时 時 shí o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period syn 令 lìng to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem syn 调 調 tiáo to harmonize / to reconcile / to blend / to suit well / to adjust / to regulate / to season (food) / to provoke / to incite syn 圣诞节 聖誕節 shèng dàn jié Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas 春天 chūn tiān spring (season) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 赛季 賽季 sài jì season (sports) 季节 季節 jì jié time / season / period / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 季度 jì dù quarter of a year / season (sports) 候 hòu to wait / to inquire after / to watch / season / climate / (old) period of five days syn 干燥 乾燥 gān zào (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry / arid / (of skin, mouth etc) dry / (fig.) dull / dry / boring / (of timber etc) to dry out / to season / to cure syn 雨季 yǔ jì rainy season 时节 時節 shí jié season / time syn 调和 調和 tiáo hé harmonious / to mediate / to reconcile / mediation / to compromise / to mix / to blend / blended / to season / seasoning / to placate syn 花丛 花叢 huā cóng cluster of flowers / inflorescence / flowering shrub syn 木瓜 mù guā papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) syn 旺季 wàng jì busy season / peak period / see also 淡季[dan4 ji4] 风干 風乾 fēng gān to air-dry / to season (timber etc) / air-dried / air-drying 发情期 發情期 fā qíng qī the breeding season (zool.) / oestrus (period of sexual receptivity of female mammals) 日月 rì yuè the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood syn 淡季 dàn jì off season / slow business season / see also 旺季[wang4 ji4] 开锅 開鍋 kāi guō to season a wok / to take the lid off a pot / (of the contents of a pot) to start to boil / (fig.) to become rowdy syn 梅雨 méi yǔ East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) syn 时令 時令 shí lìng season syn 海棠 hǎi táng Chinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis) 踏青 tà qīng lit. tread the green / go for a walk in the spring (when the grass has turned green) / spring hike season around Qingming festival 清明, 4th-6th April syn 首季 shǒu jì first season / first quarter 早稻 zǎo dào early season rice / rice at transplanting or still unripe 农忙 農忙 nóng máng busy farming season syn 汛期 xùn qī flood season 菜心 cài xīn choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage 按季 àn jì according to season / quarterly 汛情 xùn qíng water levels during the flood season 紫草 zǐ cǎo red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) 秋景 qiū jǐng autumn scenery / harvest season syn 淫羊藿 yín yáng huò Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac / also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to resemble crushed goat's testicles) 当令 當令 dāng lìng to be in season / seasonal syn 季 jì season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields syn 喷 噴 pèn (of a smell) strong / peak season (of a crop) / (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests) syn 春 chūn spring (season) / gay / joyful / youthful / love / lust / life syn 俏 qiào good-looking / charming / (of goods) in great demand / (coll.) to season (food) syn 孟 mèng first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers 蒲 pú refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis / common cattail / bullrush 仲 zhòng second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers syn 荼 tú thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion 桑科 sāng kē Moraceae (type of flowering plant) 被子植物 bèi zǐ zhí wù angiosperm (flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit) 冬闲 冬閑 dōng xián slack winter season (farming) 冷天 lěng tiān cold weather / cold season 秋荼密网 秋荼密網 qiū tú mì wǎng flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom) / fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law 无冬无夏 無冬無夏 wú dōng wú xià regardless of the season / all the year round 不违农时 不違農時 bù wéi nóng shí not miss the farming season / do farm work in the right season syn 生长季节 生長季節 shēng zhǎng jì jié growing season / vegetative season 反季 fǎn jì off-season / out-of-season 反季节 反季節 fǎn jì jié off-season / out-of-season 当季 當季 dāng jì this season / the current season 倒吊蜡烛 倒吊蠟燭 dào diào là zhú Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo) 天门冬科 天門冬科 tiān mén dōng kē Asparagaceae, family of flowering plants which includes asparagus 海棠花 hǎi táng huā Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis) 被子植物门 被子植物門 bèi zǐ zhí wù mén angiospermae (phylum of flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit) 踏雪寻梅 踏雪尋梅 tà xuě xún méi to walk in the snow to view the flowering plum 显花植物 顯花植物 xiǎn huā zhí wù Phanerogamae (botany) / flowering plants 马兜铃科 馬兜鈴科 mǎ dōu líng kē Aristolochiaceae (birthwort family of flowering plants, including ginger) 大麻属植物的开花顶部 大麻屬植物的開花頂部 flowering top of the cannabis plant 箮 xuān bamboo flower / flowering bamboo 花肥 huā féi fertilizer for potted flowers / fertilizer used to promote flowering in crop plants 大波斯菊 dà bō sī jú cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), flowering herbaceous plant 徒长 徒長 tú zhǎng (of a plant) to experience excessive vegetative growth (at the expense of flowering or fruiting) 动情期 動情期 dòng qíng qī estrus / the rutting season / on heat 令节 令節 lìng jié festive season / happy time / noble principle 季候 jì hòu season 季相 jì xiàng characteristic nature of some season 恭贺佳节 恭賀佳節 gōng hè jiā jié season's greetings (idiom) 收冬 shōu dōng harvest season / autumn 旹 shí time (old form of 时|時) / season / era / age / period 月令 yuè lìng typical weather in a given season syn 果期 guǒ qī the fruiting season 正当时 正當時 zhèng dāng shí the right time for sth / the right season (for planting cabbage) 岁时 歲時 suì shí season / time of the year syn 岁阑 歲闌 suì lán late season of a year 洪水期 hóng shuǐ qī flood season 洪汛期 hóng xùn qī flood season 渔汛 漁汛 yú xùn fishing season 渔汛期 漁汛期 yú xùn qī fishing season 球季 qiú jì season (of baseball, football etc) 瓜代 guā dài a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season 盛季 shèng jì peak season / a flourishing period 节候 節候 jié hòu season / time of year 节期 節期 jié qī festival season 配种季节 配種季節 pèi zhǒng jì jié breeding season 食季 shí jì eclipse season 收获季节 收穫季節 shōu huò jì jié cropping season 青黄不接之际 青黃不接之際 qīng huáng bù jiē zhī jì lean season 麦秋 麥秋 mài qiū harvest season 飞行检查 飛行檢查 fēi xíng jiǎn chá unannounced inspection / (sports) out-of-season drug testing / abbr. to 飛檢|飞检[fei1 jian3] 流感季 liú gǎn jì flu season 