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气垫船qì diàn chuán
hovercraft
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 气垫船 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 氣墊船 | ||
| 氣墊船 | qìdiànchuán | |
| 1. n. hovercraft | ||
| 我 的 氣墊船 充滿 了 鱔魚。 - My hovercraft is full of eels. | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| hovercraft | ||
| 1. 水翼船 | ||
| Components | ||
| 气 | ||
| 1. Variant of 氣 | ||
| 2. Variant of 乞 | ||
| 3. Variant of 餼 | ||
| 乞 | qǐ | |
| 1. to beg | ||
| 2. to request | ||
| 3. (obsolete or Min Dong, Teochew) to give | ||
| 乞 汝 一 把 筆 (ké̤ṳk nṳ̄ siŏh bā bék) - someone gives you a pen, MD | ||
| 伊 乞 我 本 書 ( i1 keh4 ua2 bung2 ze1) - he gave me a book, MN-T | ||
| 4. (Min Dong, ;, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Teochew Min Nan) by | ||
| 乞 人 拍死 - tr=keh4 nang5 pah4 si2, be beat to death by someone, MN-T | ||
| 5. (Min Dong, ;, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Teochew Min Nan) (Used before a verb to indicate passive voice.) | ||
| 杯仔 乞 偷 去 - the cup has been stolen, MN | ||
| 氣 | qì | |
| 1. gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma) | ||
| 天然氣 - natural gas | ||
| 輪胎 漏 氣 了。 - The tire is leaking gas. | ||
| 2. (meteorology) air | ||
| 出去 透 透氣！ - Go out to breathe fresh air! | ||
| 3. breath | ||
| 喘不過氣 來 - to be out of breath | ||
| 我 會 戰鬥 到 最后 一 口 氣。 - I will fight to my last breath. | ||
| 4. (Chinese philosophy, TCM) qi; vital energy; life force | ||
| 元氣 - vital energy | ||
| 氣 虛 - to be deficient in vital energy | ||
| 5. weather | ||
| 天氣 - weather | ||
| 氣候 - climate | ||
| 6. smell; odour | ||
| 氣味 - smell | ||
| 滿身 酒 氣 - to have the odor of alcohol all over one's body | ||
| 7. anger | ||
| 生氣 - to get angry | ||
| 消 消氣 - to calm down | ||
| 8. to be angry | ||
| 我 很 氣。 - I'm very angry. | ||
| 氣 哭 了 - to cry because one was so mad | ||
| 9. to make angry; to annoy; to anger; to enrage | ||
| 別 氣 我！ - Don't annoy me! | ||
| 10. quality; character; spirit; mettle | ||
| 有 男人 氣 - to be manly | ||
| 書生 氣 - bookishness | ||
| 11. vitality; vigor; morale; spirit | ||
| 氣概 - mettle; lofty quality | ||
| 一鼓作氣 - to accomplish in one vigorous effort | ||
| 12. bad habit; bad practice | ||
| Qi | ||
| 餼 | xì | |
| 1. (literary) foodgrain as a gift | ||
| 2. (literary) foodgrain (in general) | ||
| 3. (literary) fodder | ||
| 4. (literary) living livestock | ||
| 5. (literary) raw meat | ||
| 6. (literary) salary; provisions | ||
| 7. (Cantonese) to feed (an animal) | ||
| 垫 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 墊 | ||
| 墊 | diàn | |
| 1. pad; cushion; mat | ||
| 2. to put something under something else to raise or balance it | ||
| 用 嚟 墊zin3 煲底 - to use as a mat for a pot - | ||
| 3. to fill up something; to insert something | ||
| 4. (Min Nan) to sow | ||
| 5. to pay something in advance; to pay for somebody | ||
| 6. Only used in 墊江 | ||
| 船 | 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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Pronunciation
qì diàn chuán
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