"fig. women's quarters" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
壸壼	kǔn	palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
眷区眷區	juàn qū	married quarters / residential quarters for men with families
闺阃閨閫	guī kǔn	women's quarters
全球妇女环境大会全球婦女環境大會		Global Women's Assembly on Environment: Women as the Voice for the Environment / Global Women's Assembly on Environment
赤贫妇女问题讨论会赤貧婦女問題討論會		Seminar on Women in Extreme Poverty, Integration of Women's Concerns in National Development Planning / Seminar on Women in Extreme Poverty
女足	nǚ zú	women's soccer / women's football / women's soccer team
宿舍	sù shè	dormitory / dorm room / living quarters / hostel / CL:間\|间[jian1]
厮杀廝殺	sī shā	to fight at close quarters / to fight tooth and nail	syn
青楼青樓	qīng lóu	(literary) brothel / pleasure quarters
营房營房	yíng fáng	barracks / living quarters	syn
四分之三	sì fēn zhī sān	three quarters
短兵相接	duǎn bīng xiāng jiē	lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom) / fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters	syn
南征北战南征北戰	nán zhēng běi zhàn	war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters	syn
南征北伐	nán zhēng běi fá	war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters
东征西怨東征西怨	dōng zhēng xī yuàn	war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters
东征西讨東征西討	dōng zhēng xī tǎo	war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters
东讨西征東討西征	dōng tǎo xī zhēng	war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters
一二八事变一二八事變	yī èr bā shì biàn	Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai
南征北讨南征北討	nán zhēng běi tǎo	war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters
带分数帶分數	dài fēn shù	mixed fraction / mixed number (i.e. with an integer part and a fraction part, e.g. four and three quarters) / see also: improper fraction 假分數\|假分数[jia3 fen1 shu4] and proper fraction 真分數\|真分数[zhen1 fen1 shu4]
工房	gōng fáng	workshop / temporary housing for workers / workers' living quarters
妇联婦聯	fù lián	women's league / women's association
燕赵燕趙	yān zhào	Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers
女厕女廁	nǚ cè	women's restroom / women's toilet
联合国支援消除对妇女暴力行为信托基金		United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women / Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women
支援消除对妇女暴力行为信托基金		United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women / Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women
妇女参与建设和平网		Women in Peacebuilding Network / Women in Peacebuilding Program
妇女为妇女争取人权协会－新道路		Women for Women's Human Rights: New Ways / WWHR – New Ways
加沙妇女事务中心		Women's Affairs Center - Gaza Women's Affairs Center
第叁次妇女问题世界会议第三次婦女問題世界會議		World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace / Third World Conference on Women
联合国促进两性平等和增强妇女权能署		United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women / UN-Women
妇女署	fù rǔ shǔ	United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women / UN-Women
第四次妇女问题世界会议第四次婦女問題世界會議		Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace / Fourth World Conference on Women
老年女性		elderly women / older women
老年妇女老年婦女		elderly women / older women
难民妇女和儿童问题妇女委员会難民婦女和兒童問題婦女委員會		Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
南亚－北欧女新闻工作者网络－妇女观察南亞－北歐女新聞工作者網絡－婦女觀察		South Asian-Nordic Network of Women Journalists - Women Watch
亚非赋予妇女经济权力论坛亞非賦予婦女經濟權力論壇		Asia-Africa Forum on the economic empowerment of women / Bangkok Forum on the economic empowerment of women
BM	B M	Brandy Melville, fashion brand known for clothes targeted at very slim young women / (generic usage) fashions for petite young women
女篮女籃	nǚ lán	women's basketball / women's basketball team
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
闺閨	guī	small arched door / boudoir / lady's chamber / (fig.) women
妇女能顶半边天婦女能頂半邊天	fù nǚ néng dǐng bàn biān tiān	Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
家花没有野花香家花沒有野花香	jiā huā méi yǒu yě huā xiāng	lit. the flowers in one's garden cannot match the fragrance of wild flowers (idiom) / fig. other women seem more attractive than one's own partner / the grass is always greener on the other side
目光	mù guāng	gaze / (fig.) attention / expression in one's eyes / look / (lit. and fig.) sight / vision	syn
味道	wèi dao	flavor / taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...) / sense (of ...) / hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest / delight / (dialect) smell / odor	syn
塑造	sù zào	to model / to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words)	syn
规矩規矩	guī ju	lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved	syn
发烧發燒	fā shāo	to have a high temperature (from illness) / to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with / to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing / thriving / popular	syn
挂钩掛鉤	guà gōu	to couple / to link / to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與\|与[yu3] + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}) / (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc) / to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc) / to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth) / latch hook / coupling	syn
架空	jià kōng	to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded / impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead	syn
出轨出軌	chū guǐ	to be derailed / to go off the rails / (fig.) to overstep the bounds / (fig.) to have an extramarital affair
鱼肉魚肉	yú ròu	flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)	syn
