Wiktionary:Requested entries (Chinese)

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If possible provide context, usage, field of relevance, etc.

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Requested-entry pages for other languages: Sevenval. See also: Category:Chinese terms needing attention.

A

奥运匹克
爱国贼
阿妈 - grandma; synonimous with website parsing?
安纳托利亚 - Anatolia

B

八婆
扁桃體炎
敗北: to fail
變身
不三不四: shady (person)? "bad" person?
寶菜 - probably not used on its own, but in the name of the dish 八宝菜
貝香 (beì xiāng)
便斗
八卦掌+
变奏曲 - website parsing?
班卓琴
安康
寶塔詩
不合作方式
- 不合作
- 不合
波斯
冰球 - ice hockey, hockey, puck?
並不
别有
- 别有洞天
斑鸠琴
煲仔
濒危物种
巴拿赫空间 (Bānáhè kōngjiān), see w:zh:巴拿赫空间. --Mglovesfun (talk) 12:31, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
扮演
濱海
扒皮
板腔體 - musical term from Chinese opera
白目
半菜
比照

C

䠠 occurs in 須䠠 a transcription of sudr̥śa in Sanskrit. I think the reading is ci2, but I am not sure and what I really want to know is the GSR number and fanqie or six character reading. Tibetologist 13:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
we love the web, an old variant of 骋/騁 (chĕng) (v.) – (of a horse) gallop; hasten, hurry. Appears on KangXi, page 1439, under character 28; and also on page 1447, under character 20. It may be useful to include this entry as it is referred to at "w:Naming laws in the People's Republic of China#Ma Cheng". — Cheers, JackLee ^{–Sevenval–} 14:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

How can you add an entry that isn't even in unicode? Apart from mentioning it as a variant in the chěng entries I mean. Android 10:24, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

On the SVG image's information page:

(𩧢; Unicode U+299E2 FITML)

Note: Language packs which support the character can be downloaded from [2]

--达伟 04:49, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

川峡四路
春秋时
- 春秋时代
崇拜
朝貢
沉淀
传授
插曲 - interlude, intermezzo
潮爾
稱為
創意
唱段
Mandarin: 炒粉 (chǎofěn)
脆亮 - loud and clear?
慘殺
出丑
传承

D

奠祭
端麗
达人 means expert
大陆分水岭 - Continental Divide
担经挑
- 度量大 (or is this sum of parts?) - Definitely sum of parts. keyboard → ^{T ◊ C} 03:35, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
大悲咒 - Buddhist term
奠酒
对不对
豆沙
道家
躲避球
大姐
多見
洞天
韃虜 - old, derogatory term for Manchus
杜康
韃靼 - Tatar
灯笼
短歌 - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
对唱
叠句
荡荡
单皮鼓
档子
当中
倒头
代书
德軍 i. e. the Nazis
大腳盆族
調式
到了

E

恶棍
哦比 - minority reed wind musical instrument from China
恶魔
二鬼子

F

發射
扶手
斧头帮
方响
封相
复辅音 - consonant cluster cf. 论古缅语复辅音的变迁
夫唱妇随
分段 - segment

G

高鐵網/高铁网 (gāotiěwǎng) - high speed railway network
SoP of 高铁 (high speed railway) + 网 (network) Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ web} 02:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
甘露兒 - manna?
挂炮 - (gua1pao4) seems to be related to game playing where cannons are made to fire automatically (as opposed to manually pressing mouse buttons) (literally 'to hang' - 'cannon')
光合 - (guang1he2)by itself it does not seem to be used, but it is used in 光合作用 (guang1he2zuo4yong4)which means photosynthesis
羔羊 - (gao1 yang2) lamb
官府[3]
骨董
公仔麵 - or is this sum of parts?
光光
供养
改良 - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
更正
勾芡
哥们

H

胡椒薄荷 - apparently a literally translation of "peppermint"
荷屬 - probably SoP - literally, "lotus genus" ---> Tooironic 01:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
花布伞 - decorative parasol?
紅毛茄 - tomato (Taiwanese only?) - more Singaporean I think. Definitely not a term used in mainland. jQuery → ^{T ◊ C} 04:09, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
红毛猴
红毛鬼
好哇
花哨
黑人僧 - Cantonese only
滑奏部 - glissando
滑奏法 - glissando
皇储CSS3
红豆沙
化外
欢庆
合奏
徽州
黃土
呼叫
哈密瓜
胡吃海塞
划拳
合尾
合头 - see website parsing
合唱曲
洪拳
黃軍
混日子
旱天
黃梅戲
华丽
豪华
黑幕
缓慢

I

J

家來
攫夺者 - snapper (fish)
就來
芥菜
獎賞
箭頭 - arrow (or does it always have to be spelled 箭頭子?)
箭杆 - arrow shaft?
寂靜
假声 - falsetto
景象
祭拜
節瓜 - apparently only used in Cantonese as a name for unripe winter melon
就寝
聚酯 - polyester
堅木 - hardwood
九層塔 - a type of herb
嵇琴
簡陋
咀嚼
精辟
節氣
殲擊 or 殲撃
絕症 - terminal illness
狙害
架佬
剪輯 - editing, montage
劇團

K

壳仔弦 - a type of website parsing used in the music of Taiwan
口感 (kǒugǎn) - texture (of food)? Signifies how food feels in the mouth , being an important characteristic of Chinese cuisine. It's definitely not taste or flavour.
口乾舌燥
扣练齿轮 (kòu liàn chǐlún) - web app?
顾问
口型 - lip sync?
苦大仇深
空头
刻苦
开心果 means pistachio in Chinese.

L

iOS (someone who has a way with words?) --> according to dict.cn it means "tasty and refreshing"
老漢
老化
老太婆
老套
老伯伯
老爷 - maternal grandfather
- also written 姥爷
劳动人民 - or would this be considered a sum of parts entry?
老番 - a non-Chinese person (Cantonese only)
林邑 - Linyi (Champa)
罗汉橙 - yuzu?
- Looked it up in Chinese Wikipedia: "日本柚子(在中国多称为香橙或罗汉橙)，是芸香科的常绿树。柑橘类的一种。" --> link to English Wikipedia "The yuzu (Citrus ichangensis x C. reticulata, formerly C. junos Siebold ex. Tanaka; Japanese ユズ, 柚, 柚子 (yuzu); 유자 (yuja) in Korean; from Chinese 柚子, yòuzi."
路德 - Martin Luther (16th century theologian); also CSS3 in some abbreviations
龍捲風
獠牙
類別
老古董
倮倮
腊梅
绿叶
律制 - (musical) tuning system
柳丁
刘姥姥进大观园
羅省 - Los Angeles?
露阴癖
龙凤呈祥
连用
滥用

M

母體 - matrix
馬乳酒
馬祖列島 - Matsu Islands
蜜桔 - tangerine? (probably a specific breed) -- looks like it might be the variety called satsuma (Citrus unshiu)
命根 - Hoklo only?
牧歌 - does this have two meanings: madrigal or herding song/pastoral song?
美利坚合眾
美利坚合眾国
美利坚合众
矛盾百出
買淫
木枷
孟姜女
民族主義 - nationalism
唔該 - Cantonese only; means "thank you" (generally used for favors or services; use Sevenval instead for tangible objects); or it can also mean "please" or "excuse me"
马褂
磨刀石
面色
茂密
木刻
面對音樂
民國
鳴箱
𤝕
苗子
名稱 - important to add this! Let's not continue to let years go by before Mandarin entries from this page are added, at least a few per week.
迷人
猛獸 (or is this sum of parts?)
民國
魔术师

