Results for “薄”

gauze (cloth)

thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc)

light silk / silk chiffon

eggshell china

crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker

peppermint oil

menthol

menthone (chemistry)

(chemistry) menthol

thin lens (optics)

(my inferior) wine (humble term used by a host)

small reward (for work) / meager remuneration

my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)

to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly

meager / poor

harsh and merciless (idiom)

(idiom) lacking strength and support

to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)

to favour one and discriminate against the other

lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)

lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom) / good preparation is the key to success / to be well prepared

thickness / also pr. [hòu bó]

to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼[hòu cǐ bó bǐ])

feeler gauge

generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral

to despise / to look down upon sth

to be unlucky

to gush / to squirt / to surge / to well out / to overflow

to be on the verge of eruption (idiom) / (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance

to be unduly humble (idiom) / to undervalue oneself

sharp and unkind (words)

little virtue and meager abilities (idiom) / I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ōu yáng Xiū])

thinning scissors

(finance) to dilute (earnings per share)

diluted earnings per share

lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom) / fig. the day is drawing to an end / the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)

frivolous / superficial

thin / light / flagging / faint

(of land) infertile / barren

lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute