本 běn (bound form) root / stem / (bound form) origin / source / (bound form) one's own / this / (bound form) this / the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally / initially / capital / principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc syn 手机 手機 shǒu jī cell phone / mobile phone / CL:部[bu4],支[zhi1] syn 出于 出於 chū yú due to / to stem from syn 细胞 細胞 xì bāo cell (biology) 牢房 láo fáng jail cell / prison cell syn 精子 jīng zǐ sperm cell / spermatozoon syn 小区 小區 xiǎo qū housing estate / community / neighborhood / (telecommunications) cell 套餐 tào cān set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) 出乎 chū hū due to / to stem from / to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc) / to go against (expectations) syn 多利 duō lì Dolly (1996-2003), female sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell 癌细胞 癌細胞 ái xì bāo cancer cell syn 囚室 qiú shì prison cell syn 下体 下體 xià tǐ lower body / euphemism for genitals / root and stem of plants syn 脑细胞 腦細胞 nǎo xì bāo brain cell 白细胞 白細胞 bái xì bāo white blood cell / leukocyte 红细胞 紅細胞 hóng xì bāo erythrocyte / red blood cell 铁窗 鐵窗 tiě chuāng window with an iron grating (apartment etc) / barred window of a prison cell syn 血细胞 血細胞 xuè xì bāo blood cell 号子 號子 hào zi work chant / prison cell / type / sort / mark / sign / signal / (Tw) brokerage firm syn 白血球 bái xuè qiú white blood cell / leukocyte 大哥大 dà gē dà cell phone (bulky, early-model one) / brick phone / mob boss syn 细胞核 細胞核 xì bāo hé nucleus (of cell) syn 枝条 枝條 zhī tiáo branch / twig / stem syn 红血球 紅血球 hóng xuè qiú erythrocyte / red blood cell 体细胞 體細胞 tǐ xì bāo somatic cell 细胞膜 細胞膜 xì bāo mó cell membrane 区位 區位 qū wèi geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used to specify a character in a CJK character set) 莴笋 萵筍 wō sǔn Chinese lettuce / celtuce / asparagus lettuce / celery lettuce / stem lettuce syn 细胞壁 細胞壁 xì bāo bì cell wall 单元格 單元格 dān yuán gé (spreadsheet) cell 燃料电池 燃料電池 rán liào diàn chí fuel cell 造血干细胞 造血幹細胞 zào xuè gàn xì bāo blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow) 太阳能电池 太陽能電池 tài yáng néng diàn chí solar cell 支原体 支原體 zhī yuán tǐ Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall) 光伏 guāng fú photovoltaic (e.g. cell) 细胞分裂 細胞分裂 xì bāo fēn liè cell division 菜心 cài xīn choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage 细胞生物学 細胞生物學 xì bāo shēng wù xué cell biology 茭白 jiāo bái Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot syn 脑干 腦幹 nǎo gàn brain stem 分蘖 分櫱 fēn niè tiller (stem at the base of grass plants) syn 细胞培养 細胞培養 xì bāo péi yǎng cell culture 块茎 塊莖 kuài jīng stem tuber 太阳电池 太陽電池 tài yáng diàn chí solar cell syn 花梗 huā gěng stem of flower syn 柯 kē (literary) branch / stem / stalk / (literary) ax handle syn 嗜 shì addicted to / fond of / stem corresponding to -phil or -phile syn 柄 bǐng handle or shaft (of an axe etc) / (of a flower, leaf or fruit) stem / sth that affords an advantage to an opponent / classifier for knives or blades syn 梗 gěng branch / stem / stalk / CL:根[gen1] / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) syn 茎 莖 jīng stalk / stem / CL:條|条[tiao2] syn 神经细胞 神經細胞 shén jīng xì bāo nerve cell / neuron syn 核仁 hé rén nucleolus (within nucleus of cell) 菰 gū Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1bai2sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus / (variant of 菇[gu1]) mushroom syn 秧 yāng sapling / seedling / sprout / (esp.) rice seedling / stem / stalk / vine / baby livestock / fry / (dialect) to raise / to cultivate (plants or animals) syn 二倍体 二倍體 èr bèi tǐ diploid (in cell biology) 莩 fú membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem / culm syn 蕻 hòng (literary) luxuriant / flourishing / (literary) bud / (dialect) long stem of certain vegetables 水牢 shuǐ láo prison cell containing water, in which prisoners are forced to be partly immersed syn 蔸 dōu root and lower stem of certain plants / classifier for pieces and clumps syn 投鞭断流 投鞭斷流 tóu biān duàn liú arms enough to stem the stream (idiom) / formidable army syn 固体高分子膜燃料电池车 固體高分子膜燃料電池車 proton exchange membrane fuel cell / polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell / PEM fuel cell / solid polymer fuel cell 间充质干细胞 間充質幹細胞 jiān chōng zhì gàn xì bāo mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology) 干细胞研究 幹細胞研究 gàn xì bāo yán jiū stem cell research 胚胎干细胞 胚胎幹細胞 pēi tāi gàn xì bāo embryonic stem cell 成体干细胞 成體幹細胞 adult stem cell 镰形血球贫血症 鐮形血球貧血症 lián xíng xuè qiú pín xuè zhèng sickle-cell anaemia / sickle-cell disease 性细胞 性細胞 xìng xì bāo sexual cell / germline cell / gamete 生殖细胞 生殖細胞 shēng zhí xì bāo germ cell / reproductive cell 破壁 pò bì dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption 许旺细胞 許旺細胞 xǔ wàng xì bāo Schwann cell (support axon of nerve cell) / neurolemmocyte CD4 T淋巴细胞 CD4 T淋巴細胞 cd tlìn bā xì bāo CD4+ T lymphocyte / CD4+ T-cell / CD4 cell 空中作业小组 空中作業小組 air operations cell / air cell 词干启动 詞幹啟動 cí gàn qǐ dòng stem priming 蔕 dì stem (of fruit) 字根合体字 字根合體字 zì gēn hé tǐ zì stem compound 仔姜 仔薑 zǐ jiāng stem ginger 蘖枝 櫱枝 niè zhī branch stem syn 砧木 zhēn mù rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted) 秧子 yāng zi sapling / seedling / sprout / (esp.) rice seedling / stem / stalk / vine / baby livestock / fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person syn 缠绕茎 纏繞莖 chán rào jīng vine / twining stem 腋生 yè shēng axillary (botany) / budding in the angle between branch and stem 茎干 莖干 jīng gān stem / stalk 菌托 jūn tuō volva (bag containing spores on stem of fungi) 词干 詞幹 cí gàn word stem (in linguistics) 长柄 長柄 cháng bǐng long handle / stem 阀芯 閥芯 fá xīn valve stem 大插枝 dài chā zhī large stem cuttings / truncheons 大插条 大插條 dài chā tiáo large stem cuttings / truncheons 何出此言 hé chū cǐ yán where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing? 矮茎朱砂根 矮莖朱砂根 ǎi jīng zhū shā gēn short-stem Ardisia (Ardisia brevicaulis) 灯草 燈草 dēng cǎo the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps 菌柄 jùn bǐng mushroom stem 芦柴棒 蘆柴棒 lú chái bàng reed stem / (fig.) extremely skinny person 黀 zōu hemp stem 美人腿 měi rén tuǐ (Tw) (coll.) edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo 茭白笋 茭白筍 jiāo bái sǔn edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo 丁是丁，卯是卯 dīng shì dīng , mǎo shì mǎo lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous 把立 bǎ lì stem (bicycle component) 茎干 莖幹 jīng gàn stem / stalk 