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标准 biāo zhǔn standard / norm / criterion / (adjective) standard / good / correct / conforming to a standard
水平 shuǐ píng level (of achievement etc) / standard / horizontal
规格 guī gé standard / norm / specification
规范 guī fàn norm / standard / specification / regulation / rule / within the rules / to fix rules / to regulate / to specify
准则 zhǔn zé norm / standard / criterion
则 zé (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / (bound form) standard / norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items
水准 shuǐ zhǔn level (of achievement etc) / standard / level (surveying)
好坏 hǎo huài good or bad / good and bad / standard / quality / (coll.) very bad
基准 jī zhǔn (surveying) datum / standard / criterion / benchmark
制式 zhì shì standardized / standard (service, method etc) / regulation (clothing etc) / formulaic / (telecommunications etc) system / format (e.g. the PAL or NTSC systems for TV signals)
规范性 guī fàn xìng normal / standard
标准间 biāo zhǔn jiān standard (hotel) room / two-person room of standard size and amenities / abbr. to 標間|标间[biao1 jian1]
本位 běn wèi standard / one's own department or unit
审美观 shěn měi guān esthetic conception / esthetic point of view / standard
格 gé square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively
准 zhǔn accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
杠 gàng coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole / bar / rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard / criterion / hyphen / dash
臬 niè guidepost / rule / standard / limit / target (old)
标准规格 biāo zhǔn guī gé standard / norm
轨范 guǐ fàn standard / criterion
标准列日 biāo zhǔn liè rì standard
标准误 biāo zhǔn wù standard
旝 kuài (literary) standard / banner (raised for battle) / (literary) catapult, or a rock launched by a catapult
标帜 biāo zhì banner / standard / variant of 標誌|标志[biao1zhi4]
合格 hé gé to meet the standard required / qualified / eligible (voter etc)
上线 shàng xiàn to go online / to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
为准 wéi zhǔn to serve as the norm / ...shall prevail (as standard for rules, regulations, price etc)
北京时间 Běi jīng Shí jiān Beijing Time (BJT) / China Standard Time (CST)
规矩 guī ju lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved
国际标准 guó jì biāo zhǔn international standard
达标 dá biāo to reach a set standard
技术标准 jì shù biāo zhǔn technology standard
不规范 bù guī fàn not standard / abnormal / irregular
国标 guó biāo national standard (abbr. for 國家標準|国家标准[guo2 jia1 biao1 zhun3]) / international standard ballroom dancing (abbr. for 國際標準舞|国际标准舞[guo2 ji4 biao1 zhun3 wu3])
猩猩 xīng xing orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin
及格 jí gé to pass an exam or a test / to meet a minimum standard
套路 tào lù sequence of movements in martial arts / routine / pattern / standard method
砝码 fǎ mǎ standard weight (used on a balance scale)
排放标准  emission standard / emission requirement
行为准则 xíng wéi zhǔn zé code of conduct / standard of conduct
差事 chà shì poor / not up to standard
西格玛 Xī gé mǎ sigma (Greek letter Σσ) / (symbol for standard deviation in statistics)
标准普尔 Biāo zhǔn Pǔ ěr Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index
开间 kāi jiān unit for the width of a room, equal to the standard width of a room in an old-style house &ndash / about 10 chi 尺[chi3] / width of a room / (architecture) bay
四声 sì shēng the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 / and entering tone 入聲|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
标准差 biāo zhǔn chā (statistics) standard deviation
标准时 biāo zhǔn shí standard time
绿营 Lu:4 yíng Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
风纪 fēng jì standard of behavior / moral standards / discipline
码子 mǎ zi (coll.) numeral / counter / chip / token / (old) ready money / cash / standard weight (used on a balance scale)
正字 zhèng zì to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling)
