dì
(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc)
order
(old) rank in the imperial examinations
mansion
(lit.) but
just
dì yī cì
the first time
first
number one
dì èr
second
number two
next
secondary
dì èr cì
the second time
second
number two
cì dì
order
sequence
one after another
Yìn dì ān
(American) Indian
native American
indigenous peoples of the Americas
dì yī lún
first round (of match, or election)
dì sì jì dù
fourth quarter (of financial year)
dì yī rén chēng
first person (in writing)
dì èr lún
second round (of match, or election)
dì sān chǎn yè
tertiary sector of industry
jū dì
housing
high class residence
dì yī jì dù
first quarter (of financial year)
dì sān jì dù
third quarter (of financial year)
dì yī fū rén
First Lady (wife of US president)
dì yī shēng
first tone in Mandarin
high level tone
dì èr jì dù
second quarter (of financial year)
jí dì
to pass an imperial examination
dì sān zhě
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship
the other woman
the other man
third person
third party (in dispute)
disinterested party
number three in a list
dì yī tǒng jīn
the first pot of gold
the initial profits from an economic endeavour
dì sì jì
fourth period
quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
dì liù gǎn
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
shì jiè dì yī
ranked number one in the world
the world's first
tiān xià dì yī
first under heaven
number one in the country
pǐn dì
grade (i.e. quality)
rank
Shàng hǎi Dì èr Yī kē Dà xué
Shanghai Second Medical University
jiǎ dì
residence of a noble
top candidate in the imperial examinations
shū xiāng mén dì
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
dì yī chǎn yè
primary sector of industry
dì sì tái
fourth channel
(in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV
fǔ dì
mansion house
official residence
dì yī lì
first case
first instance
first time (sth is done)
Fǎ lā dì
Faraday (name)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
kē xué jì shù shì dì yī shēng chǎn lì
Science and technology is the number one productive force (from 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化).
dì yī guó jì
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
dì nà ěr
dinar (currency) (loanword)
bó gěn dì
Burgundy (Bourgogne), kingdom during medieval period, now region of France
dì sān jì
third period
tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
bù dì
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
dì yī xiàng xiàn
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
dì èr shēng
second tone in Mandarin
rising tone
Ān dì sī shān mài
Andes mountain chain of South America
dì sān shēng
third tone in Mandarin
falling-rising tone
dì sì shēng
fourth tone in Mandarin
falling tone
Dì bì lì sī
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia or Gruzia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚[Ge2 lu3 ji2 ya4]
Wéi wǎ dì
Vivaldi (name)
Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer
Jiā lǐ bō dì
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
Liú Guāng dì
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Jiǎ dì chóng
Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite that inhabits the gut
zhuó dì
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
Dì lè ní ān hǎi
Tyrrhenian sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
dì wǔ gè xiàn dài huà
fifth modernization, i.e. democracy, cf Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations 鄧小平|邓小平, 四個現代化|四个现代化
Jiǎ dì chóng bìng
Giardiasis, a form of gastro-enteritis caused by infection of gut by Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite
dì yī jī běn xíng shì
(math.) first fundamental form
Bó lā dì sī lā wǎ
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Guó yǔ zhù yīn fú hào dì yī shì
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan)
Bopomofo
abbr. to 注音一式[zhu4 yin1 yi1 shi4]
tán dì
extensive residence
your house
Ài dé huá · Dá lā dì
Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician
Jiǎ dì chóng shǔ
Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite that inhabits the gut
dì sān zhuàng tài
"third state", borderline state between health and disease
Dì èr Shì jiè
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
dì èr ge rén
the second person
(fig.) someone else
third party
Dì èr xìng
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
dì èr chūn
(lit.) second spring
(fig.) falling in love for the second time
a new lease of life
rebirth
Dì èr cì Hàn zì Jiǎn huà Fāng àn
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986)
abbr. to 二簡|二简[er4 jian3]
dì wǔ zòng duì
fifth column (subversive group)
Dì lè ní ān Hǎi
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
Dì sān Dì guó
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
Dì sān Guó jì
see 共產國際|共产国际[Gong4 chan3 Guo2 ji4]
shàng dì
top notch
highest quality
Běi jīng Dì èr Wài guó yǔ Xué yuàn
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
Ài dé huá · Dá lā dì
Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician
dì yī shí jiān
in the first moments (of sth happening)
immediately (after an event)
first thing
hé dì guāng lín
the whole family is invited (idiom)