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Chinese Pinyin Part of speech Translation Actions
zhāng v., m.w. to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes syn
chuán v. to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity) syn
n. cloth / to declare / to announce / to spread / to make known syn
推广 推廣 tuī guǎng v. to extend / to spread / to popularize / generalization / promotion (of a product etc) syn
流行 liú xíng v. (of a contagious disease etc) to spread / to propagate / (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular / fashionable syn
传播 傳播 chuán bō v. to disseminate / to propagate / to spread syn
延伸 yán shēn v. to extend / to spread syn
流传 流傳 liú chuán v. to spread / to circulate / to hand down syn
广 guǎng adj. wide / numerous / to spread syn
v. (bound form) to sow (seeds) / to spread (ideas, rumors etc) / to broadcast (radio signals etc) / Taiwan pr. [bo4] syn
v. to spread / to display / to set up / (old) holder for door-knocker syn
蔓延 màn yán v. to extend / to spread syn
扩散 擴散 kuò sàn v. to spread / to proliferate / to diffuse syn
伸延 shēn yán to extend / to stretch / to expand / to spread / see 延伸[yan2 shen1]
张开 張開 zhāng kāi to open up / to spread / to extend syn
传开 傳開 chuán kāi (of news) to spread / to get around syn
散播 sàn bō to spread / to disperse / to disseminate syn
传扬 傳揚 chuán yáng to spread (by word of mouth) syn
扒开 扒開 bā kāi to pry open or apart / to spread (sth) open with both hands syn
传布 傳布 chuán bù to spread / to propagate / to disseminate syn
chí to run fast / to speed / to gallop / to disseminate / to spread syn
v. to spread / to lay out / to apply (powder, ointment etc) / sufficient (to cover) / enough syn
màn creeper / to spread syn
zhà at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling syn
táng to keep out / to hold off / to ward off / to evade / to spread / to coat / to smear / to daub syn
zhé old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4]), now called 捺[na4] / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread syn
yáng to soar / to fly / to float / variant of 揚|扬[yang2], to scatter / to spread
shū set forth / to spread
to announce / to spread / cloth / to declare / to make known / variant of 布[bu4] / to announce / to spread
延烧 延燒 yán shāo (of fire) to continue burning / to spread / (fig.) (of a disease, controversy, issue or trend) to spread / to intensify / to gain traction
to promulgate / to spread
chī to spread (fame) / wield (pen)
zhà to open / to spread
使蔓延 shǐ màn yán to spread
传流 傳流 chuán liú to spread / to hand down / to circulate
展布 zhǎn bù to spread / distribution
guǎng wide / numerous / to spread / Japanese variant of 廣|广
推及 tuī jí to spread / to extend
流布 liú bù to spread / to circulate / to disseminate
差幅 spread (finance)
洒布 灑布 sǎ bù to spread
chuán to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity) / Japanese variant of 傳|传
衍伸 yǎn shēn to give rise (to) / to spawn / to spread (to)
涂抹酱 塗抹醬 tú mǒ jiàng spread (for putting on bread etc)
外溢 wài yì (of liquid) to spill out / to overflow / (of gas) to leak out / (fig.) to spill over / to spread (to new areas) / (fig.) (of wealth etc) to drain / to flow outward (esp. overseas) / (fig.) (of talent) to show / to be revealed
抹酱 抹醬 mǒ jiàng spread (food)
Chinese Pinyin Part of speech Translation Actions
zhǎn to spread out / to open up / to exhibit / to put into effect / to postpone / to prolong / exhibition syn
liú v. to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade syn
展开 展開 zhǎn kāi v. to unfold / to spread out / to open up / to launch / to carry out syn
普及 pǔ jí v. to spread extensively / to generalize / widespread / popular / universal / ubiquitous / pervasive syn
宣扬 宣揚 xuān yáng v. to publicize / to advertise / to spread far and wide syn
垫圈 墊圈 diàn juàn to spread litter in a cowshed, pigsty etc
奔走相告 bēn zǒu xiāng gào to spread the news (idiom)
铺盖 鋪蓋 pū gài to spread evenly over syn
