guò zhèng
Hanviet: 矯kiểu 枉uổng 過quá 正chánh
Meaning:
to overcorrect a defect (idiom); to overcompensate/to push sth too far the other way/fig. inverse discrimination/


Words: 矯正
Pinyin: jiǎo zhèng
Hanviet: 矯kiểu 正chánh
Meaning:
to correct/to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision)/to cure/rectification/correction/to straighten/


Words: 石咀山
Pinyin: shí jǔ shān
Hanviet: 石thạch 咀trớ 山sơn
Meaning:
Shijushan or Shizuishan (place name)/variant of Shizuishan 石嘴山, prefecture level city in Ningxia on the border with Inner Mongolia/


Words: 石庫門
Pinyin: shí kù mén
Hanviet: 石thạch 庫khố 門môn
Meaning:
"shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai/


Words: 石斑魚
Pinyin: shí bān yú
Hanviet: 石thạch 斑ban 魚ngư
Meaning:
grouper (Portuguese: garoupa)/also called 鮨/Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper)/


Words: 石渠
Pinyin: shí qú
Hanviet: 石thạch 渠cừ
Meaning:
Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/name of several historical figures/


Words: 石渠縣
Pinyin: shí qú xiàn
Hanviet: 石thạch 渠cừ 縣huyện
Meaning:
Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 石獅子
Pinyin: shí shī zi
Hanviet: 石thạch 獅sư 子tử
Meaning:
guardian lion, a lion statue traditionally placed at the entrance of Chinese imperial palaces, imperial tombs, temples etc/


Words: 砧骨
Pinyin: zhēn gǔ
Hanviet: 砧 骨cốt
Meaning:
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone/


Words: 破
Pinyin: pò
Hanviet: 破phá
Meaning:
broken/damaged/worn out/lousy/rotten/to break, split or cleave/to get rid of/to destroy/to break with/to defeat/to capture (a city etc)/to expose the truth of/


Words: 破土
Pinyin: pò tǔ
Hanviet: 破phá 土thổ/độ
Meaning:
to break ground/to start digging/to plough/to break through the ground (of seedling)/fig. the start of a building project/


Words: 破瓜
Pinyin: pò guā
Hanviet: 破phá 瓜qua
Meaning:
(of a girl) to lose one’s virginity/to deflower a virgin/to reach the age of 16/(of a man) to reach the age of 64/


Words: 破罐破摔
Pinyin: pò guàn pò shuāi
Hanviet: 破phá 罐quán 破phá 摔
Meaning:
lit. to smash a cracked pot (idiom); crazy despair in the face of a blemish, defect, error or setback/


Words: 破釜沉舟
Pinyin: pò fǔ chén zhōu
Hanviet: 破phá 釜phủ 沉trầm 舟chu
Meaning:
lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one’s means of retreat/to burn one’s boats/


Words: 破鏡重圓
Pinyin: pò jìng chóng yuán
Hanviet: 破phá 鏡kính 重trọng/trùng 圓viên
Meaning:
a shattered mirror put back together (idiom)/(of marriage) to pick up the pieces and start anew/for a separated couple to reconcile and reunite/


Words: 破門
Pinyin: pò mén
Hanviet: 破phá 門môn
Meaning:
to burst or force open a door/to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church)/to score a goal (in football, hockey etc)/


Words: 破音字
Pinyin: pò yīn zì
Hanviet: 破phá 音âm 字tự
Meaning:
character with two or more readings/character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw)/


Words: 硬筆
Pinyin: yìng bǐ
Hanviet: 硬ngạnh 筆bút
Meaning:
generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes/


Words: 硬逼
Pinyin: yìng bī
Hanviet: 硬ngạnh 逼bức
Meaning:
to pressure/to press/to force/to compel/to push/to coerce/to urge/to impel/to bully into/to be compelled/


Words: 碎鑽
Pinyin: suì zuàn
Hanviet: 碎toái 鑽toàn
Meaning:
small diamonds/melee (small diamonds used in embellishing mountings for larger gems)/splints (sharp-pointed diamond splinters)/clatersal (small diamond splints from which diamond powder is produced by crushing)/


Words: 碟仙
Pinyin: dié xiān
Hanviet: 碟 仙tiên
Meaning:
form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters/


Words: 碧螺春
Pinyin: bì luó chūn
Hanviet: 碧bích 螺loa 春xuân
Meaning:
biluochun or pi lo chun, a type of green tea grown in the Dongting Mountain region near Lake Tai 太湖, Jiangsu/


Words: 碰瓷
Pinyin: pèng cí
Hanviet: 碰 瓷
Meaning:
a currently widespread fraud in PRC involving deliberately crashing cars then demanding compensation/


Words: 確定
Pinyin: què dìng
Hanviet: 確xác 定định
Meaning:
definite/certain/fixed/to fix (on sth)/to determine/to be sure/to ensure/to make certain/to ascertain/to clinch/to recognize/to confirm/OK (on computer dialog box)/


Words: 碼子
Pinyin: mǎ zi
Hanviet: 碼mã 子tử
Meaning:
number (e.g. page or house number)/numeral (e.g. Arabic or Chinese numeral)/code sign/plus or minus sound/counter/chip (e.g. in gambling games)/price tag/ready cash at one’s disposal (old)/


Words: 碼表
Pinyin: mǎ biǎo
Hanviet: 碼mã 表biểu
Meaning:
dial or meter for displaying speed, time, or other measurements/cyclocomputer/code table (computing)/


Words: 磕頭
Pinyin: kē tóu
Hanviet: 磕 頭đầu
Meaning:
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one’s forehead to the ground)/


Words: 磨嘴皮子
Pinyin: mó zuǐ pí zi
Hanviet: 磨ma 嘴chủy 皮bì 子tử
Meaning:
to wear out the skin of one’s teeth (idiom); pointlessly blather/to talk incessant nonsense/blah blah/


Words: 磨杵成針
Pinyin: mó chǔ chéng zhēn
Hanviet: 磨ma 杵xử 成thành 針châm
Meaning:
to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task/to study diligently/


Words: 磨穿鐵硯
Pinyin: mó chuān tiě yàn
Hanviet: 磨ma 穿xuyên 鐵thiết 硯
Meaning:
to grind one’s way through an ink stone/to persevere in a difficult task (idiom)/to study diligently (idiom)/


Words: 磬
Pinyin: qìng
Hanviet: 磬khánh
Meaning:
chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone/


Words: 社鼠城狐
Pinyin: shè shǔ chéng hú
Hanviet: 社xã 鼠thử 城thành 狐hồ
Meaning:
lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others’ power to bully and exploit people/


Words: 祁奚之薦
Pinyin: qí xī zhī jiàn
Hanviet: 祁kỳ 奚hề 之chi 薦tiến
Meaning:
Qi Xi’s recommendation (idiom); recommending the best person for the job independent of factional loyalty/


Words: 祖馬
Pinyin: zǔ mǎ
Hanviet: 祖tổ 馬mã
Meaning:
Zuma (name)/Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president from 2009/


Words: 祝枝山
Pinyin: zhù zhī shān
Hanviet: 祝chúc 枝chi 山sơn
Meaning:
Zhu Zhishan (1460-1526), Ming calligrapher and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子/


Words: 神
Pinyin: shén
Hanviet: 神thần
Meaning:
deity/soul/spirit/unusual/mysterious/lively/expressive/expression/look/CL:個, 个/(slang) awesome/amazing/


Words: 神仙
Pinyin: shén xiān
Hanviet: 神thần 仙tiên
Meaning:
Daoist immortal/supernatural entity/(in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc/fig. lighthearted person/


Words: 神出鬼沒
Pinyin: shén chū guǐ mò
Hanviet: 神thần 出xuất 鬼quỷ 沒một
Meaning:
lit. Gods appear and devils vanish (idiom); to appear and disappear unpredictably/to change rapidly/


Words: 神女有心，襄王無夢
Pinyin: shén nǚ yǒu xīn , xiāng wáng wú mèng
Hanviet: 神thần 女nữ 有hữu 心tâm 襄tương 王vương 無vô 夢mộng
Meaning:
lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn’t dream (idiom)/(said of a woman’s unrequited love)/


Words: 神工鬼斧
Pinyin: shén gōng guǐ fǔ
Hanviet: 神thần 工công 鬼quỷ 斧phủ
Meaning:
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods/uncanny workmanship/superlative craftsmanship/


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


Words: 神農
Pinyin: shén nóng
Hanviet: 神thần 農nông
Meaning:
Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 and creator of agriculture/


Words: 神農氏
Pinyin: shén nóng shì
Hanviet: 神thần 農nông 氏thị
Meaning:
Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 and creator of agriculture in China/followers or clan of Shennong 神農, 神农/


Words: 神雕俠侶
Pinyin: shén diāo xiá lǚ
Hanviet: 神thần 雕điêu 俠hiệp 侶lữ
Meaning:
The Return of the Condor Heroes (classic wuxia martial arts TV films of 1998 and 2006 based on novel by Jinyong 金庸)/variant of 神鵰俠侶, 神雕侠侣/


Words: 神魂顛倒
Pinyin: shén hún diān dǎo
Hanviet: 神thần 魂hồn 顛điên 倒đảo
Meaning:
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love/fascinated/captivated/


Words: 神鵰俠侶
Pinyin: shén diāo xiá lǚ
Hanviet: 神thần 鵰điêu 俠hiệp 侶lữ
Meaning:
The Return of the Condor Heroes (classic wuxia martial arts TV films of 1998 and 2006 based on novel by Jinyong 金庸)/


Words: 票
Pinyin: piào
Hanviet: 票
Meaning:
ticket/ballot/banknote/CL:張, 张/person held for ransom/amateur performance of Chinese opera/classifier for groups, batches, business transactions/


Words: 祭酒
Pinyin: jì jiǔ
Hanviet: 祭tế 酒tửu
Meaning:
to offer a libation/person who performs the libation before a banquet/senior member of a profession/important government post in imperial China/


Words: 禁足
Pinyin: jìn zú
Hanviet: 禁cấm 足túc
Meaning:
to forbid sb to go out/to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc)/to ground (as disciplinary measure)/to gate/to curfew/restriction on movement/ban on visiting a place/out of bounds/off limits/caveat/


Words: 禍福無常
Pinyin: huò fú wú cháng
Hanviet: 禍họa 福phước 無vô 常thường
Meaning:
disaster and happiness do not follow rules (idiom); future blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable/


Words: 福壽螺
Pinyin: fú shòu luó
Hanviet: 福phước 壽thọ 螺loa
Meaning:
giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix), that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s/


Words: 福州
Pinyin: fú zhōu
Hanviet: 福phước 州châu
Meaning:
Fuzhou prefecture level city and capital of Fujian province in east China/formerly known as Foochow or Fuchow/


Words: 福建
Pinyin: fú jiàn
Hanviet: 福phước 建kiến
Meaning:
Fujian province (Fukien) in east China, abbr. 福 or 閩, 闽, capital Fuzhou 福州/Fujian province (Fukien) in Taiwan/


Words: 福建省
Pinyin: fú jiàn shěng
Hanviet: 福phước 建kiến 省tỉnh
Meaning:
Fujian province (Fukien) in east China, abbr. 閩, 闽, capital Fuzhou 福州/Fujian province (Fukien) in Taiwan/


Words: 福澤諭吉
Pinyin: fú zé yù jí
Hanviet: 福phước 澤trạch 諭dụ 吉cát
Meaning:
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901), prominent Japanese Westernizer, liberal educator and founder of Keio University/


Words: 福煦
Pinyin: fú xù
Hanviet: 福phước 煦hú
Meaning:
Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One/


Words: 福袋
Pinyin: fú dài
Hanviet: 福phước 袋đại
Meaning:
fukubukuro or "lucky bag", Japanese New Year custom where merchants offer grab bags containing random products at a steep discount/


Words: 禦敵
Pinyin: yù dí
Hanviet: 禦ngữ 敵địch
Meaning:
armed enemy of the nation/enemy of the Emperor/fig. championship challenger/contender opposing champion in sporting contest/


Words: 禮輕人意重
Pinyin: lǐ qīng rén yì zhòng
Hanviet: 禮lễ 輕khinh 人nhân 意ý 重trọng/trùng
Meaning:
slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It’s not the present the counts, it’s the thought behind it./


Words: 秀
Pinyin: xiù
Hanviet: 秀tú
Meaning:
handsome/refined/elegant/graceful/superior/show (loanword)/CL:場, 场/(literary) to grow/to bloom/(of crops) to produce ears/


Words: 秀才
Pinyin: xiù cai
Hanviet: 秀tú 才tài
Meaning:
a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical)/scholar/skillful writer/fine talent/


Words: 私人
Pinyin: sī rén
Hanviet: 私tư 人nhân
Meaning:
private/personal/interpersonal/sb with whom one has a close personal relationship/a member of one’s clique/


Words: 私行
Pinyin: sī xíng
Hanviet: 私tư 行hành
Meaning:
to travel on private business/to act without official approval/to inspect incognito/to act in one’s own interest/


Words: 私通
Pinyin: sī tōng
Hanviet: 私tư 通thông
Meaning:
to have secret ties with/to be in covert communication with (the enemy etc)/to engage in an illicit sexual relationship/adultery/


Words: 秋後算帳
Pinyin: qiū hòu suàn zhàng
Hanviet: 秋thu 後hậu 算toán 帳trướng
Meaning:
lit. settling accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom); to wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts/to bide time for revenge/


Words: 秋毫無犯
Pinyin: qiū háo wú fàn
Hanviet: 秋thu 毫hào 無vô 犯phạm
Meaning:
lit. not harming a new feather (idiom); not commit the slightest offense against the people (of soldiers)/would not hurt a fly/


Words: 秋瑾
Pinyin: qiū jǐn
Hanviet: 秋thu 瑾
Meaning:
Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films/


Words: 秋風掃落葉
Pinyin: qiū fēng sǎo luò yè
Hanviet: 秋thu 風phong 掃tảo 落lạc 葉diệp
Meaning:
lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep/


Words: 科
Pinyin: kē
Hanviet: 科khoa
Meaning:
branch of study/administrative section/division/field/branch/stage directions/family (taxonomy)/rules/laws/to mete out (punishment)/to levy (taxes etc)/to fine sb/CL:個, 个/


Words: 科右中旗
Pinyin: kē yòu zhōng qí
Hanviet: 科khoa 右hữu 中trung 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Horqin right center banner, Mongolian Khorchin Baruun Garyn Dund khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟, 兴安盟, east Inner Mongolia/


Words: 科右前旗
Pinyin: kē yòu qián qí
Hanviet: 科khoa 右hữu 前tiền 旗kỳ
Meaning:
Horqin right front banner, Mongolian Khorchin Baruun Garyn Ömnöd khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟, 兴安盟, east Inner Mongolia/


Words: 科學技術是第一生產力
Pinyin: kē xué jì shù shì dì yī shēng chǎn lì
Hanviet: 科khoa 學học 技kỹ 術thuật 是thị 第đệ 一nhất 生sanh 產sản 力lực
Meaning:
Science and technology is the number one productive force (from 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平, 邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化, 四个现代化)./


Words: 科學發展觀
Pinyin: kē xué fā zhǎn guān
Hanviet: 科khoa 學học 發phát 展triển 觀quán
Meaning:
Scientific Outlook on Development, a guiding principle for the CPC attributed to Hu Jintao 胡錦濤, 胡锦涛, incorporated into the Constitution of the CPC in 2007/


Words: 科爾沁
Pinyin: kē ěr qìn
Hanviet: 科khoa 爾nhĩ 沁
Meaning:
Horqin or Xorchin, famous Mongolian archer/Horqin district or Xorchin raion of Tongliao city 通遼市, 通辽市, Inner Mongolia/


Words: 科迪勒拉
Pinyin: kē dí lè lā
Hanviet: 科khoa 迪 勒lặc 拉lạp
Meaning:
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands/


Words: 租界
Pinyin: zū jiè
Hanviet: 租tô 界giới
Meaning:
settlement/international settlement in many Chinese cities established under unequal treaties from 1860/


Words: 秤砣雖小壓千斤
Pinyin: chèng tuó suī xiǎo yā qiān jīn
Hanviet: 秤xứng 砣 雖tuy 小tiểu 壓áp 千thiên 斤cân
Meaning:
although small, a steelyard weight may tip a hundred pounds (idiom)/apparently insignificant details can have a large impact/for want of a nail the battle was lost/


Words: 秦代
Pinyin: qín dài
Hanviet: 秦tần 代đại
Meaning:
Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), founded by the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, the first dynasty to rule the whole of China/


Words: 秦嶺
Pinyin: qín lǐng
Hanviet: 秦tần 嶺lĩnh
Meaning:
Qinling mountain range in Shaanxi forming natural barrier between Guanzhong plain 關中平原, 关中平原 and Han River 漢水, 汉水 valley/


Words: 秦嶺山脈
Pinyin: qín lǐng shān mài
Hanviet: 秦tần 嶺lĩnh 山sơn 脈mạch
Meaning:
Qinling mountain range in Shaanxi forming natural barrier between Guanzhong plain 關中平原, 关中平原 and Han River 汉水 valley/


Words: 秦穆公
Pinyin: qín mù gōng
Hanviet: 秦tần 穆mục 公công
Meaning:
Duke Mu of Qin, the first substantial king of Qin (ruled 659-621 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸/


Words: 秦腔
Pinyin: qín qiāng
Hanviet: 秦tần 腔
Meaning:
Qinqiang, an opera style popular in northwest China, possibly originating in Ming dynasty folk music/Shanxi opera/


Words: 移情別戀
Pinyin: yí qíng bié liàn
Hanviet: 移di 情tình 別biệt 戀luyến
Meaning:
change of affection, shift of love (idiom); to change one’s feelings to another love/to fall in love with sb else/


Words: 稀裡嘩啦
Pinyin: xī li huā lā
Hanviet: 稀 裡 嘩 啦
Meaning:
(onom.) rustling sound/sound of rain or of sth falling down/in disorder/completely smashed/badly battered/broken to pieces/


Words: 程邈
Pinyin: chéng miǎo
Hanviet: 程 邈mạc
Meaning:
Cheng Miao, a jailer turned prisoner in the Jin dynasty who created the clerical style of Chinese calligraphy/


Words: 種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆
Pinyin: zhòng guā dé guā , zhòng dòu dé dòu
Hanviet: 種chủng 瓜qua 得đắc 瓜qua 種chủng 豆đậu 得đắc 豆đậu
Meaning:
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap./One must live with the consequences of one’s actions./You’ve made your bed, now must lie on it./


Words: 稱多
Pinyin: chèn duō
Hanviet: 稱xưng 多đa
Meaning:
Chindu county (Tibetan: khri ’du rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州, 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 稻城
Pinyin: dào chéng
Hanviet: 稻đạo 城thành
Meaning:
Daocheng county (Tibetan: ’dab pa rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 穀梁傳
Pinyin: gǔ liáng zhuàn
Hanviet: 穀cốc 梁lương 傳truyền
Meaning:
Guliang Annals, commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋, first published during the Han Dynasty/


Words: 穆爾西
Pinyin: mù ěr xī
Hanviet: 穆mục 爾nhĩ 西tây
Meaning:
Morsi, Mursi or Morsy (name)/Mohamed Morsi (1951-), Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood politician, President of Egypt 2012-2013/


Words: 穆通
Pinyin: mù tōng
Hanviet: 穆mục 通thông
Meaning:
Mouton (name)/Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system/


Words: 積
Pinyin: jī
Hanviet: 積tích
Meaning:
to amass/to accumulate/to store/measured quantity (such as area of volume)/product (the result of multiplication)/to integrate (math.)/to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.)/old/long-standing/


