隔 离 墙 gé lí qiáng separation barrier / barrier / Wall 墙 wall / CL:面[mian4],堵[du3] 墙 壁 qiáng bì wall 人 墙 rén qiáng wall (soccer) 墙 垣 qiáng yuán wall / fence 壁 wall / rampart 堵 to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls) 垣 wall 廧 wall 长 城 Cháng chéng the Great Wall 顶 部 dǐng bù roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex 城 墙 chéng qiáng city wall 围 墙 wéi qiáng perimeter wall / fence / CL:道[dao4] 华 尔 街 Huá ěr Jiē Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business 外 墙 wài qiáng facade / external wall 幕 墙 mù qiáng curtain wall (architecture) 挂 历 guà lì wall calendar 隔 断 gé duàn partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition 塞 外 sài wài territories beyond the Great Wall (old) 挂 图 guà tú wall chart 条 幅 tiáo fú wall scroll (for painting or calligraphy) / banner 山 海 关 Shān hǎi guān Shanhai Pass in Hebei, at the eastern terminus of the Ming dynasty Great Wall / Shanhaiguan district of Qinhuangdao city 秦皇島市|秦皇岛市[Qin2 huang2 dao3 shi4], Hebei 板 砖 bǎn zhuān (dialect) wall brick 八 达 岭 Bā dá lǐng Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination 万 里 长 城 Wàn lǐ Cháng chéng the Great Wall 碰 壁 pèng bì to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall / to hit a snag / to have the door slammed in one's face 钻 牛 角 尖 zuān niú jiǎo jiān lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom) / fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs 面 壁 miàn bì to face the wall / to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism) / (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc 壁 挂 bì guà wall hanging 土 墙 earth wall 蒙 恬 Méng Tián Qin general Meng Tian (-210 BC), involved in 215 BC in fighting the Northern Xiongnu 匈奴 / and building the great wall 壁 灯 bì dēng wall lamp / bracket light / CL:盞|盏[zhan3] 挂 钟 guà zhōng wall clock 墙 根 qiáng gēn foot of a wall 罗 城 luó chéng a second wall built around a city wall 照 壁 zhào bì a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy) 爬 墙 pá qiáng to climb a wall / (fig.) to be unfaithful 固 若 金 汤 gù ruò jīn tāng secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / well fortified / invulnerable to attack 城 垣 chéng yuán city wall 城 郭 chéng guō a city wall 腹 壁 fù bì abdominal wall 居 庸 关 Jū yōng guān Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平区[Chang1 ping2 qu1] 粉 墙 fěn qiáng whitewashed wall / to whitewash a wall 壁 立 bì lì (of cliffs etc) stand like a wall / rise steeply 长 城 卡 cháng chéng kǎ Great Wall Card (credit card issued by Bank of China) 墙 报 qiáng bào wall newspaper 细 胞 壁 xì bāo bì cell wall 影 壁 yǐng bì spirit wall (screen wall used to shield an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture) 侧 壁 cè bì side wall 柏 林 墙 Bó lín Qiáng Berlin Wall 萧 墙 xiāo qiáng (literary) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture 永 定 门 Yǒng dìng mén Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005 关 税 壁 垒 guān shuì bì lěi tariff wall 壁 报 bì bào wall newspaper 不 到 长 城 非 好 汉 bù dào Cháng chéng fēi hǎo hàn lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person / fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal 拆 东 墙 补 西 墙 chāi dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom) / fig. temporary expedient / rob Peter to pay Paul 壁 毯 bì tǎn tapestry (used as a wall hanging) 郭 outer city wall 廉 incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) 匾 horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket 墉 fortified wall / city wall 窬 hole in a wall 踰 variant of 逾, to exceed / to transcend / to cross over / variant of 窬, slit in wall 埤 low wall 阛 wall around a market place 铜 墙 铁 壁 tóng qiáng tiě bì copper wall, iron bastion (idiom) / impenetrable defense 凿 壁 偷 光 záo bì tōu guāng lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship 向 壁 虚 构 xiàng bì xū gòu facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom) / baseless fabrication 向 壁 虚 造 xiàng bì xū zào facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom) / baseless fabrication 拆 东 补 西 chāi dōng bǔ xī lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom) / fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul 红 杏 出 墙 hóng xìng chū qiáng lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover 置 之 死 地 zhì zhī sǐ dì to place sb on field of death / to confront with mortal danger / to give sb no way out / with one's back to the wall / looking death in the eye / part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生 狗 急 跳 墙 gǒu jí tiào qiáng a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action 引 水 入 墙 yǐn shuǐ rù qiáng lit. to lead the water through the wall / to ask for trouble (idiom) 背 城 借 一 bèi chéng jiè yī to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom) / to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle 壁 效 应 bì xiào yìng wall effect 驳 岸 bó àn a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment / revetment 华 尔 街 日 报 Huá ěr jiē Rì bào Wall Street Journal 闤 wall around a market place 塱 raised bank / mud wall 堳 low wall 壖 land on water edge or under wall 中 国 长 城 工 业 公 司 Zhōng guó Cháng chéng Gōng yè Gōng sī China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) 堭 a dry moat outside a city wall / a dry ditch 廆 a room / the wall of a house / a man's name 西 墙 Xī qiáng Western Wall, or Wailing Wall (Jerusalem) 佛 跳 墙 fó tiào qiáng lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients 口 北 kǒu běi the area north of the Great Wall 哭 墙 Kū qiáng Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem) 嘉 峪 关 Jiā yù guān Jiayu Pass in Gansu, at the western terminus of the Great Wall / Jiayuguan prefecture-level city in Gansu 嘉 峪 关 城 Jiā yù guān chéng Jiayuguan fort in the Gansu corridor / Ming dynasty military fort, the western end of the Great Wall 垝 垣 guǐ yuán collapsed wall / ruined wall 墉 垣 yōng yuán city wall 坟 山 fén shān hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb 外 郭 城 wài guō chéng outer city wall 女 儿 墙 nu:3 ér qiáng crenelated parapet wall 女 墙 nu:3 qiáng crenelated parapet wall 子 宫 壁 zǐ gōng bì wall of the uterus 孟 姜 女 Mèng jiāng nu:3 heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 / folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body 崖 限 yá xiàn cliff barring the way / fig. brick wall
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