仡
see 仡佬族[Ge1 lao3 zu2], Gelao or Klau ethnic group of Guizhou; Taiwan pr. [Qi4]
个
individual; this; that; size; classifier for people or objects in general
合
100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
哿
excellent; happy; well-being
嗰
that (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 那[na4]
嘅
possessive particle (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 的[de5]
戈
spear; abbr. for 戈瑞[ge1 rui4]; (Tw) abbr. for 戈雷[ge1 lei2]
搁
to place; to put aside; to shelve
搁
to bear; to stand; to endure
格
square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively
歌
song; CL:支[zhi1],首[shou3]; to sing
硌
to press painfully (of sth hard or bulging)
葛
kudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
袼
gusset; cloth fitting sleeve under armpit
輵
great array of spears and chariots
阁
pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
閤
side door; variant of 閣|阁[ge2]; pavilion; cabinet; boudoir
隔
to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of
革
animal hide; leather; to reform; to remove; to expel (from office)
鬲
earthen pot; iron cauldron
仡佬族
Gelao or Klau ethnic group of Guizhou
个人
individual; personal; oneself
个人数字助理
personal digital assistant (PDA)
个人赛
individual competition; individual race
个人防护装备
individual protective equipment
个人隐私
personal privacy; private matters
个人电脑
personal computer; PC
个位
the units place (or column) in the decimal system
个例
specific example; rare instance
个个
each one individually; each and every
个别
individual; specific; respective; just one or two
个子
height; stature; build; size
个展
a one-person exhibition
个性
individuality; personality
个性化
to personalize; to customize; customization
个把
one or two; a couple of
个案
a case; an individual case; case-by-case
个股
share (in a listed company)
个旧
Gejiu, county level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州[Hong2 he2 Ha1 ni2 zu2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
个旧市
Gejiu, county level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州
个头
(coll.) (suffix) my ass!; yeah, right!
个体户
self-employed; a private firm (PRC usage)
割伤
to gash; to cut; gash; cut
割爱
to part with sth cherished; to forsake
割舍
to give up; to part with
割接
(network) cutover; (system) migration
割据
to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation
割弃
to discard; to abandon; to give (sth) up
割股疗亲
to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom); filial thigh-cutting
割袍断义
to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom); to break all friendly ties
割裂
to cut apart; to sever; to separate; to isolate
割除
to amputate; to excise (cut out)
割鸡焉用牛刀
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom); fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter; also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[sha1 ji1 yan1 yong4 niu2 dao1]
各不相同
to have nothing in common with each other (idiom)
各人自扫门前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
各位
everybody; all (guests, colleagues etc); all of you
各个
every; various; separately, one by one
各别
distinct; characteristic; in different ways; different
各取所需
each takes what he needs (idiom)
各国
each country; every country; various countries
各地
in all parts of (a country); various regions
各执一词
each sticks to his own version (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
各执己见
each sticks to his own view (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
各执所见
each sticks to his own view
各奔前程
each goes his own way (idiom); each person has his own life to lead
各奔东西
to go separate ways (idiom); to part ways with sb; Taiwan pr. [ge4 ben1 dong1 xi1]
各就各位
(of the people in a group) to get into position (idiom); (athletics) On your mark!
各式各样
(of) all kinds and sorts; various
各得其所
each in the correct place; each is provided for
各抒己见
everyone gives their own view
各拉丹冬山
Mount Geladaindong or Geladandong in Qinghai (6621 m), the main peak of the Tanggula mountain range 唐古拉山脈|唐古拉山脉[Tang2 gu3 la1 shan1 mai4]
各拉丹冬峰
Mount Geladaindong or Geladandong in Qinghai (6621 m), the main peak of the Tanggula mountain range 唐古拉山脈|唐古拉山脉[Tang2 gu3 la1 shan1 mai4]
各持己见
each sticks to his own opinion (idiom); chacun son gout
各方
all parties (in a dispute etc); all sides; all directions
各有千秋
each has its own merits (idiom)
各有所好
Each has his likes and dislikes (idiom). There is no accounting for tastes.; chacun son gout
各界
all walks of life; all social circles
各异
all different; each unto his own
各尽所能
each does his utmost (idiom); from each according to his means
各种
every kind of; all kinds of; various kinds
各种各样
various kinds; all sorts
各种颜色
multicolored; a variety of colors
各自
each; respective; apiece
各自为政
to do things each in one's own way
各色
all kinds; of every description
各色各样
lit. each color and each form (idiom); diverse; various; all kinds of
各行其是
each one does what he thinks is right (idiom); each goes his own way
各行各业
every trade; all professions; all walks of life
各显所长
each displays their own strengths (idiom)
咯嚓
to break into two (onom.)
