发小 髮小 fà xiǎo (dialect) close childhood friend whom one grew up with / a couple who grew up as childhood friends 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 青梅竹马 青梅竹馬 qīng méi zhú mǎ lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom) / fig. innocent children's games / childhood sweethearts / a couple who grew up as childhood friends 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 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 从小 從小 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age syn 小时候 小時候 xiǎo shí hou in one's childhood syn 童年 tóng nián childhood syn 小儿 小兒 xiǎo r (coll.) early childhood / baby boy syn 懂事 dǒng shì to grow beyond the naivete of childhood / to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible / thoughtful / intelligent syn 儿时 兒時 ér shí childhood syn 自幼 zì yòu since childhood syn 幼年 yòu nián childhood / infancy syn 小名 xiǎo míng pet name for a child / childhood name syn 学前教育 學前教育 xué qián jiào yù preschool education / early childhood education 幼时 幼時 yòu shí childhood syn 娇生惯养 嬌生慣養 jiāo shēng guàn yǎng pampered and spoiled since childhood syn 耳鬓厮磨 耳鬢廝磨 ěr bìn sī mó lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood syn 垂髫 chuí tiáo hair hanging down (child's hairstyle) / (fig.) young child / early childhood syn 殇 殤 shāng to die in childhood / war dead syn 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 竹马之交 竹馬之交 zhú mǎ zhī jiāo childhood friend (idiom) 总角之交 總角之交 zǒng jiǎo zhī jiāo (idiom) childhood friend 总角之好 總角之好 zǒng jiǎo zhī hǎo (idiom) childhood friend 稚气未脱 稚氣未脫 zhì qì wèi tuō still possessing the innocence of childhood (idiom) syn 儿童早期保教方桉 兒童早期保教方案 Early Childhood Care and Education 儿童残疾技术支助方桉 兒童殘疾技術支助方案 Technical Support Programme on Childhood Disability 儿童政策项目 r tóng zhèng cè xiàng mù Childhood Policies Project 国际癌症患儿家长组织联合会 International Confederation of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations 城市儿童会议 城市兒童會議 Urban Childhood Conference 世界儿童早期教育组织 世界兒童早期教育組織 World Organization for Early Childhood Education 儿童早期发展 兒童早期發展 early childhood development 世界儿童早期保育与教育大会 世界兒童早期保育與教育大會 World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education 消除儿童铅中毒联盟 消除兒童鉛中毒聯盟 Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning 保护儿童和青少年免受暴力侵害综合系统 保護兒童和青少年免受暴力侵害綜合系統 Integral System of Protection of Childhood and Adolescence against Violence 儿童早期保育和发展 兒童早期保育和發展 early childhood care for development 儿童早期 r tóng zǎo qī early childhood 儿童肥胖症 兒童肥胖癥 childhood obesity 防治儿童传染病 防治兒童傳染病 control of childhood communicable diseases 儿童早期保育和发展方桉 兒童早期保育和發展方案 Early Childhood Care and Development Programme 新生儿和儿童疾病综合管理 新生兒和兒童疾病綜合管理 Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness 儿童疾病综合管理 兒童疾病綜合管理 Integrated Management of Childhood Illness 儿童早期保育和发展协商小组 兒童早期保育和發展協商小組 Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development 儿童白血病 兒童白血病 childhood leukemia 阿拉伯儿童与发展理事会 阿拉伯兒童與發展理事會 Arab Council for Childhood and Development 幼年教育国际协会 幼年教育國際協會 Association for Childhood Education International 儿童早期教育 兒童早期教育 early childhood education 儿童早期保育促进生存、发育和发展 兒童早期保育促進生存、發育和發展 early childhood care for survival, growth and development 早期幼儿启发教育 早期幼兒啟發教育 early childhood stimulation / early stimulation 童年早期综合行动计划 童年早期綜合行動計劃 Integrated Action Plan for Early Childhood 儿童残疾科 兒童殘疾科 Childhood Disability Section 儿童残疾 兒童殘疾 childhood disability 冲龄 沖齡 chōng líng childhood (typically used in reference to an emperor) 起小 qǐ xiǎo since childhood 孕婴童 孕嬰童 yùn yīng tóng (market segment) maternity and early childhood 孕童 yùn tóng (market segment) maternity and early childhood 总角 總角 zǒng jiǎo (literary) children's hairstyle with hair tied into a bun on both sides of the head / (fig.) childhood syn 先生 xiān sheng teacher / gentleman / sir / mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:位[wei4] syn 仔细 仔細 zǐ xì careful / attentive / cautious / to be careful / to look out / (dialect) thrifty / frugal syn 大大 dà dà greatly / enormously / (dialect) dad / uncle syn 眼神 yǎn shén expression or emotion showing in one's eyes / meaningful glance / wink / eyesight (dialect) syn 味道 wèi dao flavor / taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...) / sense (of ...) / hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest / delight / (dialect) smell / odor syn 早已 zǎo yǐ for a long time / long since / (dialect) in the past syn 对付 對付 duì fu to handle / to deal with / to tackle / to get by with / to make do / (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) syn 周日 週日 zhōu rì (dialect) weekday syn 事儿 事兒 shì r one's employment / business / matter that needs to be settled / (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding / trying / troublesome / erhua variant of 事[shi4] / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] syn 汉子 漢子 hàn zi man / fellow / (dialect) husband syn 飘飘 飄飄 piāo piāo to float about / to flutter (in the breeze) / (dialect) gay guy / (Tw) ghost syn 后续 後續 hòu xù follow-up / (dialect) to remarry syn 梅花 méi huā plum blossom / clubs ♣ (a suit in card games) / wintersweet (dialect) syn 早晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later / one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future syn 交朋友 jiāo péng you to make friends / (dialect) to start an affair with sb 肩头 肩頭 jiān tóu on one's shoulders / (dialect) shoulder syn 马甲 馬甲 mǎ jiǎ corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect) syn 嘎嘎 gā gā (onom.) quack / honk / (northern dialect) very / also pr. [ga1 ga5], [ga2 ga5] etc syn 潮州 cháo zhōu see 潮州市[Chao2zhou1 Shi4] / see 潮州鎮|潮州镇[Chao2zhou1 Zhen4] / Chaozhou, variant of Minnan dialect 閩南語|闽南语[Min3nan2yu3] spoken in east Guangdong 方言 fāng yán topolect / dialect syn 过早 過早 guò zǎo premature / untimely / (dialect) to have breakfast / breakfast 天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn 阿拉 ā lā (Wu dialect) I / me / my / we / us / our 调理 調理 tiáo lǐ to nurse one's health / to recuperate / to take care of / to look after / to discipline / to educate / to train / to prepare food / (dialect) to make fun of / (medicine) to opsonize syn 老爹 lǎo diē (dialect) father / old man / sir syn 