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Exact character matches appear first. For otherwise comparable matches, frequency in film and television subtitles helps determine order. Direct English-definition matches and prefix matches also affect ranking. Word length and the availability of usage notes do not improve rank.

Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

管线guǎn xiàn

pipeline / general term for pipes, cables etc

紫外线zǐ wài xiàn

ultraviolet ray

毛线máo xiàn

knitting wool / wool yarn

电线杆diàn xiàn gān

electric pole / telephone pole / lamppost / CL:根[gēn]

电线杆diàn xiàn gǎn

electric pole / telephone pole / lamppost / CL:根[gēn]

专线zhuān xiàn

special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL:條|条[tiáo]

无线电话wú xiàn diàn huà

radio telephony / wireless telephone

生产线shēng chǎn xiàn

assembly line / production line

长线cháng xiàn

long term

路线图lù xiàn tú

route map / (lit. and fig.) roadmap

弧线hú xiàn

arc

占线zhàn xiàn

busy (telephone line)

封锁线fēng suǒ xiàn

blockade line / cordon / CL:道[dào]

外线wài xiàn

(military) line of troops encircling an enemy position / (telephony) outside line / (basketball) outside the three-point line

边线biān xiàn

sideline / foul line

起跑线qǐ pǎo xiàn

the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race)

分界线fēn jiè xiàn

dividing line

导火线dǎo huǒ xiàn

fuse (for explosives) / (fig.) proximate cause / the last straw

导线dǎo xiàn

electrical lead

火线huǒ xiàn

front line / line of fire / (electrical engineering) live wire

红线hóng xiàn

red line

牵线qiān xiàn

to pull strings / to manipulate (a puppet) / to control from behind the scene / to mediate

基线jī xiàn

baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc) / (math.) base (of a triangle)

干线gàn xiàn

main line / trunk line

引线yǐn xiàn

fuse (for an explosive device) / electrical lead / intermediary / catalyst / (dialect) sewing needle

流水线liú shuǐ xiàn

assembly line / (computing) pipeline

一线生机yī xiàn shēng jī

(idiom) a chance of survival / a fighting chance / a ray of hope

丝线sī xiàn

silk thread (for sewing) / silk yarn (for weaving)

主线zhǔ xiàn

main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme

无线电波wú xiàn diàn bō

radio wave

针线zhēn xiàn

needle and thread / needlework

统一战线tǒng yī zhàn xiàn

united front

针线活zhēn xiàn huó

needlework / sewing

支线zhī xiàn

branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)

拆线chāi xiàn

to remove stitches (from a wound)

放射线fàng shè xiàn

radiation / rays of radiation

日界线rì jiè xiàn

International Date Line

生命线shēng mìng xiàn

lifeline

伽马射线gā mǎ shè xiàn

gamma ray

出线chū xiàn

(sports) to go out of bounds / to go over the line / to qualify for the next round of competition / (Tw) (fig.) to make the grade / to achieve success

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