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"century egg" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
皮蛋 pí dàn century egg / preserved egg syn
松花蛋 sōng huā dàn century egg / preserved egg syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
他 tā (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he / him / his / (bound form) other / another / some other (as in 他日[ta1ri4] and 他人[ta1ren2]) syn
子 zǐ son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / (prefix) sub- syn
年代 nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
世纪 世紀 shì jì century / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
鸡蛋 雞蛋 jī dàn (chicken) egg / hen's egg / CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] syn
坏蛋 壞蛋 huài dàn bad egg / scoundrel / bastard syn
蛋白 dàn bái egg white / protein / albumen syn
蛋卷 dàn juǎn egg roll
蛋黄 蛋黃 dàn huáng egg yolk syn
百年 bǎi nián hundred years / century / lifetime syn
罗宾汉 羅賓漢 luó bīn hàn Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
春卷 春捲 chūn juǎn egg roll / spring roll
老本 lǎo běn capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk syn
花木兰 花木蘭 huā mù lán Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature
近代 jìn dài the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) syn
荷包蛋 hé bāo dàn poached egg / egg fried on both sides
弄巧成拙 nòng qiǎo chéng zhuō to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face syn
打散 dǎ sàn to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg) syn
蛋清 dàn qīng (coll.) egg white syn
中叶 中葉 zhōng yè mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period syn
活佛 huó fó Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century syn
摇旗呐喊 搖旗吶喊 yáo qí nà hǎn to wave flags and shout battle cries (idiom) / to egg sb on / to give support to syn
世纪末 世紀末 shì jì mò end of the century
国语 國語 guó yǔ Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC syn
近代史 jìn dài shǐ modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century)
三国 三國 sān guó Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1luo2] in 658
亚齐 亞齊 yà qí Aceh province of Indonesia in northwest Sumatra / Aceh sultanate 16th-19th century
新世纪 新世紀 xīn shì jì 21st century / New Century (commonly used name)
侵华 侵華 qīn huá to invade China (referring to 19th century imperialist powers and Japan)
咸鸭蛋 鹹鴨蛋 xián yā dàn salted duck egg
上世纪 上世紀 shàng shì jì last century
二十一世纪 二十一世紀 èr shí yī shì jì 21st century
二十世纪 二十世紀 èr shí shì jì 20th century
客家 kè jiā Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south syn
下半身 xià bàn shēn lower half of one's body / Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century) syn
无厘头 無厘頭 wú lí tóu silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century
倭寇 wō kòu Japanese pirates (in 16th and 17th century)
明末 míng mò late Ming / first half of the 17th century
战国时代 戰國時代 zhàn guó shí dài the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
吐蕃 tǔ bō Tubo or Tufan, old name for Tibet / the Tibetan Tubo dynasty 7th-11th century AD / also pr. [Tu3 fan1]
彩蛋 cǎi dàn painted eggshell / Easter egg / (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc) / post-credits scene
摩尼 mó ní Mani (3rd century AD), Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism
晚清 wǎn qīng the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China
下西洋 xià xī yáng to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和[Zheng4 He2] to regions bordering the Indian Ocean)
卵磷脂 luǎn lín zhī lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk)
妲己 dá jǐ Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛[Zhou4 Xin1]
商代 shāng dài the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
煎蛋 jiān dàn fried egg
李冰 lǐ bīng Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC) hydraulic engineer who designed the Dujiangyan 都江堰[Du1 jiang1 yan4] irrigation system in Sichuan
反清 fǎn qīng anti-Qing / refers to the revolutionary movements in late 19th and early 20th century leading up to 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4]
尔雅 爾雅 ěr yǎ "Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts
唐三藏 táng sān zàng Tripitaka, the central character of the 16th century novel "Journey to the West" 西遊記|西游记[Xi1you2Ji4], based on the monk Xuanzang 玄奘[Xuan2zang4] (602-664)
卵形 luǎn xíng oval / egg-shaped (leaves in botany)
鸡蛋清 雞蛋清 jī dàn qīng egg white
蛋挞 蛋撻 dàn tà egg tart (colloquial pr. [dan4ta3])
茶叶蛋 茶葉蛋 chá yè dàn tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
半世纪 半世紀 bàn shì jì half century
张骞 張騫 zhāng qiān Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
甲骨 jiǎ gǔ tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC) / oracle bones
徐福 xú fú Xu Fu (3rd century BC), Qin dynasty court necromancer
列子 liè zǐ Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国[Zhan4 guo2] / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋[Wei4 Jin4] (3rd century AD)
二十四史 èr shí sì shǐ the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story
蛋塔 dàn tǎ egg tart
千字文 qiān zì wén Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
蔺相如 藺相如 lìn xiāng rú Ling Xiangru (dates unknown, 3rd century BC), famous statesman of Zhao 趙國|赵国
广雅 廣雅 guǎng yǎ earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, 3rd century, modeled on Erya 爾雅|尔雅[Er3 ya3], 18150 entries
种蛋 種蛋 zhǒng dàn breeding egg
煮蛋 zhǔ dàn boiled egg
蛋品 dàn pǐn egg products / egg-based products
初叶 初葉 chū yè early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
蛋 dàn egg / CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] / oval-shaped thing syn
壳 殼 ké (coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc) / case / casing / housing (of a machine or device) syn
卵 luǎn egg / ovum / spawn / (coll.) testicles / (old) penis / (expletive) fucking syn
梗 gěng branch / stem / stalk / CL:根[gen1] / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) syn
西里尔 西里爾 xī lǐ ěr Cyril (name) / Saint Cyril, 9th century Christian missionary / Cyrillic
禹 yǔ Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods / surname Yu
未来派 未來派 wèi lái pài Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)
打蛋器 dǎ dàn qì egg beater
卵黄 卵黃 luǎn huáng egg yolk syn
坏分子 壞份子 huài fèn zǐ bad element / bad egg / troublemaker syn
肉蒲团 肉蒲團 ròu pú tuán The Carnal Prayer Mat, Chinese erotic novel from 17th century, usually attributed to Li Yu 李漁|李渔[Li3 Yu3]
卜辞 卜辭 bǔ cí oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones syn
水煮蛋 shuǐ zhǔ dàn boiled egg / soft-boiled egg
舜 shùn Shun (c. 23rd century BC), mythical sage and leader
埙 塤 xūn ocarina / wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes
安南 ān nán Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006
金沙 jīn shā gold dust / salted egg yolk sauce
左思 zuǒ sī Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet
杏林 xìng lín forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉[Dong3 Feng4], 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
以卵击石 以卵擊石 yǐ luǎn jī shí lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom) / to attempt the impossible / to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
擂鼓鸣金 擂鼓鳴金 léi gǔ míng jīn to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
击鼓鸣金 擊鼓鳴金 jī gǔ míng jīn to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
覆巢无完卵 覆巢無完卵 fù cháo wú wán luǎn lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)
蛋炒饭节 蛋炒飯節 dàn chǎo fàn jié Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
太阳蛋 太陽蛋 tài yang dàn fried egg / sunny-side-up egg
立蛋 lì dàn egg balancing (activity popular in China at Lichun 立春[Li4 chun1] etc) / to stand an egg on its broad end
流沙包 liú shā bāo salted egg custard bun / lava bun (steamed bun with a sweet runny egg custard filling, a popular dim sum)
温泉蛋 溫泉蛋 wēn quán dàn onsen tamago / hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water)
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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