"beard" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 胡须 鬍鬚 | beard / CL:根[gen1],綹|绺[liu3] | syn | |
| 胡子 鬍子 | beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1] / (coll.) bandit | syn | |
| 须 鬚 | beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel | syn | |
| 胡 鬍 | beard / mustache / whiskers | syn | |
| 髯 | beard / whiskers | syn | |
| 耏 | beard | ||
| 髯须 髯鬚 | beard / whiskers |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 老生 | venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera) | syn | |
| 络腮胡子 絡腮鬍子 | full beard | syn | |
| 长出 長出 | to sprout (leaves, buds, a beard etc) | syn | |
| 须发 鬚髮 | hair and beard | ||
| 芒种 芒種 | Mangzhong or Grain in Beard, 9th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th June | ||
| 蓄 | to store up / to grow (e.g. a beard) / to entertain (ideas) | syn | |
| 蓄须明志 蓄鬚明志 | to grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳[Mei2 Lan2 fang1] growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese) | ||
| 不让须眉 不讓鬚眉 | (idiom) to compare favorably with men in terms of ability, bravery etc / to be a match for men / lit. not conceding to men (beard and eyebrows) | ||
| 假借义 假借義 | the meaning of a phonetic loan character 假借字[jia3 jie4 zi4] acquired from a similar-sounding word (e.g. 而[er2] originally meant "beard" but acquired the meaning "and") | ||
| 头发胡子一把抓 頭髮鬍子一把抓 | lit. hair and beard all in one stroke / fig. to handle different things by the same method / one method to solve all problems / one size fits all | ||
| 胡茬 鬍茬 | beard stubble | ||
| 胡髭 鬍髭 | beard and mustache | ||
| 拉碴 | (of beard etc) stubbly / scraggly / unkempt | ||
| 髯口 | artificial beard worn by Chinese opera actors | ||
| 胡碴 鬍碴 | beard stubble / Taiwan pr. [hu2 cha2] | ||
| 磨刀不误砍柴工 磨刀不誤砍柴工 | lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved | ||
| 龙须糖 龍鬚糖 | dragon's beard candy, a Chinese confection made from floured taffy pulled into flossy strands | ||
| 蓄须 蓄鬚 | to grow a beard |