封闭 封閉 fēng bì to close / to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input) syn 守口如瓶 shǒu kǒu rú píng lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom) / tight-lipped / reticent / not breathing a word syn 闭路电视 閉路電視 bì lù diàn shì closed-circuit television 音节 音節 yīn jié syllable syn 声调 聲調 shēng diào tone / note / a tone (on a Chinese syllable) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 私了 sī liǎo to settle privately / to solve behind closed doors / to settle out of court 闭合 閉合 bì hé to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel) / to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit) / closed-loop syn 重读 重讀 zhòng dú stress (on a syllable) syn 门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn 重音 zhòng yīn accent (of a word) / stress (on a syllable) 内定 內定 nèi dìng to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried 开国 開國 kāi guó to found a state / to open a closed country syn 环路 環路 huán lù ring road / closed circuit / loop 字头 字頭 zì tóu single-character headword (in a dictionary) / first character of a Chinese word / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable 公休 gōng xiū to have a public holiday / to have an official holiday / (Tw) (of a business establishment) to be closed regularly on certain days, as determined by a trade association 尾音 wěi yīn final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages) 声母 聲母 shēng mǔ the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1]) 韵母 韻母 yùn mǔ the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang") 紧闭 緊閉 jǐn bì to close securely / tightly closed / secure 闭着 閉著 bì zhe closed 收音 shōu yīn to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable) 电子警察 電子警察 diàn zǐ jǐng chá traffic camera / speed camera / closed-circuit TV police surveillance 闷葫芦 悶葫蘆 mèn hú lu lit. closed gourd / fig. enigma / complete mystery / taciturn person syn 哟 喲 yo (sentence-final particle expressing exhortation) / (syllable filler in a song) syn 音 yīn sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) syn 闷 悶 mèn bored / depressed / melancholy / sealed / airtight / tightly closed syn 韵 韻 yùn the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology) / rhyme / appeal / charm / (literary) pleasant sound syn 吃闭门羹 吃閉門羹 chī bì mén gēng to be refused entrance (idiom) / to find the door closed syn 封闭性 封閉性 fēng bì xìng closed / encapsulated 略识之无 略識之無 lüè shí zhī wú semiliterate / only knows words of one syllable / lit. to know only 之[zhi1] and 無|无[wu2] syn 合眼摸象 hé yǎn mō xiàng to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom) / to proceed blindly 深闭固拒 深閉固拒 shēn bì gù jù deep, closed and refusing (idiom) / obstinate / stubborn and perverse 隔行如隔山 gé háng rú gé shān different trades, worlds apart (idiom) / to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book 儿化韵 兒化韻 ér huà yùn (Chinese phonetics) syllable final with r-coloring / rhotacized syllable final 儿化 兒化 ér huà (Chinese phonetics) to rhotacize a syllable final / to apply r-coloring to the final of a syllable 收尾音 shōu wěi yīn the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable) 终声 終聲 zhōng shēng the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable) 闭域 閉域 bì yù closed domain / algebraically closed field (math.), e.g. complex number field 複數域|复数域[fu4 shu4 yu4] 已结束的特派团 closed peacekeeping mission / closed mission 军事禁区 closed military area / closed military zone 非开放名单制 非開放名單制 closed list / closed-list system 喌 zhōu syllable 中声 中聲 zhōng shēng the medial (vowel or diphthong) of a Korean syllable 初声 初聲 chū shēng the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable 尾綴 wěi zhuì final syllable 押平声韵 押平聲韻 yā píng shēng yùn to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲|平声) 调号 調號 diào hào tone mark on a Chinese syllable (i.e. accents on ā á ǎ à) / (music) key signature 重音节 重音節 zhòng yīn jié accented syllable / stress 銰 āi character used in Korea in former times to represent the syllable "ngai" 零声母 零聲母 líng shēng mǔ (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant) 非音 fēi yīn (ling) unstressed (syllable) 韵尾 韻尾 yùn wěi (phonology) coda, the part of a syllable that follows its vocalic nucleus (e.g. "u" in kòu or "n" in běn) 六字真言 liù zì zhēn yán the six-syllable Sanskrit mantra of Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva (i.e. om mani padme hum) 联绵词 聯綿詞 lián mián cí two-syllable word featuring alliteration or rhyme, such as 玲瓏|玲珑[ling2 long2] 简拼 簡拼 jiǎn pīn (computing) input method where the user types just the initial or first letter of each syllable, e.g. "shq" or "sq" for 事情[shi4qing5] 大加 dà jiā (before a two-syllable verb) considerably / greatly (exaggerate) / vehemently (oppose) / severely (punish) / extensively (refurbish) / effusively (praise) 儿化音 兒化音 ér huà yīn (Chinese phonetics) erhua (the sound of the r-coloring of a syllable final) 很是 hěn shì (formal) very / quite / deeply (usu. followed by a two-syllable adjective or verb) 闭关政策 閉關政策 bì guān zhèng cè closed-door policy 半开半关 半開半關 bàn kāi bàn guān half-open, half closed 合缝 合縫 hé fèng (of doors, windows etc) to fit snugly when closed / to close nicely 密闭式循环再呼吸水肺系统 密閉式循環再呼吸水肺系統 mì bì shì xún huán zài hū xī shuǐ fèi xì tǒng closed-circuit rebreather scuba (diving) 封闭性开局 封閉性開局 fēng bì xìng kāi jú Closed Game / Double Queen Pawn Opening (chess) / same as 雙后前兵開局|双后前兵开局 猜枚 cāi méi drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand 谢绝参观 謝絕參觀 xiè jué cān guān closed to visitors / no admittance 锁国 鎖國 suǒ guó to close a country / to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc) 闭区间 閉區間 bì qū jiān closed interval (in calculus) 闭卷考试 閉卷考試 bì juàn kǎo shì closed-book examination 闭图象定理 閉圖象定理 bì tú xiàng dìng lǐ closed graph theorem (math.) 闭子集 閉子集 bì zǐ jí closed subset (math.) 关店歇业 關店歇業 guān diàn xiē yè to close up shop and cease business temporarily / closed for business 双后前兵开局 雙后前兵開局 shuāng hòu qián bīng kāi jú Double Queen Pawn Opening / Closed Game (chess) / same as 封閉性開局|封闭性开局 闭集 閉集 bì jí closed set (math.) 封闭生态系统 封閉生態繫統 fēng bì shēng tài xì tǒng closed ecological system 闭门会议 閉門會議 bì mén huì yì closed-door meeting 禁渔区 closed area 闭杯试验 bì bēi shì yàn closed-cup test 密闭生态系统 密閉生態系統 mì bì shēng tài xì tǒng closed ecological system 郁闭林被 郁閉林被 yù bì lín bèi closed forest cover 封闭林 封閉林 fēng bì lín closed wood 限制出入区 限制出入區 xiàn zhì chū rù qū restricted area / closed area 闭路字幕 閉路字幕 closed captioned 关闭式监所 關閉式監所 closed penal institution 暖轿 暖轎 nuǎn jiào closed sedan chair 辟室 闢室 pì shì lit. to open a room / fig. to settle in a quiet room / behind closed doors 辟室密谈 闢室密談 pì shì mì tán to discuss behind closed doors 闭目养神 閉目養神 bì mù yǎng shén to relax with one's eyes closed 内测 內測 nèi cè (software development) to do closed beta (or internal beta) testing 暗里 暗裡 àn li privately / secretly / behind closed doors 闭环 閉環 bì huán closed loop 深锁 深鎖 shēn suǒ locked up / closed off / (of one's brow) furrowed / frowning 闭源 閉源 bì yuán (computing) closed-source 闭馆 閉館 bì guǎn (of libraries, museums etc) to be closed syn 