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Chinese Pinyin Translation
印度时报 印度時報 yìn dù shí bào India Times
Chinese Pinyin Translation
印度 yìn dù India
时报 時報 shí bào "Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times)
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
德里 dé lǐ Delhi / New Delhi, capital of India / same as 新德里[Xin1 De2 li3]
新德里 xīn dé lǐ New Delhi, capital of India
贱民 賤民 jiàn mín social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste)
沙门 沙門 shā mén monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India) / Buddhist monk syn
加尔各答 加爾各答 jiā ěr gè dá Calcutta (India)
三军 三軍 sān jūn (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force syn
近代 jìn dài the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) syn
取经 取經 qǔ jīng to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures / to learn by studying another's experience
古往今来 古往今來 gǔ wǎng jīn lái since ancient times / since times immemorial syn
苦尽甘来 苦盡甘來 kǔ jìn gān lái bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom) / the hard times are over, the good times just beginning syn
上古 shàng gǔ the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times syn
中印 zhōng yìn China-India
印巴 yìn bā India and Pakistan
金砖 金磚 jīn zhuān BRIC / BRICS economic bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
玄奘 xuán zàng Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
小乘 xiǎo chéng Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle / Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras
小乘 xiǎo shèng Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle / Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras / also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2]
泰姬陵 tài jī líng Taj Mahal (mausoleum in India)
和平共处五项原则 和平共處五項原則 hé píng gòng chǔ wǔ xiàng yuán zé Zhou Enlai's Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence / 1954 Panchsheel series of agreements between PRC and India
德干 dé gān Deccan (India)
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.
阿萨姆 阿薩姆 ā sà mǔ Assam, India
竺 zhú surname Zhu / abbr. for 天竺[Tian1zhu2], India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) / (archaic) Buddhism syn
东印度公司 東印度公司 dōng yìn dù gōng sī East India Company
从来 從來 cóng lái always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence) syn
随时 隨時 suí shí at any time / at all times / at the right time / whenever necessary syn
制服 zhì fú to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:套[tao4]
平时 平時 píng shí ordinarily / in normal times / in peacetime syn
现代 現代 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era syn
拉丁 lā dīng Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
多次 duō cì many times / repeatedly syn
古代 gǔ dài ancient times syn
护卫 護衛 hù wèi to guard / to protect / bodyguard (for officials in ancient times) syn
次数 次數 cì shù number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)
老太婆 lǎo tài pó old woman (at times contemptuous) syn
头巾 頭巾 tóu jīn cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban 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
古人 gǔ rén people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person syn
中场 中場 zhōng chǎng middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times) / midfield / mid-court (in sports) / half-time / intermission half-way through a performance
府 fǔ seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) syn
叙旧 敘舊 xù jiù to reminisce / to talk about former times syn
史前 shǐ qián prehistoric times / (attributive) prehistoric syn
时时刻刻 時時刻刻 shí shí kè kè at all times syn
两下子 兩下子 liǎng xià zi a couple of times / to repeat the same / the same old trick / tricks of the trade syn
远古 遠古 yuǎn gǔ antiquity / ancient times syn
苦力 kǔ lì bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times syn
云梯 雲梯 yún tī (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain
乱世 亂世 luàn shì the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world syn
一世 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) syn
传承 傳承 chuán chéng to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance syn
旧日 舊日 jiù rì former times / olden days syn
江南 jiāng nán south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
旧时 舊時 jiù shí in former times / the olden days syn
追忆 追憶 zhuī yì to recollect / to recall (past times) / to look back syn
蝉联 蟬聯 chán lián to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship syn
泰晤士报 泰晤士報 tài wù shì bào Times (newspaper)
翻番 fān fān to double / to increase by a certain number of times syn
今非昔比 jīn fēi xī bǐ (idiom) things are very different now / times have changed syn
倍增 bèi zēng to double / to redouble / to increase many times over / to multiply by a factor / multiplication syn
巡抚 巡撫 xún fǔ inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
亘古 亙古 gèn gǔ throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present) syn
鸿沟 鴻溝 hóng gōu (fig.) gulf / chasm / wide gap / (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚[Chu3] and Han 漢|汉[Han4] syn
道学 道學 dào xué Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
传世 傳世 chuán shì handed down from ancient times / family heirloom syn
王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn
自古 zì gǔ (since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial syn
老朽 lǎo xiǔ decrepit and behind the times / old / useless / (humble) I / me (used by the elderly) syn
应景 應景 yìng jǐng according with the times / seasonal syn
自古以来 自古以來 zì gǔ yǐ lái since ancient times syn
受聘 shòu pìn hired (for employment) / invited (e.g. to lecture) / engaged (for a task) / (in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family syn
请安 請安 qǐng ān to pay respects / to wish good health / in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1]) syn
围场 圍場 wéi chǎng enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)
昏天黑地 hūn tiān hēi dì lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times syn
旧闻 舊聞 jiù wén outdated news / old anecdote / stories passed on from former times syn
古时候 古時候 gǔ shí hou in ancient times / in olden days
群雄 qún xióng outstanding heroes / warlords vying for supremacy (in former times) / stars (of sports or pop music) syn
会社 會社 huì shè a guild / (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild / the Japanese word for company
一品 yī pǐn superb / first-rate / (of officials in imperial times) the highest rank syn
钱庄 錢莊 qián zhuāng old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949) / (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal syn
鼓噪 gǔ zào (in ancient times) to beat the drums and yell (at the moment of launching into battle) / to create a clamor / to make a din / to kick up a fuss about syn
错开 錯開 cuò kāi to stagger (times) syn
风雨同舟 風雨同舟 fēng yǔ tóng zhōu lit. in the same boat under wind and rain (idiom) / fig. to stick together in hard times syn
人次 rén cì person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
皇朝 huáng cháo the imperial court / the government in imperial times syn
保驾 保駕 bǎo jià (in former times) to escort the emperor (or other important personage) / (nowadays) to escort sb (usually jocular) syn
教头 教頭 jiào tóu sporting coach / military drill master (in Song times) syn
甘苦 gān kǔ good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse syn
银钱 銀錢 yín qián silver money (in former times) syn
账房 賬房 zhàng fáng an accounts office (in former times) / an accountant / a cashier
百闻不如一见 百聞不如一見 bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom) / seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing
铜钱 銅錢 tóng qián copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) syn
午时 午時 wǔ shí 11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
银票 銀票 yín piào (in former times) banknote with a value in silver
公使 gōng shǐ minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
俸禄 俸祿 fèng lù official's salary (in feudal times) syn
不识时务 不識時務 bù shí shí wù to show no understanding of the times (idiom) / cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason syn
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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