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
power; force; strength
HSK 3
to rise to power (in politics) / to go on stage (in the theater)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *方* | 方* | *方
square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter
HSK 4
motive power / (fig.) motivation; impetus
HSK 3
power / influence / a force (military, political etc)
HSK 5
electric power source
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *力* | 力* | *力
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
HSK 3
manpower / labor power
HSK 5
right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth
HSK 4
electrical power / electricity
HSK 6
power / authority
HSK 6
physical strength / physical power
HSK 5
power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off
HSK 6
bicycle or tricycle equipped with a small motor (electric or fuel); (in modern use) electric bicycle; low-powered e-scooter
power (rate of doing work, measured in watts)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *权* | 权* | *权
authority / power / right / (literary) to weigh / expedient / temporary
HSK 6
sweet taste (of power, success etc); benefit
HSK 7-9
nuclear power plant
HSK 7-9
lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit
utility power; mains electricity
power / momentum / tendency / impetus / situation / the look of things
HSK 7-9
cube (third power, math.)
thermal power
merit / efficacy / competence / skill / power
HSK 7-9
lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道雞犬升天|一人得道鸡犬升天)
power holder / current political ruler
fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)
infectiousness (of a disease) / appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, performance etc)
HSK 7-9
regime / political power
HSK 6
number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)
HSK 6
perception / wits / power of understanding / comprehension
(PRC) (D- or C-class) high-speed train / power car / multiple-unit train (abbr. for 動車組|动车组)
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
authority / authoritative / power and prestige
HSK 7-9
control; dominant position; decision-making power
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power
might / formidable power
HSK 7-9
to have a power failure / power cut
HSK 7-9
as one wants; according to one's wishes / ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune
HSK 7-9
a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *威* | 威* | *威
power / might / prestige
power station
to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power)
HSK 7-9
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
(physics) attraction (gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic etc) / suction / (fig.) attraction (power to attract interest or liking)
to wait for action after having accumulated power, energy etc
electric-powered / (Tw) video game
HSK 6
transmission system / power drive
rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
world power
wind force / wind power
HSK 7-9
power meter / ammeter / amperemeter / wattmeter / kilowatt-hour meter
a nation's power
soft power (in international relations)
HSK 7-9
ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land
geothermal electric power station
thermal power generation
royalty / royal power
low-powered motorized scooter or bike
occult force / the power of a God or spirit
power struggle
thermoelectric power plant
to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
destructive power / harmfulness
wind power
(math.) to exponentiate; to raise (a number) to a power / exponentiation; power
power / influence
hard power (i.e. military and economic power)
to unleash one's power; (of an animal) to go on a rampage; (of a typhoon, earthquake etc) to wreak havoc; (of a figure of authority) to erupt in anger; to assert one's dominance
military strength / military power
authority / power over others
HSK 7-9
to fall from power; to collapse / downfall
earthquake intensity (measure of its destructive power)
authority / power / authoritarianism / authoritarian
to start but not finish (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
strength / power / efficacy
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
centralized state power
power shot (e.g. in soccer)
equilibrium of forces / balance of power
powerful country / great power
to concentrate power in one's own hands
hydraulic power
lit. like a tiger that has grown wings / with redoubled power (idiom)
power strip
(idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power
internal power struggle
(neologism 2015) the Zhao family (derogatory term for those who hold power in the PRC)
to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded; impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead
power plant
power amplifier (abbr. for 功率放大器)
majestic / awe-inspiring presence / impressive power
imaginative power / creativeness
to experience a power outage; to have a power failure
to recover (territory or power) / the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
electric power plant
expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden
HSK 7-9
abuse of power
to accelerate at full power (idiom); at full speed / fig. to work as hard as possible

More results available:



Tip: Not sure how to type a character? Draw it instead! Click the brush icon next to the input fields to enable the handwriting input method.
© 2026 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies