"Corner" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jiǎo luò nook / corner
 qiáng jiǎo corner (junction of two walls)
 guǎi jiǎo to turn a corner / corner
 zhuǎn jiǎo bend in a street / corner / to turn a corner
 gā lá corner / nook / recess / out-of-the-way place
 guǎi wān chù corner / bend
 jiǎo lóu corner (between walls)
 jiǎo angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 léng corner / edge / arris (sharp ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge) / protrusion
 yú corner
 zōu corner / foot of mountain
 dōu chāo to surround and attack / to corner / to envelop
 wān jiǎo corner / bend / curve
 jī jiǎo gā lá corner / nook
 zuǐ jiǎo corner of the mouth
 yǎn jiǎo outer or inner corner of the eye / canthus
 zhuǎn wān to turn / to go around a corner
 jiāng zhì to be about to arrive / to be around the corner
 kǒu jiǎo corner of the mouth
 yī jiǎo corner of the lower hem of a jacket etc
 léng jiǎo edge and corner / protrusion / sharpness (of a protrusion) / craggy / ridge corner
 jiǎo qiú corner kick (in soccer) / free strike in hockey
 tún jī to stock up / to lay in supplies / to hoard (for speculation) / to corner the market in sth
 guǎi wān to go round a curve / to turn a corner / fig. a new direction
 zhǐ rì kě dài imminent / just around the corner (idiom)
 liú cuàn to roam all over the place / to go into every nook and corner / to infiltrate / (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run / to flee and try to hide
 Yīng yǔ jiǎo English corner / spoken English practice group
 bì nì to look disdainfully out of the corner of one's eye
 wú lù kě táo no way out / nowhere to go / trapped beyond hope of rescue / painted into a corner
 jiǎo mén corner gate
 nèi yǎn jiǎo inner corner of the eye
 xiàng yú lit. to face the corner (idiom) / fig. to miss out on sth
 léng variant of 稜|棱[leng2], corner / square beam / edge / arris (curve formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge) / used in 楞迦[Leng2 jia1], Sri Lanka
 yá corner of the eye / to stare
 léng corner / square beam
 shí (Japanese kokuji) street corner / intersection / used in Japanese personal and place names / pr. tsuji
 yǎo dark / deep / southeast corner of room
 yú guāng (out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun
 yí northeastern corner of a room
 jiǎo dīng corner bracket (for securing the corner of a picture frame etc) / brad
 dōu bǔ to round up (fugitives) / to corner and arrest
 Kǎi dá gé lán Ketagalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, esp. northeast corner
 Kǎi dá gé lán zú Ketagalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, esp. northeast corner
 sì jiǎo hào mǎ four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)
 wài yǎn jiǎo outer corner of the eye
 dà yǎn jiǎo inner corner of the eye
 xiǎo yǎn jiǎo outer corner of the eye
 jú cù yī yú to be cramped in a corner (idiom)
 shū jiǎo corner of a page
 yǎn wěi outer corner of the eye
 yǎn shāo corner of eye near temple
 jiǎo yǐ chair designed to fit in corner of a room
 jiǎo diǎn corner point / summit
  Human Rights Corner
 chún jiǎo corner of the mouth / labial angle
 miàn bì sī guò to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience
 zhé jiǎo to fold the corner of a page / to dog-ear
 quē jiǎo (of a square shape, such as a house plan) to have a corner missing / (fig.) to lack something / missing piece
 sì chū wén qián coin minted in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han 漢靈帝|汉灵帝[Han4 Ling2 Di4], with a square hole in the middle and four lines radiating out from each corner of the square (hence the name 四出文)
 biān jiǎo àn lì (engineering) corner case
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