"Ordinary" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yī bān same / ordinary / so-so / common / general / generally / in general
 zhèng cháng regular / normal / ordinary
 píng cháng ordinary / common / usually / ordinarily
 píng fán commonplace / ordinary / mediocre
 pǔ tōng common / ordinary / general / average
 píng dàn flat / dull / ordinary / nothing special
 xún cháng usual / common / ordinary
 zhōng yōng golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary
 děng xián ordinary / common / unimportant / idly / for no reason
 chà bù lí not much different / similar / ordinary / nearly
 yōng ordinary / to use
 pǔ pǔ tōng tōng ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
 yōng yōng lù lù ordinary / mediocre
 fán sú lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
 fán yōng ordinary / mediocre
 chún sù plain / ordinary / vegetarian
 zhōng cháng ordinary / average / medium / mid-range / moderate
 lǎo bǎi xìng ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL:個|个[ge4]
 píng mín ordinary people / commoner / civilian
 fēi fán out of the ordinary / unusually (good, talented etc)
 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
 píng rì ordinary day / everyday / ordinarily / usually
 bù fán out of the ordinary / out of the common run
 cháng rén ordinary person
 fán rén ordinary person / mortal / earthling
 bù sú impressive / out of the ordinary
 bù qǐ yǎn unremarkable / nothing out of the ordinary
 chāo fán out of the ordinary / exceedingly (good)
 huī fā to volatilize / to vaporize / to evaporate (esp. at ordinary temperatures) / (in compound words) volatile
 dù jīn to gold-plate / to gild / (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special
 bīng shì ordinary soldier
 cháo yě all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people
 cháng wēn room temperature / ordinary temperatures
 bù tóng xún cháng out of the ordinary / unusual
 bān dǐ ordinary members of theatrical troupe
便 jiā cháng biàn fàn simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
 àn shuō in the ordinary course of events / ordinarily / normally
 xiǎo mín ordinary people / commoner / civilian
 gàn qún cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
 píng dàn wú qí ordinary and mediocre (idiom) / nothing to write home about
 pǐ fū ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
 liáng mín good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class)
 fán fū common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
 àn lǐ according to reason / in the ordinary course of events / normally
 fán fū sú zǐ common people / ordinary folk
 jiàn mín social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste)
 sú shì everyday routine / ordinary affairs
 rén mín zhàn zhēng people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
 mín nu:3 woman from an ordinary family
 fán xiǎng ordinary tones / everyday harmony / common chord
便 biàn fàn an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
 Féng Jì cái Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人
 lā jiā cháng to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
 píng xìn ordinary mail (as opposed to air mail etc)
 bù guò ěr ěr not more than so-so (idiom) / mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary
 jī to amass / to accumulate / to store / measured quantity (such as area of volume) / product (the result of multiplication) / to integrate (math.) / to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.) / old / long-standing
 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
 pǐ fū pǐ fù ordinary people / commoners
线 cháng guī tóng diàn huà xiàn ordinary copper telephone line
 cháng wēi fēn fāng chéng ordinary differential equation (ODE)
 ào shì qún lún outstanding talent (idiom) / incomparable artistic merit / accomplishment out of the ordinary
 yī bān guī dìng ordinary provision (law)
 sú shì qí rén Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[Feng2 Ji4 cai2]
 chū jiān out of the ordinary / outstanding / egregious
 bēi zhī , wú shèn gāo lùn my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression) / my humble point is a familiar opinion / what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary
 bēi zhī , wú shèn gāo lùn my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression) / my humble point is a familiar opinion / what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary
 sù rì at ordinary times
 dà zào large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶[zhong1 zao4] for mid-level cadres and 小灶[xiao3 zao4] for the most privileged)
 píng rén ordinary person / common people
 píng píng cháng cháng nothing out of the ordinary / unglamorous
 nǐ qiú (math.) pseudosphere, a surface in ordinary space of constant negative curvature
 pǔ tōng mín zhòng ordinary people / the masses
 pǔ tōng chē local train / ordinary vehicle
 xiàng píng miàn phase plane (math., ordinary differential equations)
 xiàng kōng jiān phase space (math., ordinary differential equations)
 yì chén outstanding / above the common / out of the ordinary
  Ordinary Session of the Conference of Heads of State and Government
  buyer in the ordinary course of business
  Second Ordinary Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Health
 chī hē lā sā shuì to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
 shì jǐng xiǎo mín ordinary people / the hoi polloi / commoner
 chāo hū xún cháng out of the ordinary / exceptional
 zhēn rén bù lòu xiàng the sage presents as an ordinary person (idiom)
 fēi tóng fán xiǎng out of the ordinary
 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
 xiǎo yǐn yǐn yú lín , dà yǐn yǐn yú shì an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods / the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
 xiǎo yǐn yǐn yú yě , dà yǐn yǐn yú shì an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild / the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
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