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Trad. 條
- strip
- item
- article
- clause (of law or treaty)
- classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
Trad. 線條
- line (in drawing, calligraphy etc)
- the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
Trad. 條件
- condition; circumstance; term; factor
- requirement; prerequisite; qualification
- situation; state; condition
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Trad. 發條
- clockwork spring (used to power a watch or windup toy etc)
- (attributive) windup; clockwork
Trad. 報條
- report of success from a candidate to the imperial examination (old)
- list of deaths
Trad. 條暢
- orderly and logical (of writing)
- luxuriant
- flourishing
- prosperous
Trad. 條目
- clauses and sub-clauses (in formal document)
- entry (in a dictionary, encyclopedia etc)
Trad. 頭條
- Toutiao, personalized content recommendation app (abbr. for 今日頭條|今日头条[Jin1 ri4 Tou2 tiao2])
Trad. 天條
- heavenly decree; divine commandment; (fig.) unbreakable taboo; absolute edict (often humorous or sarcastic)
- prohibition decrees of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国[Tai4 ping2 Tian1 guo2]
Trad. 棉條
- (textiles) sliver
- tampon (abbr. for 衛生棉條|卫生棉条[wei4 sheng1 mian2 tiao2])
Trad. 假條
- leave of absence request (from work or school)
- excuse note
- CL:張|张[zhang1]
Trad. 辣條
- spicy sticks, a snack food similar to beef jerky but made with flour or dried beancurd instead of meat
Trad. 炒粿條
- char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
Trad. 半條命
- half a life
- only half alive
- barely alive
- (scared, beaten etc) half to death
Trad. 柳條邊
- Willow palisade across Liaoning, 17th century barrier
Trad. 一條龍
- lit. one dragon
- integrated chain
- coordinated process
Trad. 上發條
- to wind up (a watch or other clockwork mechanism)
Trad. 星條旗
- Stars and Stripes, the flag of the United States
Trad. 東條英機
- Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948
Trad. 條分縷析
- to analyze thoroughly, point by point (idiom)
Trad. 二十一條
- the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915
Trad. 齒輪齒條
- (mechanical engineering) rack and pinion
Trad. 條條框框
- fixed framework (idiom); restriction of social conventions and taboos (usually derogatory)
- regulations and restrictions
Trad. 條紋噪鶥
- (bird species of China) striated laughingthrush (Grammatoptila striata)
Trad. 馬關條約
- Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争[Jia3 wu3 Zhan4 zheng1]
Trad. 拉白布條
- to hold up a white banner (i.e. to protest)
Trad. 充要條件
- necessary and sufficient condition
Trad. 霸王條款
- (law) unfair clause
- unequal clause
Trad. 拉薩條約
- Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Trad. 天津條約
- Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約|不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
Trad. 今日頭條
- Toutiao, personalized content recommendation app
Trad. 辛丑條約
- Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
Trad. 璦琿條約
- Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
Trad. 上緊發條
- to wind the spring up tight
- (fig.) to gear up; to ready oneself
Trad. 必要條件
- requirement
- necessary condition (math)
Trad. 井井有條
- everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
Trad. 手機條碼
- (Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票|统一发票[tong3 yi1 fa1 piao4] to the customer’s cloud account
Trad. 有條不紊
- regular and thorough (idiom); methodically arranged
Trad. 南京條約
- Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Trad. 有條有理
- (idiom) clear and orderly; neat and tidy
Trad. 尼布楚條約
- Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Trad. 非條件反射
- unconditioned reflex (physiology)
Trad. 腳踏兩條船
- lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom)
- fig. to have it both ways
- to run after two hares
- (especially) to have two lovers at the same time
Trad. 齒條千斤頂
- rack and pinion jack
Trad. 柳條湖事件
- the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria
- also known as 9-18 incident 九一八事變|九一八事变[Jiu3 Yi1 ba1 Shi4 bian4]
Trad. 柳條溝事件
- see 柳條湖事件|柳条湖事件[Liu3 tiao2 Hu2 Shi4 jian4]
Trad. 炸土豆條兒
- erhua variant of 炸土豆條|炸土豆条[zha2 tu3 dou4 tiao2]
Trad. 不平等條約
- (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
Trad. 無條件投降
- unconditional surrender
Trad. 艾條溫和灸
- gentle stick moxibustion (TCM)
Trad. 艾條雀啄灸
- "sparrow pecking" moxibustion technique (TCM)
Trad. 穿一條褲子
- (of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together
- to be like family
- to share the same view of things
Trad. 里瓦幾亞條約
- Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
Trad. 改訂伊犁條約
- Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
Trad. 中俄伊犁條約
- Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
Trad. 中俄北京條約
- the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
Trad. 中俄改訂條約
- Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
Trad. 一條路走到黑
- lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
- fig. to stick to one's ways
- to cling to one's course
Trad. 一條道走到黑
- to stick to one's ways
- to cling to one's course
Trad. 天津會議專條
- Tianjin agreement of 1885 between Li Hongzhang 李鴻章|李鸿章[Li3 Hong2 zhang1] and ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文[Yi1 teng2 Bo2 wen2] to pull Qing and Japanese troops out of Korea
Trad. 旅大租地條約
- unequal treaty of 1898 whereby the Qing dynasty ceded the lease of Lüshun (Port Arthur) to Russia
Trad. 條條大路通羅馬
- all roads lead to Rome
- use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)