哥们
Brothers!; brethren; dude (colloquial); brother (diminutive form of address between males)
哥们儿
erhua variant of 哥們|哥们[ge1 men5]
哥伦布
Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); Columbus, capital of Ohio
哥伦比亚
Colombia; Columbia (District of, or University etc)
哥伦比亚大学
Columbia University
哥伦比亚广播公司
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
哥伦比亚特区
District of Columbia, USA
哥吉拉
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira); see also 哥斯拉[Ge1 si1 la1]
哥哥
older brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
哥大
Columbia University (abbr.)
哥尼斯堡
(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic; (since WWII) Kaliningrad, Russian Republic
哥德堡
Gothenburg (city in Sweden)
哥德巴赫猜想
the Goldbach conjecture in number theory
哥打巴鲁
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate
哥斯拉
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira)
哥本哈根
Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
哥林多前书
First epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
哥林多后书
Second epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
哥特人
Goth (e.g. Ostrogoth or Visigoth)
哥白尼
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
哥罗芳
chloroform CHCl3 (loanword); trichloromethane
哥老会
late-Qing underground resistance movement against the Qing dynasty
嗝儿屁
(dialect) to die; to give up the ghost
圪垯
lump; pimple; mound; same as 疙瘩
戈培尔
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
戈壁荒滩
barren sands of the Gobi desert
戈比
kopeck (unit of money, one hundredth of ruble) (loanword)
戈氏岩鹀
(bird species of China) Godlewski's bunting (Emberiza godlewskii)
戈氏金丝燕
(bird species of China) German's swiftlet (Aerodramus germani)
戈尔
Gore (name); Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate
戈尔巴乔夫
Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995
戈瑞
gray (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
戈雷
gray (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword) (Tw)
搁浅
to be stranded (of ship); to run aground; fig. to run into difficulties and stop
搁笔
to put down the pen; to stop writing
搁置
to shelve; to set aside
格但斯克
Gdansk, city on Baltic in north Poland
格勒
(onom.) laughing sound; glug-glug haha!
格勒诺布尔
Grenoble (French town)
格外
especially; particularly
格子
lattice; check (pattern of squares)
格局
structure; pattern; layout
格式
form; specification; format
格式塔
Gestalt (loanword); see 格斯塔[Ge2 si1 ta3]
格式塔疗法
Gestalt therapy; holistic therapy
格律
forms of versification; conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of classical Chinese poetic composition; metrical verse
格恩西岛
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
格拉汉姆
Graham or Graeme (name)
格拉茨
Graz (city in Austria)
格斯塔
Gestalt (loanword); coherent whole; technical word used in psychology meaning the whole is more than the sum of its parts; holistic; integrated; total; also written 格式塔
格林奈尔大学
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
格林威治标准时间
Greenwich Mean Time; GMT
格林尼治
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude); refers to Greenwich mean time
格林尼治本初子午线
the Greenwich meridian
格林尼治标准时间
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
格林斯班
Alan Greenspan (1926-), US economist
格格
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
格格不入
(idiom) inharmonious; incompatible
格洛斯特
Gloucester city in southwest England
格洛斯特郡
Gloucestershire county in southwest England
格洛纳斯
GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelitnaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russian equivalent of GPS
格涅沙
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
格尔夫波特
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
格尔木
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
格尔木市
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
格物
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学[li3 xue2]; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
格物致知
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (idiom); pursuing knowledge to the end
格瑞那达
Grenada, island country in the Caribbean Sea (Tw)
格致
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge; abbr. for 格物致知[ge2 wu4 zhi4 zhi1]; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
格罗宁根
Groningen, province and city in the Netherlands
格罗兹尼
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
格莱美奖
Grammy Award (US prize for music recording); also written 葛萊美獎|葛莱美奖
格萨尔
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
格兰氏阴性
Gram negative (of bacteria); also written 革蘭氏陰性|革兰氏阴性
格兰芬多
Gryffindor (Harry Potter)
格调
style (of art or literature); form; one's work style; moral character
格里姆斯塔
Grimstad (city in Agder, Norway)
格里高利
Gregory or Grigory (name)
格雷氏解剖学
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
格雷茅斯
