"System" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xì tǒng system / CL:個|个[ge4]
 zhì dù system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL:個|个[ge4]
 tǐ xì system / setup / CL:個|个[ge4]
 tǐ zhì system / organization
 zhuāng zhì to install / installation / equipment / system / unit / device
 zhì shì standardized / standard (service, method etc) / regulation (clothing etc) / formulaic / (telecommunications etc) system / format (e.g. the PAL or NTSC systems for TV signals)
 tǐ body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics)
 zhì néng intelligent / able / smart (phone, system, bomb etc)
 chuāng kǒu window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground
 cāo zuò xì tǒng operating system
 suǒ dìng to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target
 yīn xiǎng sound / acoustics / audio / hi-fi system / stereo sound system / abbr. for 組合音響|组合音响[zu3 he2 yin1 xiang3]
 xiǎo líng tōng Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), mobile network system operating in China 1998-2013, branded "Little Smart"
 xìn xī xì tǒng information system
 jià zhí guān system of values
 rén xìng huà (of a system or product etc) adapted to human needs / people-oriented / user-friendly
 zé rèn zhì system of job responsibility
 kòng zhì xì tǒng control system (2)
 Yì Jiǎ Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
 fēng jiàn system of enfeoffment / feudalism / feudal / feudalistic
  systems integration / system integration
 suǒ yǒu zhì ownership of the means of production (in Marxism) / system of ownership
西 Xī Jiǎ La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
 Dào jiào Taoism / Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)
 jīng jì tǐ zhì economic system
 cháng wèi stomach and intestine / digestive system
 shí wèi the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
 shuǐ xì drainage system
 qì gōng qigong, a system of deep breathing exercises
 xué zhì educational system / length of schooling
 kuài jì zhì dù accounting system
 shén jīng xì tǒng nervous system
 guǎn lǐ xìn xī xì tǒng management information system / MI system
 mài luò arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context
 èr jìn zhì binary system (math.)
 dìng wèi xì tǒng positioning system
 tài yáng xì solar system
 quán qiú tōng Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) (telecommunications)
 Hàn yǔ Pīn yīn Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
 shuì zhì tax system
 qīng guǐ light rail / transit system (underground, at street level or elevated) / streetcar / metro / abbr. for 輕型軌道交通|轻型轨道交通[qing1 xing2 gui3 dao4 jiao1 tong1]
 bǎi wèi the hundreds place (or column) in the decimal system
 shí míng zhì system for identifying users (on a rail network, the Internet etc)
 miǎn yì xì tǒng immune system
 wǔ shí 11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
 nèi róng guǎn lǐ xì tǒng content management system (CMS) (Internet)
 xué míng scientific name / Latin name (of plant or animal) / (according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students
 Hǎi hé Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 / at Dagukou 大沽口)
 xiāo huà xì tǒng digestive system / gastrointestinal tract
 shè huì zhǔ yì zhì dù socialist system
 dǎo háng xì tǒng navigation system
 zǐ shí 11 pm-1 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
 hū xī xì tǒng respiratory system
 gēn xì root system
 yī gǎi reform of the medical system
 yù jǐng xì tǒng early warning system
 chéng kòng jiāo huàn jī electronic switching system (telecom.) / stored program control exchange (SPC)
 zhèng tǐ form of government / system of government
 xún huán xì tǒng circulatory system
 xué fēn zhì credit system / grading system (in schools, universities etc)
 dì lǐ xìn xí xì tǒng Geographic Information System
 shēng zhí xì tǒng reproductive system
 wǔ qì xì tǒng weapon system
 zhōng shū shén jīng xì tǒng central nervous system, CNS
 jìn to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
 jiāo gǎn shén jīng sympathetic nervous system
 yù jǐng jī early warning aircraft system, e.g. US AWACS
 lu:3 dài caterpillar track (propulsion system used on bulldozers etc) / (literary) shoes and belt
 chéng tiě rapid transit system / urban railway
 jīn róng xì tǒng financial system
 zuò biāo xì coordinate system (geometry)
仿 fǎng shēng to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism / bionic / biomimetic
尿 mì niào xì tǒng urinary system
 jiàn zài shipboard (radar system etc) / ship-based / carrier-based (aircraft)
 Lǐ Bīng Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC) hydraulic engineer who designed the Dujiangyan 都江堰[Du1 jiang1 yan4] irrigation system in Sichuan
 shuāng guī shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace
 chuán dòng xì tǒng transmission system / power drive
 gōng public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
 dà guō fàn meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
  multi-user system
 fāng chéng zǔ (math.) simultaneous equations / system of equations
 wèi xīng dìng wèi xì tǒng global positioning system (GPS)
 miè huǒ xì tǒng fire-suppression system
 zōng hé guǎn lǐ xì tǒng integrated management system
 shù jù kù guǎn lǐ xì tǒng database management system
  automatic control system
 quán qiú dìng wèi xì tǒng global positioning system (GPS)
 sī xiǎng tǐ xì system of thought / ideology
 guó tǐ state system (i.e. form of government) / national prestige
 zhòu sī dùn Zeus's shield / Aegis combat system (US missile guidance)
 kè hù guān xì guǎn lǐ xì tǒng Customer and Relationship Management System
 gōng zhì metric system
 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
  dual-track system
 gōng shuǐ xì tǒng water supply system
 Sī dì wén Steven (name) / Simon Stevin (1548-1620), Flemish engineer and mathematician, played a key role in introducing the decimal system to Europe
 jiù zhì old system / weights and measures of former times
  information system security
 hēi xiāng black box / flight recorder / opaque system (computing)
 bǎi fēn zhì hundred mark system
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