"Leap" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 跳跃 | tiào yuè | to jump / to leap / to bound / to skip |   |
| 飞跃 | fēi yuè | to leap | |
| 踊跃 | yǒng yuè | to leap / to jump / eager / enthusiastically | |
| 纵身 | zòng shēn | to leap / to spring / to throw oneself | |
| 弹跳 | tán tiào | to bounce / to jump / to leap | |
| 跃 |  yuè | to jump / to leap | |
| 踊 | yǒng | leap | |
| 趵 | bào | jump / leap | |
| 躩 | jué | bend / leap | |
| 趒 | tiáo | to jump / to climb over / to leap / to posture / a gangway | |
| 蹿蹦 | cuān bèng | to jump up / to leap | |
| 升腾 | shēng téng | to rise / to ascend / to leap up | |
| 跃进 | yuè jìn | to leap forward / to make rapid progress / a leap forward | |
| 大跃进 | Dà yuè jìn | Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies | |
| 跃升 | yuè shēng | to leap to (a higher position etc) / to jump / (of a plane) to ascend | |
| 活蹦乱跳 | huó bèng luàn tiào | to leap and frisk about (idiom) / lively / healthy and active | |
| 飞檐走壁 | fēi yán zǒu bì | to leap onto roofs and vault over walls (usually associated with martial arts) | |
| 闰月 | rùn yuè | intercalary month in the lunar calendar / leap month | |
| 闰年 | rùn nián | leap year / (lunar calendar) year with a thirteen intercalary month | |
| 跃迁 | yuè qiān | transition / jump (e.g. quantum leap in spectroscopy) | |
| 弹 | tán | to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials) | |
| 纵 | zòng | vertical / north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / from front to back / longitudinal / lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / (bound form) to release (a captive) / to indulge / to leap up / (literary) even if | |
| 蓦 | mò | leap on or over / suddenly | |
| 蹿 | cuān | to leap up / (coll.) to gush out / to spurt out | |
| 蹿房越脊 | cuān fáng yuè jǐ | lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom) / dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 / in fiction) | |
| 迣 | zhì | to leap over | |
| 质的飞跃 | zhì de fēi yuè | qualitative leap | |
| 打麻雀运动 | Dǎ Má què Yùn dòng | the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進|大跃进[Da4 yue4 jin4] aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows | |
| 放卫星 | fàng wèi xīng | to launch a satellite / (fig.) (neologism during the Great Leap Forward, c. 1958) to achieve prominent success / (later used sarcastically) to make exaggerated claims / to talk big | |
