"home-grown food" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn
美食 měi shí culinary delicacy / fine food / gourmet food syn
成年 chéng nián to grow to adulthood / fully grown / adult / the whole year syn
熟食 shú shí cooked food / prepared food / deli food syn
家居 jiā jū home / residence / to stay at home (unemployed) syn
主场 主場 zhǔ chǎng (sports) home ground / home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
土生土长 土生土長 tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng locally born and bred / indigenous / home-grown syn
居家 jū jiā to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc) syn
荒芜 荒蕪 huāng wú left to return to unchecked growth / overgrown / grown wild 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
佳肴 佳餚 jiā yáo fine food / delicacies / delicious food syn
宾至如归 賓至如歸 bīn zhì rú guī guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home syn
犒劳 犒勞 kào láo to reward with food and drink / to feast (sb) / presents of food etc made to troops / Taiwan pr. [kao4 lao4] syn
酒菜 jiǔ cài food and drink / food to accompany wine syn
食量 shí liàng quantity of food one eats / food intake syn
恋家 戀家 liàn jiā home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home syn
敬老院 jìng lǎo yuàn senior citizens' home / old folks' home syn
如虎添翼 rú hǔ tiān yì lit. like a tiger that has grown wings / with redoubled power (idiom) syn
临门 臨門 lín mén to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth
食疗 食療 shí liáo (TCM) food therapy / treatment via food
青稞 qīng kē highland barley (grown in Tibet and Qinghai) / qingke barley syn
绿色食品 綠色食品 lǜ sè shí pǐn clean, unadulterated food product / organic food
家庭影院 jiā tíng yǐng yuàn home cinema / home theater
速食 sù shí (of food) fast / instant / (Tw) fast food
菜篮子 菜籃子 cài lán zi vegetable or food basket / (fig.) food supply
食补 食補 shí bǔ tonic food (food considered to be particularly healthful) / to eat such foods
碧螺春 bì luó chūn biluochun or pi lo chun, a type of green tea grown in the Dongting Mountain region near Lake Tai 太湖[Tai4 Hu2], Jiangsu
试种 試種 shì zhòng test planting / crop grown on a trial basis
空巢 kōng cháo empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
寒食 hán shí cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
zhái residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home syn
河蚌 hé bàng mussels / bivalves grown in rivers and lakes syn
叶落归根 葉落歸根 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. syn
本垒 本壘 běn lěi (baseball) home base / home plate
菜牛 cài niú beef cattle (grown for meat)
chī dragon with horns not yet grown (in myth or heraldry) / variant of 魑[chi1]
jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
回家 huí jiā to return home syn
家里 家裡 jiā lǐ home syn
在家 zài jiā to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1chai1]) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1jia1])
出走 chū zǒu to leave home / to go off / to run away syn
家园 家園 jiā yuán home / homeland syn
老家 lǎo jiā native place / place of origin / home state or region syn
请便 請便 qǐng biàn Please do as you wish! / You are welcome to do whatever you like! / Please make yourself at home. syn
外边 外邊 wài bian outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home syn
故乡 故鄉 gù xiāng home / homeland / native place / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) syn
养老院 養老院 yǎng lǎo yuàn nursing home syn
归宿 歸宿 guī sù place to return to / home / final destination / ending
屋檐 屋簷 wū yán eaves / roof (i.e. home) syn
回国 回國 huí guó to return to one's home country
主页 主頁 zhǔ yè home page
家用 jiā yòng home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money syn
娘家 niáng jia married woman's parents' home syn
家常便饭 家常便飯 jiā cháng biàn fàn simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary syn
远行 遠行 yuǎn xíng a long journey / far from home syn
安家 ān jiā to settle down / to set up a home syn
登门 登門 dēng mén to visit sb at home syn
异乡 異鄉 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home syn
乡亲 鄉親 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home syn
平淡无奇 平淡無奇 píng dàn wú qí ordinary and mediocre (idiom) / nothing to write home about syn
寒舍 hán shè my humble home syn
出诊 出診 chū zhěn to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
抛售 拋售 pāo shòu to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home) syn
容身 róng shēn to find a place where one can fit in / to make one's home / to seek shelter syn
随遇而安 隨遇而安 suí yù ér ān at home wherever one is (idiom) / ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will syn
串门 串門 chuàn mén to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home syn
静默 靜默 jìng mò silent / still / quiet / to mourn in silence / to observe silence / (neologism c. 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic syn
家常菜 jiā cháng cài home cooking
闯荡 闖盪 chuǎng dàng to leave home to make one's way in the world / to leave the life one knows to seek success syn
探亲 探親 tàn qīn to go home to visit one's family syn
安身 ān shēn to make one's home / to take shelter syn
新居 xīn jū new residence / new home
寄居 jì jū to live away from home syn
迎娶 yíng qǔ (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife / to marry (a woman) syn
返乡 返鄉 fǎn xiāng to return to one's home town syn
流离失所 流離失所 liú lí shī suǒ destitute and homeless (idiom) / forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced syn
便饭 便飯 biàn fàn an ordinary meal / simple home cooking syn
中外 zhōng wài Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad syn
故里 gù lǐ home town / native place syn
归国 歸國 guī guó to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
府上 fǔ shàng (polite) your home / residence
切中 qiè zhòng to hit the target (esp. in argument) / to strike home syn
偏方 piān fāng folk remedy / home remedy syn
返家 fǎn jiā to return home syn
国内外 國內外 guó nèi wài domestic and international / at home and abroad
乡里 鄉里 xiāng lǐ one's home town or village syn
荣归 榮歸 róng guī to return home with honor syn
钉子户 釘子戶 dīng zi hù householder who refuses to vacate his home despite pressure from property developers
归途 歸途 guī tú the way back / one's journey home
家信 jiā xìn letter (to or from) home syn
单方 單方 dān fāng unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方[ji1 fang1], one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方[qi1 fang1]) / metaphorically. a good solution syn
原籍 yuán jí ancestral home (town) / birthplace syn
下家 xià jiā player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home syn
流连忘返 流連忘返 liú lián wàng fǎn to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home syn
落户 落戶 luò hù to settle / to set up home syn
家徒四壁 jiā tú sì bì lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched syn
赋闲 賦閑 fù xián to stay idle at home / to have resigned from office / to be unemployed / to have been fired / to be on a sabbatical syn
安家落户 安家落戶 ān jiā luò hù to make one's home in a place / to settle syn
旅居 lǚ jū to stay away from home / residence abroad / sojourn 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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