平方 píng fāng square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) 方 fāng square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter syn 最小二乘法 zuì xiǎo èr chéng fǎ least square adjustment / least square method / least square fitting procedure / least square fit 最小二乘法平差 least square adjustment / least square method / least square fitting procedure / least square fit 最小二乘法拟合 最小二乘法擬合 least square adjustment / least square method / least square fitting procedure / least square fit 方丈 fāng zhang square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) / monastic room 10 feet square / Buddhist or Daoist abbot / abbot's chamber syn 太阳光柱 太陽光柱 tài yáng guāng zhù solar pillar / sun pillar (atmospheric optics) 桢 楨 zhēn (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction / (fig.) mainstay / pillar / backbone 柷 zhù percussion instrument, a tapering wooden box struck on the inside with a wooden stick 木塔 mù tǎ wooden pagoda / wooden tower, turret, minaret etc 方正 fāng zhèng clear and square / neat / square (person) syn 方形 fāng xíng square / square-shaped 见方 見方 jiàn fāng (measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square") syn 盂方水方 yú fāng shuǐ fāng If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square. (idiom) 丁字尺 dīng zì chǐ T-square / set square (carpenter's tool) syn 方城 fāng chéng square castle / mahjong layout (with the tiles laid out as a square) 轸方 軫方 zhěn fāng square / four-square 四出文钱 四出文錢 sì chū wén qián coin minted in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han 漢靈帝|汉灵帝[Han4 Ling2 Di4], with a square hole in the middle and four lines radiating out from each corner of the square (hence the name 四出文) 支柱 zhī zhù mainstay / pillar / prop / backbone syn 柱子 zhù zi pillar / CL:根[gen1] syn 光柱 guāng zhù light beam / light pillar (atmospheric optics) syn 栋梁 棟梁 dòng liáng ridgepole / ridgepole and beams / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state) syn 承重 chéng zhòng (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc) 华表 華表 huá biǎo marble pillar (ornamental column in front of places, tombs) 顶梁柱 頂梁柱 dǐng liáng zhù pillar / backbone syn 主心骨 zhǔ xīn gǔ backbone / mainstay / pillar / definite view / one's own judgment syn 柱石 zhù shí pillar syn 台柱 tái zhù pillar / mainstay / star performer syn 邮筒 郵筒 yóu tǒng mailbox / pillar box / (old) letter syn 炮烙 páo lào the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument) 柱 zhù pillar / CL:根[gen1] syn 桓 huán Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukurossi) / big / pillar (old) 楹 yíng pillar 樘 táng pillar / door post / door or window frame / classifier for doors or windows syn 樘 chěng a pillar syn 大器晚成 dà qì wǎn chéng lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom) / fig. a great talent matures slowly / in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state / Rome wasn't built in a day syn 雕楹碧槛 雕楹碧檻 diāo yíng bì kǎn carved pillar, jade doorsill (idiom) / heavily decorated environment 一柱擎天 yī zhù qíng tiān lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom) / fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders 梲 zhuó club (weapon) / small pillar 拱墩 gǒng dūn pillar of a vault 拱柱 gǒng zhù pillar of a vault 柱梁 zhù liáng pillar 梁木 liáng mù beam / rafter / lintel / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state) 榰 zhī base of pillar / prop 钢柱 鋼柱 gāng zhù iron pillar / iron rod 第四支柱部门 dì sì zhī zhù bù mén Pillar IV 业绩支柱 業績支柱 yè jì zhī zhù performance pillar 支柱部门 支柱部門 zhī zhù bù mén pillar 界石地点评估勘 界石地點評估勘 pillar site assessment survey / emplacement survey 界石安置勘查 pillar site assessment survey / emplacement survey 第五支柱 5th Pillar 经幢 經幢 jīng chuáng Buddhist stone pillar 趸柱 躉柱 dǔn zhù main supporting pillar 炮烙 páo luò form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire 木马 木馬 mù mǎ wooden horse / rocking horse / vaulting horse (gymnastics) / trojan horse (computing) 马桶 馬桶 mǎ tǒng chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl syn 木制 木製 mù zhì wooden 板凳 bǎn dèng wooden bench or stool / CL:張|张[zhang1],條|条[tiao2] 木质 木質 mù zhì wooden 木棍 mù gùn wooden stick syn 令牌 lìng pái (archaic) wooden or metal token of authority / (fig.) decree / directive / (computing) token 交椅 jiāo yǐ old-style wooden folding armchair, typically featuring a footrest / (fig.) position in a hierarchy syn 木鱼 木魚 mù yú mokugyo / wooden fish (percussion instrument) 木剑 木劍 mù jiàn wooden sword 木讷 木訥 mù nè wooden and slow of speech / slow-speeched / inarticulate / unsophisticated syn 木桩 木樁 mù zhuāng wooden pile / stake 楼板 樓板 lóu bǎn floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) 木器 mù qì wooden articles 呆若木鸡 呆若木雞 dāi ruò mù jī lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom) / fig. dumbstruck syn 夹板 夾板 jiā bǎn wooden boards used to press sth together / (medicine) splint 无表情 無表情 wú biǎo qíng expressionless / wooden (expression) / blank (face) 梆子 bāng zi watchman's clapper / wooden clappers with bars of unequal length / abbr. for 梆子腔[bang1 zi5 qiang1] syn 斗拱 dǒu gǒng interlocking wooden brackets between the top of a column and crossbeams used in traditional Chinese architecture 木筏 mù fá wooden raft / log raft syn 棒槌 bàng chuí wooden club (used to beat clothes in washing) syn 木船 mù chuán wooden boat 大藏经 大藏經 dà zàng jīng Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺[Hai3 yin4 si4] in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea syn 胡琴 hú qin huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring 华容道 華容道 huá róng dào Huarong Road (traditional puzzle involving sliding wooden blocks, loosely based on an episode in Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4]) 木屐 mù jī wooden clogs syn 木杆 木桿 mù gān wooden pole / wood (golf club) 照本宣科 zhào běn xuān kē a wooden word-by-word reading syn 三弦 sān xián sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra syn 板房 bǎn fáng temporary housing built with wooden planks or other makeshift materials 横木 橫木 héng mù horizontal beam / wooden crossbar / thwart 板壁 bǎn bì wooden partition 木 mù (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn 马勺 馬勺 mǎ sháo wooden ladle 板胡 bǎn hú a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard 栈 棧 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack syn 枷 jiā cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China) 俑 yǒng wooden figures buried with the dead syn 殳 shū bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in 段[duan4], 毅[yi4], 殺|杀[sha1] etc 椠 槧 qiàn wooden tablet / edition 枧 梘 jiǎn bamboo conduit / wooden peg / spout / same as 筧|笕 syn 翣 shà wooden fan carried in procession 笐 gāng bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates 土牛木马 土牛木馬 tǔ niú mù mǎ clay ox, wooden horse (idiom) / shape without substance / worthless object 买椟还珠 買櫝還珠 mǎi dú huán zhū to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom) syn 