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"language deficit (linguistics)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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语言匮乏 語言匱乏 yǔ yán kuì fá language deficit (linguistics)
Chinese Pinyin Translation
母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data
祖语 祖語 zǔ yǔ proto-language / parent language (linguistics)
语言誓约 語言誓約 yǔ yán shì yuē language pledge (to speak only the target language in a language school)
升调 昇調 shēng diào to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone
颚龈音 顎齦音 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
拟音 擬音 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
译词 譯詞 yì cí (linguistics) an equivalent / a translation of a term into the target language
音读 音讀 yīn dú reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
训读 訓讀 xùn dú a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
原语 原語 yuán yǔ source language (linguistics)
译语 譯語 yì yǔ target language (linguistics)
词根语 詞根語 cí gēn yǔ (linguistics) analytic language
对应词 對應詞 duì yìng cí (linguistics) an equivalent / a translation of a term into the target language
等同语 等同語 děng tóng yǔ (linguistics) an equivalent / a translation of a term into the target language
口语 口語 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2]
普通话 普通話 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech syn
会话 會話 huì huà (language learning) conversation / dialog / to converse (in a non-native language) / (computing) session / CL:個|个[ge4],次[ci4] syn
粗口 cū kǒu swear words / obscene language / foul language
粗话 粗話 cū huà vulgar language / coarse language syn
藏文 zàng wén Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language
文饰 文飾 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over syn
北京语言学院 北京語言學院 běi jīng yǔ yán xué yuàn Beijing Language Institute / former name of 北京語言大學|北京语言大学[Bei3 jing1 Yu3 yan2 Da4 xue2] Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)
电脑语言 電腦語言 diàn nǎo yǔ yán programming language / computer language
人造语言 人造語言 rén zào yǔ yán artificial language / constructed language / conlang
阿富汗语 阿富汗語 ā fù hàn yǔ Afghan (language) / Pashto language
语文资格考试 Language Proficiency Examination / Language Proficiency Exam
国家汉办 國家漢辦 guó jiā hàn bàn Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as "Hanban"), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, and has established Confucius Institutes 孔子學院|孔子学院[Kong3 zi3 Xue2 yuan4] internationally / abbr. to 漢辦|汉办[Han4 ban4]
西语 西語 xī yǔ western language / Spanish (language)
台山话 台山話 tái shān huà Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語|粤语[Yue4 yu3] spoken in Jiangmen 江門|江门[Jiang1 men2] and in the Chinatowns of North America
空耳 kōng ěr to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
亏损 虧損 kuī sǔn deficit / (financial) loss syn
赤字 chì zì (financial) deficit / red letter syn
暂缺 暫缺 zàn quē currently in short supply / in deficit (of commodity) / currently vacant (position)
逆差 nì chā adverse trade balance / trade deficit
扭亏 扭虧 niǔ kuī to make good a deficit / to reverse a loss syn
睡眠不足 shuì mián bù zú lack of sleep / sleep deficit
亏欠 虧欠 kuī qiàn to have a deficit / to be in the red / to owe syn
多动症 多動症 duō dòng zhèng (coll.) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
奇缺 qí quē very short of (food, clean water etc) / extreme shortage / deficit
亏空 虧空 kuī kōng in debt / in the red / in deficit syn
青黄不接 青黃不接 qīng huáng bù jiē lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom) / the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop / temporary deficit in manpower or resources / unable to make ends meet syn
亏缺 虧缺 kuī quē to be lacking / to fall short of / to wane / deficit / deficient
亏 虧 kuī to lose (money) / to have a deficit / to be deficient / to treat unfairly / luckily / fortunately / thanks to / (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations) syn
注意力缺陷过动症 注意力缺陷過動症 zhù yì lì quē xiàn guò dòng zhèng attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
搭补 搭補 dā bǔ to subsidize / to make up (deficit)
岁计余绌 歲計餘絀 suì jì yú chù annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
贸易逆差 貿易逆差 mào yì nì chā trade deficit / adverse trade balance
注意力不足过动症 注意力不足過動症 zhù yì lì bù zú guò dòng zhèng attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
入超 rù chāo trade deficit / import surplus
生态亏损 shēng tài kuī sǔn ecological deficit
注意力缺失多动症 zhù yì lì quē shī duō dòng zhèng attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity
低收入缺粮国 低收入缺糧國 dī shōu rù quē liáng guó low-income food-deficit country
注意力缺失症 zhù yì lì quē shī zhèng attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
缺水量 water deficit
水量差 water deficit
生态赤字 生態赤字 shēng tài chì zì ecological deficit
低收入缺粮国粮食安全特别方桉 低收入缺糧國糧食安全特別方案 Special Programme for Food Security in Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries / Special Programme for Food Security
粮食安全特别方桉 糧食安全特別方案 Special Programme for Food Security in Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries / Special Programme for Food Security
缺粮国 缺糧國 quē liáng guó food-deficit country
全球治理赤字 global governance deficit
注意力缺陷多动症 注意力缺陷多動症 zhù yì lì quē xiàn duō dòng zhèng attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
应用 應用 yìng yòng to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app syn
强势 強勢 qiáng shì strong / powerful / (linguistics) emphatic / intensive
名词 名詞 míng cí (linguistics) noun / term (name for a concept)
映射 yìng shè to shine on / (math., linguistics etc) mapping syn
让步 讓步 ràng bù to concede / to give in / to yield / a concession / (linguistics) concessive syn
口音 kǒu yīn (linguistics) oral speech sounds syn
呼应 呼應 hū yìng to conform (with) / to echo / to correlate well / (linguistics) agreement syn
后缀 後綴 hòu zhuì suffix (linguistics)
语言学 語言學 yǔ yán xué linguistics
收音 shōu yīn to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
日化 rì huà household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品[ri4 yong4 hua4 xue2 zhi4 pin3]) / (linguistics) to rhotacize / rhotic
映衬 映襯 yìng chèn to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) syn
韵律 韻律 yùn lǜ cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody syn
前缀 前綴 qián zhuì prefix (linguistics)
复数 複數 fù shù (linguistics) plural / (math.) complex number
音译 音譯 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols syn
同音 tóng yīn (music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic
字根 zì gēn component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root / etymon
情态 情態 qíng tài spirit / mood / (linguistics) modal syn
倒装 倒裝 dào zhuāng (linguistics) to invert (word order)
体 體 tǐ body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics) syn
虚词 虛詞 xū cí (linguistics) function word
词根 詞根 cí gēn (linguistics) root
转义 轉義 zhuǎn yì (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape
词法 詞法 cí fǎ morphology (linguistics) / word formation and inflection
形态学 形態學 xíng tài xué morphology (in biology or linguistics)
实词 實詞 shí cí (linguistics) content word
多义 多義 duō yì polysemy / polysemous / ambiguity (linguistics)
词类 詞類 cí lèi (linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
模态 模態 mó tài modal (computing, linguistics)
词缀 詞綴 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
喉音 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant
词汇学 詞彙學 cí huì xué lexicology (linguistics)
配价 配價 pèi jià (linguistics) valence / valency
施事 shī shì (linguistics) agent / doer
首音 shǒu yīn (linguistics) onset
文献学 文獻學 wén xiàn xué Philology / Historical Linguistics
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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