"State" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 guó jiā country / nation / state / CL:個|个[ge4]
 zhuàng tài state of affairs / state / mode / situation / CL:個|个[ge4]
 biǎo shì to express / to show / to say / to state / to indicate / to mean
 shēng míng to state / to declare / statement / declaration / CL:項|项[xiang4],份[fen4]
 zhuàng kuàng condition / state / situation / CL:個|个[ge4]
 zhì xù order (orderly) / order (sequence) / social order / the state (of society) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 jìng jiè boundary / state / realm
 jú shì situation / state (of affairs)
 chén shù an assertion / to declare / to state
 shuō dào to state / to say (the quoted words)
 shēng chēng to claim / to state / to proclaim / to assert
 jiàn yán to make a suggestion / to state (one's views, ideas etc) / suggestion / advice / idea
 guó country / nation / state / national / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shè jì state / country / the Gods of earth and grain
 qíng kuàng circumstances / state of affairs / situation / CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
 qi lai (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5]
 biǎo míng to make clear / to make known / to state clearly / to indicate / known
 chǔ yú to be in (some state, position, or condition)
 qíng xù mood / state of mind / moodiness / CL:種|种[zhong3]
 dà shà (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 / Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 / Empire State Building etc)
 Guó wù yuàn State Council (PRC) / State Department (USA)
 shén jīng nerve / mental state / (coll.) unhinged / nutjob
 xīn tài attitude (of the heart) / state of one's psyche / way of thinking / mentality
 shuì wù taxation services / state revenue service
 lián bāng federal / federation / commonwealth / federal union / federal state / union
 huán yuán to restore to the original state / to reconstruct (an event) / reduction (chemistry)
 bìng qíng state of an illness / patient's condition
 shěng zhèng fǔ state governments
 jiāng shān rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
 sī xù train of thought / emotional state / mood / feeling
 shēn míng to declare / to aver / to state formally
 Zhōng yāng Diàn shì tái China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network
 Huá shèng dùn Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)
 xīn shén mind / state of mind / attention / (Chinese medicine) psychic constitution
 Wài jiāo bù Ministry of Foreign Affairs / foreign office / Dept. of State
 lǎo jiā native place / place of origin / home state or region
 guó qíng the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country
 xīn jìng mood / mental state / frame of mind
 hē chá to drink tea / to get engaged / to have a serious conversation / (fig.) to have a meeting with state security agents (to be warned to behave "responsibly")
 jīng hún in a panicked state / frightened
 Xī ěr Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs
 le (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
 shì tài situation / existing state of affairs
 Xià wēi yí Hawaii, US state
 wài zhǎng foreign minister / secretary of state / minister of foreign affairs
 yuán shǒu head of state
 xīn cháng heart / intention / one's inclination / state of mind / to have the heart for sth / mood
 xīn xù state of mind / mood
 shén zhì consciousness / state of mind / compos mentis
 jīng shén zhuàng tài mental state / psychological condition
 míng wén to state in writing (laws, rules etc)
 tǐ gé bodily health / one's physical state / physique
 bìng tài morbid or abnormal state
 guó kù public purse / state treasury / national exchequer
 guó jiā zhǔ xí president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
 cháng tài normal state
广 Guǎng diàn Zǒng jú National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) (abbr. for 國家廣播電視總局|国家广播电视总局[Guo2 jia1 Guang3 bo1 Dian4 shi4 Zong3 ju2]) / formerly SAPPRFT, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (2013-2018) and SARFT, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (prior to 2013)
 guó wù qīng Secretary of State
 Guó jiā Jì Wěi PRC State Planning Committee, abbr. for 國家計劃委員會|国家计划委员会[Guo2 jia1 Ji4 hua4 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]
 Lài sī Rice (name) / Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009
 míng shì to state explicitly / to clearly indicate
西 Xī yǎ tú Seattle, Washington State
 Dōng Wú Eastern Wu (222-280) / the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权
 Yào jiān jú State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) / abbr. for 國家食品藥品監督管理局|国家食品药品监督管理局[Guo2 jia1 Shi2 pin3 Yao4 pin3 Jian1 du1 Guan3 li3 ju2]
 fā zhǎn yán jiū zhōng xīn Development Research Center (PRC State Council institution)
 Zhōng nán hǎi Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council
 gěi dìng to state in advance / preset / given
 gào jí to be in a state of emergency / to report an emergency / to ask for emergency assistance
 yǒu bāng friendly state / ally
 yuán zhuàng previous condition / original state
 kāi guó to found a state / to open a closed country
 Sūn Quán Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴[Wu2] in the Three Kingdoms period
 Qín guó the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
 Chǔ guó the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
 xiāo lù sale / market / state of the market / sales event
 cháng rèn lǐ shì guó permanent member state (of the UN Security Council)
 zǎi míng to state explicitly in writing / to specify / to stipulate
 zhōu zhǎng governor (of a province or colony) / US state governor / premier (Australian states)
 gù tài solid state (physics)
 guó shī teachers of the state
 Qí guó Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong
 guó jiā huán bǎo zǒng jú (PRC) State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), former incarnation (until 2008) of 環境保護部|环境保护部[Huan2 jing4 Bao3 hu4 bu4]
 Wú Yí Wu Yi (1938-), one of four vice-premiers of the PRC State Council
 zhí wù rén person in a vegetative state / human vegetable
 tīng mìng to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
 A1 lā sī jiā Alaska, US state
西 Xīn zé xī New Jersey, US state
 shè huì zhǔ yì guó jiā socialist state
 Jīn bǎo Campbell (name) / Kampar, town in the state of Perak, Malaysia
 Wú guó Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods) / Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 / the southernmost of the three Kingdoms
 Lu:3 Bù wéi / Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
 yī fǎn cháng tài complete change from the normal state (idiom) / quite uncharacteristic / entirely outside the norm / out of character
 chū kǒu guó export State / State of export
 jiān chén a treacherous court official / a minister who conspires against the state
 rù dìng (Buddhism) to enter a meditative state
 chéng bāng a city state (Greek polis)
 jìn kǒu guó import State / State of import
 móu fǎn to plot a rebellion / to conspire against the state
 zhōu zhèng fǔ state governments
 ruò bù jīn fēng too weak to stand up to the wind (idiom) / extremely delicate / fragile state of health
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