直
zhí
Pinyin
Definition
直
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- straight
- to straighten
- fair and reasonable
- frank
- straightforward
- (indicates continuing motion or action)
- vertical
- vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters
直
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- surname Zhi
- Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yán dì] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shén nóng] Farmer God
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 straight (in a straight line)
- 2 continuously
- 3 always
- 4 from the beginning of ... up to ...
- 5 all along
- 1 surname Zhi
- 2 Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yán dì] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shén nóng] Farmer God
- 1 direct (opposite: indirect 間接|间接[jiàn jiē])
- 2 immediate
- 3 straightforward
- 1 live broadcast (not recorded)
- 2 direct Internet broadcasting
- 3 (agriculture) direct seeding
- 1 to straighten
- 2 to stretch out
Idioms (20)
以直报怨,以德报德
- 1 to repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice (idiom, from Analects)
单刀直入
- 1 to get straight to the point (idiom)
嘴快心直
- 1 outspoken and frank (idiom)
径情直遂
- 1 to achieve one's ambitions (idiom)
心直口快
- 1 frank and outspoken (idiom)
- 2 straight speaking
- 3 to say what one thinks
Sample Sentences
主管,恕我直言,我认为这个做法太没效率了。
Mister, sorry for being too direct, I think this way might be too inefficient.
恕我直言,我不认同。
Please forgive me for being direct. I don’t agree.
他在学堂的时候,先生问他:“直隶省的西边是哪一省?”他说是陕西。
Once, while attending school, a teacher asked him which province was located on the western border of Hebei. He said it was Shaanxi.
我的同学总是一直抱怨书读不完。宁做蚂蚁腿,不学麻雀嘴。一直说话不读书,当然读不完啦。
My classmate always complains there is too much to study. Do more and talk less. If you keep talking instead of studying, then of course you can't finish studying.
运动员一次又一次地重复每个动作,直到符合要求为止。
The athlete repeats each action again and again until it meets the requirements.
心直口快
straightforward
他心直口快,有话就说。
He is straightforward. He says whatever he thinks.
他心直口快,朋友不多。
He is straightforward, so he doesn’t have many friends.
大家都不喜欢他心直口快的个性。
No one likes his straightforward personality.
目前,欧洲多数高校采用录播、直播课程以及教学课件相结合的方式。英国伦敦大学教授宁陆涛说,几十年前,英国就已经开展网络教学,但多是线上和线下互相补充的混合授课。现在全面改为网络教学,还没有遇到很大的技术障碍,学生整体反馈比较好。
Currently, most of the European universities are adopting the method of combining pre-recorded lessons, livestream lessons, and coursewares. Professor Ning Lu-Tao from University of London said that the UK launched online teaching several decades ago, but most of those mixed courses are complementary in terms of online and offline teaching. Now they have changed entirely to online teaching without facing severe technical challenges, and received better overall feedback from the students.