头 頭 tóu head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 造 zào to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops syn 收获 收穫 shōu huò to harvest / to reap / to gain / crop / harvest / profit / gain / bonus / reward syn 音响 音響 yīn xiǎng sound / acoustics / audio / hi-fi system / stereo sound system (abbr. for 組合音響|组合音响[zu3he2 yin1xiang3]) syn 种植 種植 zhòng zhí to plant / to grow (a crop) / to cultivate syn 庄稼 莊稼 zhuāng jia farm crop syn 牲畜 shēng chù farm animal / livestock syn 调教 調教 tiáo jiào to instruct / to teach / to train / to raise (livestock) syn 不菲 bù fěi considerable (cost etc) / bountiful (crop etc) / high (social status etc) syn 饥荒 饑荒 jī huāng crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty syn 家畜 jiā chù domestic animal / livestock / cattle syn 作物 zuò wù crop syn 尖子 jiān zi best of its kind / cream of the crop syn 放牧 fàng mù to graze (livestock) / to herd (livestock) syn 饲养员 飼養員 sì yǎng yuán zookeeper / stockman / breeder (of livestock, dogs or poultry etc) syn 霜冻 霜凍 shuāng dòng frost / frost damage (to crop) 稻米 dào mǐ rice (crop) syn 放养 放養 fàng yǎng to raise (livestock or poultry) in an open environment / to breed (fish, bees, silkworms etc) in a suitable environment / to culture (kelp etc) / to release (a captive animal) into the wild syn 庄稼地 莊稼地 zhuāng jia dì crop land / arable land syn 水草 shuǐ cǎo aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw 百里挑一 百裡挑一 bǎi lǐ tiāo yī one in a hundred / cream of the crop syn 牧业 牧業 mù yè livestock husbandry / animal product industry 畜牧业 畜牧業 xù mù yè animal husbandry / stock raising / livestock raising 上水 shàng shuǐ upper reaches (of a river) / to go upstream / to add some water / to water (a crop etc) syn 经济作物 經濟作物 jīng jì zuò wù cash crop (economics) syn 丰产 豐產 fēng chǎn high yield / bumper crop syn 稻子 dào zi rice (crop) / unhulled rice syn 小灵通 小靈通 xiǎo líng tōng Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), mobile network system operating in China 1998-2013, branded "Little Smart" 牛羊 niú yáng cattle and sheep / livestock 管理信息系统 管理信息系統 guǎn lǐ xìn xī xì tǒng management information system / MI system 学分制 學分制 xué fēn zhì credit system / grading system (in schools, universities etc) 禽畜 qín chù poultry and livestock syn 青黄不接 青黃不接 qīng huáng bù jiē lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom) / the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop / temporary deficit in manpower or resources / unable to make ends meet syn 试种 試種 shì zhòng test planting / crop grown on a trial basis 组合音响 組合音響 zǔ hé yīn xiǎng hi-fi system / stereo sound system / abbr. to 音響|音响[yin1 xiang3] syn 瘦肉精 shòu ròu jīng leanness-enhancing agent (for livestock) 官制 guān zhì the civil service system / the bureaucratic system 墒情 shāng qíng the state of moisture in the soil (and whether it can support a crop) 备料 備料 bèi liào to get the materials ready / to prepare feed (for livestock) 秋播 qiū bō sowing in autumn (for a crop in spring) 蟊贼 蟊賊 máo zéi insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people syn 岁 歲, 𡻕 suì classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests) syn 季 jì season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields syn 圈 juàn livestock enclosure / pen / fold / sty syn 喷 噴 pèn (of a smell) strong / peak season (of a crop) / (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests) syn 尖 jiān pointed / tapering / sharp / (of a sound) shrill / piercing / (of one's hearing, sight etc) sharp / acute / keen / to make (one's voice) shrill / sharp point / tip / the best of sth / the cream of the crop syn 甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn 畜 chù livestock / domesticated animal / domestic animal syn 腔 qiāng (bound form) cavity / tune / accent (in one's speech) / (old) (classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock) syn 