1. to form a cohesive whole2. to fuse together
1. diphthong2. compound vowel
forward contract (finance)
a deal where the parties collude to sign an under-the-table "yin contract" 阴合同 as well as an ostensibly genuine "yang contract" 阳合同 in order to deceive authorities
collective noun (linguistics)
formation of a loanword using some characters (or words) chosen for their meaning and others for phonetic transcription (e.g. 冰淇淋[bīng qí lín], 朗姆酒[lǎng mǔ jiǔ], 奶昔[nǎi xī] and 米老鼠[mǐ lǎo shǔ])
1. impractical2. not conforming to reality
to combine traditional Chinese and Western medicine
APEC (Asia Pacific economic cooperation)
names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
合成类固醇 合成類固醇 hé chéng lèi gù chún anabolic steroids
合众国际社 合眾國際社 hé zhòng guó jì shè United Press International (UPI)
唐氏综合症 唐氏綜合症 táng shì zōng hé zhèng Down syndrome
KOIKE Yuriko (1952-), Japanese LDP politician, minister of defense during 2008
布加综合征 布加綜合徵 bù jiā zōng hé zhēng Budd-Chiari syndrome
无伴奏合唱 無伴奏合唱 wú bàn zòu hé chàng a cappella (music)
联合国宪章 聯合國憲章 lián hé guó xiàn zhāng United Nations charter
combine (i.e. combine harvester)
腕管综合症 腕管綜合症 wàn guǎn zōng hé zhèng carpal tunnel syndrome
英联合王国 英聯合王國 yīng lián hé wáng guó United Kingdom
超雄综合征 超雄綜合徵 chāo xióng zōng hé zhēng XYY syndrome
military-industrial complex
农村合作化 農村合作化 nóng cūn hé zuò huà collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
黄河大合唱 黃河大合唱 huáng hé dà hé chàng Yellow River Cantata (1939) by Xian Xinghai 冼星海[xiǎn xīng hǎi]
上海合作组织 上海合作組織 shàng hǎi hé zuò zǔ zhī Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
上证综合指数 上證綜合指數 shàng zhèng zōng hé zhǐ shù SSE (Shanghai Stock Exchange) Composite Index
中国联合航空 中國聯合航空 zhōng guó lián hé háng kōng China United Airlines
企业联合组织 企業聯合組織 qǐ yè lián hé zǔ zhī syndicate (group of businesses)
偏正式合成词 偏正式合成詞 piān zhèng shì hé chéng cí modified compound word
大英联合王国 大英聯合王國 dà yīng lián hé wáng guó United Kingdom
联合式合成词 聯合式合成詞 lián hé shì hé chéng cí coordinative compound word
联合技术公司 聯合技術公司 lián hé jì shù gōng sī United Technologies Corporation
肠易激综合征 腸易激綜合徵 cháng yì jī zōng hé zhēng irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
电荷耦合器件 電荷耦合器件 diàn hè ǒu hé qì jiàn charge-coupled device (CCD) (electronics)