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"rotten (wood)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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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
木头 木頭 mù tou slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1] syn
腐败 腐敗 fǔ bài corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten syn
篱笆 籬笆 lí ba fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) syn
木材 mù cái wood syn
腐朽 fǔ xiǔ rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate syn
馊主意 餿主意 sōu zhǔ yi rotten idea syn
伐木 fá mù to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering syn
塑像 sù xiàng to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process syn
松木 sōng mù pine wood / deal / larch
木屑 mù xiè wood shavings / sawdust syn
门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn
害群之马 害群之馬 hài qún zhī mǎ lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple syn
纹路 紋路 wén lù veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
红木 紅木 hóng mù red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
纹理 紋理 wén lǐ vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
腐臭 fǔ chòu rotten (smell) / stinking / putrid
蛀虫 蛀蟲 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin syn
朽木 xiǔ mù rotten wood syn
糜烂 糜爛 mí làn dissipated / rotten / decaying syn
甲醇 jiǎ chún methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
龋齿 齲齒 qǔ chǐ tooth decay / dental caries / decayed tooth / rotten tooth syn
劈柴 pǐ chái chopped wood / firewood
五行 wǔ xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 syn
桐油 tóng yóu tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
木耳 mù ěr wood ear / jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:朵[duo3] syn
丁丁 zhēng zhēng sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc syn
竹木 zhú mù bamboo and wood
茯苓 fú líng Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus) / fu ling / tuckahoe
蛀牙 zhù yá tooth decay / dental caries / decayed tooth / rotten tooth
苏木 蘇木 sū mù sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
砍树 砍樹 kǎn shù to chop wood / to chop down trees
木片 mù piàn flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL:塊|块[kuai4],片[pian4]
化腐朽为神奇 化腐朽為神奇 huà fǔ xiǔ wéi shén qí lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
八音 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
木杆 木桿 mù gān wooden pole / wood (golf club)
灌木林 guàn mù lín shrubbery / low wood
霉气 霉氣 méi qì a moldy smell / damp and rotten / fig. rotten bad luck
糟 zāo dregs / draff / pickled in wine / rotten / messy / ruined syn
破 pò broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of syn
烂 爛 làn soft / mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot / to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic / messy / utterly / thoroughly / crappy / bad syn
签 籤 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag syn
木 mù (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn
纹 紋 wén line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc) syn
炭 tàn wood charcoal / coal syn
札 zhá thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague syn
腐 fǔ decay / rotten syn
朽 xiǔ rotten syn
糜 mí rice gruel / rotten / to waste (money) syn
栈 棧 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack syn
虫牙 蟲牙 chóng yá tooth decay / dental caries / decayed tooth / rotten tooth syn
梓 zǐ Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks syn
油桐 yóu tóng Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii) syn
刨花 bào huā wood shavings
盲人摸象 máng rén mō xiàng blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees syn
硅化木 guī huà mù petrified wood (geology)
鸡翅木 雞翅木 jī chì mù wenge or wengue (type of wood)
形成层 形成層 xíng chéng céng vascular cambium (layer of tissue responsible for growth inside wood)
边材 邊材 biān cái sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
樵 qiáo firewood / gather wood syn
镌 鐫 juān to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe syn
蠡 lǐ wood-boring insect syn
槁 gǎo dried up (wood) / dead tree
槎 chá a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew syn
巽 xùn to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
锼 鎪 sōu to engrave (metal of wood) syn
桄 guàng woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
一叶障目 一葉障目 yī yè zhàng mù lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees syn
只见树木不见森林 只見樹木不見森林 zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín unable to see the wood for the trees / fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture
朽烂 朽爛 xiǔ làn rotten syn
榫眼 sǔn yǎn mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) syn
丬 爿 qiáng "piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]
爿 pán classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)
胔 zì rotten meat / bones of dead animal
土木形骸 tǔ mù xíng hái earth and wood framework (idiom) / plain and undecorated body
木人石心 mù rén shí xīn lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless syn
烈火干柴 烈火乾柴 liè huǒ gān chái lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom) / inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
众盲摸象 眾盲摸象 zhòng máng mō xiàng multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
鎸 juān variant of 鐫|镌, to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
稾 gǎo variant of 槁 / dry / rotten (wood)
朽木不可雕 xiǔ mù bù kě diāo lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
木醇 mù chún wood alcohol / wood spirit / methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / same as 甲醇[jia3 chun2]
树化玉 樹化玉 shù huà yù wood jade (type of petrified wood)
木精 mù jīng methanol / methyl alcohol / wood alcohol / wood spirit
亚马孙破布木 亞馬孫破布木 cordia wood / jenny wood
黑林鸽 黑林鴿 hēi lín gē (bird species of China) black wood pigeon / Japanese wood pigeon (Columba janthina)
操蛋 cào dàn lousy / rotten
朽坏 朽壞 xiǔ huài rotten
枯朽 kū xiǔ withered and rotten
烂透 爛透 làn tòu rotten to the core
粘滑 nián huá slimy (of rotten food) / viscous / stick-slip (in mechanics)
肏蛋 cào dàn lousy / rotten
颓朽 頹朽 tuí xiǔ decaying / rotten / decrepit
龋蠹 齲蠹 qǔ dù rotten teeth
蜂巢冰 fēng cháo bīng rotten ice
餯 huì (of food) rotten and smelly
黏滑 nián huá slimy (of rotten food) / viscous / (mechanics) stick-slip
倒血霉 dǎo xuè méi to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉[dao3 mei2])
漏脯充饥 漏脯充飢 lòu fǔ - chōng jī lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom) / fig. to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits / shortsighted
蝇营狗苟 蠅營狗苟 yíng yíng - gǒu gǒu lit. to swarm like flies around rotten food and drag out an ignoble existence like a dog (idiom) / fig. to lead an undignified life / to resort to any means for personal gain syn
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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