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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)
Example Sentences
1 shown我关 节 痛。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 节
segmented
Feast of the Sacred Heart
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc)
to economize on gasoline
Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th
polysyllabic word
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
All Saints' Day (Christian festival on 2nd November)
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
Epiphany
rhythm
Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month
All Saints (Christian festival)
arthropod, segmented animals with jointed limbs
barline (music)
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
Mother's Day
see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[gǔ ěr bāng jié]
carnival (esp. Christian)
to adjust
to control
repeated segment (networking)
Rhythm and Blues R&B
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent)
character
a throttle
International Labor Day (May Day)
bisyllable
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
nunchaku
to offer a bribe
pelvis
television program
circumstances
to save on expenditure
to save energy
regulator (diving)
to practice strict economy (idiom)
flagellum
arts festival
holiday
abridged version
International Women's Day (March 8)
tiny insignificant details
arbovirus
gnarl
Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)
arthropod
gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
convoluted and overelaborate (document)
network node interface
to save electricity
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company, founded in 2012
nodule
talent show
syllabic script
Candlemas (Christian Festival on 2nd February)
International Children's Day (June 1)
Teachers' Day (September 10th in PRC and Confucius's birthday, September 28th in Taiwan)
Beer Festival
to bow and scrape
rheumatoid arthritis
temperate
weak link
branches and knots
major festival
to save food
to celebrate a festival
Diwali (Hindu festival)
Fengjie County in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
April Fools' Day
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[wáng wéi])
kilobyte
festival
elongation stage
(dialect) critical juncture
(jocular) Valentine's Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day
Lupercalia, Roman festival to Pan on 15th February
multibyte
carnival
Birthday of the Flowers, spring festival on lunar 12th or 15th February
accented syllable
full throttle
segmented
nunchaku
Deepavali (Hindu festival)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
Pentecost
articular cavity
see 開齋節|开斋节[kāi zhāi jié]
Easter
bamboo joint
CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special
arthritis
combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day (occurring when the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節|中秋节[zhōng qiū jié] falls on October 1st, as in 1982, 2001 and 2020)
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
season; time
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Army Day (August 1)
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
faithful (to the memory of betrothed)
chapter
to economize
off-season; out-of-season
Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)
PRC National Day (October 1st)
All Saints' Eve
network node
joint (of the skeleton)
Fiesta de Saint Fermin, festival held annually in Pamplona, Spain
beat (music)
abridged version
see 建軍節|建军节[jiàn jūn jié]
(mechanics) coupling
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
Boxing Day, holiday on 26th December (the day after Christmas Day) in some countries
(of a high official) to temporarily reside overseas (or in another part of the country) on an official posting
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
moral integrity
Passover (Jewish holiday)
Veterans' Day
solar term
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
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)
circadian rhythm
knot (in wood)
Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
rhythm
stanza
articular capsule (of joint such as knee in anatomy)
betrayal
recurring section of a rational decimal
Fengjie county in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
syllable
to come apart
festive season
a minor matter
the New Year festival
First Sunday of Lent
lit. muscles and joints
May Day
Bijie prefecture in Guizhou
talk show
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
time
season
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]
joint (physiology)
International Women's Day (March 8)
season's greetings (idiom)
etiquette
to economize on clothes and food
the Iwakura mission (Japanese diplomatic and exploratory mission to US and Europe of 1871)
(computing) byte
intrauterine device (IUD)
minor details
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
articular facet (anatomy)
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending
Songkran (Thai New Year)
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc)
seasonal
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
Father's Day
a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising
regulator
Double Ninth or Yang Festival
unabridged edition
(diplomatic) envoy
Easter Island
Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)
see 冬至[dōng zhì]
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
at the Chinese New Year or other festivities
Lent
metronome
(jocular) a day of frenetic online spending, such as Singles' Day
to extract
throttle pedal
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky
to control flow
Chinese Thanksgiving, another name for 蛋炒飯節|蛋炒饭节[dàn chǎo fàn jié]
variety show
gnarl; knot
festival season
to save
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义[wǔ chāng qǐ yì] of October 10th, 1911
to die or be martyred for a noble cause
Halloween
Bijie city and prefecture in Guizhou
reputation and integrity
memorial arch in honor of a chaste widow
breeding season
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
air conditioning
annelid (worm)
Valentine's Day
Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
chastity
byte count
public holiday
basal ganglia lesions
pure and high-minded (idiom)
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
film festival
to retreat again and again in defeat
turpentine
step by step
program
chaste widowhood
subsyllabic unit
osteoarthritis
to practice birth control
monosyllabic
see 端午節|端午节[duān wǔ jié]
Chinese New Year festivities
Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
great fast
nunchaku martial arts
compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)
Tibetan festival on 15th April marking Sakyamuni's birthday
a diplomatic group
saving
daylight saving time
harvest festival
(of a woman) indomitably chaste
International Women's Day (March 8)
knuckle
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
to abridge
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
music festival
Bijie city, capital of Bijie prefecture, Guizhou
Thanksgiving Day
to facilitate by means of bribery
integrity
inessentials
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)
frugal
between joints
a high-class upright character (idiom)
White Day
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
Eid al-Fitr or Feast of Breaking the Fast, celebrated on the first day of Shawal
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
festive day
video program
beatboxing
Torch Festival
excerpt
Christmas time
throttle
CCP Founding Day (July 1st)
details
side issues keep arising (idiom)
jointing (agriculture)
node
to pay respects during a festival
closed syllable
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
Ascension Day (Christian festival forty days after Easter)
diligent and thrifty (idiom)
(idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
Ramadan
Good Friday
radio program; broadcast program
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
Annunciation (Christian festival on 25th March)
rheumatoid arthritis
Orchard Road, Singapore (shopping and tourist area)
Sukkot or Succoth, Jewish holiday
etiquette
to solicit a bribe
gnarl
to save water