ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chǐ] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
the twenty-eight constellations
1. all the trades2. people of all trades and professions
Bagongshan, a district of Huainan City 淮南市[huái nán shì], Anhui
G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations)
the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽[chuān lǔ yuè sū zhè mǐn xiāng huī]
1. palanquin with eight carriers2. (fig.) lavish treatment
1. sworn brotherhood2. intimate friendship
1. child of a Manchu bannerman family (nobility)2. (fig.) privileged brat
Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines
1. Chinese anise2. star anise3. Fructus Anisi Stellati
(coll.) one thousand or almost one thousand
(idiom) sprawled out on one's back
1. one yuan or less2. around 80 cents or one dollar
Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸[jīn yōng] and its TV and screen adaptations
1. completely mixed up2. in a muddle
横七竖八 橫七豎八 héng qī shù bā HSK 7–9 1. in disorder2. at sixes and sevens (idiom)
one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch
1. about a hundred2. a hundred or so
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
ten thousand or almost ten thousand
1. the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria2. also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳条沟事变
1. lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] (idiom)2. fig. things have not even begun to take shape3. no sign of success yet
1. light-years (apart)2. a million miles (apart)3. (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
1. lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)2. fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
八竿子打不着 八竿子打不著 bā gān zi dǎ bù zháo (coll.) unrelated; lacking any connection
八宝山革命公墓 八寶山革命公墓 bā bǎo shān gé mìng gōng mù Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Shijingshan District, Beijing
variant of 乌七八糟[wū qī bā zāo]
see 七上八下[qī shàng bā xià]
variant of 七弯八拐[qī wān bā guǎi]
to maintain an 8% annual growth rate of the GDP (PRC policy)
1. meddling woman2. nosy parker (Cantonese)
Barkhor, pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet
eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally)
eight methods of treatment (TCM)
eight (types of) jaundices (TCM)
(TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction
Bamay in Dawu County 道孚县[dào fú xiàn], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan
"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, abbr. for 八大元老[bā dà yuán lǎo]