medium or means through which communication, business, or other activities are conducted; referred to as [[管道|管道|guan3 dao4]] in Taiwan

literally meaning 'where water flows, a canal is formed'; used to describe how a problem will be solved or a goal achieved naturally once the necessary conditions have been met

a channel or canal dug by hand for the purpose of irrigation or drainage

A man-made channel for irrigation or drainage; ditch; canal; penstock

The main canal or channel used for irrigation or drainage in a water system

An open, uncovered water channel or canal.

rivers and canals; general term for waterways

a ditch or drainage channel built from stone

A secondary canal used for irrigation that branches off from a main channel

water flowing in a canal or ditch

Qu County in [[达州|達州|da2 zhou1]] prefecture-level city, Sichuan Province

An artificial channel or ditch used for irrigation.

underground water channel, covered ditch, or culvert used for drainage or irrigation

A historic canal in [[兴安|興安|xing1 an1]] county, Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the [[长江|長江|chang2 jiang1]] and [[珠江|珠江|zhu1 jiang1]] river systems; it is one of the world's oldest contour canals.

(literary) a leader or chieftain, often referring to a rebel leader, chief criminal, or the head of a tribe

A lateral irrigation canal that carries water from a branch canal to smaller field ditches or irrigation areas.

Wujiaqu subprefecture-level city in north Xinjiang, part of the Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture

A small canal or irrigation ditch that carries water directly into individual fields from a larger channel.

river in Hunan Province that flows into the Qingshui River

irrigation canal in Shaanxi first built in 246 BC during the Warring States period; named after its designer, the engineer Zheng Guo

Sêrxü County in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

The Yongji Canal, an ancient waterway built in 608 during the Sui Dynasty. It connected the Yellow River to Zhuojun (near modern-day Beijing) and served as a major transport route for military campaigns and supplies.

Wujiaqu, a county-level city in Xinjiang, China, directly administered by the regional government (formerly associated with Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture)

The first major section of the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal, built in 605 AD, connecting the Yellow River and Huai River; also known as the [[汴河|汴河|bian4 he2]] or [[汴渠|汴渠|bian4 qu2]] during the Tang and Song dynasties.

Blood flows enough to form a ditch; used to describe a scene of massive casualties and slaughter, often on a battlefield.

(literary) a leader of rebels or bandits; the chief criminal in a group

an irrigation canal system in Shaanxi Province, built in the 1930s to replace older canal networks

The first canal built by the Sui dynasty, completed in 584 AD to improve grain transport; it ran approximately 300 li from Daxing (modern Xi'an) to Tongguan where it joined the Yellow River.

the main irrigation canal or watercourse; the primary channel of a system

Xia Jingqu (1705-1787); Qing dynasty novelist from Jiangyin, Jiangsu; best known for the novel [[野叟曝言|野叟曝言|ye3 sou3 pu4 yan2]]

personal name of Duke Xiao of Qin, who reigned during the Warring States Period

the Sui Dynasty canal connecting Daxing and the Yellow River, also known as the Guangtong Canal

outflow channel; tailrace

to dig a ditch; to build a canal; channelling

drainage ditch; gutter; culvert

the Tongji Canal connecting the Yellow River and Huai River during the Tang and Song dynasties

(dialect) they; them, equivalent to [[他们|他們|ta1 men5]]

a heavy cart used in ancient warfare for ramming city gates or fortifications

trench; ditch; gutter

(literary) large and spacious; deep and wide

(literary) a leader or chief of a rebel group or gang of criminals

iron caltrop or spiked hidden weapon used in ancient warfare

(literary) they; them; those people

A large man-made waterway or channel used to direct water for watering crops.

A historical irrigation canal system in the Guanzhong Plain of Shaanxi Province, first built in 95 BC and named after its proposer Bai Gong; it was later combined with the [[郑国渠|鄭國渠|zheng4 guo2 qu2]] and eventually replaced by the [[泾惠渠|涇惠渠|jing1 hui4 qu2]] in the 1930s

An imperial library and archive built during the Western Han Dynasty (located in the Changle Palace in Chang'an), named after the stone conduit that diverted water to flow under the building; site of a major ideological conference in 51 BC (the Shiqu Pavilion Meeting) where Han scholars discussed version differences in the Confucian classics and established the [[五经|五經|wu3 jing1]] as state canon

A scholarly meeting in 51 BC at the Shiqu Pavilion in the Weiyang Palace of Chang'an, which resolved differences in interpreting the [[五经|五經|wu3 jing1]] and established them as the official state canon.

(literary) laughing; cheerful; to be in high spirits; originally used to describe the joyful movements of a child reaching for their parents

the path or network through which products or services reach the final consumer; marketing channels