"Court" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 fǎ yuàn court of law / court
 zhuī to chase / to pursue / to look into / to investigate / to reminisce / to recall / to court (one's beloved) / to binge-watch (a TV drama) / retroactively / posthumously
 qiú chǎng stadium / sports ground / court / pitch / field / golf course / CL:個|个[ge4],處|处[chu4]
 cháo tíng court / imperial household / dynasty
 tán liàn ài to court / to go steady / to be dating
 gōng tíng court (of king or emperor)
 zhāo rě to court (trouble) / to attract (attention) / to provoke (sb)
 yuàn luò court / courtyard
 zì qǔ to help oneself to (food) / to invite (trouble) / to court (disaster)
 shěn pàn tíng court / tribunal / courtroom
 pāo xiù qiú throwing the embroidered ball (traditional Zhuang flirting game at festivals) / (fig.) to make overtures / to court
 fǎ tíng pàn lìng court
 guó jì tǐ yù zhòng cái yuàn Court
 bó shì doctor / court academician (in feudal China) / Ph.D.
 rén mín fǎ yuàn people's court (of law) / people's tribunal
 fǎ tíng court of law
 pàn jué judgment (by a court of law) / to pass judgment on / to sentence
 tài jiàn court eunuch / palace eunuch
 shēn sù to file a complaint / to appeal (to an authority, a higher court of justice etc) / complaint / appeal
 Zuì gāo Rén mín Fǎ yuàn Supreme People's Court (PRC)
 hòu yuàn rear court / back garden / backyard (also fig.)
 kāi tíng to begin a (judicial) court session
 cháo tiān to have an audience with the Emperor / to be presented at court / to look skyward / to look up
 zhuàng gào to sue / to take to court / to file a lawsuit
 zhǎo sǐ to court death / to take a big risk
 tíng shěn court hearing
 chū tíng to appear in court
 tiān tíng middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
 huáng cháo the imperial court / the government in imperial times
 zuì gāo fǎ yuàn supreme court
 cháo yě all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people
 lán qiú chǎng basketball court
 shèng sù to win a court case
 wǎng qiú chǎng tennis court
 gāo yuàn high court
 chén zǐ official in feudal court / subject
 huàn guān court eunuch
 jiān chén a treacherous court official / a minister who conspires against the state
 xiàn yīn qín to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc) / to fawn upon (an influential politician etc) / to court sb's favor / to ingratiate oneself
 Fó ye Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
 Qīng tíng the Qing court (as government of China)
 sī liǎo to settle privately / to solve behind closed doors / to settle out of court
 dà fǎ guān grand justice / high court justice / supreme court justice
 miào táng imperial ancestral temple / imperial court / temple
 xún sǐ to attempt suicide / to court death
 shì nu:3 court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women
 gōng qīng high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
 lǎo gōng gong old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch
 cháo chén court councilor
 gāo děng fǎ yuàn High Court
 gōng táng law court / hall (in castle) / CL:家[jia1]
 chén xià official in feudal court / subject
 bèi shàng sù rén appellee (side that won in trial court, whose victory is being appealed by losing side)
簿 duì bù gōng táng public courtroom accusation (idiom) / legal confrontation / to take sb to court / to sue
 zhì zhèng examination of the evidence of the opposing party in a court of law
 duì zhì to confront (in court etc) / confrontation
 liàn xí chǎng driving range (golf) / practice court / practice ground
 lóng páo dragon robe / emperor's court dress
 shàng shū (of a court official) to present a memorial to the emperor (old)
 Xiāo Yáng Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008
 Wáng Zhāo jūn Wang Zhaojun (52-19 BC), famous beauty at the court of Han emperor Yuan 漢元帝|汉元帝[Han4 Yuan2 di4], one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3]
 shǐ guān scribe / court recorder / historian / historiographer
 gōng shěn public trial (in a court of law)
 Xú Fú Xu Fu (3rd century BC), Qin dynasty court necromancer
 gāo jí fǎ yuàn High Court of Justice
 zì qǔ miè wáng to court disaster (idiom) / to dig one's own grave
 nèi tíng place at the imperial court, where emperor handled government affairs, gave orders etc
 cháo fú court dress in former times
 xiāo hàn the sky / the heavens / (fig.) imperial court
 cháo gāng laws and discipline of imperial court
 guò táng to appear in court for trial (old) / (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall
殿 Tài hé diàn Hall of Supreme Harmony, the largest of the three halls that constitute the heart of the Outer Court of the Forbidden City 紫禁城[Zi3 jin4 cheng2]
 yǔ máo qiú chǎng badminton court
 biǎn zhé to banish from the court / to relegate
 dà lǐ sì Imperial Court of Judicial Review
 zuò sǐ to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1 si3]
 chén liáo court official (in former times)
 Sī fǎ yuàn Judicial Yuan, the high court under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan
 jiù àn old court case / long-standing legal dispute
 cháo imperial or royal court / government / dynasty / reign of a sovereign or emperor / court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor / to make a pilgrimage to / facing / towards
 tīng shěn to attend court / to take part in a trial
 An1 Dé hǎi An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
 tíng main hall / front courtyard / law court
 huàn imperial official / court eunuch
 xí (arch.) court dress
 qiáng female court officials
 duàn xiù zhī pǐ lit. cut sleeve (idiom) / fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
 xíng shì fǎ tíng criminal court
 zhāng fǔ jiàn lu:3 court crown beneath straw shoe (idiom) / everything turned upside down
 yǎng hǔ shāng shēn Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom) / fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom
 yǎng hǔ yí huàn Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom) / fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom
 zì tǎo méi qù to invite a snub / to court a rebuff
 mín tíng civil court
 kāi táng to open a law court / to set up a mourning hall
 xuǎn jǔ fǎ tíng election court
 Guó jì Fǎ tíng International Court of Justice in The Hague
 guó jì fǎ yuàn International Court of Justice
 Měi guó Zuì gāo Fǎ yuàn Supreme Court of the United States
 Oū zhōu Fǎ yuàn European Court of Justice
 shàng sù fǎ yuàn appeals court
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