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"Second Committee" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
第二委员会 第二委員會 Second Committee / Economic and Financial Committee
Chinese Pinyin Translation
次 cì next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time syn
二等 èr děng second class / second-rate
二流 èr liú second-rate / second-tier syn
次于 次於 cì yú second after / second only to syn
管委会 管委會 guǎn wěi huì administrative committee / management committee / abbr. for 管理委員會|管理委员会[guan3 li3 wei3 yuan2 hui4]
二世 èr shì the Second (of numbered kings) / second generation (e.g. Chinese Americans)
计划委员会 計劃委員會 jì huà wěi yuán huì Regional Plan Committee / Plan Committee
二副 èr fù second officer (of ship) / second mate
第二次 dì èr cì the second time / second / number two
二次 èr cì second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
常委 cháng wěi standing committee (abbr. for 常務委員會|常务委员会[chang2wu4 wei3yuan2hui4]) / member of the standing committee (abbr. for 常務委員|常务委员[chang2wu4 wei3yuan2])
管理委员会 管理委員會 guǎn lǐ wěi yuán huì administrative committee / management committee
中共中央办公厅 中共中央辦公廳 zhōng gòng zhōng yāng bàn gōng tīng General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP, responsible for technical and logistical matters relating to the Central Committee / abbr. to 中辦|中办[Zhong1 Ban4]
秒 miǎo second (unit of time) / arc second (angular measurement unit) / (coll.) instantly
乙 yǐ second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
仲 zhòng second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers syn
国家计划委员会 國家計劃委員會 guó jiā jì huà wěi yuán huì PRC State Planning Committee, set up in 1952, replaced in 1998 by State Development and Planning Committee 國家發展計劃委員會|国家发展计划委员会[Guo2 jia1 Fa1 zhan3 Ji4 hua4 Wei3 yuan2 hui4] then in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会[Guo2 jia1 Fa1 zhan3 he2 Gai3 ge2 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]
下 xià down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action syn
从 從 zòng second cousin syn
行 háng row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column syn
第二 dì èr second / number two / next / secondary syn
亚 亞 yà second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3] syn
老二 lǎo èr second-eldest child in a family / (euphemism) penis syn
一瞬间 一瞬間 yī shùn jiān split second syn
再生 zài shēng to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration syn
二级 二級 èr jí grade 2 / second class / category B
二手 èr shǒu indirectly acquired / second-hand (information, equipment etc) / assistant
少尉 shào wèi second lieutenant (army rank)
似曾相识 似曾相識 sì céng xiāng shí déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time) / seemingly familiar / apparently already acquainted
二月 èr yuè February / second month (of the lunar year) syn
旧货 舊貨 jiù huò second-hand goods / used items for sale syn
亚军 亞軍 yà jūn second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
人称 人稱 rén chēng person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as
二手货 二手貨 èr shǒu huò second-hand goods / used goods
二手车 二手車 èr shǒu chē second-hand car
义无反顾 義無反顧 yì wú fǎn gù honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom) / duty-bound not to turn back / no surrender / to pursue justice with no second thoughts syn
仲夏 zhòng xià midsummer / second month of summer syn
二把手 èr bǎ shǒu deputy leader / the second-in-command syn
数一数二 數一數二 shǔ yī shǔ èr (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best / one of the very best / (idiom) to list one by one syn
仅次于 僅次于 jǐn cì yú second only to ... / ranking behind only ... syn
旧书 舊書 jiù shū second-hand book / old book / ancient book syn
转念 轉念 zhuǎn niàn to have second thoughts about sth / to think better of
其二 qí èr secondly / the other (usu. of two) / the second syn
扬长而去 揚長而去 yáng cháng ér qù to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
争分夺秒 爭分奪秒 zhēng fēn duó miǎo lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom) / a race against time / making every second count syn
次子 cì zǐ second son
秒钟 秒鐘 miǎo zhōng (time) second
刹那 剎那 chà nà an instant (Sanskrit: ksana) / split second / the twinkling of an eye syn
分秒必争 分秒必爭 fēn miǎo bì zhēng seize every minute and second (idiom) / not a minute to lose / every moment counts syn
首屈一指 shǒu qū yī zhǐ to count as number one (idiom) / second to none / outstanding syn
下半年 xià bàn nián second half of the year
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
阳平 陽平 yáng píng evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua syn
征调 征調 zhēng diào to conscript / to second (personnel) / to requisition (supplies etc)
二分 èr fēn second part / the equinox
二房 èr fáng second branch of an extended family / concubine syn
再版 zài bǎn second edition / reprint syn
秒针 秒針 miǎo zhēn second hand (of a clock)
复试 復試 fù shì to sit for the second round of a two-stage exam
乙巳 yǐ sì forty-second year B6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1965 or 2025
罗城 羅城 luó chéng a second wall built around a city wall
霎时 霎時 shà shí in a split second syn
兼营 兼營 jiān yíng a second job / supplementary way of making a living
霎时间 霎時間 shà shí jiān in a split second syn
歇后语 歇後語 xiē hòu yǔ anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)
李四 lǐ sì Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四, 王五[Wang2 Wu3] Tom, Dick and Harry
次女 cì nǚ second daughter
孟子 mèng zǐ Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius / book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism
次之 cì zhī to rank second (in terms of some attribute: size, frequency, quality etc) syn
乙未 yǐ wèi thirty-second year B8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1955 or 2015
见缝插针 見縫插針 jiàn fèng chā zhēn lit. to see a gap and stick in a needle (idiom) / fig. to make use of every second and every inch syn
平声 平聲 píng shēng level or even tone / first and second tones in modern Mandarin
附议 附議 fù yì to second a motion
二手房 èr shǒu fáng second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
二哥 èr gē second brother
第二代 dì èr dài second generation
第二轮 第二輪 dì èr lún second round (of match, or election)
大二 dà èr second-year university student
二代 èr dài second generation
第二位 dì èr wèi second place
壮族 壯族 zhuàng zú Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group
二奶 èr nǎi mistress / second wife / lover syn
千兆 qiān zhào giga- / (computer networking) gigabits per second / 1000Base-T
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
二度 èr dù again / twice / (music) second (i.e. an interval between adjacent notes)
李世民 lǐ shì mín Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗[Tang2 Tai4 zong1] (599-649), reigned 626-649
第二季度 dì èr jì dù second quarter (of financial year)
成性 chéng xìng to become second nature / by nature
太宗 tài zōng posthumous name given to the second emperor of a dynasty / King Taejong of Joseon Korea (1367-1422), reigned 1400-1418
乙酉 yǐ yǒu twenty-second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065
第二职业 第二職業 dì èr zhí yè second job
汉书 漢書 hàn shū History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
顺治 順治 shùn zhì reign name of second Qing emperor (1644-1662)
春联 春聯 chūn lián Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) syn
榜眼 bǎng yǎn candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination / see 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]
宋庆龄 宋慶齡 sòng qìng líng Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1], influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
卢沟桥 盧溝橋 lú gōu qiáo Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1]
耐看 nài kàn able to withstand careful appreciation / well worth a second look
宋美龄 宋美齡 sòng měi líng Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife
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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