"the eve" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
前夜 qián yè the eve / the night before syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
夏娃 xià wá Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1})
前夕 qián xī eve / the day before syn
除夕 chú xī lunar New Year's Eve syn
压岁钱 壓歲錢 yā suì qián money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
临战 臨戰 lín zhàn just before the contest / on the eve of war
年夜饭 年夜飯 nián yè fàn New Year's Eve family dinner
大年三十 dà nián sān shí last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
守岁 守歲 shǒu suì to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
小年夜 xiǎo nián yè (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
平安夜 píng ān yè Silent Night (Christmas carol) / Christmas Eve
团年 團年 tuán nián (of a family) to come together at lunar New Year's Eve / family reunion at New Year's
小除夕 xiǎo chú xī the day before New Year's Eve
年三十 nián sān shí last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
年夜 nián yè lunar New Year's Eve syn
新年前夕 xīn nián qián xī New Year's eve
圣诞前夕 聖誕前夕 shèng dàn qián xī Christmas eve
万圣节前夕 萬聖節前夕 wàn shèng jié qián xī All Saints' Eve / Halloween
21世纪前夕的人口教育行动框架 21世紀前夕的人口教育行動框架 Action Framework for Population Education on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century
伊芙 yī fú Eve (name)
厄娃 è wá Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Catholic versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh)
围炉 圍爐 wéi lú to gather around the stove / (Tw) to come together for a family dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve
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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