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东洋话 東洋話 dōng yáng huà Japanese (language) (old)
Chinese Pinyin Translation
语言誓约 語言誓約 yǔ yán shì yuē language pledge (to speak only the target language in a language school)
旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
老账 老賬 lǎo zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
空耳 kōng ěr to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
训读 訓讀 xùn dú a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
大和 dà hé Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc
老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn
卿 qīng high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) syn
口语 口語 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2]
普通话 普通話 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech syn
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
母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
粗口 cū kǒu swear words / obscene language / foul language
粗话 粗話 cū huà vulgar language / coarse language syn
藏文 zàng wén Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language
文饰 文飾 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over syn
语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data
北京语言学院 北京語言學院 běi jīng yǔ yán xué yuàn Beijing Language Institute / former name of 北京語言大學|北京语言大学[Bei3 jing1 Yu3 yan2 Da4 xue2] Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)
电脑语言 電腦語言 diàn nǎo yǔ yán programming language / computer language
人造语言 人造語言 rén zào yǔ yán artificial language / constructed language / conlang
祖语 祖語 zǔ yǔ proto-language / parent language (linguistics)
阿富汗语 阿富汗語 ā fù hàn yǔ Afghan (language) / Pashto language
语文资格考试 Language Proficiency Examination / Language Proficiency Exam
国家汉办 國家漢辦 guó jiā hàn bàn Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as "Hanban"), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, and has established Confucius Institutes 孔子學院|孔子学院[Kong3 zi3 Xue2 yuan4] internationally / abbr. to 漢辦|汉办[Han4 ban4]
西语 西語 xī yǔ western language / Spanish (language)
台山话 台山話 tái shān huà Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語|粤语[Yue4 yu3] spoken in Jiangmen 江門|江门[Jiang1 men2] and in the Chinatowns of North America
日语 日語 rì yǔ Japanese language
日文 rì wén Japanese (language)
音读 音讀 yīn dú reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
黏着语 黏著語 nián zhuó yǔ agglutinative language (e.g. Turkish and Japanese)
口嫌体正直 口嫌體正直 kǒu xián tǐ zhèng zhí your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (borrowed from Japanese)
老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn
老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn
故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river)
甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn
童叟无欺 童叟無欺 tóng sǒu wú qī cheating neither old nor young (idiom) / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
翻老账 翻老賬 fān lǎo zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
翻旧账 翻舊賬 fān jiù zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
老少无欺 老少無欺 lǎo shào wú qī cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
旧病复发 舊病復發 jiù bìng fù fā old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem 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
古语 古語 gǔ yǔ ancient language / old expression syn
文 wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 syn
洋文 yáng wén foreign language (esp. Western) (old)
日军 日軍 rì jūn Japanese army / Japanese troops
株式会社 株式會社 zhū shì huì shè Japanese limited company / corporation / public company / Ltd / p.l.c. / Corp / Japanese pr. kabushiki-gaisha
八路军 八路軍 bā lù jūn Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) syn
慰安妇 慰安婦 wèi ān fù comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
国耻 國恥 guó chǐ national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
大福 dà fú a great blessing / daifuku, a traditional Japanese sweet consisting of a soft, chewy outer layer made of glutinous rice (mochi) and a sweet filling, commonly red bean paste (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大福 "daifuku")
周作人 zhōu zuò rén Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
桃太郎 táo tài láng Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale / (Tw) Japanese person
浜 bīn Japanese variant of 濱|滨[bin1] / used in Japanese place names such as Yokohama 橫浜|横浜[Heng2 bin1] with phonetic value hama syn
辻 shí (Japanese kokuji) street corner / intersection / used in Japanese personal and place names / pr. tsuji
県 xiàn Japanese variant of 縣|县 / Japanese prefecture
明和 míng hé Minghe, rail station in South Taiwan / Meiwa (Japanese reign name 1764-1772) / Meiwa (common name for Japanese companies or schools)
中山成彬 zhōng shān chéng bīn NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943-), right-wing Japanese politician and prominent denier of Japanese war crimes
伊藤·博文 YitengBowen ITŌ Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin
円 yuán yen (Japanese currency) / Japanese variant of 圓|圆
刈羽 yì yǔ Kariba or Kariwa, Japanese name / Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟
畳 dié Japanese variant of 疊|叠[die2] / Japanese tatami matting
种子岛 種子島 zhǒng zi dǎo Tanegashima, Japanese Island off Kyushu, the Japanese space launch site
衆議院 zhòng yì yuàn Japanese variant of 眾議院|众议院 / the Japanese House of Representatives
鸠山 鳩山 jiū shān Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name / Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
摩斯拉 mó sī lā Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster
卡美拉 kǎ měi lā Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
拉顿 拉頓 lā dùn Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster
唐扬 唐揚 táng yáng Japanese-style fried food, usually chicken (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 唐揚げ "karaage")
匁 xx (Japanese kokuji) momme (Japanese unit of weight equal to 3.75 grams)
日人 rì rén Japanese person / the Japanese
形译 形譯 xíng yì derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合|场合[chang3 he2], derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")
曲线救国 曲線救國 qū xiàn jiù guó (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
出汁 chū zhī dashi (soup stock used in Japanese cuisine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese)
大坂 dà bǎn Japanese surname Osaka / old variant of 大阪[Da4ban3] (Osaka, city in Japan), used prior to the Meiji era
枚 méi classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4]) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy syn
倭 wō dwarf / Japanese (derog.) (old) syn
倭人 wō rén dwarf / (old) (derog.) Japanese person
倭军 倭軍 wō jūn Japanese army (derog.) (old)
玉露 yù lù gyokuro (shaded Japanese green tea) / (old) early-morning autumn dew / fine liquor
博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
小子 xiǎo zǐ (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) syn
老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn
古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn
打发 打發 dǎ fa to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老将 老將 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger syn
老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn
古风 古風 gǔ fēng old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] syn
喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn
食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route syn
白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn
者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this syn
寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn
老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn
解 xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
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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