"Number" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 duō shǎo number / amount / somewhat
 shù zì numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shù mǎ number / numerals / figures / digital / amount / numerical code
 hào mǎ number / CL:堆[dui1],個|个[ge4]
 biān hào to number / numbering / serial number
 shù mù amount / number
 kān hào issue (of journal) / number
 duō guǎ number / amount
 diàn huà telephone / CL:部[bu4] / phone call / CL:通[tong1] / phone number
 cì shù number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)
 dì yī first / number one / primary
 dì èr second / number two / next / secondary
 duō shao how much? / how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number?
 rén shù number of people
 dì sān third / number three
 diǎn jī shù number of clicks / number of hits (on a website)
 zhàng hào account number
 dì èr cì the second time / second / number two
 dì sì fourth / number four
 ruò gān a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?
 xù hào ordinal number / serial number / sequence number
 rén cì person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating
 shǎo shù small number / few / minority
 háng bān scheduled flight / flight number / plane / scheduled sailing / sailing number / passenger ship
 diàn huà hào mǎ telephone number / CL:串[chuan4]
 kòng gǔ to own a controlling number of shares in a company
 èr cì second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
 zì shù number of written characters / number of words / word count
 hù kǒu population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) / registered residence / residence permit / (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account
 gè shù number of items or individuals
 zēng duō to increase / to grow in number
 yōu yōu lasting for ages / long drawn out / remote in time or space / unhurried / a great number (of events) / preposterous / pensive
 bō hào to dial a telephone number
 shàng yáng to rise (i.e. number increases) / a price rise / to raise
 nián xiàn age limit / fixed number of years
 xù liè hào serial number / product key (software)
 shù é amount / sum of money / fixed number
 qià hǎo as it turns out / by lucky coincidence / (of number, time, size etc) just right
 chuán zhēn hào mǎ fax number
 dǐng jiān peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)
 míng é quota / number of places / place (in an institution, a group etc)
 tiān xià dì yī first under heaven / number one in the country
 zì hào characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number
 dì sān zhě sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list
 zhuàn sù angular velocity / number of revolutions per minute
 rén tóu person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account)
 tóu hào first rate / top rank / number one
 duō tóu many-headed / many-layered (authority) / devolved (as opposed to centralized) / pluralistic / (as classifier) number of animals / long term (finance) / long (investment)
 yè mǎ page number
 dào shù inverse number / reciprocal (math.)
 piào shù number of votes / poll count
 bǎn cì edition (of a book etc) / edition number
 bàn shù half the number / half
 shì jiè dì yī ranked number one in the world / the world's first
 jī shù cardinal number / (math.) radix / base
 xiǎo hào trumpet / small size (clothes etc) / (coll.) number one / to urinate / (humble) our store
 zhěng shù whole number / integer (math.) / round figure
 xiàng gong lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband
 pī hào lot number / batch number
 fán yǎn to multiply / to reproduce / to increase gradually in number or quantity
 yīn guǐ sound track / track number (e.g. on a CD)
 kǒu zi hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
 chǎng cì the number of showings of a movie, play etc / screening / performance
 sǐ wáng rén shù number of people killed / death toll
 shēn fèn zhèng hào mǎ I.D. number
 dà hào tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate
 pī zhǔn wén hào (drug etc) approval number
 fān fān to double / to increase by a certain number of times
 chán lián to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship
 hǎi xuǎn (in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition
 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
 bù jì qí shù lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom) / fig. countless / innumerable
 chéng piàn (of a large number of things) to form an expanse / to cover an area
 bān cì grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
 wěi shù remainder (after rounding a number) / decimal part (of number after the decimal point) / mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.) / small change / balance (of an account)
 xué hào student ID number
 shǒu qū yī zhǐ to count as number one (idiom) / second to none / outstanding
 hào wài (newspaper) extra / special number (of a periodical)
 mén pái door plate / house number
 liáo liáo wú jǐ just a very few (idiom) / tiny number / not many at all / You count them on your fingers.
 fù shù plural / complex number (math.)
 dān shù positive odd number (also written 奇數|奇数) / singular (grammar)
 dù shu number of degrees / reading (on a meter) / strength (alcohol, lenses etc)
 yìn cì number of print run
 zì tóu first letter of a word or serial number / first character of a Chinese word / first digit of a number / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable
 hào pái license plate / number plate
 dà shù a large number
 dìng dān hào order number
 liàng hào desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)
 fù shù negative number
 tào shù song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in 套[tao4], like houses)
 jī shù odd number
 jǔ shì wú shuāng unrivaled (idiom) / world number one / unique / unequaled
 ǒu shù even number
 nián hào reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)
 duī jī rú shān to pile up like a mountain (idiom) / a mountain of (paperwork etc) / a large number of sth
 dìng shù constant (math.) / quota / fixed number (e.g. of places on a bus) / fixed quantity (e.g. load of truck) / destiny
 hé shù composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization)
 chē hào vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
 Mǎ hè Mach (name) / Ernst Mach (1838-1916), German physicist / Mach number (fluid mechanics)
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