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号
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Definitions
- 1. roar
- 2. cry
Words Containing 号
identifier
telephone dial
optical signal
Phoenix, NASA Mars explorer
French horn
cannon used for signaling
student ID number
PRC equivalent: 泰坦尼克號|泰坦尼克号[tài tǎn ní kè hào]
store
number plate
the \Zhurong\ Chinese Mars rover, landed on the planet in 2021
D size battery
conch
model (particular version of a manufactured article)
(slang) heroin
trumpeter
to have the power to rally supporters
to dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill
signal light
signaling flag
title of honor
number in a sequence
trademark
see 腿號|腿号[tuǐ hào]
tracking number (of a package shipment)
subsymbolic model
employee number
tone mark on a Chinese syllable (i.e. accents on ā á ǎ à)
first day of the month
order number
double prime symbol (″) (math., linguistics etc)
part number
Chinese guillemet 《》(punct. used for names of books etc)
seat number
first issue
alias
Chinese underdot (punct. used for emphasis, sim. to Western italics)
serial number
to weep
lot number
analog signal
signal processing
time signature (music)
exclamation mark (punct.)
Chinese back-sloping comma 、 (punct. used to separate items in a list)
Nimitz class, US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 8 in commission since 1975
to sound the horn
to cry piteously
to cry out loud without tears
name
bass tuba
account
to become well-known
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
digital signal
to bawl
plus-minus sign (±)
number of military unit
plus or minus sign ± (math.)
to howl
Space Shuttle Endeavor
I.D. number
title granted to a person (archaic)
jumbo
Space Shuttle Discovery
to answer a call to action
Bopomofo
(coll.) to go pee
temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
unsigned (i.e. the absolute value, regardless of plus or minus sign)
Progress (name of Russian spaceship)
signal
bugle call
name; title
Tianwen-1, Chinese mission to put a robotic rover on Mars launched in 2020
large-sized (of clothes, shoes)
positive value sign + (math.)
braces
(registered) company
car front indicator
reveille
HMS Amethyst, Royal Navy corvette involved in a 1949 gunfight with the PLA on the Changjiang
posthumous name and title
punctuation mark
multiplication sign (math.)
asterisk * (punct.)
(epidemiology) patient zero
(math.) equals sign =
semicolon (punct.)
2nd day of the month
alarm
license plate
(newspaper) extra
signal station
to call
register card
(drug etc) approval number
to dial a telephone number
dash
digital signal
division sign (math.)
hyphen
Shenzhou (spacecraft)
to chant the names of Buddha
to take one's seat according to the ticket number
medium-sized
an apostrophe (punct.)
check mark (✓)
unsigned remainder (i.e. the remainder after rounding to the nearest integer)
four corner code (input method for Chinese characters)
Air Force One, US presidential jet
lenticular brackets (【】 or 〖〗)
to register (at a hospital etc)
car rear indicator
fax number
nickname
minus sign - (math.)
exclamation mark ! (punct.)
vehicle registration plate
refined appelation
parentheses
issue number (of a magazine etc)
first rate
braces
ticker symbol (to identify share coupon)
to be named
flashing light
square brackets [ ]
apostrophe ' (punct.)
PRC equivalent: 七號電池|七号电池[qī hào diàn chí]
turn signal (auto.)
slogan
ellipsis (punct.)
tilde ( ~ )
lit. order like a mountain
swung dash
(slang) bottom (in a homosexual relationship)
name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
ZIP code
the Arrow (a Hong Kong registered ship involved in historical incident in 1856 used as pretext for the second Opium War)
punctuation
radical sign √ (math.)
symbol; mark; sign
grade
to equate
question mark (punct.)
consecutive serial numbers
Chinese centered dot mark · (punct. used to separate Western names or words)
plus sign + (math.)
AA battery (PRC)
bugle
to randomly select (as for a lottery)
character size
vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)
number
to wail
the Arrow Incident of 1856 (used as pretext for the second Opium War)
odd number (on a ticket, house etc)
identification number
official account (on a social networking platform)
work chant
writing symbol
(music) sharp (♯)
cross symbol (×), used to replace a character one does not wish to display
driver (golf)
legband (on a bird)
registered letter
reign title
spoon (golf)
signal
slash (punct.)
sick personnel
tick
to number
square brackets [ ] (math.)
comma (punct.)
brackets
bugle
alphanumeric code
disconnected phone number
number sign # (punctuation)
negative value sign - (math.)
CRH-series high-speed trains operated by China Railway
trombone
quotation mark (punct.)
full stop
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
angle brackets < >
Soyuz (union), Russian spacecraft series
hyphen
percent sign % (punct.)
exclamation mark ! (punct.)
the fifth
lottery
military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean \pretext\ or \ostensible purpose\)
to blow a brass instrument
unquote
signal
secret signal (sign)
unquote
to be known as
Salyut (salute), Russian spacecraft series
HMS Consort, Royal Navy destroyer involved in 1949 Amethyst incident on Changjiang
Cosmos, Russian spacecraft series
nickname
telephone signal
dial-up connection
honorific title
(permanent) marker (pen)
largest typeface
Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the PLA Navy (commissioned in 2012)
parentheses
(coll.) to slink off
Russian cruiser Aurora, firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography
Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ)
PRC equivalent: 三號電池|三号电池[sān hào diàn chí]
dial tone
bugler
area code
electrical signal
colon (punct.)
Kitty Hawk (US aircraft carrier)
hyphen (punct.)
tuba
one of the many names of Buddha
AAA battery (PRC)
(music) flat (♭)
to feel sb's pulse
(music) accidental (symbol such as a sharp (♯), flat (♭), natural (♮) etc)
to cry
SELENE, Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft, launched in 2007
tortoise shell brackets 〔〕
prime symbol (′) (math., linguistics etc)
nickname
nickname
account number
even number (on a ticket, house etc)
bugle horn
semiotics
mark
Space Shuttle Challenger
inequality sign (≠, < , ≤, >, ≥)
Galileo, American robotic spacecraft launched to Jupiter in 1989, orbiting the planet 1995-2003
second best person
\The Hunt for Red October\, a novel by Tom Clancy
an order (esp. army)
desirable number (for one's telephone, license plate etc) (i.e. one that includes memorable or auspicious combinations of digits)
voice signal
code name
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
C size battery (PRC) (Taiwan equivalent: 二號電池|二号电池[èr hào diàn chí])
casualties
apostrophe
to boss people around (idiom)
(music notation) natural sign, ♮
lit. wolves howling, devils groaning (idiom); pathetic screams
ordinal number
official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉[hàn], 唐[táng] etc)
nine-ball (billiards game)
number
trumpet