"Vertical" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 垂直 | chuí zhí | perpendicular / vertical |   |
| 直 |  zhí | straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | |
| 竖 | shù | to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters) | |
| 纵向 | zòng xiàng | longitudinal / vertical | |
| 直立 | zhí lì | erect / upright / vertical | |
| 竖直 | shù zhí | vertical / to erect / to set upright / vertical stroke in Chinese characters / young servant (old) | |
| 纵 | zòng | vertical / north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / from front to back / longitudinal / lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1]) / (bound form) to release (a captive) / to indulge / to leap up / (literary) even if | |
| 竖式 | shù shì | standing / vertical | |
| 下行 | xià xíng | (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom | |
| 跨度 | kuà dù | span / horizontal distance between vertical supports | |
| 纵贯 | zòng guàn | lit. warp string in weaving / fig. vertical or north-south lines / to pass through / to cross lengthwise / to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom) | |
| 立轴 | lì zhóu | vertical scroll (painting or calligraphy) / vertical shaft (of a machine) | |
| 碑石 | bēi shí | stele / vertical stone tablet for carved inscriptions | |
| 垂直线 | chuí zhí xiàn | vertical line | |
| 竖井 | shù jǐng | vertical shaft (for mining, ventilation systems etc) | |
| 垂线 | chuí xiàn | (math.) perpendicular line / vertical line | |
| 纵坐标 | zòng zuò biāo | vertical coordinate / ordinate | |
| 陡壁 | dǒu bì | steep cliff / precipice / vertical slope | |
| 基准面 | jī zhǔn miàn | vertical datum | |
| 纵断面 | zòng duàn miàn | vertical section / longitudinal section | |
| 笙 | shēng | sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes | |
| 中缝 | zhōng fèng | vertical space in a newspaper between two attached pages / vertical line on the back of clothing | |
| 忄 | xīn | Kangxi radical 61 (心) as a vertical side element | |
| 闑 | niè | vertical divider of a door way | |
| 竖钩 | shù gōu | vertical stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters) | |
| 丨 | shù | vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3] | |
| 刂 | dāo | Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element, referred to as 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] or 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2] | |
| 合纵 | Hé Zòng | Vertical Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
| 合纵连横 | Hé zòng Lián héng | Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
| 垂直和短距起落飞机 | chuí zhí hé duǎn jù qǐ luò fēi jī | vertical or short takeoff and landing aircraft | |
| 垂直搜索 | chuí zhí sōu suǒ | vertical search / semantic search / top-down search | |
| 垂直起落飞机 | chuí zhí qǐ luò fēi jī | vertical takeoff and landing aircraft | |
| 对顶角 | duì dǐng jiǎo | angle to the vertical / angle (between two lines or two planes) | |
| 炮耳 | pào ěr | trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot | |
| 砲耳 | pào ěr | trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot / also written 炮耳 | |
| 竖笔 | shù bǐ | vertical stroke (in Chinese characters) | |
| 笙箫 | shēng xiāo | reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute | |
| 纵剖面 | zòng pōu miàn | vertical section / longitudinal section | |
| 纵线 | zòng xiàn | vertical line / vertical coordinate line | |
| 纵裂 | zòng liè | lobe / longitudinal slit / vertical fracture | |
| 立式车床 | lì shì chē chuáng | vertical turning machine | |
| 臭氧的垂直方向分布 | ozone's vertical distribution | | |
| 臭氧的高度分布 | ozone's vertical distribution | | |
| 垂直剖面 | chuí zhí pōu miàn | vertical section | |
| 垂直地震剖面 | vertical seismic profiling | | |
| 竖向技术转让 | vertical technology transfer | | |
| 纵向扩散 | vertical proliferation | | |
| 纵向干预 | vertical intervention | | |
| 垂线偏差 | deflection of the vertical | | |
| 泰罗斯卫星实用垂直分布探测器 | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder | | |
| 温度垂直廓线辐射仪 | wēn duó chuí zhí kuò xiàn fú shè yí | vertical temperature profile radiometer | |
| 垂直短距起降飞机 | Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing aircraft / STOVL aircraft | | |
| 垂直定位 | chuí zhí dìng wèi | vertical positioning | |
| 垂直定位误差 | vertical positioning error / vertical error | | |
| 垂直扩大 | chuí zhí kuò dài | vertical exaggeration (of a profile) | |
| 高程基准 | gāo chéng jī zhǔn | vertical datum | |
| 高程控制基准 | gāo chéng kòng zhì jī zhǔn | vertical datum | |
| 站着生孩子 | vertical birth | | |
| 垂直姿势分娩 | vertical birth | | |
| 垂直输送系数 | vertical transport coefficient / eddy diffusion coefficient | | |
| 大气气柱 | dài qì qì zhù | vertical column / atmospheric column | |
| 纵轴风轮机 | vertical axis wind turbine | | |
| 地平经圈 | vertical circle | | |
| 垂直圈仪 | vertical circle | | |
| 高程控制点 | gāo chéng kòng zhì diǎn | vertical control point | |
| 垂直叠加 | chuí zhí dié jiā | vertical stacking | |
| 竖轴 | vertical axis | | |
| 高程控制网 | gāo chéng kòng zhì wǎng | vertical geodetic network / vertical control network / vertical control | |
| 垂直补给 | vertical replenishment / third-dimension resupply | | |
| 第叁维再补给 | vertical replenishment / third-dimension resupply | | |
| 垂直比例尺 | vertical scale | | |
| 竖向误差放大因子 | vertical dilution of precision | | |
| 偏移垂直地震剖面 | offset vertical seismic profiling / offset VSP | | |
| 竖向基金 | vertical fund | | |
| 垂直传播 | vertical transmission / perinatal transmission | | |
| 母婴传播 | vertical transmission / perinatal transmission | | |
| 纵向审计 | vertical audit | | |
| 垂直鞭状天线 | vertical whip antenna | | |
| 垂直多样性 | vertical diversity | | |
| 挂旗 | guà qí | vertical banner (for display at exhibitions, advertising hung from poles in the street etc) | |
| 垂直轴 | chuí zhí zhóu | vertical shaft / (math.) vertical axis | |
| 直排 | zhí pái | vertical setting (printing) | |
| 垂直尾翼 | chuí zhí wěi yì | (aviation) tailfin / vertical stabilizer | |
| 直幅 | zhí fú | vertical scroll / (advertising) vertical banner | |
| 𫔶 | niè | vertical divider of a door way | |
| 茓 | xué | to store grain by enclosing it in a woven mat rolled into a vertical cylinder | |
| 马甲线 | mǎ jiǎ xiàn | (neologism c. 2013) (coll.) vertical groove visible on either side of the belly in a person with well-toned abs | |
