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资料 zī liào material / resources / data / information / profile (Internet) / CL:份[fen4],個|个[ge4]
材料 cái liào material / data / makings / stuff / CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
物质 wù zhì matter / substance / material / materialistic / CL:個|个[ge4]
器材 qì cái equipment / material
材质 cái zhì texture of timber / quality of material / material (that sth is made of)
物料 wù liào material
实质性 shí zhì xìng substantive / substantial / material / considerable
布料 bù liào cloth / material
有形 yǒu xíng material / tangible / visible / shapely
用料 yòng liào ingredients / material
质料 zhì liào material / matter
料子 liào zi material
料 liào material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess
材 cái material / timber / ability / aptitude / a capable individual / coffin (old)
楗 jiàn material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
专辑 zhuān jí album / record (music) / special collection of printed or broadcast material
教材 jiào cái teaching material / CL:本[ben3]
原料 yuán liào raw material / CL:個|个[ge4]
福利 fú lì material benefit / benefit in kind / (social) welfare
素材 sù cái source material (in literature and art)
本事 běn shì source material / original story
面料 miàn liào material for making clothes / CL:塊|块[kuai4]
实物 shí wù material object / concrete object / original object / in kind / object for practical use / definite thing / reality / matter (physics)
实体 shí tǐ entity / substance / thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtual or online existence) / the real thing (as opposed to an image or model of it)
实惠 shí huì tangible benefit / material advantages / cheap / economical / advantageous (deal) / substantial (discount)
浓度 nóng dù concentration (percentage of dissolved material in a solution) / consistency / thickness / density / viscosity
废物 fèi wù rubbish / waste material / useless person
小康社会 xiǎo kāng shè huì society in which the material needs of most citizens are adequately met
建筑材料 jiàn zhù cái liào building material
读物 dú wù reading material
参考文献 cān kǎo wén xiàn cited material / reference (to the literature) / bibliography
织物 zhī wù cloth / woven material / textiles
金属材料 jīn shǔ cái liào metal material
海绵 hǎi mián sponge (zoology) / sponge (piece of absorbent material, either natural or made from plastic etc) / foam rubber
史料 shǐ liào historical material or data
参考资料 cān kǎo zī liào reference material / bibliography
废品 fèi pǐn production rejects / seconds / scrap / discarded material
复合材料 fù hé cái liào composite material
取材 qǔ cái to collect material
清高 qīng gāo noble and virtuous / aloof from politics and material pursuits
封神榜 Fēng shén Bǎng Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
填料 tián liào packing material
物欲 wù yù material desire / craving for material things
脱胎换骨 tuō tāi huàn gǔ to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom) / born again Daoist / to turn over a new leaf / fig. to change wholly / to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
采风 cǎi fēng to collect local cultural material (recording folk songs, taking photos etc)
物质文明 wù zhì wén míng material culture
笑料 xiào liào comedic material / (in reference to a person) laughingstock / butt of jokes
火种 huǒ zhǒng tinder / source of a fire / inflammable material / (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
蓝本 lán běn blueprint / source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
钙质 gài zhì calcium / calcium material (such as bone)
伏笔 fú bǐ foreshadowing (literary device) / foretaste of material to come (in essay or story)
磨料 mó liào abrasive material
物证 wù zhèng material evidence
加试 jiā shì to add material to an exam / supplementary exam
行尸走肉 xíng shī zǒu ròu walking corpse (idiom) / zombie / person who lives only on the material level
衣料 yī liào material for clothing
加料 jiā liào to feed in / to load (raw material, supplies, fuel etc) / to supply / fortified (with added material)
接济 jiē jì to give material assistance to
熟料 shú liào worked material / chamotte (refractory ceramic material)
封神演义 Fēng shén Yǎn yì Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
捐物 juān wù to donate goods (to a relief effort) / to contribute material
文宣 wén xuān promotional material / propaganda
物资供应 wù zī gōng yìng supply of material
主材 zhǔ cái principal or main material (engineering)
残留物 cán liú wù remnant / residue / material left over
附属品 fù shǔ pǐn accessory / affiliated material / adjunct
掺假 chān jiǎ to mix in fake material / to adulterate
互通有无 hù tōng yǒu wú mutual exchange of assistance (idiom) / to benefit from each other's strengths and make up each other's shortfalls / to reciprocate with material assistance / scratch each other's back
八音 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music
下脚料 xià jiǎo liào remnants of material from an industrial process / offcut / scraps
类书 lèi shū reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China)
课外读物 kè wài dú wù extracurricular reading material
插科打诨 chā kē dǎ hùn to include impromptu comic material in opera performance (idiom) / to jest / buffoonery
溶质 róng zhì dissolved substance / material in solution
呢 ní woolen material
良材 liáng cái good timber / sound material / fig. able person / sound chap
拾零 shí líng to pick up bits / to collect scrap material / tidbits / gleanings (used as gossip)
利令智昏 lì lìng zhì hūn to lose one's head through material greed (idiom)
染色质 rǎn sè zhì chromosome / genetic material of chromosome
封官许愿 fēng guān xǔ yuàn to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance
有无相通 yǒu wú xiāng tōng mutual exchange of assistance (idiom) / to reciprocate with material assistance
鼎铛玉石 dǐng chēng yù shí lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom) / fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine
遗传物质 yí chuán wù zhì genetic material
疏理 shū lǐ to clarify (disparate material into a coherent narrative) / to marshal an argument
放射生成物 fàng shè shēng chéng wù radiogenic material
放射性材料 fàng shè xìng cái liào radioactive material
核武器材料 hé wǔ qì cái liào nuclear weapon material / weapon's grade material
核原料 hé yuán liào nuclear material
可裂变材料 kě liè biàn cái liào fissile material
裂变材料 liè biàn cái liào fissionable material
武器级别材料 wǔ qì jí bié cái liào weapons-grade material
武器可用物质 wǔ qì kě yòng wù zhì weapons-usable material
人证物证 rén zhèng wù zhèng human testimony and material evidence
充填物 chōng tián wù filling material / stuffing / lining / filling
原物料 yuán wù liào source material / raw materials
参考材料 cān kǎo cái liào reference material / source documents
可磁化体 kě cí huà tǐ magnetic medium / material capable of being magnetized
填塞物 tián sè wù stuffing / filling material
垫料 diàn liào packing material / lagging / litter
多孔材料 duō kǒng cái liào multicellular material / spongy substance / porous material
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