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duān
HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 6

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Definitions

  1. 1. end
  2. 2. extremity
  3. 3. item
  4. 4. port
  5. 5. to carry
  6. 6. regular

Example Sentences

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Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 5687429)

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Words Containing 端

事端
shì duān

disturbance

报端
bào duān

in the newspaper(s)

单端孢霉烯类毒素中毒症
dān duān bāo méi xī lèi dú sù zhōng dú zhèng

trichothecenes toxicosis

极端之恶
jí duān zhī è

(philosophy) radical evil

端午节
duān wǔ jié

Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)

顶端
dǐng duān

summit; peak

端站
duān zhàn

end station

端庄
duān zhuāng

dignified

端饭
duān fàn

to serve (food)

端详
duān xiáng

full details

鬼计多端
guǐ jì duō duān

full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom)

前端总线
qián duān zǒng xiàn

(computing) front-side bus (FSB)

盲端
máng duān

cecum (start of the colon, linking it to small intestine)

一窥端倪
yī kuī duān ní

to infer easily

西端
xī duān

western extremity

中低端
zhōng dī duān

mid-to-low-range

近端
jìn duān

(anatomy) proximal

端系统
duān xì tǒng

end system

端坐
duān zuò

to sit upright

解决争端
jiě jué zhēng duān

to settle a dispute

无端
wú duān

for no reason at all

好端端
hǎo duān duān

perfectly all right

端详
duān xiang

to look over carefully

不端
bù duān

improper

交换端
jiāo huàn duān

switched port

川端康成
chuān duān kāng chéng

Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese literature Nobel laureate

一锅端
yī guō duān

see 連鍋端|连锅端[lián guō duān]

无端端
wú duān duān

for no reason

变化多端
biàn huà duō duān

changeable

多端中继器
duō duān zhōng jì qì

multiport repeater

端尿
duān niào

to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she urinates

尖端
jiān duān

sharp pointed end

借端
jiè duān

to use as pretext

远端
yuǎn duān

the far end (of an object)

端屎
duān shǐ

to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she defecates

要端
yào duān

the main points

钩端螺旋体病
gōu duān luó xuán tǐ bìng

leptospirosis

异端者
yì duān zhě

a heretic

末端
mò duān

tip; extremity

海端
hǎi duān

Haiduan or Haituan township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan

南端
nán duān

southern end or extremity

肇端
zhào duān

the starting point

终端机
zhōng duān jī

terminal

低端
dī duān

low-end

张择端
zhāng zé duān

Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), Song dynasty painter

台端
tái duān

you (in a formal letter)

发端
fā duān

to originate; to initiate

端砚
duān yàn

high-quality ink stonemade in Duanxi and Guangdong

端午
duān wǔ

see 端午節|端午节[duān wǔ jié]

首鼠两端
shǒu shǔ liǎng duān

(idiom) to hesitate

五官端正
wǔ guān duān zhèng

to have regular features

以太网络端口
yǐ tài wǎng luò duān kǒu

Ethernet port

近端胞浆
jìn duān bāo jiāng

proximal cytoplasm

端粒酶
duān lì méi

telomerase

开端
kāi duān

start

哑终端
yǎ zhōng duān

dumb terminal

全端工程师
quán duān gōng chéng shī

full-stack developer (computing)

北端
běi duān

northern extremity

端菜
duān cài

to serve food

单端孢霉烯类毒素
dān duān bāo méi xī lèi dú sù

trichothecenes (TS, T-2)

端阳节
duān yáng jié

see 端午節|端午节[duān wǔ jié]

端的
duān dì

really

端面
duān miàn

end face

故作端庄
gù zuò duān zhuāng

artificial show of seriousness

用户端设备
yòng hù duān shè bèi

customer premise equipment

端到端
duān dào duān

end-to-end

连锅端
lián guō duān

to take even the cooking pots (idiom)

极端
jí duān

extreme

百端待举
bǎi duān dài jǔ

a thousand things remain to be done (idiom)

弊端
bì duān

systemic problem (sometimes refers specifically to corrupt practices)

端州
duān zhōu

Duanzhou District of Zhaoqing City 肇慶市|肇庆市[zhào qìng shì], Guangdong

端到端加密
duān dào duān jiā mì

end-to-end encryption

异端
yì duān

heresy

终端
zhōng duān

end

端点
duān diǎn

starting point or ending point (in stories etc)

极端主义
jí duān zhǔ yì

extremism

端线
duān xiàn

end line

两端
liǎng duān

both ends (of a stick etc)

终端用户
zhōng duān yòng hù

end user

云端
yún duān

high in the clouds

多端
duō duān

multifarious

远端转移
yuǎn duān zhuǎn yí

metastasis

甪端
lù duān

Luduan, mythical Chinese beast able to detect the truth

每端口价格
měi duān kǒu jià gé

price per port

远端工作
yuǎn duān gōng zuò

to telecommute; to work remotely

后端
hòu duān

backend (computing)

端方
duān fāng

upright

端上
duān shàng

to serve (food, tea etc)

不可端倪
bù kě duān ní

impossible to get even an outline (idiom)

端绪
duān xù

start and development

极端分子
jí duān fèn zǐ

extremist

舞水端里
wǔ shuǐ duān lǐ

Musudan-ri, North Korean rocket launch site in North Hamgyeong Province 咸鏡北道|咸镜北道[xián jìng běi dào]

端倪
duān ní

boundary

诡计多端
guǐ jì duō duān

deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous

高端
gāo duān

high-end

端然
duān rán

upright

争端
zhēng duān

dispute

黑嘴端凤头燕鸥
hēi zuǐ duān fèng tóu yàn ōu

(bird species of China) Chinese crested tern (Thalasseus bernsteini)

端州区
duān zhōu qū

Duanzhou District of Zhaoqing City 肇慶市|肇庆市[zhào qìng shì], Guangdong

巡回分析端口
xún huí fēn xī duān kǒu

Roving Analysis Port

前端
qián duān

front

衅端
xìn duān

pretext for a dispute

端口
duān kǒu

interface

远端胞浆
yuǎn duān bāo jiāng

distal cytoplasm

端木赐
duān mù cì

Duanmu Ci (520 BC-446 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Zi Gong 子貢|子贡[zǐ gòng]

端子
duān zi

terminal (electronics)

低端人口
dī duān rén kǒu

low-paid workers in industries that offer jobs for the unskilled

一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng

fig. to be impartial

海端乡
hǎi duān xiāng

Haiduan or Haituan township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan

底端
dǐ duān

bottom

端粒
duān lì

telomere, a protective DNA cap on a chromosome

客户端
kè hù duān

client (computing)

端正
duān zhèng

upright

端起碗吃肉,放下筷子骂娘
duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng

fig. to complain despite being privileged

端架子
duān jià zi

to put on airs

端赖
duān lài

absolutely reliant on

眉端
méi duān

tip of the eyebrows

白嘴端凤头燕鸥
bái zuǐ duān fèng tóu yàn ōu