沙士
shā shì
Pinyin

Definition

沙士
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shā shì
  1. sarsaparilla
  2. root beer
  3. SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) (loanword)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

rén shì
  1. 1 person
  2. 2 figure
  3. 3 public figure
yǒng shì
  1. 1 a warrior
  2. 2 a brave person
bó shì
  1. 1 doctor
  2. 2 court academician (in feudal China)
  3. 3 Ph.D.
shì bīng
  1. 1 soldier
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
nu:3 shì
  1. 1 lady
  2. 2 madam
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi]
  4. 4 Miss
  5. 5 Ms
zhàn shì
  1. 1 fighter
  2. 2 soldier
  3. 3 warrior
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
Shā
  1. 1 surname Sha
shā chǎng
  1. 1 sandpit
  2. 2 battleground
  3. 3 battlefield
shā tān
  1. 1 beach
  2. 2 sandy shore
  3. 3 CL:片[piàn]
shā fā
  1. 1 sofa (loanword)
  2. 2 CL:條|条[tiáo],張|张[zhāng]
  3. 3 (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post
Ruì shì
  1. 1 Switzerland
nán shì
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 gentleman
dī shì
  1. 1 taxi (loanword)
shēn shì
  1. 1 gentleman
zhī shì
  1. 1 cheese (loanword)
wèi shì
  1. 1 guardian
  2. 2 defender
hù shi
  1. 1 nurse
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
Cháng shā
  1. 1 Changsha prefecture-level city and capital of Hunan province in south central China
qí shì
  1. 1 horseman
  2. 2 cavalryman
  3. 3 knight (i.e. European nobility)
  4. 4 (Tw) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
Yà lǐ shì duō dé
  1. 1 Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher

Idioms (16)

一盘散沙
yī pán sǎn shā
  1. 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
  2. 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
仁人志士
rén rén zhì shì
  1. 1 gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
仁人义士
rén rén yì shì
  1. 1 those with lofty ideals (idiom)
  2. 2 men of vision
博士买驴
bó shì mǎi lu:2
  1. 1 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point
  2. 2 idiom mocking scholastic pomposity
含沙射影
hán shā shè yǐng
  1. 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
  2. 2 to make oblique charges
  3. 3 to make insinuations
  4. 4 to insinuate
封沙育林
fēng shā yù lín
  1. 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)
志士仁人
zhì shì rén rén
  1. 1 gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
恒河沙数
Héng hé shā shù
  1. 1 countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
战死沙场
zhàn sǐ shā chǎng
  1. 1 to die in battle (idiom)
招贤纳士
zhāo xián nà shì
  1. 1 invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); to recruit talent
敬贤礼士
jìng xián lǐ shì
  1. 1 to revere people of virtue and honor scholarship (idiom)
有识之士
yǒu shí zhī shì
  1. 1 a person with knowledge and experience (idiom)
沙盘推演
shā pán tuī yǎn
  1. 1 to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)
  2. 2 to rehearse a planned action or activity
  3. 3 to conduct a dry run
泥沙俱下
ní shā jù xià
  1. 1 mud and sand flow together (idiom)
  2. 2 good and bad mingle
眼里容不得沙子
yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi
  1. 1 can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom)
  2. 2 unable to put sth objectionable out of one's mind
  3. 3 not prepared to turn a blind eye
聚沙成塔
jù shā chéng tǎ
  1. 1 sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity
  2. 2 many a mickle makes a muckle

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