"Designate" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 命名 | mìng míng | to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming |   |
| 指明 | zhǐ míng | to show clearly / to designate / to indicate | |
| 指名 | zhǐ míng | to mention by name / to designate / designated | |
| 订定 | dìng dìng | to set / to designate / to stipulate / to provide / to draw up / to formulate (rules etc) / stipulation | |
| 钦定 | qīn dìng | to authorize / to designate / (old) to be compiled and published by imperial command | |
| 谓 |  wèi | to speak / to say / to name / to designate / meaning / sense | |
| 候任 | hòu rèn | -elect / designate / (i.e. elected or appointed but not yet installed) | |
| 圈定 | quān dìng | to highlight sth by drawing a circle around it / (fig.) to designate / to delineate | |
| 当选秘书长 | Secretary-General Designate | | |
| 结界 | jié jiè | (Buddhism) to designate the boundaries of a sacred place within which monks are to be trained / a place so designated / (fantasy fiction) force field / invisible barrier (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 結界 / "kekkai") | |
