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"having several uses" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
多用 duō yòng multipurpose / having several uses
Chinese Pinyin Translation
关于使用国际河川水道的赫尔辛基规则 Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers / Helsinki Rules on the Uses of International Rivers
菟 tù dodder (Cuscuta sinensis, a parasitic vine with seeds having medicinal uses) / also called 菟絲子|菟丝子
几十年 幾十年 jǐ shí nián several tens of years / several decades
几度 幾度 jǐ dù how many times / several times / how many degrees (in terms of temperature or angle) / several degrees / to what degree / to what extent syn
多音多义字 多音多義字 duō yīn duō yì zì character having several readings and meanings
齐人之福 齊人之福 qí rén zhī fú lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha
未经 未經 wèi jīng not having undergone / without (having gone though a certain process)
如来 如來 rú lái tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
Q Q cute (loanword) / (of food) having a pleasant chewiness (like mochi, tapioca pearls, taro balls etc - foods with a springy or gel-like mouthfeel) / cute (loanword) / (of food) having a pleasant chewiness (like mochi, tapioca pearls, taro balls etc – foods with a springy or gel-like mouthfeel) / (loanword) to cue sb
抽动 抽動 chōu dòng to twitch / to throb / a spasm / to divert (money) to other uses
相士 xiàng shì fortune-teller who uses the subject's face for his prognostication
叛变的省份 叛變的省份 pàn biàn de shěng fèn renegade province (term PRC uses for Taiwan)
佛跳墙 佛跳牆 fó tiào qiáng lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
君子动口不动手 君子動口不動手 jūn zǐ dòng kǒu bù dòng shǒu a gentleman uses his mouth and not his fist
胶氨芹 膠氨芹 jiāo ān qín ammoniacum or gum ammoniac (Dorema ammoniacum), resin has medical uses
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
和平利用化学 peaceful uses of chemistry
科学和技术小组委员会 Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space / Scientific and Technical Subcommittee
为和平目的使用核能 use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes / peaceful uses of nuclear energy
军事能力转为民用特设工作组 軍事能力轉為民用特設工作組 Ad Hoc Working Group on Conversion of Military Capacities to Civilian Uses
海洋采矿和海洋利用合作专家会议 海洋采礦和海洋利用合作專家會議 Meeting of Experts for Co-operation on Ocean Mining and Uses of the Sea
国际水道非航行使用法小组委员会 國際水道非航行使用法小組委員會 Sub-Committee on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
国际水道非航行使用法特别报告员 國際水道非航行使用法特別報告員 Special Rapporteur on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses / Special Rapporteur on international watercourses
国际水道问题特别报告员 國際水道問題特別報告員 Special Rapporteur on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses / Special Rapporteur on international watercourses
工农业使用国际河流湖泊公约 工農業使用國際河流湖泊公約 convention on the industrial and agricultural uses of international rivers and lakes
国际和平利用原子能会议 國際和平利用原子能會議 International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
联合国促进和平利用核能国际合作会议 聯合國促進和平利用核能國際合作會議 United Nations Conference for the Promotion of International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
土地的替代使用 alternate uses of land
国际水道非航行使用法公约 國際水道非航行使用法公約 Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses
联合国探索与和平利用外层空间会议 聯合國探索與和平利用外層空間會議 United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
和平利用外层空间委员会 和平利用外層空間委員會 Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
农田的非农业使用 農田的非農業使用 non-farm uses of cropland
中体西用 中體西用 zhōng tǐ xī yòng adopting Western knowledge for its practical uses while keeping Chinese values as the core
福彩 fú cǎi lottery run by China Welfare Lottery, a government agency that uses a portion of the money from ticket sales to fund welfare projects (abbr. for 福利彩票[fu2 li4 cai3 piao4])
中中 zhōng zhōng middling / average / impartial / (Hong Kong) secondary school that uses Chinese as the medium of instruction ("CMI school")
英中 yīng zhōng (Hong Kong) secondary school that uses English as a medium of instruction ("EMI school")
几个 幾個 jǐ ge a few / several / how many
几天 幾天 jǐ tiān several days
几次 幾次 jǐ cì several times
几年 幾年 jǐ nián a few years / several years / how many years?
