伹
clumsy and dumb; slow-witted
佢
he (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 他[ta1]
区
area; region; district; small; distinguish; CL:個|个[ge4]
去
to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
取
to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
娶
to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
渠
big; stream or canal; drain; ditch; CL:條|条[tiao2]; him (dialect); outer rim of a carriage wheel (old)
焌
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
癯
thin; emaciated; worn; tired
祛
sacrifice to drive away calamity; to dispel; to drive away; to remove
耝
to plow; (ancient place name)
胠
flank of animal; side; to pry open; to steal
诎
to bend; to yield; to exhaust; to stutter
趣
interesting; to interest
趋
to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge
駆
Japanese variant of 驅|驱; to gallop
驱
to expel; to urge on; to drive; to run quickly
鸲
(bound form, used in the names of birds of various biological families)
曲
yeast; Aspergillus (includes many common molds); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
龋
decayed teeth; dental caries
佉卢文
Kharosthi (ancient language of central Asia)
区位
location; geographical position; position on a grid or spreadsheet, where 區|区 denotes the row and 位 the column
区分
to differentiate; to draw a distinction; to divide into categories
区分大小写
case sensitive; distinguishing capitals from lower case letters
区别
difference; to distinguish; to discriminate; to make a distinction; CL:個|个[ge4]
区划
subdivision (e.g. of provinces into counties)
区区
insignificant; trifling; merely
区区小事
trivial matter; trifle
区域网络
local area network; LAN
区域网路
local area network; LAN
区块
separate block; specific section; chunk
区字框
name of radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 22); see also 匚[fang1]
区画
subdivision (e.g. of provinces into counties)
区码
area code; telephone dialing code
区间车
shuttle bus (or train); train or bus traveling only part of its normal route
区隔
to mark off; interval; segment (e.g. of market); compartment; segmentation
去其糟粕
to remove the dross; to discard the dregs
去取之间
undecided between taking and leaving
去向
the position of sth; whereabouts
去回票
round-trip ticket (Tw)
去年底
late last year; the end of last year
去掉
to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract
去死
go to hell!; drop dead!
去氧核糖核酸
deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA
去火
to reduce internal heat (TCM)
去皮
to peel; to remove the skin; to tare
去声
falling tone; fourth tone in modern Mandarin
去台
to go to Taiwan; refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949
去台人员
those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949
去芜存菁
lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)
去路
the way one is following; outlet
取之不尽,用之不竭
limitless supply (of); inexhaustible
取代
to replace; to supersede; to supplant; (chemistry) substitution
取代基
substituent (chemistry)
取保候审
release from custody, subject to provision of a surety, pending investigation (PRC)
取保释放
to be released on bail (law)
取其精华
to take the best; to absorb the essence
取其精华,去其糟粕
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan); keep what is good, discard the rest; You need to be selective when studying.; In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.
取出
to take out; to extract; to draw out
取胜
to score a victory; to prevail over one's opponents
取名
to name; to be named; to christen; to seek fame
取巧
quick fix; opportune short cut (around a difficulty); cheap trick (to get what one wants); to pull a fast one
取得
to acquire; to get; to obtain
取得胜利
to prevail; to achieve victory; to be victorious
取舍
to choose; to accept or reject
取景器
viewfinder (of a camera etc)
取景框
rectangular frame used to view a scene (made out of cardboard etc, or formed by the thumbs and forefingers); viewfinder; viewing frame
取暖
to warm oneself (by a fire etc)
取乐
to find amusement; to amuse oneself
取模
to take an impression (dentistry etc)
取样数量
sample size (statistics)
取款
to withdraw money from a bank
取水
water intake; to obtain water (from a well etc)
取决
to depend upon; to hinge upon
取消
to cancel; cancellation
取消禁令
to lift a prohibition; to lift a ban
取灯儿
(dialect) match (for lighting fire)
取用
to access; to make use of
取笑
to tease; to make fun of
取经
to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience
取缔
to suppress; to crack down on; to prohibit
取而代之
to substitute for sb; to remove and replace
取走
to remove; to take away
取道
via; by way of; en route to
取银
to take silver; to come second in a competition
取长补短
lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius); to use this in place of that; what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts
取关
to unfollow (on microblog etc)
取闹
to make trouble; to make fun of
娶妻
to take a wife; to get married (man)
娶媳妇
to get oneself a wife; to take a daughter-in-law
屈伦博赫
Culemborg, city in the Netherlands
屈原
Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
屈原祠
Qu Yuan memorial temple on the Miluo river 汨羅江|汨罗江 at Yueyang 岳陽市|岳阳市, Hunan
屈原纪念馆
Qu Yuan memorial hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣|秭归县[Zi3 gui1 Xian4], Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then
屈尊
to condescend; to deign
屈尊俯就
to condescend; condescending; patronizing
屈打成招
to obtain confessions under torture
屈折语
to inflect (in grammar); to decline; to conjugate
屈指
to count on one's fingers
屈指一算
to count on one's fingers
屈指可数
can be counted on one's fingers (idiom); very few
屈挠
to surrender; to yield; to flex
屈辱
to humiliate; humiliating
屈头蛋
see 鴨仔蛋|鸭仔蛋[ya1 zi3 dan4]
屈体
to bend at the waist; (fig.) to bow to; pike position (diving)
曲周
Quzhou county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Han2 dan1], Hebei
曲周县
