"Between" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhōng jiān between / intermediate / mid / middle
 zhī jiān between / among / inter-
 jiè yú between / intermediate / to lie between
 jiān between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms
 gǎn qíng emotion / sentiment / affection / feelings between two persons / CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
西 Shān xī Shanxi Province (Shansi) in north China between Hebei and Shaanxi, abbr. 晉|晋[Jin4] capital Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
 Hēi lóng jiāng Heilongjiang province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑, capital Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1] / Heilongjiang river forming the border between northeast China and Russia / Amur river
 xiāng chà to differ / discrepancy between
 bù fēn not divided / irrespective / not distinguishing between
 qīn qíng affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
线 zhuān xiàn special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL:條|条[tiao2]
 qí jiān in between / within that interval / in the meantime
 gē men Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males)
 huí hé one of a sequence of contests (or subdivisions of a contest) between the same two opponents / round (boxing etc) / rally (tennis etc) / frame (billiards etc) / inning / (tennis, soccer etc) rubber or leg / round (of negotiations)
 kǒu àn a port for external trade / a trading or transit post on border between countries
 wǎng guān network router / gateway (to Internet or between networks)
 huàn chéng to change train (plane, bus etc) / transfer between modes of transport
 láo dòng hé tong labor contract / contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions
 jiào chā range (the difference between the lowest and highest values)
 lǎo xiōng elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
 guà gōu hook (on which to hang sth) / to couple / to link together / to establish contact with / hook / coupling links (e.g. between two railway coaches)
 yóu zǒu to wander about / to roam / to move back and forth between (government and academia, two or more countries etc) / to flow through (a circuit, a network, the body) / to skirt (the border of legality) / (of a singer's voice) to move within its range / (of a stock price) to fluctuate within (a range)
 chē cì train or coach service ("service" as in "they run 12 services per day between the two cities")
齿 yǎo yá qiè chǐ gnashing one's teeth (idiom) / displaying extreme anger / fuming with rage between gritted teeth
 kū xiào bù dé lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / both funny and extremely embarrassing / between laughter and tears
 kòng xì crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
 jū zhōng positioned between (two parties) / to mediate between
 Bó Hǎi Bohai Sea, or Bo Hai, between Liaoning and Shandong / Parhae, Korean kingdom in Manchuria and Siberia 698-926
 jiān jù gap / spacing / distance between objects / interval between events
 Guó Dà abbr. for 國民大會|国民大会, National Assembly of the Republic of China (extant during various periods between 1913 and 2005) / abbr. for 新加坡國立大學|新加坡国立大学, National University of Singapore (NUS) / abbr. for 印度國民大會黨|印度国民大会党, Indian National Congress (INC) / abbr. for 馬來西亞印度國民大會黨|马来西亚印度国民大会党, Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)
 wú jiàn very close / no gap between them / continuously / unbroken / hard to separate / indistinguishable
 zǒng zhǎng name used for cabinet ministers between 1912-1927, superseded by 部長|部长[bu4 zhang3]
 Cháng bái shān Changbai or Baekdu mountains 白頭山|白头山, volcanic mountain range between Jilin province and North Korea, prominent in Manchu and Korean mythology
 méi xīn (the space) between the eyebrows
 Wǔ dài Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
 hǔ kǒu tiger's den / dangerous place / the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
 Huái Hé Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2] and the Changjiang 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1]
 kuà dù span / horizontal distance between vertical supports
 yāo qǐng sài invitation tournament (e.g. between schools or firms)
 sǐ qù huó lái to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
 gé duàn partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
 mín zú zhǔ yì nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 / Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 / (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism
 Liáo dōng Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 / and Yellow sea / east and south of Liaoning province / east of Liao river 遼河|辽河
 xiǎo shù small figure / small amount / the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point) / fractional part of a number / number between 0 and 1 / decimal fraction
 tí xiào jiē fēi lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / between laughter and tears
 zhèng xié opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气[zheng4 qi4] and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气[xie2 qi4] (TCM)
 zuǒ yòu wéi nán (idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
 Chǔ guó the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
 duì kàng sài duel / match / competition between paired opponents (e.g. sporting)
 guó jiè national boundary / border between countries
 pín fù chā jù disparity between rich and poor
 rǔ gōu cleavage (hollow between a woman's breasts)
 yī shì tóng rén to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom) / not to discriminate between people
 zú xià you (used to a superior or between persons of the same generation) / below the foot
鸿 hóng gōu (fig.) gulf / chasm / wide gap / (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 / and Han 漢|汉
 Qín lǐng Qinling Mountain Range in Shaanxi forming a natural barrier between the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2] and the Han River 漢水|汉水[Han4 shui3] valley
 zì lǐ háng jiān between the words and the lines (idiom) / implied meaning / connotations
 jiā céng interval between two layers / double-layered / mezzanine
 Diào yú tái Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan &ndash / which calls them the Senkaku Islands &ndash / but claimed by China as part of its territory
 Zhōu zhuāng Zhouzhuang, old canal town between Shanghai and Suzhou, tourist attraction
 jiě dì liàn love between an older woman and a younger man
 kè jiān interval between lessons
 shēng chǎn guān xì relations between levels of production / socio-economic relations
 méng yuē contract of alliance / oath or treaty between allies
 méi jiān the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows / glabella
 zǒng shè cooperative (organisation) / cooperation (e.g. between companies)
 Tài háng shān Taihang Mountains on the border between Hebei and Shanxi
 jiāo huò qī delivery time (time between ordering goods and receiving the delivery) / date of delivery
 jiē bó to access / to transfer passengers between two railway lines
 lǐ li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
 Mǎ liù jiǎ Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
 qīn mì wú jiān close relation, no gap (idiom) / intimate and nothing can come between
 huī liū liū dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs
 yá fèng gap between teeth
 fèng máo lín jiǎo lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom) / fig. few and far between
 què qiáo magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / are allowed an annual meeting
 jì wǎng kāi lái to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) / part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
 Wáng Mǎng Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han
 lóng zhēng hǔ dòu lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom) / fierce battle between giants
 zài bǎo xiǎn reinsurance (contractual device spreading risk between insurers)
 jū jiān positioned between (two parties) / to mediate between
 lí jiàn to drive a wedge between (allies, partners etc)
 nán xiōng nán dì lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
 chuán xián sides of a ship / ship's railing / fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges
 liǎng guó zhī jiān bilateral / between two countries
 bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
 guó shū credentials (of a diplomat) / documents exchanged between nations / national or dynastic history book
 kāi chéng bù gōng lit. deal sincerely and fairly (idiom) / frank and open-minded / plain speaking / Let's talk frankly and openly between ourselves. / to put one's cards on the table
 háng jiān between rows
 dǒu gǒng interlocking wooden brackets between the top of a column and crossbeams used in traditional Chinese architecture
 biān yuán rén marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
 bàn jīn bā liǎng not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee
 xiè dòu armed confrontation / bust-up between gangs
 píng lǐ to judge between right and wrong / to reason things out
 fù nóng rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主[di4 zhu3] and poor peasant 貧農|贫农[pin2 nong2]
 chā zú to squeeze in / to step in / to take part / to step between (two persons in a relationship)
 tián gěng embankment or foothpath between paddy fields
 lā jù a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides
 jiè hū to lie between
 bāng jiāo relations between two countries / diplomatic relations
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