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There are 18 total results for your search in the dictionary.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

see styles
piě
    pie3
p`ieh
    pieh
to throw; to cast; left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)

撇下

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piē xia
    pie1 xia5
p`ieh hsia
    pieh hsia
to cast away

撇去

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piē qù
    pie1 qu4
p`ieh ch`ü
    pieh chü
skim

撇嘴

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piě zuǐ
    pie3 zui3
p`ieh tsui
    pieh tsui
to curl one's lip; to twitch one's mouth

撇掉

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piē diào
    pie1 diao4
p`ieh tiao
    pieh tiao
to skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid

撇條


撇条

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piě tiáo
    pie3 tiao2
p`ieh t`iao
    pieh tiao
(slang) to go to the toilet

撇步

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piě bù
    pie3 bu4
p`ieh pu
    pieh pu
(Tw) trick (of the trade); clever move (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [phiat-pōo])

撇清

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piē qīng
    pie1 qing1
p`ieh ch`ing
    pieh ching
to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasize one is innocent or in the clear

撇號


撇号

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piě hào
    pie3 hao4
p`ieh hao
    pieh hao
apostrophe

撇開


撇开

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piē kāi
    pie1 kai1
p`ieh k`ai
    pieh kai
to disregard; to leave aside

撇大條


撇大条

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piě dà tiáo
    pie3 da4 tiao2
p`ieh ta t`iao
    pieh ta tiao
(slang) to take a dump

右撇子

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yòu piě zi
    you4 pie3 zi5
yu p`ieh tzu
    yu pieh tzu
right-hander

左撇子

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zuǒ piě zi
    zuo3 pie3 zi5
tso p`ieh tzu
    tso pieh tzu
left-hander

撇開不談


撇开不谈

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piē kāi bù tán
    pie1 kai1 bu4 tan2
p`ieh k`ai pu t`an
    pieh kai pu tan
to ignore an issue (idiom)

八字沒一撇


八字没一撇

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bā zì méi yī piě
    ba1 zi4 mei2 yi1 pie3
pa tzu mei i p`ieh
    pa tzu mei i pieh
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] (idiom); fig. things have not even begun to take shape; no sign of success yet

啞撇釋該而


哑撇释该而

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yǎ piē shì gāi ér
    ya3 pie1 shi4 gai1 er2
ya p`ieh shih kai erh
    ya pieh shih kai erh
 abeishagaiji
abhiṣeka, 'consecrate me by sprinkling, ' said in prayer.

八字還沒一撇


八字还没一撇

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bā zì hái méi yī piě
    ba1 zi4 hai2 mei2 yi1 pie3
pa tzu hai mei i p`ieh
    pa tzu hai mei i pieh
lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] has been written (idiom); fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet

八字還沒一撇兒


八字还没一撇儿

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bā zì hái méi yī piě r
    ba1 zi4 hai2 mei2 yi1 pie3 r5
pa tzu hai mei i p`ieh r
    pa tzu hai mei i pieh r
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] (idiom); fig. things have not even begun to take shape; no sign of success yet

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 18 results for "撇" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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