"lower bound" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
下界 xià jiè lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
zhè (pronoun) this / these / (bound form) this / the (followed by a noun) / (bound form) this / these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing) syn
xià down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action syn
cóng from / through / via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor syn
děng to wait for / to await / by the time / when / till / and so on / etc. / et al. / (bound form) class / rank / grade / (bound form) equal to / same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun) syn
běn (bound form) root / stem / (bound form) origin / source / (bound form) one's own / this / (bound form) this / the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally / initially / capital / principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc syn
yuán (bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity / (bound form) member / classifier for military generals syn
yuǎn far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc) syn
chù (bound form) place / locality / (bound form) part / aspect / (bound form) office / department / bureau / classifier for locations: spot, point syn
qíng (bound form) feelings / emotion / sentiment / passion / (bound form) situation / condition syn
dào road / path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]) / (bound form) way / reason / principle / (bound form) a skill / an art / a specialization / (Daoism) the Way / the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express / to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) syn
zhěng (bound form) whole / complete / entire / (before a measure word) whole / (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order / tidy / neat / (bound form) to put in order / to straighten / (bound form) to repair / to mend / to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb / to give sb a hard time / to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with / to do sth to syn
(bound form) machine / mechanism / (bound form) aircraft / (bound form) an opportunity / (bound form) crucial point / pivot / (bound form) quick-witted / flexible / (bound form) organic syn
yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first / original / primary / (bound form) basic / fundamental / (bound form) constituent / part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument / variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon syn
qiè definitely / absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right. / Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters) syn
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / (bound form) standard / norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items syn
(bound form) base / foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese) syn
lín (bound form) woods / forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) syn
jiè (bound form) boundary / border / (bound form) realm syn
以下 yǐ xià that level or lower / that amount or less / the following syn
减少 減少 jiǎn shǎo to lessen / to decrease / to reduce / to lower syn
pǐn (bound form) article / commodity / product / goods / (bound form) grade / rank / kind / type / variety / character / disposition / nature / temperament / to taste sth / to sample / to criticize / to comment / to judge / to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute) syn
降低 jiàng dī to reduce / to lower / to bring down syn
lián (bound form) to ally oneself with / to unite / to combine / to join / (bound form) (poetry) antithetical couplet syn
下流 xià liú lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene syn
下达 下達 xià dá to transmit to lower levels / to issue (a command, decree etc)
低下 dī xià low status / lowly / to lower (one's head) syn
低于 dī yú to be lower than syn
削减 削減 xuē jiǎn to cut down / to reduce / to lower syn
下颚 下顎 xià è mandible (lower jaw) syn
下身 xià shēn lower part of the body / genitalia / trousers syn
降温 降溫 jiàng wēn to become cooler / to lower the temperature / cooling / (of interest, activity etc) to decline syn
小腿 xiǎo tuǐ lower leg (from knee to ankle) / shank syn
下层 下層 xià céng underlayer / lower class / lower strata / substrate
压低 壓低 yā dī to lower (one's voice) syn
下体 下體 xià tǐ lower body / euphemism for genitals / root and stem of plants syn
小牛 xiǎo niú calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini syn
下游 xià yóu lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream syn
埋头 埋頭 mái tóu to immerse oneself in / engrossed in sth / to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain) / countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)
众议院 眾議院 zhòng yì yuàn lower house of bicameral assembly / House of Representatives (USA) / Chamber of Deputies
掉以轻心 掉以輕心 diào yǐ qīng xīn to treat sth lightly / to lower one's guard syn
降职 降職 jiàng zhí to demote (to a lower rank) syn
下肢 xià zhī lower limbs syn
