地上 dì shang on the ground / on the floor 地板 dì bǎn floor 地面 dì miàn floor / ground / surface syn 扫地 掃地 sǎo dì to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low syn 垫子 墊子 diàn zi cushion / mat / pad syn 舞池 wǔ chí dance floor 顶楼 頂樓 dǐng lóu top floor / attic / loft / garret / penthouse / (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc) 楼层 樓層 lóu céng floor / story (of a building) syn 面积 面積 miàn jī area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land 池子 chí zi pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater) syn 底层 底層 dǐ céng ground floor / first floor / lowest level / lowest rung (of society etc) syn 顶层 頂層 dǐng céng top floor / the top of a building 谷底 gǔ dǐ valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low syn 下放 xià fàng to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside syn 蒲团 蒲團 pú tuán praying mat (Buddhism, made of woven cattail) 打蜡 打蠟 dǎ là to wax (a car, floor etc) 筵席 yán xí banquet / mat for sitting syn 地砖 地磚 dì zhuān floor tile 展位 zhǎn wèi relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area 底薪 dǐ xīn basic salary / base pay / salary floor 落地窗 luò dì chuāng floor-to-ceiling window / French window 楼板 樓板 lóu bǎn floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) 桥面 橋面 qiáo miàn roadway / floor / deck / bridge floor 碾压 碾壓 niǎn yā to crush or compact (with a roller) / to run over (with a vehicle) / (fig.) to trounce / to wipe the floor with / to be far superior 落地灯 落地燈 luò dì dēng floor lamp 席子 xí zi woven mat syn 凉棚 涼棚 liáng péng mat awning / arbor 交易市场 交易市場 jiāo yì shì chǎng exchange / trading floor 占地面积 占地面積 zhàn dì miàn ji floor area / occupied area / footprint (of a building, piece of equipment etc) 首层 首層 shǒu céng first floor / ground floor 楼面 樓面 lóu miàn floor syn 地漏 dì lòu drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month 席地而坐 xí dì ér zuò to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom) syn 凉席 涼席 liáng xí summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL:張|张[zhang1],領|领[ling3] syn 地板砖 地板磚 dì bǎn zhuān floor tile 楼 樓 lóu house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4] syn 拖 tuō to drag / to tow / to trail / to hang down / to mop (the floor) / to delay / to drag on syn 层 層 céng to pile on top of one another / layer / stratum / floor (of a building) / story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers syn 垫 墊 diàn pad / cushion / mat / to pad out / to fill a gap / to pay for sb / to advance (money) syn 席 蓆 xí variant of 席[xi2] / woven mat syn 绷 繃 bēng to draw tight / to stretch taut / to tack (with thread or pin) / (bound form) embroidery hoop / (bound form) woven bed mat syn 砖 磚 zhuān brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL:塊|块[kuai4] syn 藉 jiè (literary) cushion / mat / (literary) to put some padding underneath syn 自由体操 自由體操 zì yóu tǐ cāo floor (gymnastics) 荐 薦 jiàn to recommend / to offer sacrifice (arch.) / grass / straw mat syn 苫 shān straw mat / thatch syn 枕席 zhěn xí pillow mat / pillow and mat / bed syn 筵 yán bamboo mat for sitting 蓐 rù mat / rushes 场院 場院 cháng yuàn threshing floor syn 肉蒲团 肉蒲團 ròu pú tuán The Carnal Prayer Mat, Chinese erotic novel from 17th century, usually attributed to Li Yu 李漁|李渔[Li3 Yu3] 红马甲 紅馬甲 hóng mǎ jiǎ red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader / floor broker 芦席 蘆席 lú xí reed mat syn 笫 zǐ bamboo mat / bed mat 笪 dá rough bamboo mat syn 簟 diàn fine woven grass mat syn 箦 簀 zé reed mat 打场 打場 dǎ cháng to thresh grain (on the floor) syn 打地铺 打地鋪 dǎ dì pù to make one's bed on the floor 掷地有声 擲地有聲 zhì dì yǒu shēng lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom) / fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating / to have substance syn 七级浮屠 七級浮屠 qī jí fú tú seven floor pagoda 裀 yīn mat / underclothing 莚 yán bamboo mat / feast, banquet 篨 chú crude bamboo mat 蓆 xí variant of 席[xi2], woven mat 壹败涂地 壹敗塗地 yī bài tú dì beaten and wiped over the floor (idiom) / to fail utterly / a crushing defeat / failed and in a hopeless position 救人一命胜造七级浮屠 救人一命勝造七級浮屠 jiù rén yī mìng shèng zào qī jí fú tú saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom) 靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) 拆装式金属跑道板 拆裝式金屬跑道板 landing mat / aircraft landing mat 地面层 地面層 dì miàn céng ground floor / first floor 底楼 底樓 dǐ lóu ground floor / first floor 小心地滑 xiǎo xīn dì huá (used on signs) caution - wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery") 社会保障最低标准 social security floor / social floor 洗地 xǐ dì to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb 籧 qú crude bamboo mat 棕垫 棕墊 zōng diàn palm fiber mat 棕毯 zōng tǎn coir mat / palm fiber matting 棕绷 棕繃 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface) 砚席 硯席 yàn xí ink slab and sitting mat / place where one studies and teaches 跪毯 guì tǎn a prayer mat / a carpet for kneeling 卡垫 卡墊 kǎ diàn (Tibetan) rug / mat 筕篖 háng táng woven bamboo mat 床笫 chuáng zǐ bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy 苇席 葦席 wěi xí reed mat 屉子 屜子 tì zi drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen syn 茓 xué to store grain by enclosing it in a woven mat rolled into a vertical cylinder 茓子 xué zi long woven mat used to form a cylindrical grain bin 篾席 miè xí mat woven from bamboo strips syn 唐楼 唐樓 táng lóu tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China) 地台 dì tái floor / platform 打谷场 打穀場 dǎ gǔ cháng threshing floor 拼花地板 pīn huā dì bǎn floor with tiled design 横隔 橫隔 héng gé tabula (horizontal floor of polyp) 洋底 yáng dǐ ocean floor / bottom of the ocean 海砂 hǎi shā sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore) 禾场 禾場 hé cháng threshing floor 稽颡 稽顙 jī sǎng kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor) 拖地 tuō dì to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length 全球社会保护最低标准 Global Social Protection Floor 