第 dì (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4-liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but / however / (literary) only / just syn 则 則 zé (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / (bound form) standard / norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items syn 小镇 小鎮 xiǎo zhèn small town / village 乡村 鄉村 xiāng cūn rustic / village / countryside syn 村子 cūn zi village syn 村庄 村莊 cūn zhuāng village / hamlet / CL:座[zuo4] syn 海选 海選 hǎi xuǎn (in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition 镇长 鎮長 zhèn zhǎng town headman / mayor (of small town or village) / bailiff 烟火 煙火 yān huǒ smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants / posterity syn 村长 村長 cūn zhǎng village chief / village head 污秽 污穢 wū huì (literary) dirty / filthy / (literary) dirt / filth syn 农村 農村 nóng cūn rural area / village / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 村落 cūn luò village syn 朦胧 朦朧 méng lóng (literary) (of moonlight) dim / (literary) murky / indistinct syn 窈窕 yǎo tiǎo (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded syn 乡亲 鄉親 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home syn 山村 shān cūn mountain village syn 踌躇 躊躇 chóu chú to hesitate / (literary) to pace back and forth / (literary) self-satisfied syn 先祖 xiān zǔ (literary) my deceased grandfather / (literary) ancestors syn 山寨 shān zhài fortified hill village / mountain stronghold (esp. of bandits) / (fig.) knockoff (goods) / counterfeit / imitation syn 田间 田間 tián jiān field / farm / farming area / village syn 同乡 同鄉 tóng xiāng person from the same village, town, or province syn 村姑 cūn gū village girl / country bumpkin syn 乡镇 鄉鎮 xiāng zhèn village / township syn 乡里 鄉里 xiāng lǐ one's home town or village syn 斐然 fěi rán (literary) of great literary talent / (literary) (of achievements etc) brilliant / outstanding syn 文采 wén cǎi literary talent / literary grace / rich and bright colors syn 文体 文體 wén tǐ genre of writing / literary form / style / literary recreation and sporting activities 村委会 村委會 cūn wěi huì village committee 他日 tā rì (literary) some day / (literary) days in the past syn 惺忪 xīng sōng drowsy-eyed / (literary) wavering / indecisive / (literary) awake / conscious / clearheaded syn 乡绅 鄉紳 xiāng shēn a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire syn 周章 zhōu zhāng (literary) effort / trouble / pains (to get sth done) / (literary) frightened / terrified 名士 míng shì (old) a person of literary talent / a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post) syn 村寨 cūn zhài (stockaded) village syn 本乡 本鄉 běn xiāng home village / one's native place syn 彪炳 biāo bǐng (literary) (of deeds, accomplishments etc) to shine brightly (in the annals of history etc) / (literary) outstanding / splendid / glorious 村里 cūn lǐ village / hamlet 所见 所見 suǒ jiàn (literary) what one sees / (literary) opinion / view 达人 達人 dá rén (coll.) expert / connoisseur / guru / enthusiast / geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person / person who understands life / (literary) optimist 里人 lǐ rén person from the same village, town or province / peasant (derog.) / (of a school of thought etc) follower 眉宇 méi yǔ (literary) forehead / (literary) countenance / features syn 东瀛 東瀛 dōng yíng (literary) East China Sea / (literary) Japan syn 乡长 鄉長 xiāng zhǎng village chief / mayor (of village or township) 惺惺 xīng xīng (literary) awake / (literary) intelligent / clever 顾盼 顧盼 gù pàn (literary) to look around / (literary) to care for syn 地球村 dì qiú cūn global village 城中村 chéng zhōng cūn village within a city / shantytown / ghetto 婵娟 嬋娟 chán juān (literary) beautiful woman / (literary) lovely / graceful / (literary) the moon syn 百花园 百花園 bǎi huā yuán Garden of Many Flowers (name) / Baihua garden in Hongmiao village 洪廟村|洪庙村[Hong2 miao4 cun1], Shandong 新塘 xīn táng Xintang, common town or village name / Xintang village in Guangdong province 荒村 huāng cūn an abandoned village syn 奥运村 奧運村 ào yùn cūn Olympic Village 聚落 jù luò settlement / dwelling place / town / village syn 龙井茶 龍井茶 lóng jǐng chá Longjing tea, aka Dragon Well tea, a high-quality pan-roasted green tea from the area of Longjing Village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang 丰沛 豐沛 fēng pèi copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3] / fig. majestic syn 农村信用合作社 農村信用合作社 self-financing village group 杏花村 xìng huā cūn village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by 杜牧[Du4 Mu4]) 整饬 整飭 zhěng chì (literary) to put in good order / to make shipshape / (literary) orderly / neat / tidy syn 睚眦 