Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT De keizer is ver weg - boek met wilde avonturen in China

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

100 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *十* | 十* | *十
ten / 10
HSK 1
very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts
HSK 2
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *位* | 位* | *位
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential
HSK 2
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乙* | 乙* | *乙
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
HSK 5
ample / complete / hundred percent / a pure shade (of some color)
HSK 5
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
HSK 5
crossroads / intersection
HSK 7-9
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丙* | 丙* | *丙
third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl
HSK 7-9
Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei
Qingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 5th-19th April / Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)
seventy / 70
twenty; 20
Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
eighteen / 18
Hanlu or Cold Dew, 17th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd October
cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten
October / tenth month (of the lunar year)
November / eleventh month (of the lunar year)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *庚* | 庚* | *庚
age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta
Xiaoxue or Lesser Snow, 20th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd November-6th December
more than ten / a dozen or more
exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more
Qiufen or Autumn Equinox, 16th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 23rd September-7th October
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *癸* | 癸* | *癸
tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / tenth in order / letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 15° / deca
light-years (apart) / a million miles (apart) / (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿 in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝, 65 scrolls
fifty
Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September
hundred thousand
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *觜* | 觜* | *觜
number 20 of the 28 constellations 二十八宿, approx. Orion 獵戶座|猎户座
thirtieth
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
duodenum
History of Chen of the Southern Dynasties, ninth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉 in 636 during Tang dynasty, 36 scrolls
tenfold / ten times (sth)
sixty / 60
Red Cross
one tenth
cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure
Zhuxi county in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei
the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼, Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼, Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传, Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传, Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传, The Analects 論語|论语, Erya 爾雅|尔雅, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经, Mencius 孟子
Xiaoman or Lesser Full Grain, 8th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 21st May-5th June
Zhushan County in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei / Zhushan or Chushan Town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
hexadecimal
Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁, first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兙* | 兙* | *兙
decagram (old) (single-character equivalent of 十克)
December / twelfth month (of the lunar year)
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority
The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人|吴趼人
cross-stitch
October Revolution
Danjiangkou, county-level city in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei
seventeen / 17
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
forty / 40
sixteen / 16
fourteen; 14
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *訣* | 訣* | *訣
to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)
adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades
nineteen / 19
in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)
eighty / 80
approximate number / imprecise indication of quantity (e.g. 十幾|十几, 兩三百|两三百, 一千多)
History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋 or Liu Song 劉宋|刘宋, sixth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Shen Yue 沈約|沈约 in 488 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁, 100 scrolls / (not to be confused with 宋史)
to be a cinch; in the bag / (of a person) confident of success
completely
Yushui or Rain Water, 2nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 19th February-5th March
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修 and Song Qi 宋祁 in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋, 225 scrolls
more than ten; a dozen or more
most urgent / posthaste / express
one billion / giga-
New History of the Yuan Dynasty, completed by Ke Shaomin 柯劭忞 in 1920, sometimes listed as one of the 24 Dynastic Histories 二十四史
to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper)
ninety
twelve channels of TCM
Zhangwan district of Shiyan city 十堰市, Hubei
Fang county in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei
Later History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), nineteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修 in 1053 during Northern Song Dynasty, 74 scrolls
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戊* | 戊* | *戊
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta
Winter Solstice, 22nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 22nd December-5th January
(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
thirteenth day of a month
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *壬* | 壬* | *壬
ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / ninth in order / letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 345° / nona
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
Jingzhe or Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March
Yunxi county in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei
regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast
wicked beyond redemption (idiom) / heinous
the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经
(coll.) going on foot
twelve / 12
the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city

More results available:



Tip: In the character dictionary, entering multiple pinyin syllables will result in multiple searches on one result page.
© 2024 MDBG Made in Holland
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies