| 海峡两岸关系协会 |
Hǎi xiá Liǎng àn Guān xi Xié huì |
PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) |
| 海 |
Hǎi |
surname Hai |
| 海 |
hǎi |
ocean / sea / CL:个,片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous |
| 海峡 |
hǎi xiá |
strait; channel |
| 峡 |
xiá |
gorge |
| 两 |
liǎng |
two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) |
| 两岸 |
liǎng àn |
bilateral / both shores / both sides / both coasts / Taiwan and mainland |
| 岸 |
àn |
variant of 岸 |
| 岸 |
àn |
bank; shore; beach; coast |
| 关 |
Guān |
surname Guan |
| 关 |
guān |
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve |
| 关系 |
guān xi |
relation / relationship / to concern / to affect / to have to do with / guanxi / CL:个 |
| 关系 |
guān xi |
variant of 关系 |
| 系 |
xì |
to connect / to relate to / to tie up / to bind / to be (literary) |
| 系 |
xì |
system / department / faculty |
| 系 |
jì |
to tie / to fasten / to button up |
| 系 |
xì |
to connect / to arrest / to worry |
| 协 |
xié |
to cooperate / to harmonize / to help / to assist / to join |
| 协会 |
xié huì |
an association / a society / CL:个,家 |
| 会 |
huì |
can; to have the skill; to know how to / to be likely to; to be sure to / to meet; to get together / meeting; gathering / (suffix) union; group; association / (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]) |
| 会 |
kuài |
(bound form) to reckon accounts |