"Plank" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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木板	mù bǎn	slab / board / plank / CL:張\|张[zhang1],塊\|块[kuai4]
板子	bǎn zi	board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
牏	tóu	short board / plank
平板支撑	píng bǎn zhī chēng	plank (exercise)
栈道	zhàn dào	plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff / (archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers
铺	pù	plank bed / place to sleep / shop / store / (old) relay station
明修栈道，暗渡陈仓	míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng	lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦\|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽\|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
栈径	zhàn jìng	a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff)
栈阁	zhàn gé	plank road built along the side of a cliff / CL:條\|条[tiao2]
秦岭蜀栈道	Qín lǐng shǔ zhàn dào	the Qinling plank road to Shu, a historical mountain road from Shaanxi to Sichuan
四肢支撑式	sì zhī zhī chēng shì	low plank (yoga pose)