对 (對) duì
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duì
preposition
to; toward
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Object 对象
Notes: As a directive preposition (Guoyu '對' prep; Sun 2006, loc. 1743; XHZD '对' 5, pp. 165-166) -
duì
verb
to oppose; to face; to regard
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '對' v 4; Kroll 2015 '對' 1, p. 95; Unihan '對'; XHZD '对' 2, p. 165) -
duì
adjective
correct; right
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '對' adj 2; Unihan '對'; XHZD '对' 9, p. 166) -
duì
measure word
pair
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (Guoyu '對' n 3; Kroll 2015 '對' 4, p. 95; XHZD '对' 12, p. 166) -
duì
adjective
opposing; opposite
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '對' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '對' 1b, p. 95; XHZD '对' 3, p. 165) -
duì
noun
duilian; couplet
Domain: Literature 文学
Notes: An abbreviation for 对联, a popular form of poetry of two lines, often used for inscrptions (Guoyu '對' n 2; Idema and Haft 1997, p. 108). -
duì
verb
yes; affirmative
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In response to a yes; no question (Guoyu '對' v 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1903) -
duì
verb
to treat; to regard
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '對' v 3; XHZD '对' 6, p. 166) -
duì
verb
to confirm; to agree
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 相合 or 投合 (Guoyu '對' v 5) -
duì
verb
to correct; to make conform; to check
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '對' v 7; XHZD '对' 7, p. 166) -
duì
verb
to mix
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '對' v 9; XHZD '对' 11, p. 166) -
duì
noun
a pair
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '對' n 1; Kroll 2015 '對' 2, p. 95; XHZD '对' 10, p. 166) -
duì
verb
to respond; to answer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '對' 1a, p. 95; XHZD '对' 1, p. 165) -
duì
adjective
mutual
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (XHZD '对' 4, p. 165) -
duì
verb
parallel; alternating
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Of literary composition (Kroll 2015 '對' 2a, p. 95) -
duì
noun
a command to appear as an audience
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: To the ruler (Kroll 2015 '對' 3, p. 95)
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- 相对象(相對象) to meet a possible marriage partner
- 对马海峡(對馬海峽) Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
- 对攻(對攻) to attack (one another)
- 道德绝对主义(道德絕對主義) moral absolutism
- 对撞机(對撞機) a particle collider
- 对茬儿(對茬兒) to agree with; of the same opinion; to coincide
- 对比度(對比度) contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup); degree of contrast
- 右对齐(右對齊) to right justify (typography)
- 绝对温度(絕對溫度) absolute temperature
- 对表(對錶) to set or synchronize a watch
- 对立(對立) to oppose ; opposition; duality
- 对外贸易(對外貿易) foreign trade
- 对本(對本) (a return) equal to the capital; 100 percent profit
- 对路(對路) suitable; to one's liking
- 绝对零度(絕對零度) absolute zero
- 针锋相对(針鋒相對) sharply opposing; to oppose each other with equal harshness
- 二元对立(二元對立) binary opposition; binary system
- 绝对主义(絕對主義) absolutism
- 对不起(對不起) to be sorry
- 英汉对译(英漢對譯) English-Chinese parallel text
- 对空火器(對空火器) anti-aircraft gun
- 瞻对(瞻對) to visit the emperor
- 召对(召對) to summon to see [the emperor]
- 对方付费电话(對方付費電話) collect call
- 自动对焦(自動對焦) autofocus
- 对策(對策) countermeasure
- 不怕神一样的对手,就怕猪一样的队友(不怕神一樣的對手,就怕豬一樣的隊友) a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent
- 对症(對症) correct diagnosis; to prescribe the right cure for an illness; to suit the medicine to the illness
- 不对(不對) wrong; incorrect ; no ; abnormal; strange ; not suitable disagreeing
- 对消(對消) in equilibrium; to cancel out (of opposite forces)
- 对牛弹琴(對牛彈琴) to play the lute to a cow; offering a treat to an unappreciative audience; to cast pearls before swine; caviar to the general; to preach to deaf ears
- 左对齐(左對齊) to left justify (typography)
- 对虾科(對蝦科) penaeidae (the prawn or shrimp family)
- 碱基对(鹼基對) base pair (molecular biology)
- 对饮(對飲) to toast; to drink together
- 对话课(對話課) conversation class
- 针尖对麦芒(針尖對麥芒) sharply opposed to each other, with neither prepared to give an inch
- 非相对论性(非相對論性) non-relativistic
- 碱基配对(鹼基配對) base pairing; base pair
- 对齐(對齊) to align
- 对证命名(對證命名) confrontation naming
- 对口径(對口徑) to arrange to give the same story
- 对于(對於) regarding; with regards to
- 对半(對半) half
- 对白(對白) dialogue (in a movie or a play)
- 对流层(對流層) troposphere
- 查对(查對) to check whether something is correct
- 对衬(對襯) to serve as foil to one another
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