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Chinese dictionary
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n.(of plants) node; knob; joint
竹节
bamboo joint
藕节
lotus root joint
枝节
branches joint
- 2
n.(of animals) joint
关节
joint
指节
knuckle
骨节
joint of bones
- 3
n.holiday; festival
清明节
Pure Brightness Festival
春节
Spring Festival
中秋节
the Midautumn Festival
- 4
n.section; division; part
这书第一章里有三节。
The first chapter of this book contains three sections.
章节
chapters and sections
- 5
measure wordsection; length; stanza
他吃了三节甘蔗。
He ate three segments of a sugar cane.
他上了两节课。
He has taken two classes.
这有十节车厢。
There are ten railway coaches here.
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v.economize; save
请节电。
Please save electricity.
请开源节流。
Please increase earnings and cut expenses.
我宁愿节衣不愿缩食。
I'd rather economize on clothes than food.
synonym
antonym
- 7
n.formality; etiquette; protocol
礼节
courtesy
仪节
etiquette
- 8
n.rhythm; meter; beat
节拍
metre
节律
rhythm
节奏
rhythm
- 9
n.moral integrity; chastity
高风亮节
sterling integrity
晚节
integrity in one's later years
节操
moral integrity
- 10
measure wordknot; unit of navigation speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour
这只船的航速是二十节。
This boat can do twenty knots.
那艘船正以三十节的速度航行。
The ship was sailing at 30 knots.
- 11
v.abridge
节选
excerpt
节录
extract
- 12
n.item
细节
detail
- 13
n.a kind of certificate (used to prove one's identity in ancient times)
符节
symbols
Words and phrases with 节
- 节节[word]successively
- 节结[word]knob
- 节省[word]save
- 节奏[word]cadence; tempo
- 节令[word]climate and other natural phenomena of a season
- 节录[word]extract; snippet
- 节支[word]cut down/reduce expenses
- 节下[word]festival period
- 节育[word]birth control
- 节节败退[idiom]make one retreat after another
- 节用裕民[idiom]cut down annual expenditures in order to enrich the people
- 节节胜利[idiom]win victory after victory
- 节衣缩食[idiom]economize/scrimp on food and clothing
- 节流开源[idiom]broaden sources of income and reduce expenditure
- 节哀顺变[idiom]restrain grief and accept the change
- 节外生枝[idiom]crop up unexpectedly
Word usage
- Note"节" is uaually pronounced as "jié"; when pronounced as "jiē", it is used for "节骨眼儿" and "节子".