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"Asia Society" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
亚洲协会 亞洲協會 Asia Society
Chinese Pinyin Translation
江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn
三合会 三合會 sān hé huì triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China
奴隶社会 奴隸社會 nú lì shè huì slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory)
社会 社會 shè huì society / CL:個|个[ge4]
学会 學會 xué huì to learn / to master / institute / learned society / (scholarly) association
协会 協會 xié huì an association / a society / CL:個|个[ge4],家[jia1]
党 黨 dǎng party / association / club / society / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
亚洲 亞洲 yà zhōu Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲|亚细亚洲[Ya4xi4ya4 Zhou1])
秩序 zhì xù order / orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
社 shè (bound form) society / organization / agency / (old) god of the land syn
社团 社團 shè tuán association / society / group / union / club / organization
联谊会 聯誼會 lián yì huì association / club / society / party / get-together
帮会 幫會 bāng huì secret society / underworld gang
底层 底層 dǐ céng ground floor / first floor / lowest level / lowest rung (of society etc) syn
西亚 西亞 xī yà Southwest Asia
入会 入會 rù huì to join a society, association etc
东南亚 東南亞 dōng nán yà Southeast Asia
阴暗面 陰暗面 yīn àn miàn the dark side (of society etc) syn
体质 體質 tǐ zhì (a person's) constitution / underlying physical condition / physical makeup / (of an organization, society etc) structural soundness
鞑靼 韃靼 dá dá Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia)
隐退 隱退 yǐn tuì to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish syn
世面 shì miàn the wider world / diverse aspects of society syn
中亚 中亞 zhōng yà Central Asia
东亚 東亞 dōng yà East Asia
处世 處世 chǔ shì to conduct oneself in society syn
红尘 紅塵 hóng chén the world of mortals (Buddhism) / human society / worldly affairs syn
功勋 功勛 gōng xūn achievement / meritorious deed / contributions (for the good of society) syn
领导层 領導層 lǐng dǎo céng ruling class / leaders (of society) / oligarchy
亚细亚 亞細亞 yà xì yà Asia
公害 gōng hài environmental pollution / social scourge / blight on society
南亚 南亞 nán yà southern Asia
入世 rù shì to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织[jia1 ru4 Shi4 jie4 Mao4 yi4 Zu3 zhi1])
半边天 半邊天 bàn biān tiān half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk syn
社员 社員 shè yuán commune member (PRC, 1958-1985) / member of a society (or other organization)
肌体 肌體 jī tǐ the body / organism (usually human) / (fig.) fabric (of society etc) / cohesive structure (of an entity) syn
大同 dà tóng see 大同市[Da4tong2 Shi4] / see 大同鄉|大同乡[Da4tong2 Xiang1] / see 大同區|大同区[Da4tong2 Qu1] / (Confucianism) Great Harmony (concept of an ideal society)
南洋 nán yáng Southeast Asia / South seas
乌拉尔 烏拉爾 wū lā ěr the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
欧亚 歐亞 ōu yà Europe and Asia / Eurasia
朝野 cháo yě all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people
封地 fēng dì feudal fiefdom / land held as a vassal in feudal society / enfeoffment syn
北亚 北亞 běi yà North Asia
白莲教 白蓮教 bái lián jiào White Lotus society
白莲 白蓮 bái lián white lotus (flower) / White Lotus society / same as 白蓮教|白莲教
原始社会 原始社會 yuán shǐ shè huì primitive society
帕米尔 帕米爾 pà mǐ ěr the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
寒蝉 寒蟬 hán chán a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia syn
你我 nǐ wǒ you and I / everyone / all of us (in society) / we (people in general)
亚太 亞太 yà tài Asia-Pacific
小康社会 小康社會 xiǎo kāng shè huì society in which the material needs of most citizens are adequately met
大中华 大中華 dà zhōng huá Greater China / refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics) / refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas
人类社会 人類社會 rén lèi shè huì human society
突厥 tū jué Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent / (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia
大乘 dà shèng Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
封建社会 封建社會 fēng jiàn shè huì feudal society
上流社会 上流社會 shàng liú shè huì upper class / high society
人渣 rén zhā dregs of society / scum
东北亚 東北亞 dōng běi yà Northeast Asia
金三角 jīn sān jiǎo Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
瑶族 瑤族 yáo zú Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia
妈祖 媽祖 mā zǔ Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
涉世 shè shì to see the world / to go out into society / to gain experience syn
大夏 dà xià Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country
礼乐 禮樂 lǐ yuè (Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)
南诏 南詔 nán zhào Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia
边缘人 邊緣人 biān yuán rén marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
澜沧江 瀾滄江 lán cāng jiāng Lancang River of Qinghai and Yunnan, the upper reaches of Mekong River 湄公河[Mei2 gong1 He2] of Southeast Asia
外场 外場 wài cháng outside world / society syn
九三学社 九三學社 jiǔ sān xué shè Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP
界别 界別 jiè bié to divide up into different zones / (HK) sector of society / constituency / (taxonomy) kingdom syn
佤族 wǎ zú Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
阿尔泰 阿爾泰 ā ěr tài Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk
杜月笙 dù yuè shēng Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist
帕米尔高原 帕米爾高原 pà mǐ ěr gāo yuán the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
月氏 yuè zhī ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
帮 幫 bāng to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society syn
惊世骇俗 驚世駭俗 jīng shì hài sú universally shocking / to offend the whole of society syn
公家 gōng jiā the public / the state / society / the public purse syn
书会 書會 shū huì calligraphy society / village school (old) / literary society (old)
塔希提 tǎ xī tí Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
乌孙国 烏孫國 wū sūn guó Wusun kingdom of central Asia (c. 300 BC-300 AD)
蒙巴顿 矇巴頓 méng bā dùn Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
安纳托利亚 安納托利亞 ān nà tuō lì yà Anatolia / Asia Minor
夜不闭户 夜不閉戶 yè bù bì hù lit. doors not locked at night (idiom) / fig. stable society syn
小亚细亚 小亞細亞 xiǎo yà xì yà Asia Minor / Anatolia
坎儿井 坎兒井 kǎn r jǐng karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
路不拾遗 路不拾遺 lù bù shí yí lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society syn
兴中会 興中會 xīng zhōng huì Revive China Society, founded by Dr Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山 in 1894 in Honolulu
内卷 內捲 nèi juǎn (embryology) to involute / involution / (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race / to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
社会总需求 社會總需求 shè huì zǒng xū qiú aggregate social demand / total requirement of society
佤 wǎ Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
蕹 wèng water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia / Taiwan pr. [yong1]
看破红尘 看破紅塵 kān pò hóng chén to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk) / disillusioned with human society / to reject the world for a monastic life syn
草满囹圄 草滿囹圄 cǎo mǎn líng yǔ lit. jails overgrown with grass (idiom) / fig. peaceful society
避世绝俗 避世絕俗 bì shì jué sú to withdraw from society and live like a hermit (idiom)
立身处世 立身處世 lì shēn chǔ shì (idiom) the way one conducts oneself in society syn
大逆不道 dà nì bù dào disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society) syn
小刀会 小刀會 xiǎo dāo huì Dagger Society, anti-Qing secret society who mounted an unsuccessful rebellion in 1855
新剧同志会 新劇同志會 xīn jù tóng zhì huì New Play Comrade Society, Chinese theatrical company founded in 1912, a continuation of the Spring Willow Society 春柳社[Chun1 liu3 she4]
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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