"chapters" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Part of speech	Translation	Actions
回逥	huí	v., m.w.	to go back / to return / to turn back / to turn around / to reply / to answer / classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book) / classifier for occurrences or times / to curve / to revolve	syn
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)
章回小说章回小說	zhāng huí xiǎo shuō		novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet
齣	chū		to go out / to come out / to arise / to occur / to produce / to yield / to go beyond / to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc / variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
九章算术九章算術	jiǔ zhāng suàn shù		The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
囘	huí		to go back / to return / to turn back / to turn around / to reply / to answer / classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book) / classifier for occurrences or times / to curve / to return / to revolve / variant of 回[hui2]
残卷殘卷	cán juàn		surviving section of a classic work / remaining chapters (while reading a book)
民国通俗演义民國通俗演義	mín guó tōng sú yǎn yì		Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩\|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父\|许廑父
囬	huí		to go back / to return / to turn back / to turn around / to reply / to answer / classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book) / classifier for occurrences or times / to curve / to return / to revolve / variant of 回[hui2]
回数回數	huí shù		number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number
断章摘句斷章摘句	duàn zhāng zhāi jù		(idiom) To cut up chapters and take out sentences to compose a text. It can also mean extracting passages out of context, and is often associated with plagiarism.
典谟训诰	diǎn mó xùn gào		(idiom) 1. A collective name for several chapters of the Classic of Documents, including the Yaodian, the Dayu Counsels, the Tang Proclamation, and the Yi Instructions. 2.
搜章擿句	sōu zhāng tī jù		(idiom) To search through texts and extract chapters and sentences.
章句之徒	zhāng jù zhī tú		(idiom) Refers to Confucian scholars who cannot grasp the broader meaning and rigidly cling to analyzing chapters and sentences.

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