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"knot (in wood)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
节瘤 節瘤 jié liú knot (in wood)
疖子 癤子 jiē zi (medicine) boil / furuncle / knot (in wood) syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
缬 纈 xié knot / tie a knot
甲醇 jiǎ chún methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
木片 mù piàn flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL:塊|块[kuai4],片[pian4]
木醇 mù chún wood alcohol / wood spirit / methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / same as 甲醇[jia3 chun2]
树化玉 樹化玉 shù huà yù wood jade (type of petrified wood)
木精 mù jīng methanol / methyl alcohol / wood alcohol / wood spirit
亚马孙破布木 亞馬孫破布木 cordia wood / jenny wood
黑林鸽 黑林鴿 hēi lín gē (bird species of China) black wood pigeon / Japanese wood pigeon (Columba janthina)
疙瘩 gē da swelling or lump on skin / pimple / knot / lump / preoccupation / problem syn
打结 打結 dǎ jié to tie a knot / to tie syn
死结 死結 sǐ jié tight knot / intractable problem syn
郁结 鬱結 yù jié to suffer from pent-up frustrations / mental knot / emotional issue syn
快刀斩乱麻 快刀斬亂麻 kuài dāo zhǎn luàn má lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom) / decisive action in a complex situation / cutting the Gordian knot syn
结 結 jié knot / sturdy / bond / to tie / to bind / to check out (of a hotel) syn
绳结 繩結 shéng jié knot
结子 結子 jié zi knot (on a rope or string) syn
节 節 jié joint / node / (bound form) section / segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize / to save / (bound form) moral integrity / chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) syn
喜结连理 喜結連理 xǐ jié lián lǐ to tie the knot (idiom) / to get married syn
缠结 纏結 chán jié to coil around / knot / to entangle
活结 活結 huó jié a slip-knot / a noose syn
纥 紇 gē knot
鬟 huán a knot of hair on top of head
繨 dá a knot (of a rope)
枙 è tree knot
纇 lèi flaw / knot
鬠 kuài to make a top knot
圪垯 gē da mound / knoll / swelling or lump on skin / pimple / knot / lump / preoccupation / problem
快刀断乱麻 快刀斷亂麻 kuài dāo duàn luàn má lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom) / decisive action in a complex situation / cutting the Gordian knot
死结难解 死結難解 sǐ jié nán jiě enigmatic knot hard to untie (idiom) / thorny problem / intractable difficulty
节上生枝 節上生枝 jié shàng shēng zhī a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom) / fig. side issues keep arising
纠结点 糾結點 jiū jiē diǎn a knot / fig. meeting of many strands
髓结 髓結 suǐ jié pith knot (in timber)
红腹滨鹬 紅腹濱鷸 hóng fù bīn yù (bird species of China) red knot (Calidris canutus)
活套 huó tào noose / running knot
节子 節子 jiē zi gnarl / knot syn
节疤 節疤 jié bā gnarl / knot
颣 纇 lèi flaw / knot
大滨鹬 大濱鷸 dà bīn yù (bird species of China) great knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
好聚好散 hǎo jù hǎo sàn to part without hard feelings (idiom) / to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
好聚好散 hǎo jù - hǎo sàn (idiom) to part without hard feelings / to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
木材 mù cái wood syn
木头 木頭 mù tou slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1] syn
五行 wǔ xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 syn
纹理 紋理 wén lǐ vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
塑像 sù xiàng to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process syn
丁丁 zhēng zhēng sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc syn
红木 紅木 hóng mù red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
木耳 mù ěr wood ear / jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:朵[duo3] syn
纹路 紋路 wén lù veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
篱笆 籬笆 lí ba fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) syn
竹木 zhú mù bamboo and wood
茯苓 fú líng Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus) / fu ling / tuckahoe
朽木 xiǔ mù rotten wood syn
伐木 fá mù to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering syn
松木 sōng mù pine wood / deal / larch
木屑 mù xiè wood shavings / sawdust syn
理 lǐ texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up syn
蛀虫 蛀蟲 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin syn
劈柴 pǐ chái chopped wood / firewood
苏木 蘇木 sū mù sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
砍树 砍樹 kǎn shù to chop wood / to chop down trees
八音 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn
木杆 木桿 mù gān wooden pole / wood (golf club)
桐油 tóng yóu tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
灌木林 guàn mù lín shrubbery / low wood
油桐 yóu tóng Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii) syn
刨花 bào huā wood shavings
盲人摸象 máng rén mō xiàng blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees syn
硅化木 guī huà mù petrified wood (geology)
木 mù (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn
鸡翅木 雞翅木 jī chì mù wenge or wengue (type of wood)
形成层 形成層 xíng chéng céng vascular cambium (layer of tissue responsible for growth inside wood)
边材 邊材 biān cái sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
签 籤 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag syn
纹 紋 wén line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc) syn
炭 tàn wood charcoal / coal syn
栈 棧 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack syn
札 zhá thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague syn
樵 qiáo firewood / gather wood syn
梓 zǐ Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks syn
镌 鐫 juān to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe syn
蠡 lǐ wood-boring insect syn
槁 gǎo dried up (wood) / dead tree
槎 chá a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew syn
巽 xùn to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
锼 鎪 sōu to engrave (metal of wood) syn
桄 guàng woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
只见树木不见森林 只見樹木不見森林 zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín unable to see the wood for the trees / fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture
土木形骸 tǔ mù xíng hái earth and wood framework (idiom) / plain and undecorated body
木人石心 mù rén shí xīn lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless syn
烈火干柴 烈火乾柴 liè huǒ gān chái lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom) / inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
众盲摸象 眾盲摸象 zhòng máng mō xiàng multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
鎸 juān variant of 鐫|镌, to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
一叶障目 一葉障目 yī yè zhàng mù lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees syn
柮 duò wood scraps
榾 gǔ scraps of wood
檮 táo blockhead / wood-block
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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