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"Defense Minister" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
国防部长 國防部長 guó fáng bù zhǎng Defense secretary / Defense Minister
Chinese Pinyin Translation
辩护 辯護 biàn hù to speak in defense of / to argue in favor of / to defend / to plead syn
突破 tū pò to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount (an obstacle) / (sports) to break through the opponent's defense
防御 防禦 fáng yù defense / to defend syn
自卫 自衛 zì wèi to defend oneself / self-defense
国防部 國防部 guó fáng bù Defense Department / Ministry of National Defense
防卫 防衛 fáng wèi to defend / defensive / defense syn
武术 武術 wǔ shù military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn
国防 國防 guó fáng national defense
正当防卫 正當防衛 zhèng dàng fáng wèi reasonable self-defense / legitimate defense
自保 zì bǎo to defend oneself / self-defense / self-preservation
防空 fáng kōng anti-aircraft defense
抗辩 抗辯 kàng biàn to counter accusations / to protest / to remonstrate / to retort / to plead / to demur / a plea (of not guilty) / a defense (against an allegation) / to enter a plea to a charge (in a law court)
自卫队 自衛隊 zì wèi duì self-defense force / the Japanese armed forces syn
边防 邊防 biān fáng frontier defense syn
布防 bù fáng to lay out a defense syn
攻防 gōng fáng attack and defense / the midfield (in soccer)
海防 hǎi fáng coastal defense
防务 防務 fáng wù (pertaining to) defense
丞相 chéng xiàng the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) / prime minister syn
外长 外長 wài zhǎng foreign minister / secretary of state / minister of foreign affairs
抗灾 抗災 kàng zāi defense against natural disasters
副总理 副總理 fù zǒng lǐ vice-premier / vice prime minister / deputy prime minister
美国国防部 美國國防部 měi guó guó fáng bù United States Department of Defense / Department of Defense
禁卫 禁衛 jìn wèi defense of the imperial palace or of the capital / the palace guard (or a member of that unit)
城防 chéng fáng city defense
防长 防長 fáng zhǎng abbr. for 國防部長|国防部长[guo2 fang2 bu4 zhang3], Minister of Defense
四个现代化 四個現代化 sì gè xiàn dài huà Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化
四个现代化 四個現代化 sì ge xiàn dài huà Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化[si4 hua4]
分洪 fēn hóng to separate flood / flood defense
空防 kōng fáng air force / air defense
守敌 守敵 shǒu dí enemy defense / enemy garrison
迟浩田 遲浩田 chí hào tián Chi Haotian (1929-), Chinese Minister of National Defense 1993-2003
国防现代化 國防現代化 guó fáng xiàn dài huà modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
相 xiàng appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc) syn
部长 部長 bù zhǎng head of a (government etc) department / section chief / section head / secretary / minister / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
首相 shǒu xiàng prime minister (of Japan or UK etc) syn
布朗 bù lǎng Brown (name) / Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010
总理 總理 zǒng lǐ premier / prime minister / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2] syn
卡斯特罗 卡斯特羅 kǎ sī tè luó Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
大臣 dà chén chancellor (of a monarchy) / cabinet minister syn
路德 lù dé Luther (name) / Martin Luther (1483-1546), reformation protestant minister
苏格拉底 蘇格拉底 sū gé lā dǐ Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
接任 jiē rèn to take over (as minister, manager etc) syn
小泉 xiǎo quán Koizumi (name) / KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
撒切尔 撒切爾 sā qiē ěr Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
内政部长 內政部長 nèi zhèng bù zhǎng Minister of the Interior
李斯 lǐ sī Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
诸葛亮 諸葛亮 zhū gě liàng Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1guo2 Yan3yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind syn
外相 wài xiàng Foreign Minister
财政部长 財政部長 cái zhèng bù zhǎng minister of finance
邱吉尔 邱吉爾 qiū jí ěr Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill
外交部长 外交部長 wài jiāo bù zhǎng minister of foreign affairs
宰相 zǎi xiàng prime minister (in feudal China) syn
圣上 聖上 shèng shàng courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor syn
司马 司馬 sī mǎ Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima
