"Figures" • Chinese-English Dictionary

DICTIONARY OPTIONS

CHARACTERS : Simplified Traditional

PHONETIC : Pinyin Bopomofo EFEO Wade-Giles Yale

数码	shù mǎ	number / numerals / figures / digital / amount / numerical code
爬升	pá shēng	to rise / to ascend / to climb (airplane etc) / to go up (sales figures etc) / to gain promotion
蜡像馆	là xiàng guǎn	waxworks / museum of waxwork figures
石虎	Shí Hǔ	leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits
俑	yǒng	wooden figures buried with the dead
吒	zhā	used for the sound "zha" in the personal names of certain legendary figures (e.g. 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]) / Taiwan pr. [zha4]
俑坑	yǒng kēng	pit with funerary figures / pit containing terracotta warriors
有效数字	yǒu xiào shù zì	significant figures
国家指示性规划数字		indicative country planning figures / country IPFs
国家指规数		indicative country planning figures / country IPFs
计算指示性规划数字所依标准审查工作组		Working Group on Review of Criteria to be Followed in Calculating Indicative Planning Figures
指示性规划数字标准小组		Group on the Criteria for Indicative Planning Figures
反美是工作赴美是生活	fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó	being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)