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"river-borne" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
河流带来的 河流帶來的 river-borne
河水随带的 河水隨帶的 river-borne
Chinese Pinyin Translation
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
条 條 tiáo strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) 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
济 濟 jì to cross a river / to aid or relieve / to be of help syn
北方 běi fāng north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River syn
主流 zhǔ liú main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc) syn
长江 長江 cháng jiāng Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
黄河 黃河 huáng hé Yellow River or Huang He
须知 須知 xū zhī key information / instructions / it must be borne in mind syn
上游 shàng yóu upper reaches (of a river) / upper level / upper echelon / upstream syn
汹涌 洶湧 xiōng yǒng to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent syn
华西 華西 huá xī West China (region in the upper reaches of Yangtze River and Sichuan Province)
支流 zhī liú tributary (river) syn
河滩 河灘 hé tān river bank / river shore / strand
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
河工 hé gōng river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc) / river conservancy worker syn
悬河 懸河 xuán hé "hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words
派 pài (literary) tributary / branch of a river / clique / school / group / faction / (bound form) style / manner / to send (a person or resource) / to dispatch / to allocate (a resource or task) / to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by 一[yi]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie syn
河运 河運 hé yùn river transport syn
套 tào to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) syn
横 橫 héng horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent syn
岔 chà fork in road / bifurcation / branch in road, river, mountain range etc / to branch off / to turn off / to diverge / to stray (from the path) / to change the subject / to interrupt / to stagger (times) syn
南方 nán fāng south / southern China (areas to the south of the Yangtze River) syn
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
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)
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
随风 隨風 suí fēng wind-borne / tossed about by the wind
分支 fēn zhī branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide syn
河流 hé liú river / CL:條|条[tiao2] syn
下游 xià yóu lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream syn
珠江 zhū jiāng Pearl River (Guangdong)
流域 liú yù river basin / valley / drainage area
水流 shuǐ liú river / stream 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
水源 shuǐ yuán water source / water supply / headwaters of a river syn
河边 河邊 hé biān river bank
河水 hé shuǐ river water syn
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
长三角 長三角 cháng sān jiǎo Yangtze River Delta (abbr. for 長江三角洲|长江三角洲[Chang2 jiang1 San1 jiao3 zhou1])
珠三角 zhū sān jiǎo Pearl River Delta
河道 hé dào river course / river channel syn
大河 dà hé large river (esp the Yellow River)
潇湘 瀟湘 xiāo xiāng other name of the Xiangjiang river 湘江[Xiang1 jiang1] in Hunan province
江水 jiāng shuǐ river water
下流 xià liú lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene 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
江河 jiāng hé river syn
连绵 連綿 lián mián continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc) syn
汉口 漢口 hàn kǒu Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
西岸 xī àn the west bank / West Bank of Jordan River
沿江 yán jiāng along the river / the region around the river
中游 zhōng yóu the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream syn
松花江 sōng huā jiāng Songhua River in Jilin province 吉林省 through Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], a tributary of Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江
水浒 水滸 shuǐ hǔ edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore
河畔 hé pàn riverside / river plain
漓江 灕江 lí jiāng River Li, Guangxi
水道 shuǐ dào watercourse (river, canal, drain etc) / water route / lane (in a swimming pool) syn
大峡谷 大峽谷 dà xiá gǔ great valley / Grand Canyon of Colorado River
河口 hé kǒu estuary / the mouth of a river
汇入 匯入 huì rù to flow into / to converge (of river) / (computing) to import (data)
爱河 愛河 ài hé the river of love / a stumbling block on the path to enlightenment (Buddhism)
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]
辽东 遼東 liáo dōng Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea / east and south of Liaoning province / east of Liao river 遼河|辽河
钱塘 錢塘 qián táng Qiantang River that loops around Hangzhou 杭州[Hang2 zhou1] in Zhejiang Province 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
珠江三角洲 zhū jiāng sān jiǎo zhōu Pearl River Delta (PRD)
水边 水邊 shuǐ biān edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river) syn
沙地 shā dì sandy beach or river bank / sand dune / sandy land syn
河谷 hé gǔ river valley syn
河岸 hé àn riverside / river bank
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]
秦岭 秦嶺 qín lǐng Qinling Mountain Range in Shaanxi forming a natural barrier between the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2] and the Han River 漢水|汉水[Han4 shui3] valley
千岛湖 千島湖 qiān dǎo hú Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
江面 jiāng miàn the surface of the river
长江三角洲 長江三角洲 cháng jiāng sān jiǎo zhōu Yangtze River Delta
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
渡河 dù hé to cross a river syn
汉江 漢江 hàn jiāng Han River
尼罗河 尼羅河 ní luó hé Nile (river)
游弋 遊弋 yóu yì (of a naval vessel) to cruise / to patrol / (of ducks, boats etc) to move about on a lake or river etc syn
东江 東江 dōng jiāng Dongjiang River
上水 shàng shuǐ upper reaches (of a river) / to go upstream / to add some water / to water (a crop etc) syn
三峡大坝 三峽大壩 sān xiá dà bà Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River
浩荡 浩蕩 hào dàng vast and mighty (of river or ocean) / broad and powerful syn
西江 xī jiāng Xijiang River
水神 shuǐ shén river God
长江流域 長江流域 cháng jiāng liú yù Changjiang or Yangtze river basin
溯源 sù yuán to investigate the origin of sth / to trace a river upstream back to its source syn
钱塘江 錢塘江 qián táng jiāng Qiantang River that loops around Hangzhou 杭州[Hang2 zhou1] in Zhejiang Province 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
黄浦江 黃浦江 huáng pǔ jiāng Huangpu River in Shanghai
辽河 遼河 liáo hé Liao River of northeast China, passing through Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Jilin and Liaoning
秦淮河 qín huái hé Qinhuai River, a tributary of the Yangtze that flows through central Nanjing
鸭绿江 鴨綠江 yā lù jiāng Yalu River, forming part of the China-Korea border
断流 斷流 duàn liú to run dry (of river)
扬子江 揚子江 yáng zǐ jiāng Changjiang 長江|长江 or Yangtze River / old name for Changjiang, especially lower reaches around Yangzhou 揚州|扬州
河面 hé miàn surface of a river
汉水 漢水 hàn shuǐ Han River (Hanshui)
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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