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砧板zhēn bǎn
cutting board
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
砧板 | zhēnbǎn | |
1. n. chopping board; cutting board or block | ||
Components | ||
砧 | zhēn, zhān | |
1. base for beating or chopping | ||
2. stone base for beating clothes | ||
3. anvil | ||
4. base for cutting or lethal sentence | ||
5. base in general | ||
6. (Hakka) to hold one's hands in closed fists and to strike with phalanx | ||
板 | bǎn | |
1. plank; board | ||
木板 - board; plank | ||
玻璃 板 - glass board | ||
2. blackboard | ||
(zh-x, 板報) | ||
3. sluggish; stiff; inflexible | ||
呆板 - sluggish | ||
古板 - stuffy; old-fashioned and inflexible | ||
4. to harden; hardened | ||
5. (internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard) | ||
6. (music) clapper | ||
7. (music) beat; meter; rhythm (in music or Chinese opera) | ||
行板 - andante | ||
散sǎn板 - sanban | ||
8. to look serious or displeased | ||
9. (literary or Min Nan) wooden coffin | ||
10. (Min Nan) ability; capability; talent | ||
11. (Suzhou) to have to; must | ||
噶 聲 閒話 板 是 俚 說 噶。 - That voice must be his., W-SZ, ref=1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19 | ||
12. Variant of 闆 | ||
闆 | bǎn | |
1. (zh-only, 老闆) | ||
2. (zh-hist-ghost) to look from a door attn, zh, please check: 門中視 | ||
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zhēn bǎn
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