侍郎 shì láng (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards / (also an official title in earlier dynasties)
奸臣 jiān chén a treacherous court official / a minister who conspires against the state syn
公使 gōng shǐ minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
财长 財長 cái zhǎng treasurer / head of finances / minister of finance
副部长 副部長 fù bù zhǎng assistant (government) minister
司徒 sī tú minister of land and people (in ancient times)
尚书 尚書 shàng shū high official / government minister syn
李肇星 lǐ zhào xīng Li Zhaoxing (1940-), former PRC foreign minister
陈毅 陳毅 chén yì Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972
重臣 zhòng chén important minister / major figure in government syn
太常 tài cháng Minister of Ceremonies in imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers 九卿[jiu3 qing1]
相国 相國 xiàng guó prime minister (in ancient China)
前总理 前總理 qián zǒng lǐ former prime minister
前首相 qián shǒu xiàng former prime minister
李光耀 lǐ guāng yào Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990
脱脱 脫脫 tuō tuō Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 and Jin 金史 / also written Tuoketuo 托克托
狄仁杰 狄仁傑 dí rén jié Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案[Di2 gong1 an4] translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩[Gao1 Luo2 pei4]
安倍晋三 安倍晉三 ān bèi jìn sān Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020
李显龙 李顯龍 lǐ xiǎn lóng Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀[Li3 Guang1 yao4], prime minister from 2004
司寇 sī kòu minister of criminal justice (official rank in imperial China)
胡志强 胡志強 hú zhì qiáng Jason Hu (1948-), former Taiwan foreign minister
郎 láng (arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth syn
吉拉尼 jí lā ní Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
安瓦尔 安瓦爾 ān wǎ ěr Anwar (name) / Anwar Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022-
保家卫国 保家衛國 bǎo jiā wèi guó guard home, defend the country (idiom) / national defense
铜墙铁壁 銅牆鐵壁 tóng qiáng tiě bì copper wall, iron bastion (idiom) / impenetrable defense syn
拉姆斯菲尔德 拉姆斯菲爾德 lā mǔ sī fēi ěr dé Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), former US Secretary of Defense
莫迪 mò dí Modi (name) / Narendra Modi (1950-), Indian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party or Indian People's Party) politician, Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001, PM from 2014
纳吉布 納吉布 nà jí bù Mohamed Naguib (1901-1984), first president of the Republic of Egypt / Najib Razak (1953-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2009-2018
萨德 sà dé THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense), US Army anti-ballistic missile system
田中角荣 田中角榮 tián zhōng jiǎo róng Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993), Japanese politician, prime minister 1972-1974
安重根 ān zhòng gēn An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (1879-1910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文[Yi1 teng2 Bo2 wen2] in 1909
新闻部长 新聞部長 Minister of Information
洪森 hóng sēn Hun Sen (1952-), prime minister of Cambodia since 1985
官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom) / a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people syn
容克 róng kè Junker (German aristocracy) / Jean-Claude Juncker (1954-), Luxembourgish politician, prime minister of Luxembourg 1995-2013, president of the European Commission 2014-2019
外心 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon) syn
沈国放 沈國放 shěn guó fàng Shen Guofang (1952-), PRC assistant minister of foreign affairs (2003-2005)
蜀相 shǔ xiàng the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4])
稷 jì millet / God of cereals worshiped by ancient rulers / minister of agriculture syn
檑 léi logs rolled down in defense of city
闭门塞窦 閉門塞竇 bì mén sè dòu to close doors and block openings (idiom) / mounting a strict defense
高城深池 gāo chéng shēn chí high walls and deep moat (idiom) / impenetrable defense
郢书燕说 郢書燕說 yǐng shū yān shuō lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"
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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