追踪 追蹤 zhuī zōng to track / to trace / to follow up / (HK, Tw) to follow (on social media) syn 开会 開會 kāi huì to hold a meeting / to attend a meeting 追查 zhuī chá to try to find out / to trace / to track down 线路 線路 xiàn lù (electricity) line / circuit / wire / (traffic) road / track / route syn 轨道 軌道 guǐ dào track (for trains etc) / orbit (of a satellite) / (fig.) a person's established path in life / desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor) / (audio engineering) track / (quantum mechanics) orbital syn 行踪 行蹤 xíng zōng whereabouts / (lose) track (of) syn 追寻 追尋 zhuī xún to pursue / to track down / to search syn 跑道 pǎo dào athletic track / track / runway (i.e. airstrip) 正轨 正軌 zhèng guǐ the right track syn 大桥 大橋 dà qiáo Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], the two great beauties of ancient China syn 足迹 足跡 zú jì footprint / track / spoor syn 铁轨 鐵軌 tiě guǐ rail / railroad track / CL:根[gen1] syn 搜捕 sōu bǔ to hunt and arrest (fugitives) / to track down and arrest / a manhunt syn 轨迹 軌跡 guǐ jì locus / orbit / trajectory / track syn 两码事 兩碼事 liǎng mǎ shì two things that are fundamentally different from each other / two very different things syn 蛛丝马迹 蛛絲馬跡 zhū sī mǎ jì lit. spider's thread and horse track / tiny hints (of a secret) / traces / clue syn 田径 田徑 tián jìng track and field (athletics) 赛马场 賽馬場 sài mǎ chǎng race course / race ground / race track 空隙 kòng xì crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events syn 两回事 兩回事 liǎng huí shì two quite different things / two unrelated matters syn 铁道 鐵道 tiě dào railway line / rail track 老路 lǎo lù old road / familiar way / beaten track / conventional behavior syn 顺藤摸瓜 順藤摸瓜 shùn téng mō guā lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon / to track sth following clues syn 越轨 越軌 yuè guǐ to run off the track / to step out of line / to overstep the bounds of propriety syn 夹击 夾擊 jiā jī pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks syn 劣迹 劣跡 liè jì bad record (esp. of a public official) / unsavory track record syn 双管齐下 雙管齊下 shuāng guǎn qí xià lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom) / fig. to work on two tasks at the same time / to attack one problem from two angles at the same time syn 脱轨 脫軌 tuō guǐ to leave the rails / to derail / to jump the track 一举两得 一舉兩得 yī jǔ liǎng dé one move, two gains (idiom) / two birds with one stone syn 声道 聲道 shēng dào sound track / audio channel 侦缉 偵緝 zhēn jī to track down / to investigate and arrest syn 查获 查獲 chá huò to track down and seize (a criminal suspect, contraband etc) syn 两手 兩手 liǎng shǒu one's two hands / two prongs (of a strategy) / both aspects, eventualities etc / skills / expertise syn 车辙 車轍 chē zhé wheel rut / vehicle track syn 夹攻 夾攻 jiā gōng attack from two sides / pincer movement / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks syn 拉锯 拉鋸 lā jù a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides 熟路 shú lù familiar road / beaten track 双轨 雙軌 shuāng guǐ double-track / parallel tracks / dual-track (system) 政绩 政績 zhèng jì (political) achievements / track record 履带 履帶 lǚ dài caterpillar track (propulsion system used on bulldozers etc) / (literary) shoes and belt syn 田径赛 田徑賽 tián jìng sài track and field competition 二次 èr cì second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two) 主打 zhǔ dǎ principal / main / flagship (product) / title (track) / to specialize in / to take as one's priority / to primarily focus on 小桥 小橋 xiǎo qiáo Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], the two great beauties of ancient China 音轨 音軌 yīn guǐ sound track / track number (e.g. on a CD) 对头 對頭 duì tóu correct / normal / to be on good terms with / on the right track / right syn 转轨 轉軌 zhuǎn guǐ to change track 轮距 輪距 lún jù tread (the distance between the two front – or two rear – wheels of a vehicle) 一箭双雕 一箭雙鵰 yī jiàn shuāng diāo lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone syn 终身制 終身制 career track 双轨制 雙軌制 dual-track system 复线 複線 fù xiàn multiple track (e.g. rail) / multilane (e.g. highway) / (math.) complex line 塑胶跑道 塑膠跑道 sù jiāo pǎo dào synthetic athletics track / tartan track 上轨道 上軌道 shàng guǐ dào to stay on track / to proceed smoothly syn 铺轨 鋪軌 pū guǐ to lay railway track 马俊仁 馬俊仁 mǎ jùn rén Ma Junren (1944-), Chinese track coach 脚踏两条船 腳踏兩條船 jiǎo tà liǎng tiáo chuán lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom) / fig. to have it both ways / to run after two hares / (especially) to have two lovers at the same time 路轨 路軌 lù guǐ track (railroad, streetcar etc) 轨 軌 guǐ (bound form) rail / track / course / path syn 径 徑 jìng footpath / track / diameter / straight / directly syn 辙 轍 zhé rut / track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]) / (coll.) the direction of traffic / a rhyme (of a song, poem etc) / (dialect) (usu. after 有[you3] or 沒|没[mei2]) way / idea syn 径赛 徑賽 jìng sài track events (athletics competition) 四体 四體 sì tǐ one's four limbs / two arms and two legs 六书 六書 liù shū Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲|形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注|转注 (transfer) 超拔 chāo bá outstanding / to fast-track / to elevate / to free oneself from 合辙 合轍 hé zhé on the same track / in agreement / rhyming syn 疃 tuǎn village / animal track 蹟 jì variant of 跡|迹, track / trace / footprint 好 hǎo good / appropriate / proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello syn 来 來 lái to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2lai5]) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4gu3 yi3lai2]) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ... / the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2shi4]) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2de5lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1bu5lai2]) syn 点 點 diǎn point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更[geng1] / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items syn 下 xià down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action syn 两 兩 liǎng two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old) syn 更 gēng to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) syn 房子 fáng zi house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1] syn 第二 dì èr second / number two / next / secondary syn 间 間 jiān between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms syn 二 èr two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid syn 感情 gǎn qíng emotion / sentiment / affection / feelings between two persons syn 切 qiè definitely / absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right. / Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters) syn 两者 兩者 liǎng zhě both of them / the two of them syn 回合 huí hé one of a sequence of contests (or subdivisions of a contest) between the same two opponents / round (boxing etc) / rally (tennis etc) / frame (billiards etc) / inning / (tennis, soccer etc) rubber or leg / round (of negotiations) syn 一无所有 一無所有 yī wú suǒ yǒu not having anything at all (idiom) / utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together syn 宁可 寧可 nìng kě preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils syn 两千 兩千 liǎng qiān two thousand 个别 個別 gè bié individually / one by one / just one or two / exceptional / rare syn 双人 雙人 shuāng rén two-person / double / pair / tandem 大号 大號 dà hào tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate syn 双面 雙面 shuāng miàn double-sided / two-faced / double-edged / reversible syn 时分 時分 shí fēn time / period during the day / one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支 syn 两百 兩百 liǎng bǎi two hundred 及其 jí qí (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ... / and their ... / and his ... / and her ... syn 时段 時段 shí duàn time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day syn 双臂 雙臂 shuāng bì arms / both arms / two arms syn 通用 tōng yòng to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable 相提并论 相提並論 xiāng tí bìng lùn to discuss two disparate things together (idiom) / to mention on equal terms / to place on a par with / (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y) syn 间隔 間隔 jiàn gé gap / interval / compartment / to divide / to separate / to leave a gap of (two weeks, three meters etc) syn 西门 西門 xī mén two-character surname Ximen 一二 yī èr one or two / a few / a little / just a bit syn 交接 jiāo jiē (of two things) to come into contact / to meet / to hand over to / to take over from / to associate with / to have friendly relations with / to have sexual intercourse syn 