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双体船
shuāng tǐ chuán



双体船
catamaran


Definitions

Chinese > English
双体船
     1. Simplified form of 雙體船
雙體船shuāngtǐchuán
     1. n. catamaran
English > Chinese
catamaran
     1. 一种筏
     2. 游艇
     3. 泼妇
Components
     1. Variant of 雙
shuāng, shuàng
     1. (attributive) two; double; twin
           Antonyms: 單
           雙手 - both hands
           雙面 - double-sided, two-faced
           雙向 - bidirectional; two-way
     2. (attributive, of an integer) even (divisible by two)
     3. (attributive) double; two-fold; twice
     4. (dialectal) twins
           Antonyms: 隻
           一 雙 鞋 - a pair of shoes
           一 雙 筷子 (jat1 soeng1 (or sung1) faai3 zi2) - a pair of chopsticks
           Shuang
     1. Variant of 體
     2. Alternative form of 笨 (coarse appearance; inferior)
     3. (Used in pallbearer).
     4. name of prison
tǐ, tī
     1. body
           身體 - body
     2. part of the body
           肢體 - limb
     3. state of a substance
           固體 - solid state
     4. whole entity
           物體 - object
     5. form; structure
           體制 - system of organization
     6. (literature) style; form; genre; structure
           文體 - literary form
     7. style of calligraphy
           隸體 - clerical script
           聖書體 - hieroglyph
     8. typeface
           宋體 - Song typeface
     9. three-dimensional object
           正方體 - cube
     10. principle
     11. (mainland China, grammar) aspect of a verb
           進行體 - progressive aspect
     12. to do or experience personally
           身體力行 - to practise what one advocates
           體驗 - to learn through experience
     13. to put oneself in someone else's position
           體恤 - to understand and sympathize with
     14. (Philippines Hokkien) manner; attitude; behavior
chuán
     1. watercraft; vessel (including ships, boats, sailing ships, hovercrafts; sometimes including submarines)
     2. an object with a shape or function similar to watercraft
           太空船 - spaceship
     3. (obsolete) alcohol cup
     4. (obsolete) to carry by watercraft
     5. (obsolete, dialectal) button
           Chuan
     6. (Hong Kong, colloquial) scholarship
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