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

90 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
leak / hole / gap / loophole
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
wind tunnel
Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
(geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
cave / cavern
(astronomy) black hole
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
cave / pit / (coll.) greenhouse
to clearly understand
small hole in an object
to see clearly
cave / natural cavern (in limestone)
insight
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
used in 洪洞, a county in Shanxi
bottomless pit
cavity / empty / vacuous
Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
cave mouth / tunnel entrance
culvert
wedding night
to be wide open
passageway / archway
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
bridal room and ornamented candles / wedding festivities (idiom)
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China) / CL:
paradise / heavenly or beautiful place / fairyland
disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)
cave with a waterfall at its mouth
white hole (cosmology)
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
to see everything clearly
(golf) hole in one
Buddhist grottos
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
tunnel; cave; burrow; dugout
insight / to see clearly
dog door
place of charm and beauty / scenery of exceptional charm / completely different world
air raid shelter; bomb shelter / (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
cave dwelling / legendary abode of immortals
a cave
to penetrate / to pierce / to see clearly / to have an insight into
hole due to dental caries
secret inner room / bridal room
to examine deeply / to inspect closely
cave; cavern
lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom)
(of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
olm (Proteus anguinus)
Taepodong, North Korean rocket series
pitch-dark
tunnel
pierce
variant of 涵洞
to dig a hole
ear piercing hole; earring hole
hole in ice / crevasse
hole / pit / pothole
tree hollow / (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets / (slang) confidant
Crocs shoes (or any similar shoe)
a hole
empty / deserted
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙
cave holding scripture depository, part of Mogao cave complex 莫高窟, Dunhuang 敦煌
mouse hole
the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang
to bore / to burrow / to crawl through a tunnel
hole
hole in one (golf)
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌, Anhui
Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
cavity / pit
cavern
grotto
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
cavern / cave
Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang
to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow
lienteric diarrhea (TCM)
a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom) / to ill reward a person's kindness
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
imaginative / to have one's mind buzzing with ideas
Rodong or Nodong, series of North Korean medium-range missiles
(physics) wormhole
to blow people's minds with highly imaginative, bizarre ideas
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
electron hole (physics)


Tip: Using a computer without Chinese text input? Try the 'Type Chinese' item from the menu.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies