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"wood" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
木材 mù cái wood syn
木杆 木桿 mù gān wooden pole / wood (golf club)
木 mù (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
理 lǐ texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up syn
木头 木頭 mù tou slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1] syn
丁丁 zhēng zhēng sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc syn
油桐 yóu tóng Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii) syn
鸡翅木 雞翅木 jī chì mù wenge or wengue (type of wood)
签 籤 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag syn
五行 wǔ xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 syn
纹理 紋理 wén lǐ vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
塑像 sù xiàng to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process syn
甲醇 jiǎ chún methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
红木 紅木 hóng mù red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
木耳 mù ěr wood ear / jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:朵[duo3] syn
纹路 紋路 wén lù veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
篱笆 籬笆 lí ba fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) syn
竹木 zhú mù bamboo and wood
茯苓 fú líng Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus) / fu ling / tuckahoe
朽木 xiǔ mù rotten wood syn
伐木 fá mù to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering syn
松木 sōng mù pine wood / deal / larch
木屑 mù xiè wood shavings / sawdust syn
蛀虫 蛀蟲 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin syn
劈柴 pǐ chái chopped wood / firewood
苏木 蘇木 sū mù sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
砍树 砍樹 kǎn shù to chop wood / to chop down trees
木片 mù piàn flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL:塊|块[kuai4],片[pian4]
八音 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn
桐油 tóng yóu tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
灌木林 guàn mù lín shrubbery / low wood
刨花 bào huā wood shavings
盲人摸象 máng rén mō xiàng blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees syn
硅化木 guī huà mù petrified wood (geology)
形成层 形成層 xíng chéng céng vascular cambium (layer of tissue responsible for growth inside wood)
边材 邊材 biān cái sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
纹 紋 wén line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc) syn
炭 tàn wood charcoal / coal syn
栈 棧 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack syn
札 zhá thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague syn
樵 qiáo firewood / gather wood syn
梓 zǐ Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks syn
镌 鐫 juān to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe syn
蠡 lǐ wood-boring insect syn
槁 gǎo dried up (wood) / dead tree
槎 chá a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew syn
巽 xùn to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
锼 鎪 sōu to engrave (metal of wood) syn
桄 guàng woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
一叶障目 一葉障目 yī yè zhàng mù lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees syn
只见树木不见森林 只見樹木不見森林 zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín unable to see the wood for the trees / fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture
土木形骸 tǔ mù xíng hái earth and wood framework (idiom) / plain and undecorated body
木人石心 mù rén shí xīn lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless syn
烈火干柴 烈火乾柴 liè huǒ gān chái lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom) / inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
众盲摸象 眾盲摸象 zhòng máng mō xiàng multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
鎸 juān variant of 鐫|镌, to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
榫眼 sǔn yǎn mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) syn
丬 爿 qiáng "piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]
爿 pán classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)
木醇 mù chún wood alcohol / wood spirit / methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / same as 甲醇[jia3 chun2]
树化玉 樹化玉 shù huà yù wood jade (type of petrified wood)
木精 mù jīng methanol / methyl alcohol / wood alcohol / wood spirit
亚马孙破布木 亞馬孫破布木 cordia wood / jenny wood
黑林鸽 黑林鴿 hēi lín gē (bird species of China) black wood pigeon / Japanese wood pigeon (Columba janthina)
柮 duò wood scraps
榾 gǔ scraps of wood
檮 táo blockhead / wood-block
樿 zhǎn (wood)
斲 zhuó chop / carve wood
棻 fēn aromatic wood / perfume / fragrance
彔 lù to carve wood
槢 xí a hard wood
枟 yùn wood streaks
丫杈 yā chà fork (of a tree) / tool made of forked wood syn
土木身 tǔ mù shēn one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)
拼板玩具 pīn bǎn wán jù jigsaw puzzle / wood block puzzle
拼板游戏 拼板遊戲 pīn bǎn yóu xì jigsaw puzzle / wood block puzzle
木椆 mù zhòu type of wood used to make punting poles for boats (old)
木蠹 mù dù wood moth / carpenter moth / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
木蠹蛾 mù dù é wood moth / carpenter moth / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
梧桐木 wú tóng mù Paulownia wood used for musical instruments
栈车 棧車 zhàn chē ancient vehicle made of wood and bamboo / CL:輛|辆[liang4]
榛薮 榛藪 zhēn sǒu dense wood
椮 槮 sēn lush growth (trees) / fishing using bundled wood (archaic)
混交 hùn jiāo mixed (growth of wood)
熏烤 xūn kǎo to smoke / to cure over a wood fire
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒 liú de qīng shān zài , bù pà méi chái shāo While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
瞎子摸象 xiā zi mō xiàng blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees syn
稾 gǎo variant of 槁 / dry / rotten (wood)
节瘤 節瘤 jié liú knot (in wood)
纹缕 紋縷 wén lǚ veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
胶黐 膠黐 jiāo chī bird-lime / wood glue
良桐 liáng tóng good Chinese wood-oil tree (Aleurites cordata)
苏枋木 蘇枋木 sū fāng mù sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine
兰舟 蘭舟 lán zhōu lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
虎头牌 虎頭牌 hǔ tóu pái tiger-head plaque (made of wood and mounted on the front of a yamen 衙門|衙门[ya2men5] during the Qing dynasty as a symbol of authority)
旋木 鏇木 xuàn mù wood turning / woodwork lathe
钻木取火 鑽木取火 zuān mù qǔ huǒ to drill wood to make fire syn
阴桫 陰桫 yīn suō a hard wood
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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