Words: 積分
Pinyin: jī fēn
Hanviet: 積tích 分phần/phân
Meaning:
integral (calculus)/accumulated points (in sports, at school etc)/total credits earned by student/bonus points in a benefit scheme/


Words: 積石山保安族東鄉族撒拉族自治縣
Pinyin: jī shí shān bǎo ān zú dōng xiāng zú sā lā zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 積tích 石thạch 山sơn 保bảo 安an 族tộc 東đông 鄉hương 族tộc 撒tản 拉lạp 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar autonomous county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture 臨夏回族自治州, 临夏回族自治州, Gansu/


Words: 積非成是
Pinyin: jī fēi chéng shì
Hanviet: 積tích 非phi 成thành 是thị
Meaning:
a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth/


Words: 穩坐釣魚臺
Pinyin: wěn zuò diào yú tái
Hanviet: 穩ổn 坐tọa 釣điếu 魚ngư 臺đài
Meaning:
lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite storms (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation/a cool head in a crisis/


Words: 穩定物價
Pinyin: wěn dìng wù jià
Hanviet: 穩ổn 定định 物vật 價giá
Meaning:
stable prices/commodity prices fixed by government (in a command economy)/to valorize (a commodity)/


Words: 究竟
Pinyin: jiū jìng
Hanviet: 究cứu 竟cánh
Meaning:
to go to the bottom of a matter/after all/when all is said and done/(in an interrogative sentence) finally/outcome/result/


Words: 空中樓閣
Pinyin: kōng zhōng lóu gé
Hanviet: 空không 中trung 樓lâu 閣các
Meaning:
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction/castles in Spain/imaginary future plans/


Words: 空口
Pinyin: kōng kǒu
Hanviet: 空không 口khẩu
Meaning:
incomplete meal of a single dish/meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine/rice without meat or vegetables/


Words: 空城計
Pinyin: kōng chéng jì
Hanviet: 空không 城thành 計kế
Meaning:
the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush)/double bluff/


Words: 空室清野
Pinyin: kōng shì qīng yě
Hanviet: 空không 室thất 清thanh 野dã
Meaning:
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy/scorched earth policy/


Words: 空檔
Pinyin: kòng dàng
Hanviet: 空không 檔
Meaning:
gap (between two objects)/interval of time (between events)/opening in one’s schedule/free time/(fig.) gap (in the market etc)/


Words: 空空如也
Pinyin: kōng kōng rú yě
Hanviet: 空không 空không 如như 也dã
Meaning:
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft/to have nothing/vacuous/hollow/empty (argument, head etc)/


Words: 空窗期
Pinyin: kōng chuāng qī
Hanviet: 空không 窗song 期kỳ
Meaning:
window period (time between first infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies)/intervening period of time/


Words: 空腸
Pinyin: kōng cháng
Hanviet: 空không 腸tràng
Meaning:
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸, 十二指肠 and ileum 回腸, 回肠)/


Words: 空頭
Pinyin: kōng tóu
Hanviet: 空không 頭đầu
Meaning:
phony/so-called/armchair (expert)/vain (promise)/(finance) short-seller/bear (market)/short (selling)/


Words: 穿
Pinyin: chuān
Hanviet: 穿xuyên
Meaning:
to wear/to put on/to dress/to bore through/to pierce/to perforate/to penetrate/to pass through/to thread/


Words: 穿一條褲子
Pinyin: chuān yī tiáo kù zi
Hanviet: 穿xuyên 一nhất 條điều 褲 子tử
Meaning:
(of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together/to be like family/to share the same view of things/


Words: 穿幫
Pinyin: chuān bāng
Hanviet: 穿xuyên 幫
Meaning:
(TV or movie) blooper/continuity error/(theater) to flub one’s lines/unintended exposure of a body part/to be exposed (of a scheme or trick)/to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue/to blow one’s cover/


Words: 穿插
Pinyin: chuān chā
Hanviet: 穿xuyên 插sáp
Meaning:
to insert/to take turns, alternate/to interweave/to interlace/subplot/interlude/episode/(military) to thrust deep into the enemy forces/


Words: 突
Pinyin: tū
Hanviet: 突đột
Meaning:
to dash/to move forward quickly/to bulge/to protrude/to break through/to rush out/sudden/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 突破
Pinyin: tū pò
Hanviet: 突đột 破phá
Meaning:
to break through/to make a breakthrough/to surmount or break the back of (a task etc)/(of ball sports) to break through a defense/


Words: 窗口
Pinyin: chuāng kǒu
Hanviet: 窗song 口khẩu
Meaning:
window/opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window)/computer operating system window/fig. medium/intermediary/showpiece/testing ground/


Words: 窩
Pinyin: wō
Hanviet: 窩
Meaning:
nest/pit or hollow on the human body/lair/den/place/to harbor or shelter/to hold in check/to bend/classifier for litters and broods/


Words: 窩工
Pinyin: wō gōng
Hanviet: 窩 工công
Meaning:
(of workers) to have no work to do/to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)/


Words: 窩心
Pinyin: wō xīn
Hanviet: 窩 心tâm
Meaning:
aggrieved/dejected/(Tw, southern China) to be moved by a kind gesture etc/to feel gratified/to feel warm inside/


Words: 窮光蛋
Pinyin: qióng guāng dàn
Hanviet: 窮cùng 光quang 蛋
Meaning:
poor wretch/pauper/destitute man/poverty-stricken peasant/penniless good-for-nothing/impecunious vagabond/


Words: 窮當益堅
Pinyin: qióng dāng yì jiān
Hanviet: 窮cùng 當đương 益ích 堅kiên
Meaning:
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined/the worse one’s position, the harder one must fight back/


Words: 窮結
Pinyin: qióng jié
Hanviet: 窮cùng 結kết
Meaning:
variant of 瓊結, 琼结, Qonggyai county, Tibetan: ’Phyongs rgyas, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區, 山南地区, Tibet/


Words: 窮結縣
Pinyin: qióng jié xiàn
Hanviet: 窮cùng 結kết 縣huyện
Meaning:
variant of 瓊結縣, 琼结县, Qonggyai county, Tibetan: ’Phyongs rgyas rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區, 山南地区, Tibet/


Words: 窮途末路
Pinyin: qióng tú mò lù
Hanviet: 窮cùng 途đồ 末mạt 路lộ
Meaning:
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse/in a plight with no way out/things have reached a dead end/


Words: 竊國者侯，竊鉤者誅
Pinyin: qiè guó zhě hóu , qiè gōu zhě zhū
Hanviet: 竊thiết 國quốc 者giả 侯hầu 竊thiết 鉤câu 者giả 誅tru
Meaning:
steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子)/


Words: 竊鉤者誅，竊國者侯
Pinyin: qiè gōu zhě zhū , qiè guó zhě hóu
Hanviet: 竊thiết 鉤câu 者giả 誅tru 竊thiết 國quốc 者giả 侯hầu
Meaning:
steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子)/


Words: 立地成佛
Pinyin: lì dì chéng fó
Hanviet: 立lập 地địa 成thành 佛Phật
Meaning:
to become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation/to repent and be absolved of one’s crimes/


Words: 立法院
Pinyin: lì fǎ yuàn
Hanviet: 立lập 法pháp 院viện
Meaning:
Legislative Yuan, the legislative branch of government under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan/


Words: 站著說話不腰疼
Pinyin: zhàn zhe shuō huà bù yāo téng
Hanviet: 站 著trước 說thuyết 話thoại 不bất 腰yêu 疼đông
Meaning:
it’s all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom)/to be an armchair expert/to blabber on/


Words: 竟然
Pinyin: jìng rán
Hanviet: 竟cánh 然nhiên
Meaning:
unexpectedly/to one’s surprise/in spite of everything/in that crazy way/actually/to go as far as to/


Words: 章回小說
Pinyin: zhāng huí xiǎo shuō
Hanviet: 章chương 回hồi 小tiểu 說thuyết
Meaning:
novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet/


Words: 章太炎
Pinyin: zhāng tài yán
Hanviet: 章chương 太thái 炎diễm
Meaning:
Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution/


Words: 章炳麟
Pinyin: zhāng bǐng lín
Hanviet: 章chương 炳bỉnh 麟lân
Meaning:
Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution/


Words: 章程
Pinyin: zhāng chéng
Hanviet: 章chương 程
Meaning:
rules/regulations/constitution/statute/articles of association (of company)/articles of incorporation/charter (of a corporation)/by-laws/


Words: 童叟無欺
Pinyin: tóng sǒu wú qī
Hanviet: 童đồng 叟 無vô 欺khi
Meaning:
cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously/Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike./


Words: 童趣
Pinyin: tóng qù
Hanviet: 童đồng 趣thú
Meaning:
qualities that delight children (e.g. bold colors in a picture, anthropomorphized characters in a TV show, the physical challenge of playground equipment)/


Words: 竹山
Pinyin: zhú shān
Hanviet: 竹trúc 山sơn
Meaning:
Zhushan county in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei/Zhushan or Chushan town in Nantou county 南投縣, 南投县, central Taiwan/


Words: 笑林
Pinyin: xiào lín
Hanviet: 笑tiếu 林lâm
Meaning:
Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes)/


Words: 笑裡藏刀
Pinyin: xiào lǐ cáng dāo
Hanviet: 笑tiếu 裡 藏tạng 刀đao
Meaning:
lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions/when the fox preaches, look to the geese/


Words: 笑貧不笑娼
Pinyin: xiào pín bù xiào chāng
Hanviet: 笑tiếu 貧bần 不bất 笑tiếu 娼
Meaning:
the notion in society that it’s better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one’s scruples than to suffer poverty/lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)/


Words: 笑逐顏開
Pinyin: xiào zhú yán kāi
Hanviet: 笑tiếu 逐trục 顏nhan 開khai
Meaning:
smile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure/all smiles/joy written across one’s face/


Words: 符合
Pinyin: fú hé
Hanviet: 符phù 合hợp
Meaning:
in keeping with/in accordance with/tallying with/in line with/to agree with/to accord with/to conform to/to correspond with/to manage/to handle/


Words: 笨鳥先飛
Pinyin: bèn niǎo xiān fēi
Hanviet: 笨 鳥điểu 先tiên 飛phi
Meaning:
lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. to work hard to compensate for one’s limited abilities/


Words: 第
Pinyin: dì
Hanviet: 第đệ
Meaning:
(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc)/order/(old) rank in the imperial examinations/mansion/(literary) but/just/


Words: 第三紀
Pinyin: dì sān jì
Hanviet: 第đệ 三tam 紀kỷ
Meaning:
third period/tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)/


Words: 第三者
Pinyin: dì sān zhě
Hanviet: 第đệ 三tam 者giả
Meaning:
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship/the other woman/the other man/third person/third party (in dispute)/disinterested party/number three in a list/


Words: 第二次漢字簡化方案
Pinyin: dì èr cì hàn zì jiǎn huà fāng àn
Hanviet: 第đệ 二nhị 次thứ 漢hán 字tự 簡giản 化hóa 方phương 案án
Meaning:
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986)/abbr. to 二簡, 二简/


Words: 第四紀
Pinyin: dì sì jì
Hanviet: 第đệ 四tứ 紀kỷ
Meaning:
fourth period/quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)/


Words: 筆
Pinyin: bǐ
Hanviet: 筆bút
Meaning:
pen/pencil/writing brush/to write or compose/the strokes of Chinese characters/classifier for sums of money, deals/CL:支,枝/


Words: 筆仙
Pinyin: bǐ xiān
Hanviet: 筆bút 仙tiên
Meaning:
a form of automatic writing in which two or more participants hold a single pen over a sheet of paper and invite a spirit to write answers to their questions/a spirit so invited/


Words: 等
Pinyin: děng
Hanviet: 等đẳng
Meaning:
class/rank/grade/equal to/same as/to wait for/to await/et cetera/and so on/et al. (and other authors)/after/as soon as/once/


Words: 等因奉此
Pinyin: děng yīn fèng cǐ
Hanviet: 等đẳng 因nhân 奉phụng 此thử
Meaning:
officialese/official routine/(old) (conventional phrase used in response to one’s superior) in view of the above, we therefore.../


Words: 等額比基金
Pinyin: děng é bǐ jī jīn
Hanviet: 等đẳng 額ngạch 比tỉ 基cơ 金kim
Meaning:
equality ration fund, a charitable investment fund that can be drawn down in proportion to further donations/


Words: 策
Pinyin: cè
Hanviet: 策sách
Meaning:
policy/plan/scheme/bamboo slip for writing (old)/to whip (a horse)/to encourage/riding crop with sharp spines (old)/essay written for the imperial examinations (old)/upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy/


Words: 箏
Pinyin: zhēng
Hanviet: 箏tranh
Meaning:
guzheng or long zither/long zither with 13 to 16 strings, developed from guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times/Japanese koto/


Words: 箕子
Pinyin: jī zǐ
Hanviet: 箕ki 子tử
Meaning:
Jizi, legendary sage from end of Shang dynasty (c. 1100 BC), said to have opposed the tyrant Zhòu 紂, 纣 then ruled ancient Korea for Zhōu 周/


Words: 算數
Pinyin: suàn shù
Hanviet: 算toán 數số
Meaning:
to count numbers/to keep to one’s word/to hold (i.e. to remain valid)/to count (i.e. to be important)/


Words: 管
Pinyin: guǎn
Hanviet: 管quản
Meaning:
to take care (of)/to control/to manage/to be in charge of/to look after/to run/to care about/tube/pipe/woodwind/classifier for tube-shaped objects/particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions/writing brush/(coll.) to/towards/


Words: 管仲
Pinyin: guǎn zhòng
Hanviet: 管quản 仲trọng
Meaning:
Guan Zhong (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國, 齐国 of Spring and Autumn period/known as Guangzi 管子/


Words: 管子
Pinyin: guǎn zǐ
Hanviet: 管quản 子tử
Meaning:
Guanzi or Guan Zhong 管仲 (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國, 齐国 of Spring and Autumn period/Guanzi, classical book containing writings of Guan Zhong and his school/


Words: 節
Pinyin: jié
Hanviet: 節tiết
Meaning:
festival/holiday/node/joint/section/segment/part/to economize/to save/to abridge/moral integrity/classifier for segments, e.g. lessons, train wagons, biblical verses/CL:個, 个/


Words: 節度使
Pinyin: jié dù shǐ
Hanviet: 節tiết 度độ 使sử
Meaning:
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song/


Words: 篆
Pinyin: zhuàn
Hanviet: 篆
Meaning:
seal (of office)/seal script (a calligraphic style)/the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆/writing in seal script/


Words: 篇
Pinyin: piān
Hanviet: 篇thiên
Meaning:
sheet/piece of writing/bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)/classifier for written items: chapter, article/


Words: 築室道謀
Pinyin: zhù shì dào móu
Hanviet: 築trúc 室thất 道đạo 謀mưu
Meaning:
lit. ask passers-by how to build one’s house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do/without a clue/


Words: 簡譜
Pinyin: jiǎn pǔ
Hanviet: 簡giản 譜
Meaning:
music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7/


Words: 簡述
Pinyin: jiǎn shù
Hanviet: 簡giản 述thuật
Meaning:
to outline/to summarize/to sketch/summary/brief description/concise narrative/in a nutshell/briefly/


Words: 簫
Pinyin: xiāo
Hanviet: 簫tiêu
Meaning:
xiao, a free reed mouth organ with five or more pipes blown from the bottom/same as 排簫, 排箫/also translated as pan pipes/


Words: 籌算
Pinyin: chóu suàn
Hanviet: 籌trù 算toán
Meaning:
to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board)/to count beads/fig. to budget/to plan (an investment)/


Words: 籠
Pinyin: lóng
Hanviet: 籠lung
Meaning:
basket/cage/flat bamboo basket used to serve dimsum 點心, 点心/to cover/to cage/to embrace/to manipulate through trickery/


Words: 籤
Pinyin: qiān
Hanviet: 籤
Meaning:
inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc)/small wood sliver/label/tag/


Words: 米夫
Pinyin: mǐ fū
Hanviet: 米mễ 夫phu
Meaning:
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin’s purges/


Words: 米格爾·德·塞萬提斯·薩維德拉
Pinyin: mǐ gé ěr �� dé �� sāi wàn tí sī �� sà wéi dé lā
Hanviet: 米mễ 格cách 爾nhĩ · 德đức · 塞tắc 萬vạn 提đề 斯tư · 薩tát 維duy 德đức 拉lạp
Meaning:
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德, 堂吉诃德/


Words: 米歇爾
Pinyin: mǐ xiē ěr
Hanviet: 米mễ 歇hiết 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Michel or Mitchell (name)/George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009/


Words: 米高揚
Pinyin: mǐ gāo yáng
Hanviet: 米mễ 高cao 揚dương
Meaning:
Mikoyan (name)/Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s/Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft/


Words: 粉
Pinyin: fěn
Hanviet: 粉phấn
Meaning:
powder/cosmetic face powder/food prepared from starch/noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour/whitewash/white/pink/


Words: 粉絲
Pinyin: fěn sī
Hanviet: 粉phấn 絲ti
Meaning:
bean vermicelli/mung bean starch noodles/Chinese vermicelli/cellophane noodles/CL:把/fan (loanword)/enthusiast for sb or sth/


Words: 粵漢鐵路
Pinyin: yuè hàn tiě lù
Hanviet: 粵 漢hán 鐵thiết 路lộ
Meaning:
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路, 京广铁路/


Words: 精
Pinyin: jīng
Hanviet: 精tinh
Meaning:
essence/extract/vitality/energy/semen/sperm/mythical goblin spirit/highly perfected/elite/the pick of sth/proficient (refined ability)/extremely (fine)/selected rice (archaic)/


Words: 精密陶瓷
Pinyin: jīng mì táo cí
Hanviet: 精tinh 密mật 陶đào 瓷
Meaning:
fine ceramics (used for dental implants, synthetic bones, electronics, knife blades etc)/advanced ceramics/engineered ceramics/


Words: 精河
Pinyin: jīng hé
Hanviet: 精tinh 河hà
Meaning:
Jing Nahiyisi or Jinghe county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州, 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 精煉
Pinyin: jīng liàn
Hanviet: 精tinh 煉luyện
Meaning:
to refine (a substance)/to purify/to refine (one’s skills, writing etc)/refined/polished/succinct/skilled/capable/


Words: 精神抖擻
Pinyin: jīng shén dǒu sǒu
Hanviet: 精tinh 神thần 抖đẩu 擻tẩu
Meaning:
spirit trembling with excitement (idiom); in high spirits/lively and full of enthusiasm/full of energy/con brio/


Words: 精衛填海
Pinyin: jīng wèi tián hǎi
Hanviet: 精tinh 衛vệ 填điền 海hải
Meaning:
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition/task of Sisyphus/determination in the face of impossible odds/


Words: 精誠所加，金石為開
Pinyin: jīng chéng suǒ jiā , jīn shí wèi kāi
Hanviet: 精tinh 誠thành 所sở 加gia 金kim 石thạch 為vi 開khai
Meaning:
lit. sincerity splits open metal and metal (idiom); if you put your heart to it, you can break up metal and rocks/With a will, you can achieve anything./


Words: 精選
Pinyin: jīng xuǎn
Hanviet: 精tinh 選tuyển
Meaning:
carefully chosen/handpicked/best of the bunch/choice (product)/concentration (mining)/to concentrate/to winnow/


Words: 糗
Pinyin: qiǔ
Hanviet: 糗
Meaning:
dry rations (for a journey)/(dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking)/(coll.) embarrassing/embarrassment/


Words: 紀昀
Pinyin: jì yún
Hanviet: 紀kỷ 昀
Meaning:
Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱微草堂筆記, 阅微草堂笔记/


