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"old and gray-haired" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
白发苍苍 白髮蒼蒼 bái fà cāng cāng old and gray-haired syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
灰不喇唧 huī bù lǎ jī dull gray / gray and loathsome
灰色 huī sè gray / ash gray / grizzly / pessimistic / gloomy / dispirited / ambiguous syn
银丝族 銀絲族 yín sī zú the older generation (respectful term) / old folk / silver-haired generation
旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
老账 老賬 lǎo zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
金发碧眼 金髮碧眼 jīn fà bì yǎn fair-haired and blue-eyed / blonde / of Western appearance
金发 金髮 jīn fà blond / blonde / fair-haired
长毛 長毛 cháng máo long-wool (sheep etc) / long-haired (dog etc)
白毛女 bái máo nǚ The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
毵 毿 sān long-haired / shaggy
皓首苍颜 皓首蒼顏 hào shǒu cāng yán white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom) / decrepit old age
老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn
卿 qīng high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) syn
童叟无欺 童叟無欺 tóng sǒu wú qī cheating neither old nor young (idiom) / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
老少无欺 老少無欺 lǎo shào wú qī cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn
灰不溜丢 灰不溜丟 huī bu liū diū gloomy and dull (idiom) / boring and gray / unpleasantly murky
苍苍 蒼蒼 cāng cāng ash gray / vast and hazy / flourishing syn
坯布 pī bù unbleached and undyed cloth / gray cloth
耄耋 mào dié extremely aged / gray and venerable
老三色 lǎo sān sè the three plain colors used for clothing in the PRC in the 1960s: black, gray and blue
老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn
老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn
故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river)
甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn
翻老账 翻老賬 fān lǎo zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
翻旧账 翻舊賬 fān jiù zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
旧病复发 舊病復發 jiù bìng fù fā old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem syn
古今韵会举要 古今韻會舉要 gǔ jīn yùn huì jǔ yào "Summary of the Collection of Rhymes Old and New", supplemented and annotated Yuan dynasty version of the no-longer-extant late Song or early Yuan "Collection of Rhymes Old and New" 古今韻會|古今韵会
白发 白髮 bái fà white or gray hair / CL:根[gen1]
灰暗 huī àn dull gray / drab / murky syn
格雷 gé léi Grey / Gray
银发 銀髮 yín fà silver hair / gray hair syn
灰白色 huī bái sè ash gray
灰溜溜 huī liū liū dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs syn
华发 華髮 huá fà (literary) gray hair syn
深灰色 shēn huī sè dark gray syn
脑髓 腦髓 nǎo suǐ brain tissue / gray matter / brain / medulla syn
乌鱼 烏魚 wū yú gray mullet (Mugil cephalus) / snakehead fish (family Channidae) syn
灰 huī ash / dust / lime / gray / discouraged / dejected syn
苍 蒼 cāng dark blue / deep green / ash-gray syn
褐 hè brown / gray or dark color / coarse hemp cloth / Taiwan pr. [he2] syn
綦 qí dark gray / superlative / variegated syn
骃 駰 yīn iron-gray (horse)
駰 yīn iron-gray (as a horse)
灰领 灰領 huī lǐng gray collar / specialist / technical worker / engineer
长尾叶猴属 長尾葉猴屬 cháng wěi yè hóu shǔ Gray
格雷县 格雷縣 gé léi xiàn Gray
林负鼠属 林負鼠屬 lín fù shǔ shǔ Gray
駽 xuàn gray
椋鸟 椋鳥 liáng niǎo starling / gray starling (Sturnus cineraceus)
暗灰色 àn huī sè dark gray
格雷氏解剖学 格雷氏解剖學 gé léi shì jiě pōu xué Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
浅黑 淺黑 qiǎn hēi dark / gray / (of skin) lightly pigmented
灰獴 huī měng gray mongoose (Herpestes edwardsii)
灰赤杨 灰赤楊 huī chì yáng gray alder (Alnus incana) / speckled alder
珠灰 zhū huī pearl gray
男人来自火星，女人来自金星 男人來自火星，女人來自金星 nán rén lái zì huǒ xīng , nǚ rén lái zì jīn xīng Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (book by John Gray)
髓脑 髓腦 suǐ nǎo brains / gray matter
灰鲸 灰鯨 huī jīng gray whale
戈瑞 gē ruì gray (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
灰水 huī shuǐ gray water
灰豹组织 灰豹組織 Gray Panthers
白衣苍狗 白衣蒼狗 bái yī cāng gǒu lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
綥 qí dark gray / straw sandals
灰色地带 灰色地帶 huī sè dì dài gray area
苍眉蝗莺 蒼眉蝗鶯 cāng méi huáng yīng (bird species of China) Gray's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus)
戈雷 gē léi gray (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword) (Tw)
白云苍狗 白雲蒼狗 bái yún cāng gǒu lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world syn
奶奶灰 nǎi nai huī granny gray (hair color)
枪灰色 槍灰色 qiāng huī sè gunmetal gray
炮铜色 炮銅色 pào tóng sè gunmetal gray
穷当益坚，老当益壮 窮當益堅，老當益壯 qióng dāng yì jiān , lǎo dāng yì zhuàng poor but ambition, old but vigorous (idiom) / robust and determined to hold one's position despite poverty and old age
幽明 yōu míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts
幽明 yōu - míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts
喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn
老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn
解 xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn
曹 cáo class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old) syn
新愁旧恨 新愁舊恨 xīn chóu jiù hèn new worries added to old hatred (idiom) / afflicted by problems old and new
旧愁新恨 舊愁新恨 jiù chóu xīn hèn old worries with new hatred added (idiom) / afflicted by problems old and new
旧调重弹 舊調重彈 jiù diào chóng tán replaying the same old tunes (idiom) / conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff syn
推陈布新 推陳佈新 tuī chén bù xīn to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom) / to innovate / to go beyond old ideas / advancing all the time
博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
小子 xiǎo zǐ (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) syn
老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn
古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn
打发 打發 dǎ fa to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老将 老將 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger syn
老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn
古风 古風 gǔ fēng old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] syn
食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route syn
白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn
者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this syn
寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
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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