"Samotherium (early giraffe)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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萨摩麟 薩摩麟 sà mó lín Samotherium (early giraffe)
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
山西兽 山西獸 shān xī shòu Shansitherium fuguensis (early giraffe)
早期 zǎo qī early period / early phase / early stage syn
早睡早起 zǎo shuì zǎo qǐ early to bed, early to rise / to keep early hours
早睡早起 zǎo shuì - zǎo qǐ early to bed, early to rise / to keep early hours
麒麟 qí lín (Chinese mythology) qilin / (old) giraffe syn
长颈鹿 長頸鹿 cháng jǐng lù giraffe / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
早日 zǎo rì soon / at an early date / the early days / the past syn
早退 zǎo tuì to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
顾炎武 顧炎武 gù yán wǔ Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录
虞世南 yú shì nán Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]
早播 zǎo bō to plant early / to sow seeds in early spring
饥荒预警系统 飢荒預警系統 jī huāng yù jǐng xì tǒng Famine Early Warning System / Famine Early Warning System Network
早报警,早行动 早報警,早行動 Early Warning Early Action
早期幼儿启发教育 早期幼兒啟發教育 early childhood stimulation / early stimulation
一日之计在于晨 一日之計在於晨 yī rì zhī jì zài yú chén make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom) / early morning is the golden time of the day
少年 shào nián early youth / youngster / (literary) youth / young man syn
先后 先後 xiān hòu early or late / first and last / priority / in succession / one after another syn
早上 zǎo shang early morning / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
前期 qián qī preceding period / early stage syn
早在 zǎo zài as early as
早晨 zǎo chén early morning / CL:個|个[ge4] / also pr. [zao3chen5] syn
凌晨 líng chén very early in the morning / in the wee hours syn
清晨 qīng chén early morning syn
小儿 小兒 xiǎo r (coll.) early childhood / baby boy syn
预警 預警 yù jǐng warning / early warning
一早 yī zǎo early in the morning / at dawn syn
尽早 儘早 jǐn zǎo as early as possible syn
上古 shàng gǔ the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times syn
开局 開局 kāi jú opening (chess etc) / early stage of game, match, work, activity etc syn
早年 zǎo nián many years ago / in the past / in one's early years syn
早起 zǎo qǐ to get up early syn
早熟 zǎo shú precocious / early-maturing syn
甲骨文 jiǎ gǔ wén oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he / him / his / (bound form) other / another / some other (as in 他日[ta1ri4] and 他人[ta1ren2]) syn
下半身 xià bàn shēn lower half of one's body / Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century) syn
适才 適才 shì cái just now / a moment ago (often used in the early vernacular) syn
早春 zǎo chūn early spring syn
大哥大 dà gē dà cell phone (bulky, early-model one) / brick phone / mob boss syn
都督 dū dū (army) commander-in-chief (archaic) / provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
初夏 chū xià early summer syn
初夜 chū yè early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
诗经 詩經 shī jīng Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
郑和 鄭和 zhèng hé Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer
学前教育 學前教育 xué qián jiào yù preschool education / early childhood education
早逝 zǎo shì early demise / untimely death syn
咱家 zá jiā I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature) syn
初年 chū nián early years
清明节 清明節 qīng míng jié Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
中班 zhōng bān middle shift / swing shift / early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4-5 year olds)
近代史 jìn dài shǐ modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century)
预警系统 預警系統 yù jǐng xì tǒng early warning system
初秋 chū qiū early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar
梅雨 méi yǔ East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) syn
初冬 chū dōng early winter
晚清 wǎn qīng the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China
左传 左傳 zuǒ zhuàn Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
捷足先登 jié zú xiān dēng the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served syn
襁褓 qiǎng bǎo swaddling clothes / fig. early stage of development / infancy syn
早稻 zǎo dào early season rice / rice at transplanting or still unripe
hái still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else syn
预警机 預警機 yù jǐng jī early warning aircraft system, e.g. US AWACS
预警机制 預警機制 early warning mechanism
督军 督軍 dū jūn provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD) syn
华灯初上 華燈初上 huá dēng chū shàng early evening when lanterns are first lit
反清 fǎn qīng anti-Qing / refers to the revolutionary movements in late 19th and early 20th century leading up to 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4]
稍早 shāo zǎo a little early
李大钊 李大釗 lǐ dà zhāo Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party
大总统 大總統 dà zǒng tǒng president (primarily used during the early years of the Republic of China, 1912-1928)
王世充 wáng shì chōng Wang Shichong (-621), general of late Sui and opponent of early Tang
提前退休 tí qián tuì xiū early retirement
不平等条约 不平等條約 bù píng děng tiáo yuē (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
王勃 wáng bó Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2]
早班 zǎo bān early shift / morning work shift
早婚 zǎo hūn to marry too early
列子 liè zǐ Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国[Zhan4 guo2] / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋[Wei4 Jin4] (3rd century AD)
起早贪黑 起早貪黑 qǐ zǎo tān hēi to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late syn
旧唐书 舊唐書 jiù táng shū History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
李渔 李漁 lǐ yú Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist
早秋 zǎo qiū early autumn
李四光 lǐ sì guāng Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration
天演 tiān yǎn natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
骆宾王 駱賓王 luò bīn wáng Luo Binwang (640-684), one of Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2]
初叶 初葉 chū yè early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
笨鸟先飞 笨鳥先飛 bèn niǎo xiān fēi lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom) / fig. to work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities syn
电木 電木 diàn mù bakelite (early plastic) / also written 膠木|胶木[jiao1 mu4] syn
zǎo early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely syn
唐书 唐書 táng shū same as 舊唐書|旧唐书[Jiu4 Tang2 shu1], History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
苏美尔 蘇美爾 sū měi ěr Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East
欧阳询 歐陽詢 ōu yáng xún Ouyang Xun (557-641), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]
垂髫 chuí tiáo hair hanging down (child's hairstyle) / (fig.) young child / early childhood syn
天演论 天演論 tiān yǎn lùn the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
千金方 qiān jīn fāng Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈[Sun1 Si1 miao3]
(literary) sunlight (usu. in early morning) syn
morning / early / long-held / long-cherished syn
late-planted early-ripening grain
tóng early-planted late-ripening grain
zhí early-planted crop
早出晚归 早出晚歸 zǎo chū wǎn guī to leave early and return late (idiom) syn
豆蔻年华 豆蔻年華 dòu kòu nián huá (of a girl) 13 or 14 years old / early teens / adolescence 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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