Words: 約
Pinyin: yuē
Hanviet: 約ước
Meaning:
to make an appointment/to invite/approximately/pact/treaty/to economize/to restrict/to reduce (a fraction)/concise/


Words: 約分
Pinyin: yuē fēn
Hanviet: 約ước 分phần/phân
Meaning:
reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths)/to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator/


Words: 約定
Pinyin: yuē dìng
Hanviet: 約ước 定định
Meaning:
to agree on sth (after discussion)/to conclude a bargain/to arrange/to promise/to stipulate/to make an appointment/stipulated (time, amount, quality etc)/an arrangement/a deal/appointment/undertaking/commitment/understanding/engagement/stipulation/


Words: 約翰·霍金斯
Pinyin: yuē hàn �� huò jīn sī
Hanviet: 約ước 翰hàn · 霍hoắc 金kim 斯tư
Meaning:
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain/Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist/


Words: 紅原
Pinyin: hóng yuán
Hanviet: 紅hồng 原nguyên
Meaning:
Hongyuan county (Tibetan: rka khog rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 紅客
Pinyin: hóng kè
Hanviet: 紅hồng 客khách
Meaning:
"honker", Chinese hacker motivated by patriotism, using one’s skills to protect domestic networks and work in national interest/


Words: 紅樓夢
Pinyin: hóng lóu mèng
Hanviet: 紅hồng 樓lâu 夢mộng
Meaning:
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels/


Words: 紅河
Pinyin: hóng hé
Hanviet: 紅hồng 河hà
Meaning:
Honghe county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan/Red River in China/Northern Vietnam/


Words: 紅籌股
Pinyin: hóng chóu gǔ
Hanviet: 紅hồng 籌trù 股cổ
Meaning:
red chip stocks (Chinese company stocks incorporated outside Mainland China and listed in the Hong Kong stock exchange)/


Words: 紅股
Pinyin: hóng gǔ
Hanviet: 紅hồng 股cổ
Meaning:
(economics) bonus stock or share, i.e. share issued fully or partly paid to an existing shareholder in a company, generally on a pro rata basis/


Words: 納
Pinyin: nà
Hanviet: 納nạp
Meaning:
to receive/to accept/to enjoy/to bring into/to pay (tax etc)/nano- (one billionth)/to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewing/


Words: 納指
Pinyin: nà zhǐ
Hanviet: 納nạp 指chỉ
Meaning:
NASDAQ/National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter/


Words: 納新
Pinyin: nà xīn
Hanviet: 納nạp 新tân
Meaning:
to accept the new/to take fresh (air)/fig. to accept new members (to reinvigorate the party)/new blood/


Words: 納皮爾
Pinyin: nà pí ěr
Hanviet: 納nạp 皮bì 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Napier (name)/John Napier (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician, inventor of logarithms/Napier, city in New Zealand/


Words: 紙上談兵
Pinyin: zhǐ shàng tán bīng
Hanviet: 紙chỉ 上thượng 談đàm 兵binh
Meaning:
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)/fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice/armchair strategist/idle theorizing/cf Zhao Kuo 趙括, 赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰, 长平之战 in 260 BC/


Words: 紙火鍋
Pinyin: zhǐ huǒ guō
Hanviet: 紙chỉ 火hỏa 鍋oa
Meaning:
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)/


Words: 紛紛
Pinyin: fēn fēn
Hanviet: 紛phân 紛phân
Meaning:
one after another/in succession/one by one/continuously/diverse/in profusion/numerous and confused/pell-mell/


Words: 素
Pinyin: sù
Hanviet: 素tố
Meaning:
raw silk/white/plain, unadorned/vegetarian (food)/essence/nature/element/constituent/usually/always/ever/


Words: 素昧平生
Pinyin: sù mèi píng shēng
Hanviet: 素tố 昧muội 平bình 生sanh
Meaning:
to have never met sb before (idiom); entirely unacquainted/a complete stranger/not to know sb from Adam/


Words: 素面朝天
Pinyin: sù miàn cháo tiān
Hanviet: 素tố 面diện 朝triêu 天thiên
Meaning:
lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃, 杨贵妃) (idiom)/fig. (of a woman) to show one’s natural features, without makeup/to present oneself just as one is, without artifice/


Words: 索爾仁尼琴
Pinyin: suǒ ěr rén ní qín
Hanviet: 索sách 爾nhĩ 仁nhân 尼ni 琴cầm
Meaning:
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago/


Words: 索羅斯
Pinyin: suǒ luó sī
Hanviet: 索sách 羅la 斯tư
Meaning:
Soros (name)/George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist/


Words: 紫
Pinyin: zǐ
Hanviet: 紫tử
Meaning:
purple/violet/amethyst/Lithospermum erythrorhizon (flowering plant whose root provides red purple dye)/Japanese: murasaki/


Words: 紫草
Pinyin: zǐ cǎo
Hanviet: 紫tử 草thảo
Meaning:
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon)/flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye/arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)/


Words: 紮馬剌丁
Pinyin: zā mǎ lá dīng
Hanviet: 紮 馬mã 剌lạt 丁đinh
Meaning:
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260/


Words: 累贅
Pinyin: léi zhuì
Hanviet: 累lũy/lụy/luy 贅
Meaning:
superfluous/cumbersome/a burden on sb/a nuisance to sb/to inconvenience/to tie sb down/long-winded (of writing)/also pr. /


Words: 細水長流
Pinyin: xì shuǐ cháng liú
Hanviet: 細tế 水thủy 長trường 流lưu
Meaning:
lit. thin streams flow forever/fig. economy will get you a long way/to work steadily at something little by little/


Words: 絃
Pinyin: xián
Hanviet: 絃huyền
Meaning:
variant of 弦/bow string/string of musical instrument/watch spring/chord (straight line joining two points on a curve)/hypotenuse/


Words: 絕口不提
Pinyin: jué kǒu bù tí
Hanviet: 絕tuyệt 口khẩu 不bất 提đề
Meaning:
lips sealed and not saying anything (idiom); fig. to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic)/to censor/


Words: 絕處逢生
Pinyin: jué chǔ féng shēng
Hanviet: 絕tuyệt 處xứ 逢phùng 生sanh
Meaning:
to come back from death’s door (idiom); unexpected rescue from danger/fig. to recover from a seemingly impossible situation/to find a way out of a predicament/


Words: 絞
Pinyin: jiǎo
Hanviet: 絞giảo
Meaning:
to twist (strands into a thread)/to entangle/to wring/to hang (by the neck)/to turn/to wind/classifier for skeins of yarn/


Words: 給
Pinyin: gěi
Hanviet: 給cấp
Meaning:
to/for/for the benefit of/to give/to allow/to do sth (for sb)/(grammatical equivalent of 被)/(grammatical equivalent of 把)/(sentence intensifier)/


Words: 統一口徑
Pinyin: tǒng yī kǒu jìng
Hanviet: 統thống 一nhất 口khẩu 徑kính
Meaning:
lit. one-track path; fig. to adopt a unified approach to discussing an issue/to sing from the same hymn-sheet/


Words: 統讀
Pinyin: tǒng dú
Hanviet: 統thống 讀đọc
Meaning:
standard (unified) pronunciation of a character with multiple readings, as stipulated by the PRC Ministry of Education in 1985/


Words: 絲
Pinyin: sī
Hanviet: 絲ti
Meaning:
silk/thread/trace/CL:條, 条/classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc/


Words: 經
Pinyin: jīng
Hanviet: 經kinh
Meaning:
classics/sacred book/scripture/to pass through/to undergo/to bear/to endure/warp (textile)/longitude/menstruation/channel (TCM)/abbr. for economics 經濟, 经济/


Words: 綠旗兵
Pinyin: lǜ qí bīng
Hanviet: 綠lục 旗kỳ 兵binh
Meaning:
same as 綠營, 绿营, Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units/


Words: 綠營
Pinyin: lǜ yíng
Hanviet: 綠lục 營doanh
Meaning:
Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units/


Words: 綠營兵
Pinyin: lǜ yíng bīng
Hanviet: 綠lục 營doanh 兵binh
Meaning:
Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units/


Words: 綠茶婊
Pinyin: lǜ chá biǎo
Hanviet: 綠lục 茶trà 婊
Meaning:
"green tea bitch", a seemingly unaffected, innocent and charming girl, but really a dissipated and superficial whore/


Words: 綠豆椪
Pinyin: lǜ dòu pèng
Hanviet: 綠lục 豆đậu 椪
Meaning:
mung bean cake (pastry with a rounded top, containing a sweet or savory filling made with cooked mung beans)/


Words: 維西傈僳族自治縣
Pinyin: wéi xī lì sù zú zì zhì xiàn
Hanviet: 維duy 西tây 傈 僳 族tộc 自tự 治trị 縣huyện
Meaning:
Weixi Lisu autonomous county in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州, 迪庆藏族自治州, northwest Yunnan/


Words: 綱舉目張
Pinyin: gāng jǔ mù zhāng
Hanviet: 綱cương 舉cử 目mục 張trương
Meaning:
if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom)/take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves/(of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered/


Words: 網羅
Pinyin: wǎng luó
Hanviet: 網võng 羅la
Meaning:
net for fishing or bird catching/(fig.) fetters/to snare (a valuable new team member etc)/to bring together under the one umbrella/


Words: 網開一面
Pinyin: wǎng kāi yī miàn
Hanviet: 網võng 開khai 一nhất 面diện
Meaning:
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly/to give one’s opponent a way out/lenient treatment/


Words: 網開三面
Pinyin: wǎng kāi sān miàn
Hanviet: 網võng 開khai 三tam 面diện
Meaning:
to leave the net open on three sides (idiom); let the caged bird fly/to give one’s opponent a way out/lenient treatment/


Words: 綴
Pinyin: zhuì
Hanviet: 綴chuế
Meaning:
to sew/to stitch together/to combine/to link/to connect/to put words together/to compose/to embellish/


Words: 綺色佳
Pinyin: qǐ sè jiā
Hanviet: 綺ỷ 色sắc 佳giai
Meaning:
Ithaca, Island state of Greece, the home of Odysseus 奧迪修斯, 奥迪修斯/Ithaca NY (but pronounced ), location of Cornell University 康奈爾, 康奈尔/


Words: 綿延
Pinyin: mián yán
Hanviet: 綿miên 延diên
Meaning:
continuous (esp. of mountain ranges)/to stretch long and unbroken/a continuous link/sostenuto (sustained, in music)/


Words: 綿裡藏針
Pinyin: mián lǐ cáng zhēn
Hanviet: 綿miên 裡 藏tạng 針châm
Meaning:
lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom)/fig. ruthless character behind a gentle appearance/a wolf in sheep’s clothing/an iron fist in a velvet glove/


Words: 線條
Pinyin: xiàn tiáo
Hanviet: 線tuyến 條điều
Meaning:
line (in drawing, calligraphy etc)/the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)/


Words: 編
Pinyin: biān
Hanviet: 編biên
Meaning:
to weave/to plait/to organize/to group/to arrange/to edit/to compile/to write/to compose/to fabricate/


Words: 編導
Pinyin: biān dǎo
Hanviet: 編biên 導đạo
Meaning:
to write and direct (a play, film etc)/playwright-director/choreographer-director/scenarist-director/


Words: 編磬
Pinyin: biān qìng
Hanviet: 編biên 磬khánh
Meaning:
musical instrument consisting of a set of chime stones suspended from a beam and struck as a xylophone/


Words: 緩
Pinyin: huǎn
Hanviet: 緩hoãn
Meaning:
slow/unhurried/sluggish/gradual/not tense/relaxed/to postpone/to defer/to stall/to stave off/to revive/to recuperate/


Words: 緩不濟急
Pinyin: huǎn bù jì jí
Hanviet: 緩hoãn 不bất 濟tế 急cấp
Meaning:
lit. slow no aid to urgent (idiom); slow measures will not address a critical situation/too slow to meet a pressing need/


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


Words: 縮多氨酸
Pinyin: suō duō ān suān
Hanviet: 縮súc 多đa 氨 酸toan
Meaning:
polypeptide, a chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein/same as 多肽/


Words: 縱
Pinyin: zòng
Hanviet: 縱túng/tung
Meaning:
warp (the vertical threads in weaving)/vertical/longitudinal/north-south (lines of longitude)/lengthwise/to release/to indulge/even if/


Words: 縱橫
Pinyin: zòng héng
Hanviet: 縱tung 橫hoành
Meaning:
lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal/length and breadth/criss-crossed/able to move unhindered/abbr. for 合縱連橫, 合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)/


Words: 縱橫家
Pinyin: zòng héng jiā
Hanviet: 縱tung 橫hoành 家gia
Meaning:
School of Diplomacy of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocates were Su Qin 蘇秦, 苏秦 and Zhang Yi 張儀, 张仪/


Words: 縱深
Pinyin: zòng shēn
Hanviet: 縱túng/tung 深thâm
Meaning:
depth (from front to rear)/depth (into a territory)/span (of time)/(fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)/


Words: 縱貫
Pinyin: zòng guàn
Hanviet: 縱túng/tung 貫quán
Meaning:
lit. warp string in weaving/fig. vertical or north-south lines/to pass through/to cross lengthwise/to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom)/


Words: 縷
Pinyin: lǚ
Hanviet: 縷lũ
Meaning:
strand/thread/detailed/in detail/classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)/


Words: 總監
Pinyin: zǒng jiān
Hanviet: 總tổng 監giám
Meaning:
head/director (of an organizational unit)/(police) commissioner/inspector-general/rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration/


Words: 織女星
Pinyin: zhī nǚ xīng
Hanviet: 織chức 女nữ 星tinh
Meaning:
Vega, brightest star in constellation Lyra 天琴星座/Weaving girl of folk tale Cowherd and weaving maid 牛郎織女, 牛郎织女/


Words: 繞
Pinyin: rào
Hanviet: 繞nhiễu
Meaning:
to wind/to coil (thread)/to rotate around/to spiral/to move around/to go round (an obstacle)/to by-pass/to make a detour/to confuse/to perplex/


Words: 繞彎子
Pinyin: rào wān zi
Hanviet: 繞nhiễu 彎loan 子tử
Meaning:
lit. to go on a long detour/fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point/to beat about the bush/


Words: 繞梁三日
Pinyin: rào liáng sān rì
Hanviet: 繞nhiễu 梁lương 三tam 日nhật
Meaning:
reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)/


Words: 繞騰
Pinyin: rào teng
Hanviet: 繞nhiễu 騰đằng
Meaning:
to run a long way around/fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point/to beat about the bush/


Words: 續弦
Pinyin: xù xián
Hanviet: 續tục 弦huyền
Meaning:
to remarry (of a widow)/second wife/qin and se 琴瑟, two string instruments as a symbol of marital harmony/


Words: 纏頭
Pinyin: chán tóu
Hanviet: 纏triền 頭đầu
Meaning:
embroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group/to reward an actor with brocade headband/


Words: 纔
Pinyin: cái
Hanviet: 纔tài
Meaning:
a moment ago/just now/(indicating sth happening later than expected)/(preceded by a clause of condition or reason) not until/(followed by a numerical clause) only/


Words: 缺德
Pinyin: quē dé
Hanviet: 缺khuyết 德đức
Meaning:
to be lacking in moral sense/to lack common basic respect for others/lacking in virtue/mischievous/wicked/cruel/mean/


Words: 罪有應得
Pinyin: zuì yǒu yīng dé
Hanviet: 罪tội 有hữu 應ưng 得đắc
Meaning:
guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement/the punishment fits the crime/


Words: 置之死地
Pinyin: zhì zhī sǐ dì
Hanviet: 置trí 之chi 死tử 地địa
Meaning:
to place sb on field of death/to confront with mortal danger/to give sb no way out/with one’s back to the wall/looking death in the eye/part of idiom 置之死地而後生, 置之死地而后生/


Words: 置之死地而後生
Pinyin: zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng
Hanviet: 置trí 之chi 死tử 地địa 而nhi 後hậu 生sanh
Meaning:
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi’s "The Art of War" 孫子兵法, 孙子兵法); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger/fig. to find a way out of an impasse/


Words: 羅伯斯庇爾
Pinyin: luó bó sī bì ěr
Hanviet: 羅la 伯bá 斯tư 庇tí 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Robespierre (name)/Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794/


Words: 羅掘
Pinyin: luó jué
Hanviet: 羅la 掘quật
Meaning:
to scrape around for money/hard pressed for cash/cf 羅雀掘鼠, 罗雀掘鼠 to net birds and dig for rats (idiom)/


Words: 羅斯托夫
Pinyin: luó sī tuō fū
Hanviet: 羅la 斯tư 托thác 夫phu
Meaning:
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)/


Words: 羅斯福
Pinyin: luó sī fú
Hanviet: 羅la 斯tư 福phước
Meaning:
Roosevelt (name)/Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909/Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945/


Words: 羅漢果
Pinyin: luó hàn guǒ
Hanviet: 羅La 漢Hán 果quả
Meaning:
sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii (formerly Momordica grosvenori, a gourd of the Curcubitaceae family), grown in Guangxi and used in Chinese medicine/


Words: 羅生門
Pinyin: luó shēng mén
Hanviet: 羅la 生sanh 門môn
Meaning:
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie/(fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth/unsolvable case/


Words: 羅素
Pinyin: luó sù
Hanviet: 羅la 素tố
Meaning:
Russell (name)/Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist/


Words: 羊腸小道
Pinyin: yáng cháng xiǎo dào
Hanviet: 羊dương 腸tràng 小tiểu 道đạo
Meaning:
road as twisty as sheep’s intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road/fig. complicated and tricky job/


Words: 羊觸藩籬
Pinyin: yáng chù fān lí
Hanviet: 羊dương 觸xúc 藩 籬
Meaning:
lit. billy goat’s horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經, 易经); impossible to advance or to retreat/without any way out of a dilemma/trapped/in an impossible situation/


Words: 羊質虎皮
Pinyin: yáng zhì hǔ pí
Hanviet: 羊dương 質chất 虎hổ 皮bì
Meaning:
lit. the heart of a sheep in the skin of a tiger (idiom)/fig. impressive in appearance but lacking in substance/braggart/


Words: 美容
Pinyin: měi róng
Hanviet: 美mỹ 容dung
Meaning:
to improve one’s appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery)/to make oneself more attractive/to beautify/


Words: 美麗島
Pinyin: měi lì dǎo
Hanviet: 美mỹ 麗lệ 島đảo
Meaning:
Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Isle", the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544)/


Words: 群眾路線
Pinyin: qún zhòng lù xiàn
Hanviet: 群quần 眾chúng 路lộ 線tuyến
Meaning:
the mass line, CPC term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses/


Words: 群體性事件
Pinyin: qún tǐ xìng shì jiàn
Hanviet: 群quần 體thể 性tánh 事sự 件
Meaning:
mass incident (PRC term for incidents of social unrest, including rioting, melees and petition campaigns)/


Words: 義
Pinyin: yì
Hanviet: 義nghĩa
Meaning:
justice/righteousness/meaning/foster (father etc)/adopted/artificial (tooth, limb etc)/relationship/friendship/


Words: 義無反顧
Pinyin: yì wú fǎn gù
Hanviet: 義nghĩa 無vô 反phản 顧cố
Meaning:
honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back/no surrender/to pursue justice with no second thoughts/


Words: 義譯
Pinyin: yì yì
Hanviet: 義nghĩa 譯dịch
Meaning:
formation of a loanword using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯, 音译) (e.g. 超文本, 火車, 火车)/


Words: 羯鼓催花
Pinyin: jié gǔ cuī huā
Hanviet: 羯yết 鼓cổ 催thôi 花hoa
Meaning:
drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom/


