陈 chén

exhibit, display; plead; a surname

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DEFINITIONS

  • exhibit, display
  • plead
  • a surname
  • surname Chen
  • Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state
  • Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]
  • to lay out
  • to exhibit
  • to display
  • to narrate
  • to state
  • to explain
  • to tell
  • old
  • stale

STROKES

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WORDS

陈述 chén shù
HSK 6
an assertion; to declare; to state
陈旧 chén jiù
HSK 6
old-fashioned
新陈代谢 xīn chén dài xiè
HSK 6
metabolism (biology); the new replaces the old (idiom)
陈列 chén liè
HSK 6
to display; to exhibit
陈年 chén nián old; stored for many years
陈词滥调 chén cí làn diào cliché; commonplace; truism; stereotype
陈列室 chén liè shì display room
陈规 chén guī outmoded conventions; old-fashioned ways
陈腐 chén fǔ trite; clichéd; empty and trite; banality; platitude
陈皮 chén pí orange peel; tangerine peel; dried orange peel used in Chinese medicine
陈诉 chén sù to state; to assert
陈述句 chén shù jù declarative sentence
暗渡陈仓 àn dù chén cāng lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu); fig. to feign one thing while doing another; to cheat under cover of a diversion
推陈出新 tuī chén chū xīn to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
陈货 chén huò shop-worn goods; remnants
陈酒 chén jiǔ old wine
陈规陋习 chén guī lòu xí outmoded conventions; old-fashioned ways
陈设 chén shè to display; to set out; furnishings
坦陈 tǎn chén to reveal; to confess
陈兵 chén bīng to deploy troops; to mass troops
铺陈 pū chén to arrange; to spread out; to narrate in detail; to describe at great length; to elaborate
陈仁锡 chén rén xī Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author
陈冠希 chén guān xī Edison Chen (1980-), Hong Kong singer and actor
陈水扁 chén shuǐ biǎn Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨|民进党 politician, president of the Republic of China 2000-2008
陈冲 chén chōng Joan Chen (1961-), Chinese born American actress
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