"Named" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 míng jiào called / named
 dé míng to get one's name / named (after sth)
 hào yuē to be named / named
 mìng míng to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
 qǔ míng to name / to be named / to christen / to seek fame
 Yáng wù Yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
 Xià Shāng zhōu Xia, Shang and Zhou, the earliest named Chinese dynasties
 míng fù qí shí not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name
 láng huān wolverine (Gulo gulo), also named 貂熊[diao1 xiong2]
 Lǐ kè tè Richter (name) / Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named
 A1 fú jiā dé luó dìng lu:4 Avogadro's law, a gas law named after Amedeo Avogadro
 yǐ rén míng mìng míng to name sth after a person / named after / eponymous
 yǐ běn rén míng under one's own name / named after oneself
 qián jiē (the item) named above / aforementioned / cited above / op. cit.
 Gǔ dǒng tān Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries
 Kāng xī Zì diǎn the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries
 Zhāng Yī Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓|稚让[Zhi4 rang4], named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅|广雅[Guang3 ya3] and several lost works
 kòng rì day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar)
 jí qiáng named grade or higher / at least stated magnitude (of earthquake)
 Zì qiáng Yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动
 qióng xiōng chuanxiong rhizome / also named 川芎[chuan1 xiong1]
 xiōng qióng chuanxiong rhizome / also named 川芎[chuan1 xiong1]
 Shān běn tóu (Tw) "Yamamoto haircut", similar to a butch cut, but with even length (no tapering on the sides and back), said to be named after Admiral Yamamoto 山本五十六[Shan1 ben3 Wu3 shi2 liu4]
 Tiān wèn Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem
 kǒng fāng xiōng (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
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