"Contrast" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 比较 | bǐ jiào | to compare / to contrast / comparatively / relatively / quite / comparison |   |
| 对比 | duì bǐ | to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 对照 | duì zhào | to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check | |
| 对比度 | duì bǐ dù | contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast | |
| 反差 | fǎn chā | contrast / discrepancy | |
| 比照 | bǐ zhào | according to / in the light of / contrast | |
| 陪衬 | péi chèn | to serve as a foil / to set off / a foil / a contrast | |
| 相衬 | xiāng chèn | to contrast / to set off one another / to go well with | |
| 反观 | fǎn guān | by contrast / but as for this... / viewed from another angle / subjectively / introspection | |
| 映衬 | yìng chèn | to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) | |
| 正室 | zhèng shì | primary wife (in contrast to concubine) / legal wife | |
| 则 |  zé | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / (bound form) standard / norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items | |
| 显影剂 | xiǎn yǐng jì | developer (photographic processing) / contrast medium (medical imaging) | |
| 衬 | chèn | (of garments) against the skin / to line / lining / to contrast with / to assist financially | |
| 烘 | hōng | to bake / to heat by fire / to set off by contrast | |
| 时至今日 | shí zhì jīn rì | (idiom) up to the present / even now / now (in contrast with the past) / at this late hour | |
| 对比色 | duì bǐ sè | color contrast | |
| 今昔对比 | jīn xī duì bǐ | to contrast past suffering with present happiness (idiom) | |
| 黑白分明 | hēi bái fēn míng | lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom) / fig. unambiguous / black-and-white / in sharp contrast / to distinguish clearly right from wrong | |
| 声阻抗对比 | acoustic impedance contrast | | |
| 哪像 | nǎ xiàng | unlike / in contrast to | |
| 烘衬 | hōng chèn | to set off / to highlight by contrast | |
