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"Whampoa (old transliteration)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
黄埔 黃埔 huáng pǔ Huangpu District, Guangzhou / Whampoa (old transliteration) / Guangdong Harbor
Chinese Pinyin Translation
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
黄埔军校 黃埔軍校 huáng pǔ jūn xiào Whampoa Military Academy
和记黄埔 和記黃埔 hé jì huáng pǔ Hutchison Whampoa (former investment holding company based in Hong Kong, founded in 1863, defunct in 2015)
琶洲 pá zhōu Pazhou district in Guangzhou, Guangdong / Pazhou Island in Guangzhou, formerly called Whampoa, historical anchoring point for foreign trade ships
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
欧 歐 ōu (used for transliteration) / old variant of 謳|讴[ou1]
呋 fū used in transliteration, e.g. 呋喃[fu1 nan2], furan or 呋喃西林[fu1 nan2 xi1 lin2], furacilinum / old variant of 趺[fu1]
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
译名 譯名 yì míng translated names / transliteration
音译 音譯 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols syn
摩诃 摩訶 mó hē transliteration of Sanskrit mahā, great
译音 譯音 yì yīn phonetic transcription / transliteration syn
浮屠 fú tú Buddha / Buddhist stupa (transliteration of Pali thupo) syn
林卡 lín kǎ transliteration of Tibetan lingka: garden
阿 ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4] syn
洛 luò used in transliteration
弗 fú (literary) not / used in transliteration syn
莉 lì used in 茉莉[mo4li4] / used in the transliteration of female names
莎 shā katydid (family Tettigoniidae) / phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
吩 fēn used in 吩咐[fen1fu5] / used in transliteration of chemical compounds
茜 xī used in the transliteration of people's names syn
芭 bā an unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞[Chu3ci2] / used in 芭蕉[ba1jiao1] / used in transliteration
卟 bǔ used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds porphyrin 卟啉[bu3 lin2] and porphin 卟吩[bu3 fen1]
啉 lín used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉[bu3 lin2] and quinoline 喹啉[kui2 lin2]
哌 pài used in transliteration
噻 sāi used in transliteration
阇 闍 shé (used in transliteration from Sanskrit)
闍 shé used in Buddhist transliteration
表音 biǎo yīn phonetic / phonological / transliteration
伯多禄 伯多祿 bó duō lù Peter (Catholic transliteration)
依撒依亚 依撒依亞 yī sā yī yà Isaiah (Catholic transliteration)
嚟 lì used in transliteration
威氏注音法 威氏註音法 wēi shì zhù yīn fǎ Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese
安德肋 ān dé lèi Andrew (Catholic transliteration)
爱老虎你 愛老虎你 ài lǎo hǔ nǐ I love you (jocular transliteration from English)
拉匝禄 拉匝祿 lā zā lù Lazarus (Catholic transliteration)
拉撒路 lā sǎ lù Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
梵汉对音 梵漢對音 fàn hàn duì yīn Sanskrit-Chinese transliteration
法兰斯 法蘭斯 fǎ lán sī France (phonetic transliteration)
兰若 蘭若 lán rě Buddhist temple (transliteration of Sanskrit "Aranyakah") (abbr. for 阿蘭若|阿兰若[a1 lan2 re3])
閦 chù crowd / transliteration of Sanskrit 'kso', e.g. Aksobhya Buddha 阿閦佛
阇黎 闍黎 shé lí Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 闍梨|阇梨[she2 li2]
阿兰若 阿蘭若 ā lán rě Buddhist temple (transliteration of Sanskrit "Aranyakah")
阿阇梨 阿闍梨 ā shé lí Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 阿闍黎|阿阇黎[a1 she2 li2]
阿阇黎 阿闍黎 ā shé lí Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 阿闍梨|阿阇梨[a1 she2 li2]
乐蜀 樂蜀 lè shǔ Luxor, city in Egypt (Cantonese transliteration)
峇 bā (used in transliteration)
麻糬 má shǔ (transliteration of Japanese "mochi") sticky rice balls / mochi
义译 義譯 yì yì to translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯|音译[yin1yi4]) (e.g. 超文本[chao1wen2ben3], 火車|火车[huo3che1])
狗带 狗帶 gǒu dài (Internet slang) to go away / to slink off / (transliteration of "go die", possibly from 去死[qu4 si3])
拉撒路 lā sā lù Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
伽 gā used in the transliteration of Greek letters
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
宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn
士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker syn
京 jīng capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) syn
老马识途 老馬識途 lǎo mǎ shí tú an old horse knows the way (idiom) / an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes syn
州 zhōu prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
曹 cáo class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old) syn
牧 mù to herd / to breed livestock / to govern (old) / government official (old) syn
穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默
卢 盧 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
岂 豈 kǎi old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3] syn
廉 lián incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) syn
蒸 zhēng to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) syn
牟 móu barley / to moo / to seek or obtain / old variant of 侔[mou2] / old variant of 眸[mou2] syn
桢 楨 zhēn (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction / (fig.) mainstay / pillar / backbone
叟 sǒu old gentleman / old man syn
嬴 yíng old variant of 贏|赢[ying2], to win, to profit / old variant of 盈[ying2], full
邕 yōng city surrounded by a moat / old variant of 雍[yong1] / old variant of 壅[yong1]
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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