节
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Definitions
- 1. joint; node
- 2. (bound form) section; segment
- 3. solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar)
- 4. seasonal festival
- 5. (bound form) to economize; to save
- 6. (bound form) moral integrity; chastity
- 7. classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc
- 8. knot (nautical miles per hour)
Words Containing 节
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
festive day
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
PRC National Day (October 1st)
time
circumstances
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
season; time
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
carnival
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc)
etiquette
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
public holiday
frugal
rhythm
holiday
solar term
to save water
program
saving
to economize
to save energy
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
details
Christmas time
to come apart
to adjust
to celebrate a festival
Double Ninth or Yang Festival
joint (physiology)
syllable
stanza
Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month
International Women's Day (March 8)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
Chinese Thanksgiving, another name for 蛋炒飯節|蛋炒饭节[dàn chǎo fàn jié]
Epiphany
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
Pentecost
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
subsyllabic unit
festive season
Sukkot or Succoth, Jewish holiday
(diplomatic) envoy
a diplomatic group
etiquette
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
full throttle
nunchaku
see 建軍節|建军节[jiàn jūn jié]
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
see 冬至[dōng zhì]
segmented
to abridge
(jocular) a day of frenetic online spending, such as Singles' Day
International Labor Day (May Day)
diligent and thrifty (idiom)
kilobyte
to bow and scrape
to practice strict economy (idiom)
off-season; out-of-season
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
reputation and integrity
regulator (diving)
character
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on the Gregorian calendar)
Beer Festival
monosyllabic
First Sunday of Lent
International Children's Day (June 1)
May Day
International Women's Day (March 8)
basal ganglia lesions
Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)
multibyte
polysyllabic word
major festival
great fast
Annunciation (Christian festival on 25th March)
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc)
Fengjie county in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
Fengjie County in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
International Women's Day (March 8)
(computing) byte
byte count
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company, founded in 2012
seasonal
faithful (to the memory of betrothed)
Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
intrauterine device (IUD)
see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[gǔ ěr bāng jié]
Lent
a minor matter
barline (music)
Deepavali (Hindu festival)
the Iwakura mission (Japanese diplomatic and exploratory mission to US and Europe of 1871)
the New Year festival
radio program; broadcast program
Army Day (August 1)
CCP Founding Day (July 1st)
Easter
Easter Island
recurring section of a rational decimal
season's greetings (idiom)
Valentine's Day
April Fools' Day
Thanksgiving Day
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
jointing (agriculture)
elongation stage
to pay respects during a festival
knuckle
Diwali (Hindu festival)
(jocular) Valentine's Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day
harvest festival
Teachers' Day (September 10th in PRC and Confucius's birthday, September 28th in Taiwan)
Chinese New Year festivities
daylight saving time
CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special
circadian rhythm
segmented
temperate
gnarl
unabridged edition
inessentials
turpentine
branches and knots
side issues keep arising (idiom)
chaste widowhood
Arbor Day (March 12th), also known as National Tree Planting Day 全民義務植樹日|全民义务植树日[quán mín yì wù zhí shù rì]
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
to die or be martyred for a noble cause
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
Mother's Day
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[wáng wéi])
Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th
moral integrity
talk show
pure and high-minded (idiom)
Songkran (Thai New Year)
Torch Festival
Orchard Road, Singapore (shopping and tourist area)
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
Father's Day
Lupercalia, Roman festival to Pan on 15th February
annelid (worm)
Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
Bijie city and prefecture in Guizhou
Bijie prefecture in Guizhou
Bijie city, capital of Bijie prefecture, Guizhou
White Day
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky
air conditioning
chapter
see 端午節|端午节[duān wǔ jié]
bamboo joint
lit. muscles and joints
a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising
season
to control
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
(idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
beatboxing
Rhythm and Blues R&B
gnarl
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
rhythm
festival
beat (music)
metronome
integrity
to save on expenditure
festival season
abridged version
throttle
to economize on gasoline
to control flow
throttle pedal
a throttle
(of a woman) indomitably chaste
abridged version
gnarl; knot
knot (in wood)
Boxing Day, holiday on 26th December (the day after Christmas Day) in some countries
step by step
to retreat again and again in defeat
arbovirus
arthropod
to practice birth control
compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)
arthropod, segmented animals with jointed limbs
excerpt
to extract
between joints
to save electricity