| 科学技术是第一生产力 |
kē xué jì shù shì dì yī shēng chǎn lì |
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四个现代化) |
| 科 |
kē |
branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL:个 |
| 科学 |
kē xué |
science / scientific knowledge / scientific / rational / CL:门,个,种 |
| 科学技术 |
kē xué jì shù |
science and technology |
| 学 |
xué |
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology |
| 技 |
jì |
skill |
| 技术 |
jì shù |
technology; technique; skill / CL:门,种,项 |
| 术 |
zhú |
(bound form) Atractylodes (genus of perennial herbs in the daisy family, used in TCM) |
| 术 |
zhú |
variant of 术 |
| 术 |
shù |
(bound form) art; skill; discipline / (bound form) method; technique; strategy |
| 是 |
shì |
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion) |
| 是 |
shì |
variant of 是 |
| 第 |
dì |
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just |
| 第一 |
dì yī |
first / most important; primary; foremost |
| 一 |
yī |
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 一生 |
yī shēng |
all one's life; throughout one's life |
| 生 |
shēng |
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) |
| 生产 |
shēng chǎn |
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child |
| 生产力 |
shēng chǎn lì |
production capability / productive force / productivity |
| 产 |
chǎn |
to give birth / to reproduce / to produce / product / resource / estate / property |
| 产 |
chǎn |
variant of 产 |
| 力 |
Lì |
surname Li |
| 力 |
lì |
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously |