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"Western skills" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
西艺 西藝 xī yì Western skills / in Qing times, refers to Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how
Chinese Pinyin Translation
锻炼 鍛煉 duàn liàn to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself syn
充电 充電 chōng diàn to recharge (a battery) / (fig.) to recharge one's batteries (through leisure) / to update one's skills and knowledge
演技 yǎn jì acting / performing skills
露一手 lòu yī shǒu to show off one's abilities / to exhibit one's skills syn
精炼 精煉 jīng liàn to refine (a substance) / to purify / to refine (one's skills, writing etc) / refined / polished / succinct / skilled / capable syn
失传 失傳 shī chuán (of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct syn
基本功 jī běn gōng basic skills / fundamentals syn
相加 xiāng jiā to add up (numbers) / (fig.) to put together (several things of the same type, e.g. skills)
西医 西醫 xī yī Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
功底 gōng dǐ training in the basic skills / knowledge of the fundamentals syn
登峰造极 登峰造極 dēng fēng zào jí to reach great heights (in technical skills or scholastic achievements) syn
两手 兩手 liǎng shǒu one's two hands / two prongs (of a strategy) / both aspects, eventualities etc / skills / expertise syn
尚武 shàng wǔ to promote a martial spirit / to revere military skills / warlike
中西医 中西醫 zhōng xī yī Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
道行 dào héng skills acquired through religious practice / (fig.) ability / skill / Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5]
厨艺 廚藝 chú yì cooking skills / culinary talent
基本技能 basic skills
不学无术 不學無術 bù xué wú shù without learning or skills (idiom) / ignorant and incompetent syn
红客 紅客 hóng kè "honker", Chinese hacker motivated by patriotism, using one's skills to protect domestic networks and work in national interest
扁鹊 扁鵲 biǎn què 秦越人[Qin2 Yue4 ren2] (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills, nicknamed Bian Que after the earliest known Chinese physician allegedly from the 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] era
三脚猫 三腳貓 sān jiǎo māo sb with only rudimentary skills (in a particular area)
面试技巧 miàn shì jì qiǎo interviewing skills
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)
花拳绣腿 花拳繡腿 huā quán xiù tuǐ flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom) / highly embellished and ineffectual / fancy but impractical skills / all show and no go / pugilistic wankery
传艺 傳藝 chuán yì to impart skills / to pass on one's art
菜 cài vegetable / greens (CL:棵[ke1]) / dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2]) / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor / (coll.) (one's) type syn
大放异彩 大放異彩 dà fàng yì cǎi to shine (of talents, skills, accomplishment) / to demonstrate extraordinary talent or skill
用武之地 yòng wǔ zhī dì ample scope for abilities / favorable position for the use of one's skills (idiom)
杂七杂八 雜七雜八 zá qī zá bā an assortment / a bit of everything / lots of different (skills) syn
宝刀不老 寶刀不老 bǎo dāo bù lǎo lit. a good sword always remains sharp (idiom) / fig. (of one's skills etc) to be as good as ever / the old man still has it syn
辩士 辯士 biàn shì eloquent person / person with rhetoric skills syn
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)
阳历 陽曆 yáng lì solar calendar / Western (Gregorian) calendar syn
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
西太平洋 xī tài píng yáng the western Pacific Ocean
新文化运动 新文化運動 xīn wén huà yùn dòng the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
西学 西學 xī xué Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
周朝 zhōu cháo Zhou Dynasty / Western Zhou 西周 (1046-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou 東周|东周 (770-221 BC)
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)
阿房宫 阿房宮 ē páng gōng Epang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2] / also pr. [E1 fang2 Gong1]
阿房宫 阿房宮 ē fáng gōng Efang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2] / also pr. [E1 pang2 Gong1]
星座运势 星座運勢 xīng zuò yùn shì (Western-style) horoscope
潘岳 pān yuè Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安[Pan1 An1], prominent Western Jin poet, also famous for his good looks, such that his name became a byword for "extremely handsome man"
刘安 劉安 liú ān Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[Huai2 nan2 zi5]
中国海 中國海 zhōng guó hǎi the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
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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