"fig. cunning person" Chinese-English Dictionary

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老狐狸 lǎo hú li old fox / fig. cunning person syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
白骨精 bái gǔ jīng White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]) / (fig.) sly and cunning person syn
亮眼人 liàng yǎn rén (term used by the blind) sighted person / person with eyesight / perceptive person / observant person syn
九头鸟 九頭鳥 jiǔ tóu niǎo legendary bird with nine heads (old) / cunning or sly person
白鼻子 bái bí zi cunning or sly person
羲皇上人 xī huáng shàng rén lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1] / person from ages immemorial / fig. untroubled person
人头 人頭 rén tóu person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account) syn
人称 人稱 rén chēng person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as
可人 kě rén pleasant / agreeable / a person after one's heart (charming person) / a gifted person syn
(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that syn
可儿 可兒 kě ér a person after one's heart (charming person) / capable person
好人 hǎo rén good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle syn
路人甲 lù rén jiǎ ordinary person A / generic person / some random person
机械 機械 jī xiè machine / machinery / mechanical / (old) cunning / scheming syn
狡猾 jiǎo huá crafty / cunning / sly syn
狡诈 狡詐 jiǎo zhà crafty / cunning / deceitful syn
促狭 促狹 cù xiá (coll.) teasing / mischievous / (coll.) cunning / sly
诡计多端 詭計多端 guǐ jì duō duān deceitful in many ways (idiom) / wily and mischievous / full of craft and cunning syn
机巧 機巧 jī qiǎo cunning / dexterous / ingenious syn
油嘴 yóu zuǐ eloquent and cunning / silver tongued syn
老奸巨猾 lǎo jiān jù huá cunning / crafty / wily old fox syn
yóu oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning syn
jiǎo crafty / cunning / sly
jiāo cunning / pretty
kuài crafty / cunning
花花肠子 花花腸子 huā huā cháng zi (slang) a cunning plot syn
锦囊妙计 錦囊妙計 jǐn náng miào jì brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom) / bag of tricks / fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag) syn
chán cunning / artful
xiān cunning / slender
勇略 yǒng lüè brave and cunning
穷竭心计 窮竭心計 qióng jié xīn jì to remain cunning even though exhausted (idiom) syn
鬼计多端 鬼計多端 guǐ jì duō duān full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious
奸狡 jiān jiǎo devious / cunning
巧诈不如拙诚 巧詐不如拙誠 qiǎo zhà bù rú zhuō chéng the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy
鸡贼 雞賊 jī zéi (dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning
刁悍 diāo hàn cunning and fierce syn
狡狯 狡獪 jiǎo kuài (literary) crafty / cunning syn
那个人 那個人 nà gè rén lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams
蛔虫 蛔蟲 huí chóng roundworm / ascarid / (esp.) Ascaris lumbricoides, a human parasite / (fig.) person who knows what another person is thinking / a mind reader
单身贵族 單身貴族 dān shēn guì zú fig. unmarried person / single person (especially one who is comfortable financially)
常在河边走,哪有不湿鞋 常在河邊走,哪有不濕鞋 cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
瘦死的骆驼比马大 瘦死的駱駝比馬大 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
拔根汗毛比腰粗 bá gēn hàn máo bǐ yāo cū lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗[A ba2 gen1 han4 mao2 bi3 B de5 yao1 cu1])
小白兔 xiǎo bái tù small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast
浊流 濁流 zhuó liú turbid flow / muddy waters / fig. a contemptible person / fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends syn
雏儿 雛兒 chú ér newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo syn
来踪去迹 來蹤去跡 lái zōng qù jì the traces of a person's movements / (fig.) sb's history / (fig.) the ins and out of a matter syn
开花 開花 kāi huā to bloom / to blossom / to flower / (fig.) to burst / to split open / (fig.) to burst with joy / (fig.) to spring up everywhere / to flourish syn
热腾腾 熱騰騰 rè téng téng steaming hot / (fig.) bustling / hectic / (fig.) excited / stirred up / (fig.) created only a short time before / freshly minted / hot off the press / (coll.) also pr. [re4 teng1 teng1] syn
鬼扯脚 鬼扯腳 guǐ chě jiǎo lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it
外溢 wài yì (of liquid) to spill out / to overflow / (of gas) to leak out / (fig.) to spill over / to spread (to new areas) / (fig.) (of wealth etc) to drain / to flow outward (esp. overseas) / (fig.) (of talent) to show / to be revealed
硕士 碩士 shuò shì master's degree / person who has a master's degree / learned person
每人 měi rén each person / everybody / per person syn
上线 上線 shàng xiàn to go online / to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
小人 xiǎo rén person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character syn
普通人 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street syn
辗转 輾轉 zhǎn zhuǎn to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander syn
恶人 惡人 è rén evil person / vile creature / villain / (archaic) ugly person syn
达人 達人 dá rén (coll.) expert / connoisseur / guru / enthusiast / geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person / person who understands life / (literary) optimist
闲人 閒人 xián rén idle person / idler / person who has no legitimate reason to be in a certain place syn
光棍 guāng gùn gangster / hoodlum / bachelor / single man / (dialect) wise person / astute person syn
有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn
奇人 qí rén an eccentric / odd person / person of extraordinary talent syn
名士 míng shì (old) a person of literary talent / a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post) syn
高个子 高個子 gāo gè zi tall person / (of a person) tall syn
传奇人物 傳奇人物 chuán qí rén wù legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
废人 廢人 fèi rén handicapped person / useless person syn
德高望重 dé gāo wàng zhòng a person of virtue and prestige / a person of good moral standing and reputation syn
明眼人 míng yǎn rén perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind) syn
急性子 jí xìng zi impetuous person / excitable person syn
shǒu hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] syn
多面手 duō miàn shǒu multitalented person / versatile person / all-rounder syn
lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn
外心 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon) syn
传抄 傳抄 chuán chāo to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying syn
辩士 辯士 biàn shì eloquent person / person with rhetoric skills syn
xián worthy or virtuous person / honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation syn
因人而异 因人而異 yīn rén ér yì varying from person to person (idiom) / different for each individual
矮个儿 矮個兒 ǎi gè r a person of short stature / a short person syn
吊死鬼 diào sǐ guǐ ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
二号人物 二號人物 èr hào rén wù second best person / second-rate person
人传人 人傳人 rén chuán rén transmitted person-to-person
刺儿头 刺兒頭 cì r tóu troublesome person / difficult person to deal with syn
受保人 shòu bǎo rén the insured person / the person covered by an insurance policy
受刑人 shòu xíng rén person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence
急性人 jí xìng rén impetuous person / excitable person
智障人士 zhì zhàng rén shì person with learning difficulties (handicap) / retarded person
路霸 lù bà brigand / (modern) uncivil driver / road hog / (PRC) person who sets up an illegal toll / (Tw) person who uses a part of the street as their private parking place
香蕉人 xiāng jiāo rén banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance
鲁人 魯人 lǔ rén person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person
人瑞 rén ruì very old person / venerable old person
人际接触 rén jì jiē chù person-to-person contact
个人之间借贷 peer-to-peer lending / person-to-person lending
人际传播 人際傳播 person-to-person transmission
好鸟 好鳥 hǎo niǎo person of good character / nice person / bird with a melodious voice or beautiful plumage
宗匠 zōng jiàng person with remarkable academic or artistic attainments / master craftsman / highly esteemed person syn
二毛子 èr máo zi lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat
头七 頭七 tóu qī the 7th day after a person's death / the first 7-day period after a person's death
泡芙人 pào fú rén (coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight)
艾老 ài lǎo (literary) person aged over fifty / elderly person
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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