honorific: Your distinguished disciple / Your most brilliant pupil
冯友兰
Féng Yǒu lán
Feng Youlan (1895-1990), distinguished Chinese philosopher
双子叶
shuāng zǐ yè
dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants)
高朋满座
gāo péng mǎn zuò
surrounded by distinguished friends (idiom) / in company
宾客盈门
bīn kè yíng mén
guests filled the hall (idiom) / a house full of distinguished visitors
宾朋满座
bīn péng mǎn zuò
guests filled all the seats (idiom) / a house full of distinguished visitors
贲临
bì lín
(of a distinguished guest) honor my house (firm etc) with your presence
史景迁
Shǐ Jǐng qiān
Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国[Zhui1 xun2 Xian4 dai4 Zhong1 guo2]
单子叶
dān zǐ yè
monocotyledon (plant family distinguished by single embryonic leaf, includes grasses, orchids and lilies)
捧读
pěng dú
to read (honorific: e.g. your distinguished article)
木兰纲
mù lán gāng
Magnoliopsidae or Dicotyledoneae (class of plants distinguished by two embryonic leaves)
李叔同
Lǐ Shū tóng
Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4] after the Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4] of 1911
虎父无犬子
hǔ fù wú quǎn zǐ
lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific) / With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son
宾朋盈门
bīn péng yíng mén
guests filled the hall (idiom) / a house full of distinguished visitors
(hon.) your distinguished thoughts / Thank you (for your esteemed contribution to our discussion).
革兰氏染色法
Gé lán shì rǎn sè fǎ
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
音读
yīn dú
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 / has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
高本汉
Gāo Běn hàn
Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist
高邻
gāo lín
distinguished neighbor (honorific)
训读
xùn dú
a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 / is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 / "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 / has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
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