| 格林尼治本初子午线 |
Gé lín ní zhì běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn |
the Greenwich meridian |
| 格 |
gē |
used in 格登 / used in 格格 |
| 格 |
gé |
square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively |
| 格林 |
Gé lín |
Green or Greene (name) |
| 格林尼治 |
Gé lín ní zhì |
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time |
| 林 |
Lín |
surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi |
| 林 |
lín |
(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) |
| 尼 |
ní |
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings) |
| 治 |
zhì |
to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research |
| 治本 |
zhì běn |
to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治标) |
| 本 |
běn |
(bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc |
| 本初子午线 |
běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn |
the first meridian / the prime meridian |
| 初 |
chū |
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic |
| 子 |
zǐ |
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- |
| 子 |
zi |
noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair" |
| 子午线 |
zǐ wǔ xiàn |
meridian |
| 午 |
wǔ |
7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south) |
| 线 |
xiàn |
variant of 线 |
| 线 |
xiàn |
thread / string / wire / line / CL:条,股,根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) |