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"degenerate custom" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
颓风 頹風 tuí fēng degenerate custom / decadent ways
Chinese Pinyin Translation
习惯 習慣 xí guàn habit / custom / usual practice / to be used to / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
风 風 fēng wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1] syn
流 liú to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade syn
堕落 墮落 duò luò to degrade / to degenerate / to become depraved / corrupt / a fall from grace syn
风尚 風尚 fēng shàng current custom / current way of doing things syn
特制 特製 tè zhì specially made / custom-made
习俗 習俗 xí sú custom / tradition / local tradition / convention syn
败类 敗類 bài lèi scum of a community / degenerate syn
退化 tuì huà to degenerate / atrophy syn
腐朽 fǔ xiǔ rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate syn
变质 變質 biàn zhì to degenerate / to deteriorate / (of food) to go bad / to go off / (geology) metamorphism syn
沦落 淪落 lún luò to degenerate / impoverished / to fall (into poverty) / to be reduced (to begging) syn
定制 定製 dìng zhì custom-made / made-to-order / to have sth custom made
萎缩 萎縮 wěi suō to wither / to dry up (of a plant) / to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc) syn
风俗 風俗 fēng sú social custom / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
落水 luò shuǐ to fall into water / to sink / overboard / fig. to degenerate / to sink (into depravity) / to go to the dogs syn
蜕变 蛻變 tuì biàn to transform / to morph / to degenerate / metamorphosis / transmutation / transformation / decay / degeneration syn
沦陷 淪陷 lún xiàn to fall into enemy hands / to be occupied / to degenerate / to submerge syn
订制 訂製 dìng zhì custom-made / made-to-order / to have sth custom made
民俗 mín sú popular custom syn
不肖 bù xiào (literary) unlike one's parents / degenerate / unworthy syn
沿袭 沿襲 yán xí to carry on as before / to follow (an old custom etc) syn
习气 習氣 xí qì custom / practice (usu. a regrettable one) syn
随俗 隨俗 suí sú according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do syn
积习 積習 jī xí old habit (usually bad) / inbred custom / deep-rooted practice syn
自定义 自定義 zì dìng yì custom / user-defined
重拾 chóng shí to pick up (a theme etc) / to regain (confidence) / to revive (a custom, friendship etc)
新风 新風 xīn fēng new trend / new custom syn
变坏 變壞 biàn huài to get worse / to degenerate
古风 古風 gǔ fēng old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] syn
恶俗 惡俗 è sú bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
闹洞房 鬧洞房 nào dòng fáng disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)
礼俗 禮俗 lǐ sú etiquette / custom syn
淫乐 淫樂 yín lè vice / degenerate pleasures
末流 mò liú late degenerate stage syn
俗 sú custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular syn
习 習 xí (bound form) to practice / to study / habit / custom syn
堕 墮 duò to fall / to sink / (fig.) to degenerate syn
旧俗 舊俗 jiù sú former custom / old ways syn
福袋 fú dài fukubukuro or "lucky bag", Japanese New Year custom where merchants offer grab bags containing random products at a steep discount
抓周 zhuā zhōu custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.)
退行 tuì xíng to recede / to degenerate / to regress
旧习 舊習 jiù xí old habit / former custom syn
未能免俗 wèi néng miǎn sú unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
染风习俗 染風習俗 rǎn fēng xí sú bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
积习成俗 積習成俗 jī xí chéng sú accumulated habits become custom
习俗移性 習俗移性 xí sú yí xìng one's habits change with long custom
违时绝俗 違時絕俗 wéi shí jué sú to defy the times and reject custom (idiom) / in breach of current conventions
执牛耳 執牛耳 zhí niú ěr to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
颓放 頹放 tuí fàng decadent / dissolute / degenerate
简并星 jiǎn bìng xīng degenerate star
蜕化变质 蛻化變質 tuì huà biàn zhì (idiom) to degenerate (morally) / to become depraved syn
中国风俗 中國風俗 zhōng guó fēng sú Chinese custom
向例 xiàng lì custom / usual practice / convention up to now syn
问名 問名 wèn míng to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride / one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols (六禮|六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride's family
猎头 獵頭 liè tóu headhunting (executive recruitment) / headhunter (profession) / headhunting (tribal custom)
听房 聽房 tīng fáng to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
听窗 聽窗 tīng chuāng to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
躲年 duǒ nián to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
定制软件 dìng zhì ruǎn jiàn custom software / bespoke software
时俗 時俗 shí sú prevalent custom of the time
造型蛋糕 zào xíng dàn gāo custom-designed cake (e.g. cake shaped like a guitar, camera or cartoon character)
捡骨 撿骨 jiǎn gǔ bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location
老例 lǎo lì custom / customary practice syn
婚俗 hūn sú marriage custom
公模 gōng mú (manufacturing) off-the-shelf mold (as opposed to a custom or proprietary mold)
公版 gōng bǎn (publishing) public-domain / copyright-expired / (design, manufacturing etc) standard shared design or template / stock, non-custom version
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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