Words: 羲皇上人
Pinyin: xī huáng shàng rén
Hanviet: 羲 皇hoàng 上thượng 人nhân
Meaning:
lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲/person from ages immemorial/fig. untroubled person/


Words: 羹藜含糗
Pinyin: gēng lí hán qiǔ
Hanviet: 羹 藜 含hàm 糗
Meaning:
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet/à la guerre comme à la guerre/


Words: 羽化
Pinyin: yǔ huà
Hanviet: 羽vũ 化hóa
Meaning:
levitation (of Daoist immortal)/to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven/(in Daoism) to become immortal/to die/of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form/eclosion/


Words: 翅膀硬了
Pinyin: chì bǎng yìng le
Hanviet: 翅sí 膀 硬ngạnh 了liễu
Meaning:
(of a bird) to have become fully fledged/(fig.) (of a person) to have grown up (and become independent)/to be ready to spread one’s wings/


Words: 翎子
Pinyin: líng zi
Hanviet: 翎 子tử
Meaning:
peacock feathers on an official’s hat displaying his rank (traditional)/pheasant tail feathers on warriors’ helmets (opera)/


Words: 習慣自然
Pinyin: xí guàn zì rán
Hanviet: 習tập 慣quán 自tự 然nhiên
Meaning:
habit becomes nature (idiom); get used to something and it seems inevitable/second nature/same as 習慣成自然, 习惯成自然/


Words: 習近平
Pinyin: xí jìn píng
Hanviet: 習tập 近cận 平bình
Meaning:
Xi Jinping (1953-), PRC politician, General Secretary of the CPC from 2012, President of the PRC from 2013/


Words: 翟
Pinyin: dí
Hanviet: 翟
Meaning:
surname Di/variant of 狄, generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)/


Words: 翟理斯
Pinyin: zhái lǐ sī
Hanviet: 翟 理lý 斯tư
Meaning:
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system/


Words: 翦伯贊
Pinyin: jiǎn bó zàn
Hanviet: 翦 伯bá 贊tán
Meaning:
Jian Bozan (1898-1968), Chinese Marxist historian and vice-president of Bejing University 1952-1968/


Words: 翰林
Pinyin: hàn lín
Hanviet: 翰hàn 林lâm
Meaning:
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院/


Words: 翻
Pinyin: fān
Hanviet: 翻phiên
Meaning:
to turn over/to flip over/to overturn/to rummage through/to translate/to decode/to double/to climb over or into/to cross/


Words: 翻動
Pinyin: fān dòng
Hanviet: 翻phiên 動động
Meaning:
to flip over/to turn (a page)/to scroll (an electronic document)/to stir (food in a pot etc)/to move things about/to rummage/


Words: 翻手為雲覆手變雨
Pinyin: fān shǒu wéi yún fù shǒu biàn yǔ
Hanviet: 翻phiên 手thủ 為vi 雲vân 覆phú 手thủ 變biến 雨vũ
Meaning:
lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain/very powerful and capable (idiom)/


Words: 翻拍
Pinyin: fān pāi
Hanviet: 翻phiên 拍phách
Meaning:
to reproduce photographically/to duplicate/to adapt (as a movie)/to remake (a movie)/adaptation/reproduction/remake/


Words: 翻身
Pinyin: fān shēn
Hanviet: 翻phiên 身thân
Meaning:
to turn over (when lying)/(fig.) to free oneself/to emancipate oneself/to bring about a change of one’s fortunes/


Words: 翻雲覆雨
Pinyin: fān yún fù yǔ
Hanviet: 翻phiên 雲vân 覆phú 雨vũ
Meaning:
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one’s ground/tricky and inconstant/to make love/


Words: 翼
Pinyin: yì
Hanviet: 翼dực
Meaning:
surname Yi/alternative name for 絳, 绛 capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)/


Words: 翼
Pinyin: yì
Hanviet: 翼dực
Meaning:
wing/area surrounding the bullseye of a target/to assist/one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy/old variant of 翌/


Words: 老
Pinyin: lǎo
Hanviet: 老lão
Meaning:
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity/old (of people)/venerable (person)/experienced/of long standing/always/all the time/of the past/very/outdated/(of meat etc) tough/


Words: 老佛爺
Pinyin: lǎo fó yé
Hanviet: 老lão 佛Phật 爺
Meaning:
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor’s father/nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后/


Words: 老君
Pinyin: lǎo jūn
Hanviet: 老lão 君quân
Meaning:
Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism/the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經, 道德经 by Laozi/


Words: 老大
Pinyin: lǎo dà
Hanviet: 老lão 大đại
Meaning:
old age/very/eldest child in a family/leader of a group/boss/captain of a boat/leader of a criminal gang/


Words: 老天爺餓不死瞎家雀
Pinyin: lǎo tiān yé è bù sǐ xiā jiā què
Hanviet: 老lão 天thiên 爺 餓ngạ 不bất 死tử 瞎hạt 家gia 雀tước
Meaning:
lit. heaven won’t let the sparrows go hungry (idiom)/fig. don’t give up hope/if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel/


Words: 老奶奶
Pinyin: lǎo nǎi nai
Hanviet: 老lão 奶 奶
Meaning:
(coll.) father’s father’s mother/paternal great-grandmother/respectful form of address for an old woman/


Words: 老將
Pinyin: lǎo jiàng
Hanviet: 老lão 將tương
Meaning:
lit. old general/commander-in-chief 將帥, 将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess/fig. old-timer/veteran/


Words: 老少無欺
Pinyin: lǎo shào wú qī
Hanviet: 老lão 少thiếu 無vô 欺khi
Meaning:
cheating neither old nor young/treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously/Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike./


Words: 老本
Pinyin: lǎo běn
Hanviet: 老lão 本bổn
Meaning:
capital/assets/savings/nest egg/(fig.) reputation/laurels (to rest upon)/old edition of a book/(tree) trunk/


Words: 老牛吃嫩草
Pinyin: lǎo niú chī nèn cǎo
Hanviet: 老lão 牛ngưu 吃cật 嫩 草thảo
Meaning:
lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom)/fig. a May-December relationship/a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman/


Words: 老虎菜
Pinyin: lǎo hǔ cài
Hanviet: 老lão 虎hổ 菜thái
Meaning:
"Tiger Vegetable Salad," Northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek/


Words: 老頭樂
Pinyin: lǎo tóu lè
Hanviet: 老lão 頭đầu 樂nhạo/nhạc/lạc
Meaning:
backscratcher (made from bamboo etc)/(may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc)/


Words: 老馬識途
Pinyin: lǎo mǎ shí tú
Hanviet: 老lão 馬mã 識thức 途đồ
Meaning:
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do/an old hand knows the ropes/


Words: 老驥伏櫪
Pinyin: lǎo jì fú lì
Hanviet: 老lão 驥kí 伏phục 櫪
Meaning:
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations/


Words: 老驥伏櫪，志在千里
Pinyin: lǎo jì fú lì , zhì zài qiān lǐ
Hanviet: 老lão 驥kí 伏phục 櫪 志chí 在tại 千thiên 里lý
Meaning:
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations/


Words: 老鼠拖木鍁，大頭在後頭
Pinyin: lǎo shǔ tuō mù xiān , dà tóu zài hòu tou
Hanviet: 老lão 鼠thử 拖tha 木mộc 鍁 大đại 頭đầu 在tại 後hậu 頭đầu
Meaning:
when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second/the tip of the iceberg/the cockroach principle/


Words: 考克斯報告
Pinyin: kǎo kè sī bào gào
Hanviet: 考khảo 克khắc 斯tư 報báo 告cáo
Meaning:
Cox Report/Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military-Commercial Concerns with the PRC (1999); Committee Chairman Republican Rep. Chris Cox/


Words: 考試院
Pinyin: kǎo shì yuàn
Hanviet: 考khảo 試thí 院viện
Meaning:
Examination Yuan, the qualification and appointment board under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan/exam board/


Words: 者
Pinyin: zhě
Hanviet: 者giả
Meaning:
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) .../(after a noun) person involved in .../-er/-ist/(used after a number or 後, 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously)/(used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)/(old) (used at the end of a command)/(old) this/


Words: 而
Pinyin: ér
Hanviet: 而nhi
Meaning:
and/as well as/and so/but (not)/yet (not)/(indicates causal relation)/(indicates change of state)/(indicates contrast)/


Words: 耍無賴
Pinyin: shuǎ wú lài
Hanviet: 耍 無vô 賴lại
Meaning:
to act shamelessly/to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disapproval/


Words: 耍貧嘴
Pinyin: shuǎ pín zuǐ
Hanviet: 耍 貧bần 嘴chủy
Meaning:
(coll.) to wag one’s tongue/to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes/to chatter endlessly/to speak glibly/


Words: 耍賴
Pinyin: shuǎ lài
Hanviet: 耍 賴lại
Meaning:
to act shamelessly/to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc/to act dumb/to act as if sth never happened/


Words: 耕當問奴
Pinyin: gēng dāng wèn nú
Hanviet: 耕canh 當đương 問vấn 奴nô
Meaning:
if it’s plowing, ask the laborer (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist/


Words: 耕當問奴，織當訪婢
Pinyin: gēng dāng wèn nú , zhī dāng fǎng bì
Hanviet: 耕canh 當đương 問vấn 奴nô 織chức 當đương 訪phỏng 婢tỳ
Meaning:
if it’s plowing ask the laborer, if it’s weaving ask the maid (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist/


Words: 耳聽為虛，眼見為實
Pinyin: ěr tīng wéi xū , yǎn jiàn wéi shí
Hanviet: 耳nhĩ 聽thính 為vi 虛hư 眼nhãn 見kiến 為vi 實thật
Meaning:
Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don’t believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself./It ain’t necessarily so./


Words: 耶律大石
Pinyin: yē lǜ dà shí
Hanviet: 耶da 律luật 大đại 石thạch
Meaning:
Yollig Taxin or Yelü Dashi (1087-1143), Chinese-educated Khitan leader, founder of Western Liao 西遼, 西辽 in Central Asia/


Words: 耶律楚材
Pinyin: yē lǜ chǔ cái
Hanviet: 耶da 律luật 楚sở 材tài
Meaning:
Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it/


Words: 耶洗別
Pinyin: yē xǐ bié
Hanviet: 耶da 洗tẩy 別biệt
Meaning:
Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶, 耶户/


Words: 聖像
Pinyin: shèng xiàng
Hanviet: 聖thánh 像tượng
Meaning:
icon/iconic/religious image/figure (of Confucius, Buddha, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary etc)/CL:張, 张/


Words: 聖地
Pinyin: shèng dì
Hanviet: 聖thánh 地địa
Meaning:
holy land (of a religion)/sacred place/shrine/holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc)/center of historic interest/


Words: 聖奧古斯丁
Pinyin: shèng ào gǔ sī dīng
Hanviet: 聖thánh 奧áo 古cổ 斯tư 丁đinh
Meaning:
St Augustine/Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher/Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany/


Words: 聖女貞德
Pinyin: shèng nǚ zhēn dé
Hanviet: 聖thánh 女nữ 貞trinh 德đức
Meaning:
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English/


Words: 聖德太子
Pinyin: shèng dé tài zǐ
Hanviet: 聖thánh 德đức 太thái 子tử
Meaning:
Prince Shōtoku Taiji (574-621), major Japanese statesman and reformer of the Asuka period 飛鳥時代, 飞鸟时代, proponent of state Buddhism, portrayed as Buddhist saint/


Words: 聖母峰
Pinyin: shèng mǔ fēng
Hanviet: 聖thánh 母mẫu 峰phong
Meaning:
Goddess peak (Nepalese: Sagarmatha, Sky Goddess)/refers to Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan), Chinese 珠穆朗瑪峰, 珠穆朗玛峰/Mt Everest/


Words: 聖神
Pinyin: shèng shén
Hanviet: 聖thánh 神thần
Meaning:
feudal term of praise for ruler, king or emperor/general term for saint in former times/term for God during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國, 太平天国/Holy Spirit (in Christian Trinity)/


Words: 聘問
Pinyin: pìn wèn
Hanviet: 聘sính 問vấn
Meaning:
international exchange of visits/to visit as envoy/to visit as family representative for purpose of marriage arrangement (traditional culture)/


Words: 聚斂
Pinyin: jù liǎn
Hanviet: 聚tụ 斂liểm
Meaning:
to accumulate/to gather/to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means/(science) convergent/


Words: 聚沙成塔
Pinyin: jù shā chéng tǎ
Hanviet: 聚tụ 沙sa 成thành 塔tháp
Meaning:
sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity/many a mickle makes a muckle/


Words: 聚螢映雪
Pinyin: jù yíng yìng xuě
Hanviet: 聚tụ 螢huỳnh 映ánh 雪tuyết
Meaning:
lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background/burning the midnight oil/


Words: 聞一知十
Pinyin: wén yī zhī shí
Hanviet: 聞văn 一nhất 知tri 十thập
Meaning:
lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything/a word to the wise/


Words: 聯大
Pinyin: lián dà
Hanviet: 聯liên 大đại
Meaning:
abbr. for 聯合國大會, 联合国大会, United Nations General Assembly/abbr. for 國立西南聯合大學, 国立西南联合大学, National Southwest Combined University/


Words: 聯想
Pinyin: lián xiǎng
Hanviet: 聯liên 想tưởng
Meaning:
to associate (cognitively)/to make an associative connection/mental association/word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs/


Words: 聯產到戶
Pinyin: lián chǎn dào hù
Hanviet: 聯liên 產sản 到đáo 戶hộ
Meaning:
household responsibility system, introduced in the early 1980s, under which each rural household could freely decide what to produce and how to sell, as long as it fulfilled its quota of products to the state/


Words: 聰明反被聰明誤
Pinyin: cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù
Hanviet: 聰thông 明minh 反phản 被bị 聰thông 明minh 誤ngộ
Meaning:
a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself/too smart for one’s own good/


Words: 聲類
Pinyin: shēng lèi
Hanviet: 聲thanh 類loại
Meaning:
Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day)/


Words: 聶耳
Pinyin: niè ěr
Hanviet: 聶niếp 耳nhĩ
Meaning:
Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲, 义勇军进行曲/


Words: 聽來
Pinyin: tīng lái
Hanviet: 聽thính 來lai
Meaning:
to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc)/to ring (true)/to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression)/to hear from somewhere/


Words: 聽其言而觀其行
Pinyin: tīng qí yán ér guān qí xíng
Hanviet: 聽thính 其kỳ 言ngôn 而nhi 觀quán 其kỳ 行hành
Meaning:
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions/


Words: 聽小骨
Pinyin: tīng xiǎo gǔ
Hanviet: 聽thính 小tiểu 骨cốt
Meaning:
ossicles (of the middle ear)/three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨, 镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨, 锤骨/


Words: 聽見風就是雨
Pinyin: tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ
Hanviet: 聽thính 見kiến 風phong 就tựu 是thị 雨vũ
Meaning:
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain/to agree uncritically with whatever people say/to parrot other people’s words/to chime in with others/


Words: 肅反
Pinyin: sù fǎn
Hanviet: 肅túc 反phản
Meaning:
purge of counterrevolutionary elements (esp. Stalin’s purges of the 1930 and Mao’s purges 1955-57)/abbr. for 肅清反革命份子, 肃清反革命分子/


Words: 肅反運動
Pinyin: sù fǎn yùn dòng
Hanviet: 肅túc 反phản 運vận 動động
Meaning:
purge of counterrevolutionary elements (esp. Stalin’s purges of the 1930 and Mao’s purges 1955-57)/abbr. for 肅反肅清反革命份子, 肃清反革命分子运动/


Words: 肅清反革命份子
Pinyin: sù qīng fǎn gé mìng fèn zǐ
Hanviet: 肅túc 清thanh 反phản 革cách 命mạng 份 子tử
Meaning:
purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Stalin’s purges of the 1930 and Mao’s purges 1955-57)/abbr. to 肅反, 肃反/


Words: 肉豆蔻
Pinyin: ròu dòu kòu
Hanviet: 肉nhục 豆đậu 蔻
Meaning:
nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt)/mace/Myristicaceae (family of plants producing aromatic or hallucinogenic oils)/


Words: 肘腋
Pinyin: zhǒu yè
Hanviet: 肘trửu 腋dịch
Meaning:
lit. armpit/elbow and armpit/fig. right up close (to a disaster)/in one’s backyard/on one’s doorstep/


Words: 股
Pinyin: gǔ
Hanviet: 股cổ
Meaning:
thigh/part of a whole/portion of a sum/(stock) share/strand of a thread/low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科/classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc/classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff/classifier for bands of people, gangs etc/classifier for sudden forceful actions/


Words: 股癬
Pinyin: gǔ xuǎn
Hanviet: 股cổ 癬tiển
Meaning:
tinea cruris, fungal skin infection of the groin/dermatomycosis, esp. sexually transmitted/jock itch/


Words: 股長
Pinyin: gǔ zhǎng
Hanviet: 股cổ 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
person in charge of a 股 (section or department)/head/chief/director/(in a class in a school) student responsible for a specific duty, e.g. 風紀股長, 风纪股长 discipline monitor/


Words: 肥水不流外人田
Pinyin: féi shuǐ bù liú wài rén tián
Hanviet: 肥phì 水thủy 不bất 流lưu 外ngoại 人nhân 田điền
Meaning:
lit. don’t let one’s own fertile water flow into others’ field/fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb)/


Words: 肯定
Pinyin: kěn dìng
Hanviet: 肯khẳng 定định
Meaning:
to be certain/to be positive/assuredly/definitely/to give recognition/to affirm/affirmative (answer)/


Words: 背
Pinyin: bèi
Hanviet: 背bối/bội
Meaning:
the back of a body or object/to turn one’s back/to hide something from/to learn by heart/to recite from memory/unlucky (slang)/hard of hearing/


Words: 背城借一
Pinyin: bèi chéng jiè yī
Hanviet: 背bối/bội 城thành 借tá 一nhất
Meaning:
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch/to put up a desperate struggle/


Words: 背影殺手
Pinyin: bèi yǐng shā shǒu
Hanviet: 背bối/bội 影ảnh 殺sát 手thủ
Meaning:
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind/sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face/abbr. to 背殺, 背杀/


Words: 背殺
Pinyin: bèi shā
Hanviet: 背bối/bội 殺sát
Meaning:
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind/sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face/abbr. for 背影殺手, 背影杀手/


Words: 背部
Pinyin: bèi bù
Hanviet: 背bối/bội 部bộ
Meaning:
back (rear part of the torso)/back (the area of a vertebrate animal’s body on either side of the backbone)/(anatomy) dorsum/


Words: 胡
Pinyin: hú
Hanviet: 胡hồ
Meaning:
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia/reckless/outrageous/what?/why?/to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和)/


Words: 胡佛
Pinyin: hú fó
Hanviet: 胡hồ 佛Phật
Meaning:
Hoover (name)/Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933)/


Words: 胡來
Pinyin: hú lái
Hanviet: 胡hồ 來lai
Meaning:
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules/to mess with sth/to make a hash of things/to cause trouble/


Words: 胡克
Pinyin: hú kè
Hanviet: 胡hồ 克khắc
Meaning:
Hook or Hooke (name)/Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor/


Words: 胡溫新政
Pinyin: hú wēn xīn zhèng
Hanviet: 胡hồ 溫ôn 新tân 政chánh
Meaning:
Hu-Wen New Administration (formed in 2003), ostensibly reform-oriented leadership of Hu Jintao 胡錦濤, 胡锦涛 and Wen Jiabao 溫家寶, 温家宝/


