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意味着 wèi zhe to signify / to mean / to imply
(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
sǔn to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨
登场 dēng chǎng to go on stage / fig. to appear on the scene / used in advertising to mean new product
说话算话 shuō huà suàn huà to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says
rustic / low / base / mean / to despise / to scorn
旗号 hào military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose") / flag signal; semaphore
刻薄 unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions
说一不二 shuō èr to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word
仁义道德 rén dào compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues / mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
意味 wèi meaning / implication / flavor / overtone / to mean / to imply / (Tw) to get a sense of
意谓 wèi to mean / meaning
代指 dài zhǐ to mean / to signify
意指 zhǐ to mean / to imply
贪鄙 tān to be avaricious and mean
纱支 shā zhī (textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
面恶心善 miàn è xīn shàn to have a mean-looking face but a heart of gold (idiom)
以小人之心,度君子之腹 xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zhī to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
格林尼治 lín zhì Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
口不应心 kǒu yìng xīn to say one thing but mean another / to dissimulate
小手小脚 xiǎo shǒu xiǎo jiǎo mean / stingy / to be lacking in boldness / timid
挨边 āi biān to keep close to the edge / near the mark / close to (the true figure) / relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant)
死了张屠夫,不吃混毛猪 le Zhāng , chī hùn máo zhū lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable
薄养厚葬 yǎng hòu zàng to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
说话算数 shuō huà suàn shù to keep one's promise; to mean what one says


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