"blank slate" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
白板 bái bǎn whiteboard / tabula rasa / blank slate
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
bái white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera syn
空白 kòng bái blank space syn
填补 填補 tián bǔ to fill a gap / to fill in a blank (on a form) / to overcome a deficiency syn
填充 tián chōng to fill up / to stuff / to fill in a blank space syn
石板 shí bǎn slab / flagstone / slate
开天窗 開天窗 kāi tiān chuāng to leave a blank to mark censored area
空格 kòng gé blank / blank space on a form / space / 囗 (indicating missing or illegible character)
填空 tián kòng to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper) syn
白卷 bái juàn blank exam paper
板岩 bǎn yán slate
留空 liú kōng leave blank spaces in writing
留空 liú kòng to leave blank space in a document / to leave some time free
无表情 無表情 wú biǎo qíng expressionless / wooden (expression) / blank (face)
充填 chōng tián to fill (gap, hole, area, blank) / to pad out / to complement / (dental) filling / filled syn
dāi stupid (variant of 呆[dai1]) / blank (variant of 呆[dai1]) syn
lèng to look distracted / to stare blankly / distracted / blank / (coll.) unexpectedly / rash / rashly syn
空包弹 空包彈 kōng bāo dàn blank cartridge
blank (e.g. for a coin) / unburnt earthenware / semifinished product / Taiwan pr. [pei1] syn
补白 補白 bǔ bái to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout) / to make some additional remarks / filler (in a newspaper or magazine)
无字碑 無字碑 wú zì bēi stone tablet without inscription / blank stele
kōng ignorant / blank-minded
放空炮 fàng kōng pào (lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises syn
白板原则 白板原則 bái pàn yuán zé clean slate principle / clean slate rule
严厉批评 嚴厲批評 yán lì pī píng to criticize severely / to slate
石板瓦 shí bǎn wǎ slate tile
解理 jiě lǐ cleavage (splitting of minerals such as slate along planes)
解理方向 jiě lǐ fāng xiàng direction of cleavage (e.g. of slate)
解理面 jiě lǐ miàn cleavage plane (e.g. of slate)
政党提名竞选制 政黨提名競選制 party-slate system
仿纸 仿紙 fǎng zhǐ copying paper (with printed model characters and blank squares for writing practice)
坯件 pī jiàn blank (for a coin etc) / breed or strain
板脸 板臉 bǎn liǎn to put on a straight, stern or blank face / to put on a poker face syn
发直 發直 fā zhí to stare / to look blank / to be fixed (of eyes)
白碑 bái bēi stone tablet without inscription / blank stele
白票 bái piào blank vote / abstention
硬币坯 硬幣坯 yìng bì pī coin blank
空白支票 kòng bái zhī piào blank check
空样 blank
瞠目以对 瞠目以對 chēng mù yǐ duì to return only a blank stare / to stare back
垫档 墊檔 diàn dàng to fill a blank space / to fill a slot (in a newspaper column, a TV program etc)
田格本 tián gé běn exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
齐头式 齊頭式 qí tóu shì treating everyone the same, regardless of individual differences / one-size-fits-all approach / (typesetting) block paragraphs (no indenting, and blank space between each paragraph)
填充题 填充題 tián chōng tí fill-in-the-blank question
片头 片頭 piān tóu leader (blank section at the beginning or end of a reel of film)
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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