"Edge" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 biān yuán edge / fringe / verge / brink / periphery / marginal / borderline
 pàn edge / side / boundary / bank (of a river etc) / shore
 biān r side / edge / margin / border / boundary / proximity / thread (of ideas, plots etc) / see also 邊|边[bian1]
沿 biān yán edge / fringe
 xiāng biān edge / border / to edge (with lace, embroidery etc)
 biān side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL:個|个[ge4] / simultaneously
 jì border / edge / boundary / interval / between / inter- / to meet / time / occasion / to meet with (circumstances)
沿 yán along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge
 yuán cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
 léng corner / edge / arris (sharp ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge) / protrusion
 léng variant of 稜|棱[leng2], corner / square beam / edge / arris (curve formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge) / used in 楞迦[Leng2 jia1], Sri Lanka
 méi brink / edge
 bàng the edge / border of a field
沿 yán r edge (used directly after a noun, e.g. roadside 馬路沿兒|马路沿儿)
线 qián xiàn front line / military front / workface / cutting edge
 dāo fēng cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool
 bīn lín on the edge of / (fig.) on the verge of / close to
 fēng máng tip (of pencil, spear etc) / sharp point / cutting edge / spearhead / vanguard
 shuǐ hǔ edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore
 tí xīn diào dǎn (saying) to be very scared and on edge
 shén jīng zhì nervous / on edge / excitable / neurotic
 léng jiǎo edge and corner / protrusion / sharpness (of a protrusion) / craggy / ridge corner
 shuǐ biān edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river)
 dì tóu place / locality / edge of a field / lower margin of a page
 yíng rèn ér jiě lit. (bamboo) splits when it meets the knife's edge (idiom) / fig. easily solved
 qiē kǒu incision / notch / slit / gash / margin of a page / trimmed edge (of a page in a book)
 dāo kǒu the edge of a knife / cut / incision
 cā biān qiú (table tennis) edge ball / (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
 wèi xīng chéng "satellite" town / edge city / exurb
 xuán yá lè mǎ lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom) / fig. to act in the nick of time
 máo biān raw edge (textiles, papermaking etc) / rough edge
 cā biān to make light contact with the edge of sth / (fig.) to be nearly (a certain age) / to be close to (danger) / (fig.) to be marginal (in terms of relevance or legality)
 fēng point of a spear / edge of a tool / vanguard / forward (in sports team)
 rèn edge of blade
 rǎn edge of a tortoiseshell / see 冉冉[ran3 ran3]
 è blade edge / sharp
 chǎng sharp / a keen edge / sharp point
 hòu yuán trailing edge (of airplane wing)
 bó àn a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment / revetment
 fén edge of water
 ruán land on water edge or under wall
 yóu scallops along lower edge of flag
 kǔn a border or band on the edge of a dress
 tū biān rim / protruding edge
 āi biān to keep close to the edge / near the mark / close to (the true figure) / relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant)
 mù nè lǎo rén ungraduated ruler / straight edge
 liū biān to keep to the edge (of path, river etc) / fig. to keep out of trouble / to avoid getting involved
 liū biān r to keep to the edge (of path, river etc) / fig. to keep out of trouble / to avoid getting involved
 lún yuán rim / edge of wheel
沿 mǎ lù yán r roadside / edge of the road
 bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
 yì (literary) toilsome / laborious / (of an edge etc) worn out / blunt
K电  K-absorption edge densitometry / K-edge densitometry
K吸 Kxī shōu xiàn K-absorption edge
X射线 Xshè xiàn xī shōu xiàn mì duó jì X-ray absorption edge densitometer
 bian yuán shēng jìng edge habitat
 yǔ zhuàng bian feather edge
 nán jí bīng yuán qū hǎi yáng shēng tài xì tǒng yán jiū Antarctic Marine Ecosystem Research at the Ice Edge Zone
  outer edge of the continental margin
 jiān bīng bian yuán fast-ice edge
 bian yuán chéng shì edge city
  edge effect
  edge effect
 bǎo hù shuǐ tǐ bian yuán yùn dòng Campaign for the Conservation of the Water's Edge
 bīng yuán ice edge
  shelf edge / shelf break
沿  forward edge of the battle area / front edge of the battle area
  edge effect anomaly
 chā jiǎo to shove in / to edge in / fig. to poke one's nose into people's business / prong
 biǎo cuff / border or edge (of clothing) / old variant of 裱[biao3]
 yá zi serrated edge / (old) middleman / broker
𬬮 chǎng sharp / a keen edge / sharp point
𣸣 fén edge of water
 kāi rèn to edge a knife, scissor, sword etc
 qiāo luó biān er to strike the edge of the gong / (fig.) to stir the pot (i.e. cause or exacerbate a dispute)
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