封顶封頂	fēng dǐng	to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
中招	zhòng zhāo	(martial arts) to get hit / to get taken down / (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer virus) / (fig.) to fall for sb's trap / to be taken in
小白兔	xiǎo bái tù	small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast
出笼出籠	chū lóng	(of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛\|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market
松柏	sōng bǎi	pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb	syn
搅和攪和	jiǎo huo	to mix / to blend / (fig.) to spoil / to mess up things / (fig.) to run around with (sb) / to get involved with / to mix (with other people)	syn
脱胎脫胎	tuō tāi	to be born / (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc) / (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) / bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
走后门走後門	zǒu hòu mén	(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings / to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex	syn
瞻前顾后瞻前顧後	zhān qián gù hòu	lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully / to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive	syn
遮羞布	zhē xiū bù	loincloth / (fig.) fig leaf / CL:塊\|块[kuai4]	syn
矮化	ǎi huà	(plant pathology) to become stunted / (horticulture) to dwarf / to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) / (fig.) to diminish the status of / to disparage / (fig.) to downplay
熔断熔斷	róng duàn	(of fuse wire) to melt / to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID)	syn
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
一团漆黑一團漆黑	yī tuán qī hēi	pitch-dark / (fig.) completely in the dark / totally ignorant of / (fig.) grim / beyond salvation	syn
擦边擦邊	cā biān	to make light contact with the edge of sth / (fig.) to be nearly (a certain age) / to be close to (danger) / (fig.) to be marginal (in terms of relevance or legality)
切中要害	qiè zhòng yào hài	to hit the target and do real damage (idiom) / fig. to hit where it hurts / fig. to hit home / an argument that hits the nail on the head
反裘负刍反裘負芻	fǎn qiú fù chú	lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom) / fig. to live a life of poverty and hard work / fig. to act stupidly
夫唱妇随夫唱婦隨	fū chàng fù suí	fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony	syn
操斧伐柯	cāo fǔ fá kē	(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker
旧瓶装新酒舊瓶裝新酒	jiù píng zhuāng xīn jiǔ	lit. new wine in old bottles / fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
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
伐柯	fá kē	(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker
刺儿刺兒	cì r	a thorn / fig. to ridicule sb / fig. sth wrong
周瑜打黄盖周瑜打黃蓋	zhōu yú dǎ huáng gài	fig. with the connivance of both sides / fig. by mutual consent / cf Wu patriot Huang Gai submits to mock beating at the hands of General Zhou Yu to deceive Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] before the 208 battle of Redcliff 赤壁之戰\|赤壁之战[Chi4 bi4 zhi1 Zhan4]
脱裤子放屁脫褲子放屁	tuō kù zi fàng pì	lit. to take off trousers to fart / fig. to do something absolutely unnecessary / fig. to make things too complicated
西克莫无花果西克莫無花果	xī kè mò wú huā guǒ	sycamore fig / common cluster fig
树高千丈，叶落归根樹高千丈，葉落歸根	shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn	fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
万箭穿心萬箭穿心	wàn jiàn chuān xīn	lit. to have one's heart pierced by thousands of arrows (idiom) / fig. overcome with sorrow / fig. to lambaste / to rip sb to shreds	syn
回过头来回過頭來	huí guò tóu lái	to turn one's head / to turn around / (fig.) to return (to a previous point) / to come back (to what one was saying before) / (fig.) to look back (in time) / to reflect on the past
火候	huǒ hou	heat control / (fig.) mastery / (fig.) crucial moment	syn
卷铺盖捲鋪蓋	juǎn pū gai	to roll up one's bedding / to pack one's things / (fig.) to quit / (fig.) to get fired / to get the sack	syn
操刀	cāo dāo	to hold a knife / (fig.) (of a surgeon) to perform an operation / (fig.) to personally handle or take charge of a task / to take the reins
放血	fàng xiě	(TCM) to practice bloodletting / (medicine) to perform phlebotomy / (coll.) to make sb bleed / to inflict grievous wounds / (fig.) to cough up a large amount of money / (fig.) to reduce prices drastically
斩获斬獲	zhǎn huò	to kill or capture (in battle) / (fig.) (sports) to score (a goal) / to win (a medal) / (fig.) to reap rewards / to achieve gains
磋磨	cuō mó	to polish and rub / (fig.) to torment / to torture / (fig.) to engage in discussion to hone an idea or skill
总汇總匯	zǒng huì	(of streams) to come together / to converge / confluence / (fig.) compendium / (fig.) aggregation / (in the name of a shop) emporium / (Tw) club sandwich (abbr. for 總匯三明治\|总汇三明治[zong3hui4 san1ming2zhi4])	syn
踩雷	cǎi léi	to step on a mine / (fig.) to inadvertently do sth that has an unpleasant result / (fig.) to be accidentally exposed to a spoiler
我们我們	wǒ men	we / us / ourselves / our	syn
女装女裝	nǚ zhuāng	women's clothes
女排	nǚ pái	women's volleyball / abbr. for 女子排球
三八	sān bā	International Women's Day 婦女節\|妇女节[Fu4 nu:3 jie2], 8th March / foolish / stupid
弱小	ruò xiǎo	small and weak / puny / the small and weak / children / women and children	syn
妇幼婦幼	fù yòu	women and children

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"fig. women's quarters" Chinese-English Dictionary

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