"Connections" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 人脉 | rén mài | contacts / connections / network |  |
| 活动 | huó dòng | to exercise / to move about / to operate / to use connections (personal influence) / loose / shaky / active / movable / activity / campaign / maneuver / behavior / CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4] |  |
| 上交 | shàng jiāo | to hand over to / to give to higher authority / to seek connections in high places | |
| 路数 | lù shù | stratagem / method / approach / (martial arts) movement / social connections / (sb's) background story | |
| 高攀 | gāo pān | social climbing / to claim connections with people in higher social class | |
| 走后门 | zǒu hòu mén | (lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings / to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex | |
| 狐假虎威 | hú jiǎ hǔ wēi | lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom) / fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people | |
| 霍英东 | Huò Yīng dōng | Henry Ying-tung Fok (1913-2006), Hong Kong tycoon with close PRC connections | |
| 攀 |  pān | to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status | |
| 皇亲国戚 | huáng qīn guó qī | the emperor relatives (idiom) / person with powerful connections | |
| 有关系 | yǒu guān xi | to relate to / to be relevant / to have involvement / to have connections | |
| 宦门 | huàn mén | family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China) | |
| 密切关系 | mì qiè guān xì | close relations / intimate connections | |
| 找门路 | zhǎo mén lù | to seek help from social connections | |
| 走门路 | zǒu mén lù | to use social connections / to toady to influential people | |
| 依亲 | yī qīn | (Tw) to be in the care of one's relatives / to be dependent on a relative / to draw on family connections | |
| 跑官 | pǎo guān | to seek a government post through bribery or connections | |
