"Cliff" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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山崖 shān yá cliff
峭壁 qiào bì cliff / steep / precipice
崖壁 yá bì escarpment / precipice / cliff
崖 yá precipice / cliff / Taiwan pr. [yai2]
嶂 zhàng cliff / range of peaks
巉 chán cliff
磛 chán cliff / peak
崿 è cliff / precipice
悬岩 xuán yán cliff
嵒 yán cliff
碞 yán cliff
墈 kàn cliff
崖岸 yá àn cliff / steep slope / fig. arrogant and difficult person
悬崖 xuán yá precipice / overhanging cliff
石窟 shí kū rock cave / grotto / cliff caves (often with Buddhist statues)
栈道 zhàn dào plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff / (archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers
断崖 duàn yá steep cliff / crag / precipice
陡壁 dǒu bì steep cliff / precipice / vertical slope
矸 gān a rock or cliff
克孜尔尕哈 Kè zī ěr gǎ hā Kizilgaha (Uighur: red-mouthed crow or border sentry), site of famous fire beacon tower and cliff caves in Kuchar county 庫車|库车, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
小赤壁 Xiǎo chì bì Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭[Bi4 tan2], Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan
崖刻 yá kè rock carving / cliff engraving / words carved into cliff face
崖限 yá xiàn cliff barring the way / fig. brick wall
栈阁 zhàn gé plank road built along the side of a cliff / CL:條|条[tiao2]
赤壁 Chì bì Chibi, county-level city in Xianning 咸寧市|咸宁市[Xian2 ning2 shi4], Hubei / Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 qu1] of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈[Huang2 gang1], Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208
陡崖 dǒu yá steep cliff / precipice
搬起石头砸自己的脚 bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
一次受领  cliff vesting
坽 líng (literary) precipitous cliff / (used in place names)
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