"(prefix) phanero-" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
xiǎn to make visible / to reveal / prominent / conspicuous / (prefix) phanero- syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
no / not so / (bound form) not / un- / variant of 不 / (negative prefix) / not / no syn
lái to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2lai5]) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4gu3 yi3lai2]) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ... / the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2shi4]) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2de5lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1bu5lai2]) syn
méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not / not syn
(prefix) can / may / able to / -able / to approve / to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly / very / but / however syn
lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn
xiān beforehand / first / earlier / at first / originally / for the time being / for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) syn
(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
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / (prefix) sub- syn
yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first / original / primary / (bound form) basic / fundamental / (bound form) constituent / part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument / variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon syn
前缀 前綴 qián zhuì prefix (linguistics)
显性 顯性 xiǎn xìng visible / conspicuous / phanero- / dominant (gene)
分光 fēn guāng (prefix) spectro-
ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4] syn
(bound form) evil spirit / devil / (prefix) supernatural / magical syn
wéi only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义[zhu3 yi4] or 論|论[lun4], e.g. 唯理論|唯理论[wei2 li3 lun4], rationalism) syn
guì expensive / (bound form) highly valued / precious / (bound form) noble / of high rank / (prefix) (honorific) your syn
easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible" syn
láng (arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth syn
huì (bound form) act of kindness (from a superior) / (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顧|惠顾[hui4 gu4]) syn
yōu distant, far / adverbial prefix
to plate (with gold, silver etc) / (prefix) -plated syn
词缀 詞綴 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
字首 zì shǒu prefix
词头 詞頭 cí tóu prefix / headword (in a dictionary)
词缀剥除 詞綴剝除 cí zhuì bō chú affix stripping / to determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix
前冠 qián guān heading / prefix
前辍 前輟 qián chuò prefix
加拿大皇家 jiā ná dà huáng jiā HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
后设 後設 hòu shè meta- (prefix) (Tw)
奈米 nài mǐ (Tw) nanometer / nano- (prefix meaning "nanoscale")
毫微 háo wēi (prefix) nano-
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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