plug-in (software or hardware) / to plug in a component
替补
tì bǔ
to replace (a damaged component with a new one, an injured player with a substitute player, full-time workers with casual workers etc) / a substitute / a replacement
(usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
声母
shēng mǔ
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1])
多肽
duō tài
polypeptide, chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein
拼成
pīn chéng
to put sth together from component parts
韵母
yùn mǔ
the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang")
偏旁
piān páng
component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)
螺帽
luó mào
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
单眼
dān yǎn
ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye)
高跷
gāo qiāo
stilts / walking on stilts as component of folk dance
(orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) / consistent characters (e.g. 搖|摇[yao2], 遙|遥[yao2] and 謠|谣[yao2], which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)
inner lining of wooden utensils / component beam used in building construction / species of oak tree with medicinal bark (old)
缩多氨酸
suō duō ān suān
polypeptide, a chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein / same as 多肽[duo1 tai4]
声旁
shēng páng
phonetic component of Chinese character
螺丝母
luó sī mǔ
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
郑码
Zhèng mǎ
Zheng coding / original Chinese character coding based on component shapes, created by Zheng Yili 鄭易里|郑易里[Zheng4 Yi4 li3], underlying most stroke-based Chinese input methods / also called common coding 字根通用碼|字根通用码[zi4 gen1 tong1 yong4 ma3]
金盾工程
Jīn dùn Gōng chéng
Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to include the Great Firewall of China 防火長城|防火长城[Fang2 huo3 Chang2 cheng2] as a component
隐位
yǐn wèi
cryptic epitope (immunology, a protein component that becomes effective when activated by antigen)
馏分
liú fèn
fraction (of a distillate) / key (one component part of a distillate)
jiàn