蟋蟀 xī shuài cricket (insect) syn 促织 促織 cù zhī cricket (insect) syn 挼 ruá (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled / crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak / feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor / inferior 飞虫 飛蟲 fēi chóng flying insect / winged insect 虫豸 蟲豸 chóng zhì insect or insect-like small creature (literary) / base person (used as a curse word) 溜 liù swift current / rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled / proficient / (of movements) quick / speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings / neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster / to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) syn 出局 chū jú (of a batter) to be put out (in baseball) / to be dismissed (in cricket) / (of a player or team) to be eliminated from a competition / (fig.) to be weeded out / to get the chop (in a competitive environment) 蝼蚁 螻蟻 lóu yǐ lit. mole cricket and ants / fig. tiny individuals with no power 板球 bǎn qiú cricket (ball game) 球棒 qiú bàng (baseball or cricket) bat / hockey stick 蝼蛄 螻蛄 lóu gū mole cricket / Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a serious agricultural pest) syn 蛐 qū cricket 蛩 qióng anxious / grasshopper / a cricket 蛌 gǔ cricket 击球员 擊球員 jī qiú yuán (baseball, cricket etc) batter 土狗 tǔ gǒu native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1]) 天蝼 天螻 tiān lóu mole cricket / slang word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 蛞蝼 蛞螻 kuò lóu mole cricket (Gryllotalpa) syn 三柱门 三柱門 sān zhù mén (sports) (cricket) wicket (set of stumps and bails) 灶马 灶馬 zào mǎ camel cricket 投杀 投殺 tóu shā (sports) (cricket) to bowl a batsman out 木球 mù qiú cricket (ball game) / also called 板球[ban3 qiu2] 蝲蝲蛄 là là gǔ mole cricket 跑分 pǎo fēn (computing) to benchmark a computer, phone, CPU etc / (benchmark test) score / (sports) run (scoring unit in cricket) / to provide a channel for the transfer of illegally obtained funds (in return for a commission) 咱们 咱們 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] syn 风光 風光 fēng guāng scene / view / sight / landscape / to be well-regarded / to be well-off / grand (dialect) / impressive (dialect) syn 黄牛 黃牛 huáng niú ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise syn 大 dà big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) syn 拿捏 ná niē (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten 着 著 zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add syn 种花 種花 zhòng huā to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton syn 咧咧 liē liē (dialect) to cry / to whimper / (dialect) to talk drivel 兴 興 xīng to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect) syn 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 㞎 bǎ (dialect) poo / (dialect) to shit 启海话 啟海話 qǐ hǎi huà Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai 媳妇 媳婦 xí fu (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman syn 拧巴 擰巴 nǐng ba (dialect) awkward / uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate / contrary / argumentative 磕碜 磕磣 kē chen (dialect) ugly / unsightly / shabby / (dialect) to humiliate / to ridicule 馃子 餜子 guǒ zi (dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao / deep-fried cruller 齁甜 hōu tián (dialect) (of food) excessively sweet / cloying / (dialect) (of words, affection etc) sickenly sweet / overly sentimental 巴适 巴適 bā shì (Sichuan dialect) comfortable / suitable / excellent / really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb) / to curry favor with 昆虫 昆蟲 kūn chóng insect / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],堆[dui1] syn 虫子 蟲子 chóng zi insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] syn 病虫害 病蟲害 bìng chóng hài plant diseases and insect pests 害虫 害蟲 hài chóng injurious insect / pest 吸食 xī shí (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw syn 合拢 合攏 hé lǒng to close (flower, eyes, suitcase etc) / to bring together / (insect or bird when not flying) to fold (its wings) syn 脱皮 脫皮 tuō pí (of paint etc) to peel off / to flake off / (of an insect or snake etc) to molt / (of skin) to peel off due to hard labor, blistering or sunburn etc / (fig.) to go through a grueling experience syn 病虫 病蟲 bìng chóng plant diseases and insect pests 虫害 蟲害 chóng hài insect pest / damage from insects syn 叮咬 dīng yǎo sting / bite (of insect) 成虫 成蟲 chéng chóng imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development) 蛀虫 蛀蟲 zhù chóng insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin syn 毒虫 毒蟲 dú chóng poisonous insect (or spider etc) / venomous snake / (slang) junkie 单眼 單眼 dān yǎn ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye) 蟊贼 蟊賊 máo zéi insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people syn 须 鬚 xū beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel syn 口器 kǒu qì mouthparts (of animal or insect) syn 益虫 益蟲 yì chóng beneficial insect 螟虫 螟蟲 míng chóng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest syn 益鸟 益鳥 yì niǎo beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice) 虫 蟲 chóng lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic syn 翅 chì (bound form) wing (of a bird or insect) syn 蛊 蠱 gǔ arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite 蠡 lǐ wood-boring insect syn 蝮 fù insect / poisonous snake (archaic) 蠹 dù insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten syn 螟 míng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest syn 虿 蠆 chài (scorpion) / an insect 蟿 qì (insect) / Tryxalis masuta 蟜 jiǎo (insect) 夏虫不可以语冰 夏蟲不可以語冰 xià chóng bù kě yǐ yǔ bīng a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom) 捕虫叶 捕蟲葉 bǔ chóng yè insect-catching leaf 前翅 qián chì front wing (of insect) 同翅目 tóng chì mù Homoptera (insect suborder including cicadas, aphids, plant-hoppers, shield bugs etc) 后翅 後翅 hòu chì back wing (of insect) 打虫 打蟲 dǎ chóng to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs 疑冰 yí bīng ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) 病虫危害 病蟲危害 bìng chóng wēi hài insect or disease damage to crop 直翅目 zhí chì mù Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts) 稚虫 稚蟲 zhì chóng naiad / larva / developmental stage of insect 膜翅目 mó chì mù Hymenoptera (insect order including ants and bees) 蚊虫叮咬 蚊蟲叮咬 wén chóng dīng yǎo insect bites 蛰虫 蟄蟲 zhé chóng dormant insect 蝈螽 蟈螽 guō zhōng insect of the Gampsocleis genus (grasshoppers and crickets) / Gampsocleis sinensis 蝉科 蟬科 chán kē Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada 虫灾 蟲災 chóng zāi insect damage / destruction of crops by pest insects syn 钻心虫 鑽心蟲 zuān xīn chóng boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest syn 双翅目 雙翅目 shuāng chì mù Diptera (insect order including flies) 鞘翅目 qiào chì mù Coleoptera (insect order including beetles) 鳞翅 鱗翅 lín chì scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类) 鳞翅目 鱗翅目 lín chì mù Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类) 马氏管 馬氏管 mǎ shì guǎn Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc) 昆虫不育术 sterile insect technique 非洲区域昆虫学研究生方案 fēi zhōu qū yù kūn chóng xué yán jiū shēng fāng àn African Regional Post-graduate Programme in Insect Science 国际昆虫生理学和生态学中心 國際昆蟲生理學和生態學中心 International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology 抗害虫 kàng hài chóng insect-resistant 利用昆虫不育术对舌蝇进行生物控制项目 利用昆蟲不育術對舌蠅進行生物控制項目 Project on the Biological Control of Tsetse Flies by the Sterile-Insect Technique 