配乐 配樂 pèi yuè to create music for a movie or stage production / to dub music onto a soundtrack / incidental music / soundtrack music 雅郑 雅鄭 yǎ zhèng court music and vulgar music (i.e. 雅樂|雅乐[ya3 yue4], music of the court, and 鄭聲|郑声[Zheng4 sheng1], music of the state of Zheng, which was regarded as lewd) 乡村音乐 鄉村音樂 xiāng cūn yīn yuè country music (country & western music genre) 印度音乐 印度音樂 yìn dù yīn yuè Bhangra, Indian music (music genre) 曲风 曲風 qǔ fēng music style / music genre 摇滚 搖滾 yáo gǔn rock 'n' roll (music) / to rock / to fall off 摇滚乐 搖滾樂 yáo gǔn yuè rock music / rock 'n roll 诗话 詩話 shī huà notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties 插曲 chā qǔ music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode 嘻哈 xī hā hip-hop (music genre) (loanword) 小调 小調 xiǎo diào xiaodiao, a Chinese folk song genre / minor key (in music) syn 饶舌 饒舌 ráo shé talkative / to blather / to shoot one's mouth off / rap (genre of music) syn 电音 電音 diàn yīn electronic music (genre) 浩室 hào shì house (music genre) (loanword) 瞪鞋摇滚 瞪鞋搖滾 dèng xié yáo gǔn shoegaze (music genre) 自由爵士乐 自由爵士樂 zì yóu jué shì yuè free jazz (music genre) 出神音乐 出神音樂 chū shén yīn yuè trance (music genre) 时代曲 時代曲 shí dài qǔ shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz 鼓打贝斯 鼓打貝斯 gǔ dǎ bèi sī drum and bass (music genre) 摇摆乐 搖擺樂 yáo bǎi yuè swing (genre of jazz music) 滚石 滾石 gǔn shí Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine) 碎石 suì shí gravel / crushed rock / rock debris 火成岩 huǒ chéng yán igneous rock (geology) / volcanic rock 一物降一物 yī wù xiáng yī wù lit. one object bests another object / every item has a weakness (idiom) / there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock 深成岩 shēn chéng yán plutonic rock / abyssal rock 烏魯汝 wū lǔ rǔ Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site / also known as Ayers Rock 超基性岩 chāo jī xìng yán ultrabasic rock (geology, rock containing less than 45 percent silicates) 碱性岩 鹼性巖 jiǎn xìng yán basic rock / mafic rock (with less silicon and more magnesium, iron etc) 乌鲁汝 烏魯汝 wū lǔ rǔ Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site / also known as Ayers Rock 崔健 cuī jiàn Cui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music 乐坛 樂壇 yuè tán music circles / music world 歌坛 歌壇 gē tán singing stage / music business (esp. pop music) 国乐 國樂 guó yuè national music / Chinese traditional music 调 調 diào to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody syn 谱 譜 pǔ chart / list / table / register / score (music) / spectrum (physics) / to set to music syn 现代音乐 現代音樂 xiàn dài yīn yuè modern music / contemporary music 哑鼓 啞鼓 yǎ gǔ drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music) 胡乐 胡樂 hú yuè Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati) 郑声 鄭聲 zhèng shēng folk music of the state of Zheng 鄭|郑[Zheng4] / lascivious, decadent music 转调 轉調 zhuǎn diào (music) to change key / modulation / (of an employee) to be transferred to another post 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 岗哨 崗哨 gǎng shào lookout post / sentry post / sentry syn 调职 調職 diào zhí to be transferred to another post / to post away 官复原职 官復原職 guān fù yuán zhí restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post 邮汇 郵匯 yóu huì to remit by post / remittance sent by post syn 岗 崗 gǎng (bound form) hillock / mound / sentry post / policeman's beat / (bound form) job / post syn 控制站 kòng zhì zhàn control post / control point / traffic post 员额改叙 yuán é gǎi xù reclassification of a post / post reclassification 工作地点差价调整数等级 post adjustment classification / post adjustment multiplier 部队总部邮局 部隊總部郵局 bù duì zǒng bù yóu jú force base post office / force BPO / base post office 交通管制点 交通管制點 jiāo tòng guǎn zhì diǎn traffic control post / traffic post 交通管制所 jiāo tòng guǎn zhì suǒ traffic control post / traffic