正音 zhèng yīn standard pronunciation / to correct sb's pronunciation
秤砣 chèng tuó steelyard weight / standard weight
国标舞 guó biāo wǔ international standard ballroom dancing
降格 jiàng gé to downgrade / to lower the standard / degrading / humiliating
通例 tōng lì general rule / standard practice
差 chà different / wrong / mistaken / to fall short / to lack / not up to standard / inferior / Taiwan pr. [cha1]
金本位 jīn běn wèi gold standard
坎德拉 kǎn dé lā candela (unit of luminosity) / standard candle
典 diǎn canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn
吕 lu:3 pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system
剌 lá variant of 拉[la2] (Note: 剌[la2] was the character used prior to simplification and remains the standard in Taiwan, while in mainland China, 拉[la2] has replaced 剌[la2])
规矩准绳 guī ju zhǔn shéng compasses, set square, spirit level and plumbline (idiom) / fig. established standard / norms / criteria
规矩绳墨 guī ju shéng mò compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom) / fig. established standard / norms / criteria
正体 zhèng tǐ standard form (of a Chinese character) / plain font style (as opposed to bold or italic) / printed style (as opposed to cursive) / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
标准语 biāo zhǔn yǔ standard language
东部时间 dōng bù shí jiān Eastern Standard Time (EST)
符合标准 fú hé biāo zhǔn to comply with a standard / standards-compliant
规範 guī fàn standard / norm
国家标准码 guó jiā biāo zhǔn mǎ Guo Biao or GB, the standard PRC encoding, abbr. 國標碼|国标码
矱 huò standard / norm
美东时间 Měi dōng shí jiān USA Eastern Standard Time
美国资讯交换标准码 Měi guó zī xùn jiāo huàn biāo zhǔn mǎ ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
普通话水平测试 Pǔ tōng huà Shuǐ píng Cè shì Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
业界标准 yè jiè biāo zhǔn industry standard
标准状况 biāo zhǔn zhuàng kuàng standard conditions for temperature and pressure
标准状态 biāo zhǔn zhuàng tài standard conditions for temperature and pressure
渣打银行 Zhā dǎ Yín háng Standard Chartered Bank
双重标准 shuāng chóng biāo zhǔn double standard
中文标准交换码 Zhōng wén biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ CSIC, Chinese standard interchange code used from 1992
合式 hé shì conforming to a pattern / up to standard / variant of 合適|合适[he2shi4]
国标码 guó biāo mǎ Guo Biao or GB, the standard PRC encoding, abbr. for 國家標準碼|国家标准码
大灶 dà zào large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶[zhong1 zao4] for mid-level cadres and 小灶[xiao3 zao4] for the most privileged)
本位制 běn wèi zhì monetary standard
标普 Biāo Pǔ Standard and Poor (share index) / abbr. for 標準普爾|标准普尔[Biao1 zhun3 Pu3 er3]
标准模型 biāo zhǔn mó xíng Standard Model (of particle physics)
标准音 biāo zhǔn yīn standard pronunciation / standard tone (e.g. A = 440 Hz)
标金 biāo jīn standard gold bar / deposit when submitting a tender
标间 biāo jiān abbr. for 標準間|标准间[biao1 zhun3 jian1], standard (hotel) room
树獭 shù tǎ (zoology) sloth (rare &ndash / the standard term is 樹懶|树懒[shu4lan3])
正体字 zhèng tǐ zì standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
法商 fǎ shāng "legal quotient" (LQ), a measure of one's awareness and knowledge of the law and one's standard of honorable conduct
破读 pò dú pronunciation of a character other than the standard / lit. broken reading
绿旗兵 Lu:4 qí bīng same as 綠營|绿营[lu:4 ying2], Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
绿营兵 Lu:4 yíng bīng Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
规范理论 guī fàn lǐ lùn Standard Model (of particle physics)
通用汉字标准交换码 tōng yòng Hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard / abbr. to 通用碼|通用码[Tong1 yong4 ma3]
通用码 tōng yòng mǎ Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard (abbr. for 通用漢字標準交換碼|通用汉字标准交换码[Tong1 yong4 Han4 zi4 Biao1 zhun3 Jiao1 huan4 ma3])
银本位 yín běn wèi Silver Standard (monetary standard)
银本位制 yín běn wèi zhì Silver Standard (monetary standard)
Chinese Tones