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"faded old woman" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
黄脸婆 黃臉婆 huáng liǎn pó faded old woman
Chinese Pinyin Translation
人老珠黄 人老珠黃 rén lǎo zhū huáng (of a woman) old and faded syn
姑奶奶 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
老账 老賬 lǎo zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
泛白 fàn bái to be suffused with white / faded / bleached / to blanch
菸 yū to wither / dried leaves / faded / withered
老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn
老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn
卿 qīng high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) syn
老姥 lǎo mǔ old lady / (old woman's self-reference) I, me
调戏 調戲 tiáo xì to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities syn
产妇 產婦 chǎn fù woman recuperating after childbirth / woman in childbirth syn
巾帼 巾幗 jīn guó woman / woman's headdress (ancient) syn
女强人 女強人 nǚ qiáng rén successful career woman / able woman syn
慰安妇 慰安婦 wèi ān fù comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
娉婷 pīng tíng (literary) (of a woman) to have a graceful demeanor / beautiful woman syn
小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman
女杰 女傑 nǚ jié woman of distinction / a woman to be admired or respected syn
婧 jìng (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented
剩女 shèng nǚ "leftover woman" (successful career woman who has remained single)
女生外向 nǚ shēng wài xiàng a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
正妹 zhèng mèi (Tw) beautiful woman / sexy woman
良家女子 liáng jiā nǚ zǐ woman from a respectable family / respectable woman
孤男寡女 gū nán guǎ nǚ a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
异女 異女 yì nǚ (Tw) heterosexual woman / straight woman
老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn
故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river)
甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn
童叟无欺 童叟無欺 tóng sǒu wú qī cheating neither old nor young (idiom) / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
翻老账 翻老賬 fān lǎo zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
翻旧账 翻舊賬 fān jiù zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
老少无欺 老少無欺 lǎo shào wú qī cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
旧病复发 舊病復發 jiù bìng fù fā old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem syn
老人 lǎo rén old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents syn
姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
老人家 lǎo rén jiā polite term for old woman or man syn
青衣 qīng yī black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦[zheng4 dan4] syn
老太婆 lǎo tài pó old woman (at times contemptuous) syn
强人 強人 qiáng rén (politics) strongman / (in the workplace, esp. of a woman) a highly capable person / (old) robber syn
娇媚 嬌媚 jiāo mèi flirtatious / coquettish / sweet and charming / beautiful young woman (old) syn
老奶奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman syn
贵妇 貴婦 guì fù upper-class woman / lady (old) syn
老妪 老嫗 lǎo yù old woman (formal writing) syn
婆子 pó zi old woman
小媳妇 小媳婦 xiǎo xí fu young married woman / mistress / (fig.) punching bag / (old) child bride
阿公 ā gōng (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
老处女 老處女 lǎo chǔ nǚ unmarried old woman / spinster
孤老 gū lǎo solitary old man or woman / regular patron (at brothels) syn
老旦 lǎo dàn old woman role in Chinese opera
归 歸 guī to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor syn
姥 mǔ governess / old woman
妪 嫗 yù old woman / to brood over / to protect syn
媪 媼 ǎo old woman syn
跟从 跟從 gēn cóng to follow / (of a woman) to get married / (old) attendant
姁 xǔ chatter like old woman / cheerful
老牛吃嫩草 lǎo niú chī nèn cǎo lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
适人 適人 shì rén (said of a woman) to marry (old)
妭 bá (literary) beautiful woman / old variant of 魃[ba2]
博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
小子 xiǎo zǐ (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) syn
老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn
古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn
打发 打發 dǎ fa to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老将 老將 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger syn
老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn
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
喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn
食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route syn
白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn
者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this syn
寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn
老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn
解 xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn
士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker syn
京 jīng capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) syn
老马识途 老馬識途 lǎo mǎ shí tú an old horse knows the way (idiom) / an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes syn
州 zhōu prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
曹 cáo class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old) syn
牧 mù to herd / to breed livestock / to govern (old) / government official (old) syn
穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默
卢 盧 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
岂 豈 kǎi old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3] syn
廉 lián incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) syn
蒸 zhēng to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) syn
牟 móu barley / to moo / to seek or obtain / old variant of 侔[mou2] / old variant of 眸[mou2] syn
桢 楨 zhēn (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction / (fig.) mainstay / pillar / backbone
叟 sǒu old gentleman / old man syn
嬴 yíng old variant of 贏|赢[ying2], to win, to profit / old variant of 盈[ying2], full
邕 yōng city surrounded by a moat / old variant of 雍[yong1] / old variant of 壅[yong1]
姒 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
胙 zuò to grant or bestow / sacrificial flesh offered to the gods (old) / blessing / title of a sovereign (old)
锜 錡 qí three legged cauldron (old) / woodworking chisel (old)
哏 hěn old variant of 狠[hen3] / old variant of 很[hen3] / also used as an exclamation of anger 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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