"heavenly music" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
仙乐 仙樂 xiān yuè heavenly music
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
gān (bound form) to have to do with / to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield syn
調 diào to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody syn
星球 xīng qiú celestial body (e.g. planet, satellite etc) / heavenly body syn
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa syn
配乐 配樂 pèi yuè to create music for a movie or stage production / to dub music onto a soundtrack / incidental music / soundtrack music
插曲 chā qǔ music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode
天皇 tiān huáng Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] / emperor / emperor of Japan syn
天衣无缝 天衣無縫 tiān yī wú fèng lit. seamless heavenly clothes (idiom) / fig. flawless syn
大帝 dà dì heavenly emperor / "the Great" (title) syn
甲子 jiǎ zǐ first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]) / the sixty-year cycle
乐坛 樂壇 yuè tán music circles / music world
天马行空 天馬行空 tiān mǎ xíng kōng like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style syn
天书 天書 tiān shū imperial edict / heavenly book (superstition) / obscure or illegible writing / double dutch
歌坛 歌壇 gē tán singing stage / music business (esp. pop music)
天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn
天干 tiān gān the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
天池 tiān chí "heavenly lake", lake situated on a mountain / used as the name of numerous lakes, such as 長白山天池|长白山天池[Chang2 bai2 shan1 Tian1 chi2]
甲乙 jiǎ yǐ first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
南天门 南天門 nán tiān mén South Gate to Heaven, the name a gate constructed on various mountains, most notably on Mount Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] / (mythology) southern gate of the Heavenly Palace
天府 tiān fǔ Heavenly province (epithet of Sichuan, esp. area around Chengdu) / land of plenty syn
天朝 tiān cháo Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China / Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
四大天王 sì dà tiān wáng the four heavenly kings (Sanskrit vajra) / the four guardians or warrior attendants of Buddha
湘军 湘軍 xiāng jūn Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion
太平天国 太平天國 tài píng tiān guó Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
洞天 dòng tiān paradise / heavenly or beautiful place / fairyland
干支 gān zhī the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
乡村音乐 鄉村音樂 xiāng cūn yīn yuè country music (country & western music genre)
真武 zhēn wǔ Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝
生辰八字 shēng chén bā zì one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch
国乐 國樂 guó yuè national music / Chinese traditional music
洪秀全 hóng xiù quán Hong Xiuquan or Hung Hsiu-ch'üan (1814-1864), leader of the Taiping rebellion or Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
xīng star / heavenly body / satellite / small amount syn
dīng male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl syn
jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn
xīn (of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa syn
chart / list / table / register / score (music) / spectrum (physics) / to set to music syn
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
bǐng third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl syn
天花乱坠 天花亂墜 tiān huā luàn zhuì lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom) / fig. extravagant embellishments / hype syn
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta
rén ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / ninth in order / letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 345° / nona
胡乐 胡樂 hú yuè Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)
gēng age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta syn
guǐ tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / tenth in order / letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 15° / deca
音乐 音樂 yīn yuè music / CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4] syn
速度 sù dù speed / rate / velocity / (music) tempo / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
摇滚 搖滾 yáo gǔn rock 'n' roll (music) / to rock / to fall off
打击 打擊 dǎ jī to hit / to strike / to attack / to crack down on sth / blow / (psychological) shock / percussion (music) syn
唱片 chàng piàn gramophone record / LP / music CD / musical album / CL:張|张[zhang1]
专辑 專輯 zhuān jí album / record (music) / special collection of printed or broadcast material syn
大众 大眾 dà zhòng the masses / the great bulk of the population / popular (of music, science etc) syn
布鲁斯 布魯斯 bù lǔ sī blues (music) (loanword)
品味 pǐn wèi to sample / to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc) / good taste syn
咪咪 mī mī oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc / (onom.) meow / kitty kitty! / Mimi (Western name) / tits (i.e. slang for breasts) syn
说唱 說唱 shuō chàng speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] and 相聲|相声[xiang4 sheng5] / (music) rapping
摇滚乐 搖滾樂 yáo gǔn yuè rock music / rock 'n roll
曲目 qǔ mù repertoire / program / song / piece of music syn
音符 yīn fú (music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
舞曲 wǔ qǔ dance music
力度 lì dù strength / vigor / efforts / (music) dynamics
回音 huí yīn echo / reply / turn (ornament in music) syn
作曲 zuò qǔ to compose (music) syn
节拍 節拍 jié pāi beat (music) / meter syn
同音 tóng yīn (music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic
饶舌 饒舌 ráo shé talkative / to blather / to shoot one's mouth off / rap (genre of music) syn
拍子 pāi zi beat (music) / paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc) / racket (sports) syn
乐谱 樂譜 yuè pǔ a musical score / sheet music
声乐 聲樂 shēng yuè vocal music
音乐节 音樂節 yīn yuè jié music festival
小调 小調 xiǎo diào xiaodiao, a Chinese folk song genre / minor key (in music) syn
音域 yīn yù vocal range / register (music)
和声 和聲 hé shēng harmony (music)
高低 gāo dī height / level / (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety / discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低[bu4zhi1 gao1di1]) / no matter what / just / simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last syn
小节 小節 xiǎo jié a minor matter / trivia / bar (music) syn
波音 bō yīn mordent (music)
和弦 hé xián chord (music)
婉转 婉轉 wǎn zhuǎn (voice, music) suave / mellow / (speech) indirect / tactful syn
大调 大調 dà diào major key (in music)
过门 過門 guò mén to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera syn
管弦乐 管弦樂 guǎn xián yuè orchestral music
名曲 míng qǔ famous song / well-known piece of music
弦乐 弦樂 xián yuè string music
乐迷 樂迷 yuè mí music fan
奏乐 奏樂 zòu yuè to perform music / to play a tune syn
主旋律 zhǔ xuán lǜ (music) theme / principal melody / (fig.) central theme / main idea / (of a movie) created with the purpose of promoting Party values and point of view syn
夜曲 yè qǔ nocturne (music)
唱腔 chàng qiāng vocal music (in opera) / aria syn
指挥家 指揮家 zhǐ huī jiā (music) conductor
图谱 圖譜 tú pǔ archive of graphics (e.g. maps, documents or botanical figures) / atlas / collection of illustrations or sheet music
谱写 譜寫 pǔ xiě to compose (a piece of music) / (fig.) to create, by one's actions, a narrative (generally one that can be recounted with pride) syn
音高 yīn gāo pitch (music) / tone
荣登 榮登 róng dēng (of a list, music chart etc) to reach the top
指法 zhǐ fǎ (music) fingering / (TCM) manipulation of acupuncture needles / (keyboard) typing technique / (dance) hand movements / (painting) finger method
声部 聲部 shēng bù part (in multipart instrumental or choral music), such as the soprano part or bass part
一板一眼 yī bǎn yī yǎn lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom) / fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter / scrupulous attention to detail syn
铜管 銅管 tóng guǎn brass instrument (music)
簧片 huáng piàn reed (music) syn
变调 變調 biàn diào tone sandhi / modified tone / (music) to change key / modulation syn
协和 協和 xié hé to harmonize / harmony / cooperation / (music) consonant syn
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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