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"social" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
社会问题 社會問題 shè huì wèn tí social
社会性 社會性 shè huì xìng social
社会地理学 社會地理學 shè huì dì lǐ xué social
社会化搜索 社會化搜索 shè huì huà sōu suǒ social
社会媒体 社會媒體 shè huì méi tǐ social
社会企业 社會企業 shè huì qǐ yè social
Chinese Pinyin Translation
交流 jiāo liú to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)
身份 shēn fèn identity / aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is – mayor, father, permanent resident etc) / role / capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以…的身份[yi3 xx5 de5 shen1 fen4]) / status (social, legal etc) / position / rank syn
贴图 貼圖 tiē tú sticker (social messaging) (Tw)
成分 chéng fèn composition / ingredient / element / component / one's social status syn
福利 fú lì material benefit / benefit in kind / (social) welfare syn
阶层 階層 jiē céng social class
制服 zhì fú to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:套[tao4]
交际 交際 jiāo jì communication / social intercourse syn
风俗 風俗 fēng sú social custom / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
动荡 動蕩 dòng dàng unrest (social or political) / turmoil / upheaval / commotion syn
应酬 應酬 yìng chou to engage in social activities / to socialize / dinner party / banquet / social engagement syn
朋友圈 péng you quān Moments (social networking function of smartphone app WeChat 微信[Wei1 xin4])
快手 kuài shǒu Kuaishou, Chinese social video sharing app syn
种草 種草 zhòng cǎo (neologism) (slang) to spark interest in a product or idea (esp. on social media)
社工 shè gōng social work / social worker
关注 關注 guān zhù to pay attention to / to follow sth closely / to follow (on social media) / concern / interest / attention syn
好友 hǎo yǒu close friend / pal / (social networking website) friend / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
身后 身後 shēn hòu the time after one's death / a place behind sb / (fig.) one's social background syn
大事 dà shì major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] syn
武林 wǔ lín martial arts (social) circles
各界 gè jiè all walks of life / all social circles syn
一族 yī zú social group / subculture / family / clan / see also 族[zu2]
追踪 追蹤 zhuī zōng to track / to trace / to follow up / (HK, Tw) to follow (on social media) syn
小人 xiǎo rén person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character syn
成份 chéng fèn composition / make-up / ingredient / element / component / one's social status / same as 成分 syn
社会科学 社會科學 shè huì kē xué social sciences syn
同等 tóng děng equal to / having the same social class or status syn
社会保障 社會保障 shè huì bǎo zhàng social security
身价 身價 shēn jià social status / price of a slave / price of a person (a sportsman etc) / worth / value (of stocks, valuables etc) syn
孔子 kǒng zǐ Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
阶级 階級 jiē jí (social) class / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
萎缩 萎縮 wěi suō to wither / to dry up (of a plant) / to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc) syn
人情 rén qíng human emotions / social relationship / friendship / favor / a good turn syn
圈子 quān zi circle / ring / (social) circle syn
社交 shè jiāo interaction / social contact syn
上班族 shàng bān zú office workers (as social group)
社会保险 社會保險 shè huì bǎo xiǎn social security (abbr. to 社保[she4bao3])
不菲 bù fěi considerable (cost etc) / bountiful (crop etc) / high (social status etc) syn
社保 shè bǎo social insurance (abbr. for 社會保險|社会保险[she4hui4 bao3xian3])
社科 shè kē social science (abbr.)
社会团体 社會團體 shè huì tuán tǐ social group / community organization
弱势群体 弱勢群體 ruò shì qún tǐ disadvantaged social groups (e.g. the handicapped) / the economically and politically marginalized / the dispossessed
社会环境 社會環境 shè huì huán jìng social environment / milieu
大潮 dà cháo spring tide / (fig.) momentous social change syn
社群 shè qún community / social grouping
丛生 叢生 cóng shēng growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
脉络 脈絡 mài luò arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context syn
社会福利 社會福利 shè huì fú lì social welfare
社科院 shè kē yuàn (Chinese) Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
公益事业 公益事業 gōng yì shì yè service to the public / public welfare undertaking / charity / social facility
社会关系 社會關係 shè huì guān xì social relation
中国社会科学院 中國社會科學院 zhōng guó shè huì kē xué yuàn Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
公德 gōng dé public ethics / social morality
社会服务 社會服務 shè huì fú wù social services
良药 良藥 liáng yào good medicine / panacea / fig. a good solution / a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
门路 門路 mén lù way of doing sth / the right social connection syn
社会活动 社會活動 social event
四维 四維 sì wéi the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥|礼义廉耻[li3 yi4 lian2 chi3] / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional
社会工作 社會工作 shè huì gōng zuò social work
联欢会 聯歡會 lián huān huì social gathering / party
贵贱 貴賤 guì jiàn noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
低微 dī wēi meager (wages) / humble (social status) / feeble (voice) syn
自动升级 自動升級 zì dòng shēng jí social promotion
礼数 禮數 lǐ shù etiquette / (old) gradation of etiquette with social status syn
独尊 獨尊 dú zūn to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant syn
公害 gōng hài environmental pollution / social scourge / blight on society
分房 fēn fáng to sleep in separate rooms / distribution of social housing
门当户对 門當戶對 mén dāng hù duì the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match syn
路数 路數 lù shù stratagem / method / approach / (martial arts) movement / social connections / (sb's) background story syn
高攀 gāo pān social climbing / to claim connections with people in higher social class
打卡 dǎ kǎ (of an employee) to clock on (or off) / to punch in (or out) / (on social media) to check in to a location
社会阶层 社會階層 shè huì jiē céng social class
门楣 門楣 mén méi lintel (of a door) / fig. family's social status syn
平步青云 平步青雲 píng bù qīng yún to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc) syn
风土 風土 fēng tǔ natural conditions and social customs of a place / local conditions syn
八面玲珑 八面玲瓏 bā miàn líng lóng be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) syn
孔夫子 kǒng fū zǐ Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
尊卑 zūn bēi superior and subordinate / social ranking
边缘人 邊緣人 biān yuán rén marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
贱民 賤民 jiàn mín social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste)
富农 富農 fù nóng rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主[di4 zhu3] and poor peasant 貧農|贫农[pin2 nong2]
法家 fǎ jiā the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist syn
条条框框 條條框框 tiáo tiáo kuàng kuàng fixed framework (idiom) / restriction of social conventions and taboos (usually derogatory) / regulations and restrictions syn
攀附 pān fù to climb (of climbing plants) / to creep / to cling on to / fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful) / social climbing syn
交谊舞 交誼舞 jiāo yì wǔ social dance / ballroom dancing
洋相 yáng xiàng social gaffe or blunder / faux pas / see 出洋相[chu1 yang2 xiang4] syn
同侪 同儕 tóng chái peer / member of the same class, generation or social group
人文社科 rén wén shè kē (abbr.) humanities and social sciences
聚友 jù yǒu MySpace (social networking website)
群体性事件 群體性事件 qún tǐ xìng shì jiàn mass incident (PRC term for incidents of social unrest, including rioting, melees and petition campaigns)
地利人和 dì lì rén hé favorable geographical and social conditions (idiom) / good location and the people satisfied syn
世态 世態 shì tài the ways of the world / social behavior syn
天时地利人和 天時地利人和 tiān shí dì lì rén hé the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom) / a good time to go to war
社民党 社民黨 shè mín dǎng Social Democratic party
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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