Chinese Word of the Day
八月bā yuè
August
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 八月 | bāyuè |
| 1. n. August | |
| 2. n. eighth month of the Chinese calendar | |
| English > Chinese | |
| August | |
| 1. 名词. 八月 | |
| Components | |
| 八 | bā |
| 1. eight | |
| 2. many; numerous | |
| 3. (printing) pearl (the smallest size of usual type, standardized as 5 point) | |
| 4. Short for 八卦 | |
| 5. to gossip (about); to stick one's nose in | |
| 6. (Cantonese) nosey; meddling | |
| 7. 八婆 - nosey parker; meddling woman | |
| Ba | |
| 8. Variant of 捌 | |
| 捌 | bā |
| 1. (financial) Alternative form of 八 (eight) | |
| 2. Alternative form of 朳 (toothless rake) | |
| 3. Alternative form of 扒 (to break open, split open) | |
| 4. to break | |
| 5. sound of breaking | |
| 6. (Min) to know; to recognise; to be familiar with | |
| 捌字 (báik-cê, MD) - to know how to read | |
| ? 捌 字 (mâ̤-báik-cê, MD, audio=Cdo-fzho,_儥仈字.ogg) - do not know how to read | |
| 7. (Min) to know (somebody) | |
| 伓捌 (n̂g-báik, MD) - to not know (someone) | |
| 8. (Hainanese) to know how to (do something) | |
| 9. (Min Dong, Hokkien) already; previously | |
| 捌曾 (báik-cèng, MD) - a term denoting past tense | |
| 捌bat 做 %過kòe - to have done something already, MN | |
| 10. (attn, zh, check labels) | |
| 11. Variant of 㧙 | |
| 月 | yuè |
| 1. (literary or dialectal) moon | |
| 2. moon-shaped objects | |
| 3. (literary) moonlight | |
| 4. month | |
| Synonyms: 月份, wuu:號頭 | |
| 5. monthly | |
| 月薪 - yuèxīn - monthly wage | |
| 6. Variant of 肉 | |
| 7. Variant of 夕 | |
| 8. Variant of 明 | |
| 夕 | 夕 |
| 1. night; evening; dusk | |
| 2. Simplified form of 穸 | |
| 3. Variant of 月 | |
| 4. Variant of 明 | |
| 明 | míng |
| 1. bright; light; brilliant | |
| 明月 - splendid moon | |
| 2. clear; limpid (transparent; light-conducting; not obscured) | |
| 窗明几淨 - a neat place (literally, "the window is clear, the desk is clean") | |
| 3. manifest; apparent (easily seen, perceived, or detected) | |
| 明顯 - obvious | |
| 明瞭 - apparent; simple and clear | |
| 明 槍 易 躲，暗箭 難 防 - It is easy to dodge an open attack, but difficult to defend against a concealed one. | |
| 4. vision; sight (the ability to see) | |
| 失明 - to be blind; to lose eyesight | |
| 5. (of vision) acute; sharp; keen | |
| 耳聰目明 - sharp at hearing and vision | |
| 6. (figurative) intellect; knowledge; judgement; discernment; sensibility | |
| 無明 - ignorance | |
| 7. (figurative) intelligent; sensible; informed; wise | |
| 明智 - wise; sensible | |
| 英明 - wise | |
| 8. to understand; to know | |
| 講明 - to explain | |
| 明事理 - sensible; capable | |
| 你 唔 明 一定 要 出聲。 - If you don't understand you must speak up. | |
| 我 真係 唔係 好 明 點解（……） - I really don't get why (…) | |
| 9. evidently | |
| 明知故問 - to ask intentionally a question one already knows the answer to | |
| 10. (literary) to make known | |
| 開宗明義 - to make clear the main idea at the beginning in one's speech or writing | |
| 11. next; following | |
| 明天 - tomorrow | |
| 明年 - next year or the following year | |
| 今 冬 明 春 - this winter and next spring | |
| 12. (literary) tomorrow | |
| 13. Ming dynasty | |
| 14. , listed as #111 on the Baijiaxing | |
| 15. (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 明 | |
| 肉 | ròu, rù |
| 1. meat; flesh | |
| 豬肉 - pork | |
| 牛肉 - beef | |
| 我 從不 吃 肉。 - I never eat meat. | |
| 這 種 魚 的 肉 異常 鮮美。 - The flesh of this kind of fish has exceptional delicacy. | |
| 不久，鬣狗 便可 飽餐一頓 這些 死 了 的 動物 的 肉。 - Soon, the hyenas could then feast on the flesh of these dead animals. | |
| 2. (specifically) pork | |
| 肉三鮮 的 餃子zi - three delicious ingredient pork dumpling | |
| 蒜薹 炒 肉 - garlic chive and pork stir-fry | |
| 3. body | |
| 肉體 - physical body - | |
| 4. flesh; pulp | |
| 這 桃子zi 肉 味 甜 汁 多。 - The flesh of the peach was sweet and juicy. | |
| 5. (ACG) media; video | |
| 生肉 - raws (not fansubbed videos or clips -) | |
| 熟肉 - localized, subbed(, - or dubbed media) | |
| 烤肉 - localized, subbed(, - or dubbed media, with detailed effects) | |
| 6. (archaic) edge; brim; an outer part of a ring-shaped object (such as coin or jade annulus) | |
| 7. (archaic, of sound and music) rich; substantial | |
| 8. (dialectal Mandarin) spongy; squashy; flabby | |
| 這 西瓜 瓤兒r 太 肉 了。 - The pulp of this watermelon is too spongy. | |
| 9. (dialectal Mandarin) slow; sluggish | |
| 這 個 人 做事 真 肉。 - This person does everything sluggishly. | |
| 10. meat; flesh | |
| 豬肉 - pork, MN | |
| 牛肉 - beef, MN | |
| 11. (specifically) pork | |
| 肉骨 - pork ribs, MN | |
| 12. flesh; pulp | |
| 龍眼乾 肉 - flesh of dried longan, MN | |
| 13. main part of an object | |
| 刀肉 - blade of a knife or sword, MN | |
Pronunciation
bā yuè
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