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"greasy dirt" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
油污 yóu wū greasy dirt / sludge (from an oil spill)
油垢 yóu gòu greasy dirt
Chinese Pinyin Translation
污秽 污穢 wū huì (literary) dirty / filthy / (literary) dirt / filth syn
油腻 油膩 yóu nì greasy food / oily food / (of food) greasy / oily / fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious / pretentious / vulgar syn
清淡 qīng dàn light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored) / insipid / slack (sales) syn
污垢 wū gòu dirt / filth / grime syn
粪土 糞土 fèn tǔ dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing syn
土路 tǔ lù dirt road
油光 yóu guāng glossy / gleaming / shiny (due to greasiness) / slick / greasy / oily syn
挥金如土 揮金如土 huī jīn rú tǔ lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant syn
油滑 yóu huá oily / greasy / unctuous / slippery (character) syn
摩挲 mā sa (coll.) to remove (crinkles, dirt) with the palm of the hand / Taiwan pr. [mo2suo1] syn
灰头土脸 灰頭土臉 huī tóu tǔ liǎn head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed
素净 素淨 sù jing simple and neat / quiet (colors) / unobtrusive / (of food) light / not greasy or strongly flavored syn
油 yóu oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning syn
埃 āi dust / dirt / angstrom / phonetic ai or e syn
尘 塵 chén dust / dirt / earth syn
腻 膩 nì greasy / soft / unctuous / intimate / tired of syn
污 wū dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth syn
垢 gòu dirt / disgrace syn
白菜价 白菜價 bái cài jià (coll.) very low price / dirt cheap price
肥腻 肥膩 féi nì (of foods) fatty / greasy
泥垢 ní gòu dirt / grime syn
峁 mǎo round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)
油乎乎 yóu hū hū greasy / oily syn
藏污纳垢 藏污納垢 cáng wū nà gòu to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom) / to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds
油光光 yóu guāng guāng glossy / gleaming / shiny (due to greasiness) / slick / greasy / oily syn
腬 róu greasy (Cantonese)
视如粪土 視如糞土 shì rú fèn tǔ to look upon as dirt / considered worthless
澡垢索疵 zǎo gòu suǒ cī to wash the dirt to find a defect (idiom) / to find fault / to nitpick
腻人 膩人 nì rén greasy / boring
挶 jú structure for carrying dirt
虆 léi creeper / bramble / dirt-basket
汙 wū variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth
汚 wū variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth
温蠖 溫蠖 wēn huò dirt
碰一鼻子灰 pèng yī bí zi huī lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt / fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff
藏垢纳污 藏垢納污 cáng gòu nà wū to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom) / to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds
不干不净，吃了没病 不乾不淨，吃了沒病 bù gān bù jìng , chī le méi bìng a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
吃土 chī tǔ (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
积土成山 積土成山 jī tǔ chéng shān lit. piling up dirt eventually creates a mountain (idiom) / fig. success is the cumulation of lots of small actions
拔出萝卜带出泥 拔出蘿蔔帶出泥 bá chū luó bo dài chū ní lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
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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