三国 三國 sān guó Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1luo2] in 658
好几 好幾 hǎo jǐ several / quite a few syn
几位 幾位 jǐ wèi several people (honorific) / Ladies and Gentlemen!
几个月 幾個月 jǐ ge yuè several months / the last few months
数百 數百 shù bǎi several hundred
几百 幾百 jǐ bǎi several hundred
数万 數萬 shù wàn several tens of thousands / many thousand
数年 數年 shù nián several years / many years
几千 幾千 jǐ qiān several thousand
几个小时 幾個小時 jǐ ge xiǎo shí several hours
连夜 連夜 lián yè that very night / through the night / for several nights in a row syn
靖国神社 靖國神社 jìng guó shén shè Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals
点选 點選 diǎn xuǎn to select / (computing) to click on (one of several options) / to navigate to (a webpage)
数月 數月 shù yuè several months
数百万 數百萬 shù bǎi wàn several million
三五 sān wǔ several / three or five
复方 複方 fù fāng compound prescription (involving several medicines)
连败 連敗 lián bài consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
历任 歷任 lì rèn (of one person) to hold the successive posts of / (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)
国家主席 國家主席 guó jiā zhǔ xí president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
几倍 幾倍 jǐ bèi several times (bigger) / double, treble, quadruple etc
相加 xiāng jiā to add up (numbers) / (fig.) to put together (several things of the same type, e.g. skills)
蝉联 蟬聯 chán lián to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship syn
最近几年 最近幾年 zuì jìn jǐ nián the last few years / last several years / recent years
几样 幾樣 jǐ yàng several kinds
大坑 dà kēng Tai Hang District, Hong Kong / Dakeng, the name of several places in Taiwan, notably a scenic hilly area of Taichung 台中[Tai2 zhong1]
连日 連日 lián rì day after day / for several days running syn
几十亿 幾十億 jǐ shí yì several billion
歧义 歧義 qí yì ambiguity / several possible meanings
雷鸟 雷鳥 léi niǎo capercaillie (Lagopus, several species) / thunderbird (in native American mythology)
些 xiē classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several syn
重奏 chóng zòu musical ensemble of several instruments (e.g. duet 二重奏 or trio 三重奏)
邓亚萍 鄧亞萍 dèng yà píng Deng Yaping (1973-), table tennis player, several times world and Olympic winner
几 幾 jǐ how much / how many / several / a few syn
数 數 shù number / figure / several / a few syn
楼船 樓船 lóu chuán ship with several decks / turreted junk
套印 tào yìn color printing using several overlaid images
秋瑾 qiū jǐn Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films
套色 tào shǎi color printing using several overlaid images
苍术 蒼術 cāng zhú black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
鉴真 鑒真 jiàn zhēn Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism
红珊瑚 紅珊瑚 hóng shān hú red coral / precious coral (Corallium rubrum and several related species of marine coral)
几年来 幾年來 jǐ nián lái for the past several years
吴晗 吳晗 wú hán Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution
兼课 兼課 jiān kè to teach classes in addition to other duties / to hold several teaching jobs
盾 dùn shield / (currency) Vietnamese dong / currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc) syn
浯 wú (name of several rivers in China)
蓠 蘺 lí red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori / arch. used for vanilla-like herb
好几年 好幾年 hǎo jǐ nián several years
数十亿 數十億 shù shí yì several billion
兼施 jiān shī using several (methods)
可分 kě fēn can be divided (into parts) / one can distinguish (several types)
多幕剧 多幕劇 duō mù jù play in several acts / full-length drama
多日赛 多日賽 duō rì sài race of several days / many day competition
封斋 封齋 fēng zhāi fast (in several religions) / Ramadan (Islam) / see also 齋月|斋月[Zhai1 yue4]
张揖 張揖 zhāng yī Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓|稚让[Zhi4 rang4], named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅|广雅[Guang3 ya3] and several lost works
數周 shù zhōu several weeks / also written 數週|数周
数小时 數小時 shù xiǎo shí several hours
数周 數週 shù zhōu several weeks
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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