Words: 胡琴
Pinyin: hú qin
Hanviet: 胡hồ 琴cầm
Meaning:
huqin/family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring/


Words: 胸懷坦蕩
Pinyin: xiōng huái tǎn dàng
Hanviet: 胸hung 懷hoài 坦thản 蕩đãng
Meaning:
open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything/ingenuous/open hearted/unselfish/magnanimous/broad-minded/


Words: 能伸能屈
Pinyin: néng shēn néng qū
Hanviet: 能năng 伸thân 能năng 屈khuất
Meaning:
can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take/flexible/


Words: 能者多勞
Pinyin: néng zhě duō láo
Hanviet: 能năng 者giả 多đa 勞lao
Meaning:
it’s the most capable people who do the most work (idiom) (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc)/


Words: 脈絡
Pinyin: mài luò
Hanviet: 脈mạch 絡lạc
Meaning:
arteries and veins/network of blood vessels/vascular system (of a plant or animal)/(fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric")/overall context/


Words: 脫亞入歐
Pinyin: tuō yà rù oū
Hanviet: 脫thoát 亞 入nhập 歐âu
Meaning:
to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe/refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan’s subsequent colonization projects in Asia/


Words: 脫產
Pinyin: tuō chǎn
Hanviet: 脫thoát 產sản
Meaning:
to transfer (from production to other duties)/to take leave (for study or other job)/to dispose of property/to transfer assets (to avoid liability)/


Words: 脫胎
Pinyin: tuō tāi
Hanviet: 脫thoát 胎thai
Meaning:
born/to emerge from the womb/fig. to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc)/fig. to shed one’s body (to be reborn)/bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)/


Words: 脫胎換骨
Pinyin: tuō tāi huàn gǔ
Hanviet: 脫thoát 胎thai 換hoán 骨cốt
Meaning:
to shed one’s mortal body and exchange one’s bones (idiom); born again Daoist/to turn over a new leaf/fig. to change wholly/to create from other material (story, artwork etc)/


Words: 脫脫
Pinyin: tuō tuō
Hanviet: 脫thoát 脫thoát
Meaning:
Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史, 辽史 and Jin 金史/also written Tuoketuo 托克托/


Words: 脫褲子放屁
Pinyin: tuō kù zi fàng pì
Hanviet: 脫thoát 褲 子tử 放phóng 屁
Meaning:
lit. to take off trousers to fart/fig. to do something absolutely unnecessary/fig. to make things too complicated/


Words: 脫骨換胎
Pinyin: tuō gǔ huàn tāi
Hanviet: 脫thoát 骨cốt 換hoán 胎thai
Meaning:
to shed one’s mortal body and exchange one’s bones (idiom); born again Daoist/to turn over a new leaf/fig. to change wholly/


Words: 腕隧道症候群
Pinyin: wàn suì dào zhèng hòu qún
Hanviet: 腕oản 隧 道đạo 症 候hậu 群quần
Meaning:
carpal tunnel syndrome (pain in the hands due to pressure on the median nerve)/median neuropathy at the wrist/


Words: 腩
Pinyin: nǎn
Hanviet: 腩nạm
Meaning:
brisket/belly beef/spongy meat from cow’s underside and neighboring ribs/see 牛腩 esp. Cantonese/erroneously translated as sirloin/


Words: 腰斬
Pinyin: yāo zhǎn
Hanviet: 腰yêu 斬trảm
Meaning:
to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)/to cut sth in half/to reduce sth by a dramatic margin/to terminate/to cut short/


Words: 腰纏萬貫
Pinyin: yāo chán wàn guàn
Hanviet: 腰yêu 纏triền 萬vạn 貫quán
Meaning:
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money/extremely wealthy/loaded/


Words: 腳踏兩條船
Pinyin: jiǎo tà liǎng tiáo chuán
Hanviet: 腳cước 踏đạp 兩lưỡng 條điều 船thuyền
Meaning:
lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom)/fig. to have it both ways/to run after two hares/(especially) to have two lovers at the same time/


Words: 腳踏實地
Pinyin: jiǎo tà shí dì
Hanviet: 腳cước 踏đạp 實thật 地địa
Meaning:
to have one’s feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy/steady and serious character/


Words: 腸粉
Pinyin: cháng fěn
Hanviet: 腸tràng 粉phấn
Meaning:
rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc/


Words: 膽
Pinyin: dǎn
Hanviet: 膽đảm
Meaning:
gall bladder/courage/guts/gall/inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)/


Words: 臘八粥
Pinyin: là bā zhōu
Hanviet: 臘lạp 八bát 粥chúc
Meaning:
Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar/


Words: 臣
Pinyin: chén
Hanviet: 臣thần
Meaning:
state official or subject in dynastic China/I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign)/Kangxi radical 131/


Words: 臣妾
Pinyin: chén qiè
Hanviet: 臣thần 妾thiếp
Meaning:
(literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female)/(archaic) male and female slaves/subjects (of a ruler)/


Words: 臥薪嚐膽
Pinyin: wò xīn cháng dǎn
Hanviet: 臥ngọa 薪tân 嚐thường 膽đảm
Meaning:
lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge/


Words: 臥龍
Pinyin: wò lóng
Hanviet: 臥ngọa 龍long
Meaning:
nickname of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮, 诸葛亮/Wolong giant panda nature reserve 臥龍大熊貓保護區, 卧龙大熊猫保护区 in Wenchuan county, northwest Sichuan/Wolong district of Nanyang city 南陽, 南阳, Henan/


Words: 臨場
Pinyin: lín chǎng
Hanviet: 臨lâm 場tràng
Meaning:
to be at the scene (sitting for an exam, performing, competing, giving directions etc)/firsthand (experience)/impromptu (remarks etc)/


Words: 臨時抱佛腳
Pinyin: lín shí bào fó jiǎo
Hanviet: 臨lâm 時thời 抱bão 佛Phật 腳cước
Meaning:
lit. to clasp the Buddha’s feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble/doing things at the last minute/making a hasty last-minute effort/


Words: 臨朝
Pinyin: lín cháo
Hanviet: 臨lâm 朝triêu
Meaning:
to hold a court audience/to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)/


Words: 臨淵羨魚，不如退而結網
Pinyin: lín yuān xiàn yú , bù rú tuì ér jié wǎng
Hanviet: 臨lâm 淵uyên 羨tiện 魚ngư 不bất 如như 退thoái 而nhi 結kết 網võng
Meaning:
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom)/one should take practical steps to achieve one’s aim/


Words: 臨渴掘井
Pinyin: lín kě jué jǐng
Hanviet: 臨lâm 渴khát 掘quật 井tỉnh
Meaning:
lit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty/to be unprepared and seek help at the last minute (idiom)/


Words: 臨渴穿井
Pinyin: lín kě chuān jǐng
Hanviet: 臨lâm 渴khát 穿xuyên 井tỉnh
Meaning:
lit. face thirst and dig a well (idiom); fig. not to make adequate provision/to act when it is too late/


Words: 臨魁
Pinyin: lín kuí
Hanviet: 臨lâm 魁khôi
Meaning:
Linkui (c. 2000 BC), second of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God/


Words: 自圓其說
Pinyin: zì yuán qí shuō
Hanviet: 自tự 圓viên 其kỳ 說thuyết
Meaning:
to make a story or theory consistent/to give a plausible explanation/to plug the holes in one’s story/


Words: 自愛
Pinyin: zì ài
Hanviet: 自tự 愛ái
Meaning:
self-respect/self-love/self-regard/regard for oneself/to cherish one’s good name/to take good care of one’s health/


Words: 自找
Pinyin: zì zhǎo
Hanviet: 自tự 找
Meaning:
to suffer as a consequence of one’s own actions/you asked for it/to bring it on oneself (sth unpleasant)/


Words: 自治區
Pinyin: zì zhì qū
Hanviet: 自tự 治trị 區khu
Meaning:
autonomous region, namely: Inner Mongolia 內蒙古自治區, 内蒙古自治区, Guangxi 廣西壯族自治區, 广西壮族自治区, Tibet 西藏自治區, 西藏自治区, Ningxia 寧夏回族自治區, 宁夏回族自治区, Xinjiang 新疆維吾爾自治區, 新疆维吾尔自治区/


Words: 自爆
Pinyin: zì bào
Hanviet: 自tự 爆bộc
Meaning:
to explode/spontaneous detonation/self-detonation/suicide bombing/to disclose private matters about oneself/


Words: 自習
Pinyin: zì xí
Hanviet: 自tự 習tập
Meaning:
to study outside of class time (reviewing one’s lessons)/to study in one’s free time/individual study/


Words: 自食其力
Pinyin: zì shí qí lì
Hanviet: 自tự 食thực 其kỳ 力lực
Meaning:
lit. to eat off one’s own strength (idiom)/fig. to stand on one’s own feet/to earn one’s own living/


Words: 自食其果
Pinyin: zì shí qí guǒ
Hanviet: 自tự 食thực 其kỳ 果quả
Meaning:
to eat one’s own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one’s own action/to reap what one has sown/


Words: 自食惡果
Pinyin: zì shí è guǒ
Hanviet: 自tự 食thực 惡ác 果quả
Meaning:
lit. to eat one’s own bitter fruit (idiom)/fig. to suffer the consequences of one’s own actions/to stew in one’s own juice/


Words: 致辭
Pinyin: zhì cí
Hanviet: 致trí 辭từ
Meaning:
to express in words or writing/to make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc)/to address (an audience)/same as 致詞, 致词/


Words: 臺
Pinyin: tái
Hanviet: 臺đài
Meaning:
platform/stage/terrace/stand/support/station/broadcasting station/classifier for vehicles or machines/


Words: 臺階
Pinyin: tái jiē
Hanviet: 臺đài 階giai
Meaning:
steps/flight of steps/step (over obstacle)/fig. way out of an embarrassing situation/bench (geology)/


Words: 興
Pinyin: xīng
Hanviet: 興hưng
Meaning:
to rise/to flourish/to become popular/to start/to encourage/to get up/(often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect)/maybe (dialect)/


Words: 興安
Pinyin: xīng ān
Hanviet: 興hưng 安an
Meaning:
Xing’an county in Guilin 桂林, Guangxi/Hinggan league, a prefecture level subdivision of Inner Mongolia/Xing’an district of Hegang city 鶴崗, 鹤岗, Heilongjiang/


Words: 興寧
Pinyin: xīng níng
Hanviet: 興hưng 寧ninh
Meaning:
Xingning county level city in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong/Xingning District of Nanning City 南寧市, 南宁市, Guangxi/


Words: 興滅繼絕
Pinyin: xīng miè jì jué
Hanviet: 興hưng 滅diệt 繼kế 絕tuyệt
Meaning:
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom)/fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten/


Words: 舉目無親
Pinyin: jǔ mù wú qīn
Hanviet: 舉cử 目mục 無vô 親thân
Meaning:
to look up and see no-one familiar (idiom); not having anyone to rely on/without a friend in the world/


Words: 舊五代史
Pinyin: jiù wǔ dài shǐ
Hanviet: 舊cựu 五ngũ 代đại 史sử
Meaning:
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls/


Words: 舊唐書
Pinyin: jiù táng shū
Hanviet: 舊cựu 唐đường 書thư
Meaning:
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫, 刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉, 后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls/


Words: 舊教
Pinyin: jiù jiào
Hanviet: 舊cựu 教giáo
Meaning:
old teachings/wisdom from the past/old church/the Catholic church 天主教 as opposed to Protestantism 新教/


Words: 舊民主主義革命
Pinyin: jiù mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng
Hanviet: 舊cựu 民dân 主chủ 主chủ 義nghĩa 革cách 命mạng
Meaning:
old democratic revolution/bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)/


Words: 舊瓶裝新酒
Pinyin: jiù píng zhuāng xīn jiǔ
Hanviet: 舊cựu 瓶bình 裝trang 新tân 酒tửu
Meaning:
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework/(loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)/


Words: 舊的不去，新的不來
Pinyin: jiù de bù qù , xīn de bù lái
Hanviet: 舊cựu 的đích 不bất 去khứ 新tân 的đích 不bất 來lai
Meaning:
lit. If the old doesn’t go, the new will not come./You can’t make progress by clinging to old notions./


Words: 舊調重彈
Pinyin: jiù diào chóng tán
Hanviet: 舊cựu 調điều 重trọng/trùng 彈đàn
Meaning:
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited/to keep harping on about the same old stuff/


Words: 舒夢蘭
Pinyin: shū mèng lán
Hanviet: 舒thư 夢mộng 蘭lan
Meaning:
Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜, 白香词谱/


Words: 舒緩
Pinyin: shū huǎn
Hanviet: 舒thư 緩hoãn
Meaning:
to ease (tension)/to relax/to cause sth to relax/to alleviate/relaxed/easy and unhurried/leisurely/soothing/mild (slope)/


Words: 舜帝陵
Pinyin: shùn dì líng
Hanviet: 舜thuấn 帝đế 陵lăng
Meaning:
several tombs of legendary Emperor Shun, one in Ningyuan county 寧遠縣, 宁远县 in southwest Hunan, another Yuncheng prefecture 運城, 运城 Shanxi/


Words: 舜日堯天
Pinyin: shùn rì yáo tiān
Hanviet: 舜thuấn 日nhật 堯 天thiên
Meaning:
sage Emperors Shun and Yao rule every day (idiom); all for the best in the best of all possible worlds/


Words: 舞動
Pinyin: wǔ dòng
Hanviet: 舞vũ 動động
Meaning:
to move as in a dance/to wave (some implement)/to flourish/(of eyes, hands etc) to dance/to flutter/


Words: 船到橋門自會直
Pinyin: chuán dào qiáo mén zì huì zhí
Hanviet: 船thuyền 到đáo 橋kiều 門môn 自tự 會hội 直trực
Meaning:
lit. when the ship arrives at the bridge we can deal with the problem/no point in worrying about sth until it actually happens (idiom)/


Words: 船到橋頭自然直
Pinyin: chuán dào qiáo tóu zì rán zhí
Hanviet: 船thuyền 到đáo 橋kiều 頭đầu 自tự 然nhiên 直trực
Meaning:
lit. when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current (proverb)/fig. everything will be all right/cf 車到山前必有路，船到橋頭自然直, 车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直/


Words: 船到碼頭，車到站
Pinyin: chuán dào mǎ tóu , chē dào zhàn
Hanviet: 船thuyền 到đáo 碼mã 頭đầu 車xa 到đáo 站
Meaning:
The ship has docked, the carriage has reached the station./The job is over, it’s time to relax. (idiom)/


Words: 船舷
Pinyin: chuán xián
Hanviet: 船thuyền 舷
Meaning:
sides of a ship/ship’s railing/fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges/


Words: 艮
Pinyin: gèn
Hanviet: 艮
Meaning:
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountain/☶/ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)/


Words: 良知良能
Pinyin: liáng zhī liáng néng
Hanviet: 良lương 知tri 良lương 能năng
Meaning:
instinctive understanding, esp. of ethical issues (idiom); untrained, but with an inborn sense of right and wrong/innate moral sense/


Words: 良禽擇木
Pinyin: liáng qín zé mù
Hanviet: 良lương 禽cầm 擇trạch 木mộc
Meaning:
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb)/fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity/


Words: 色厲內荏
Pinyin: sè lì nèi rěn
Hanviet: 色sắc 厲lệ 內nội 荏nhẫm
Meaning:
lit. show strength while weak inside (idiom); appearing fierce while cowardly at heart/a sheep in wolf’s clothing/


Words: 色字頭上一把刀
Pinyin: sè zì tóu shàng yī bǎ dāo
Hanviet: 色sắc 字tự 頭đầu 上thượng 一nhất 把bả 刀đao
Meaning:
lit. there is a knife above the character for lust/fig. lascivious activities can lead to bitter consequences/


Words: 色達
Pinyin: sè dá
Hanviet: 色sắc 達đạt
Meaning:
Sêrtar county (Tibetan: gser thar rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)/


Words: 色魔
Pinyin: sè mó
Hanviet: 色sắc 魔ma
Meaning:
sex fiend/molester/sex attacker/sex demon (a spirit that enters people’s souls and makes them desire sex)/


Words: 艾哈邁迪內賈德
Pinyin: ài hā mài dí nèi jiǎ dé
Hanviet: 艾ngải 哈 邁mại 迪 內nội 賈cổ 德đức
Meaning:
Ahmadinejad or Ahmadinezhad (Persian name)/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956-), Iranian fundamentalist politician, President of Iran from 2005, famous for provocative speeches/


Words: 艾未未
Pinyin: ài wèi wèi
Hanviet: 艾ngải 未vị 未vị
Meaning:
Ai Weiwei (1957-), Chinese artist active in architecture, photography, film, as well as cultural criticism and political activism/


Words: 艾森豪威爾
Pinyin: ài sēn háo wēi ěr
Hanviet: 艾ngải 森sâm 豪hào 威uy 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961/


Words: 艾登堡
Pinyin: ài dēng bǎo
Hanviet: 艾ngải 登đăng 堡
Meaning:
Attenborough (name)/David Attenborough (1926-), British naturalist and broadcaster, author of Life on Earth 地球上的生物/


Words: 艾迪卡拉
Pinyin: ài dí kǎ lā
Hanviet: 艾ngải 迪 卡 拉lạp
Meaning:
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era/also written 埃迪卡拉/


Words: 芒
Pinyin: máng
Hanviet: 芒mang
Meaning:
awn (of cereals)/arista (of grain)/tip (of a blade)/Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass)/variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan/


Words: 芙蓉
Pinyin: fú róng
Hanviet: 芙phù 蓉dung
Meaning:
Furong district of Changsha city 長沙市, 长沙市, Hunan/Seremban, capital of Sembilan state 森美蘭, 森美兰, Malaysia/


Words: 芝焚蕙嘆
Pinyin: zhī fén huì tàn
Hanviet: 芝chi 焚phần 蕙 嘆thán
Meaning:
lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress/


Words: 芝蘭
Pinyin: zhī lán
Hanviet: 芝chi 蘭lan
Meaning:
lit. iris and orchid/fig. exalted sentiments/(expr. of praise for noble character, beautiful surrounding, future prospects etc)/


Words: 花名
Pinyin: huā míng
Hanviet: 花hoa 名danh
Meaning:
name of a person on the household register (old)/name on a roster/professional name of a prostitute/pseudonym/nickname/


Words: 花壇
Pinyin: huā tán
Hanviet: 花hoa 壇đàn
Meaning:
decorative mass planting of flowers and shrubs, often bounded by a low masonry border, and often part of a streetscape/


Words: 花天酒地
Pinyin: huā tiān jiǔ dì
Hanviet: 花hoa 天thiên 酒tửu 地địa
Meaning:
to spend one’s time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures/life of debauchery/


Words: 花好月圓
Pinyin: huā hǎo yuè yuán
Hanviet: 花hoa 好hảo/hiếu 月nguyệt 圓viên
Meaning:
lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful/perfect happiness/conjugal bliss/


Words: 花押
Pinyin: huā yā
Hanviet: 花hoa 押áp
Meaning:
signature (in grass-style writing)/symbol used in place of a signature (on a document, contract etc)/


Words: 花拳繡腿
Pinyin: huā quán xiù tuǐ
Hanviet: 花hoa 拳quyền 繡tú 腿
Meaning:
flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom)/highly embellished and ineffectual/fancy but impractical skills/all show and no go/pugilistic wankery/


Words: 花斑癬
Pinyin: huā bān xuǎn
Hanviet: 花hoa 斑ban 癬tiển
Meaning:
pityriasis versicolor (aka tinea versicolor), blotchy skin condition common in tropical areas, common name 汗斑/


