"decrease" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Part of speech	Translation	Actions
减少減少	jiǎn shǎo	v.	to lessen / to decrease / to reduce / to lower	syn
下降	xià jiàng	v.	to decline / to drop / to fall / to go down / to decrease	syn
缩小縮小	suō xiǎo	v.	to reduce / to decrease / to shrink	syn
减減	jiǎn	v.	to lower / to decrease / to reduce / to subtract / to diminish	syn
减小減小	jiǎn xiǎo		to reduce / to decrease / to diminish	syn
减损減損	jiǎn sǔn		to impair / to degrade / to decrease / to reduce / to weaken / to detract from / impairment (e.g. of financial assets)
损損	sǔn		to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to ridicule / to deride / (coll.) caustic / sarcastic / nasty / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨	syn
平减平減	píng jiǎn		to deflate / to decrease (number, esp. price)
退坡	tuì pō		(intransitive) to weaken / to decrease / (of a subsidy etc) to be rolled back	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Part of speech	Translation	Actions
小幅	xiǎo fú		by a small margin / slightly (increase or decrease) / (of a painting or a piece of calligraphy) small	syn
增减增減	zēng jiǎn		to add or subtract / to increase or decrease / to go up or go down
损益損益	sǔn yì		profit and loss / increase and decrease	syn
消炎	xiāo yán		to reduce fever / antipyretic / to decrease inflammation	syn
消长消長	xiāo zhǎng		to ebb and rise / to decrease and then grow
降火	jiàng huǒ		to decrease internal heat (Chinese medicine)
减计減計	jiǎn jì		to write down (i.e. to decrease the expected value of a loan)
臭氧减少			ozone decrease
费用减少費用減少			cost decrease
瞬时死亡率瞬時死亡率			instantaneous rate of mortality / coefficient of decrease
减少系数減少系數			instantaneous rate of mortality / coefficient of decrease
数量减少數量減少			volume decrease
缓降緩降	huǎn jiàng		to decrease gradually / to descend gradually
骤减驟減	zhòu jiǎn		to decrease rapidly / to plummet	syn
日削月朘	rì xuē yuè juān		(idiom) To decrease day by day and month by month. It can also refer to people or communities being continually subjected to levies and exploitation.
日杒月减	rì juān yuè jiǎn		(idiom) To decrease and diminish gradually. The expression describes a progressive reduction and can also refer to being continually drained or exploited.
有加无损有加無損	yǒu jiā wǔ sǔn		(idiom) To keep increasing without any decrease.
进退消长進退消長	jìn tuì xiāo cháng		(idiom) Refers to increase and decrease, and more generally to change or shifting conditions.

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