挼 ruá (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled / crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak / feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor / inferior 圩 xū (dialect) country fair / country market syn 溜 liù swift current / rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled / proficient / (of movements) quick / speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings / neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster / to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) syn 丫头 丫頭 yā tou girl / servant girl / (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) syn 绿茶 綠茶 lǜ chá green tea / (slang) (of a girl) seemingly innocent and charming but actually calculating and manipulative / a girl who has these qualities 婢女 bì nǚ slave girl / servant girl syn 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 赛车女郎 賽車女郎 sài chē nǚ láng pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl 女大十八变 女大十八變 nǚ dà shí bā biàn lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was 把妹 bǎ mèi to pick up a girl / to get a girl 世界女童子军协会 世界女童子軍協會 World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts 世界女童子军协会世界会议 世界女童子軍協會世界會議 World Conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts 把马子 把馬子 bǎ mǎ zǐ to pick up a girl / to get a girl 丫头片子 丫頭片子 yā tou piàn zi (coll.) silly girl / little girl 小鬟 xiǎo huán (historical) chignon worn by a young girl / slave girl (prepubescent household courtesan wearing a distinctive paired chignon hairstyle) 把马子 把馬子 bǎ mǎ zi to pick up a girl / to get a girl 乖乖女 guāi guāi nǚ well-behaved girl / good girl 村姑 cūn gū village girl / country bumpkin syn 靓女 靚女 liàng nǚ (dialect) pretty girl syn 妹子 mèi zi (dialect) younger sister / girl syn 妮子 nī zi (coll.) lass / (dialect) little girl syn 女娃 nǚ wá (dialect) girl 嫚 mān (dialect) girl 嫚子 mān zi (dialect) girl 我国 我國 wǒ guó my country / our country syn 各国 各國 gè guó each country / every country / various countries syn 国情 國情 guó qíng the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country 半壁江山 bàn bì jiāng shān half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory syn 富国 富國 fù guó rich country / make the country wealthy (political slogan) syn 乡村音乐 鄉村音樂 xiāng cūn yīn yuè country music (country & western music genre) 土包子 tǔ bāo zi country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound syn 闭关锁国 閉關鎖國 bì guān suǒ guó to close the passes and seal off the country / to close a country to exclude foreign contact syn 富国强兵 富國強兵 fù guó qiáng bīng lit. rich country, strong army (idiom) / slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) syn 主席国 主席國 zhǔ xí guó chair country / country holding revolving presidency 怯子 qiè zi person with country accent / rustic / country bumpkin 锁国 鎖國 suǒ guó to close a country / to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc) 国家支助组 國家支助組 guó jiā zhī zhù zǔ country technical services team / country support team 国家指示性规划数字 國家指示性規劃數字 indicative country planning figures / country IPFs 国家指规数 國家指規數 indicative country planning figures / country IPFs 第二回籍假国 第二回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 替代回籍假国 替代回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 联合国国家工作队 聯合國國家工作隊 lián hé guó guó jiā gōng zuò duì United Nations country team / country team 完整的国家办事处 完整的國家辦事處 full-fledged country office / full country office 装备提供国 裝備提供國 equipment-providing country / equipment-owning country 装备所属国 裝備所屬國 equipment-providing country / equipment-owning country 装备操作国 裝備操作國 equipment-operating country / equipment-using country 装备使用国 裝備使用國 equipment-operating country / equipment-using country 原籍国 原籍國 source country / sending country 准核国 準核國 threshold country / near-nuclear country 第一庇护国 第一庇護國 first asylum country / country of first asylum 土鳖 土鱉 tǔ biē ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1], has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin 老帽儿 老帽兒 lǎo mào r (dialect) country bumpkin / a hick 咱们 咱們 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] syn 风光 風光 fēng guāng scene / view / sight / landscape / to be well-regarded / to be well-off / grand (dialect) / impressive (dialect) syn 黄牛 黃牛 huáng niú ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise syn 大 dà big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) syn 拿捏 ná niē (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten 着 著 zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add syn 种花 種花 zhòng huā to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton syn 咧咧 liē liē (dialect) to cry / to whimper / (dialect) to talk drivel 兴 興 xīng 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) syn 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 㞎 bǎ (dialect) poo / (dialect) to shit 启海话 啟海話 qǐ hǎi huà Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai 媳妇 媳婦 xí fu (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman syn 拧巴 擰巴 nǐng ba (dialect) awkward / uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate / contrary / argumentative 磕碜 磕磣 kē chen (dialect) ugly / unsightly / shabby / (dialect) to humiliate / to ridicule 馃子 餜子 guǒ zi (dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao / deep-fried cruller 齁甜 hōu tián (dialect) (of food) excessively sweet / cloying / (dialect) (of words, affection etc) sickenly sweet / overly sentimental 巴适 巴適 bā shì (Sichuan dialect) comfortable / suitable / excellent / really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb) / to curry favor with 女孩 nǚ hái girl / lass 女生 nǚ shēng schoolgirl / female student / girl 少女 shào nǚ girl / young lady syn 温柔 溫柔 wēn róu gentle and soft / tender / sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) syn 姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女孩子 nǚ hái zi girl syn 出台 出臺 chū tái to officially launch (a policy, program etc) / to appear on stage / to appear publicly / (of a bar girl) to leave with a client syn 那个人 那個人 nà gè rén lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 大姐 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) syn 小妹 xiǎo mèi little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc) 辣妹 là mèi hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM 小妹妹 xiǎo mèi mei little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva 秋水 qiū shuǐ limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes) syn 上头 上頭 shàng tóu (of alcohol, love etc) to go to one’s head / (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head / to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait) syn 校花 xiào huā the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]) / school beauty queen / campus belle / prom queen 才女 cái nǚ talented girl syn 妖娆 妖嬈 yāo ráo enchanting / alluring (of a girl) syn 女童 nǚ tóng small girl syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 讨人 討人 tǎo rén (old) girl trafficked into a brothel to work as prostitute 丫鬟 yā huan servant girl / maid syn 小公主 xiǎo gōng zhǔ lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝[xiao3 huang2 di4] 妞妞 niū niu little girl 幼女 yòu nǚ young girl syn 发卡 發卡 fā kǎ to issue a card / (slang) to reject a guy or a girl / to chuck syn 马子 馬子 mǎ zi bandit / brigand / gambling chip / chamber pot / (slang) girl / chick / babe syn 马子 馬子 mǎ zǐ (slang) girl / chick / babe syn 丫环 丫環 yā huan servant girl / maid 