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磨子mò zi

mill / grain mill / millstone

Headword or pronunciation磨子

磨破嘴皮子mó pò zuǐ pí zi

to wear out one's lips (idiom) / to talk until one is blue in the face / to repeat again and again

Headword or pronunciation磨破嘴皮子

碍面子ài miàn zi

(not do sth) for fear of offending sb

Headword or pronunciation碍面子

票贩子piào fàn zi

ticket scalper

Headword or pronunciation票贩子

私生子女sī shēng zǐ nǚ

illegitimate child

Headword or pronunciation私生子女

秕子bǐ zi

blighted grain

Headword or pronunciation秕子

租子zū zi

rent (payment)

Headword or pronunciation租子

秧子yāng zi

sapling / seedling / sprout / (esp.) rice seedling / stem / stalk / vine / baby livestock / fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person

Headword or pronunciation秧子

稗子bài zi

barnyard grass

Headword or pronunciation稗子

稚子zhì zǐ

young child

Headword or pronunciation稚子

种子植物zhǒng zi zhí wù

seed plant

Headword or pronunciation种子植物

种子选手zhǒng zi xuǎn shǒu

seeded player

Headword or pronunciation种子选手

稻子dào zi

rice (crop) / unhulled rice

Headword or pronunciation稻子

积极分子jī jí fèn zǐ

active supporter / political activist

Headword or pronunciation积极分子

穿一条裤子chuān yī tiáo kù zi

(of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together / to be like family / to share the same view of things

Headword or pronunciation穿一条裤子

窗棂子chuāng líng zi

window lattice

Headword or pronunciation窗棂子

窝子wō zi

lair / den / stronghold

Headword or pronunciation窝子

穷棒子qióng bàng zi

poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant

Headword or pronunciation穷棒子

章子zhāng zi

seal / stamp

Headword or pronunciation章子

章鱼小丸子zhāng yú xiǎo wán zi

takoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food

Headword or pronunciation章鱼小丸子

童子尿tóng zǐ niào

urine of boys under 12, used as medicine (TCM)

Headword or pronunciation童子尿

端子duān zi

terminal (electronics)

Headword or pronunciation端子

端架子duān jià zi

to put on airs

Headword or pronunciation端架子

端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng

lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom) / fig. to complain despite being privileged / to be ungrateful for what one has been given

Headword or pronunciation端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘

竹筒倒豆子zhú tǒng dào dòu zi

like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once)

Headword or pronunciation竹筒倒豆子

笔杆子bǐ gǎn zi

pen / an effective writer

Headword or pronunciation笔杆子

笋子sǔn zi

bamboo shoot

Headword or pronunciation笋子

筒子tǒng zi

tube-shaped object / tube / bobbin / (Internet slang) homonym for 同志[tóng zhì]

Headword or pronunciation筒子

筒子米糕tǒng zǐ mǐ gāo

rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnished (Taiwanese dish, originally prepared by stuffing rice into bamboo tubes and steaming them)

Headword or pronunciation筒子米糕

筢子pá zi

bamboo rake

Headword or pronunciation筢子

筷子腿kuài zi tuǐ

(coll.) skinny legs

Headword or pronunciation筷子腿

筷子芥kuài zi jiè

Arabis, a genus of Brassica family including cress

Headword or pronunciation筷子芥

箅子bì zi

bamboo grid for steaming food / grate / grating / grid