"Opposite" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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相对 xiāng duì relatively / opposite / to resist / to oppose / relative / vis-a-vis / counterpart
对面 duì miàn (sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face
相反 xiāng fǎn opposite / contrary
对 duì right / correct / couple / pair / towards / at / for / to face / opposite / to treat (sb a certain way) / to match together / to adjust / to fit / to suit / to answer / to reply / classifier: couple
逆反 nì fǎn rebellious behavior / opposite / ob-
相背 xiāng bèi contrary / opposite
对立面 duì lì miàn opposite / antonym / the opposite side (in a conflict)
反 fǎn contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system
左 zuǒ left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3]
逆 nì contrary / opposite / backwards / to go against / to oppose / to betray / to rebel
对过 duì guò across / opposite / the other side
对方 duì fāng counterpart / other person involved / opposite side / other side / receiving party
偏偏 piān piān (indicates that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately / as it happened / (indicates that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly / contrarily / against reason / (indicates that sb or a group is singled out) precisely / only / of all people
异性 yì xìng the opposite sex / of the opposite sex / heterosexual / different in nature
对立 duì lì to oppose / to set sth against / to be antagonistic to / antithetical / relative opposite / opposing / diametrical
反过来 fǎn guo lái conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
对峙 duì zhì to stand opposite / to confront / confrontation
反向 fǎn xiàng opposite direction / reverse
对岸 duì àn opposite bank (of a body of water)
恰恰相反 qià qià xiāng fǎn just the opposite
天壤之别 tiān rǎng zhī bié lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference / opposite extremes / a world of difference / a far cry from
适得其反 shì dé qí fǎn to produce the opposite of the desired result
背道而驰 bèi dào ér chí to run in the opposite direction (idiom) / to run counter to
对门 duì mén the building or room opposite
对开 duì kāi running in opposite direction (buses, trains, ferries etc)
反作用 fǎn zuò yòng opposite reaction
对角 duì jiǎo opposite angle
反其道而行之 fǎn qí dào ér xíng zhī to do the very opposite / to act in a diametrically opposite way
思春期 sī chūn qī age when girls start to develop feelings for the opposite sex / puberty
抢 qiāng (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage) / opposite in direction / contrary
物极必反 wù jí bì fǎn when things reach an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction (idiom)
先兵后礼 xiān bīng hòu lǐ opposite of 先禮後兵|先礼后兵[xian1 li3 hou4 bing1]
倒座儿 dào zuò r the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院[si4 he2 yuan4]
反义字 fǎn yì zì character with opposite meaning / antonym / opposite characters
大乌苏里岛 Dà Wū sū lǐ Dǎo Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / same as Heixiazi Island 黑瞎子島|黑瞎子岛[Hei1 xia1 zi5 Dao3]
对消 duì xiāo in equilibrium / to cancel out (of opposite forces) (physics)
对生 duì shēng (botany) opposite leaf arrangement / paired leaf arrangement
抚远三角洲 Fǔ yuǎn sān jiǎo zhōu Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / same as Heixiazi Island 黑瞎子島|黑瞎子岛[Hei1 xia1 zi5 Dao3]
斜对 xié duì catty-corner / to be diagonally opposite to
相向突击 xiāng xiàng tū jī sudden attack from the opposite direction (idiom)
计都 jì dū concept from Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit Ketu), the opposite point to 羅睺|罗睺[luo2 hou2] / imaginary star presaging disaster
路德维希港 Lù dé wéi xī gǎng Ludwigshafen am Rhein, German city on the Rhine opposite Mannheim
锡霍特 Xī huò tè Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
锡霍特·阿林  Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
锡霍特·阿林山脉  Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
锡霍特山脉 Xī huò tè shān mài Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
黑瞎子岛 Hēi xiā zi Dǎo Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / Heixiazi (black blind man) Island
对向海岸 duì xiàng hǎi àn opposite coasts
锡霍特・阿林山脉 Xī huò tè · A1 lín shān mài Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
海岸相对的国家  States with opposite coasts / opposite States
锡霍特・阿林 Xī huò tè · A1 lín Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
冒题 mào tí writing style in which the main subject is not introduced initially / opposite of 破題|破题[po4 ti2]
异性相吸 yì xìng xiāng xī opposite polarities attract / (fig.) opposite sexes attract / opposites attract
破题 pò tí writing style in which the main subject is approached directly from the outset / opposite of 冒題|冒题[mao4 ti2]
有色无胆 yǒu sè wú dǎn to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
锡霍特·阿林山脉 Xī huò tè · A1 lín shān mài Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
锡霍特·阿林 Xī huò tè · A1 lín Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
招蜂引蝶 zhāo fēng yǐn dié (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies / (fig.) to attract the opposite sex / to flirt
会车 huì chē (of two vehicles traveling in opposite directions) to pass by each other
当面锣，对面鼓 dāng miàn luó , duì miàn gǔ lit. gong facing gong, drum opposite drum (idiom) / fig. to come together to thrash out the issue face to face
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