束 | shù | to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control | |
串 | chuàn | to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across | |
嘟噜 | dū lu | bunch / cluster / classifier for bunched objects / to hang down in a bunch / to droop | |
簇 | cù | crowded / framework for silkworms / gather foliage / bunch / classifier for bunched objects | |
果穗 | guǒ suì | ear (of corn or sorghum etc) / bunch (of grapes) / infructescence | |
精选 | jīng xuǎn | carefully chosen / handpicked / best of the bunch / choice (product) / concentration (mining) / to concentrate / to winnow | |
黑帮 | hēi bāng | bunch of gangsters / criminal gang / organized crime syndicate | |
成串 | chéng chuàn | to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs) | |
綑 | kǔn | variant of 捆|捆[kun3] / a bunch / to tie together / bundle | |
庸人自扰 | yōng rén zì rǎo | lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom) / fig. to get upset over nothing / to make problems for oneself | |
废话连篇 | fèi huà lián piān | a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling | |
穴播 | xué bō | bunch planting | |
燕雀乌鹊 | yàn què wū què | lit. sparrow and swallow, crow and magpie / fig. any Tom, Dick or Harry / a bunch of nobodies | |
花簇 | huā cù | bunch of flowers / bouquet | |
一派胡言 | yī pài hú yán | a bunch of nonsense | |
一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 | yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch | |
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 | yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng | lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch | |
鲜花插在牛粪上 | xiān huā chā zài niú fèn shàng | lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man) |