medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
登陆
dēng lù
to land / to come ashore / to make landfall (of typhoon etc) / to log in (frequently used erroneous variant of 登錄|登录[deng1 lu4])
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable
革命
gé mìng
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) / CL:次[ci4]
小子
xiǎo zǐ
(literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)
用来
yòng lái
to be used for
外挂
wài guà
attached externally (e.g. fuel tank) / plug-in / add-on / special software used to cheat in an online game
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
公车
gōng chē
bus / abbr. for 公共汽車|公共汽车[gong1 gong4 qi4 che1] / car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc) / abbr. for 公務用車|公务用车[gong1 wu4 yong4 che1]
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
大关
dà guān
strategic pass / barrier or mark (i.e. a level considered impressive, usually a round figure such as 10,000) / instrument of torture used to break limbs
八字
bā zì
the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus) / henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得嚴|妻子管得严[qi1 zi5 guan3 de5 yan2] used in comic theater)
(particle used to exaggerate certain adjectives, in particular 神經兮兮|神经兮兮, 髒兮兮|脏兮兮, 可憐兮兮|可怜兮兮, and 慘兮兮|惨兮兮)
试想
shì xiǎng
to consider (a cogent point) (usu. used as an imperative &ndash / "Think about it: ...")
置信
zhì xìn
to believe (what sb claims) (usually used in the negative) / (math.) confidence (interval etc)
玉女
yù nu:3
beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
星火
xīng huǒ
spark / meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火[ji2 ru2 xing1 huo3])
I would like to ask (usually used rhetorically) / one might well ask
天池
Tiān chí
"heavenly lake", lake situated on a mountain / used as the name of numerous lakes, such as 長白山天池|长白山天池[Chang2 bai2 shan1 Tian1 chi2]
区位
qū wèi
geographical location / (computing) row-cell (i.e. the row 區|区[qu1] and cell 位[wei4] used to specify a character in a CJK character set)
酋长
qiú zhǎng
headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir
难为
nán wei
to bother / to press sb, usu. to do sth / it's a tough job / sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)
套用
tào yòng
to apply (sth hitherto used in a different context) / to use (rules, systems, models etc copied from elsewhere) (often implying that they aren't suited to the new situation) / to borrow (a phrase) / (Tw) (computing) to apply (a style, formatting etc)
总长
zǒng zhǎng
name used for cabinet ministers between 1912-1927, superseded by 部長|部长[bu4 zhang3]
专车
zhuān chē
special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app
鸡汤
jī tāng
chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul &ndash / i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
to await job assignment (term used only in mainland China)
午时
wǔ shí
11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
出笼
chū lóng
(of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market
把柄
bǎ bǐng
handle / (fig.) information that can be used against sb
总论
zǒng lùn
(often used in book or chapter titles) general introduction / overview
切口
qiè kǒu
slang / argot / private language used as secret code
咱家
zá jiā
I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature)
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
姑奶奶
gū nǎi nai
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
粮票
liáng piào
coupons for food or grain used in a PRC economic program c. 1955-1993
寡人
guǎ rén
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
地支
dì zhī
the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
贫僧
pín sēng
poor monk (humble term used by monk of himself)
金针
jīn zhēn
needle used in embroidery or sewing / acupuncture needle / orange day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
两岸三地
liǎng àn sān dì
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (media term used esp. since 1997)
shǎng