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萨克斯管sà kè sī guǎn
saxophone
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 萨克斯管 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 薩克斯管 | ||
| 薩克斯管 | sàkèsīguǎn | |
| 1. n. (chiefly Mainland) saxophone | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| saxophone | ||
| 1. 萨克 | ||
| Components | ||
| 萨 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 薩 | ||
| 薩 | sà | |
| 1. Short for 菩薩 | ||
| 克 | kè | |
| 1. (literary) to be able to | ||
| 克勤克儉 - hardworking and thrifty | ||
| 2. to defeat; to vanquish; to conquer | ||
| Synonyms: 剋//, 戰勝 | ||
| 克敵 - to defeat the enemy | ||
| 3. to subdue; to restrain | ||
| 克制 - to restrain | ||
| 4. to digest | ||
| 克食 - to aid digestion | ||
| 5. to set (a time limit) | ||
| 克日 - to set a date | ||
| 6. (dialectal) | ||
| 7. gram (g) | ||
| 1 市兩 等於 50 克。 - 1 market tael is equivalent to 50 grams. | ||
| 8. (a Tibetan unit of volume or dry measure) | ||
| 9. (a Tibetan unit of land area) | ||
| 10. Simplified form of 剋 | ||
| 剋 | kè | |
| 1. to defeat; to vanquish; to overcome; to prevail; to surmount; to subdue; to overthrow | ||
| Synonyms: 戰勝, 克 | ||
| 2. to restrain; to cut down | ||
| 3. to be able to | ||
| 4. (colloquial) to scold; to censure | ||
| 5. (colloquial) to beat | ||
| 斯 | sī | |
| 1. (classical) this; these; here | ||
| 生 於 斯，長zhǎng 於 斯 - to have been born and raised here | ||
| 2. (classical) then; thus | ||
| 3. (zh-used2, t) | ||
| 4. (Mainland) Short for 斯大林 (Stalin) | ||
| 5. usage. In modern Chinese, this character is almost entirely used for phonetic translations. The character mainly represents the phoneme (IPAchar, /s/) or IPAchar, /θ/ in word-final and preconsonantal positi | ||
| 管 | guǎn | |
| 1. (musical instrument) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood | ||
| 2. (musical instrument, by extension) any wind instrument | ||
| 3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula | ||
| 吸管 - straw | ||
| 4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush | ||
| 5. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge | ||
| 管理 - to manage | ||
| 6. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline | ||
| 7. to concern oneself with; to interfere with | ||
| 8. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply | ||
| 9. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep | ||
| 10. despite; regardless of; irrespective of | ||
| 11. (colloquial) (used in the pattern 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name) | ||
| 臺灣人 管 花生 也 叫 土豆。 - Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆. | ||
| 12. (dialectal, colloquial) (indicates the object of an action:) to | ||
| 13. (Sichuan) to be worth | ||
| 管 寧 - Guan Ning | ||
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Pronunciation
sà kè sī guǎn
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