心跳 xīn tiào heartbeat / pulse syn 节奏 節奏 jié zòu rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat syn 脉搏 脈搏 mài bó pulse (both medical and figurative) syn 跳动 跳動 tiào dòng to throb / to pulse / to bounce / to jiggle / to jump about syn 把脉 把脈 bǎ mài to feel the pulse / to take sb's pulse syn 脉动 脈動 mài dòng pulse / throbbing / pulsation 气口 氣口 qì kǒu location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM 诊脉 診脈 zhěn mài to feel the pulse (TCM) / Taiwan pr. [zhen3 mo4] syn 号 號 hào ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people syn 尺 chǐ a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3] syn 豆 dòu legume / pulse / bean / pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]) / (old) stemmed cup or bowl syn 萁 qí stalks of pulse syn 号脉 號脈 hào mài to feel sb's pulse syn 切脉 切脈 qiè mài to feel sb's pulse syn 荜 蓽 bì bean / pulse 能 néng can / to be able to / might possibly / ability / (physics) energy syn 位 wèi position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential syn 理 lǐ texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up syn 相 xiàng appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc) syn 空间 空間 kōng jiān space / room / (fig.) scope / leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space syn 极 極 jí extremely / pole (geography, physics) / utmost / top syn 符合 fú hé in accordance with / to agree with / to conform to / to meet (a requirement) / (physics) coincidence syn 电子 電子 diàn zǐ electronic / electron (particle physics) 干扰 干擾 gān rǎo to disturb / to interfere / perturbation / interference (physics) syn 时空 時空 shí kōng time and place / world of a particular locale and era / (physics) space-time syn 物理 wù lǐ physics syn 质量 質量 zhì liàng (physics) mass / quality (i.e. degree of excellence) / quality and quantity syn 激发 激發 jī fā to arouse / to stimulate / (physics) to excite syn 压迫 壓迫 yā pò to oppress / to repress / to constrict / oppression / stress (physics) syn 共鸣 共鳴 gòng míng (physics) to resonate / resonance / sympathetic response syn 高压 高壓 gāo yā (physics) high pressure / (meteorology) high atmospheric pressure / high voltage / systolic blood pressure / high-handed / oppressive syn 俘获 俘獲 fú huò to capture (enemy property or personnel) / capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus) syn 真空 zhēn kōng (physics, fig.) vacuum / (slang) to not wear underwear 物理学 物理學 wù lǐ xué physics 等离子 等離子 děng lí zǐ (physics) plasma syn 升华 升華 shēng huá to sublimate / sublimation (physics) / to raise to a higher level / to refine / promotion syn 相干 xiāng gān relevant / to have to do with / (physics) (of light etc) coherent syn 实物 實物 shí wù material object / concrete object / original object / in kind / object for practical use / definite thing / reality / matter (physics) syn 聚变 聚變 jù biàn (physics) to undergo fusion 惯性 慣性 guàn xìng (physics) inertia / (fig.) force of habit / tendency to do things in the accustomed way / habitual 光子 guāng zǐ photon (particle physics) 吸力 xī lì (physics) attraction (gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic etc) / suction / (fig.) attraction (power to attract interest or liking) syn 合力 hé lì to join forces / concerted effort / (physics) resultant force syn 裂变 裂變 liè biàn (physics) to undergo nuclear fission / (fig.) to break apart, forming smaller units / to fragment 湮没 湮沒 yān mò to bury / to submerge / to pass into oblivion / to obliterate / to annihilate (physics) syn 静态 靜態 jìng tài static / sedate / quiet / passive / (physics) static / steady-state / (electronics) quiescent 固态 固態 gù tài solid state (physics) 气态 氣態 qì tài gaseous state (physics) / manner / air / bearing 偏转 偏轉 piān zhuǎn deflection (physics) / deviation (away from a straight line) 共振 gòng zhèn resonance (physics) syn 等离子体 等離子體 děng lí zǐ tǐ plasma (physics) syn 介子 jiè zǐ meson / mesotron (physics) 耦合 ǒu hé coupling (physics) / copula (statistics) / to be coupled (with sth) 作用力 zuò yòng lì (physics) action force 应力 應力 yìng lì stress (physics) 核物理 hé wù lǐ nuclear physics 尔格 爾格 ěr gé erg (physics) (loanword) 反作用力 fǎn zuò yòng lì (physics) reaction force syn 散射 sǎn shè (physics) to scatter 压强 壓強 yā qiáng pressure (physics) 守恒 守恆 shǒu héng conservation (e.g. of energy, momentum or heat in physics) / to remain constant (of a number) 单极 單極 dān jí unipolar / monopole (physics) 嬗变 嬗變 shàn biàn (literary) to evolve / to change / (physics) transmutation syn 周波 zhōu bō cycle (physics) 自由度 zì yóu dù (number of) degrees of freedom (physics and statistics) 超导 超導 chāo dǎo (physics) superconduction / superconductivity syn 衍射 yǎn shè (physics) to diffract 理化 lǐ huà physics and chemistry / (archaic) governance and education syn 负离子 負離子 fù lí zǐ negative ion / anion (physics) 阳离子 陽離子 yáng lí zǐ positive ion / cation (physics) syn 压电 壓電 yā diàn piezoelectricity (physics) 绝热 絕熱 jué rè to insulate thermally / (physics) adiabatic 黏度 nián dù (physics) viscosity 阴离子 陰離子 yīn lí zǐ negative ion / anion (physics) 做功 zuò gōng (physics) to do work / non-vocal acting (in traditional Chinese opera) 自旋 zì xuán (physics) spin (of a particle) 空穴 kòng xué electron hole (physics) 过热 過熱 guò rè too hot / (fig.) (economics) overheated / (physics) to superheat 走时 走時 zǒu shí (of a watch or clock) to keep time / (physics) propagation time / travel time (of a wave) 常量 cháng liàng a constant (physics, math.) syn 两相 兩相 liǎng xiàng two-phase (physics) 照度 zhào dù level of illumination / (physics) illuminance 流线 流線 liú xiàn streamline (physics) 数理化 數理化 shù lǐ huà abbr. for mathematics 數學|数学[shu4 xue2], physics 物理[wu4 li3] and chemistry 化學|化学[hua4 xue2] 力场 力場 lì chǎng force field (physics) 夸克 kuā kè (particle physics) (loanword) quark 共轭 共軛 gòng è (math., physics, chemistry) to be conjugate 丁肇中 dīng zhào zhōng Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics 凝聚态 凝聚態 níng jù tài condensed matter (physics) 场论 場論 chǎng lùn field theory (physics) 勒 lè (literary) bridle / halter / headstall / to rein in / to compel / to force / (literary) to carve / to engrave / (literary) to command / to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4ke4si1]) syn 功 gōng meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics) syn 谱 譜 pǔ chart / list / table / register / score (music) / spectrum (physics) / to set to music syn 切变 切變 qiē biàn shear (physics) syn 量子论 量子論 liàng zǐ lùn quantum theory (physics) 脉象 脈象 mài xiàng condition or type of pulse (in Chinese medicine) 超导体 超導體 chāo dǎo tǐ (physics) superconductor 单摆 單擺 dān bǎi simple pendulum (physics) 正离子 正離子 zhèng lí zǐ positive ion / cation (physics) syn 