"Barely" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 刚 |  gāng | hard / firm / strong / just / barely / exactly |   |
| 仅仅 | jǐn jǐn | barely / only / merely / only (this and nothing more) | |
| 仅 | jǐn | barely / only / merely | |
| 甫 | fǔ | (classical) barely / just / just now | |
| 勉强 | miǎn qiǎng | to do with difficulty / to force sb to do sth / reluctant / barely enough | |
| 冷战 | lěng zhàn | cold war / (fig.) strained relationship / to be barely on speaking terms | |
| 敷衍 | fū yǎn | to elaborate (on a theme) / to expound (the classics) / perfunctory / to skimp / to botch / to do sth half-heartedly or just for show / barely enough to get by | |
| 隐隐约约 | yǐn yǐn yuē yuē | faint / distant / barely audible | |
| 险胜 | xiǎn shèng | to win by a narrow margin / to barely win / narrow victory | |
| 半条命 | bàn tiáo mìng | half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death | |
| 差强人意 | chā qiáng rén yì | (idiom) just passable / barely satisfactory | |
| 贫下中农 | pín xià zhōng nóng | (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants) | |
| 勉勉强强 | miǎn miǎn qiǎng qiǎng | to achieve with difficulty / only just up to the task / barely adequate | |
| 秋毫 | qiū háo | fine hair grown by animals (or down grown by birds) in the fall / (fig.) sth barely discernible / the slightest thing / the minutest detail | |
