Results for “字”

abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府) / code name / (old) pronoun

swung dash / tilde (~)

exception(s)

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

personal digital assistant (PDA)

see 通假字[tōng jiǎ zì]

IOU / receipt for a loan

loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan

megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)

optical character recognition (OCR)

cloze (loanword) (Tw)

intoeing / pigeon toes / knock-knees

divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date

shape resembling the character 八 or 8 / V-shape / splayed / figure of eight

a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan / (esp.) the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by Li Fuchun 李富春[Lǐ Fù chūn] in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高|调整、巩固、充实、提高[tiáo zhěng , gǒng gù , chōng shí , tí gāo] "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve"

step with feet splayed outwards

lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet

sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight"

splayfoot

lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet / nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet

lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet

mustache shaped like character 八

mustache shaped like character 八

the six-syllable Sanskrit mantra of Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva (i.e. om mani padme hum)

name of "walk slowly" component 夂[zhǐ] in Chinese characters

obscure word / unfamiliar character

see 白字[bái zì]

to tattoo

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (computing)

radical 匚[fāng] (Kangxi radical 22)

16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退，敵駐我擾，敵疲我打，敵退我追|敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追[dí jìn wǒ tuì , dí zhù wǒ rǎo , dí pí wǒ dǎ , dí tuì wǒ zhuī] when the enemy advances we retreat / when the enemy makes camp we harass / when the enemy is exhausted we fight / and when the enemy retreats we pursue

cruciform / cross shape

crucifiction

crosshairs

cross-stitch

Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)

Phillips screwdriver (with a cross-shaped tip)

turnstile

pickaxe