曲线 曲線 qū xiàn curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way 绕道 繞道 rào dào to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass syn 弱小 ruò xiǎo small and weak / puny / the small and weak / children / women and children syn 慈爱 慈愛 cí ài love / devotion (to children) / affection, esp. towards children syn 拐弯抹角 拐彎抹角 guǎi wān mò jiǎo lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush syn 迂回 迂迴 yū huí roundabout route / circuitous / tortuous / to outflank / indirect / roundabout syn 弯路 彎路 wān lù winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth) syn 拖沓 tuō tà dilatory / sluggish / muddled / roundabout syn 少年宫 少年宮 shào nián gōng Children's Palace, institution where children can take part in various extracurricular activities 环岛 環島 huán dǎo traffic circle / rotary / roundabout / to travel around an island 六一儿童节 六一兒童節 liù yī ér tóng jié Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14 委 wěi to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly syn 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 大小 dà xiǎo large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate syn 童话 童話 tóng huà children's fairy tales 玩耍 wán shuǎ to play (as children do) / to amuse oneself syn 子女 zǐ nǚ children / sons and daughters syn 儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) syn 跟前 gēn qian (of children, parents etc) at one's side / living with one syn 哈利波特 hā lì bō tè Harry Potter (children's book character) 纳尼亚 納尼亞 nà ní yà Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis 亲情 親情 qīn qíng affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children syn 滑梯 huá tī (children's) sliding board / a slide 膝下 xī xià at the knee (in reference to children) / (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents) syn 生养 生養 shēng yǎng to bring up (children) / to raise / to bear syn 保育 bǎo yù to look after (children) / childcare / to protect (wildlife, cultural heritage etc) / conservation syn 生子 shēng zǐ to give birth to a child or children 家小 jiā xiǎo wife and children / wife syn 超生 chāo shēng (Buddhism) to be reincarnated / (fig.) to be lenient / to spare sb / to have more children than allowed under family planning policy syn 儿童节 兒童節 ér tóng jié Children's Day 娃儿 娃兒 wá ér children (colloquial) syn 童装 童裝 tóng zhuāng children's clothing syn 压岁钱 壓歲錢 yā suì qián money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve 家眷 jiā juàn one's wife and children syn 童趣 tóng qù qualities that delight children (e.g. bold colors in a picture, anthropomorphized characters in a TV show, the physical challenge of playground equipment) syn 怕生 pà shēng fear of strangers / to be afraid of strangers (of small children) syn 妇幼 婦幼 fù yòu women and children 王孙 王孫 wáng sūn children of the nobility syn 入学率 入學率 rù xué lǜ percentage of children who enter school 妻子 qī zǐ wife and children syn 孩子们 孩子們 hái zi men children 少儿不宜 少兒不宜 shào ér bù yí not suitable for children 教子 jiào zǐ to educate one's children / godson 生育能力 shēng yù néng lì fertility / ability to have children 小熊维尼 小熊維尼 xiǎo xióng wéi ní Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney) 失学儿童 失學儿童 shī xué r tóng out-of-school children 小人书 小人書 xiǎo rén shū children's picture story book / CL:本[ben3] syn 惊风 驚風 jīng fēng infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms) 相夫教子 xiàng fū jiào zǐ to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife 叶圣陶 葉聖陶 yè shèng táo Ye Shengtao (1894-1988), writer and editor, known esp. for children's books 家训 家訓 jiā xùn instructions to one's children / family precepts 联合国儿童基金会 聯合國兒童基金會 lián hé guó ér tóng jī jīn huì United Nations Children's Fund / UNICEF 国际儿童节 國際兒童節 guó jì ér tóng jié International Children's Day (June 1) 六亲 六親 liù qīn six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin syn 全托 全託 quán tuō full-time care (of children in a boarding nursery) 养 養 yǎng to raise (animals) / to bring up (children) / to keep (pets) / to support / to give birth syn 育 yù to have children / to raise or bring up / to educate syn 生儿育女 生兒育女 shēng ér yù nǚ to bear and raise children syn 青梅竹马 青梅竹馬 qīng méi zhú mǎ lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom) / fig. innocent children's games / childhood sweethearts / a couple who grew up as childhood friends syn 金童玉女 jīn tóng yù nǚ lit. golden boys and jade maidens (idiom) / attendants of the Daoist immortals / fig. lovely young children / a golden couple / (of a couple who are in the public eye) a lovely young couple 童言无忌 童言無忌 tóng yán wú jì children's words carry no harm (idiom) 爱民如子 愛民如子 ài mín rú zǐ (idiom) to love the common people as one's own children (praise for a virtuous ruler) syn 绕弯儿 繞彎兒 rào wān r to go for a walk around / (fig.) to speak in a roundabout way syn 童床 tóng chuáng crib / children's bed 髫 tiáo (literary) hair hanging down in front (children's hairstyle) syn 靸 sǎ children's shoe (old) / to wear one's shoes babouche style 支吾其词 支吾其詞 zhī wú qí cí (idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive syn 杀彘教子 殺彘教子 shā zhì jiào zǐ to kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom) / parents must teach by example 画荻教子 畫荻教子 huà dí jiào zǐ to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son (idiom) / mother's admirable dedication to her children's education 百年树人 百年樹人 bǎi nián shù rén (idiom) it takes many years to raise children to be upstanding citizens 父慈子孝 fù cí zǐ xiào benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children 老牛舐犊 老牛舐犢 lǎo niú shì dú lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children syn 舐犊情深 舐犢情深 shì dú qíng shēn lit. the cow licking its calf fondly (idiom) / fig. to show deep affection towards one's children 绕弯 繞彎 rào wān to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way 转变抹角 轉變抹角 zhuǎn biàn mò jiǎo lit. (of road) winding and turning (idiom) / to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush 迂曲 yū qū circuitous / tortuous / roundabout syn 迂缓 迂緩 yū huǎn dilatory / slow in movement / roundabout syn 回旋处 迴旋處 huí xuán chù traffic circle / rotary / roundabout 拖油瓶 tuō yóu píng (derog.) (of a woman) to bring one's children into a second marriage / children by a previous marriage 暖巢管家 nuǎn cháo guǎn jiā housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them 留守儿童 留守兒童 liú shǒu ér tóng "left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them 解放儿童 Free the Children / Kids Can Free the Children 负责暴力侵害儿童问题的秘书长特别代表 Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children / Special Representative on violence against children 对受灾儿童的核心承诺 Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies / Core Commitments for Children 安全理事会儿童与武装冲突问题工作组 Working Group of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict / Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict 儿童与武装冲突问题工作组 Working Group of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict / Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict 国际儿童环境会议 國際兒童環境會議 International Children's Conference on the Environment / Children's Conference on the Environment 儿童环境会议 兒童環境會議 International Children's Conference on the Environment / Children's Conference on the Environment 跨国收养方面保护儿童及合作海牙公约 跨國收養方面保護兒童及合作海牙公約 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption / Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption 跨国收养方面保护儿童及合作公约 跨國收養方面保護兒童及合作公約 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption / Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption 难民儿童和武装冲突中的儿童问题分组 難民兒童和武裝沖突中的兒童問題分組 Subgroup on Refugee Children and Children in Armed Conflict 儿童对儿童网络倡议 兒童對兒童網絡倡議 children-to-children network initiative 儿童问题区域网络 兒童問題區域網絡 NGO / UNICEF Regional Network for Children in Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States / Regional Network for Children 孩奴 hái nú "a slave to one's children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their children's well-being, in disregard of their own needs 少年之家 shào nián zhī jiā children's center / children's club 没有生育能力 沒有生育能力 méi yǒu shēng yù néng lì infertile / unable to have children 手足口病 shǒu zú kǒu bìng hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children 养儿防老 養兒防老 yǎng ér fáng lǎo (of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age 姨甥男女 yí sheng nán nǚ wife's sister's children 