德国 德國 dé guó Germany / German 西德 xī dé West Germany / German Federal Republic 德意志聯邦共和國|德意志联邦共和国[De2 yi4 zhi4 Lian2 bang1 Gong4 he2 guo2] 爱因斯坦 愛因斯坦 ài yīn sī tǎn Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born theoretical physicist 马克思 馬克思 mǎ kè sī Marx (name) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German revolutionary, economist and historian 科尔 科爾 kē ěr Kohl (name) / Helmut Kohl (1930-2017), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998 粗话 粗話 cū huà vulgar language / coarse language syn 贝多芬 貝多芬 bèi duō fēn Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer 普通话 普通話 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech syn 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 巴赫 bā hè Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer 霍夫曼 huò fū màn Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor 维特 維特 wéi tè Werther, opera by Jules Massenet / Werther, German masculine given name 普鲁士 普魯士 pǔ lǔ shì Prussia (historical German state) 施特劳斯 施特勞斯 shī tè láo sī Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer 东德 東德 dōng dé East Germany (1945-1990) / German Democratic Republic 德意志民主共和國|德意志民主共和国[De2 yi4 zhi4 Min2 zhu3 Gong4 he2 guo2] 口语 口語 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2] 会话 會話 huì huà (language learning) conversation / dialog / to converse (in a non-native language) / (computing) session / CL:個|个[ge4],次[ci4] syn 基尔 基爾 jī ěr Kiel (German city) 德国人 德國人 dé guó rén German person or people 舒马赫 舒馬赫 shū mǎ hè Michael Schumacher (1969-), former German racing driver 马赫 馬赫 mǎ hè Mach (name) / Ernst Mach (1838-1916), German physicist / Mach number (fluid mechanics) 勃拉姆斯 bó lā mǔ sī Brahms (name) / Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), German romantic composer 哈伯 hā bó Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer / Fritz Haber (1868-1934), German chemist 席勒 xí lè Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist 黑格尔 黑格爾 hēi gé ěr Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher 博世 bó shì Bosch (surname) / Bosch, German technology company 默克尔 默克爾 mò kè ěr Angela Merkel (1954-), German CDU politician, chancellor from 2005 麦德龙 麥德龍 mài dé lóng Metro supermarket chain (originally German) 克勒 kè lè Keller or Köhler (name) / Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head of the IMF 2000-2004, president of Germany 2004-2010 恩格尔 恩格爾 ēn gé ěr Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician 曼海姆 màn hǎi mǔ Mannheim, German city at the confluence of Rhine and Neckar 海涅 hǎi niè Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet 粗口 cū kǒu swear words / obscene language / foul language 康德 kāng dé Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher 尼采 尼採 ní cǎi Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher 藏文 zàng wén Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language 贝塔斯曼 貝塔斯曼 bèi tǎ sī màn Bertelsmann, German media company 迈巴赫 邁巴赫 mài bā hè Maybach, German car brand 叔本华 叔本華 shū běn huá Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher 文饰 文飾 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over syn 戈培尔 戈培爾 gē péi ěr Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician 阿尔茨海默 阿爾茨海默 ā ěr cí hǎi mò Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist 普朗克 pǔ lǎng kè Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist 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. 伦琴 倫琴 lún qín Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German mechanical engineer 德牧 dé mù German shepherd 克莱因 克萊因 kè lái yīn Klein or Kline (name) / Felix Klein (1849-1925), German mathematician 语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data 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 黑背 hēi bèi German shepherd 包豪斯 bāo háo sī Bauhaus (German school of modern architecture and design) 英语 英語 yīng yǔ English (language) 语言 語言 yǔ yán language / CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3] syn 文 wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 syn 法语 法語 fǎ yǔ French (language) 西班牙语 西班牙語 xī bān yá yǔ Spanish language 文字 wén zì character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 英文 yīng wén English (language) 俄语 俄語 é yǔ Russian (language) 脏话 髒話 zāng huà profanity / obscene language / speaking rudely syn 满嘴 滿嘴 mǎn zuǐ a full mouth of (sth physical) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) syn 中文 zhōng wén Chinese language syn 葡萄牙语 葡萄牙語 pú táo yá yǔ Portuguese (language) 日语 日語 rì yǔ Japanese language 拉丁语 拉丁語 lā dīng yǔ Latin (language) 词汇 詞彙 cí huì vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word syn 拉丁文 lā dīng wén Latin (language) 通用 tōng yòng to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable 切口 qiè kǒu slang / argot / private language used as secret code syn 腔调 腔調 qiāng diào a tune / a melody / accent (distinctive way of pronouncing a language) / tone (manner of expression) / elegance / refinement syn 外语 外語 wài yǔ foreign language / CL:門|门[men2] syn 手语 手語 shǒu yǔ sign language 隔阂 隔閡 gé hé misunderstanding / estrangement / (language etc) barrier syn 阿拉伯语 阿拉伯語 ā lā bó yǔ Arabic (language) 荷兰语 荷蘭語 hé lán yǔ Dutch (language) 比划 比劃 bǐ huà to gesture / to use sign language / to gesticulate / to engage in body combat or martial art / to come to blows syn 行话 行話 háng huà jargon / language of the trade 汉语 漢語 hàn yǔ Chinese language / CL:門|门[men2] syn 手舞足蹈 shǒu wǔ zú dǎo lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom) / fig. to dance about / to express one's feelings in body language / to gesture animatedly / (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs syn 日文 rì wén Japanese (language) 法文 fǎ wén French language 语文 語文 yǔ wén literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject) 瑞典语 瑞典語 ruì diǎn yǔ Swedish (language) 俄文 é wén Russian language 白话 白話 bái huà spoken language / vernacular syn 简写 簡寫 jiǎn xiě to write characters in simplified form / the simplified form of a character / to abbreviate (a word or expression) / to write in simple language syn 古语 古語 gǔ yǔ ancient language / old expression syn 古文 gǔ wén old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject syn 三生有幸 sān shēng yǒu xìng the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom) / (courteous language) it's my good fortune... syn 词藻 詞藻 cí zǎo rhetoric / flowery language 秽语 穢語 huì yǔ obscene language 巴利 bā lì Pali, language of Theravad Pali canon / Barry (name) / Gareth Barry (1981-), English footballer 外文 wài wén foreign language (written) syn 复读 復讀 fù dú (of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning) syn 语系 語系 yǔ xì language family 中古 zhōng gǔ medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand 粤语 粵語 yuè yǔ Cantonese language 泰语 泰語 tài yǔ Thai (language) 