名目
míng mù
Pinyin

Definition

名目
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míng mù
  1. name
  2. designation
  3. item
  4. rubric
  5. (formal usage) fame

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

名
míng
  1. 1 name
  2. 2 noun (part of speech)
  3. 3 place (e.g. among winners)
  4. 4 famous
  5. 5 classifier for people
名字
míng zi
  1. 1 name (of a person or thing)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
成名
chéng míng
  1. 1 to make one's name
  2. 2 to become famous
排名
pái míng
  1. 1 to rank (1st, 2nd etc)
  2. 2 ranking
目前
mù qián
  1. 1 at the present time
  2. 2 currently

Idioms (20)

一目了然
yī mù liǎo rán
  1. 1 obvious at a glance (idiom)
一目了然
yī mù liǎo rán
  1. 1 obvious at a glance (idiom)
一目十行
yī mù shí háng
  1. 1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
  2. 2 to read very rapidly
一叶障目
yī yè zhàng mù
  1. 1 lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. not seeing the wider picture
  3. 3 can't see the wood for the trees
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)

Sample Sentences

除了打折，现在的双11购物节活动名目也越来越多，像什么秒杀啊，限时抢购啊，抢红包啊，让人看得眼花缭乱，也难怪有那么多人能一整天都守着电脑。
chúle dǎzhé ，xiàn zài de shuāngshíyī gòuwù jié huódòng míngmù yě yuèláiyuèduō ，xiàng shénme miǎo shā ā ，xiànshí qiǎnggòu ā ，qiǎng hóngbāo ā ，ràngrén kàn de yǎnhuāliáoluàn ，yě nánguài yǒu nàme duō rén rén néng yīzhěngtiān dōu shǒu zhe diànnǎo 。
Apart from discounts, there are more and more so called events like "Snatch in a Second", "Time Limit Buy" or "Snatch the Red Envelope". It's really a bewildering experience. No wonder so many people just guard their computers all day long.
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我就是觉得这是在巧立名目，仗着人已经到这里了，如果不买就看不了电影。就像买珍珠奶茶不给吸管一样过分。
wǒ jiùshì juéde zhè shì zài qiǎolìmíngmù ，zhàngzhe rén yǐjīng dào zhèlǐ le ，rúguǒ bù mǎi jiù kàn bùliǎo diànyǐng 。jiù xiàng mǎi zhēnzhūnǎichá bù gěi xīguǎn yīyàng guòfèn 。
I think this is a clever way to get people to buy the glasses taking advantage that you’re already there and can’t watch the movie without the glasses. It like buying bubble milk tea but without providing a straw.
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