"to scold mildly" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 下毛毛雨 | to drizzle / to rain lightly / (fig.) (coll.) to give (sb) a heads-up / to break (some bad news) gently / to scold mildly |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 难 難 | disaster / distress / to scold | syn | |
| 克 剋 | to scold / to beat | syn | |
| 责骂 責罵 | to scold | syn | |
| 数落 數落 | to enumerate sb's shortcomings / to criticize / to scold / to talk on and on | syn | |
| 打骂 打罵 | to beat and scold | ||
| 斥骂 斥罵 | to scold | syn | |
| 骂人 罵人 | to swear or curse (at people) / to scold or yell at someone | ||
| 指桑骂槐 指桑罵槐 | lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree / fig. to scold sb indirectly / to make oblique accusations (idiom) | syn | |
| 哈 | a Pekinese / a pug / (dialect) to scold | syn | |
| 熊 | bear / (coll.) to scold / to rebuke / (coll.) weak / incapable | syn | |
| 喽 嘍 | (final particle equivalent to 了[le5]) / (particle calling attention to, or mildly warning of, a situation) | syn | |
| 呵 | (bound form) to scold / to expel breath / (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated) / interjection of surprise | syn | |
| 呛 嗆 | to irritate the nose / to choke (of smoke, smell etc) / pungent / (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb / to scold / to speak out against sb | syn | |
| 擂 | to pound (with a mortar and pestle) / to hit (a person) / to beat (a drum) / to bang on (a door) / (dialect) to scold | syn | |
| 噌 | to scold / whoosh! | syn | |
| 叱 | to scold / shout at / to hoot at | syn | |
| 噘 | to pout / (dialect) to scold | ||
| 诃 訶 | to scold | ||
| 詈 | to curse / to scold | syn | |
| 呲 | (coll.) to scold / to rebuke | syn | |
| 嬉笑怒骂 嬉笑怒罵 | lit. laughs, jeers, anger and invective (idiom) / fig. all kinds of emotions / to mock and scold / (of writing) freely roving / following the author's fancy | ||
| 微辣 | mildly spicy | ||
| 香蕉人 | banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance | ||
| 嗃 | scold with severity | ||
| 傌 | to curse, to revile, to abuse / to scold | ||
| 侮骂 侮罵 | to scold / to abuse | ||
| 嗔斥 | to rebuke / to scold | ||
| 严斥 嚴斥 | to scold / to censure | ||
| 骂不绝口 罵不絕口 | to scold without end (idiom) / incessant abuse | ||
| 滥骂 濫罵 | scurrilous / to scold indiscriminately | ||
| 詈骂 詈罵 | (literary) to scold / to abuse | ||
| 剋 | to scold / to beat | ||
| 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子罵娘 | lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom) / fig. to complain despite being privileged / to be ungrateful for what one has been given |