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 单眼 單眼 dān yǎn ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye) 红眼 紅眼 hóng yǎn to become infuriated / to see red / envious / jealous / covetous / pink eye (conjunctivitis) / red-eye (flight)(photography) red eye syn 升调 昇調 shēng diào to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone 颚龈音 顎齦音 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics) 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 眼眶 yǎn kuàng eye socket / rim of the eye syn 眼底 yǎn dǐ 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 syn 眼圈 yǎn quān rim of the eye / eye socket syn 眼罩 yǎn zhào eye-patch / blindfold / eye mask / goggles / eyeshade / blinkers (for a horse etc) 触目 觸目 chù mù to meet the eye / eye-catching / conspicuous syn 鸟瞰 鳥瞰 niǎo kàn to get a bird's-eye view / bird's-eye view / broad overview syn 电子眼 電子眼 diàn zǐ yǎn electronic eye / bionic eye / surveillance camera / (esp.) traffic enforcement camera 目 mù eye / (literary) to look / to regard / eye (of a net) / mesh / mesh size / grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item / section / list / catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name / title syn 合不来 合不來 hé bù lái (of people) to be incompatible / to not get along / to be unable to see eye to eye syn 眼药 眼藥 yǎn yào eye drops / eye ointment 眸 móu pupil (of the eye) / eye syn 以眼还眼 以眼還眼 yǐ yǎn huán yǎn an eye for an eye (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine 眼动技术 眼動技術 yǎn dòng jì shù eye movement technology / eye-tracking technology 以眼还眼，以牙还牙 以眼還眼，以牙還牙 yǐ yǎn huán yǎn , yǐ yá huán yá an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine 飞蚊症 飛蚊症 fēi wén zhèng eye floaters (moving spots in the eye's vitreous humor) 眼里容不得沙子 眼裡容不得沙子 yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi 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 假眼 jiǎ yǎn artificial eye / glass eye 眵目糊 chī mu hū (dialect) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye) 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 应用 應用 yìng yòng to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app syn 强势 強勢 qiáng shì strong / powerful / (linguistics) emphatic / intensive 名词 名詞 míng cí (linguistics) noun / term (name for a concept) 映射 yìng shè to shine on / (math., linguistics etc) mapping syn 让步 讓步 ràng bù to concede / to give in / to yield / a concession / (linguistics) concessive syn 口音 kǒu yīn (linguistics) oral speech sounds syn 呼应 呼應 hū yìng to conform (with) / to echo / to correlate well / (linguistics) agreement syn 后缀 後綴 hòu zhuì suffix (linguistics) 语言学 語言學 yǔ yán xué linguistics 收音 shōu yīn 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) 日化 rì huà household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品[ri4 yong4 hua4 xue2 zhi4 pin3]) / (linguistics) to rhotacize / rhotic 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 映衬 映襯 yìng chèn to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) syn 韵律 韻律 yùn lǜ cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody syn 前缀 前綴 qián zhuì prefix (linguistics) 复数 複數 fù shù (linguistics) plural / (math.) complex number 音译 音譯 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols syn 同音 tóng yīn (music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic 字根 zì gēn component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root / etymon 情态 情態 qíng tài spirit / mood / (linguistics) modal syn 倒装 倒裝 dào zhuāng (linguistics) to invert (word order) 体 體 tǐ body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics) syn 虚词 虛詞 xū cí (linguistics) function word 词根 詞根 cí gēn (linguistics) root 转义 轉義 zhuǎn yì (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape 词法 詞法 cí fǎ morphology (linguistics) / word formation and inflection 形态学 形態學 xíng tài xué morphology (in biology or linguistics) 实词 實詞 shí cí (linguistics) content word 多义 多義 duō yì polysemy / polysemous / ambiguity (linguistics) 词类 詞類 cí lèi (linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category 模态 模態 mó tài modal (computing, linguistics) 词缀 詞綴 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics) 喉音 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant 语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data 词汇学 詞彙學 cí huì xué lexicology (linguistics) 配价 配價 pèi jià (linguistics) valence / valency 施事 shī shì (linguistics) agent / doer 首音 shǒu yīn (linguistics) onset 文献学 文獻學 wén xiàn xué Philology / Historical Linguistics 祖语 祖語 zǔ yǔ proto-language / parent language (linguistics) 中古汉语 中古漢語 zhōng gǔ hàn yǔ Middle Chinese (linguistics) 倒装句 倒裝句 dào zhuāng jù (linguistics) inverted sentence 冗言 rǒng yán pleonasm (linguistics) 冗赘词 冗贅詞 rǒng zhuì cí expletive (linguistics) 受词 受詞 shòu cí object (linguistics) 塞音 sè yīn (linguistics) plosive / stop 拟音 擬音 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language 新式拚法 xīn shì pīn fǎ new spelling (linguistics) 时式 時式 shí shì fashionable style / (linguistics) tense syn 构词学 構詞學 gòu cí xué morphology (linguistics) 粘着性 粘著性 zhān zhuó xìng agglutinative (in linguistics, a characteristic of Altaic languages) 词干 詞幹 cí gàn word stem (in linguistics) 词形 詞形 cí xíng form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation) / morphology (linguistics) 语言匮乏 語言匱乏 yǔ yán kuì fá language deficit (linguistics) 译词 譯詞 yì cí (linguistics) an equivalent / a translation of a term into the target language 软龈音 軟齦音 ruǎn yín yīn velar sound (linguistics) 连系词 連繫詞 lián xì cí copula (linguistics) 