"Calling" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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使 shǐ mìng mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
 biāo zhù to mark out / to tag / to put a sign on sth explaining or calling attention to / to annotate (e.g. a character with its pinyin)
 chéng yùn to provide transport / to accept the Mandate of Heaven / to acknowledge one's calling to be emperor
 chéng duì (commerce) to accept (i.e. acknowledge as calling for payment) / to honor (a check, a promise)
 fēng shēng hè lì lit. wind sighing and crane calling (idiom) / fig. to panic at the slightest move / to be jittery
 lou (final particle equivalent to 了[le5]) / (particle calling attention to, or mildly warning of, a situation)
 mī sound for calling a cat
 yīng calling of birds
 chàng tán huà kǎ long-term calling card (telephone)
 huà kǎ calling card (telephone)
 sān fāng tòng huà three-party call / three party calling / three-party conference / three-way calling
 jiào mǒu rén tān pái calling someone's bluff
 duì zhe hé shang mà zéi tū lit. in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit (idiom) / fig. to insult indirectly / to criticize obliquely
 guī xiào biē wú wěi lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black
 hǎn zhù to stop (sb) by calling out to them
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