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"river waves" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
冲击 衝擊 chōng jī to attack / to batter / (of waves) to pound against / shock / impact syn
掀起 xiān qǐ to lift / to raise (a lid etc) / (of a storm) to surge / to stir up (waves etc) / (fig.) to trigger / set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc) syn
风浪 風浪 fēng làng wind and waves / rough waters / (fig.) hardship syn
波涛 波濤 bō tāo great waves / billows syn
风平浪静 風平浪靜 fēng píng làng jìng lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom) / tranquil environment / all is quiet / a dead calm (at sea) syn
飘荡 飄盪 piāo dàng to drift / to wave / to float on the waves / to flutter in the wind syn
波澜 波瀾 bō lán billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum) syn
大河 dà hé large river (esp the Yellow River)
翻腾 翻騰 fān téng (of water, waves, emotions etc) to churn / to surge / to seethe / to somersault / to tumble / to flip / to rummage / to turn things over repeatedly syn
随波逐流 隨波逐流 suí bō zhú liú to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom) / to follow the crowd blindly syn
奔腾 奔騰 bēn téng (of waves) to surge forward / to roll on in waves / to gallop syn
河道 hé dào river course / river channel syn
轩然大波 軒然大波 xuān rán dà bō huge waves / (fig.) ruckus / controversy / sensation syn
河滩 河灘 hé tān river bank / river shore / strand
此起彼伏 cǐ qǐ bǐ fú up here, down there (idiom) / to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc) syn
波光 bō guāng gleaming reflection of waves in sunlight
黑龙江 黑龍江 hēi lóng jiāng see 黑龍江省|黑龙江省[Hei1long2jiang1 Sheng3] / Heilong River or Amur River, forming the border between northeast China and Russia
惊涛 驚濤 jīng tāo raging waves / stormy waves syn
沿江 yán jiāng along the river / the region around the river
淮河 huái hé Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2] and the Changjiang 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1]
滔天 tāo tiān (of waves, anger, a disaster, a crime etc) towering / overwhelming / immense syn
相位 xiàng wèi phase (waves)
契丹 qì dān Qidan or Khitan, ethnic group in ancient China, a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liao River 遼河|辽河[Liao2 He2]
波涛汹涌 波濤洶涌 bō tāo xiōng yǒng waves surging forth / roaring sea syn
泛珠三角 fàn zhū sān jiǎo Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China
以太 yǐ tài (loanword) ether (hypothetical medium that transmits light waves)
破浪 pò làng to set sail / to brave the waves
江流 jiāng liú river / river flow / current syn
长江后浪推前浪 長江後浪推前浪 cháng jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom) / fig. the new is constantly replacing the old / each new generation excels the previous / (of things) to be constantly evolving
澜沧江 瀾滄江 lán cāng jiāng Lancang River of Qinghai and Yunnan, the upper reaches of Mekong River 湄公河[Mei2 gong1 He2] of Southeast Asia
随波 隨波 suí bō to drift with the waves
丰沛 豐沛 fēng pèi copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3] / fig. majestic syn
偏振 piān zhèn polarization (of waves)
三江源 sān jiāng yuán Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, high plateau region of Qinghai containing the headwaters of Changjiang or Yangtze, Huanghe or Yellow River and Lancang or Mekong River
河工 hé gōng river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc) / river conservancy worker syn
开河 開河 kāi hé to open a river / to dig a canal / to thaw (of river) syn
河 hé river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2fen3] syn
浦 pǔ river bank / shore / river drainage ditch (old)
泷 瀧 shuāng Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)
汶 wèn Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川) / classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國|齐国
麦克斯韦 麥克斯韋 mài kè sī wéi Maxwell (name) / James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
汨 mì name of a river, the southern tributary of Miluo river 汨羅江|汨罗江[Mi4 luo2 jiang1]
长风破浪 長風破浪 cháng fēng pò làng lit. to ride the wind and crest the waves / to be ambitious and unafraid (idiom) syn
