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"rivers" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
百川 bǎi chuān rivers
河川 hé chuān rivers syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
道 dào road / path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]) / (bound form) way / reason / principle / (bound form) a skill / an art / a specialization / (Daoism) the Way / the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express / to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) syn
河渠 hé qú rivers and canals / waterway syn
涨 漲 zhǎng to rise (of prices, rivers) syn
浯 wú (name of several rivers in China)
江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn
山水 shān shuǐ water from a mountain / mountains and rivers / scenery / landscape syn
江山 jiāng shān rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power syn
交汇 交彙 jiāo huì variant of 交匯|交汇 / to flow together / confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads) / (international) cooperation syn
山河 shān hé mountains and rivers / the whole country syn
山川 shān chuān mountains and rivers / landscape syn
血流成河 xuè liú chéng hé rivers of blood (idiom) / bloodbath syn
翻江倒海 fān jiāng dǎo hǎi lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess syn
逶迤 wēi yí (literary) (of roads, rivers, mountain ranges etc) long and winding / meandering syn
汇流 匯流 huì liú (of rivers etc) to converge / convergence syn
名山大川 míng shān dà chuān famous mountains and great rivers syn
江河日下 jiāng hé rì xià rivers pour away by the day (idiom) / going from bad to worse / deteriorating day by day syn
河蚌 hé bàng mussels / bivalves grown in rivers and lakes syn
股 gǔ thigh / part of a whole / portion of a sum / (finance) stock / share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1] / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions syn
大沙河 dà shā hé Dasha River (the name of rivers in various parts of China)
独龙江 獨龍江 dú lóng jiāng Dulong river in northwest Yunnan on border with Myanmar, tributary of Salween or Nujiang 怒江, sometimes referred to as number four of Three parallel rivers 三江並流|三江并流, wildlife protection unit
枯 kū (of plants) withered / (of wells, rivers, etc) dried up / (bound form) dull / boring / (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds syn
泾渭分明 涇渭分明 jīng wèi fēn míng as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom) / to be entirely different syn
穷山恶水 窮山惡水 qióng shān è shuǐ lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment syn
巴山蜀水 bā shān shǔ shuǐ mountains and rivers of Sichuan (idiom)
暴虎冯河 暴虎馮河 bào hǔ píng hé lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom) / fig. to display foolhardy courage
江山易改本性难移 江山易改本性難移 jiāng shān yì gǎi běn xìng nán yí rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
江山易改禀性难移 江山易改稟性難移 jiāng shān yì gǎi bǐng xìng nán yí rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
海纳百川 海納百川 hǎi nà bǎi chuān all rivers run into the sea / use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
爬山涉水 pá shān shè shuǐ to climb mountains and wade rivers (idiom) / fig. to make a long and difficult journey
血流漂杵 xuè liú piāo chǔ enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom) / rivers of blood / blood bath
三江并流 三江並流 sān jiāng bìng liú Three Parallel Rivers National Park, in mountainous northwest Yunnan World Heritage protected area: the three rivers are Nujiang 怒江[Nu4 jiang1] or Salween, Jinsha 金沙江[Jin1 sha1 jiang1] or upper reaches of Changjiang and Lancang 瀾滄江|澜沧江[Lan2 cang1 Jiang1] or Mekong
关于使用国际河川水道的赫尔辛基规则 Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers / Helsinki Rules on the Uses of International Rivers
三江平原 sān jiāng píng yuán Sanjiang or Three rivers plain in Heilongjiang, vast wetland watered by Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] or Amur, Songhua 松花江[Song1 hua1 jiang1], Ussuri 烏蘇里江|乌苏里江[Wu1 su1 li3 jiang1]
交汇处 交匯處 jiāo huì chù confluence (of two rivers) / junction (of roads) / (transport) interchange syn
交彙 jiāo huì variant of 交匯|交汇 / to flow together / confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads) / (international) cooperation
新店溪 xīn diàn xī Xindian or Hsintian Creek, one of the rivers through Taipei, Taiwan
桐柏山 tóng bǎi shān Tongbai mountain range, the watershed between Huai 淮河 and Han 漢江|汉江 rivers
江山易改，本性难移 江山易改，本性難移 jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?
江河湖海 jiāng hé hú hǎi rivers, lakes and oceans / bodies of water
淋溶层 淋溶層 lín róng céng alluvium (soil deposited by rivers)
滙 huì variant of 匯|汇 / to converge (of rivers) / to exchange
万里江山 萬里江山 wàn lǐ jiāng shān lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains / a vast territory (idiom)
邛崃山 邛崍山 qióng lái shān Qionglai Mountains in western Sichuan between the Min 岷江[Min2 Jiang1] and Dadu 大渡河[Da4 du4 He2] rivers
锡当河 錫當河 xī dāng hé Sittang River of central Myanmar (Burma), between Irrawaddy and Salween rivers
河湖酸化评估和监测国际合作方桉 河湖酸化評估和監測國際合作方案 International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes / ICP Waters
河流联合委员会 Joint Rivers Commission
蒙得维的亚宣言 蒙得維的亞宣言 Declaration of Montevideo concerning the industrial and agricultural use of international rivers / Declaration of Montevideo
关于使用国际河流的亚松森条约 關於使用國際河流的亞松森條約 Act of Asunción on the use of international rivers
工农业使用国际河流湖泊公约 工農業使用國際河流湖泊公約 convention on the industrial and agricultural uses of international rivers and lakes
河流湖泊污染与国际法 河流湖泊汙染與國際法 Pollution of Rivers and Lakes and International Law
国际河流问题常设小组委员会 國際河流問題常設小組委員會 Standing Sub-Committee on International Rivers
曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云 曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲 céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què wū shān bù shì yún there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
洛河 luò hé name of several rivers / North Luo river, tributary of Wei river 渭河|渭河[Wei4 He2] in Shaanxi
四渎 四瀆 sì dú (archaic) the four rivers (Yangtze 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1], Yellow 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2], Huai 淮河[Huai2 He2], Ji 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]) / (TCM) acupuncture point SJ-9
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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