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"petty bureaucrat" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
芝麻官 zhī ma guān low ranking official / petty bureaucrat syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
便宜 pián yi cheap / inexpensive / a petty advantage / to let sb off lightly syn
下士 xià shì lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
士官 shì guān warrant officer / petty officer / noncommissioned officer (NCO) / Japanese military officer
小气 小氣 xiǎo qì stingy / miserly / narrow-minded / petty syn
龌龊 齷齪 wò chuò dirty / filthy / vile / despicable / (literary) narrow-minded / petty syn
官僚 guān liáo bureaucrat / bureaucracy / bureaucratic syn
小儿科 小兒科 xiǎo ér kē pediatrics / pediatric (department) / sth of little importance / trifle / a child's play / (slang) childish / petty / stingy syn
小偷小摸 xiǎo tōu xiǎo mō petty theft syn
风月 風月 fēng yuè romance / beautiful scenery / small or petty (of talk etc) syn
官吏 guān lì bureaucrat / official syn
挑毛病 tiāo máo bìng to nitpick / petty criticism / to nag syn
小动作 小動作 xiǎo dòng zuò bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship syn
小官 xiǎo guān petty official / minor functionary
挑刺 tiāo cì to carp / nitpicking / petty criticism
小资产阶级 小資產階級 xiǎo zī chǎn jiē jí petty bourgeois
周转金 週轉金 zhōu zhuǎn jīn revolving fund / working capital / petty cash / turnover
窝囊气 窩囊氣 wō nang qì pent-up frustration / petty annoyances
琐屑 瑣屑 suǒ xiè trivial matters / petty things syn
小聪明 小聰明 xiǎo cōng ming clever-clever / clever in trivial matters / sharp but petty-minded syn
小心眼 xiǎo xīn yǎn narrow-minded / petty syn
僚 liáo bureaucrat / colleague
轻罪 輕罪 qīng zuì petty crime / misdemeanor
小心眼儿 小心眼兒 xiǎo xīn yǎn r small-minded / petty / narrow-minded syn
小家子气 小家子氣 xiǎo jiā zi qì petty / small-minded syn
小里小气 小裡小氣 xiǎo li xiǎo qì stingy / petty
打小算盘 打小算盤 dǎ xiǎo suàn pán lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom) / petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter syn
卑卑不足道 bēi bēi bù zú dào to be too petty or insignificant to mention / to not be worth mentioning (idiom)
妙手空空 miào shǒu kōng kōng petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
小肚鸡肠 小肚雞腸 xiǎo dù jī cháng lit. small belly, chicken's gut (idiom) / narrow-minded / petty syn
蚁斗蜗争 蟻鬥蝸爭 yǐ dòu wō zhēng lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom) / fig. petty squabbling
佌 cǐ petty / wretched
呫 zhān to drink / to sip / to taste / to lick / whisper / petty
孑孑为义 孑孑為義 jié jié wéi yì petty favors
心胸狭窄 心胸狹窄 xīn xiōng xiá zhǎi (idiom) narrow-minded / petty / ungenerous
心胸狭隘 心胸狹隘 xīn xiōng xiá ài narrow / petty-minded
煦仁孑义 煦仁孑義 xù rén jié yì petty kindness
鸡鹜 雞鶩 jī wù petty or mean persons
零用金 líng yòng jīn petty cash
零用基金 líng yòng jī jīn petty cash fund
零用现金凭单 petty cash voucher
定额备用现金 dìng é bèi yòng xiàn jīn petty cash / imprest cash
小商业 小商業 xiǎo shāng yè petty trading
定额备用金账户 定額備用金賬戶 petty cash account / imprest account
海军士官 海軍士官 petty officer
海军军士 海軍軍士 petty officer
海军军士长 海軍軍士長 chief petty officer
小罪 minor offence / petty offence
轻罪犯 輕罪犯 petty offender
耍小聪明 耍小聰明 shuǎ xiǎo cōng ming to get smart / to resort to petty tricks
卑陋 bēi lòu humble / petty / crude
稗官 bài guān (old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about / novel in the vernacular / fiction writer / novelist
小便宜 xiǎo pián yi petty advantage / small gains 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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