"Petty" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xiǎo qì stingy / miserly / narrow-minded / petty
 wò chuò dirty / filthy / vile / despicable / narrow-minded / petty
 xiǎo ér kē pediatrics / pediatric (department) / sth of little importance / trifle / a child's play / (slang) childish / petty / stingy
 xiǎo xīn yǎn r small-minded / petty / narrow-minded
 chuò dirty / filthy / base / mean / narrow-minded / petty
 xiǎo jiā zi qì petty / small-minded
 xiǎo dù jī cháng lit. small belly, chicken's gut (idiom) / narrow-minded / petty
 xiǎo xīn yǎn narrow-minded / petty
 xiǎo li xiǎo qì stingy / petty
 cǐ petty / wretched
 zhān to drink / to sip / to taste / to lick / whisper / petty
 xīn xiōng xiá zhǎi narrow-minded (idiom) / petty / ungenerous
 bēi lòu humble / petty / crude
 fēng yuè romance / beautiful scenery / small or petty (of talk etc)
 shì guān warrant officer / petty officer / noncommissioned officer (NCO) / Japanese military officer
 xià shì lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
 xiǎo dòng zuò bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
 zhī ma guān low ranking official / petty bureaucrat
 xiǎo guān petty official / minor functionary
 tiāo cì to carp / nitpicking / petty criticism
 xiǎo zī chǎn jiē jí petty bourgeois
 zhōu zhuǎn jīn revolving fund / working capital / petty cash / turnover
 tiāo máo bìng to nitpick / petty criticism / to nag
 xiǎo tōu xiǎo mō petty theft
 wō nang qì pent-up frustration / petty annoyances
 suǒ xiè trivial matters / petty things
 qīng zuì petty crime / misdemeanor
 bēi bēi bù zú dào to be too petty or insignificant to mention / to not be worth mentioning (idiom)
 miào shǒu kōng kōng petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
 dǎ xiǎo suàn pán lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom) / petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
 yǐ dòu wō zhēng lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom) / fig. petty squabbling
 jié jié wéi yì petty favors
 xù rén jié yì petty kindness
 jī wù petty or mean persons
 líng yòng jīn petty cash
 líng yòng jī jīn petty cash fund
  petty cash voucher
 dìng é bèi yòng xiàn jīn petty cash / imprest cash
 xiǎo shāng yè petty trading
  petty cash account / imprest account
  petty officer
  petty officer
  chief petty officer
  minor offence / petty offence
  petty offender
 shuǎ xiǎo cōng ming to get smart / to resort to petty tricks
 bài guān petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about (old) / novel in the vernacular / fiction writer / novelist
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