"Wood" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 mù cái wood
 mù gān wooden pole / wood (golf club)
 mù tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
 mù tou slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL:塊|块[kuai4],根[gen1]
 wǔ xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
 wén lǐ vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
 zhēng zhēng sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
 jiǎ chún methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
 hóng mù red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
 mù ěr wood ear / jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:朵[duo3]
 wén lù veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
 lí ba fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
 zhú mù bamboo and wood
 xiǔ mù rotten wood
 fá mù to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering
 sōng mù pine wood / deal / larch
 mù xiè wood shavings / sawdust
 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
 pǐ chái chopped wood / firewood
 sū mù sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner 旗 / (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
 kǎn shù to chop wood / to chop down trees
 mù piàn flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL:塊|块[kuai4],片[pian4]
 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
 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt
 guàn mù lín shrubbery / low wood
 bào huā wood shavings
 máng rén mō xiàng blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
 guī huà mù petrified wood (geology)
 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
 wén line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc)
 tàn wood charcoal / coal
 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack
 zhá thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China) / a kind of official document (in former times) / letter / note / plague
 qiáo firewood / gather wood
 juān to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
 suì fire / speculum / to obtain fire by drilling wood, striking flint, sun's rays etc
 chá a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew
 xùn to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind / / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° / (southeast)
 guàng woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings
 jī curved wood graver
 yī yè zhàng mù lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees
 zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín unable to see the wood for the trees / fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture
 tǔ mù xíng hái earth and wood framework (idiom) / plain and undecorated body
 mù rén shí xīn lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless
 liè huǒ gān chái lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom) / inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
 zhòng máng mō xiàng multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
 juān variant of 鐫|镌, to engrave (on wood or stone) / to inscribe
 sǔn yǎn mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon)
 pán classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)
 duò wood scraps
 gǔ scraps of wood
 zhuó chop / carve wood
 fēn aromatic wood / perfume / fragrance
 lù to carve wood
 xí a hard wood
 yùn wood streaks
 yā chà fork (of a tree) / tool made of forked wood
 wǔ cháng five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 / and fidelity 信 / five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends) / five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土
 tǔ mù shēn one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)
 pīn bǎn wán jù jigsaw puzzle / wood block puzzle
 pīn bǎn yóu xì jigsaw puzzle / wood block puzzle
 mù zhòu type of wood used to make punting poles for boats (old)
 mù dù wood moth / carpenter moth / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
 mù dù é wood moth / carpenter moth / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
 mù chún wood alcohol / wood spirit / methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / same as 甲醇[jia3 chun2]
 wú tóng mù Paulownia wood used for musical instruments
 zhàn chē ancient vehicle made of wood and bamboo / CL:輛|辆[liang4]
 zhēn sǒu dense wood
 sēn lush growth (trees) / fishing using bundled wood (archaic)
 shù huà yù wood jade (type of petrified wood)
 xūn kǎo to smoke / to cure over a wood fire
 liú de qīng shān zài , bù pà méi chái shāo While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
 xiā zi mō xiàng blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
 wén lu:3 veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
 jiāo chī bird-lime / wood glue
 sū fāng mù sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine
 lán zhōu lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
 xuàn mù wood turning / woodwork lathe
 zuān mù qǔ huǒ to drill wood to make fire
 yīn suō a hard wood
 xiāng mù incense wood
 lín liǔ yīng (bird species of China) wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
 lín yù (bird species of China) wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
 mù bǎn huà woodcut / wood engraving
 mù jīng methanol / methyl alcohol / wood alcohol / wood spirit
齿线  bullet wood / beefwood
  wood origin
  Regional Wood Energy Development Programme in Asia and the Pacific
 suì mù jī shredder / hog mill / wood processor
 fèi mù cái waste wood
  wood chip
  Seminar on Environmentally Sound Forest Roads and Wood Transport
 zhì cái lumber / sawn wood
 mù zhì néng yuán wood energy
  International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
 fēng bì lín closed wood
  Advisory Committee on Paper and Wood Products
 chái zào wood stove
  open-access wood resources
  wood chunker / chunkwood processor
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