"starting from today" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
从今天起 從今天起 cóng jīn tiān qǐ starting from today
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
做一天和尚撞一天钟 做一天和尚撞一天鐘 zuò yī tiān hé shang zhuàng yī tiān zhōng lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom) / fig. to do one's job mechanically / to hold a position passively syn
做一天和尚,撞一天钟 做一天和尚,撞一天鐘 zuò yī tiān hé shang , zhuàng yī tiān zhōng as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom) / to do one's job mechanically / to hold a position passively
非政府组织今日女童问题论坛 非政府組織今日女童問題論壇 Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on the Female Child of Today / NGO Forum on the Female Child of Today
先发 先發 xiān fā to take preemptive action / (sports) to be in the starting lineup / (of a baseball pitcher) to be the starting pitcher
起拍价 起拍價 qǐ pāi jià starting bid / starting price (at an auction)
今天 jīn tiān today / the present time / now syn
今日 jīn rì today syn
本日 běn rì today
今朝 jīn zhāo (dialect) today / (literary) the present / this age syn
今儿 今兒 jīn r (coll.) today syn
今儿个 今兒個 jīn r ge (coll.) today syn
今昔 jīn xī past and present / yesterday and today syn
今日事今日毕 今日事今日畢 jīn rì shì jīn rì bì never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
前此 qián cǐ before today
现在是过去钥匙 現在是過去鑰匙 xiàn zài shì guò qu yào shi Today is the key to the past.
当天事当天毕 當天事當天畢 dàng tiān shì dàng tiān bì never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
开伙 開伙 kāi huǒ to start providing food / to open today's service in a canteen
大汶口文化 dà wèn kǒu wén huà Dawenkou culture (c. 4100-2600 BC), Neolithic culture based in today's Shandong area 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]
今日女童 jīn rì rǔ tóng "The Female Child Today"
今日联合国 今日聯合國 The United Nations Today
今日活跃公民 今日活躍公民 Active Citizenship Today
pǒu pooh / pah / bah / (today used as a phonetic component in 部[bu4], 倍[bei4], 培[pei2], 剖[pou1] etc)
奇门遁甲 奇門遁甲 qí mén dùn jiǎ ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
起点 起點 qǐ diǎn starting point
入手 rù shǒu to begin (with ...) (typically used in a structure such as 從|从[cong2] + {noun} + 入手[ru4 shou3]: "to begin with {noun} / to take {noun} as one's starting point") / to receive / to obtain / to buy syn
初始 chū shǐ initial / starting (point) syn
出发点 出發點 chū fā diǎn starting point / (fig.) basis / motive syn
基点 基點 jī diǎn base / centre / basis / point of departure / starting point / (finance) basis point syn
原点 原點 yuán diǎn starting point / square one / (coordinate geometry) origin
起价 起價 qǐ jià initial price (e.g. for the first kilometer) / prices starting from
起跑线 起跑線 qǐ pǎo xiàn the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race)
绿林 綠林 lù lín place in Hubei, the starting point for a major rebellion at the end of Western Han / also pr. [Lu:4 lin2] syn
抓手 zhuā shǒu starting point / mechanical hand / gripper syn
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group syn
大运河 大運河 dà yùn hé the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
标底 標底 biāo dǐ base number (of a tender) / starting price (for auction) syn
王建民 wáng jiàn mín Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball
京杭大运河 京杭大運河 jīng háng dà yùn hé the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
雅乐 雅樂 yǎ yuè formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou / Korean a'ak / Japanese gagaku
发令枪 發令槍 fā lìng qiāng starting pistol
横折 橫折 héng zhé (horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
竖折 豎折 shù zhé (downwards-starting right angle character stroke)
京杭运河 京杭運河 jīng háng yùn hé the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
光明节 光明節 guāng míng jié Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡
哈努卡 hā nǔ kǎ Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 光明節|光明节 and 哈努卡節|哈努卡节
哈努卡节 哈努卡節 hā nǔ kǎ jié Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on the Gregorian calendar)
太极图说 太極圖說 tài jí tú shuō philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤|周敦颐[Zhou1 Dun1 yi2], starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes
始点 始點 shǐ diǎn starting point / initial point
时断时续 時斷時續 shí duàn shí xù stopping and starting / intermittent / sporadic / on and off syn
肇端 zhào duān the starting point syn
起点线 起點線 qǐ diǎn xiàn starting line
金田村 jīn tián cūn Jintian village in Guiping county 桂平[Gui4 ping2], Gveigangj or Guigang prefecture 貴港|贵港[Gui4 gang3], Guangxi, starting point of the Taiping Tianguo 太平天國|太平天国[Tai4 ping2 Tian1 guo2] rebellion in 1851
原子能机构保障监督的起点 原子能機構保障監督的起點 starting point of IAEA safeguards
长揖 長揖 cháng yī to bow deeply, starting upright with arms straight out in front, one hand cupped in the other, then moving the hands down to one's knees as one bows, keeping the arms straight (a form of greeting)
不管白猫黑猫,捉住老鼠就是好猫 不管白貓黑貓,捉住老鼠就是好貓 bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black / as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
天问 天問 tiān wèn Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem
早早班 zǎo zǎo bān preschool group for kids aged three or less / (Tw) work shift starting around daybreak
先发投手 先發投手 xiān fā tóu shǒu (baseball) starting pitcher
起步价 起步價 qǐ bù jià starting price / base fare (for a taxi trip, construction project etc)
起薪 qǐ xīn starting salary
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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