"to encourage licentiousness" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 诲淫 誨淫 | to stir up lust / to promote sex / to encourage licentiousness |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 鼓励 鼓勵 | to encourage | syn | |
| 激励 激勵 | to encourage / to urge / motivation / incentive | syn | |
| 鼓舞 | to inspire / to encourage / to hearten / to boost (morale) | syn | |
| 打气 打氣 | to inflate / to pump up / (fig.) to encourage / to boost morale | syn | |
| 怂恿 慫恿 | to instigate / to incite / to urge / to encourage | syn | |
| 鼓动 鼓動 | to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral) / to encourage / to agitate / to instigate / to incite / to beat / to flap (wings, a fan etc) | syn | |
| 诱导 誘導 | to induce / to encourage / to provide guidance / (medicine, chemistry) to induce | syn | |
| 助长 助長 | to encourage / to foster / to foment | syn | |
| 鞭策 | to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress) | syn | |
| 助威 | to cheer for / to encourage / to boost the morale of | syn | |
| 推波助澜 推波助瀾 | to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom) / to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire | syn | |
| 勉励 勉勵 | to encourage | syn | |
| 拍马 拍馬 | to urge on a horse by patting its bottom / fig. to encourage / same as 拍馬屁|拍马屁, to flatter or toady | ||
| 自勉 | to encourage oneself | syn | |
| 砥砺 砥礪 | whetstone / (lit. and fig.) to hone / to sharpen / to encourage | syn | |
| 劝勉 勸勉 | to advise / to encourage | syn | |
| 鼓气 鼓氣 | to puff up / to swell up / to inflate / to blow air into sth / (fig.) to encourage / to support | ||
| 奖 獎 | prize / award / bonus / reward / (bound form) to encourage / to commend / to praise / to award / to give as a reward | syn | |
| 兴 興 | 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 | |
| 励 勵 | to encourage / to urge | syn | |
| 钊 釗 | to encourage / to cut / to strain | syn | |
| 劝善惩恶 勸善懲惡 | to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom) / fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you | ||
| 广开言路 廣開言路 | to encourage the free airing of views (idiom) | ||
| 聚众淫乱罪 聚眾淫亂罪 | group licentiousness (offense punishable by up to five years in prison in the PRC) | ||
| 互勉 | to encourage each other | ||
| 劝课 勸課 | to encourage and supervise (esp. state officials promoting agriculture) | ||
| 策励 策勵 | to encourage / to urge / to impel / to spur sb on | ||
| 规勉 規勉 | to advise and encourage | ||
| 诱掖 誘掖 | to help and encourage | ||
| 养廉 養廉 | to encourage honesty / to discourage corruption | ||
| 忞 | to encourage oneself | ||
| 偲偲 | (literary) to learn from and encourage each other |