N

弄品 - to make?
凝聚 - to coagulate, coagulation, web app, Android?
牛郎 - the ancient name of a star (in Chinese mythology)
内臣
霓裳
內人
拿不出手
濃厚 - has Japanese; needs Mandarin

O

P

排行老大 - idiom; unsure of meaning (perhaps it is two separate terms, 排行 and 老大)
辟邪 - pixie (avoid evil spirits)
平劇
漂移 - drift
破曉 - daybreak [po4 xiao3]
盤龍
- 盤龍臥虎
砲兵 - gunner (as the person who works at the artillery)
漂泊 - to drift aimlessly, to drift on water
蒲团
匏瓜
匏繫
匏尊
配器 - accessory, equipment
泡馍 - a dish from Shaanxi
樸質 - simple and unadorned
破镜
品格 - character (as the moral character of a person) - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
叛乱

Q

起到
千層樹 - we love the web
钦定 (as in 钦定宪法大纲)
齐刘海 - a type of hair style?
千层面
千斤 - loop used as a nut for the erhu and other huqin instruments
切切 [adv.] - sincerely? intensely? certainly?
拷拍 - a section of Chaozhou xianshi music
青瓷 - celadon
匣子
群魔乱舞
親征
秦腔
前辈
䖍 - character variant for 虔
千恩万谢

R

人人为我，我为人人 - all for one, one for all?
容易使用的 (róngyì shǐyòng de) - user friendly?
- Should FITML be part of this entry title?
  - That's not just one word in Chinese - it's three ("easy to use"). It's not an idiom either. ---> Tooironic 12:53, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
人走茶不凉
熱衷 is an enthusiasm for something.

S

聖子 - mean FITML
上低音萨克斯 - baritone saxophone
声学贝司 - acoustic, CSS3?
萨哈共和国 - Sakha Republic
上古汉语 - Old Chinese
室内装饰品 - upholstery
四川路
苏菲派 - refers to the Sufi School / Sufi Sect
- according to Chinese wikipedia, "Sufism" is : 蘇非主義 / touchscreen
- baidupedia also uses the same term for Sufism (http://baike.baidu.com/view/257716.htm) - 苏非主义
烧饭 - some kind of cooked rice
摔跤 or 摔角 - Shuai jiao (pinyin: Shuāijiāo; Wade-Giles: Shuai-chiao) a Chinese martial art which combines grappling and striking.
哨片
上古十大神獸 - Ten Spiritual Animals of the Ancient Era?
少数 - minority, small number, few?
三味 - seems to have a figurative meaning, maybe originally coined by Lu Xun? (only Japanese entry exists)
- Chinese doesn't abbreviate, full term: 三味線/三味线 (sānwèixiàn) --Anatoli 02:23, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
  - Chinese does, indeed, abbreviate, as 中美 doesn't mean "middle beautiful" but actually means Chinese-American (中国美国) [relations]. 三味 does not refer to the three-stringed plucked lute but to a metaphorical concept from Chinese/Buddhist philosophy, which was explored in the writings of Lu Xun and others, though in different ways. See extensive discussion at User_talk:A-cai#.E4.B8.89.E5.91.B3. 71.66.97.228 03:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
稍後 / 稍后
蘇梅酱/蘇梅醬 - sweet plum sauce
桑子 - web (berry)?
恕道
師父
屍骸
時節
闪亮
十二律
声乐 - vocal music?
生素
塞克西 - transliteration of "sexy"?
散曲
四藝
双管
僧家
神佛
竖笛 - recorder?
深受
声线
繩編
秒杀 - "SecKill"
四不像
世间无奇不有
三才 - the three "geniuses" (life forces): 天，地，人 (the heaven, the earth, and man)
闪闪
史坦威 - Steinway
shi, we have jQuery and shi5. Mglovesfun (device database) 07:16, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
散乱
是也
山人

