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"eight days" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
离 離 lí to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲ syn
那时 那時 nà shí then / at that time / in those days syn
日子 rì zi day / a (calendar) date / days of one's life syn
金 jīn gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn
石 shí rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn
末日 mò rì last day / end / final days / doomsday syn
八卦 bā guà the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1] / gossip / gossipy
当年 當年 dāng nián in those days / back then / in those years / to be in the prime of life syn
年头 年頭 nián tóu start of the year / whole year / a particular year / period / days / epoch / a year's harvest syn
早晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later / one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future syn
过日子 過日子 guò rì zi to live one's life / to pass one's days / to get along syn
候 hòu to wait / to inquire after / to watch / season / climate / (old) period of five days syn
上天 shàng tiān Heaven / Providence / God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die / to pass away / the previous day (or days) syn
早日 zǎo rì soon / at an early date / the early days / the past syn
往日 wǎng rì former days / the past syn
昔日 xī rì former days / in the past syn
度日 dù rì to pass one's days / to scratch out a difficult, meager existence syn
旧日 舊日 jiù rì former times / olden days syn
霓裳 ní cháng nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1]
日前 rì qián the other day / a few days ago syn
八千 bā qiān eight thousand / 8000
末路 mò lù dead end / impasse / end of the road / final days syn
旧时 舊時 jiù shí in former times / the olden days syn
末梢 mò shāo tip / end / last few days syn
年月 nián yuè months and year / time / days of one's life syn
近日 jìn rì (in) the past few days / recently / (within) the next few days syn
提法 tí fǎ wording (of a proposal) / formulation / viewpoint (on an issue) / (one of eight methods of bonesetting in TCM) restoring the part displaced by a fracture to its correct position by lifting syn
明儿 明兒 míng r (coll.) tomorrow / one of these days / some day syn
即日 jí rì this or that very day / in the next few days syn
古时候 古時候 gǔ shí hou in ancient times / in olden days
大后天 大後天 dà hòu tiān three days from now / day after day after tomorrow
连天 連天 lián tiān reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly syn
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
新春 xīn chūn the beginning of Spring / the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day syn
八方 bā fāng the eight points of the compass / all directions syn
他日 tā rì (literary) some day / (literary) days in the past syn
隔三差五 gé sān chà wǔ every few days (idiom) syn
八仙 bā xiān the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology)
风烛残年 風燭殘年 fēng zhú cán nián one's late days / to have one foot in the grave syn
连日 連日 lián rì day after day / for several days running syn
轮休 輪休 lún xiū to take holidays in rotation / to stagger employees' days off / (agriculture) to lie fallow in rotation
安全期 ān quán qī safe period / safe days of a woman's menstrual cycle (low risk of conception)
三天两头 三天兩頭 sān tiān liǎng tóu lit. twice every three days (idiom) / practically every day / frequently syn
八国联军 八國聯軍 bā guó lián jūn Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
八股 bā gǔ an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing syn
律诗 律詩 lǜ shī regular verse / strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming syn
八股文 bā gǔ wén eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties syn
几天 幾天 jǐ tiān several days
两天 兩天 liǎng tiān two days
三天 sān tiān three days
这几天 這幾天 zhè jǐ tiān the past few days
前几天 前幾天 qián jǐ tiān a few days ago / a few days before / the past few days / the previous few days
日内 日內 rì nèi in a few days / one of these days syn
五天 wǔ tiān five days
荣辱观 榮辱觀 róng rǔ guān precepts regarding what is honorable and what is shameful (in particular, refers to the Socialist Concepts on Honors and Disgraces, PRC official moral principles promulgated from 2006) / abbr. for 社會主義榮辱觀|社会主义荣辱观 / also known as the Eight Honors and Eight Shames 八榮八恥|八荣八耻[Ba1 Rong2 Ba1 Chi3]
八荣八耻 八榮八恥 bā róng bā chǐ Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines
四天 sì tiān four days
前些 qián xiē a few (days, years etc) ago
八戒 bā jiè the eight precepts (Buddhism)
隔天 gé tiān the next day / on alternate days
苏轼 蘇軾 sū shì Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1], Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1]
八强 八強 bā qiáng (sports) top eight / quarterfinals
几天来 幾天來 jǐ tiān lái for the past few days
八宝 八寶 bā bǎo eight treasures
来日 來日 lái rì future days / (literary) the next day / (old) past days syn
八天 bā tiān eight-day / eight days
王安石 wáng ān shí Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家
蒲式耳 pú shì ěr bushel (eight gallons)
不日 bù rì within the next few days / in a few days time syn
八旗 bā qí Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin1] from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty
辛未 xīn wèi eight year H8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1991 or 2051
四象 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3]
五七 wǔ qī memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
九三学社 九三學社 jiǔ sān xué shè Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP
行政拘留 xíng zhèng jū liú to incarcerate sb for a violation of administrative law, typically for 10 days or less / administrative detention
八仙桌 bā xiān zhuō old-fashioned square table to seat eight people syn
八音 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
旗人 qí rén Manchu / bannerman (refers to the eight Manchu banners 八旗[Ba1 qi2])
列子 liè zǐ Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国[Zhan4 guo2] / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋[Wei4 Jin4] (3rd century AD)
大月 dà yuè solar month of 31 days / a lunar month of 30 days
寒食 hán shí cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
卜卦 bǔ guà to divine using the eight trigrams syn
旧时代 舊時代 jiù shí dài former times / the olden days
八卦阵 八卦陣 bā guà zhèn eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics
利市 lì shì business profit / auspicious / lucky / small sum of money offered on festive days
大建 dà jiàn lunar month of 30 days / same as 大盡|大尽[da4 jin4]
二十八宿 èr shí bā xiù the twenty-eight constellations syn
桃花扇 táo huā shàn The Peach Blossom Fan, historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty by Kong Shangren 孔尚任[Kong3 Shang4 ren4]
赶明儿 趕明兒 gǎn míng r (coll.) some day / one of these days
中伏 zhōng fú the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year syn
小建 xiǎo jiàn lunar month of 29 days / same as 小盡|小尽[xiao3 jin4] syn
数九 數九 shǔ jiǔ nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year syn
十日谈 十日談 shí rì tán Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1]
八 bā eight / 8 syn
土 tǔ earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn
伏 fú to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt syn
震 zhèn to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder / ☳ syn
乾 gān surname Qian / strong / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 representing sky / male principle syn
艮 gèn one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing mountain / ☶ / ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast) syn
兑 兌 duì to cash / to exchange / to add (liquid) / to blend / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing swamp / ☱ syn
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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