"to fan oneself" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
麻烦 麻煩 má fan trouble / inconvenience / inconvenient / troublesome / annoying / to bother sb / to put sb to trouble syn
fǎn contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system syn
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself / people other than oneself syn
摆脱 擺脫 bǎi tuō to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself syn
粉丝 粉絲 fěn sī bean vermicelli / mung bean starch noodles / cellophane noodles / fan / enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans") syn
惹麻烦 惹麻煩 rě má fan to create difficulties / to be troublesome / to invite trouble syn
振作 zhèn zuò to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate syn
解脱 解脫 jiě tuō to untie / to free / to absolve of / to get free of / to extirpate oneself / (Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries syn
球迷 qiú mí fan (ball sports) / CL:個|个[ge4]
得意 dé yì proud of oneself / pleased with oneself / complacent syn
找麻烦 找麻煩 zhǎo má fan to look for trouble syn
爱好者 愛好者 ài hào zhě lover (of art, sports etc) / amateur / enthusiast / fan syn
歌迷 gē mí fan of a singer
反省 fǎn xǐng to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul syn
影迷 yǐng mí film enthusiast / movie fan / CL:個|个[ge4]
翻身 fān shēn to turn over (when lying) / (fig.) to free oneself / to emancipate oneself / to bring about a change of one's fortunes syn
风扇 fēng shàn electric fan syn
自个儿 自個兒 zì gě r (dialect) oneself / by oneself syn
自拔 zì bá to free oneself / to extricate oneself from a difficult situation syn
修行 xiū xíng to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism) / to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft syn
鼓动 鼓動 gǔ dòng 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
磨练 磨練 mó liàn to temper oneself / to steel oneself / self-discipline / endurance syn
卖身 賣身 mài shēn to prostitute oneself / to sell oneself into slavery syn
扇子 shàn zi fan / CL:把[ba3] syn
乐迷 樂迷 yuè mí music fan
追星族 zhuī xīng zú enthusiastic fan
自理 zì lǐ to take care of oneself / to provide for oneself
自封 zì fēng to proclaim oneself (sth) / to give oneself the title of / self-appointed / self-styled / to limit oneself to / to isolate oneself syn
硬着头皮 硬著頭皮 yìng zhe tóu pí to brace oneself to do sth / to put a bold face on it / to summon up courage / to force oneself to syn
自居 zì jū to consider oneself as / to believe oneself to be syn
扇动 扇動 shān dòng to fan / to flap / to incite / to instigate (a strike etc) syn
女犯 nǚ fàn female offender in imperial China (old)
自嘲 zì cháo to mock oneself / to laugh at oneself
电风扇 電風扇 diàn fēng shàn electric fan / CL:架[jia4],臺|台[tai2] syn
电扇 電扇 diàn shàn electric fan syn
同人 tóng rén people from the same workplace or profession / co-worker / colleague / pop culture enthusiasts who create fan fiction etc syn
吊扇 diào shàn a ceiling fan / a punka
现眼 現眼 xiàn yǎn to embarrass oneself / to make a fool of oneself syn
米粉 mǐ fěn rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan syn
风机 風機 fēng jī fan / ventilator
鉴赏家 鑒賞家 jiàn shǎng jiā connoisseur / appreciative person / fan
贻笑大方 貽笑大方 yí xiào dà fāng to make a fool of oneself / to make oneself a laughing stock syn
折扇 zhé shàn folding fan
蒲扇 pú shàn palm-leaf fan / cattail-leaf fan
自认 自認 zì rèn to believe (sth in relation to oneself) / to regard oneself as / to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself) / to resign oneself to
发烧友 發燒友 fā shāo yǒu fan / zealot syn
自己动手 自己動手 zì jǐ dòng shǒu to do (sth) oneself / to help oneself to
自作 zì zuò to act for oneself / to view oneself (as clever, virtuous, attractive)
范志毅 fàn zhì yì Fan Zhiyi (1969-), soccer player
自我安慰 zì wǒ ān wèi to comfort oneself / to console oneself / to reassure oneself
委身 wěi shēn to give oneself wholly to / to put oneself at sb's service / (of a woman) to give one's body to / to marry
后汉书 後漢書 hòu hàn shū History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔[Fan4 Ye4] in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4], 120 scrolls
范蠡 fàn lǐ Fan Li (536-488 BC), politician of Yue state, businessman and economist
范仲淹 fàn zhòng yān Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
桃花扇 táo huā shàn The Peach Blossom Fan, historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty by Kong Shangren 孔尚任[Kong3 Shang4 ren4]
团扇 團扇 tuán shàn circular fan syn
足球迷 zú qiú mí football fan
芭蕉扇 bā jiāo shàn palm-leaf fan syn
岳阳楼记 岳陽樓記 yuè yáng lóu jì On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4yan1]
蝉蜕 蟬蛻 chán tuì cicada slough / fig. to free oneself / to extricate oneself from syn
fàn to violate / to offend / to assault / criminal / crime / to make a mistake / recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) syn
tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to / to seek refuge / to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water syn
fàn cooked rice / CL:碗[wan3] / meal / CL:頓|顿[dun4] / (loanword) fan / devotee syn
fán to feel vexed / to bother / to trouble / superfluous and confusing / edgy syn
fān variant of 翻[fan1] syn
to bewilder / crazy about / fan / enthusiast / lost / confused syn
shān to fan / to slap sb on the face syn
shàn fan / sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth / classifier for doors, windows etc syn
fěn powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch / noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝[fen3si1]) / to be a fan of syn
fān (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort / (classifier) a kind / a sort / (classifier) (used after the verb 翻[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double") syn
fàn surname Fan syn
fán variant of 凡[fan2] syn
添麻烦 添麻煩 tiān má fan to cause trouble for sb / to inconvenience syn
fàn (bound form) general / non-specific / extensive / pan- / to flood / (literary) to float about / to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc) syn
fān to gallop / Taiwan pr. [fan2] / variant of 帆[fan1] syn
shān to fan into a flame / to incite syn
fǎn to return (to) syn
自找麻烦 自找麻煩 zì zhǎo má fan to ask for trouble / to invite difficulties syn
fàn to deal in / to buy and sell / to trade in / to retail / to peddle syn
fān fence / hedge / (literary) screen / barrier / vassal state / Taiwan pr. [fan2] syn
fàn abbr. for 梵教[Fan4 jiao4] Brahmanism / abbr. for Sanskrit 梵語|梵语[Fan4 yu3] or 梵文[Fan4 wen2] / abbr. for 梵蒂岡|梵蒂冈[Fan4 di4 gang1], the Vatican syn
fán complicated / many / in great numbers / abbr. for 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3], traditional form of Chinese characters syn
fān banner syn
fán luxuriant / flourishing / to reproduce / to proliferate
fān variant of 番[fan1] / foreign (non-Chinese)
fán (literary) fence
fán alum
fán vanadium (chemistry)
fán Artemisia stellariana
抽风机 抽風機 chōu fēng jī exhaust fan
fán burn / to roast meat for sacrifice syn
fàn field / farm syn
dào big banner / feather banner or fan
fàn model
fán paws of animal syn
自己 zì jǐ oneself / one's own syn
gān (bound form) to have to do with / to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield syn
xiān beforehand / first / earlier / at first / originally / for the time being / for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) syn
měi beautiful / very satisfactory / good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself syn
yuàn to distance oneself from (classical) syn
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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