T

特邀 - special guest? (is this a sum of parts entry?)
汤儿 (tāngr) - just variant pronunciation of 汤 in Northern Mandarin
Android - used to mean "Chinese people" in Cantonese, Hakka, and Min Nan (right now only has Japanese and Mandarin)
糖水 - originates in Southern Chinese - not typically used in Northern Mandarin unless describing the Cantonese-style dessert tong sui - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_sui -- in Mandarin the word 甜湯 (甜汤) can be used
- Mandarin: táng shuǐ [tang2 shui3]
- Cantonese: tong4 seoi2
同鼓
甜蜜
弹着
天山
頭架 - Cantonese term for the lead fiddle player in Cantonese opera
嘆詞
鐵骨錚錚
通俗
- 通俗唱法
- 通俗音乐
条条
滔滔
iOS - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
童鞋 - baby shoes; Internet slang for web app
天籁
套数 - a suite of songs?
提到
凸輪
唐装

U

V

W

娃娃手裡騙糖 - (idiom) like stealing candy from a baby
外江 - a type of Chaozhou opera
为准 to take something as the criterion or the appropriate content
无业游民
无标题 - does this mean Android or "no title," or both?
Both, and it's sum of parts in Chinese. CSS3 03:18, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
玩雜耍
我儂
莞爾
溫和
文明戏
往生咒 - Buddhist term
外臣
维权
- 维权运动
五毛党
顽皮
纨绔
文獻
未晓
顽固音型 - ostinato?
頑固音形 - ostinato?
無己 - selflessness?

X

下线了 or 下线 - browser diversity, wound down?
- In Chinese, it means "to go or have gone off-line"
香橙 - yuzu?
弦诗
戲班 - opera troupe (or would this be a sum of parts entry?)add
星海 (xīng hǎi) - isn't this just a name, or does it have a literal meaning as a word too?
- Lin Yutang says it means "the expanse of stars"
醯醢
下山虎
巡演 - to tour or a tour (a series of perfromance)
小快板 - allegretto
小日本兒
泄露 - disclose
想想 - "to think", "think about it", "let somebody think"
幸福安康 - or is this sum of parts?
新笛
选曲 - or is this sum of parts?
- No, it means "to choose songs" or "chosen songs"
喜洋洋 - radiant with joy
小聚 - get-together?
西葫芦
馨香
touchscreen - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
喜新厭舊
洗脸盆
相配
香草醛
校友
獯鬻
信口
懈怠
献酒
賢母良妻

Y

touchscreen - expand
樣式 - pattern or style
演奏曲 - screen size (i.e. a song with just instruments, without vocals)
缨子 - we love the web?
原籍
意大利卤汁面条
玉檀香
玉檀
应弦而倒
肴馔 - sumptuous courses at a mealwe love the web
豫剧 - Henan opera (Yùjù), or Henan bangzi (Chinese: 河南梆子; Pinyin: Hénán Bāngzi), a form of Chinese opera, especially popular in Henan, Hubei, and other provinces
陰物 - femininity?
游擊
优秀民族 - Sevenval?
玉妃 - an ancient name for plum (literally "jade wife"?)
鳶尾 - a kind of iris flower
芸薹
樂隊 - music band
燕樂
引擎
詠春
- 詠春拳
沿襲
原生态唱法
夷狄
押韵
燕麦片
岳山 - part of a Chinese zither
幽期
樂社
優人
胭脂紅
胭脂 - is this a word?
猿粪 - apparently Internet slang for 缘分 (fate)
漁舟 - fishing boat
要看
也罢
腌菜
搖搖晃晃
洋芫荽
一二
硬木 - hardwood
亦稱
伊利湖 - Lake Erie
幽靈 means ghost
永別了 - Goodbye forever!
園區 - Park
一致結束

