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爽身粉shuǎng shēn fěn
talcum powder
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 爽身粉 | shuǎngshēnfěn | |
| 1. n. talcum powder; baby powder | ||
| Components | ||
| 爽 | shuǎng | |
| 1. bright; clear | ||
| 2. frank; straightforward | ||
| 3. refreshing; pleasurable; invigorating | ||
| 太 爽 了！ - This is so good! | ||
| 4. happy; cheerful; joyful | ||
| 5. (of health) well; to feel well | ||
| 6. to deviate; to make a mistake; to miss | ||
| 7. to violate; to breach; to break | ||
| 爽約 - to break an appointment | ||
| 8. (internet slang) a unit equivalent to 640 million yuan (CNY) ((Used to satirize Chinese actress Zheng Shuang's annual income being as much as 640 million yuan for just acting in TV dramas. Popularized | ||
| 9. Variant of 驦 | ||
| 驦 | shuāng | |
| 1. (literary) horse | ||
| 身 | shēn | |
| 1. (anatomy) body | ||
| 2. (figurative) body; main part | ||
| 3. pregnancy | ||
| 4. oneself | ||
| 5. in person; personally | ||
| 6. I; me | ||
| 7. life; one's (entire) life | ||
| 8. social status | ||
| 9. moral character | ||
| 10. (literary or Min Nan, Pu-Xian Min) | ||
| 11. (Min Nan) | ||
| 12. (Cantonese, idiomatic) | ||
| 13. Only used in 身毒 | ||
| 粉 | fěn | |
| 1. powder | ||
| 麵粉 是 小麥 做 的 粉。 - Flour is a powder made from wheat. | ||
| 2. face powder | ||
| 3. 粉墨登場 - to go on the stage | ||
| 4. flour | ||
| 5. (Cantonese, slang) heroin | ||
| 粉碎 - to smash | ||
| 粉身--碎骨 - to have one's body smashed to pieces | ||
| 6. (color) | ||
| 7. pink | ||
| 8. 我 把 頭髮 染 成 了 粉 的。 - I dyed my hair pink. | ||
| 9. (zh-no-solo) white | ||
| 10. 粉壁 - white wall | ||
| 11. 粉飾 - to whitewash | ||
| 12. (dialectal) to whitewash | ||
| 13. (food) | ||
| 14. food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc.) | ||
| 15. 粉條 - Chinese vermicelli | ||
| 16. 涼粉 - grass jelly | ||
| 17. 河粉 - he fen noodles | ||
| 18. bean or sweet potato noodles | ||
| 19. =====Usage notes===== | ||
| 20. fan; fanatic | ||
| 明 粉 - fan of the Ming dynasty | ||
| 川粉 - fan of Donald Trump | ||
| 米粉 - fan of Xiaomi | ||
| 21. (Internet, neologism, slang) follower on a social media platform; subscriber | ||
| 22. to be a fan of (a person, a group, etc.); to admire | ||
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Pronunciation
shuǎng shēn fěn
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