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"old tomb (archaeology)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
古墓 gǔ mù old tomb (archaeology)
Chinese Pinyin Translation
墓道 mù dào path leading to a grave / tomb passage / aisle leading to the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb syn
封土 fēng tǔ to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
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
穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默
考古 kǎo gǔ archaeology / to engage in archaeological studies
考古学 考古學 kǎo gǔ xué archaeology
墓葬群 mù zàng qún burial complex (archaeology)
耳 ěr ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese) syn
打制石器 打製石器 dǎ zhì shí qì (archaeology) chipped stone implement
炊器 chuī qì cooking vessels (archaeology)
骨器 gǔ qì bone tool (archaeology)
骨针 骨針 gǔ zhēn spicule (in biology) / bone needle (in archaeology)
全球海洋学数据考古学和援救项目 全球海洋學數據考古學和援救項目 Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project
东南亚教育部长组织考古与美术中心 東南亞教育部長組織考古與美術中心 Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts
迹证 跡證 jì zhèng (Tw) traces / material evidence (archaeology, criminal investigation etc)
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
故墓 gù mù old tomb
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
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
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
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
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
坟墓 墳墓 fén mù grave / tomb syn
陵墓 líng mù tomb / mausoleum syn
松柏 sōng bǎi pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb syn
清明节 清明節 qīng míng jié Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
墓葬 mù zàng (archeology) grave / tomb syn
墓穴 mù xué tomb / grave syn
地宫 地宮 dì gōng underground palace (as part of imperial tomb)
盗墓 盜墓 dào mù to rob a tomb
秦始皇陵 qín shǐ huáng líng the tomb of the first emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation)
祖坟 祖墳 zǔ fén ancestral tomb syn
骊山 驪山 lí shān Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor
陵寝 陵寢 líng qǐn tomb (of king or emperor) syn
墓志 墓誌 mù zhì inscribed stone tablet placed in a tomb / memorial inscription on such a tablet syn
石虎 shí hǔ leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits
阴宅 陰宅 yīn zhái (feng shui term) tomb
明孝陵 míng xiào líng Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], a World Heritage site
古墓葬 gǔ mù zàng ancient tomb
坟茔 墳塋 fén yíng grave / tomb / graveyard / cemetery / fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are buried) syn
炎帝陵 yán dì líng Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan
墓 mù grave / tomb / mausoleum syn
陵 líng mound / tomb / hill / mountain syn
坟 墳 fén grave / tomb / CL:座[zuo4] / embankment / mound / ancient book syn
寝 寢 qǐn (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop / to cease syn
穸 xī tomb
圹 壙 kuàng tomb syn
堎 líng mound / tomb
古墓丽影 古墓麗影 gǔ mù lì yǐng Tomb Raider (computer game)
无名战士墓 無名戰士墓 wú míng zhàn shì mù Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
介之推 jiè zhī tuī Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1], in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明[Qing1 ming2] (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated
千鸟渊国家公墓 千鳥淵國家公墓 qiān niǎo yuān guó jiā gōng mù Chidori ga fuchi, national war cemetery in Tokyo / also called Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
墓主 mù zhǔ occupant of tomb / person buried
墓坑 mù kēng tomb pit
墓坑夯土层 墓坑夯土層 mù kēng hāng tǔ céng layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)
坟丘 墳丘 fén qiū a tomb syn
坟山 墳山 fén shān hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb syn
松赞干布陵 松贊干布陵 sōng zàn gàn bù líng the tomb of Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo or Songzain Gambo in Lhoka prefecture
无名烈士墓 無名烈士墓 wú míng liè shì mù tomb of the unknown soldier
祠墓 cí mù memorial hall and tomb
秦陵 qín líng the tomb of the First Emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation)
窀穸 zhūn xī to bury (in a tomb) syn
谒陵之旅 謁陵之旅 yè líng zhī lǚ visit to ancestral tomb
邙山行 máng shān xíng a form of Yuefu 樂府|乐府 mourning song or elegy / lit. to visit a tomb on Mt Mang
坆 fén variant of 墳|坟[fen2] / grave / tomb
平坟 平墳 píng fén to remove graves / tomb removal
参谒 參謁 cān yè to visit / to pay one's respects to (a revered figure etc) / to pay homage (at a tomb etc) syn
祖茔 祖塋 zǔ yíng ancestral tomb syn
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
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
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
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
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn
士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker syn
京 jīng capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) syn
老马识途 老馬識途 lǎo mǎ shí tú an old horse knows the way (idiom) / an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes syn
州 zhōu prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
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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