Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT

Welcome to the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary, the no. 1 Chinese study aid! This website offers more than just a Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input, written Chinese and more. The MDBG dictionary is used in many schools and universities all over the world, discover why! Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Chinese dictionary for Windows 10

MDBG Chinese Reader is the perfect dictionary application for Microsoft Windows. Translate Chinese text and Lookup Mandarin pinyin for Chinese words easily. Just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations. Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!


handwriting
Auto complete input: off | on

93 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Simplified
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Traditional
HSK
to go online / to connect to the Internet / (of a document etc) to be uploaded to the Internet / (tennis, volleyball etc) to move in close to the net
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *网* | 网* | *网
net / network
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *净* | 净* | *净
clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role
HSK 6
lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
net profit
mosquito net / CL: 頂|顶
HSK 7-9
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
net profit
net value / net worth
mosquito net / CL: 頂|顶
HSK 7-9
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / to block
Internet addiction / net addiction / web addiction
to provide a safety net / (coll.) to reveal; to expose (sth disreputable)
net income / net profit
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net
net weight
net zero (net-zero carbon emissions)
advantage / gain / net profit
net contents
net weight
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
actually paid / net (payment)
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
lit. you can net sparrows at the door (idiom) / fig. completely deserted
drift net (fishing)
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
to throw a net
to support the bottom of sth / (fig.) to provide a safety net
safety net
it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)
to fall into the net of justice (idiom); finally arrested
net / fishing net / bird net
China Youth Daily, www.cyol.net
large though its mesh may be, no criminal can slip through the wide net of justice
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纲* | 纲* | *纲
head rope of a fishing net / guiding principle / key link / class (taxonomy) / outline / program
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *目* | 目* | *目
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
net cage (fish farming)
Internet / net / cyber-
net receipts / real income
net profit margin; net margin
net used to catch fish (or birds etc) / (fig.) the net of justice 法網|法网
to intercept at the net (volleyball, tennis etc) / (computing) to seal off a network
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罟* | 罟* | *罟
to implicate / net for birds or fish
base net (in geodetic survey)
Internet addiction / net addiction / web addiction
string bag / mesh bag / net bag
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罾* | 罾* | *罾
large square net
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罿* | 罿* | *罿
bird net
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)
the net of justice; the long arm of the law
fishing net / fishnet
flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
(of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net / (of a tennis ball) to hit the net / (of a criminal) to be captured
to hang up (a picture, banner, mosquito net etc)
dip net
purse-seine net (fishing)
net profit; net gain
to spin a web (spider) / to weave a net (e.g. for fishing)
to leave the net open on three sides (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
net
to fish by casting a net / to capture / to surround and seize
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
net present value (NPV)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罭* | 罭* | *罭
drag-net
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罱* | 罱* | *罱
a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罽* | 罽* | *罽
(fishing net) / woolen rug
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罛* | 罛* | *罛
large fishing net
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罝* | 罝* | *罝
net for catching rabbits
bed curtain / mosquito net
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罻* | 罻* | *罻
bird net
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幮* | 幮* | *幮
a kind of mosquito net / bed curtain
neural net
seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen
net ball / let (tennis etc)
World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网
legal net / the long arm of the law
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *络* | 络* | *络
small net
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *络* | 络* | *络
net-like object / to hold sth in place with a net / to wind / to twist / (TCM) channels in the human body
netted enclosure (protecting crops)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罥* | 罥* | *罥
bird catching net / to bind / to hang
net profit
netted veins / reticulated veins (of a leaf etc) / stockwork (geology)
to cast a fishing net / (computing) to go offline
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罦* | 罦* | *罦
net for catching birds
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罒* | 罒* | *罒
net (Kangxi radical 122)
net (for ball games)
lit. the wind cannot be caught in a net / to waste one's effort (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罓* | 罓* | *罓
net (Kangxi radical 122)
to net sth / to catch sth with a net


Tip: In the word dictionary, the Chinese sentence lookup can lookup whole Chinese sentences, automatically splitting it into separate words.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies