bàn
half
semi-
incomplete
(after a number) and a half
huáng
semi-circular jade ornament
fù sài
semi-final
intermediary heat of a competition
bàn chéng pǐn
semi-manufactured goods
semi-finished articles
semi-finished products
xíng shū
running script
semi-cursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)
xì
semi-annual ceremony of purification
bàn gōng kāi
semi-overt
more or less open
pēi yá mǐ
semi-polished rice (i.e. rice minus the husk, but including the germ)
guī
(semi-precious stone)
extraordinary
sè mí
crazy about sex
lecherous
horny
máo tiáo
wool top, semi-processed raw wool
zhī hū zhě yě
four common characters of classical Chinese (idiom); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk
double Dutch
all Greek to me
jiǎ yǎng xī lín
methicillin (a semi-synthetic penicillin) (loanword)
bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì
semi-feudal and semi-colonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
zhèng bàn zhóu
positive semi-axis (in coordinate geometry)
bàn shī yè
semi-employed
partly employed
underemployed
xiū xì
to hold a semi-annual ceremony of purification
Cáo Bù xīng
Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semi-legendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six dynasties 六朝四大家
bàn zì gēng nóng
semi-tenant peasant
semi-owner peasant
bàn láo dòng lì
one able to do light manual labor only
semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
lüè shí zhī wú
semi-literate
only knows words of one syllable
lit. to know only 之 and 无
bàn dǎo cí
semi-conducting ceramic (electronics)
fù sài
semi-final
intermediary heat of a competition
Tiān lóng Bā Bù
Demigods and Semi-Devils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸[Jin1 Yong1] and its TV and screen adaptations
lüè shí zhī wú
semi-literate
only knows words of one syllable
lit. to know only 之[zhi1] and 無|无[wu2]
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