"enclosure, dike, embankment" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
lèi enclosure, dike, embankment syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
liè (literary) equal / enclosure / dike / embankment / Taiwan pr. [le4] syn
堤防 dī fáng dike / embankment / levee syn
dam / dike / embankment / CL:條|条[tiao2] syn
niàn earth embankment used to hold back or retain water / dike around a paddy field syn
lóu (dialect) an opening at the bottom of a dike for letting water in or out / small channel across a river embankment / (used in place names) / Taiwan pr. [dou1]
附件 fù jiàn appendix (in a document) / enclosure (accompanying a document) / (email) attachment / accessory (for a car, computer etc) / (anatomy) adnexa syn
突围 突圍 tū wéi to break a siege / to break out of an enclosure syn
圈地 quān dì staking a claim to territory / enclosure
围场 圍場 wéi chǎng enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)
juàn livestock enclosure / pen / fold / sty syn
wéi enclosure
月城 yuè chéng semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican
鸽房 鴿房 gē fáng dovecote / enclosure for carrier pigeons
圈地运动 圈地運動 quān dì yùn dòng Enclosure Movement
专属经济区内的公海水域 專屬經濟區內的公海水域 enclosure of high seas / enclave of international waters
动物舱 動物艙 animal enclosure module
网室 網室 wǎng shì netted enclosure (protecting crops)
圈养 圈養 juàn yǎng to rear (an animal) in an enclosure
堤岸 dī àn embankment / bank / levee syn
田埂 tián gěng embankment between fields syn
fén grave / tomb / CL:座[zuo4] / embankment / mound / ancient book syn
táng dyke / embankment / pool or pond / hot-water bathing pool syn
驳岸 駁岸 bó àn a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment / revetment
yáo variant of 堯|尧, legendary emperor Yao, c. 2200 BC / embankment
wěi mound / embankment / the earthen altar to the god of the soil
土埂 tǔ gěng embankment between fields
防潮堤 fáng cháo dī tide embankment
路堤 lù dī (road or railway) embankment
迪克 dí kè Dick (person name)
决堤 決隄 jué dī (of a watercourse) to breach its dike / (of dikes) to collapse
堤坝 堤壩 dī bà dam / dike syn
水坝 水壩 shuǐ bà dam / dike syn
合龙 合龍 hé lóng to join the two sections (of a linear structure: bridge, dike etc) to complete its construction syn
河工 hé gōng river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc) / river conservancy worker syn
开口子 開口子 kāi kǒu zi a dike breaks / fig. to provide facilities (for evil deeds) / to open the floodgates syn
kuì (bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike / (bound form) to break through (a military encirclement) / (bound form) to be routed / to be overrun / to fall to pieces / (bound form) to fester / to ulcerate syn
wéi dike syn
sào dike / old variant of 掃|扫[sao4]
jiàn material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
千里之堤,溃于蚁穴 千里之堤,潰於蟻穴 qiān lǐ zhī dī , kuì yú yǐ xué lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence
土牛 tǔ niú clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs) syn
溃决 潰決 kuì jué (of a dike or dam) to burst syn
岩墙 岩牆 yán qiáng dyke / dike
岩脉 岩脈 yán mò dyke / dike
hàn small dike
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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