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"named" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
名叫 míng jiào called / named syn
得名 dé míng to get one's name / named (after sth)
号曰 號曰 hào yuē to be named / named
Chinese Pinyin Translation
命名 mìng míng to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming syn
名副其实 名副其實 míng fù qí shí not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name syn
取名 qǔ míng to name / to be named / to christen / to seek fame syn
洋务运动 洋務運動 yáng wù yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
夏商周 xià shāng zhōu Xia, Shang and Zhou, the earliest named Chinese dynasties
狼獾 láng huān wolverine (Gulo gulo), also named 貂熊[diao1 xiong2] syn
里克特 lǐ kè tè Richter (name) / Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named
阿伏伽德罗定律 阿伏伽德羅定律 ā fú jiā dé luó dìng lǜ Avogadro's law, a gas law named after Amedeo Avogadro
相同名字 xiāng tóng míng zì like-named / having the same name
以人名命名 yǐ rén míng mìng míng to name sth after a person / named after / eponymous
以本人名 yǐ běn rén míng under one's own name / named after oneself
前揭 qián jiē (the item) named above / aforementioned / cited above / op. cit.
古董滩 古董灘 gǔ dǒng tān Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries
康熙字典 kāng xī zì diǎn the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries
张揖 張揖 zhāng yī Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓|稚让[Zhi4 rang4], named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅|广雅[Guang3 ya3] and several lost works
空日 kòng rì day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar)
级强 級強 jí qiáng named grade or higher / at least stated magnitude (of earthquake)
自强运动 自強運動 zì qiáng yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动
芎藭 qióng xiōng chuanxiong rhizome / also named 川芎[chuan1 xiong1]
山本头 山本頭 shān běn tóu (Tw) "Yamamoto haircut", similar to a butch cut, but with even length (no tapering on the sides and back), said to be named after Admiral Yamamoto 山本五十六[Shan1 ben3 Wu3 shi2 liu4]
天问 天問 tiān wèn Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem
孔方兄 kǒng fāng xiōng (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
携程 攜程 xié chéng Trip.com Group, largest travel agency in China, formerly named Ctrip (until 2019)
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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