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

100 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Simplified
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Traditional
HSK
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
order / command / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
fate; destiny / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
HSK 7-9
proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
HSK 7-9
life sciences
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern noun的命) / CL:
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
October Revolution
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
life
HSK 7-9
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
hit rate / scoring rate
to lose one's life
half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death
see 拼命
French Revolution (1789-1799)
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!
HSK 6
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal / fugitive
to risk one's life
executive order
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
vitality
to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
HSK 7-9
lifeline
human life / CL: 條|条
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise.
to be on call / to be on standby
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
categorical proposition (logic)
to pay with one's life
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
at death's door
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
biodiversity
National Revolutionary Army
democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
human life is beyond value (idiom)
(one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope
to gamble with life / to take reckless risks
to spare sb's life
nomenclature
(loanword) vitamin
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
to flee / to go into exile (from prison)
to be predestined
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
life expectancy
to be mindful of one's health and safety
a revolutionary
decreed by fate (idiom) / destined / fated
on call / always available / ready at all times
to have a tough life / to meet much adversity in one's life
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
predestination / karma
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
disobedient / to violate the Mandate of Heaven (天命)
martyr to the revolution
the traditional Chinese study of fate and fortune, using methods such as birth-date analysis, physiognomy, name analysis, feng shui etc; fortune-telling based on these methods
homicide case / murder case
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
fortune-teller
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually
lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉 (idiom) / fig. to die / to meet one's end
command line (computing)
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
fatalism / fatalistic
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
astrologer (esp. Daoist)
to demand sb's life
to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost
(idiom) stingy; penny-pinching
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords
(of a medical condition) not fatal; not life-threatening
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
propositional logic
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
to lose one's life / to get killed
lucky / blessed with good fortune

More results available:



Tip: Do you own / maintain a website? Consider linking to us! Check out the information about linking and logos.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies