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
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
wave
HSK 6
microwave oven / CL: 臺|台
HSK 6
disturbance / crisis / disputes / restlessness / CL: 場|场
HSK 7-9
to spread to / to involve / to affect
HSK 7-9
twists and turns
HSK 7-9
billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
HSK 7-9
great waves / billows
HSK 7-9
to rush about / to be constantly on the move
HSK 7-9
Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
Boston, capital of Massachusetts
wavelength
Potter or Porter (surname)
(loanword) baud (computing) / porter (beer)
Indianapolis, Indiana
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *波* | 波* | *波
(bound form) Poland (abbr. for 波蘭|波兰) / surname Bo
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *波* | 波* | *波
wave / ripple / storm / surge
wave / (water) ripple
carrier wave
wavelet (math.)
ultrasound / ultrasonic wave
Apollo (loanword)
electric wave / alternating current
waveguide (electronics)
baud
sound wave
Bogota, capital of Colombia
spectrum
Poland
echo (e.g. radar) / returning wave
wave form
ripple / corrugation
longwave (radio)
sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
wave velocity
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
standing wave
Boeing (aerospace company)
mordent (music)
jackfruit / breadfruit / Artocarpus heterophyllus
light wave
wave band
Bohemia, historical region in Central Europe / bohemian (i.e. artistic and unconventional)
wave crest
Persia
huge waves / (fig.) ruckus / controversy / sensation
waves surging forth / roaring sea
harmonic (wave with frequency an integer multiple of the fundamental)
Bosnia
one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
(slang) (loanword) big boobs / big-breasted / (coll.) tapioca balls, in 波霸奶茶
calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns
transverse wave
Poseidon, god of the sea in Greek mythology
Baltic Sea
gleaming reflection of waves in sunlight
Bochum (city in Germany)
longitudinal wave
mist covered water
breakwater / seawall / fig. defensive buffer zone
Puerto Rico, self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States
shortwave (radio)
before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
Annapolis (place name)
trough
Tripoli, capital of Libya / Tripoli, city in north Lebanon
surging forward with great momentum / unfolding on a magnificent scale
Persian Gulf
Leonardo Fibonacci (c. 1170-1250), Italian mathematician
Chinese-Polish
medium wave (radio frequency range)
to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire
Podgorica, capital of Montenegro
hypo (loanword) / sodium thiosulfate Na2S2O3 used in fixing photos (formerly hyposulfite) / wave (sea)
ultra short wave (radio) / UHF
prajña paramita (Sanskrit: supreme wisdom - beginning of the Heart Sutra)
fluid glance
Libo county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州, Guizhou
beam
Rinpoche (Tibetan honorific)
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
to detect (e.g. radio waves)
seismic wave
Boyang county, former name of Poyang county 鄱陽縣|鄱阳县 in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
shampoo (loanword) / see 洗髮皂|洗发皂
Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany
Baume degrees
(idiom) calm and collected; unaffected by external influences
sound wave
Polanski (name)
to cast flirtatious glances at sb (idiom)
Poznan (city in Poland)
Sharapova (Russian female tennis star)
amplitude
Maracaibo, Venezuela
heave / surge
brethren on the other side of the border (used in the context of China-Myanmar friendship) (loanword from Burmese "paukphaw", meaning "close kin")

More results available:



Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies