"steam whistle" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 汽笛 | steam whistle / ship horn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 口哨 | whistle | syn | |
| 蒸汽 | steam | syn | |
| 喷气 噴氣 | to spurt steam (or air etc) | syn | |
| 哨子 | whistle | syn | |
| 热气 熱氣 | steam / heat / CL:股[gu3] | syn | |
| 呼啸 呼嘯 | to whistle / to scream / to whiz | syn | |
| 鸣笛 鳴笛 | to hoot / to whistle | syn | |
| 蒸气 蒸氣 | vapor / steam | syn | |
| 汽缸 | cylinder (of steam engine or internal combustion engine) | ||
| 鸣叫 鳴叫 | to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound | syn | |
| 熏蒸 燻蒸 | (of sultry weather) to be stifling / (TCM) to treat a disease with fumes generated by burning medicinal herbs or with steam generated by boiling herbs / to fumigate | syn | |
| 回笼 回籠 | to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation | syn | |
| 水汽 | water vapor / steam / moisture | syn | |
| 蒸汽机 蒸汽機 | steam engine | syn | |
| 汽轮机 汽輪機 | steam turbine | syn | |
| 司炉 司爐 | stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine) | syn | |
| 水气 水氣 | water vapor / steam | ||
| 吐气 吐氣 | to exhale / to blow off steam / (phonetics) aspirated | ||
| 吹口哨 | to whistle | syn | |
| 万马奔腾 萬馬奔騰 | lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead | syn | |
| 吹哨 | to blow a whistle / to whistle | ||
| 蒸 | to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) | syn | |
| 哨 | a whistle / sentry | syn | |
| 汽 | steam / vapor | syn | |
| 咝 噝 | (onom.) to hiss / to whistle / to whiz / to fizz | syn | |
| 馏 餾 | to steam / to cook in a steamer / to reheat cold food by steaming it | syn | |
| 啸 嘯 | (of people) to whistle / (of birds and animals) to screech / to howl / to roar | syn | |
| 笳 | whistle made of reed | ||
| 汽轮发电机 汽輪發電機 | steam turbine electric generator | ||
| 液态水 液態水 | liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice) | ||
| 唿 | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / (onom.) for the sound of the wind | ||
| 哨笛 | a whistle | ||
| 唿哨 | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨 | ||
| 忽哨 | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨 | ||
| 揭黑 | to uncover (mistakes, corruption etc) / whistle-blowing | ||
| 白费唇舌 白費唇舌 | to whistle down the wind / to waste one's breath (idiom) | ||
| 呼啸而过 呼嘯而過 | to whistle past / to hurtle past / to zip by | ||
| 嚱 | (sigh) / (whistle) | ||
| 暗哨儿 暗哨兒 | whistle given as a secret signal | ||
| 歊 | vapor / steam | ||
| 伴热 伴熱 | electric heat tracing / steam tracing (for maintaining the temperature of pipes etc) | ||
| 水汀 | steam (Shanghainese) | ||
| 汽阀 汽閥 | steam valve | ||
| 焗 | (dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake | ||
| 蒸气重整 蒸氣重整 | steam reforming (chemistry) | ||
| 蒸汽机车 蒸汽機車 | steam locomotive | ||
| 锅驼机 鍋駝機 | portable steam engine | ||
| 蒸汽炮 | steam-gun / Vaporchoc | ||
| 短焰煤 | steam coal | ||
| 锅炉煤 | steam coal | ||
| 饙 | to steam rice | ||
| 水波炉 水波爐 | superheated steam oven | ||
| 失去后劲 失去後勁 | to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam |