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"meal times" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
用餐时间 用餐時間 yòng cān shí jiān meal times
Chinese Pinyin Translation
请 請 qǐng to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request syn
道 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
晚餐 wǎn cān evening meal / dinner / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4] syn
吃饭 吃飯 chī fàn to have a meal / to eat / to make a living syn
晚饭 晚飯 wǎn fàn evening meal / dinner / supper / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1] syn
做饭 做飯 zuò fàn to prepare a meal / to cook syn
大餐 dà cān sumptuous meal / banquet
用餐 yòng cān to eat a meal syn
时报 時報 shí bào "Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times)
进食 進食 jìn shí to eat one's meal syn
快餐 kuài cān fast food / snack / quick meal
自助餐 zì zhù cān buffet / self-service meal
江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn
中餐 zhōng cān lunch / Chinese meal / Chinese food / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4]
套餐 tào cān set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription)
聚餐 jù cān communal meal / formal dinner of club or group syn
开饭 開飯 kāi fàn to serve a meal syn
便当 便當 biàn dāng convenient / handy / easy / bento (a meal in a partitioned box) / lunchbox 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
进餐 進餐 jìn cān to have a meal syn
下厨 下廚 xià chú to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal) / to cook syn
正餐 zhèng cān (regular) meal / full meal / main course
盒饭 盒飯 hé fàn meal in a partitioned box
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
近代 jìn dài the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) syn
便饭 便飯 biàn fàn an ordinary meal / simple home cooking syn
整治 zhěng zhì to bring under control / to regulate / to restore to good condition / (coll.) to fix (a person) / to prepare (a meal etc) syn
古往今来 古往今來 gǔ wǎng jīn lái since ancient times / since times immemorial syn
骨粉 gǔ fěn bone meal
苦尽甘来 苦盡甘來 kǔ jìn gān lái bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom) / the hard times are over, the good times just beginning syn
鱼粉 魚粉 yú fěn fish meal
茶余饭后 茶餘飯後 chá yú fàn hòu leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc) syn
上古 shàng gǔ the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times syn
外卖 外賣 wài mài (of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
餐点 餐點 cān diǎn food / dish / meal
送餐 sòng cān home delivery of meal
大锅饭 大鍋飯 dà guō fàn meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit syn
吃不上 chī bu shàng unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
用饭 用飯 yòng fàn to eat / to have a meal
加餐 jiā cān to have an extra meal / snack
空口 kōng kǒu incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
过堂 過堂 guò táng to appear in court for trial (old) / (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall syn
顿 頓 dùn to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal syn
饭 飯 fàn cooked rice / CL:碗[wan3] / meal / CL:頓|顿[dun4] / (loanword) fan / devotee syn
餐 cān meal / to eat / classifier for meals syn
美餐 měi cān tasty meal / to eat a satisfying meal
工作餐 gōng zuò cān working meal
残羹 殘羹 cán gēng leftovers from a meal
残羹剩饭 殘羹剩飯 cán gēng shèng fàn leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
冷餐 lěng cān cold meal / cold food
客饭 客飯 kè fàn cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal syn
哺 餔 bū to eat / evening meal syn
打牙祭 dǎ yá jì to have a large and sumptuous meal (traditionally on the 1st and 15th of each month) syn
大饱口福 大飽口福 dà bǎo kǒu fú to eat one's fill / to have a good meal
从来 從來 cóng lái always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence) syn
随时 隨時 suí shí at any time / at all times / at the right time / whenever necessary syn
制服 zhì fú to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:套[tao4]
平时 平時 píng shí ordinarily / in normal times / in peacetime syn
现代 現代 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era syn
拉丁 lā dīng Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
多次 duō cì many times / repeatedly syn
古代 gǔ dài ancient times syn
护卫 護衛 hù wèi to guard / to protect / bodyguard (for officials in ancient times) syn
次数 次數 cì shù number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)
老太婆 lǎo tài pó old woman (at times contemptuous) syn
头巾 頭巾 tóu jīn cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban syn
武术 武術 wǔ shù military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn
古人 gǔ rén people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person syn
中场 中場 zhōng chǎng middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times) / midfield / mid-court (in sports) / half-time / intermission half-way through a performance
府 fǔ seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) syn
叙旧 敘舊 xù jiù to reminisce / to talk about former times syn
史前 shǐ qián prehistoric times / (attributive) prehistoric syn
时时刻刻 時時刻刻 shí shí kè kè at all times syn
两下子 兩下子 liǎng xià zi a couple of times / to repeat the same / the same old trick / tricks of the trade syn
远古 遠古 yuǎn gǔ antiquity / ancient times syn
苦力 kǔ lì bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times syn
云梯 雲梯 yún tī (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain
乱世 亂世 luàn shì the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world syn
一世 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) syn
传承 傳承 chuán chéng to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance syn
旧日 舊日 jiù rì former times / olden days 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)
旧时 舊時 jiù shí in former times / the olden days syn
追忆 追憶 zhuī yì to recollect / to recall (past times) / to look back syn
蝉联 蟬聯 chán lián to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship syn
泰晤士报 泰晤士報 tài wù shì bào Times (newspaper)
翻番 fān fān to double / to increase by a certain number of times syn
今非昔比 jīn fēi xī bǐ (idiom) things are very different now / times have changed syn
倍增 bèi zēng to double / to redouble / to increase many times over / to multiply by a factor / multiplication syn
巡抚 巡撫 xún fǔ inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
亘古 亙古 gèn gǔ throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present) syn
鸿沟 鴻溝 hóng gōu (fig.) gulf / chasm / wide gap / (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚[Chu3] and Han 漢|汉[Han4] syn
道学 道學 dào xué Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
传世 傳世 chuán shì handed down from ancient times / family heirloom syn
王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn
自古 zì gǔ (since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial syn
老朽 lǎo xiǔ decrepit and behind the times / old / useless / (humble) I / me (used by the elderly) syn
应景 應景 yìng jǐng according with the times / seasonal syn
自古以来 自古以來 zì gǔ yǐ lái since ancient times 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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