post 核心员额 核心員額 hé xīn yuán é core post / established post 管制点 管制點 guǎn zhì diǎn control post / control point / traffic post 营地服务商店 營地服務商店 post exchange element / post exchange / PX element (US) / commissary / army exchange 军卖部 軍賣部 post exchange element / post exchange / PX element (US) / commissary / army exchange 军人服务社 軍人服務社 post exchange element / post exchange / PX element (US) / commissary / army exchange 排雷后检查 排雷後檢查 post-clearance inspection / post-clearance sampling 冲突后重建股 沖突後重建股 Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit / Post-Conflict Unit 冲突后股 沖突後股 Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit / Post-Conflict Unit 员额和非员额经费 員額和非員額經費 post and non-post requirements 退居二线 退居二線 tuì jū èr xiàn to withdraw to the second line of duty / to resign from a leading post (and assume an advisory post) syn 贴文 貼文 tiē wén (social media) to post / a post 人物 rén wù person / personage / figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting syn 剧情 劇情 jù qíng story line / plot / drama (genre) 武侠 武俠 wǔ xiá martial arts chivalry (Chinese literary, theatrical and cinema genre) / knight-errant syn 文体 文體 wén tǐ genre of writing / literary form / style / literary recreation and sporting activities 恶搞 惡搞 è gǎo spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc) 流派 liú pài tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style syn 无厘头 無厘頭 wú lí tóu silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century 体裁 體裁 tǐ cái genre / style / form of writing 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 二人转 二人轉 èr rén zhuàn genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China 杂感 雜感 zá gǎn random thoughts (a literary genre) 诗体 詩體 shī tǐ poetic form or genre 山水诗 山水詩 shān shuǐ shī shanshui poetry, genre of Classical Chinese poetry 纪传体 紀傳體 jì zhuàn tǐ history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian 辞 辭 cí to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 詞|词[ci2] syn 恶搞文化 惡搞文化 è gǎo wén huà spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc) 正太控 zhèng tài kòng shotacon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young boys in an erotic manner 莲花落 蓮花落 lián huā lào genre of folk song with accompaniment of bamboo clappers syn 萝莉控 蘿莉控 luó lì kòng lolicon or rorikon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young girls in an erotic manner 体式 體式 tǐ shì (of characters) form / style (cursive, printed etc) / (of a literary work) form / style / genre 演歌 yǎn gē enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads) 纯爱 純愛 chún ài pure love / BL, aka boys' love (genre of male homoerotic fictional media) 古体诗 古體詩 gǔ tǐ shī a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line syn 惊栗 驚慄 jīng lì horror (genre) / to tremble in fear 二人台 二人臺 èr rén tái genre of song-and-dance duet popular in Inner Mongolia 青绿山水 青綠山水 qīng lǜ shān shuǐ blue-and-green landscape (genre of landscape painting originating in the Tang dynasty, in which blues and greens predominate) 吃播 chī bō mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience 家传 家傳 jiā zhuàn family history (as a literary genre) syn 近体诗 近體詩 jìn tǐ shī a genre of poetry, developed in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by its strict form 霸道总裁 霸道總裁 bà dào zǒng cái handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status) 志怪小说 志怪小說 zhì guài xiǎo shuō tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction) 警匪 jǐng fěi police and criminals / (genre of fiction) crime 橘味 jú wèi tangerine flavor / yuri (genre of fiction featuring lesbian romantic or sexual relationships) 耽美 dān měi (slang) boys' love, aka BL (genre of homoerotic online literature) 谍战 諜戰 dié zhàn (movie genre) espionage thriller (typically involving Chinese agents opposing the Japanese in the 1930s and 40s) 