"climbing" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 登山 | to climb a mountain / climbing / mountaineering | syn | |
| 攀援 | to climb up (a rope etc) / climbing (plant) | syn | |
| 攀缘 攀緣 | to climb up (a rope etc) / climbing (plant) | syn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 扒 | to peel / to skin / to tear / to pull down / to cling to (sth on which one is climbing) / to dig | syn | |
| 攀岩 | rock climbing / to climb a rockface | ||
| 高攀 | social climbing / to claim connections with people in higher social class | ||
| 攀附 | to climb (of climbing plants) / to creep / to cling on to / fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful) / social climbing | syn | |
| 蔓草 | creeper / climbing plant / twiner | ||
| 趋炎附势 趨炎附勢 | to curry favor (idiom) / playing up to those in power / social climbing | syn | |
| 薢 | woody climbing plant | ||
| 夤缘攀附 夤緣攀附 | to cling to the rich and powerful (idiom) / to advance one's career by currying favor / social climbing | ||
| 巴山越岭 巴山越嶺 | to climb hills and pass over mountains (idiom) / to cross mountain after mountain / good at climbing mountains | ||
| 攀高结贵 攀高結貴 | lit. to cling to the high, connect to the rich (idiom) / to try to attach oneself to the rich and powerful / social climbing | ||
| 蔓生植物 | creeper / climbing plant / twiner | ||
| 爬竿 | pole-climbing (as gymnastics or circus act) / climbing pole | ||
| 樏 | mountain-climbing shoes | ||
| 攀附权贵 攀附權貴 | to cling to the powerful and rich (idiom) / social climbing | ||
| 登峰 | to climb a mountain / to scale a peak / mountain climbing / mountaineering | ||
| 蛇麻草 | hop (Humulus lupulus), climbing plant whose flower cones are used in brewing beer | ||
| 难于登天 難於登天 | harder than climbing to heaven (idiom) | syn | |
| 蚂蚁上树 螞蟻上樹 | "ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝[fen3 si1] and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking | ||
| 溯溪 | river tracing / mountain stream climbing (recreational activity) | ||
| 百尺竿头，更进一步 百尺竿頭，更進一步 | lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better | syn |