"Floor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 céng to pile on top of one another / layer / stratum / floor (of a building) / story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers
 lóu house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
 dì miàn floor / ground / surface
 lóu céng story / floor
 dì bǎn floor
 lóu bǎn floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)
 lóu miàn floor
 qiáo miàn roadway / floor / deck / bridge floor
 zì yóu tǐ cāo floor (gymnastics)
 dì tái floor / platform
  floor
 dài biǎo xí wèi floor
  floor
 miàn jī area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land
 dì shang on the ground / on the floor
 jiāo yì shì chǎng exchange / trading floor
 zhǎn wèi relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area
 zhàn dì miàn ji floor area / occupied area / footprint (of a building, piece of equipment etc)
 dǐ céng ground or first floor / bottom (of a pile) / lowest rung (of society)
 gǔ dǐ valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low
 dǐng lóu top floor / attic / loft / garret / penthouse / (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc)
 dì zhuān floor tile
 sǎo dì to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low
 dǐng céng top floor / the top of a building
 xià fàng to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside
 wǔ chí dance floor
 dǐ xīn basic salary / base pay / salary floor
 shǒu céng first floor / ground floor
 chí zi pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater)
 dì lòu drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
 dǎ là to wax (a car, floor etc)
 xí dì ér zuò to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
 dì bǎn zhuān floor tile
 luò dì dēng floor lamp
 cháng yuàn threshing floor
 hóng mǎ jiǎ red waistcoat / floor trader in stock market / stockbroker
 zhì dì yǒu shēng lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom) / fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating / to have substance
 yī bài tú dì beaten and wiped over the floor (idiom) / to fail utterly / a crushing defeat / failed and in a hopeless position
 dǎ dì pù to make one's bed on the floor
 qī jí fú tú seven floor pagoda
 táng lóu tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)
 dì miàn céng ground floor / first floor
 dǎ gǔ cháng threshing floor
 pīn huā dì bǎn floor with tiled design
 héng gé tabula (horizontal floor of polyp)
 yáng dǐ ocean floor / bottom of the ocean
 hǎi shā sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore)
 hé cháng threshing floor
 tuō dì to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length
 xiǎo xīn dì huá (used on signs) caution - wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery")
  social security floor / social floor
  Global Social Protection Floor
  Social Protection Floor Advisory Group
  Social Protection Floor Initiative
  abyssal floor
  Social Protection Floor
  forest floor
  forest floor
  High frequency seismic system for detailed mapping of sea floor
  floor warden
  Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof / Sea-bed Arms Control Treaty / Sea-bed Treaty
  Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof / Sea-bed Arms Control Treaty / Sea-bed Treaty
  deep ocean floor
  United Nations Convention on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction
  Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof / Review Conference of the Parties to the Sea-Bed Treaty
  floor system
 cháng variant of 場|场, threshing floor
 tà diàn floor mat / bathroom mat / car mat / doormat
 xī dì to vacuum the floor
 tuō dì bǎn to mop the floor
 mǎn dì zhǎo yá to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor / (fig.) to get beaten up badly / to beat the crap out of (sb)
 xǐ dì to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb
 gōng shè bǐ (Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
 luò dì gǔ floor tom (drum kit component)
 shàng cài xiù dinner show / dinner and floor show
 chū cài xiù dinner show / dinner and floor show
 fù yī céng (architecture) basement level 1 / floor B1
 gǔ pén dǐ pelvic floor (anatomy)
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