"Thin" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 báo thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile
 shòu thin / to lose weight / (of clothing) tight / (of meat) lean / (of land) unproductive
 dān bó weak / frail / thin / flimsy
 dàn bó thin / light / flagging / faint
 xī bó thin / rarefied
 fěi bó humble / meager / thin / to despise
 shū to dredge / to clear away obstruction / thin / sparse / scanty / distant (relation) / not close / to neglect / negligent / to present a memorial to the Emperor / commentary / annotation
 chái firewood / lean (of meat) / thin (of a person)
 qú thin / emaciated / worn / tired
 qīng qú lean / thin / spare
 shū dàn sparse / thin / distant
 qú shòu thin / emaciated
 gǔ lì thin / emaciated
 xī li guāng dāng thin / diluted
 shòu bā bā thin / scrawny / emaciated
 xuē shòu thin / lean / slender / skinny / (of cheeks) hollow
 piàn zi thin flake / small piece
 qiáo cuì wan and sallow / thin and pallid / haggard / (of plants) withered
 xiū cháng slender / lanky / tall and thin
 qiē piàn to slice / slice / thin section of a specimen (for microscopic examination)
 xiāo shòu to waste away / to become thin
 shòu ruò thin and weak
 yān xiāo yún sàn to vanish like smoke in thin air / to disappear
 cū xì thick and thin / coarse and fine / thickness (caliber) / coarseness / quality of work
 xuè shuǐ thin blood / watery blood
 báo bǎn thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
 báo piàn thin slice / thin section / flake / Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
 dào road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
 shòu zi thin person
 xì shuǐ cháng liú lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
 nèi pí (med.) endothelium / thin skin on the inside of some fruits (e.g. oranges)
 rú lu:3 bó bīng lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom) / fig. to be extremely cautious / to be skating on thin ice
 jīn zhēn gū enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes, Japanese えのき茸 / enokitake), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white / abbr. to 金菇
 báo céng thin layer / thin slice / film / lamina / lamella
 jiàn gap / to separate / to thin out (seedlings) / to sow discontent
 piān r sheet / thin film
 báo bǐng thin flat cake / pancake / pizza
 xī zhōu water gruel / thin porridge
 pū kōng lit. to rush at thin air / fig. to miss one's aim / to have nothing to show for one's troubles
 tiáo strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
 báo zhǐ thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc)
 guǎn jiàn my limited view (lit. view through a thin tube) / my limited understanding / my opinion (humble)
 piàn thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91
 xì thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal
 báo cuì crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker
 shòu kè hù jī thin client
 bǎn hú a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard
 juàn thin, tough silk fabric
 zhá thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague
 líng damask / thin silk
 xiǎo dwarf bamboo / thin bamboo
 màn plain thin silk / slow / unadorned
 gǔ shòu rú chái as thin as a match / emaciated (idiom)
 yè thin plates of metal
 yī dān shí bó thin coat, meager food (idiom) / life of wretched poverty / destitute
 qīng kǒu bó shé lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom) / hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued
 qīng zuǐ bó shé lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom) / hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued
 jiàn short / shallow / thin plate
 rú thin outside skin of bamboo
 yū bamboo with thin / wide leaves
 qiē piàn jiǎn chá slide examination / microscopic examination of thin section of specimen as part of biopsy
 kě gòng huàn nàn to go through thick and thin together (idiom)
 huò fú yǔ gòng to stick together through thick and thin (idiom)
 qiè qiè long and thin / slender
 jīng lì fēng yǔ to go through thick and thin (idiom)
 yè piàn zhuàng foliated / striated into thin leaves
 báo tòu jìng thin lens (optics)
 zhóu suǒ axon (long thin axis of nerve cell)
 là bó thin foil to make paper money for the dead
 gāo ǎi pàng shòu one's physique (tall or short, thin or fat) / stature
 yún xiāo wù sàn the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom) / to clear up / to vanish into thin air
 shòu kè hù jī chéng xù thin client
  thin film cell device
 wēi (dialect) to bend (a long and thin object)
穿 chuān yī tiáo kù zi (of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together / to be like family / to share the same view of things
 zhú miè thin bamboo strips used for basket weaving
 qín leather shoes / leather belt / thin bamboo strips
 jiàn xī to thin out gradually / to become fainter and fainter
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