Greymouth, town in New Zealand; also written 格雷默斯[Ge2 lei2 mo4 si1]
格鲁吉亚人
Gruzian or Georgian (person)
格鲁派
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
歌仔戏
type of opera from Taiwan and Fujian
歌剧
Western opera; CL:場|场[chang3],出[chu1]
歌剧院魅影
The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
歌功颂德
to sing sb's praises (mostly derogatory)
歌坛
singing stage; music business (esp. pop music)
歌女
female singer (archaic)
歌厅
karaoke hall; disco hall
歌德
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet and dramatist
歌星
singing star; famous singer
歌百灵
(bird species of China) Australasian bush lark (Mirafra javanica)
歌筵
a feast which also has a singing performance
歌罗西书
Epistle of St Paul to the Colossians
歌声
singing voice; fig. original voice of a poet
歌舞升平
lit. to celebrate peace with songs and dance (idiom); fig. to make a show of happiness and prosperity
歌诗达邮轮
Costa Cruises (brand)
歌谣
folksong; ballad; nursery rhyme
歌颂
to sing the praises of; to extol; to eulogize
疙疸
same as 疙瘩[ge1 da5], swelling
疙瘩
swelling or lump on skin; pimple; knot; preoccupation; problem
胳膊
arm; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2],雙|双[shuang1]
胳膊肘子
see 胳膊肘[ge1 bo5 zhou3]
胳膊肘朝外拐
the elbow turns the wrong way; to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom)
胳臂
arm; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]; also pr. [ge1 bi4]
膈肢
variant of 胳肢[ge2 zhi5]
葛优
Ge You (1957-), Chinese actor
葛优躺
see 北京癱|北京瘫[Bei3 jing1 tan1]
葛根
tuber of the kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata), used in Chinese medicine
葛法翁
Capernaum (biblical town on the Sea of Galilee)
葛洪
Ge Hong (283-363), Jin dynasty Daoist and alchemist, author of 抱樸子|抱朴子[Bao4 pu3 zi3]
葛洲坝
name of a place, Gezhouba Dam on the Changjiang River, in Sichuan
葛粉
starch of pueraria root; arrowroot flour
葛缕子
caraway; Persian cumin (Carum carvi)
葛莱美奖
Grammy Award (US prize for music recording); also written 格萊美獎|格莱美奖
葛藤
tangle of vines; fig. complications
葛兰素史克
GlaxoSmithKline, British pharmaceutical company
虼蚤
flea (common colloquial word)
蛤蚧
tokay gecko (Gekko gecko), used in TCM
蛤蛎
clam; same as 蛤蜊[ge2 li2]
阁下
your distinguished self; your majesty; sire
阁揆
premier; prime minister
隔三岔五
see 隔三差五|隔三差五[ge2 san1 cha4 wu3]
隔三差五
every few days (idiom)
隔世
separated by a generation; a lifetime ago
隔壁老王
Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
隔夜
overnight; of the previous day
隔天
the next day; on alternate days
隔山
half-sibling relationship; brothers with different mother; step-
隔岸观火
to watch the fires burning across the river; to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
隔年皇历
lit. almanac from years back (idiom); obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle
隔扇
partition; partition board
隔断
partition; to stand between; wall or fence serving as partition
隔热
to insulate thermally; insulating (material, effect etc)
隔墙有耳
the walls have ears (idiom)
隔绝
isolated (from the world); disconnected
隔膜
diaphragm (anatomy); distant (socially aloof); divided by lack of mutual comprehension; nonexpert
隔行
to interlace; to interleave (computing)
隔行如隔山
different trades, worlds apart (idiom); to sb outside the profession, it is a closed book
隔军事分界线
military demarcation line MDL; refers to Korean demilitarized zone DMZ
隔间
compartment; booth; cubicle; partitioned-off area
隔阂
misunderstanding; estrangement; (language etc) barrier
隔离
to separate; to isolate
隔离霜
pre-makeup cream; makeup base; foundation primer
隔靴搔痒
lit. to scratch the outside of the boot (idiom); fig. beside the point; ineffectual
革出山门
to excommunicate (from a Buddhist monastery)
革出教门
to excommunicate (from a church)
革吉
Ge'gyai county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Dge rgyas rdzong
革吉县
Ge'gyai county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Dge rgyas rdzong
革命
revolution; revolutionary (politics); CL:次[ci4]
革命先烈
martyr to the revolution
革命烈士
martyr of the revolution
革囊
leather purse; fig. human body
革履
leather (shoes); fig. Western dress
革故鼎新
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
革新
to innovate; innovation
革职
to sack; to remove from a position; to depose
革兰氏
Mr Gram; Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法
革兰氏染色法
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
革兰氏阴性
Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind)
革兰阳
Gram-positive (bacteria)
革兰阳性
Gram-positive (bacteria)
革除
to eliminate; to expel; to abolish
革面洗心
lit. to renew one's face and wash one's heart (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways; to turn over a new leaf
鸽子
pigeon; dove; various birds of the family Columbidae
鸽房
dovecote; enclosure for carrier pigeons
鸽派
dove faction (opposite: 鹰派, hawks); peace party; the faction seeking peace