限额 限額 xiàn é quota / limit (upper or lower) / to set a quota / to set a limit
腰椎 yāo zhuī lumbar vertebra (lower backbone) syn
下颌 下頜 xià hé lower jaw / mandible syn
江南 jiāng nán south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
小腹 xiǎo fù underbelly / lower abdomen syn
地头 地頭 dì tóu place / locality / edge of a field / lower margin of a page syn
三军 三軍 sān jūn (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force syn
降压 降壓 jiàng yā to reduce the pressure (of a fluid) / to lower one's blood pressure / to lower (or step down) the voltage
下行 xià xíng (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom syn
减低 減低 jiǎn dī to lower / to reduce syn
降格 jiàng gé to downgrade / to lower the standard / degrading / humiliating syn
下议院 下議院 xià yì yuàn lower chamber (of legislative body) / lower house / the House of Commons
闭幕 閉幕 bì mù the curtain falls / lower the curtain / to come to an end (of a meeting) syn
中原 zhōng yuán Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei syn
下调 下調 xià tiáo to adjust downwards / to lower (prices, wages etc)
后腰 後腰 hòu yāo lower back / (sports) defensive midfielder syn
低龄 低齡 dī líng (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age syn
降息 jiàng xī to lower interest rates syn
杜马 杜馬 dù mǎ Duma, lower chamber of Russian parliament
放下 fàng xià to lay down / to put down / to let go of / to relinquish / to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc) syn
下调 下調 xià diào to demote / to pass down to a lower unit
下发 下發 xià fā to issue (a memorandum etc) to lower levels / to distribute (e.g. disaster relief to victims) syn
调价 調價 tiáo jià to raise or lower the price / price adjustment
下半身 xià bàn shēn lower half of one's body / Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century) syn
衣角 yī jiǎo corner of the lower hem of a jacket etc
减产 減產 jiǎn chǎn to produce less / to reduce output / lower yield
下唇 xià chún lower lip
放低 fàng dī to lower / to be humble
zuō (bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person) syn
扬子江 揚子江 yáng zǐ jiāng Changjiang 長江|长江 or Yangtze River / old name for Changjiang, especially lower reaches around Yangzhou 揚州|扬州
放权 放權 fàng quán to devolve authority to lower levels syn
下腹部 xià fù bù lower abdomen
磨盘 磨盤 mò pán lower millstone / tray of a mill syn
臣妾 chén qiè (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female) / (archaic) male and female slaves / subjects (of a ruler)
下眼睑 下眼瞼 xià yǎn jiǎn lower eyelid
下院 xià yuàn lower house (of parliament)
上下其手 shàng xià qí shǒu to raise and lower one's hand (idiom) / to signal as conspiratorial hint / fig. conspiring to defraud syn
减息 減息 jiǎn xī to lower the interest rate
贫下中农 貧下中農 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
下颔 下頷 xià hàn lower jaw / mandible
xiè to thank / (bound form) to apologize / (bound form) to decline / to refuse / (bound form) (of flowers, leaves etc) to wither syn
xiù (bound form) refined / elegant / graceful / beautiful / (bound form) superior / excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow / to bloom / (of grain crops) to produce ears syn
shuài (bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead / to command / handsome / graceful / dashing / elegant / (coll.) cool! / sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) syn
shèng (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual / paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy / sacred syn
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
low / beneath / to lower (one's head) / to let droop / to hang down / to incline syn
yòu (bound form) right / right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence syn
luò to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement syn
xǐng (bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders) syn
(bound form) house / (bound form) room syn
bài to bow to / to pay one's respects / (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion) / to make a courtesy call / (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony / to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc) / (used before some verbs to indicate politeness) syn
pán tray / plate / dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check / to examine / to investigate / to transfer / to sell (property) / to shift / to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc) syn
river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2fen3] syn
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn
jiǎn (bound form) scissors or similar tool / to cut as with scissors / (bound form) to wipe out / to exterminate / to edit (video, audio etc) syn
pàn (bound form) to differentiate / to distinguish / (bound form) clearly (different) / to judge / to decide / to grade / (of a judge) to sentence syn
guì expensive / (bound form) highly valued / precious / (bound form) noble / of high rank / (prefix) (honorific) your 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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