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塞子sāi zi
plug
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
塞子 | sāizi | |
1. n. cork; plug | ||
English > Chinese | ||
plug | ||
1. 栓 | ||
2. 充填物 | ||
3. 插头 | ||
4. 火星塞 | ||
5. 广告 | ||
6. 废物 | ||
7. 打击 | ||
8. 殴打 | ||
9. 宣传 | ||
10. 常演奏 | ||
11. 辛勤工作 | ||
Components | ||
塞 | sāi, sè, sēi | |
1. to stop up; to block up | ||
2. to stuff; to cram; to squeeze in | ||
將 報紙 塞sak1 落 對 鞋 度 - to shove newspaper into a pair of shoes | ||
3. to be blocked; to be jammed | ||
4. to forbid; to suppress; to prohibit | ||
5. to satisfy; to fulfil | ||
6. to compensate; to remedy | ||
7. to answer; to repay | ||
8. to manage to arrange a position for someone | ||
9. to practise bribe | ||
10. to evade; to stall | ||
11. stopper; cork | ||
12. to be in a difficult position; destitute | ||
13. honest; truthful | ||
14. (historial) Saka people | ||
15. (historical) place of strategic importance; pass; fortress | ||
16. to build fortress; to construct fortifications | ||
17. frontier; border | ||
塞翁失馬 - The old man at the frontier losing a horse | ||
18. (specifically) the northern frontier of imperial China, as demarcated by the Great Wall | ||
19. Alternative form of 賽 (to compete, contend; contest, race) | ||
20. Alternative form of 簺 (an ancient gambling game) | ||
子 | zǐ | |
1. (literary) child; offspring | ||
2. son | ||
獨生子 - dúshēngzǐ - only son | ||
愛子 - àizǐ - beloved son | ||
一 子 一 女 - yī zǐ yī nǚ - one son and one daughter | ||
3. (literary) descendant; posterity | ||
4. (Christianity) the Son | ||
5. (in compounds) person | ||
女子 (nǚzǐ) - female; woman | ||
6. (literary) master; teacher | ||
7. (literary) A respectful title for teachers, usually attached after their surnames. | ||
孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) - Master Kong (Confucius) | ||
老子 (Lǎozǐ) - Laozi | ||
8. (literary, polite) you | ||
9. Alternative form of 籽 (seed); also its second-round simplified form. | ||
葵花子 (kuíhuāzǐ) - sunflower seed | ||
10. egg | ||
魚子 (yúzǐ) - caviar | ||
11. young; tender; small | ||
12. Prefix attached to nouns, denoting "a part of", "belonging to" or "individual". sub- | ||
子目錄 (zǐmùlù) - subdirectory | ||
13. (astrology) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am) | ||
14. (historical) viscount (fourth of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy under the Zhou dynasty) | ||
15. (physics, biology) -on | ||
16. (Min Nan) grain-like object; particle; granule | ||
17. (Min Nan, music) rhythm | ||
18. (Min Nan) | ||
19. Suffix: | ||
20. Used to nominalize. | ||
21. 瓶子zi - píngzi - bottle | ||
22. 刷子zi - shuāzi - brush | ||
23. 胖子zi - pàngzi - fat person | ||
24. (colloquial) Used in some classifiers. | ||
25. 一下子zi - yīxiàzi - all of a sudden | ||
26. small, round object | ||
算盤子jí (sǹg-pôaⁿ-jí) - abacus bead, MN | ||
27. (Xiamen, Quanzhou) | ||
28. (Zhangzhou, Taiwan) | ||
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