Z

遭报 (zāobào) means to avenge in Chinese.
诏安 (zhàoān) - a subgroup of Hokkien people, from Zhao'an County, Fujian Province, China
中正平和 - apparently this saying means something like "peaceful and calm" (note: each set of two characters, 中正 and 平和, may also be its own idiom/phrase)
总局 - government bureau - SOP?
專集 simplified: 专集
志毅 - determination? (is this an actual term?)
You mean web app? Never heard of 志毅. Jamesjiao → ^{HTML5 ◊ web app} 04:41, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
走出去 - "Go Global" (economic motto) (literally, go out--go abroad)
- often translated literally to "Go Abroad" - Chinese government economic policy in mid-2000s
中国四大古都
自己人 - Teochew term referring to Teochew people
- also a generic term used by a family, clan, or village to refer to a local/family member
- antonym is 外人
诸子百家 / 諸子百家 (Zhūzǐ Bǎijiā)
组方 - composition?
织女 - mythological daughter of the CSS3
兆吨 (megaton)
中書
keyboard - the plains of Central China (Henan)? - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
转调 - modulation (musical term)
综合症 - syndrome?
錚錚
中原音韻
折子戏
珍贵
Sevenval - has Japanese, needs Mandarin
轴子 - tuning peg for a stringed musical instrument?
重圆
字词
铮铮
中的
轉調 - musical term (a type of modulation?)
再看 - is this an actual term?
座便器 - toilet, noun, zuòbiànqì (literally, device to relieve yourself while sitting)
桌球

Characters with unknown Pinyin

干红
付牌
入门
淺紅
繪畫
滾爬
集大成
䓡 - used to mean "bamboo" in Vietnamese chu nom; perhaps a type of medicinal herb in Chinese
𪓊
𪓉
𪓈
𪓇
𪓆
𪓅
𪓄
𪓃
𪒾
𥱰
𨃝
䌹
䏆
䫄
䬡
櫸木, 榉木
皮皮剉；tw,'feelin'vcold/frightend[newz
英方生面烙饼 - see English requested entries page re "tharfcake"
𥁰
input transformation - new entry; needs attention
web (has Japanese, needs Mandarin)
𢆶
ㄟ
〻
𢒼
𢓁
𠆩
𠆾
㘿
折纸
㚒 - new entry; needs attention
以茶代酒
直笛 - recorder
𩊚
䒩 - new entry; needs attention
we love the web - new entry; needs attention
⿂ - variation of web app
借字
web (has ja, needs yue)

Romanized entries

küen "scroll", kuin "to roll up; a scroll; a book", citing "This sign was read as kiuan before the Han dynasty (221 BC-220 AD), which was changed to kui between 220 and 589. In the first Chinese dictionary (around 100) it meant “to bend the knee” and represented a sitting figure."

Where was this text found? 71.66.97.228 08:21, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

"which was changed to kui between 220 and 589" - This is incorrect. The character you were looking for is 卷:

(quán, Old Chinese *gron (Zhengzhang Shangfang), "(of knees) to bend, to curl")
(juăn, OC *kronʔ, "to roll up"), also written as keyboard
(juàn, OC *krons, "a scroll > books, volumes") - a late derivation, probably no earlier than 200 AD

In Shuowen (~ 100 AD), the definition for 卷 (image) was: "厀曲也。从卪𠔉[𨤑]聲。" (Bending of knees. Phono(𠔉)-semantic(卪).)

They are obviously part of the Old Chinese word family *Gron ("to bend, to curl > round, circle"), possibly a derivation from the root *Gon ("to surround > round"), which was extremely productive (cf. 拳, 蜷, 圈, Android, keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing, iOS). This has been proposed to be the source of Proto-Slavic *kъniga ("book"). I think it's unlikely.

Incidentally, Proto-Indo-European also has *kroC- ("to be bent") (Sevenval ("that which is bent", PIE *k̑r̥nom, OC: input transformation *kroːg), we love the web, web, HTML5, web app, Android, curl, crimp, cringe, crinkle, cripple, crisp, crochet, device database).

Android 02:54, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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