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"wood-boring insect" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
蠡 lǐ wood-boring insect syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
无聊 無聊 wú liáo bored / boring / senseless syn
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
虫子 蟲子 chóng zi insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] syn
木头 木頭 mù tou slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1] syn
没意思 沒意思 méi yì si boring / of no interest syn
昆虫 昆蟲 kūn chóng insect / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],堆[dui1] syn
没劲 沒勁 méi jìn to have no strength / to feel weak / exhausted / feeling listless / boring / of no interest syn
吸食 xī shí (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw syn
干燥 乾燥 gān zào (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry / arid / (of skin, mouth etc) dry / (fig.) dull / dry / boring / (of timber etc) to dry out / to season / to cure syn
篱笆 籬笆 lí ba fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) syn
木材 mù cái wood syn
害虫 害蟲 hài chóng injurious insect / pest
蟋蟀 xī shuài cricket (insect) syn
伐木 fá mù to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering 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
松木 sōng mù pine wood / deal / larch
木屑 mù xiè wood shavings / sawdust syn
门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn
纹路 紋路 wén lù veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
红木 紅木 hóng mù red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
纹理 紋理 wén lǐ vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) syn
毒虫 毒蟲 dú chóng poisonous insect (or spider etc) / venomous snake / (slang) junkie
蛀虫 蛀蟲 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin syn
朽木 xiǔ mù rotten wood syn
飞虫 飛蟲 fēi chóng flying insect / winged insect
虫害 蟲害 chóng hài insect pest / damage from insects syn
合拢 合攏 hé lǒng to close (flower, eyes, suitcase etc) / to bring together / (insect or bird when not flying) to fold (its wings) syn
脱皮 脫皮 tuō pí (of paint etc) to peel off / to flake off / (of an insect or snake etc) to molt / (of skin) to peel off due to hard labor, blistering or sunburn etc / (fig.) to go through a grueling experience syn
甲醇 jiǎ chún methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
成虫 成蟲 chéng chóng imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
劈柴 pǐ chái chopped wood / firewood
五行 wǔ xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 syn
桐油 tóng yóu tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer
木耳 mù ěr wood ear / jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:朵[duo3] syn
单眼 單眼 dān yǎn ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye)
病虫害 病蟲害 bìng chóng hài plant diseases and insect pests
丁丁 zhēng zhēng sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc syn
竹木 zhú mù bamboo and wood
病虫 病蟲 bìng chóng plant diseases and insect pests
茯苓 fú líng Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus) / fu ling / tuckahoe
生厌 生厭 shēng yàn to disgust / to pall / fed up / tedious / cloying / boring / irritating
叮咬 dīng yǎo sting / bite (of insect)
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
木杆 木桿 mù gān wooden pole / wood (golf club)
灌木林 guàn mù lín shrubbery / low wood
蟊贼 蟊賊 máo zéi insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people syn
签 籤 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag syn
木 mù (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn
纹 紋 wén line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc) syn
虫 蟲 chóng lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic syn
须 鬚 xū beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel syn
炭 tàn wood charcoal / coal syn
翅 chì (bound form) wing (of a bird or insect) 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
枯 kū (of plants) withered / (of wells, rivers, etc) dried up / (bound form) dull / boring / (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds syn
蛊 蠱 gǔ arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite
栈 棧 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack 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
蠹 dù insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten syn
益虫 益蟲 yì chóng beneficial insect
钎 釺 qiān a drill (for boring through rock) syn
油桐 yóu tóng Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii) syn
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
口器 kǒu qì mouthparts (of animal or insect) syn
硅化木 guī huà mù petrified wood (geology)
蛐蛐儿 蛐蛐兒 qū qu r (dialect) cricket (insect) syn
螟虫 螟蟲 míng chóng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest syn
益鸟 益鳥 yì niǎo beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice)
鸡翅木 雞翅木 jī chì mù wenge or wengue (type of wood)
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)
樵 qiáo firewood / gather wood syn
镌 鐫 juān to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe syn
蝮 fù insect / poisonous snake (archaic)
槁 gǎo dried up (wood) / dead tree
槎 chá a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew syn
螟 míng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest syn
巽 xùn to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
虿 蠆 chài (scorpion) / an insect
锼 鎪 sōu to engrave (metal of wood) syn
桄 guàng woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
虫灾 蟲災 chóng zāi insect damage / destruction of crops by pest insects syn
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
钎子 釺子 qiān zi hammer drill for boring through rock 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
打虫 打蟲 dǎ chóng to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs
直翅目 zhí chì mù Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts)
鞘翅目 qiào chì mù Coleoptera (insect order including beetles)
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)
蟿 qì (insect) / Tryxalis masuta
钻坚仰高 鑽堅仰高 zuān jiān yǎng gāo lit. looking up to it, it gets higher / boring into it, it gets harder (idiom) (from Analects) / fig. to delve deeply into one's studies / meticulous and diligent study
陈谷子烂芝麻 陳谷子爛芝麻 chén gǔ zi làn zhī ma lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom) / fig. the same boring old gossip
蟜 jiǎo (insect)
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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