"burned lime" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 煅石灰 煆石灰 | burned lime / burnt lime / calx / unslaked lime / quicklime | syn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 焦头烂额 焦頭爛額 | lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed / under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc) | syn | |
| 石灰 | lime (calcium oxide) | syn | |
| 莱姆 萊姆 | lime (loanword) | ||
| 过火 過火 | to go too far / to go overboard (in words or actions) / over the top / excessive / burned | syn | |
| 烧焦 燒焦 | to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred | ||
| 灰 | ash / dust / lime / gray / discouraged / dejected | syn | |
| 抱佛脚 抱佛腳 | lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet (without ever having burned incense) (idiom) / fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble / panic measures in place of timely preparation | syn | |
| 泥灰 | lime plaster (construction) | ||
| 人财两空 人財兩空 | (idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well / to get burned both romantically and financially | ||
| 熟石灰 | slaked lime / hydrated lime | syn | |
| 回禄之灾 回祿之災 | to have one's house burned down / fire disaster | ||
| 无路可退 無路可退 | without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges | ||
| 纸锭 紙錠 | paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead) | ||
| 冥币 冥幣 | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | ||
| 冥钞 冥鈔 | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | ||
| 三合土 | traditional Chinese building material made by mixing three components (typically lime, clay, and sand) | syn | |
| 氢氧化钙 氫氧化鈣 | calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime | ||
| 消石灰 | calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime | syn | |
| 磷灰粉 | apatite (phosphatic lime) | ||
| 羟基磷灰石 羥基磷灰石 | hydroxy-apatite (phosphatic lime deposited in bone) | ||
| 胶黐 膠黐 | bird-lime / wood glue | ||
| 酸橙 | lime (fruit) | ||
| 青柠 青檸 | lime (fruit) | ||
| 青柠色 青檸色 | lime (color) / greenish yellow | ||
| 石灰位 | lime potential | ||
| 喷洒石灰干燥法 噴灑石灰幹燥法 | lime spray drying | ||
| 非市场石灰生产 非市場石灰生產 | non-marketed lime production | ||
| 青柠檬 青檸檬 | lime (fruit) | ||
| 溜 | swift current / rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled / proficient / (of movements) quick / speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings / neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster / to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) | syn |