工程 gōng chéng engineering / an engineering project / project / undertaking / CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4] syn 轨道 軌道 guǐ dào track (for trains etc) / orbit (of a satellite) / (fig.) a person's established path in life / desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor) / (audio engineering) track / (quantum mechanics) orbital syn 开工 開工 kāi gōng to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job syn 民族 mín zú nationality / ethnic group / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 族人 zú rén clansman / clan members / relatives / ethnic minority 对准 對準 duì zhǔn to aim at / to target / to point at / to be directed at / registration / alignment (mechanical engineering) syn 绕道 繞道 rào dào to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass syn 纳西 納西 nà xī Nakhi (ethnic group) 电工 電工 diàn gōng electrician / electrical engineering / electrical work (in a house) 多重 duō chóng multi- (faceted, cultural, ethnic etc) syn 线圈 線圈 xiàn quān solenoid (electrical engineering) / coil syn 族群 zú qún ethnic group / community 工程学 工程學 gōng chéng xué engineering 少数民族 少數民族 shǎo shù mín zú national minority / ethnic group 平板 píng bǎn slab / flat board / (engineering) surface plate / flat / level / (fig.) dull / monotonous / abbr. for 平板電腦|平板电脑[ping2ban3 dian4nao3] and 平板手機|平板手机[ping2ban3 shou3ji1] syn 塞族 sāi zú Serb nationality / ethnic Serb / Serbs 化工 huà gōng chemical industry (abbr. for 化學工業|化学工业[hua4xue2 gong1ye4]) / chemical engineering (abbr. for 化學工程|化学工程[hua4xue2 gong1cheng2]) 华人 華人 huá rén ethnic Chinese person or people syn 鞑靼 韃靼 dá dá Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia) 聚居 jù jū to inhabit a region (esp. ethnic group) / to congregate syn 华裔 華裔 huá yì ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry syn 工事 gōng shì defensive structure / military fortifications / (Tw) construction works / civil engineering works syn 路基 lù jī (civil engineering) roadbed 土木 tǔ mù building / construction / civil engineering syn 理工 lǐ gōng science and engineering as academic subjects 苗族 miáo zú Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China 蒙古族 měng gǔ zú Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia syn 工科 gōng kē engineering as an academic subject 塔吉克 tǎ jí kè Tajik / (esp.) Tajik ethnic group in Xinjiang / (Tw, HK) Tajikistan 藏族 zàng zú Tibetan ethnic group 工学院 工學院 gōng xué yuàn school of engineering / college of engineering 女真 nǚ zhēn Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin1] and Qing Dynasty 标定 標定 biāo dìng to stake out (the boundaries of a property etc) / to demarcate / (engineering etc) to calibrate 电学 電學 diàn xué electrical engineering 维吾尔 維吾爾 wéi wú ěr Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang 维族 維族 wéi zú abbr. for 維吾爾族|维吾尔族, Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang 土族 tǔ zú Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai 多个 多個 duō ge many / multiple / multi- (faceted, ethnic etc) 中华民族 中華民族 zhōng huá mín zú the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China) syn 理工大学 理工大學 lǐ gōng dà xué University of Science and Engineering / also sometimes Institute of Technology 汉族 漢族 hàn zú Han ethnic group 工业大学 工業大學 gōng yè dà xué technical university / engineering college 工程设计 gōng chéng shè jì engineering design 轻工 輕工 qīng gōng light engineering 客家 kè jiā Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south syn 回族 huí zú Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China 壮族 壯族 zhuàng zú Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group 生物工程 shēng wù gōng chéng bioengineering / genetic engineering 水利工程 shuǐ lì gōng chéng hydraulic engineering syn 民族文化 mín zú wén huà ethnic culture 土建 tǔ jiàn civil engineering / same as 土木工程[tu3 mu4 gong1 cheng2] 工学 工學 gōng xué engineering / industrial science 彝族 彞族 yí zú Yi ethnic group 土木工程 tǔ mù gōng chéng civil engineering syn 满族 滿族 mǎn zú Manchu ethnic group of Liaoning province 各族人民 gè zú rén mín people of all ethnic groups / the peoples (of a nation) 机械工程 機械工程 jī xiè gōng chéng mechanical engineering 契丹 qì dān Qidan or Khitan, ethnic group in ancient China, a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liao River 遼河|辽河[Liao2 He2] 民族大学 民族大學 mín zú dà xué University for Nationalities (university of ethnic studies) 中国工程院 中國工程院 zhōng guó gōng chéng yuàn Chinese Academy of Engineering 土家族 tǔ jiā zú Tujia ethnic group of Hunan 电气工程 電氣工程 diàn qì gōng chéng electrical engineering 黎族 lí zú Li ethnic group 瑶族 瑤族 yáo zú Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia 朝鲜族 朝鮮族 cháo xiǎn zú Korean ethnic group in China (mainly in northeast China) / the Koreans (major ethnic group on the Korean Peninsula) 基因工程 jī yīn gōng chéng genetic engineering 白族 bái zú Bai (ethnic group) 内衬 內襯 nèi chèn lining (of a container etc) (engineering) 理工科 lǐ gōng kē science and engineering as academic subjects 回民 huí mín Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims) 信令 xìn lìng signaling (engineering) 化学工程 化學工程 huà xué gōng chéng chemical engineering 胡人 hú rén ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian 维吾尔族 維吾爾族 wéi wú ěr zú Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang 羌族 qiāng zú Qiang ethnic group, nowadays esp. in north Sichuan 娃子 wá zi baby / small child / (arch.) slave among ethnic minorities syn 补强 補強 bǔ qiáng (engineering) to reinforce (a structure) / to strengthen / (fig.) to rectify shortcomings 纳西族 納西族 nà xī zú Nakhi ethnic group in Yunnan 工程处 工程處 Engineering Service 差分 chā fēn (math.) increment / difference / (engineering) differential 哈尼族 hā ní zú Hani ethnic group 主材 zhǔ cái principal or main material (engineering) 工程图 工程圖 gōng chéng tú engineering graphics / technical drawing 蜗杆 蝸杆 wō gǎn worm (mechanical engineering) 撒拉 sā lā Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province 供水工程 water supply engineering 畲族 畬族 shē zú She ethnic group 傈僳 lì sù Lisu ethnic group of Yunnan 遗民 遺民 yí mín (lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group 族裔 zú yì ethnic group 阿来 阿來 ā lái Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[Chen2 ai1 luo4 ding4] "Red Poppies" 哈萨克族 哈薩克族 hā sà kè zú Kazakh ethnic group of Xinjiang syn 腰鼓 yāo gǔ waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance) 佤族 wǎ zú Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia 布依 bù yī Buyei ethnic group 回纥 回紇 huí hé Huihe, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 維吾爾族|维吾尔族[Wei2wu2er3zu2] and the Yugurs 裕固族[Yu4gu4zu2] 景颇族 景頗族 jǐng pō zú Jingpo ethnic group of Tibet and Yunnan 阿昌 ā chāng Achang also called Ngac'ang or Maingtha (ethnic group) 鄂伦春 鄂倫春 è lún chūn Oroqen or Orochon (ethnic group) 