Words: 花旗
Pinyin: huā qí
Hanviet: 花hoa 旗kỳ
Meaning:
the Stars and Stripes (US flag)/by extension, the United States of America/abbr. for Citibank 花旗銀行, 花旗银行/


Words: 花朝月夕
Pinyin: huā zhāo yuè xī
Hanviet: 花hoa 朝triêu 月nguyệt 夕tịch
Meaning:
a beautiful day/cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August/


Words: 花木蘭
Pinyin: huā mù lán
Hanviet: 花hoa 木mộc 蘭lan
Meaning:
Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature/


Words: 花果山
Pinyin: huā guǒ shān
Hanviet: 花hoa 果quả 山sơn
Meaning:
Mount Huaguo in Jiangsu, featured in 西遊記, 西游记, tourist destination/(also the name of mountains in other parts of China)/


Words: 花枝招展
Pinyin: huā zhī zhāo zhǎn
Hanviet: 花hoa 枝chi 招chiêu 展triển
Meaning:
lit. lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze (idiom)/fig. gorgeously dressed (woman)/


Words: 花紅
Pinyin: huā hóng
Hanviet: 花hoa 紅hồng
Meaning:
flowers on red silk (a traditional gift to celebrate weddings etc)/a bonus/crab apple (Malus asiatica)/


Words: 花言巧語
Pinyin: huā yán qiǎo yǔ
Hanviet: 花hoa 言ngôn 巧xảo 語ngữ
Meaning:
graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words/cheating wheedling/dishonest rhetoric/


Words: 花魁
Pinyin: huā kuí
Hanviet: 花hoa 魁khôi
Meaning:
the queen of flowers (refers esp. to plum blossom)/(fig.) nickname for a famous beauty or courtesan/


Words: 芸苔子
Pinyin: yún tái zǐ
Hanviet: 芸vân 苔 子tử
Meaning:
rape (Brassica campestris L.)/rapeseed plant/canola plant/a common vegetable with a dark green leaf/also called 油菜/


Words: 苟且偷安
Pinyin: gǒu qiě tōu ān
Hanviet: 苟cẩu 且thả 偷thâu 安an
Meaning:
seeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself/taking things easily without attending to responsibilities/


Words: 若即若離
Pinyin: ruò jí ruò lí
Hanviet: 若nhược 即tức 若nhược 離ly
Meaning:
lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom)/fig. to keep one’s distance/(of a relationship) lukewarm/vague/


Words: 若爾蓋
Pinyin: ruò ěr gài
Hanviet: 若nhược 爾nhĩ 蓋cái
Meaning:
Zoigê county (Tibetan: mdzod dge rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 若羌
Pinyin: ruò qiāng
Hanviet: 若nhược 羌khương
Meaning:
Chaqiliq nahiyisi or Ruoqiang county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang/


Words: 若要人不知，除非己莫為
Pinyin: ruò yào rén bù zhī , chú fēi jǐ mò wéi
Hanviet: 若nhược 要yếu 人nhân 不bất 知tri 除trừ 非phi 己kỷ 莫mạc 為vi
Meaning:
If you don’t want anyone to know, don’t do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it./


Words: 苦水
Pinyin: kǔ shuǐ
Hanviet: 苦khổ 水thủy
Meaning:
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates)/suffering/digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth/fig. bitter complaint/


Words: 苦海無邊，回頭是岸
Pinyin: kǔ hǎi wú biān , huí tóu shì àn
Hanviet: 苦khổ 海hải 無vô 邊biên 回hồi 頭đầu 是thị 岸ngạn
Meaning:
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering./Repent and ye shall be saved!/


Words: 苦盡甘來
Pinyin: kǔ jìn gān lái
Hanviet: 苦khổ 盡tận 甘cam 來lai
Meaning:
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning/


Words: 苦菜花
Pinyin: kǔ cài huā
Hanviet: 苦khổ 菜thái 花hoa
Meaning:
Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英, 冯德英 loosely based on Maxim Gorky’s Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang/


Words: 苦集滅道
Pinyin: kǔ jí miè dào
Hanviet: 苦khổ 集tập 滅diệt 道đạo
Meaning:
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅, 灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道/also called 四諦, 四谛/


Words: 英國
Pinyin: yīng guó
Hanviet: 英anh 國quốc
Meaning:
United Kingdom 聯合王國, 联合王国/United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland/abbr. for England 英格蘭, 英格兰/


Words: 茂縣
Pinyin: mào xiàn
Hanviet: 茂mậu 縣huyện
Meaning:
Mao county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州, 阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan/


Words: 范仲淹
Pinyin: fàn zhòng yān
Hanviet: 范phạm 仲trọng 淹yêm
Meaning:
Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), minister of Northern Song, led failed reform of 1043/also writer and author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記, 岳阳楼记/


Words: 范縝
Pinyin: fàn zhěn
Hanviet: 范phạm 縝
Meaning:
Fan Zhen (c. 450-c. 510), philosopher from Qi and Liang of the Southern dynasties, as atheist denying Buddhist teachings on karma and rebirth/


Words: 茄子
Pinyin: qié zi
Hanviet: 茄 子tử
Meaning:
eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)/aubergine/brinjal/Guinea squash/phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed)/equivalent of "say cheese"/


Words: 茫崖
Pinyin: máng yá
Hanviet: 茫mang 崖nhai
Meaning:
Mang’ai county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai/


Words: 茶馬互市
Pinyin: chá mǎ hù shì
Hanviet: 茶trà 馬mã 互hỗ 市thị
Meaning:
old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty/


Words: 茶馬古道
Pinyin: chá mǎ gǔ dào
Hanviet: 茶trà 馬mã 古cổ 道đạo
Meaning:
old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond/


Words: 茹
Pinyin: rú
Hanviet: 茹như
Meaning:
to eat/(extended meaning) to endure/putrid smell/vegetables/roots (inextricably attached to the plant)/


Words: 草木皆兵
Pinyin: cǎo mù jiē bīng
Hanviet: 草thảo 木mộc 皆giai 兵binh
Meaning:
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy/to feel beleaguered/


Words: 草標
Pinyin: cǎo biāo
Hanviet: 草thảo 標tiêu
Meaning:
(old) sign made of woven weeds, placed on an object, an animal or a person, indicating that it is for sale./


Words: 草碼
Pinyin: cǎo mǎ
Hanviet: 草thảo 碼mã
Meaning:
the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine/


Words: 草船借箭
Pinyin: cǎo chuán jiè jiàn
Hanviet: 草thảo 船thuyền 借tá 箭tiễn
Meaning:
lit. using straw boats to borrow arrows (idiom, from 三國演義, 三国演义)/fig. to use others’ manpower and resources for one’s own ends/


Words: 草菅人命
Pinyin: cǎo jiān rén mìng
Hanviet: 草thảo 菅gian 人nhân 命mạng
Meaning:
human life as grass (idiom); to kill people like scything grass/a politician acting with total disregard for the life of his countrymen/


Words: 荊
Pinyin: jīng
Hanviet: 荊kinh
Meaning:
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus)/alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty State of Chu 楚國, 楚国/


Words: 荊軻
Pinyin: jīng kē
Hanviet: 荊kinh 軻kha
Meaning:
Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)/


Words: 荒廢
Pinyin: huāng fèi
Hanviet: 荒hoang 廢phế
Meaning:
to abandon (cultivated fields)/no longer cultivated/to lie waste/wasted/to neglect (one’s work or study)/


Words: 莊
Pinyin: zhuāng
Hanviet: 莊trang
Meaning:
farmstead/village/manor/place of business/banker (in a gambling game)/grave or solemn/holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)/


Words: 莧
Pinyin: xiàn
Hanviet: 莧
Meaning:
amaranth (genus Amaranthus)/Joseph’s coat (Amaranthus tricolor)/Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)/


Words: 莫伊謝耶夫
Pinyin: mò yī xiè yē fū
Hanviet: 莫mạc 伊y 謝tạ 耶da 夫phu
Meaning:
Moiseyev (name)/Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev (1906-2007), choreographer of folk dance and founder of Moiseyev dance company/


Words: 莫名其妙
Pinyin: mò míng qí miào
Hanviet: 莫mạc 名danh 其kỳ 妙diệu
Meaning:
unfathomable mystery (idiom); subtle and ineffable/unable to make head or tail of it/boring (e.g. movie)/


Words: 莫衷一是
Pinyin: mò zhōng yī shì
Hanviet: 莫mạc 衷 一nhất 是thị
Meaning:
unable to reach a decision (idiom); cannot agree on the right choice/no unanimous decision/still a matter of discussion/


Words: 莫迪
Pinyin: mò dí
Hanviet: 莫mạc 迪
Meaning:
Modi (name)/Narendra Modi (1950-), Indian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party or Indian People’s Party) politician, Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001, PM from 2014/


Words: 莫霍洛維奇
Pinyin: mò huò luò wéi qí
Hanviet: 莫mạc 霍hoắc 洛lạc 維duy 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho/


Words: 菊科
Pinyin: jú kē
Hanviet: 菊 科khoa
Meaning:
Asteraceae or Compositae (composites), a large family of dicotyledonous plants producing scents, includes aster, daisy and sunflower/


Words: 華僑
Pinyin: huá qiáo
Hanviet: 華hoa 僑kiều
Meaning:
overseas Chinese/(in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality/CL:個, 个,位,名/


Words: 華北事變
Pinyin: huá běi shì biàn
Hanviet: 華hoa 北bắc 事sự 變biến
Meaning:
North China Incident of October-December 1935, a Japanese attempt to set up a puppet government in north China/


Words: 華容道
Pinyin: huá róng dào
Hanviet: 華hoa 容dung 道đạo
Meaning:
Huarong Road (traditional puzzle involving sliding wooden blocks, loosely based on an episode in Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 三国演义)/


Words: 華盛頓
Pinyin: huá shèng dùn
Hanviet: 華hoa 盛thịnh 頓đốn
Meaning:
Washington (name)/George Washington (1732-1799), first US president/Washington, US State/Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)/


Words: 華興會
Pinyin: huá xīng huì
Hanviet: 華hoa 興hưng 會hội
Meaning:
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in Changsha by 黃興, 黄兴 in 1904, a precursor of Sun Yat-sen’s Alliance for Democracy 同盟會, 同盟会 and of the Guomindang/


Words: 菹
Pinyin: zū
Hanviet: 菹
Meaning:
marshland/swamp/salted or pickled vegetables/to mince/to shred/to mince human flesh and bones/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 萇
Pinyin: cháng
Hanviet: 萇
Meaning:
plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)/


Words: 萇楚
Pinyin: cháng chǔ
Hanviet: 萇 楚sở
Meaning:
plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)/kiwi fruit/


Words: 萊佛士
Pinyin: lái fó shì
Hanviet: 萊 佛Phật 士sĩ
Meaning:
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore/surname Raffles/


Words: 萊布尼茨
Pinyin: lái bù ní cí
Hanviet: 萊 布bố 尼ni 茨tì
Meaning:
Leibniz (name)/Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus/


Words: 萊布尼茲
Pinyin: lái bù ní zī
Hanviet: 萊 布bố 尼ni 茲tư
Meaning:
Leibnitz (name)/Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus/


Words: 萌
Pinyin: méng
Hanviet: 萌manh
Meaning:
to sprout/to bud/to have a strong affection for (slang)/adorable (loanword from Japanese 萌え moe, slang describing affection for a cute character)/


Words: 萬事俱備，只欠東風
Pinyin: wàn shì jù bèi , zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng
Hanviet: 萬vạn 事sự 俱câu 備bị 只chỉ 欠khiếm 東đông 風phong
Meaning:
lit. everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom)/fig. lacking only one tiny crucial item/


Words: 萬事皆備，只欠東風
Pinyin: wàn shì jiē bèi , zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng
Hanviet: 萬vạn 事sự 皆giai 備bị 只chỉ 欠khiếm 東đông 風phong
Meaning:
everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom)/lacking only one tiny crucial item/also written 萬事俱備，只欠東風, 万事俱备，只欠东风/


Words: 萬人空巷
Pinyin: wàn rén kōng xiàng
Hanviet: 萬vạn 人nhân 空không 巷hạng
Meaning:
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate)/the whole town turns out/


Words: 萬元戶
Pinyin: wàn yuán hù
Hanviet: 萬vạn 元nguyên 戶hộ
Meaning:
household with savings or annual income of 10,000 yuan or more (considered a large amount in the 1970s, when the term became established)/


Words: 萬年曆
Pinyin: wàn nián lì
Hanviet: 萬vạn 年niên 曆lịch
Meaning:
perpetual calendar/ten thousand year calendar/Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁, 扎马剌丁/


Words: 萬榮
Pinyin: wàn róng
Hanviet: 萬vạn 榮vinh
Meaning:
Wanrong county in Yuncheng 運城, 运城, Shanxi/Wanrong or Wanjung township in Hualian county 花蓮縣, 花莲县, East Taiwan/


Words: 萬水千山
Pinyin: wàn shuǐ qiān shān
Hanviet: 萬vạn 水thủy 千thiên 山sơn
Meaning:
ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey/a long and difficult road/


Words: 萬箭穿心
Pinyin: wàn jiàn chuān xīn
Hanviet: 萬vạn 箭tiễn 穿xuyên 心tâm
Meaning:
lit. to have one’s heart pierced by thousands of arrows (idiom)/fig. overcome with sorrow/to lambaste/to rip sb to shreds/


Words: 萬維天羅地網
Pinyin: wàn wéi tiān luó dì wǎng
Hanviet: 萬vạn 維duy 天thiên 羅la 地địa 網võng
Meaning:
World Wide Web (WWW)/lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth/term coined by China News Digest and abbreviated to 萬維網, 万维网/


Words: 萬縣
Pinyin: wàn xiàn
Hanviet: 萬vạn 縣huyện
Meaning:
Wanxian port city on the Changjiang or Yangtze river in Sichuan, renamed Wanzhou district in Chongqing municipality in 1990/


Words: 萬變不離其宗
Pinyin: wàn biàn bù lí qí zōng
Hanviet: 萬vạn 變biến 不bất 離ly 其kỳ 宗tông
Meaning:
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose/


Words: 萬馬齊喑
Pinyin: wàn mǎ qí yīn
Hanviet: 萬vạn 馬mã 齊tề 喑âm
Meaning:
thousands of horses, all mute (idiom); no-one dares to speak out/an atmosphere of political oppression/


Words: 落
Pinyin: luò
Hanviet: 落lạc
Meaning:
to fall or drop/(of the sun) to set/(of a tide) to go out/to lower/to decline or sink/to lag or fall behind/to fall onto/to rest with/to get or receive/to write down/whereabouts/settlement/


Words: 落地
Pinyin: luò dì
Hanviet: 落lạc 地địa
Meaning:
to fall to the ground/to be set on the ground/to reach to the ground/to be born/(of a plane) to land/


Words: 落網
Pinyin: luò wǎng
Hanviet: 落lạc 網võng
Meaning:
(of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net/(of a tennis ball) to hit the net/(of a criminal) to be captured/


Words: 落花有意，流水無情
Pinyin: luò huā yǒu yì , liú shuǐ wú qíng
Hanviet: 落lạc 花hoa 有hữu 意ý 流lưu 水thủy 無vô 情tình
Meaning:
lit. the falling flowers are yearning for love, but the heartless brook ripples on (idiom)/fig. one side is willing, yet the other one remains indifferent (usually of unrequited love)/


Words: 落葉歸根
Pinyin: luò yè guī gēn
Hanviet: 落lạc 葉diệp 歸quy 根căn
Meaning:
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom)/fig. all things go back to their source eventually/in old age, an expatriate returns home/


Words: 落馬
Pinyin: luò mǎ
Hanviet: 落lạc 馬mã
Meaning:
(lit.) to fall from a horse/(fig.) to suffer a setback/to come a cropper/to be sacked (e.g. for corruption)/


Words: 葉公好龍
Pinyin: yè gōng hào lóng
Hanviet: 葉diệp 公công 好hảo/hiếu 龍long
Meaning:
lit. Lord Ye’s passion for dragons (idiom)/fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it/ostensible fondness of sth one really fears/


Words: 葉卡捷琳娜
Pinyin: yè kǎ jié lín nà
Hanviet: 葉diệp 卡 捷tiệp 琳 娜na
Meaning:
Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name)/Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia/


Words: 葉落歸根
Pinyin: yè luò guī gēn
Hanviet: 葉diệp 落lạc 歸quy 根căn
Meaning:
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home/In old age, an expatriate longs to return home./


Words: 著
Pinyin: zháo
Hanviet: 著trước
Meaning:
to touch/to come in contact with/to feel/to be affected by/to catch fire/to burn/(coll.) to fall asleep/(after a verb) hitting the mark/succeeding in/


Words: 著手成春
Pinyin: zhuó shǒu chéng chūn
Hanviet: 著trước 手thủ 成thành 春xuân
Meaning:
lit. set out and it becomes spring (idiom); to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation)/to bring back the dead/once it starts, everything goes well/


Words: 著落
Pinyin: zhuó luò
Hanviet: 著trước 落lạc
Meaning:
whereabouts/place to settle/reliable source (of funds etc)/(of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb/settlement/solution/


Words: 董仲舒
Pinyin: dǒng zhòng shū
Hanviet: 董 仲trọng 舒thư
Meaning:
Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BC), philosopher influential in establishing Confucianism as the established system of values of former Han dynasty/


Words: 董卓
Pinyin: dǒng zhuó
Hanviet: 董 卓trác
Meaning:
Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布, 吕布/


Words: 董奉
Pinyin: dǒng fèng
Hanviet: 董 奉phụng
Meaning:
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead/


Words: 葫蘆
Pinyin: hú lu
Hanviet: 葫 蘆lô
Meaning:
calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)/hoist/generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof)/muddled/(poker) full house/


Words: 葬送
Pinyin: zàng sòng
Hanviet: 葬táng 送tống
Meaning:
to hold a funeral procession and burial/to give sb a final send-off/(fig.) to ruin (one’s future prospects etc)/


Words: 蒙代爾
Pinyin: méng dài ěr
Hanviet: 蒙mông 代đại 爾nhĩ
Meaning:
Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996/


Words: 蒙哥馬利
Pinyin: méng gē mǎ lì
Hanviet: 蒙mông 哥ca 馬mã 利lợi
Meaning:
Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal/Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)/


Words: 蒙巴頓
Pinyin: méng bā dùn
Hanviet: 蒙mông 巴ba 頓đốn
Meaning:
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg)/Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA./


Words: 蒙恬
Pinyin: méng tián
Hanviet: 蒙mông 恬điềm
Meaning:
Qin general Meng Tian (-210 BC), involved in 215 BC in fighting the Northern Xiongnu 匈奴 and building the great wall/


Words: 蒙求
Pinyin: méng qiú
Hanviet: 蒙mông 求cầu
Meaning:
(traditional title of first readers)/primary education/teaching the ignorant/light to the barbarian/


Words: 蒟蒻
Pinyin: jǔ ruò
Hanviet: 蒟 蒻
Meaning:
konjac, konnyaku or devil’s tongue (Amorphophallus konjac), plant whose corms are used to make a stiff jelly (as a food)/


Words: 蒲
Pinyin: pú
Hanviet: 蒲bồ
Meaning:
refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis/common cattail/bullrush/


Words: 蒸
Pinyin: zhēng
Hanviet: 蒸chưng
Meaning:
to evaporate/(of cooking) to steam/torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)/finely chopped firewood (old)/


Words: 蓄鬚明志
Pinyin: xù xū míng zhì
Hanviet: 蓄súc 鬚tu 明minh 志chí
Meaning:
to grow a beard as a symbol of one’s determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳, 梅兰芳 growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese)/


Words: 蓉
Pinyin: róng
Hanviet: 蓉dung
Meaning:
see 芙蓉, lotus/food that has been minced, shredded, or ground into a paste, suitable for stuffing or making a sauce/


Words: 蓬
Pinyin: péng
Hanviet: 蓬bồng
Meaning:
fleabane (family Asteraceae)/disheveled/classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes, campfires: clump, puff/


Words: 蓬萊
Pinyin: péng lái
Hanviet: 蓬bồng 萊
Meaning:
Penglai county level city in Yantai 煙台, 烟台, Shandong/Penglai, one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals/by extension, fairyland/


Words: 蔡元培
Pinyin: cài yuán péi
Hanviet: 蔡thái 元nguyên 培bồi
Meaning:
Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), liberal educationalist, studied in Germany, President of Peking University 1917-19, minister of education for Guomindang/


Words: 蔡志忠
Pinyin: cài zhì zhōng
Hanviet: 蔡thái 志chí 忠trung
Meaning:
Tsai Chih Chung (1948-), famous Taiwanese cartoonist specializing in retelling the Chinese classics/


Words: 蔡李彿
Pinyin: cài lǐ fó
Hanviet: 蔡thái 李 彿phất
Meaning:
Cai Li Fo, Choy Li Fut, Choy Lay Fut, Choi Lei Fut, Choy Lai Fut, Choy Ley Fut, Choi Lei Faht, Tsai Li Fo, Choi Leih Faht - Martial Art/


Words: 蔣介石
Pinyin: jiǎng jiè shí
Hanviet: 蔣tưởng 介giới 石thạch
Meaning:
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), military leader, head of the Nationalist government in China 1928-1949 and the government in exile on Taiwan 1950-1975/


Words: 蔣經國
Pinyin: jiǎng jīng guó
Hanviet: 蔣tưởng 經kinh 國quốc
Meaning:
Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石, 蒋介石, Guomindang politician, president of ROC 1978-1988/


Words: 蕭乾
Pinyin: xiāo qián
Hanviet: 蕭tiêu 乾can/kiền/càn
Meaning:
Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator/


Words: 蕭何
Pinyin: xiāo hé
Hanviet: 蕭tiêu 何hà
Meaning:
Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang’s 劉邦, 刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭, 楚汉战争/


Words: 蕭子顯
Pinyin: xiāo zǐ xiǎn
Hanviet: 蕭tiêu 子tử 顯hiển
Meaning:
Xiao Zixian (487-537), writer and historian of Liang of Southern Dynasties, compiler of History of Qi of the Southern dynasties 南齊書 南齐书/


Words: 蕭萬長
Pinyin: xiāo wàn cháng
Hanviet: 蕭tiêu 萬vạn 長trường/trưởng
Meaning:
Vincent C. Siew (1939-), Taiwanese diplomat and Kuomintang politician, prime minister 1997-2000, vice president 2008-2012/


Words: 蕭規曹隨
Pinyin: xiāo guī cáo suí
Hanviet: 蕭tiêu 規quy 曹tào 隨tùy
Meaning:
lit. Xiao’s 蕭何, 萧何 governance followed by Cao 曹參, 曹参 (idiom)/fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor/to follow precedent/


Words: 蕹
Pinyin: wèng
Hanviet: 蕹
Meaning:
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia/Taiwan pr. /


Words: 蕹菜
Pinyin: wèng cài
Hanviet: 蕹 菜thái
Meaning:
water spinach/ong choy/swamp cabbage/water convolvulus/water morning-glory/Ipomoea aquatica (botany)/


Words: 薄
Pinyin: bó
Hanviet: 薄bạc
Meaning:
meager/slight/weak/ungenerous or unkind/frivolous/to despise/to belittle/to look down on/to approach or near/


Words: 薄一波
Pinyin: bó yī bō
Hanviet: 薄bạc 一nhất 波ba
Meaning:
Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping/


Words: 薄瑞光
Pinyin: bó ruì guāng
Hanviet: 薄bạc 瑞thụy 光quang
Meaning:
Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006/


Words: 薄養厚葬
Pinyin: bó yǎng hòu zàng
Hanviet: 薄bạc 養dưỡng 厚hậu 葬táng
Meaning:
to neglect one’s parents but give them a rich funeral/hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one’s parents meanly/


Words: 薑太公釣魚，願者上鉤
Pinyin: jiāng tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu
Hanviet: 薑khương 太thái 公công 釣điếu 魚ngư 願nguyện 者giả 上thượng 鉤câu
Meaning:
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want it, take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 薑子牙, 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one’s head in the noose/


Words: 薑子牙
Pinyin: jiāng zǐ yá
Hanviet: 薑khương 子tử 牙nha
Meaning:
Jiang Ziya (c. 1100 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), partly mythical sage advisor to King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and purported author of “Six Secret Strategic Teachings” 六韜, 六韬, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書, 武经七书/


Words: 薑石年
Pinyin: jiāng shí nián
Hanviet: 薑khương 石thạch 年niên
Meaning:
Jiang Shinian (c. 2000 BC), birth name of Shennong 神農, 神农 Farmer God, first of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 and creator of agriculture in China/


Words: 薛居正
Pinyin: xuē jū zhèng
Hanviet: 薛tiết 居cư 正chánh
Meaning:
Xue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song 舊五代史, 旧五代史/


Words: 薩克森
Pinyin: sà kè sēn
Hanviet: 薩tát 克khắc 森sâm
Meaning:
Sachsen or Saxony, Bundesland in east of Germany, bordering on Poland and Czech republic, capital Dresden 德累斯頓, 德累斯顿/


Words: 薩克洛夫
Pinyin: sà kè luò fū
Hanviet: 薩tát 克khắc 洛lạc 夫phu
Meaning:
Sakharov (name)/Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident human rights activist/


Words: 薩巴德羅
Pinyin: sà bā dé luó
Hanviet: 薩tát 巴ba 德đức 羅la
Meaning:
Zapatero (name)/José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain from 2004/


Words: 薩摩
Pinyin: sà mó
Hanviet: 薩tát 摩ma
Meaning:
Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc/


Words: 薩迦
Pinyin: sà jiā
Hanviet: 薩tát 迦ca
Meaning:
Sa’gya town and county, Tibetan: Sa skya, in Shigatse prefecture, central Tibet/saga (i.e. heroic tale)/


Words: 薩馬蘭奇
Pinyin: sà mǎ lán qí
Hanviet: 薩tát 馬mã 蘭lan 奇kỳ
Meaning:
Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-), Spanish Olympic official, President of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001/


Words: 薪傳
Pinyin: xīn chuán
Hanviet: 薪tân 傳truyền
Meaning:
(of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another, abbr. for 薪盡火傳, 薪尽火传/


Words: 薪火相傳
Pinyin: xīn huǒ xiāng chuán
Hanviet: 薪tân 火hỏa 相tương/tướng 傳truyền
Meaning:
lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom)/fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another/


Words: 薰蕕不同器
Pinyin: xūn yóu bù tóng qì
Hanviet: 薰huân 蕕 不bất 同đồng 器khí
Meaning:
lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom)/bad people and good people do not mix/


Words: 藍毗尼
Pinyin: lán pí ní
Hanviet: 藍lam 毗Tỳ 尼Ni
Meaning:
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼, 释迦牟尼 founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼, 岚毘尼, 臘伐尼, 腊伐尼, 林微尼)/


Words: 藍膚木
Pinyin: lán fū mù
Hanviet: 藍lam 膚phu 木mộc
Meaning:
sumac (Rhus coriaria), east Mediterranean deciduous shrub with fruit used as spice/also called tanner’s sumach or vinegar tree/


Words: 藏垢納污
Pinyin: cáng gòu nà wū
Hanviet: 藏tạng 垢cấu 納nạp 污ô
Meaning:
to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing/aiding and abetting wicked deeds/


Words: 藕斷絲連
Pinyin: oǔ duàn sī lián
Hanviet: 藕ngẫu 斷đoạn 絲ti 連liên
Meaning:
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another/


Words: 藥
Pinyin: yào
Hanviet: 藥dược
Meaning:
medicine/drug/substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)/CL:種, 种,服,味/to poison/


Words: 藥食同源
Pinyin: yào shí tóng yuán
Hanviet: 藥dược 食thực 同đồng 源nguyên
Meaning:
lit. food and medicine come from the same source (idiom)/fig. there is no clear-cut distinction between food and medicine/


Words: 藩鎮
Pinyin: fān zhèn
Hanviet: 藩 鎮trấn
Meaning:
lit. fence town/buffer region (between enemies)/Tang dynasty system of provincial administration under a provincial governor 節度使, 节度使/


Words: 藴
Pinyin: yùn
Hanviet: 藴
Meaning:
variant of 蘊, 蕴, to accumulate/to hold in store/to contain/to gather together/to collect/depth/inner strength/profundity/


Words: 蘅塘退士
Pinyin: héng táng tuì shì
Hanviet: 蘅 塘đường 退thoái 士sĩ
Meaning:
assumed name of Sun Zhu 孫誅, 孙诛 (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three hundred Tang dynasty poems 唐詩三百首, 唐诗三百首/


Words: 蘇
Pinyin: sū
Hanviet: 蘇tô
Meaning:
surname Su/abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃, 苏维埃 or 蘇聯, 苏联/abbr. for Jiangsu province 江蘇, 江苏/abbr. for Suzhou city 蘇州, 苏州/


Words: 蘇
Pinyin: sū
Hanviet: 蘇tô
Meaning:
Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil)/place name/to revive/used as phonetic in transliteration/


Words: 蘇報案
Pinyin: sū bào àn
Hanviet: 蘇tô 報báo 案án
Meaning:
Qing’s 1903 suppression of revolutionary calls in newspaper 蘇報, 苏报, leading to imprisonment of Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 and Zou Rong 鄒容, 邹容/


Words: 蘇州碼子
Pinyin: sū zhōu mǎ zi
Hanviet: 蘇tô 州châu 碼mã 子tử
Meaning:
Suzhou numerals, i.e. the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine/also called 草碼, 草码/


Words: 蘇曼殊
Pinyin: sū màn shū
Hanviet: 蘇tô 曼mạn 殊thù
Meaning:
Su Manshu (1884-1918), Chinese writer, journalist, Buddhist monk, participant in the revolutionary movement/


Words: 蘇木
Pinyin: sū mù
Hanviet: 蘇tô 木mộc
Meaning:
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine/administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)/


Words: 蘇武
Pinyin: sū wǔ
Hanviet: 蘇tô 武võ
Meaning:
Su Wu (140-60 BC), Han Dynasty diplomat and statesman, regarded as a model of courage and faithful service/


Words: 蘇洵
Pinyin: sū xún
Hanviet: 蘇tô 洵
Meaning:
Su Xun (1009-1066), northern Song writer of prose/one of the Three Su 三苏 and one of Eight Giants 唐宋八大家/


Words: 蘇秦
Pinyin: sū qín
Hanviet: 蘇tô 秦tần
Meaning:
Su Qin (340-284 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家, 纵横家 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)/


Words: 蘇聯
Pinyin: sū lián
Hanviet: 蘇tô 聯liên
Meaning:
Soviet Union, 1922-1991/abbr. for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟, 苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟/


Words: 蘇花公路
Pinyin: sū huā gōng lù
Hanviet: 蘇tô 花hoa 公công 路lộ
Meaning:
Suhua Highway, coastal road in northern Taiwan, built on the side of cliffs above the Pacific Ocean/


Words: 蘇萊曼
Pinyin: sū lái màn
Hanviet: 蘇tô 萊 曼mạn
Meaning:
Suleiman (name)/General Michel Suleiman (1948-), Lebanese military man and politician, president of Lebanon from 2008/


Words: 蘇西洛
Pinyin: sū xī luò
Hanviet: 蘇tô 西tây 洛lạc
Meaning:
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949-), retired Indonesian general, president of the Republic of Indonesia 2004-2014/


Words: 蘇軾
Pinyin: sū shì
Hanviet: 蘇tô 軾thức
Meaning:
Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Su Dongpo 蘇東坡, 苏东坡 northern Song Dynasty writer and calligrapher/one of the Three Su father and sons 三蘇, 三苏 and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家/


Words: 蘊
Pinyin: yùn
Hanviet: 蘊uẩn
Meaning:
to accumulate/to hold in store/to contain/to gather together/to collect/depth/inner strength/profundity/


Words: 蘝
Pinyin: liǎn
Hanviet: 蘝
Meaning:
variant of 蘞, 蔹, trailing plant/liana/creeper/wild vine (Gynostemma pentaphyllum or Vitis pentaphylla)/


Words: 蘭
Pinyin: lán
Hanviet: 蘭lan
Meaning:
orchid (蘭花, 兰花 Cymbidium goeringii)/fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草, 兰草 Eupatorium fortunei)/lily magnolia (木蘭, 木兰)/


Words: 蘭坪
Pinyin: lán píng
Hanviet: 蘭lan 坪
Meaning:
Lanping Bai and Pumi autonomous county in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture 怒江傈僳族自治州 in northwest Yunnan/


Words: 蘭艾同焚
Pinyin: lán ài tóng fén
Hanviet: 蘭lan 艾ngải 同đồng 焚phần
Meaning:
lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common/the rain falls on the just and unjust alike/


Words: 蘺
Pinyin: lí
Hanviet: 蘺
Meaning:
red algae/Gracilaria, several species, some edible/Japanese ogonori/arch. used for vanilla-like herb/


Words: 蘿莉控
Pinyin: luó lì kòng
Hanviet: 蘿 莉 控khống
Meaning:
lolicon or rorikon (Japanese loanword)/manga or anime genre depicting young girls in an erotic manner/


Words: 虎父無犬子
Pinyin: hǔ fù wú quǎn zǐ
Hanviet: 虎hổ 父phụ 無vô 犬khuyển 子tử
Meaning:
lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well./like father, like son/


Words: 虎符
Pinyin: hǔ fú
Hanviet: 虎hổ 符phù
Meaning:
tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)/


Words: 虎跳峽
Pinyin: hǔ tiào xiá
Hanviet: 虎hổ 跳khiêu 峽
Meaning:
Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Jinsha River 金沙江 in Lijiang Naxi autonomous county 麗江納西族自治縣, 丽江纳西族自治县, Yunnan/


Words: 虎門鎮
Pinyin: hǔ mén zhèn
Hanviet: 虎hổ 門môn 鎮trấn
Meaning:
Humen Town, also known as Taiping 太平, a town within Dongguan prefecture-level city 東莞市, 东莞市, Guangdong/


Words: 處
Pinyin: chǔ
Hanviet: 處xứ
Meaning:
to reside/to live/to dwell/to be in/to be situated at/to stay/to get along with/to be in a position of/to deal with/to discipline/to punish/


Words: 處
Pinyin: chù
Hanviet: 處xứ
Meaning:
place/location/spot/point/office/department/bureau/respect/classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point/


Words: 處理
Pinyin: chǔ lǐ
Hanviet: 處xứ 理lý
Meaning:
to handle/to treat/to deal with/to process/to deal with a criminal case/to mete out punishment/to offer for sale at a reduced price/to punish/


Words: 虛
Pinyin: xū
Hanviet: 虛hư
Meaning:
emptiness/void/abstract theory or guiding principles/empty or unoccupied/diffident or timid/false/humble or modest/(of health) weak/virtual/in vain/


Words: 虛損
Pinyin: xū sǔn
Hanviet: 虛hư 損tổn
Meaning:
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang/asthenia/


Words: 虛歲
Pinyin: xū suì
Hanviet: 虛hư 歲tuế
Meaning:
one’s age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived). In this system, a person’s age is one year at birth, and increases by one year at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one’s birthday./as opposed to 足歲, 足岁/see also 實歲, 实岁/


Words: 虛火
Pinyin: xū huǒ
Hanviet: 虛hư 火hỏa
Meaning:
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)/the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself/


Words: 虞世南
Pinyin: yú shì nán
Hanviet: 虞ngu 世thế 南nam
Meaning:
Yu Shi’nan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Poets of early Tang 唐初四大家/


Words: 虞應龍
Pinyin: yú yìng lóng
Hanviet: 虞ngu 應ưng 龍long
Meaning:
Yu Yinglong, Yuan dynasty scholar, collaborated on the geographical encyclopedia Dayuan Dayi Tongzhi 大元大一統誌, 大元大一统志/


Words: 號
Pinyin: hào
Hanviet: 號hiệu
Meaning:
ordinal number/day of a month/mark/sign/business establishment/size/ship suffix/horn (wind instrument)/bugle call/assumed name/to take a pulse/classifier used to indicate number of people/


Words: 虢
Pinyin: guó
Hanviet: 虢
Meaning:
Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國, 西虢国 and Eastern Guo 東虢國, 东虢国/surname Guo/


Words: 虹橋
Pinyin: hóng qiáo
Hanviet: 虹hồng 橋kiều
Meaning:
Hongqiao, the name of numerous entities, notably a major airport in Shanghai, and a district in Tianjin/


Words: 蚊子館
Pinyin: wén zi guǎn
Hanviet: 蚊văn 子tử 館quán
Meaning:
(jocularly) public building that has been lying idle (and is thus ideal for housing mosquitos) (Tw)/


Words: 蚍蜉撼大樹
Pinyin: pí fú hàn dà shù
Hanviet: 蚍 蜉 撼 大đại 樹thụ
Meaning:
lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom)/fig. to overrate one’s own strength/also written 蚍蜉撼樹, 蚍蜉撼树/


Words: 蛇島
Pinyin: shé dǎo
Hanviet: 蛇xà 島đảo
Meaning:
Shedao or Snake island in Bohai sea 渤海 off Lüshun 旅順, 旅顺 on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula, small rocky island famous for snakes/


Words: 蜀
Pinyin: shǔ
Hanviet: 蜀thục
Meaning:
short name for Sichuan 四川 province/one of the Three Kingdoms 三國, 三国 after the fall of the Han dynasty/


Words: 蜀國
Pinyin: shǔ guó
Hanviet: 蜀thục 國quốc
Meaning:
Sichuan/the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods/the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備, 刘备 during the Three Kingdoms/


Words: 蜀漢
Pinyin: shǔ hàn
Hanviet: 蜀thục 漢hán
Meaning:
Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei’s kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han/


Words: 蜀犬吠日
Pinyin: shǔ quǎn fèi rì
Hanviet: 蜀thục 犬khuyển 吠phệ 日nhật
Meaning:
lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom); fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things/alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it’s uncommon to see a sunny day/


Words: 蜘蛛人
Pinyin: zhī zhū rén
Hanviet: 蜘tri 蛛chu 人nhân
Meaning:
Spider-Man, see 蜘蛛俠, 蜘蛛侠/nickname of French skyscraper climber Alain Robert (1962-)/person who scales the outer walls of a building as a stunt or for building maintenance/


Words: 蝦兵蟹將
Pinyin: xiā bīng xiè jiàng
Hanviet: 蝦hà 兵binh 蟹 將tương
Meaning:
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea)/useless troops (idiom)/


Words: 蝨多不癢
Pinyin: shī duō bù yǎng
Hanviet: 蝨sắt 多đa 不bất 癢dạng
Meaning:
many fleas, but unconcerned (idiom); no point in worrying about one debt when one has so many others/Troubles never come singly./It never rains but it pours./


Words: 蝸行牛步
Pinyin: wō xíng niú bù
Hanviet: 蝸 行hành 牛ngưu 步bộ
Meaning:
lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom)/fig. to move at a snail’s pace/to make slow progress/


Words: 融合
Pinyin: róng hé
Hanviet: 融dung 合hợp
Meaning:
a mixture/an amalgam/fusion/welding together/to be in harmony with (nature)/to harmonize with/to fit in/


