"the setting sun" Chinese-English Dictionary

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夕阳 夕陽 xī yáng sunset / the setting sun syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
中山大学 中山大學 zhōng shān dà xué Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists
落日 luò rì setting sun syn
斜阳 斜陽 xié yáng setting sun syn
夕照 xī zhào glow of the setting sun syn
回光反照 huí guāng fǎn zhào final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
回光返照 huí guāng fǎn zhào final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
东兔西乌 東兔西烏 dōng tù xī wū lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time
余光 餘光 yú guāng (out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
崦嵫 yān zī (old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth
朝阳 朝陽 cháo yáng to be exposed to the sun / in a position facing the sun syn
孙子 孫子 sūn zǐ Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1] syn
向阳 向陽 xiàng yáng facing the sun / exposed to the sun syn
晒太阳 曬太陽 shài tài yáng to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it)
宋庆龄 宋慶齡 sòng qìng líng Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1], influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
暴晒 暴曬 bào shài (of the sun) to scorch / to expose to a scorching sun
孙武 孫武 sūn wǔ Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
孙大圣 孫大聖 sūn dà shèng Great-Sage Sun / Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空[Sun1 Wu4 kong1]
shài (of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to syn
xuān light of the sun / to dry in the sun
太阳窗 太陽窗 tài yáng chuāng sun window / sun roof (of car)
孙悦 孫悅 sūn yuè Sun Yue (1973-), PRC female pop star / Sun Yue (1985-), PRC basketball star
孙武子 孫武子 sūn wǔ zǐ Sun Wu, famous general, strategist and Legalist philosopher, contemporary with Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC), author of "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3]
金乌 金烏 jīn wū Golden Crow / the sun / the three-legged golden crow that lives in the sun
国际宁静太阳年 國際宁靜太陽年 guó jì níng jìng tài yáng nián International Year of the Quiet Sun / International Quiet Sun year
设定 設定 shè dìng to set / to set up / to install / setting / preferences
默认 默認 mò rèn to agree tacitly / tacit approval / default (setting)
场景 場景 chǎng jǐng scene / scenario / situation / setting syn
场合 場合 chǎng hé situation / occasion / context / setting / location / venue syn
情境 qíng jìng situation / context / setting / environment syn
背景音乐 背景音樂 bèi jǐng yīn yuè background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
缺省 quē shěng default (setting)
先进集体 先進集體 xiān jìn jí tǐ (official accolade) pace-setting team / exemplary group
掩映 yǎn yìng hidden from view / alternately hidden and visible / setting off each other syn
德治 dé zhì rule by virtue / rule by setting virtuous example (Confucian ideal)
横排 héng pái horizontal setting (printing) syn
课间操 課間操 kè jiān cāo setting-up exercises during the break (between classes)
招股书 招股書 zhāo gǔ shū prospectus (setting out a share offer)
(arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war
问罪之师 問罪之師 wèn zuì zhī shī punitive force / a person setting out to deliver severe reproach
挡位 擋位 dǎng wèi (in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan, cooker etc) setting / mode
九份 jiǔ fèn Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies
制定标准 制定標準 zhì dìng biāo zhǔn standard-setting
确定目标 确定目標 què dìng mù biāo target-setting
采伐单元 采伐單元 cutting unit / setting
构造背景 gòu zào bèi jǐng tectonic setting
初始组 初始組 setting-out party
收入补助 收入補助 off-setting income support
规范和标准制定措施 規範和標準制定措施 norm- and standard-setting measures
制定国家残疾人政策 -行动议程国际会议 制定國家殘疾人政策 -行動議程國際會議 International Conference on Setting National Disability Policies - An Agenda for Action
初始通道 setting-out lane
碰瓷 pèng cí (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car)
孤男寡女 gū nán guǎ nǚ a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
直排 zhí pái vertical setting (printing)
择日不如撞日 擇日不如撞日 zé rì bù rú zhuàng rì lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
太阳 太陽 tài yang sun / CL:個|个[ge4] / abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴[tai4 yang2 xue2] syn
朝阳 朝陽 zhāo yáng the morning sun syn
转头 轉頭 zhuàn tóu nutation (plants turning to face the sun) syn
下山 xià shān to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set
日月 rì yuè the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood syn
上山 shàng shān to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
六合 liù hé the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) / the whole country / the universe / everything under the sun syn
出没 出沒 chū mò to come and go / to roam about (mostly unseen) / (of a ghost) to haunt (a place) / (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets) / (of the sun) to rise and set
悟空 wù kōng Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 You2 Ji4]
烈日 liè rì scorching sun syn
晨曦 chén xī first rays of morning sun / first glimmer of dawn syn
孙中山 孫中山 sūn zhōng shān Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党 / same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙
海阔天空 海闊天空 hǎi kuò tiān kōng wide sea and sky (idiom) / boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun syn
骄阳 驕陽 jiāo yáng blazing sun syn
天窗 tiān chuāng hatchway / skylight / sun roof
旭日 xù rì the rising sun syn
五颜六色 五顏六色 wǔ yán liù sè multicolored / every color under the sun syn
谈天说地 談天說地 tán tiān shuō dì to talk endlessly / to talk about everything under the sun syn
白日 bái rì daytime / sun / time syn
东吴 東吳 dōng wú Eastern Wu (222-280) / the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权
民族主义 民族主義 mín zú zhǔ yì nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism
孙权 孫權 sūn quán Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴[Wu2] in the Three Kingdoms period
阳光明媚 陽光明媚 yáng guāng míng mèi the sun shines brightly (idiom)
炙热 炙熱 zhì rè extremely hot (weather) / blazing (sun) / (fig.) burning (enthusiasm)
太阳神 太陽神 tài yáng shén Sun God / Apollo
俱全 jù quán every kind / every variety under the sun / a complete gamut syn
朝日 zhāo rì morning sun syn
晒干 曬乾 shài gān to dry in the sun
如日中天 rú rì zhōng tiān lit. like the sun at noon (idiom) / fig. to be at the peak of one's power, career etc syn
夕阳西下 夕陽西下 xī yáng xī xià the sun sets in the west (idiom) syn
吴国 吳國 wú guó Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods) / Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 the southernmost of the three Kingdoms
中山公园 中山公園 zhōng shān gōng yuán Zhongshan Park, the name of numerous parks in China, honoring Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1]
遮阳 遮陽 zhē yáng to shield from the sun
齐天大圣 齊天大聖 qí tiān dà shèng Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空[Sun1 Wu4 kong1] in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]
海内 海內 hǎi nèi the whole world / throughout the land / everything under the sun syn
风和日丽 風和日麗 fēng hé rì lì moderate wind, beautiful sun (idiom) / fine sunny weather, esp. in springtime syn
太阳报 太陽報 tài yáng bào The Sun (the name of various newspapers, notably in the UK and in Hong Kong)
初升 chū shēng rising (sun, moon etc)
日头 日頭 rì tóu sun (dialect) / daytime / date syn
同盟会 同盟會 tóng méng huì Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912
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
紫金山 zǐ jīn shān Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum
sun / day / date, day of the month syn
国父 國父 guó fù father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
日月潭 rì yuè tán Sun Moon Lake in Nantou County, Taiwan
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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