Quzhou county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Han2 dan1], Hebei
曲子
poem for singing; tune; music; CL:支[zhi1]
曲尺
set square (tool to measure right angles)
曲尺楼梯
staircase with right-angled turn; L-shaped staircase
曲意
against one's will; willy-nilly
曲意逢迎
to bow down to everything sb says or does; to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself
曲折
winding; (fig.) complicated
曲松
Qusum county, Tibetan: Chu gsum rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet
曲松县
Qusum county, Tibetan: Chu gsum rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet
曲柄钻
hand drill with a crank handle
曲棍
bent stick; hockey stick
曲水
Qüxü county, Tibetan: Chu shur rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4], Tibet
曲水县
Qüxü county, Tibetan: Chu shur rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4], Tibet
曲江
Qujiang district of Shaoguan City 韶關市|韶关市, Guangdong
曲江区
Qujiang district of Shaoguan City 韶關市|韶关市, Guangdong
曲池穴
Quchi acupoint LI11, at the lateral end of the elbow crease
曲沃
Quwo county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lin2 fen2], Shanxi
曲沃县
Quwo county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lin2 fen2], Shanxi
曲目
repertoire; program; song; piece of music
曲直
lit. crooked and straight; fig. right and wrong, good and evil
曲突徙薪
lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom); fig. to take preventive measures
曲笔
falsification in writing; misrepresentation in written history; deliberate digression
曲终奏雅
perfect finish (idiom)
曲线
curve; curved line; indirect; in a roundabout way
曲线图
line graph; line diagram
曲肱而枕
lit. to use one's bent arm as a pillow (idiom); fig. content with simple things
曲蟮
variant of 蛐蟮[qu1 shan5]
曲里拐弯
winding and turning (idiom)
曲解
to misrepresent; to misinterpret
曲阜
Qufu county level city in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong; home town of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
曲阜孔庙
temple to Confucius in his home town Qufu
曲阜市
Qufu county level city in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong; home town of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
曲阳
Quyang county in Baoding 保定[Bao3 ding4], Hebei
曲阳县
Quyang county in Baoding 保定[Bao3 ding4], Hebei
曲靖
Qujing prefecture level city in Yunnan
曲靖地区
Qujing prefecture in Yunnan
曲靖市
Qujing prefecture level city in Yunnan
曲面
curved surface; surface
曲面论
the theory of surfaces
曲颈瓶
retort; bottle with curved neck
曲高和寡
difficult songs find few singers (idiom); highbrow
曲麻莱
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[Yu4 shu4 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
曲麻莱县
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[Yu4 shu4 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
渠县
Qu county in Dazhou 達州|达州[Da2 zhou1], Sichuan
渠道
irrigation ditch; (fig.) channel; means
渠魁
rebel leader; ringleader; bandit chieftain
焌油
to pour heated oil and seasonings over food (e.g. a cooked fish)
瞿塘峡
Qutang Gorge, 8 km long gorge on the Changjiang or Yangtze in Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4], the upper of the Three Gorges 三峽|三峡[San1 Xia2]
瞿昙
Gautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha
瞿秋白
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
祛痰药
medicine to dispel phlegm (TCM)
祛瘀
to dispel blood stasis (TCM)
祛邪
to exorcise; to drive away evil spirits
祛邪除灾
to drive away demons to prevent calamity (idiom)
祛风
to relieve (cold, rheumatic pain etc); lit. to dispel pathogenic wind (TCM)
蘧然
(literary) to be pleasantly surprised
蛐蛐儿
(dialect) cricket (insect)
衢州
Quzhou prefecture level city in Zhejiang
衢州市
Quzhou prefecture level city in Zhejiang
觑忽
variant of 覷糊|觑糊[qu4 hu5]
觑机会
to watch for an opportunity
觑着眼
to narrow one's eyes and gaze at something with great attention
觑觑眼
myopia; nearsightedness; shortsightedness
趣事
entertaining anecdote; interesting story or incident
趣味
fun; interest; delight; taste; liking; preference
趣闻
funny news item; interesting anecdote
趋之若鹜
to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable; an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase
趋冷
a cold tendency; a freeze (in relations)
趋冷气候
cooling; a cold spell
趋化作用
chemotaxis (movement of leukocytes under chemical stimulus)
趋吉避凶
to seek luck and avoid calamity (idiom)
趋向
direction; trend; to incline
趋奉
to fawn on; to kiss up to
趋炎附势
to curry favor (idiom); playing up to those in power; social climbing
趋缓
to slow down; to ease up; to abate; slowdown; downturn
趋近
to approach (a numerical value); to converge to a limit (in calculus); convergence
躯壳
the body (housing the soul)
阒然
quiet; still and silent
驱使
to urge; to prompt; to spur on; to order sb about
驱力
(psychological) driving force; drive
驱动
to drive; to propel; drive (vehicle wheel); drive mechanism (tape or disk); device driver (computing software)
驱动程序
device driver (computing software)
驱寒
to warm oneself; to expel the cold (TCM)
驱役
to order (sb) about; (by extension) to put to use
驱散
to disperse; to break up
驱赶
to drive (vehicle); to drive out; to chase away; to herd (people towards a gate)
驱逐
to expel; to deport; banishment
驱逐令
banishment order; expulsion warrant
驱邪
to drive out devils; exorcism
驱除
to drive off; to dispel; to expel
驱除鞑虏
expel the Manchu, revolutionary slogan from around 1900
驱离
to drive away; to dispel
驱魔
to drive out devils; to exorcise
驱魔赶鬼
to exorcise; to drive out evil spirits
鸲姬鹟
(bird species of China) mugimaki flycatcher (Ficedula mugimaki)
鸲岩鹨
(bird species of China) robin accentor (Prunella rubeculoides)
鸲蝗莺
(bird species of China) Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides)
黢黑
pitch-black; pitch-dark
龋洞
hole due to dental caries
龋齿
tooth decay; dental caries; cavity