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姓名地址录xìng míng dì zhǐ lù
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Definitions
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| 1. 姓名地址录 | ||
| Components | ||
| 姓 | xìng | |
| 1. surname; family name; clan name | ||
| 你 的 姓 怎麼 拼寫？ - How do you spell your last name? | ||
| 您 貴姓？ - What is your surname? honorific | ||
| 2. to have the surname of | ||
| 我 姓 陳。 - My surname is Chen. | ||
| 3. (figurative, often, officialese) to belong to; to be classified as | ||
| 黨媒 姓 黨 - the Party's media must follow the Party's will | ||
| 姓 資本主義\資 姓 社會主義\社 - follow the capitalist way or follow the socialist way | ||
| 名 | míng | |
| 1. name | ||
| 書名 - title of the book | ||
| 給 它 起 個 名兒r - give it a name | ||
| 2. given name | ||
| 3. reputation; fame | ||
| 有名 - famous | ||
| 名利 - fame and fortune | ||
| 4. famous; reputable | ||
| 名牌 - having a good brand name; a brand name product | ||
| 5. excuse; form; ostensible purpose | ||
| 師出有名 - to do something for a good and proper reason | ||
| 6. (grammar) Short for 名詞, noun | ||
| 7. (grammar) Short for 專有名詞, proper noun | ||
| 8. (archaic, mathematics, arithmetic) sign | ||
| 9. to be called | ||
| 伊 名 什乇？ - tr=Ĭ miàng sié-nó̤h?, What's his/her name?, MD, a=Cdo_whats_his_name.ogg | ||
| 10. to describe; to give details of | ||
| 莫名其妙 - baffling | ||
| 地 | dì | |
| 1. earth | ||
| 天地 - heaven and earth | ||
| 2. ground; floor | ||
| 水泥 地 - concrete floor | ||
| 這 匹 馬 倒 在 地上shang。 - The horse collapsed to the ground. | ||
| 銀包 跌 咗 落 地。 - The wallet fell on the ground. | ||
| 趴 喺 地dei6-2 - to lie on the floor on one's stomach | ||
| 3. land; field | ||
| 低地 - lowland | ||
| 呢nei1 塊 地 - this plot of land | ||
| 4. distance; separation | ||
| 車站 離 這 三 里 地。 - The bus stop is three miles away. | ||
| 5. farmland; field | ||
| 田間 地頭 - farmland | ||
| 下地 幹活 - to farm | ||
| 6. (only in compounds) area; region | ||
| 本地 - local | ||
| 殖民地 - colony | ||
| 7. place; locality | ||
| 地處chǔ - located in | ||
| 目的地 - destination | ||
| 分居 兩 地 - to live apart in two different places | ||
| 8. status; situation; position | ||
| 不敗之地 - invincible position | ||
| 設身處chǔ地 - put oneself in somebody else’s position | ||
| 9. (only in compounds) state of mind | ||
| 心地 - mind | ||
| 見地 - perspective, opinion | ||
| 10. place; room; space | ||
| 家 裡 沒 地兒r 了 - There is no room in my home (for that). | ||
| 11. background (behind a text or figure) | ||
| 白地黑字 - black characters on a white background - | ||
| 12. (only in compounds) Short for 地球, Earth | ||
| 地 日 距離 - Earth–Sun distance | ||
| 類 地 行星 - terrestrial planet | ||
| 13. (Hakka) grave; tomb | ||
| 蛤gé地 站 - Gedi station (蛤地 means "frog-shaped tomb") | ||
| 14. (Mainland China) prefecture | ||
| 地級市 - prefecture-level city | ||
| 15. (chiefly Mandarin) (Particle indicating the preceding word is used as an adverb.) | ||
| (Alternative form 的, 底 obsolete, c=1) | ||
| 很 快 地de - very quickly | ||
| 一個 一 歲 模樣 的 孩子zi 向 我們 蹣跚 地de 走來。 - A roughly one-year-old child came staggering towards us. | ||
| 佢 偷偷 地dei6-2 走 咗 喇。 - He secretly left. | ||
| 你 靜靜zing6-2 地dei6-2 坐 喺度 喇 吓。 - Sit here quietly, OK? | ||
| 16. (Cantonese) (Placed after a reduplicated adjective or stative verb to lessen its intensity.) | ||
| 紅 紅hung4-2 地dei6-2 - kind of red | ||
| 薄 薄bok6-2 地dei6-2 - kind of thin | ||
| 驚 驚 地dei6-2 - to be kind of scared | ||
| 矮 矮 地dei6-2 - kind of short | ||
| 17. =====Usage notes===== | ||
| 18. (Hokkien, Teochew) Alternative form of 塊 (-, t=place) | ||
| 19. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Alternative form of 塊 (-, t=home) | ||
| 20. Variant of 哋 | ||
| 哋 | dì | |
| 1. (Cantonese, Pinghua) (Plural marker for pronouns.) | ||
| 我哋 - we; us | ||
| 2. (Cantonese) Only used in 爹哋, daddy, tr=- | ||
| 3. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 地 (-, t=(placed after a reduplicated adjective or stative verb to lessen its intensity.)) | ||
| 址 | zhǐ | |
| 1. location; address; site | ||
| 2. ground; foundation | ||
| 录 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 錄 | ||
| 2. Variant of 彔 | ||
| 彔 | lù | |
| 1. to carve wood | ||
| 2. filter | ||
| 錄 | lù | |
| 1. to record; to write down | ||
| 2. to accept; to employ | ||
| 3. to record (using instruments) | ||
| 4. record; register | ||
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Pronunciation
xìng míng dì zhǐ lù
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