睚眥 yá zì (literary) to glare in anger / (literary) (fig.) a small grievance syn 浩特 hào tè nomadic camp / town or village (Mongolian: khot) 聊 liáo (coll.) to chat / (literary) temporarily / for a while / (literary) somewhat / slightly / (literary) to depend upon syn 勒 lè (literary) bridle / halter / headstall / to rein in / to compel / to force / (literary) to carve / to engrave / (literary) to command / to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4ke4si1]) syn 柯 kē (literary) branch / stem / stalk / (literary) ax handle syn 裔 yì (bound form) descendants / (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 華裔|华裔[Hua2yi4] "of Chinese descent") / (literary) distant lands / (literary) fringe / periphery syn 骚 騷 sāo (bound form) to disturb / to disrupt / flirty / coquettish / abbr. for 離騷|离骚[Li2 Sao1] / (literary) literary writings / poetry / foul-smelling (variant of 臊[sao1]) / (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male syn 俱 jù (literary) all / both / entirely / without exception / (literary) to be together / (literary) to be alike syn 乡 鄉 xiāng country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit) syn 藉 jiè (literary) cushion / mat / (literary) to put some padding underneath syn 摄 攝 shè (bound form) to take in / to absorb / to assimilate / to capture (video or still images) / (literary) to conserve (one's health) / (literary) to act for syn 詹 zhān (literary) verbose / (literary) to arrive, to reach 苑 yuàn (literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc / imperial garden / park / (literary) center (of arts, literature etc) syn 斐 fěi phonetic fei or fi / (literary) (bound form) rich with literary elegance / phi (Greek letter Φφ) 眩 xuàn (literary) dizzy / (literary) dazzled / bewildered / to dazzle (variant of 炫[xuan4]) syn 匡 kuāng (literary) to rectify / (literary) to assist / (coll.) to calculate roughly / to estimate syn 惺 xīng (literary) to come to one's senses / to awaken / (literary) astute / sharp-witted 庄 莊 zhuāng farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China) syn 莳 蒔 shì (literary) to grow / (literary) to transplant / Taiwan pr. [shi2] syn 辟 bì (literary) king / monarch / (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service / (literary) to avoid (variant of 避[bi4]) / (literary) to repel (variant of 避[bi4]) syn 颐 頤 yí (literary) chin / jaw / (literary) to foster / to nurture / to protect syn 盎 àng (literary) ancient earthenware container with a big belly and small mouth / (literary) brimming / abundant 入乡随俗 入鄉隨俗 rù xiāng suí sú When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom) / do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do 殊 shū (literary) to kill / to behead / to sever / to separate / to surpass / (bound form) different / (bound form) special / remarkable / (literary) very / extremely syn 屯 tún to station (soldiers) / to store up / village syn 邑 yì city / village syn 稔 rěn (literary) ripe grain / ripe / harvest / year / (literary) very familiar with / well acquainted with syn 敛 斂 liǎn (literary) to hold back / (literary) to restrain / to control (oneself) / to collect / to gather / Taiwan pr. [lian4] syn 虞 yú (literary) to expect / to anticipate / (literary) to be concerned about / to be apprehensive / (literary) to deceive / to dupe syn 诡 詭 guǐ (bound form) sly / crafty / (literary) weird / bizarre / (literary) contradictory / inconsistent syn 攘 rǎng (literary) to push up one's sleeves / (literary) to reject / to resist / (literary) to seize / to steal / (literary) to perturb / Taiwan pr. [rang2] syn 跖 zhí metatarsus / (literary) sole of the foot / (literary) to tread on syn 杓 biāo (literary) handle of a spoon or ladle / (literary) collective name for the three stars that form the handle of the Big Dipper 舆 輿 yú (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]) / (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven) / land / territory / (literary) carriage / (literary) sedan chair / palanquin / (bound form) the multitudes / the people / the public syn 屯子 tún zi village syn 秩 zhì (literary) salary according to rank / (literary) an official's rank / (literary) order / orderliness / (literary) decade syn 闾 閭 lǘ gate of a village / village syn 缥 縹 piǎo (literary) light blue / (literary) light blue silk fabric 钜 鉅 jù (literary) hard iron / (literary) hook / barb / used in personal names and place names / variant of 巨[ju4] 吴仁宝 吳仁寶 wú rén bǎo Wu Renbao (1928-2013), former CCP chief of Huaxi Village 華西村|华西村[Hua2 xi1 Cun1], responsible for turning it into a modern rich community 