Chinese Word of the Day
飞机fēi jī
airplane
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 飞机 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 飛機 | ||
| 飛機 | fēijī | |
| 1. n. airplane; plane; aircraft | ||
| 上 飛機 - to board a plane - | ||
| 下 飛機 伸 伸.懶腰 - to stretch after getting off of the plane - | ||
| 失事 飛機 殘骸 - airplane wreckage - | ||
| 製造 飛機 - to manufacture airplanes - | ||
| 飛機 模型 - model aircraft | ||
| 飛機 墜毀 了。 - The plane crashed. | ||
| 飛機 出事 了。 - There was an incident on the airplane. | ||
| 2. n. (colloquial) flight (timetabled journey made by an airplane) | ||
| 誤 飛機 - to miss one's flight - | ||
| 3. n. (Sichuan) hoodlum; hooligan; street urchin | ||
| 4. v. (slang) Short for 打飛機, to beat off; to masturbate | ||
| 5. v. (informal, neologism, chiefly in the passive) to stand someone up; to fail to show up | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| airplane | ||
| 1. 名词. 飞机 | ||
| Components | ||
| 飞 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 飛 | ||
| 飛 | fēi | |
| 1. (intransitive, of insects, birds, etc.) to fly | ||
| 2. (intransitive) to fly (gl-lite, on an aircraft) | ||
| 我 聽ting1日 飛。 - I am flying on an airplane tomorrow. | ||
| 3. to fly (gl-lite, on an aircraft) to | ||
| 我 明天 飛 臺北。 (Wǒ míngtiān fēi Táiběi.) - I am flying to Taipei on an airplane tomorrow. | ||
| 4. to float in the sky; to hover | ||
| 漫天 飛 雪 (màntiān fēi xuě) - it’s snowing all over | ||
| 六月 飛 霜 (liùyuè fēi shuāng) - it’s frosting throughout June | ||
| 5. to volatilize | ||
| 6. fast; rapid; swiftly | ||
| 飛奔 (fēibēn) - to dash | ||
| 飛漲 (fēizhàng) - to soar | ||
| 7. very; extremely | ||
| 8. groundless; unfounded | ||
| 流言飛語 (liúyánfēiyǔ) - rumor and slander; gossip | ||
| 9. unexpected; accidental | ||
| 飛禍 (fēihuò) - unexpected disaster | ||
| 10. (Cantonese) to remove | ||
| 11. (Cantonese) to skip; to disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation | ||
| 考 嗰 陣，見到dou3-2 有 題目 唔 識 做 就 飛 咗 佢。 - In the exam, when you see questions that you don't know, skip them. | ||
| 12. (Cantonese) to dump; to end a romantic relationship with | ||
| 啱啱 我 畀 我 條 女 飛 咗 。 - I just got dumped by my girlfriend. | ||
| 13. (Cantonese) ticket; fare | ||
| 車飛 - bus or train ticket | ||
| 戲 飛 - movie ticket | ||
| 你 買 咗 飛 未？ - Have you bought a ticket? | ||
| 14. (Cantonese) | ||
| 15. (mahjong) | ||
| 16. (Cantonese, by extension) | ||
| 17. (Xiamen, &, Zhangzhou Hokkien) to fizzle out; to fail; to fall through | ||
| 18. femto- (gl-lite, SI unit prefix) | ||
| 机 | ||
| 1. Variant of 機 | ||
| 2. Alternative form of 几 (small table; stool) | ||
| 機 | jī | |
| 1. weaving machine; spinning machine | ||
| 機杼 - loom | ||
| 2. machine; apparatus; device | ||
| 打字機 - typewriter | ||
| 3. (mostly in compounds) Short for *飛機 (aircraft) | ||
| 4. (mostly in compounds) Short for *手機 (cellphone) | ||
| 5. (chiefly Cantonese) Short for *遊戲機 (video game) | ||
| 6. mechanism; process | ||
| 玄機 - arcane truth; nature's mystery | ||
| 7. cause; reason | ||
| 8. secret; confidential (affair) | ||
| 機密 - top secret | ||
| 9. opportunity; chance; crucial point | ||
| 戰機 - opportunity in battle | ||
| 10. plan; idea | ||
| 神機 - marvellous strategy | ||
| 11. flexible; quick-witted | ||
| 12. organic | ||
| 有機 - organic | ||
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Pronunciation
fēi jī
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