v. to drape over one's shoulders / to open / to unroll / to split open / to spread out syn
tān v., n., m.w. to spread out / vendor's stand syn
张扬 張揚 zhāng yáng v. to display ostentatiously / to bring out into the open / to make public / to spread around / flamboyant / brash syn
防控 fáng kòng to prevent and control (e.g. the spread of a communicable disease)
波及 bō jí v. to spread to / to involve / to affect syn
施肥 shī féi to spread manure / to apply fertilizer syn
流言 liú yán rumor / gossip / to spread rumors syn
传遍 傳遍 chuán biàn to spread widely syn
展翅 zhǎn chì to spread wings syn
摊开 攤開 tān kāi to spread out / to unfold
连累 連累 lián lěi to involve / to implicate sb / to spread to others (harm, trouble, damage etc) syn
铺垫 鋪墊 pū diàn to spread out bedding / bedcover syn
稀疏 xī shū sparse / infrequent / thinly spread syn
大乘 dà shèng Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
佳话 佳話 jiā huà story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide syn
盛传 盛傳 shèng chuán widely spread / widely rumored / stories abound / (sb's exploits are) widely circulated syn
不翼而飞 不翼而飛 bù yì ér fēi to disappear without trace / to vanish all of a sudden / to spread fast / to spread like wildfire syn
劈开 劈開 pī kāi to cleave / to split open / to spread open (fingers, legs) syn
铺平 鋪平 pū píng to spread out (material) / to pave (the way, a road etc) syn
敷设 敷設 fū shè to lay / to spread out syn
利差 yield spread
星罗棋布 星羅棋布 xīng luó qí bù scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom) / spread all over the place syn
罗布 羅布 luó bù to display / to spread out / to distribute / old spelling of 盧布|卢布[lu2 bu4], ruble
铺陈 鋪陳 pū chén to arrange / to spread out / to narrate in detail / to describe at great length / to elaborate syn
笑逐颜开 笑逐顏開 xiào zhú yán kāi smile spread across the face (idiom) / beaming with pleasure / all smiles / joy written across one's face syn
不胫而走 不脛而走 bù jìng ér zǒu to get round fast / to spread like wildfire syn
铺展 鋪展 pū zhǎn to spread out syn
以讹传讹 以訛傳訛 yǐ é chuán é to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom) syn
平摊 平攤 píng tān to spread out / (fig.) to share equally syn
放毒 fàng dú to poison / (fig.) to spread vicious rumors syn
流毒 liú dú to spread poison / pernicious influence syn
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail syn
蜚短流长 蜚短流長 fēi duǎn liú cháng to spread malicious gossip / also written 飛短流長|飞短流长[fei1 duan3 liu2 chang2]
飞短流长 飛短流長 fēi duǎn liú cháng to spread malicious gossip syn
zhào v., n. to cover / to spread over / a cover / a shade / a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect / to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome / incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住[zhao4de2zhu4]) to have things under control / to be able to handle it syn
yǎn to spread out / to develop / to overflow / to amplify / superfluous syn
shuāng n. frost / white powder or cream spread over a surface / frosting / (skin) cream syn
bǎi to spread out / to open
大张声势 大張聲勢 dà zhāng shēng shì to spread one's voice wide (idiom) / wide publicity
展翅高飞 展翅高飛 zhǎn chì gāo fēi to spread one's wings and soar (idiom) / to develop one's abilities freely
山珍海错 山珍海錯 shān zhēn hǎi cuò rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom) / fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies
家丑不可外扬 家醜不可外揚 jiā chǒu bù kě wài yáng lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
纲举目张 綱舉目張 gāng jǔ mù zhāng if you lift the headrope the meshes spread open (idiom) / take care of the big things and the little things will take care of themselves / (of a piece of writing) well-structured and ordered
迅速蔓延 xùn sù màn yán rapid spread / to spread rapidly
羅佈 luó bù to display / to spread out / to distribute / old spelling of 盧布|卢布[lu2 bu4], ruble / variant of 羅布|罗布, display / spread out
双船地震扩展排列 expanding spread profiling / expanded spread
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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