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"Western calendar" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
西历 西曆 xī lì Gregorian calendar / Western calendar
Chinese Pinyin Translation
日子 rì zi day / a (calendar) date / days of one's life syn
公 gōng public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) syn
望 朢 wàng 15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of 望[wang4] syn
日历 日曆 rì lì calendar / CL:張|张[zhang1],本[ben3]
民国 民國 mín guó Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
西医 西醫 xī yī Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
月历 月曆 yuè lì monthly calendar
挂历 掛曆 guà lì wall calendar
阴历 陰曆 yīn lì lunar calendar syn
纪元 紀元 jì yuán calendar era / epoch syn
历法 歷法 lì fǎ variant of 曆法|历法 calendar
闰年 閏年 rùn nián leap year / (lunar calendar) year with a thirteen intercalary month
年历 年曆 nián lì calendar / diary
灯节 燈節 dēng jié the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar) syn
农历 農曆 nóng lì the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar syn
公历 公曆 gōng lì Gregorian calendar / solar calendar syn
小春 xiǎo chūn 10th month of the lunar calendar / Indian summer / crops sown in late autumn syn
台历 檯曆 tái lì desk calendar
天干 tiān gān the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
纪年 紀年 jì nián to number the years / calendar era / annals / chronicle
阳历 陽曆 yáng lì solar calendar / Western (Gregorian) calendar syn
中西医 中西醫 zhōng xī yī Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
西元 xī yuán (Tw) Christian era / Gregorian calendar / AD (Anno Domini)
元宵节 元宵節 yuán xiāo jié Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar syn
万年历 萬年曆 wàn nián lì perpetual calendar / ten thousand year calendar / Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁
行事历 行事曆 xíng shì lì calendar / schedule
初秋 chū qiū early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar
地支 dì zhī the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
刘毅 劉毅 liú yì Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265-316) / Liu Yi (-412), general of Eastern Jin dynasty 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317-420)
仲秋 仲鞦 zhòng qiū second month of autumn / 8th month of the lunar calendar syn
闰月 閏月 rùn yuè intercalary month in the lunar calendar / leap month
旧历 舊曆 jiù lì old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历[nong2 li4] syn
旧年 舊年 jiù nián last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar) syn
夏历 夏曆 xià lì the traditional Chinese lunar calendar syn
腊八粥 臘八粥 là bā zhōu Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
中伏 zhōng fú the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year syn
虚岁 虛歲 xū suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
新历 新曆 xīn lì Gregorian calendar / solar calendar
节 節 jié joint / node / (bound form) section / segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize / to save / (bound form) moral integrity / chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) syn
逢 féng to meet by chance / to come across / (of a calendar event) to come along / (of an event) to fall on (a particular day) / to fawn upon syn
闰 閏 rùn intercalary / an extra day or month inserted into the lunar or solar calendar (such as February 29)
古尔邦节 古爾邦節 gǔ ěr bāng jié Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
校历 校曆 xiào lì school calendar
将 將 jiàng (bound form) a general / (literary) to command / to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) syn
马 馬 mǎ horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess syn
西装 西裝 xī zhuāng suit / Western-style clothes / CL:套[tao4] syn
西部 xī bù western part syn
咪咪 mī mī oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc / (onom.) meow / kitty kitty! / Mimi (Western name) / tits (i.e. slang for breasts) syn
西方 xī fāng the West / the Occident / Western countries syn
歌剧 歌劇 gē jù Western opera / CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1] syn
西服 xī fú suit / Western-style clothes (historical usage) syn
西边 西邊 xī biān west / west side / western part / to the west of syn
洋娃娃 yáng wá wa doll (of Western appearance)
海地 hǎi dì Haiti, the western third of Caribbean island Hispaniola
西天 xī tiān the Western Paradise (Buddhism) syn
长笛 長笛 cháng dí (Western) concert flute
西点 西點 xī diǎn Western-style pastry
西欧 西歐 xī ōu Western Europe
西部片 xī bù piàn Western (film)
归西 歸西 guī xī to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise) syn
启蒙 啟蒙 qǐ méng to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty syn
洋装 洋裝 yáng zhuāng Western-style dress syn
净土 淨土 jìng tǔ (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit) syn
绿林 綠林 lù lín place in Hubei, the starting point for a major rebellion at the end of Western Han / also pr. [Lu:4 lin2] syn
西半球 xī bàn qiú Western Hemisphere
西式 xī shì Western style
西餐 xī cān Western-style food / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4] syn
帕斯 pà sī Perth, capital of Western Australia
中原 zhōng yuán Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei syn
周公 zhōu gōng Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2], played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], and is also known as the "God of Dreams"
西域 xī yù Western Regions (Han Dynasty term for regions beyond Yumen Pass 玉門關|玉门关[Yu4 men2 Guan1])
西汉 西漢 xī hàn Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 前漢|前汉[Qian2 Han4], Former Han Dynasty
西药 西藥 xī yào Western medicine
新军 新軍 xīn jūn New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
西周 xī zhōu Western Zhou (1027-771 BC)
洋气 洋氣 yáng qì Western style / foreign flavor / trendy / fashionable syn
华山 華山 huà shān Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]
中西 zhōng xī China and the West / Chinese-Western
元月 yuán yuè first month (of either lunar or Western calendars) syn
西文 xī wén Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
洋货 洋貨 yáng huò Western goods / imported goods (in former times) syn
西端 xī duān western extremity
协约国 協約國 xié yuē guó Allies / entente (i.e. Western powers allied to China in WW1)
天马 天馬 tiān mǎ (mythology) celestial horse / fine horse / Ferghana horse / (Western mythology) Pegasus
西方国家 西方國家 xī fāng guó jiā Western countries
中西医结合 中西醫結合 zhōng xī yī jié hé to combine traditional Chinese and Western medicine
西夏 xī xià Western Xia dynasty 1038-1227 of Tangut people 黨項|党项 occupying modern Ningxia and parts of Gansu and Shaanxi, overthrown by Mongols
西郊 xī jiāo western suburbs
齐国 齊國 qí guó Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong
西方文化 xī fāng wén huà Western culture
弥陀 彌陀 mí tuó Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Paradise / abbr. for 阿彌陀佛|阿弥陀佛 / Mituo or Mito township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[Gao1 xiong2 xian4], southwest Taiwan
革履 gé lǚ leather (shoes) / fig. Western dress syn
川西 chuān xī Western Sichuan
张华 張華 zhāng huà Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention
乡村音乐 鄉村音樂 xiāng cūn yīn yuè country music (country & western music genre)
西晋 西晉 xī jìn Western Jin dynasty (265-316)
铜鼓 銅鼓 tóng gǔ bronze drum / (Western-style) drum
十二宫 十二宮 shí èr gōng the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊[Bai2 yang2], Taurus 金牛[Jin4 niu2], Gemini 雙子|双子[Shuang1 zi3], Cancer 巨蟹[Ju4 xie4], Leo 獅子|狮子[Shi1 zi3], Virgo 室女[Shi4 nu:3], Libra 天秤[Tian1 cheng4], Scorpio 天蠍|天蝎[Tian1 xie1], Sagittarius 人馬|人马[Ren2 ma3], Capricorn 摩羯[Mo2 jie2], Aquarius 寶瓶|宝瓶[Bao3 ping2], Pisces 雙魚|双鱼[Shuang1 yu2]
两汉 兩漢 liǎng hàn Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) / refers to the Western Han and Eastern Han
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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