检波 檢波 jiǎn bō to detect (e.g. radio waves)
沧浪亭 滄浪亭 cāng làng tíng The Surging Waves Pavillion in Suzhou, Jiangsu
内陆河 內陸河 nèi lù hé inland river / river draining to inland sea
沣 灃 fēng rainy / place name in Shaanxi / Feng River in Shaanxi 陝西|陕西, tributary of Wei River 渭水[Wei4 Shui3]
条 條 tiáo strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) syn
水 shuǐ water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4shui3] and 水性[shui3xing4]) / (coll.) lacking in substance / shoddy / (bound form) additional cost / extra income / classifier for washings of a garment syn
治 zhì to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research syn
南方 nán fāng south / southern China (areas to the south of the Yangtze River) syn
北方 běi fāng north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River syn
爱河 愛河 ài hé the river of love / a stumbling block on the path to enlightenment (Buddhism)
河边 河邊 hé biān river bank
下流 xià liú lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene syn
河流 hé liú river / CL:條|条[tiao2] syn
水流 shuǐ liú river / stream syn
济 濟 jì to cross a river / to aid or relieve / to be of help syn
水源 shuǐ yuán water source / water supply / headwaters of a river syn
河水 hé shuǐ river water syn
主流 zhǔ liú main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc) syn
上游 shàng yóu upper reaches (of a river) / upper level / upper echelon / upstream syn
分支 fēn zhī branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide syn
西岸 xī àn the west bank / West Bank of Jordan River
汹涌 洶湧 xiōng yǒng to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent syn
水边 水邊 shuǐ biān edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river) syn
河岸 hé àn riverside / river bank
河谷 hé gǔ river valley syn
河畔 hé pàn riverside / river plain
下游 xià yóu lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream syn
尼罗河 尼羅河 ní luó hé Nile (river)
沙地 shā dì sandy beach or river bank / sand dune / sandy land syn
江南 jiāng nán south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
上行 shàng xíng (of trains) up (i.e. towards the capital) / (of river boats) to go against the current / to submit (a document) to higher authorities syn
同舟共济 同舟共濟 tóng zhōu gòng jì cross a river in the same boat (idiom) / fig. having common interests / obliged to collaborate towards common goals syn
分流 fēn liú to diverge / to divert / to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs) / to reassign (redundant staff) syn
下行 xià xíng (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom syn
蜿蜒 wān yán (of a snake) to wriggle along / (of a river etc) to zigzag / to meander / to wind syn
水道 shuǐ dào watercourse (river, canal, drain etc) / water route / lane (in a swimming pool) syn
连绵 連綿 lián mián continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc) syn
支流 zhī liú tributary (river) syn
中游 zhōng yóu the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream syn
黄河 黃河 huáng hé Yellow River or Huang He
流域 liú yù river basin / valley / drainage area
长江 長江 cháng jiāng Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
背水一战 背水一戰 bèi shuǐ yī zhàn lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom) / fig. to fight to win or die syn
江水 jiāng shuǐ river water
汇入 匯入 huì rù to flow into / to converge (of river) / (computing) to import (data)
溯源 sù yuán to investigate the origin of sth / to trace a river upstream back to its source syn
山穷水尽 山窮水盡 shān qióng shuǐ jìn mountain and river exhausted (idiom) / at the end of the line / nowhere to go syn
恒河 恆河 héng hé Ganges River
江河 jiāng hé river syn
河面 hé miàn surface of a river
中原 zhōng yuán Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei syn
海口 hǎi kǒu estuary / coastal inlet / river mouth / seaport / see also 誇海口|夸海口[kua1 hai3 kou3] syn
约旦河 約旦河 yuē dàn hé Jordan River
湄公河 méi gōng hé Mekong River
河口 hé kǒu estuary / the mouth of a river
罗纳 羅納 luó nà Rhone, river of Switzerland and France
汉江 漢江 hàn jiāng Han River
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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