Words: 螟
Pinyin: míng
Hanviet: 螟minh
Meaning:
boring insect/snout moth’s larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest/


Words: 螳臂當車
Pinyin: táng bì dāng chē
Hanviet: 螳đường 臂tý 當đương 車xa
Meaning:
a mantis trying to stop a chariot (idiom)/to overrate oneself and attempt sth impossible/also written 螳臂擋車, 螳臂挡车/


Words: 螳螂捕蟬
Pinyin: táng láng bǔ chán
Hanviet: 螳đường 螂lang 捕bộ 蟬thiền
Meaning:
the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子, 庄子); to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger/


Words: 螻蛄
Pinyin: lóu gū
Hanviet: 螻lâu 蛄
Meaning:
mole cricket/Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a serious agricultural pest)/


Words: 蟠尾絲蟲
Pinyin: pán wěi sī chóng
Hanviet: 蟠bàn 尾vĩ 絲ti 蟲trùng
Meaning:
Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans/


Words: 蟠尾絲蟲症
Pinyin: pán wěi sī chóng zhèng
Hanviet: 蟠bàn 尾vĩ 絲ti 蟲trùng 症
Meaning:
"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus/


Words: 蟪蛄不知春秋
Pinyin: huì gū bù zhī chūn qiū
Hanviet: 蟪 蛄 不bất 知tri 春xuân 秋thu
Meaning:
lit. short-lived cicada does not know the seasons; fig. to see only a small piece of the big picture/


Words: 蟬聯
Pinyin: chán lián
Hanviet: 蟬thiền 聯liên
Meaning:
to continue in a post/(to hold a post) several times in succession/(to win a title) in successive years/to stay at number one/to defend a championship/


Words: 蟲
Pinyin: chóng
Hanviet: 蟲trùng
Meaning:
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures/CL:條, 条,隻, 只/person with a particular undesirable characteristic/


Words: 蟹黃
Pinyin: xiè huáng
Hanviet: 蟹 黃hoàng
Meaning:
the ovaries, roe and digestive tract of the crab/soft interior of crab as a food delicacy/crab meat/


Words: 蟻族
Pinyin: yǐ zú
Hanviet: 蟻nghĩ 族tộc
Meaning:
"ant tribe", college graduates who endure cramped living conditions while trying to develop a career/


Words: 蟾宮折桂
Pinyin: chán gōng zhé guì
Hanviet: 蟾 宮cung 折chiết 桂quế
Meaning:
lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)/fig. to succeed in the imperial examination/


Words: 蠱
Pinyin: gǔ
Hanviet: 蠱cổ
Meaning:
arch. legendary venomous insect/to poison/to bewitch/to drive to insanity/to harm by witchcraft/intestinal parasite/


Words: 蠻子
Pinyin: mán zi
Hanviet: 蠻 子tử
Meaning:
barbarian/slave servant/(old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)/


Words: 血田
Pinyin: xuè tián
Hanviet: 血huyết 田điền
Meaning:
field of blood/battlefield/hateful place/Aceldama (field bought by Judas Iscariot with his 30 pieces of silver in Matthew 27:7)/


Words: 血盆大口
Pinyin: xuè pén dà kǒu
Hanviet: 血huyết 盆bồn 大đại 口khẩu
Meaning:
bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey/fig. greedy exploiter/rapacious aggressor/


Words: 血統論
Pinyin: xuè tǒng lùn
Hanviet: 血huyết 統thống 論luận
Meaning:
class division into proletariat and bourgeoisie class enemy, in use esp. during the cultural revolution/


Words: 血藍素
Pinyin: xuè lán sù
Hanviet: 血huyết 藍lam 素tố
Meaning:
hemocyanin (protein in the blood of molluscs etc with a respiratory function similar to hemoglobin)/


Words: 行
Pinyin: xíng
Hanviet: 行hành
Meaning:
to walk/to go/to travel/a visit/temporary/makeshift/current/in circulation/to do/to perform/capable/competent/effective/all right/OK!/will do/behavior/conduct/Taiwan pr.  for the behavior-conduct sense/


Words: 行不從徑
Pinyin: xíng bù cóng jìng
Hanviet: 行hành 不bất 從tùng 徑kính
Meaning:
lit. not following the straight path (idiom); fig. looking for a shortcut to get ahead in work or study/


Words: 行人
Pinyin: xíng rén
Hanviet: 行hành 人nhân
Meaning:
pedestrian/traveler on foot/passer-by/official responsible for arranging audiences with the emperor/


Words: 行政院
Pinyin: xíng zhèng yuàn
Hanviet: 行hành 政chánh 院viện
Meaning:
Executive Yuan, the executive branch of government under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan/


Words: 行百里者半九十
Pinyin: xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shí
Hanviet: 行hành 百bách 里lý 者giả 半bán 九cửu 十thập
Meaning:
lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)/fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets/a task is not done until it’s done/


Words: 行萬里路，讀萬卷書
Pinyin: xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū
Hanviet: 行hành 萬vạn 里lý 路lộ 讀đọc 萬vạn 卷quyển 書thư
Meaning:
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom)/Learn as much as you can and do all you can./


Words: 行行出狀元
Pinyin: háng háng chū zhuàng yuán
Hanviet: 行hàng 行hàng 出xuất 狀trạng 元nguyên
Meaning:
lit. in every trade, a master appears (idiom); fig. You can produce outstanding achievements in any task, provided you put it enough love and diligence/


Words: 行雲流水
Pinyin: xíng yún liú shuǐ
Hanviet: 行hành 雲vân 流lưu 水thủy
Meaning:
lit. moving clouds and flowing water (idiom)/fig. very natural and flowing style of calligraphy, writing, etc/natural and unforced/


Words: 衍聲複詞
Pinyin: yǎn shēng fù cí
Hanviet: 衍diễn 聲thanh 複phức 詞từ
Meaning:
compound word such as 玫瑰, 咖啡, whose meaning is unrelated to the component hanzi, which often cannot be used singly/


Words: 術
Pinyin: zhú
Hanviet: 術thuật
Meaning:
various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea/


Words: 街道辦事處
Pinyin: jiē dào bàn shì chù
Hanviet: 街nhai 道đạo 辦biện 事sự 處xứ
Meaning:
sub-district office/neighborhood official/an official who works with local residents to report to higher government authorities/


Words: 衛
Pinyin: wèi
Hanviet: 衛vệ
Meaning:
surname Wei/vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066-221 BC), located in present day Henan and Hebei Provinces/


Words: 衛奕信
Pinyin: wèi yì xìn
Hanviet: 衛vệ 奕dịch 信tín
Meaning:
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-), British diplomat and China expert, Governor of Hong Kong 1986-1992/


Words: 衡山
Pinyin: héng shān
Hanviet: 衡hành 山sơn
Meaning:
Mt Heng in Hunan, southern of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽, 五岳/Hengshan county in Hengyang 衡陽, 衡阳, Hunan/


Words: 衣缽
Pinyin: yī bō
Hanviet: 衣y 缽bát
Meaning:
the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism)/legacy/mantle/


Words: 表
Pinyin: biǎo
Hanviet: 表biểu
Meaning:
exterior surface/family relationship via females/to show (one’s opinion)/a model/a table (listing information)/a form/a meter (measuring sth)/


Words: 表叔
Pinyin: biǎo shū
Hanviet: 表biểu 叔thúc
Meaning:
son of grandfather’s sister/son of grandmother’s brother or sister/father’s younger male cousin/(Hong Kong slang) mainlander/


Words: 表現
Pinyin: biǎo xiàn
Hanviet: 表biểu 現hiện
Meaning:
to show/to show off/to display/to manifest/expression/manifestation/show/display/performance (at work etc)/behavior/


Words: 表裡不一
Pinyin: biǎo lǐ bù yī
Hanviet: 表biểu 裡 不bất 一nhất
Meaning:
outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems/saying one thing but meaning sth different/


Words: 表裡如一
Pinyin: biǎo lǐ rú yī
Hanviet: 表biểu 裡 如như 一nhất
Meaning:
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means/to think and act as one/


Words: 袁世凱
Pinyin: yuán shì kǎi
Hanviet: 袁viên 世thế 凱
Meaning:
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China/


Words: 袁枚
Pinyin: yuán méi
Hanviet: 袁viên 枚mai
Meaning:
Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家/


Words: 袁頭
Pinyin: yuán tóu
Hanviet: 袁viên 頭đầu
Meaning:
silver coin from the early days of the Republic of China (1912-1949) bearing the head of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱, 袁世凯/


Words: 被窩
Pinyin: bèi wō
Hanviet: 被bị 窩
Meaning:
quilt wrapped around the body as a tube (traditional bedding)/(contemporary) bedding/quilt/blankets/cover/bed/


Words: 裁
Pinyin: cái
Hanviet: 裁tài
Meaning:
to cut out (as a dress)/to cut/to trim/to reduce/to diminish/to cut back (e.g. on staff)/decision/judgment/


Words: 裙帶關係
Pinyin: qún dài guān xi
Hanviet: 裙quần 帶đái 關quan 係hệ
Meaning:
favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person’s wife or other female relative/(by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates/


Words: 裙帶風
Pinyin: qún dài fēng
Hanviet: 裙quần 帶đái 風phong
Meaning:
the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person’s wife or other female relative/(by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates/


Words: 補法
Pinyin: bǔ fǎ
Hanviet: 補bổ 法pháp
Meaning:
treatment involving the use of tonics to restore the patient’s health/reinforcing method (in acupuncture)/


Words: 補票
Pinyin: bǔ piào
Hanviet: 補bổ 票
Meaning:
to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc/to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater/


Words: 裝
Pinyin: zhuāng
Hanviet: 裝trang
Meaning:
adornment/to adorn/dress/clothing/costume (of an actor in a play)/to play a role/to pretend/to install/to fix/to wrap (sth in a bag)/to load/to pack/


Words: 裝點門面
Pinyin: zhuāng diǎn mén miàn
Hanviet: 裝trang 點điểm 門môn 面diện
Meaning:
lit. to decorate the front of one’s store (idiom)/fig. to embellish (one’s CV, etc)/to keep up appearances/to put up a front/


Words: 裸婚
Pinyin: luǒ hūn
Hanviet: 裸lõa 婚hôn
Meaning:
lit. naked wedding/no-frills civil wedding ceremony lacking a material foundation: no car, house, reception, rings, or honeymoon/


Words: 裸機
Pinyin: luǒ jī
Hanviet: 裸lõa 機cơ
Meaning:
hardware-only device/computer without operating system or other software installed/mobile phone or pager without network subscription/


Words: 複
Pinyin: fù
Hanviet: 複phức
Meaning:
to repeat/to double/to overlap/complex (not simple)/compound/composite/double/diplo-/duplicate/overlapping/to duplicate/


Words: 褚人獲
Pinyin: chǔ rén huò
Hanviet: 褚 人nhân 獲hoạch
Meaning:
Chu Renhuo (17th century), author of historical novel Dramatized History of Sui and Tang 隋唐演義, 隋唐演义/


Words: 褪去
Pinyin: tuì qù
Hanviet: 褪 去khứ
Meaning:
to take off (one’s clothes)/(fig.) to shed (one’s former image etc)/(of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside/also pr. /


Words: 襄
Pinyin: xiāng
Hanviet: 襄tương
Meaning:
to help/to assist/mutual assistance/to rush into or up/to raise or hold up/high/tall/old variant of 欀/chariot horse (old)/change (old)/


Words: 襟
Pinyin: jīn
Hanviet: 襟khâm
Meaning:
lapel/overlap of Chinese gown/fig. bosom (the seat of emotions)/to cherish (ambition, desires, honorable intentions etc) in one’s bosom/


Words: 西域記
Pinyin: xī yù jì
Hanviet: 西tây 域vực 記ký
Meaning:
Report of the regions west of Great Tang/travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘 on his travels to Central Asia and India/


Words: 西塞羅
Pinyin: xī sāi luó
Hanviet: 西tây 塞tắc 羅la
Meaning:
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), famous Roman politician, orator and philosopher, murdered at the orders of Marc Anthony/


Words: 西夏
Pinyin: xī xià
Hanviet: 西tây 夏hạ
Meaning:
Western Xia dynasty 1038-1227 of Tangut people 黨項, 党项 occupying modern Ningxia and parts of Gansu and Shaanxi, overthrown by Mongols/


Words: 西安區
Pinyin: xī ān qū
Hanviet: 西tây 安an 區khu
Meaning:
Xi’an district of Liaoyuan city 遼源市, 辽源市, Jilin/Xi’an district of Mudanjiang city 牡丹江市, Heilongjiang/


Words: 西康
Pinyin: xī kāng
Hanviet: 西tây 康khang
Meaning:
historic province of Tibet in Kham region and west Sichuan, a province of Republic of China 1928-49 with capital Ya’an 雅安/


Words: 西康省
Pinyin: xī kāng shěng
Hanviet: 西tây 康khang 省tỉnh
Meaning:
western Kham/historic province of Tibet in Kham region and west Sichuan, a province of Republic of China 1928-49 with capital Ya’an 雅安/


Words: 西戎
Pinyin: xī róng
Hanviet: 西tây 戎nhung
Meaning:
the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards/Xionites (Central Asian nomads)/


Words: 西施
Pinyin: xī shī
Hanviet: 西tây 施thí
Meaning:
Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the Four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐, 勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu/


Words: 西昌
Pinyin: xī chāng
Hanviet: 西tây 昌xương
Meaning:
Xichang cosmodrome/Xichang county level city in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州, 凉山彝族自治州, south Sichuan/


Words: 西湖
Pinyin: xī hú
Hanviet: 西tây 湖hồ
Meaning:
Xihu or West lake (place name)/West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang/Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣, 苗栗县, northwest Taiwan/


Words: 西湖區
Pinyin: xī hú qū
Hanviet: 西tây 湖hồ 區khu
Meaning:
West lake district (place name)/Xihu district of Hangzhou city 杭州市, Zhejiang/Xihu district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi/


Words: 西科爾斯基
Pinyin: xī kē ěr sī jī
Hanviet: 西tây 科khoa 爾nhĩ 斯tư 基cơ
Meaning:
Sikorski (name)/Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007/


Words: 西遊記
Pinyin: xī yóu jì
Hanviet: 西tây 遊du 記ký
Meaning:
Journey to the West, Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng’en 吳承恩, 吴承恩, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature/also called Pilgrimage to the West or Monkey/


Words: 西魏
Pinyin: xī wèi
Hanviet: 西tây 魏ngụy
Meaning:
Western Wei of the Northern dynasties (535-557), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏/


Words: 要
Pinyin: yào
Hanviet: 要yếu
Meaning:
important/vital/to want/to ask for/will/going to (as future auxiliary)/may/must/(used in a comparison) must be/probably/if/


Words: 覆巢之下無完卵
Pinyin: fù cháo zhī xià wú wán luǎn
Hanviet: 覆phú 巢sào 之chi 下hạ 無vô 完hoàn 卵noãn
Meaning:
lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom)/fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed/


Words: 覆巢無完卵
Pinyin: fù cháo wú wán luǎn
Hanviet: 覆phú 巢sào 無vô 完hoàn 卵noãn
Meaning:
lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact/no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)/


Words: 覆水難收
Pinyin: fù shuǐ nán shōu
Hanviet: 覆phú 水thủy 難nạn/nan 收thu
Meaning:
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)/it’s no use crying over spilt milk/what’s done is done and can’t be reversed/the damage is done/once divorced, there’s no reuniting/


Words: 見光死
Pinyin: jiàn guāng sǐ
Hanviet: 見kiến 光quang 死tử
Meaning:
(lit.) to wither in the light of day/(fig.) the bubble bursts as the reality becomes apparent (esp. of a much-anticipated first meeting with sb)/(of stocks) just as the favorable news is officially published, the stock price falls/


Words: 見利忘義
Pinyin: jiàn lì wàng yì
Hanviet: 見kiến 利lợi 忘vong 義nghĩa
Meaning:
to see profit and forget morality (idiom); to act from mercenary considerations/to sell one’s soul for gain/


Words: 見機行事
Pinyin: jiàn jī xíng shì
Hanviet: 見kiến 機cơ 行hành 事sự
Meaning:
see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances/to play it by ear/to use one’s discretion/


Words: 見獵心喜
Pinyin: jiàn liè xīn xǐ
Hanviet: 見kiến 獵liệp 心tâm 喜hỷ
Meaning:
lit. seeing others go hunting, one is excited by memories of the thrill of the hunt (idiom)/fig. seeing others do what one loves to do, one is inspired to try it again/


Words: 見異思遷
Pinyin: jiàn yì sī qiān
Hanviet: 見kiến 異dị 思tư 遷thiên
Meaning:
to change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty/never satisfied with what one has/


Words: 見義勇為
Pinyin: jiàn yì yǒng wéi
Hanviet: 見kiến 義nghĩa 勇dũng 為vi
Meaning:
to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth/acting heroically in a just cause/


Words: 見賢思齊
Pinyin: jiàn xián sī qí
Hanviet: 見kiến 賢hiền 思tư 齊tề
Meaning:
see a worthy, think to imitate (idiom, from Analects); emulate the virtuous/Follow the example of a virtuous and wise teacher./


Words: 見錢眼開
Pinyin: jiàn qián yǎn kāi
Hanviet: 見kiến 錢tiền 眼nhãn 開khai
Meaning:
to open one’s eyes wide at the sight of profit (idiom); thinking of nothing but personal gain/money-grubbing/


Words: 見風使帆
Pinyin: jiàn fēng shǐ fān
Hanviet: 見kiến 風phong 使sử 帆phàm
Meaning:
lit. see the wind and set your sails (idiom); fig. to act pragmatically/to be flexible and take advantage of the situation/


Words: 見風使舵
Pinyin: jiàn fēng shǐ duò
Hanviet: 見kiến 風phong 使sử 舵
Meaning:
lit. see the wind and set the helm (idiom); fig. to act pragmatically/to be flexible and take advantage of the situation/


Words: 見風是雨
Pinyin: jiàn fēng shì yǔ
Hanviet: 見kiến 風phong 是thị 雨vũ
Meaning:
lit. see the wind and assume it will rain (idiom); fig. gullible/to believe whatever people suggest/


Words: 規矩
Pinyin: guī ju
Hanviet: 規quy 矩củ
Meaning:
lit. compass and set square/fig. established standard/rule/customs/practices/fig. upright and honest/well-behaved/


Words: 規矩準繩
Pinyin: guī ju zhǔn shéng
Hanviet: 規quy 矩củ 準chuẩn 繩thằng
Meaning:
compasses, set square, spirit level and plumbline (idiom); fig. established standard/norms/criteria/


Words: 親
Pinyin: qīn
Hanviet: 親thân
Meaning:
parent/one’s own (flesh and blood)/relative/related/marriage/bride/close/intimate/in person/first-hand/in favor of/pro-/to kiss/(Internet slang) dear/


Words: 親和力
Pinyin: qīn hé lì
Hanviet: 親thân 和hòa 力lực
Meaning:
(personal) warmth/approachability/accessibility/(in a product) user friendliness/(chemistry) affinity/


Words: 覺悟
Pinyin: jué wù
Hanviet: 覺giác 悟ngộ
Meaning:
to come to understand/to realize/consciousness/awareness/Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda)/


Words: 覺醒
Pinyin: jué xǐng
Hanviet: 覺giác 醒tỉnh
Meaning:
to awaken/to come to realize/awakened to the truth/the truth dawns upon one/scales fall from the eyes/to become aware/


Words: 觀釁伺隙
Pinyin: guān xìn sì xì
Hanviet: 觀quán 釁hấn 伺tứ 隙khích
Meaning:
lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); to search out one’s opponent’s weak points/to look for the Achilles heel/


