靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) 供热 供熱 gōng rè heating (for a building) / to supply heating 供暖 gōng nuǎn to supply heating (in a building) / heating 暖房 nuǎn fáng heating / central heating / greenhouse / hothouse / to pay a house-warming visit syn 冷暖房 lěng nuǎn fáng cooling and heating / air conditioning and central heating 底层 底層 dǐ céng ground floor / first floor / lowest level / lowest rung (of society etc) syn 首层 首層 shǒu céng first floor / ground floor 楼板 樓板 lóu bǎn floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) 桥面 橋面 qiáo miàn roadway / floor / deck / bridge floor 红马甲 紅馬甲 hóng mǎ jiǎ red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader / floor broker 地面层 地面層 dì miàn céng ground floor / first floor 底楼 底樓 dǐ lóu ground floor / first floor 小心地滑 xiǎo xīn dì huá (used on signs) caution - wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery") 社会保障最低标准 social security floor / social floor 洗地 xǐ dì to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb 精光 jīng guāng nothing left (money, food etc) / all finished / bright and shiny / radiant / glorious syn 眉飞色舞 眉飛色舞 méi fēi sè wǔ smiles of exultation / radiant with delight syn 喜洋洋 xǐ yáng yáng radiant with joy syn 满面春风 滿面春風 mǎn miàn chūn fēng beaming / radiant with happiness syn 春风满面 春風滿面 chūn fēng mǎn miàn pleasantly smiling / radiant with happiness syn 容光焕发 容光煥發 róng guāng huàn fā face glowing (idiom) / looking radiant / all smiles syn 艳如桃李 艷如桃李 yàn rú táo lǐ lit. beautiful as peach and prune / fig. radiant beauty 金碧荧煌 金碧熒煌 jīn bì yíng huáng splendid in green and gold (idiom) / looking radiant 光冲量 光衝量 guāng chōng liàng radiant exposure 煝 mèi be radiant / flaming / drought 燡 yì blazing / radiant 焞 tūn bright / radiant / Taiwan pr. [chun2] 容华绝代 容華絕代 róng huá jué dài to be blessed with rare and radiant beauty (idiom) 空调 空調 kōng tiáo air conditioning / air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode) / CL:臺|台[tai2] syn 散热器 散熱器 sàn rè qì radiator (for heating a room) / radiator (for cooling an engine) 暖气 暖氣 nuǎn qì central heating / heater / warm air syn 采暖 採暖 cǎi nuǎn heating syn 电热 電熱 diàn rè electrical heating 暖气片 暖氣片 nuǎn qì piàn radiator (for heating) 煅燒 煅烧 duàn shāo to calcine (purify by heating) 煅烧 煅燒 duàn shāo to calcine (purify by heating) 炮 bāo to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating syn 水暖工 shuǐ nuǎn gōng plumber / heating engineer 熬 áo to cook on a slow fire / to extract by heating / to decoct / to endure syn 汽暖 qì nuǎn gas heating 烤电 烤電 kǎo diàn diathermia (medical treatment involving local heating of body tissues with electric current) 煅成末 duàn chéng mò to calcine (purify by heating) 太阳能供热和冷却讲习班 Workshop on Solar Heating and Cooling 被动式太阳能采暖系统 被動式太陽能采暖系統 passive solar heating system 区域供热 區域供熱 district heating 分区供暖 分區供暖 district heating 供暖、通风和空调技工 供暖、通風和空調技工 Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Technician 主动式太阳能采暖系统 主動式太陽能采暖系統 active solar heating 反光炉 反光爐 fǎn guāng lú mirror heating facility / mirror furnace 梯度加热炉 梯度加熱爐 tī duó jiā rè lú gradient furnace / gradient heating facility 等温加热设施 等溫加熱設施 Isothermal Heating Facility 太阳能供暖 太陽能供暖 solar heating 汤种 湯種 tāng zhǒng water roux (aka tangzhong), a gelatinous paste made by heating a mixture of flour and water, used in breadmaking to produce a softer, fluffier loaf (loanword from Japanese 湯種 yudane) 面积 面積 miàn jī area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land 地上 dì shang on the ground / on the floor 地面 dì miàn floor / ground / surface syn 楼层 樓層 lóu céng floor / story (of a building) syn 地板 dì bǎn floor 交易市场 交易市場 jiāo yì shì chǎng exchange / trading floor 展位 zhǎn wèi relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area 占地面积 占地面積 zhàn dì miàn ji floor area / occupied area / footprint (of a building, piece of equipment etc) 谷底 gǔ dǐ valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low syn 顶楼 頂樓 dǐng lóu top floor / attic / loft / garret / penthouse / (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc) 地砖 地磚 dì zhuān floor tile 扫地 掃地 sǎo dì to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low syn 顶层 頂層 dǐng céng top floor / the top of a building 下放 xià fàng to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside syn 舞池 wǔ chí dance floor 底薪 dǐ xīn basic salary / base pay / salary floor 落地窗 luò dì chuāng floor-to-ceiling window / French window 池子 chí zi pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater) syn 楼面 樓面 lóu miàn floor syn 地漏 dì lòu drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month 打蜡 打蠟 dǎ là to wax (a car, floor etc) 席地而坐 xí dì ér zuò to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom) syn 碾压 碾壓 niǎn yā to crush or compact (with a roller) / to run over (with a vehicle) / (fig.) to trounce / to wipe the floor with / to be far superior 地板砖 地板磚 dì bǎn zhuān floor tile 落地灯 落地燈 luò dì dēng floor lamp 场院 場院 cháng yuàn threshing floor syn 自由体操 自由體操 zì yóu tǐ cāo floor (gymnastics) 层 層 céng to pile on top of one another / layer / stratum / floor (of a building) / story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers syn 楼 樓 lóu house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4] syn 拖 tuō to drag / to tow / to trail / to hang down / to mop (the floor) / to delay / to drag on syn 砖 磚 zhuān brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL:塊|块[kuai4] syn 壹败涂地 壹敗塗地 yī bài tú dì beaten and wiped over the floor (idiom) / to fail utterly / a crushing defeat / failed and in a hopeless position 掷地有声 擲地有聲 zhì dì yǒu shēng lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom) / fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating / to have substance syn 救人一命胜造七级浮屠 救人一命勝造七級浮屠 jiù rén yī mìng shèng zào qī jí fú tú saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom) 七级浮屠 七級浮屠 qī jí fú tú seven floor pagoda 唐楼 唐樓 táng lóu tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China) 地台 dì tái floor / platform 打场 打場 dǎ cháng to thresh grain (on the floor) syn 打谷场 打穀場 dǎ gǔ cháng threshing floor 拼花地板 pīn huā dì bǎn floor with tiled design 横隔 橫隔 héng gé tabula (horizontal floor of polyp) 洋底 yáng dǐ ocean floor / bottom of the ocean 海砂 hǎi shā sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore) 禾场 禾場 hé cháng threshing floor 稽颡 稽顙 jī sǎng kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor) 拖地 tuō dì to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length 