Text matches for “子”

separatist

rowboat / small boat / oar / paddle / thin rod used to control a curtain etc

lit. someone else stole the donkey / you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom) / fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame

hasp / pendant

plane

to shave (facial hair)

lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)

(of a company) to establish a brand name

piece of dough cut to the right size (for making jiaozi etc)

to throttle / to strangle

(dialect) nuisance / pain

gesture / posture

a book is not judged by its cover (idiom)

seed enclosed in artificial capsule

to wrap jiaozi (dumplings or potstickers)

beggar (old term) / same as 花子

small box

dabbler / smatterer / tactless and impulsive person

teenage boy / adolescent boy

clip / hair fastener / checkpoint

to squeeze the throat / (fig.) to have in a stranglehold / critical

usury / high interest loan (in former times)

seal of authority / official seal

atomic radius

atomic reactor

atomic pile (original form of nuclear reactor)

atomic number

atomic weapon

(Tw, HK) ballpoint pen

atomic power station

atomic theory

atomic mass

atomic weight / atomic mass

atomic clock

Coccidioides immitis

(chemistry) deionized water

lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom) / fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation / to want to have one's cake and eat it too

reactionaries / reactionary elements

rebel / insurgent

(biochemistry) anticodon