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维生素wéi shēng sù
vitamin
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
维生素 | ||
1. Simplified form of 維生素 | ||
維生素 | wéishēngsù | |
1. n. vitamin | ||
2. usage. On the Chinese mainland, 維他命 is considered dated. | ||
English > Chinese | ||
vitamin | ||
1. 名词. 維生素 | ||
Components | ||
维 | ||
1. Simplified form of 維 | ||
維 | wéi | |
1. to hold together; to maintain; to preserve; to safeguard | ||
維持 - to maintain | ||
2. (geometry) dimension | ||
纖維 - fibre | ||
3. Short for 維生素 (vitamin) | ||
4. Short for 維吾爾 (Uyghur) | ||
生 | shēng, shēn | |
1. to live; to subsist; to exist | ||
2. to grow; to develop; to bud | ||
3. (causative) to bear; to give birth; to bring up; to rear | ||
他 妻子 生 了 一 對 雙胞胎 女孩。 (Tā qīzǐ shēng le yī duì shuāngbāotāi nǚhái.) - His wife gave birth to twin girls. | ||
4. to be born; to come into existence | ||
他 生 在 中國。 (Tā shēng zài zhōngguó.) - He was born in China. | ||
5. pupil; disciple; student | ||
你 作為 全日制 生 必須 定期 上課。 (Nǐ zuòwèi quánrìzhì shēng bìxū dìngqī shàngkè.) - As a full-time student, you should attend classes on a regular basis. | ||
6. (historical) scholar; Confucian scholar | ||
7. (opera) actor or male character | ||
8. Short for 先生 (gentleman) | ||
9. (Cantonese, honorific, suffix) Short for 先生 (Mr.) | ||
10. 陳 生 - Mr. Chan | ||
11. having life; live | ||
(syn, zh, 活) | ||
規矩 係 死 嘅,人 係 生 嘅。 - Rules are lifeless; humans are not. | ||
條 魚jyu4-2 啱啱 喺 條 河 度 釣 上soeng5 嚟,仲 係 生saang1 嘅。 - The fish was just caught with a hook and line from the river. It is still alive. | ||
12. life; existence; being; living | ||
殺生 (shāshēng) - to destroy a life | ||
13. fresh; not stale | ||
14. unripe | ||
15. raw; uncooked | ||
(ant, zh, 熟) | ||
生 洋蔥 (shēng yángcōng) - raw onions | ||
我 覺gok3得 呢ni1 塊 肉 仲係 太 生。 - I think this piece of meat is too raw. | ||
16. (historical ethnography) uncultured; uncultivated; wild; uncivilized; savage | ||
生 黎 (shēng Lí) - wild Li | ||
17. strange; unfamiliar | ||
生人 (shēngrén) - stranger | ||
18. mechanically; forcedly | ||
19. very; quite; extremely | ||
生怕 (shēngpà) - to fear; to be afraid of | ||
20. vivid; strong; forceful | ||
21. innate; natural; born with | ||
22. living things; organism | ||
23. livelihood; subsistence | ||
謀生 (móushēng) - to make a living | ||
24. lifetime; all one's life | ||
來生 (láishēng) - afterlife | ||
25. birthday; anniversary | ||
慶生 (qìngshēng) - to celebrate one's birthday | ||
26. to bring back to life; to revive; to rescue | ||
27. to generate; to breed; to create | ||
28. to manufacture; to produce | ||
29. to happen; to occur; to take place | ||
30. to catch (a disease) | ||
我 生 了 什麼 病? (Wǒ shēng le shénme bìng?) - What disease have I got? | ||
生seⁿ蛇 (seⁿ-chôa) - to have shingles, MN | ||
31. to be infested by a parasite | ||
生 跳蚤 (shēng tiàozǎo) - to be infested with fleas | ||
生 蝨乸 - to be infested with lice | ||
32. (Buddhism) to go into society; to be reincarnated | ||
33. (dialectal) to set up; to put in; to settle | ||
34. to light; to ignite (a fire) | ||
母親 沒 有 生 爐子zi。 (Mǔqīn méi yǒu shēng lúzi.) - Mother did not light the stove. | ||
35. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note high do (1̇). | ||
(syn, zh, 仩) | ||
36. (Hong Kong, honorific, suffix) -san, when referring to a Japanese person | ||
素 | sù | |
1. white | ||
素面 - unadorned face; face without makeup | ||
素服 - white mourning clothes | ||
2. plain | ||
素淨 - plain and neat | ||
3. vegetarian (food) | ||
素菜 - vegetable dish; vegetarian dish | ||
吃素 - to live on a vegetarian diet; to be a vegetarian | ||
素食 - vegetarian foods; to maintain a vegetarian diet | ||
4. original; unprocessed | ||
素材 - source material | ||
素質 - nature | ||
5. usually; always; all along | ||
平素 - normally; usually | ||
素 不 往來 - have never had contact with each other | ||
武漢 素 稱「九省shěng.通衢」。 - Wuhan has always been called "the thoroughfare of the nine provinces". | ||
6. element | ||
元素 - element | ||
維生素 - vitamin | ||
色素 - pigment | ||
7. (mathematics) prime | ||
素數 - prime number | ||
互素 - coprime; relatively prime | ||
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