"Wave" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 bō làng wave
 piāo yáng to wave / to flutter / to fly
 huī to wave / to brandish / to command / to conduct / to scatter / to disperse
 zhèn disposition of troops / wave / spate / burst / spell / short period of time / classifier for events or states of short duration
 huī shǒu to wave (one's hand)
 làng cháo wave / tides
 zhāo shǒu to wave / to beckon
 fēng cháo tempest / wave (of popular sentiment etc) / craze or fad
 wǔ dòng to move as in a dance / to wave (some implement) / to flourish / (of eyes, hands etc) to dance / to flutter
 piāo dàng to drift / to wave / to float on the waves / to flutter in the wind
 shuǐ bō wave / (water) ripple
 hǎi bō hypo (loanword) / sodium thiosulfate Na2S2O3 used in fixing photos (formerly hyposulfite) / wave (sea)
 làng tou wave
 wǔ nòng to wave / to brandish
 bō wave / ripple / storm / surge
 làng wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble
 lūn to swing (one's arms, a heavy object) / to wave (a sword, one's fists) / to fling (money)
 bō dòng to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
 huī wǔ to brandish / to wave sth
 bǎi shǒu to wave one's hand / to gesture with one's hand (beckoning, waving good-bye etc) / to swing one's arms
 huī dòng to wave sth / to brandish
 hǎi làng sea wave
 chōng jī bō shock wave / blast wave
 dìng xíng to finalize (a design etc) / stereotype / permanent wave or perm (hairdressing)
 bō duàn wave band
 hán liú the spread of Korean cultural products (TV dramas, pop music etc) to other countries / Korean Wave
 bō xíng wave form
 rè làng heat wave
 diàn cí bō electromagnetic wave
 diàn bō electric wave / alternating current
 tuī bō zhù lán to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom) / to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire
 shēng bō sound wave
 yáo shǒu to wave the hand (to say goodbye, or in a negative gesture) / crank handle
 guāng bō light wave
 chāo yīn bō ultrasound / ultrasonic wave
 zài bō carrier wave
 làng tāo ocean wave / billows
 qián pū hòu jì one falls, the next follows (idiom) / stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave
 qián fù hòu jì to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
 yáo qí nà hǎn to wave flags and shout battle cries (idiom) / to egg sb on / to give support to
 nǎo bō brain wave / EEG
 yīn bō sound wave
 bō fēng wave crest
 zhèng xián bō sine wave / simple harmonic vibration
 hán cháo cold wave / CL:股[gu3]
线 wú xiàn diàn bō radio waves / wireless electric wave
 Zhōng Bō medium wave (radio frequency range)
 huí bō echo (e.g. radar) / returning wave
 jiāo biàn half-period of a wave motion / alternation
 zhèn bō seismic wave
 shào zhuàng pài young guard / young and vigorous group with new ideas / new wave
 héng bō transverse wave
 shè diàn radio wave (astronomy)
 è làng violent wave / fierce billow / fig. depraved force
 lián piān (literary) to come in quick succession / wave after wave
 háo mǐ bō millimeter wave (radio signal)
 zhù bō standing wave
 chāo duǎn bō ultra short wave (radio) / UHF
 cì shēng bō infrasonic wave
 bō sù wave velocity
 jī bō shock wave
 zòng bō longitudinal wave
 tāo big wave / Taiwan pr. [tao2]
 yáng soar / tossed by wind or wave
 diào shū dài lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom) / fig. to show off one's erudition / a person who does so
 lā dà qí zuò hǔ pí lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom) / fig. to borrow sb's prestige / to take the name of a great cause as a shield
 dì zhèn bō seismic wave
 ruì lì bō Rayleigh wave / R wave
 biāo (literary) to wave away / to discard
 fú shè bō radiation (wave) / radiated wave
 huī wave, brandish / modest, humble
 yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom) / a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
 piān zhèn bō polarized wave
 lì xué bō mechanical wave
 mì dù bō density wave
 píng miàn bō a plane wave
 yǐn lì bō gravitational wave
 ná zhe jī máo dàng lìng jiàn to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom) / to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
 bō hán shù wave function (in quantum mechanics)
 bō dòng lì xué wave mechanics (physics)
 bō shù wave number (reciprocal of frequency)
 bō fāng chéng wave equation (math. physics)
 bō miàn wave front
 làng shí wave erosion
 yù (obscure) variant of 鬱|郁[yu4] / rich / great wave
 rè pěng a craze / a popular wave / a hit with the public
 jiǎn xié bō simple harmonic wave / sine wave
线 xiàn xìng bō linear wave
 rào shè interference (of wave motion in physics)
 Xuē dìng è fāng chéng Schrödinger's wave equation
 xíng bō guǎn traveling wave tube (electronics)
 tiáo zhì bō modulated wave (elec.)
 zài pín frequency of carrier wave
 zhèn dòng lì force of seismic wave
 gāo wēn rè liú a heat wave
 jīng bō huge wave or breaker
  shock wave generator
  spherical shock wave / spherical implosion wave / convergent shock wave
 bō cháo lǐ lùn wave and tide theory
  S wave - P wave / S-P
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