"dirt" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 泥垢 | dirt / grime | syn | |
| 污垢 | dirt / filth / grime | syn | |
| 污秽 污穢 | (literary) dirty / filthy / (literary) dirt / filth | syn | |
| 埃 | dust / dirt / angstrom / phonetic ai or e | syn | |
| 污 | dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | syn | |
| 尘 塵 | dust / dirt / earth | syn | |
| 垢 | dirt / disgrace | syn | |
| 汙 | variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | ||
| 温蠖 溫蠖 | dirt |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 摩挲 | (coll.) to remove (crinkles, dirt) with the palm of the hand / Taiwan pr. [mo2suo1] | syn | |
| 油污 | greasy dirt / sludge (from an oil spill) | ||
| 灰头土脸 灰頭土臉 | head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed | ||
| 土路 | dirt road | ||
| 粪土 糞土 | dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing | syn | |
| 挥金如土 揮金如土 | lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant | syn | |
| 油垢 | greasy dirt | ||
| 白菜价 白菜價 | (coll.) very low price / dirt cheap price | ||
| 峁 | round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China) | ||
| 藏污纳垢 藏污納垢 | to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom) / to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds | ||
| 视如粪土 視如糞土 | to look upon as dirt / considered worthless | ||
| 澡垢索疵 | to wash the dirt to find a defect (idiom) / to find fault / to nitpick | ||
| 挶 | structure for carrying dirt | ||
| 虆 | creeper / bramble / dirt-basket | ||
| 汚 | variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | ||
| 碰一鼻子灰 | lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt / fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff | ||
| 藏垢纳污 藏垢納污 | to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom) / to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds | ||
| 不干不净，吃了没病 不乾不淨，吃了沒病 | a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm | ||
| 吃土 | (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items) | ||
| 积土成山 積土成山 | lit. piling up dirt eventually creates a mountain (idiom) / fig. success is the cumulation of lots of small actions | ||
| 拔出萝卜带出泥 拔出蘿蔔帶出泥 | lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem |