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- generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods
- abbr. for Vietnam 越南
Trad. 越級
- to skip a grade
- to bypass ranks
- to go over the head of one's boss
Trad. 越軌
- to run off the track
- to step out of line
- to overstep the bounds of propriety
Trad. 越過
- to cross over
- to transcend
- to cover distance
- to overcome
- to rise above
Trad. 越飛
- Adolph Abramovich Joffe (1883-1927), Soviet and Comintern diplomat and spy in 1922-23 in Republican China
Trad. 飛越
- to fly across
- to fly over
- to fly past
- (literary) (of one's spirits) to soar
Trad. 越國
- Yue state
- generic term for states in south China or southeast Asia at different historical periods
Trad. 吳越
- states of south China in different historical periods
- proverbially perpetual arch-enemies
Trad. 越秀區
- Yuexiu, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong
Trad. 越西縣
- Yuexi, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Sichuan
Trad. 穿越機
- FPV drone; drone piloted through a live video feed
- Qin Yueren (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills
Trad. 沙撈越
- Sarawak, state of Malaysia in northwest Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲
- breakthrough
- going beyond
- leap-forward
- unusual new development
Trad. 越城區
- Yuecheng district of Shaoxing city 紹興市|绍兴市[Shao4 xing1 shi4], Zhejiang
Trad. 越城嶺
- Yuecheng mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi
Trad. 越王勾踐
- King Gou Jian of Yue (c. 470 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
Trad. 內在超越
- inner transcendence (perfection through one's own inner moral cultivation, as in Confucianism, for example)
- to fall deeper and deeper (in debt, in love etc)
Trad. 翻山越嶺
- lit. to pass over mountain ridges (idiom)
- fig. hardships of the journey
Trad. 殺人越貨
- to kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
- not overstepping the prescribed limits
- to remain within bounds
Trad. 躥房越脊
- lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)
Trad. 巴山越嶺
- to climb hills and pass over mountains (idiom); to cross mountain after mountain
- good at climbing mountains
Trad. 中日韓越
- China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
- lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs
- to take matters into one's own hands
Trad. 吳越同舟
- Wu and Yue in the same boat (idiom); fig. cooperation between natural rivals
- to collaborate towards a common end
- in the same boat together
Trad. 越幫越忙
- to be officious
- to kibitz
- to be meddlesome
- to force one's help upon
Trad. 吳越春秋
- History of the Southern States Wu and Yue (traditional rivals), compiled by Han historian Zhao Ye 趙曄|赵晔[Zhao4 Ye4], 10 extant scrolls
- outer transcendence (perfection through the agency of God)
- lit. the more you touch things up, the darker they get
- fig. to only make matters worse
- to be intensifying
- to be getting worse and worse
- to start to run rampant
Trad. 越南刺鰟鮍
- Acanthorhodeus tonkinensis Vaillant (small carp)
Trad. 知識越多越反動
- the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮[Si4 ren2 bang1])
- dare not go one step beyond the prescribed limit
Trad. 越南民主共和國
- Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976