茬 chá stubble (crop residue) / stubble (hair growth) / classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop / sth just said or mentioned syn 牧 mù to herd / to breed livestock / to govern (old) / government official (old) syn 歉收 qiàn shōu crop failure / poor harvest syn 冒头 冒頭 mào tóu to emerge / to crop up / a little more than syn 秧 yāng sapling / seedling / sprout / (esp.) rice seedling / stem / stalk / vine / baby livestock / fry / (dialect) to raise / to cultivate (plants or animals) syn 嗉 膆 sù the crop of a bird 旱涝保收 旱澇保收 hàn lào bǎo shōu to provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood / to bring a stable income 保苗 bǎo miáo to protect young plants, ensuring that enough survive to produce a good crop 油料作物 yóu liào zuò wù oil crop (rape, peanut, soy, sesame etc) / oil-bearing crop 丰登 豐登 fēng dēng plentiful harvest / bumper crop syn 畜栏 畜欄 chù lán pen for livestock 分封制 fēn fēng zhì the feudal system / system of enfeoffment 垄 壟 lǒng ridge between fields / crop row / mounded soil forming a ridge in a field / grave mound syn 稼 jià to sow grain / (farm) crop syn 馑 饉 jǐn time of famine or crop failure 犍 jiān bullock / castrated bull / to castrate livestock 劁 qiāo to neuter livestock syn 进 進 jìn to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound syn 系统 系統 xì tǒng system / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 十 shí ten / 10 / numeral 10 in the Suzhou numeral system 蘇州碼子|苏州码子[Su1zhou1 ma3zi5] syn 反 fǎn contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system syn 切 qiè definitely / absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right. / Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters) syn 体 體 tǐ body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics) syn 装置 裝置 zhuāng zhì to install / installation / equipment / system / unit / device syn 保 bǎo to defend / to protect / to keep / to guarantee / to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3jia3] system syn 公 gōng public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) syn 锁定 鎖定 suǒ dìng to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target 窗口 chuāng kǒu window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground 制度 zhì dù system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 体系 體系 tǐ xì system / setup / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 盎司 àng sī ounce (British imperial system) (loanword) syn 失灵 失靈 shī líng out of order (of machine) / not working properly / a failing (of a system) syn 智能 zhì néng intelligent / able / smart (phone, system, bomb etc) 太阳系 太陽系 tài yáng xì solar system 价值观 價值觀 jià zhí guān system of values syn 体制 體制 tǐ zhì system / organization syn 肠胃 腸胃 cháng wèi stomach and intestine / digestive system syn 改良 gǎi liáng to improve (sth) / to reform (a system) syn 斯蒂文 sī dì wén Steven (name) / Simon Stevin (1548-1620), Flemish engineer and mathematician, played a key role in introducing the decimal system to Europe 神经系统 神經系統 shén jīng xì tǒng nervous system 轻轨 輕軌 qīng guǐ light rail / transit system (underground, at street level or elevated) / streetcar / metro (abbr. for 輕型軌道交通|轻型轨道交通[qing1xing2 gui3dao4 jiao1tong1]) 普拉提 pǔ lā tí Pilates (physical fitness system) 操作系统 操作系統 cāo zuò xì tǒng operating system 人性化 rén xìng huà (of a system or product etc) adapted to human needs / people-oriented / user-friendly 仿生 fǎng shēng to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism / bionic / biomimetic 二进制 二進制 èr jìn zhì binary system (math.) 循环系统 循環系統 xún huán xì tǒng circulatory system 人大 rén dà people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会[ren2min2 dai4biao3 da4hui4]) 消化系统 消化系統 xiāo huà xì tǒng digestive system / gastrointestinal tract 政体 政體 zhèng tǐ form of government / system of government 