"Suffix" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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后缀 hòu zhuì suffix (linguistics)
下标 xià biāo subscript / suffix / index
词尾 cí wěi suffix
字尾 zì wěi suffix
后置词 hòu zhì cí postposition / suffix / word placed after
后辍 hòu chuò suffix
语尾 yǔ wěi (grammar) suffix
尾缀 wěi zhuì (lit.) to follow sb / (linguistics) suffix / ending / (computing) file name extension
接尾词 jiē wěi cí suffix (in Japanese and Korean grammar)
地区 dì qū local / regional / district (not necessarily formal administrative unit) / region / area / as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) / CL:個|个[ge4]
家 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]
起 qǐ to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
性 xìng nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL:個|个[ge4]
头 tou suffix for nouns
儿 r non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
边 bian suffix of a noun of locality
易 yì easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
词缀 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
号 hào ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people
巴 bā to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
座 zuò seat / base / stand / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座|师座[shi1 zuo4] / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects
唯 wéi only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义[zhu3 yi4] or 論|论[lun4], e.g. 唯理論|唯理论[wei2 li3 lun4], rationalism)
麿 mǒ (Japanese kokuji) I, me (archaic) / suffix attached to the name of a person or pet / pr. maro
麿 xx5 (Japanese kokuji) I, me (archaic) / suffix attached to the name of a person or pet / pr. maro
词缀剥除 cí zhuì bō chú affix stripping / to determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix
乸 nǎ feminine suffix (Cantonese) / postfix indicating feminine
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