行 xíng to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense syn 行 xìng behavior / conduct syn 性 xìng nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 旅行 lǚ xíng to travel / journey / trip / CL:趟[tang4],次[ci4] syn 女性 nǚ xìng woman / the female sex syn 形 xíng to appear / to look / form / shape syn 星星 xīng xing (coll.) a star / the stars in the sky syn 情形 qíng xing circumstances / situation / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 履行 lǚ xíng to fulfill (one's obligations) / to carry out (a task) / to implement (an agreement) / to perform syn 猩猩 xīng xing orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin syn 大猩猩 dà xīng xing gorilla 记性 記性 jì xing memory (ability to retain information) syn 德行 dé xing variant of 德性[de2 xing5] syn 黑猩猩 hēi xīng xing common chimpanzee 女星 nǚ xīng female star / famous actress syn 贵姓 貴姓 guì xìng what is your surname? / (May I ask) your surname? syn 规律性 規律性 guī lǜ xìng regular 德性 dé xing (coll.) revolting behavior / CL:副[fu4] syn 黄兴 黃興 huáng xīng Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], murdered in Shanghai in 1916 醒 xǐng to wake up / to be awake / to become aware / to sober up / to come to syn 星 xīng star / heavenly body / satellite / small amount syn 型 xíng mold / type / style / model syn 省 xǐng (bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders) syn 姓 xìng family name / surname / to be surnamed ... syn 幸 xìng fortunate / lucky syn 朴 piáo surname Piao / Korean surname (Park, Pak or Bak) / also pr. [Pu2] syn 刑 xíng punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment syn 兴 興 xīng to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect) syn 兴 興 xìng feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement syn 杏 xìng apricot / (bound form) almond syn 腥 xīng fishy (smell) syn 惺 xīng (literary) to come to one's senses / to awaken / (literary) astute / sharp-witted 擤 xǐng to blow (one's nose) syn 星星之火 xīng xing zhī huǒ a single spark (idiom) / an insignificant cause can have a massive effect syn 猩 xīng ape syn 织女星 織女星 zhī nǚ xīng Vega, brightest star in constellation Lyra 天琴星座 syn 灵渠 靈渠 líng qú Lingqu, canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安[Xing1 an1], Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the Yangtze 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1] to the Pearl River 珠江[Zhu1 jiang1] 刑名 xíng míng xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4hai4] / the designation for a punishment syn 汉姓 漢姓 hàn xìng a Han family name (surname) / (esp.) a Han surname adopted by a person of another ethnic group 悻 xìng angry 硎 xíng whetstone syn 饧 餳 xíng maltose syrup / molasses / heavy (eyelids) / drowsy-eyed / listless / (of dough, candy etc) to soften / to become soft and sticky syn 荥 滎 xíng used in 滎陽|荥阳[Xing2yang2] 陉 陘 xíng border the stove / defile / pass 荇 xìng yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) 那 nā surname Na syn 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 区 區 ōu surname Ou 单 單 shàn surname Shan syn 某人 mǒu rén someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname) syn 华 華 huà Mount Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi / surname Hua syn 姓名 xìng míng surname and given name / full name syn 巴尔的摩 巴爾的摩 bā ěr dì mó Baltimore (place name, surname etc) 尼克松 ní kè sōng Richard Nixon (1913-1994), US president 1969-1974 / surname Nixon 西门 西門 xī mén two-character surname Ximen 中村 zhōng cūn Nakamura (Japanese surname) 海德 hǎi dé Hyde (surname) 山下 shān xià Yamashita (Japanese surname) syn 波罗 波羅 bō luó Polo (car made by Volkswagen) / surname Polo 铃木 鈴木 líng mù Suzuki (Japanese surname) 布尔 布爾 bù ěr Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean 田中 tián zhōng Tianzhong Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1hua4 Xian4], Taiwan / Tanaka (Japanese surname) 山本 shān běn Yamamoto (Japanese surname) 井上 jǐng shàng Inoue (Japanese surname, pr. "ee-no-oo-ay") 山田 shān tián Yamada (Japanese surname) 莱特 萊特 lái tè Wright (surname) 考克斯 kǎo kè sī Cox (surname) 惠特曼 huì tè màn Whitman (surname) / Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet and journalist 班克斯 bān kè sī Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist) 强生 強生 qiáng shēng Johnson (surname) / Johnson & Johnson (company) 老总 老總 lǎo zǒng boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer syn 小林 xiǎo lín Kobayashi (Japanese surname) 施密特 shī mì tè Schmidt or Schmitt (surname) 和田 hé tián see 和田地區|和田地区[He2tian2 Di4qu1] / Wada (Japanese surname and place name) 高桥 高橋 gāo qiáo Takahashi (Japanese surname) 南宫 南宮 nán gōng two-character surname Nangong / Nangong, county-level city in Xingtai 邢台[Xing2tai2], Hebei 大和 dà hé Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc 松本 鬆本 sōng běn Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name) 伊藤 yī téng Itō or Itoh, Japanese surname / Ito-Yokado (supermarket) (abbr. for 伊藤洋華堂|伊藤洋华堂[Yi1teng2 Yang2hua2tang2]) 邱吉尔 邱吉爾 qiū jí ěr Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill 渡边 渡邊 dù biān Watanabe (Japanese surname) 吉田 jí tián Yoshida (Japanese surname and place name) 独孤 獨孤 dú gū two-character surname Dugu 诸葛 諸葛 zhū gě two-character surname Zhuge / Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2] 桥本 橋本 qiáo běn Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name) 司马 司馬 sī mǎ Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima 夏侯 xià hóu two-character surname Xiahou 弗格森 fú gé sēn Ferguson (surname) 木村 mù cūn Kimura (Japanese surname) 博世 bó shì Bosch (surname) / Bosch, German technology company 轩辕 軒轅 xuān yuán two-character surname Xuanyuan syn 平野 píng yě Hirano (Japanese surname) 藤森 téng sēn Fujimori (Japanese surname) / Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori (1938-), president of Peru 1990-2000 复姓 複姓 fù xìng two-character surname (such as 司馬|司马[Si1ma3] or 諸葛|诸葛[Zhu1ge3]) syn 东郭 東郭 dōng guō two-character surname Dongguo 欧阳 歐陽 ōu yáng two-character surname Ouyang 慕容 mù róng a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑[Xian1bei1] nomadic people / two-character surname Murong 公孙 公孫 gōng sūn two-character surname Gongsun 金子 jīn zǐ Kaneko (Japanese surname) syn 