膝盖 膝蓋 xī gài knee / (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration) syn 较量 較量 jiào liàng to pit oneself against sb / to compete with sb / contest / battle / to haggle / to quibble syn 小腿 xiǎo tuǐ lower leg (from knee to ankle) / shank syn 牢笼 牢籠 láo lóng cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle syn 火坑 huǒ kēng pit of fire / fig. living hell syn 采石场 採石場 cǎi shí chǎng stone pit / quarry 沙坑 shā kēng sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf) 膝下 xī xià at the knee (in reference to children) / (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents) syn 护膝 護膝 hù xī kneepad / knee brace 无底洞 無底洞 wú dǐ dòng bottomless pit 茅坑 máo kēng latrine pit / latrine syn 心口 xīn kǒu pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts syn 坑洞 kēng dòng hole / pit / pothole 泥坑 ní kēng mud pit / mire / morass syn 膝关节 膝關節 xī guān jié knee joint syn 促膝 cù xī to sit knee to knee syn 蝮蛇 fù shé Siberian pit viper (Gloydius halys) / pit viper 矿车 礦車 kuàng chē miner's cart / pit truck 井下 jǐng xià underground / in the pit (mining) 深潭 shēn tán deep natural pond / deep pit / abyss 矿场 礦場 kuàng chǎng a mine / pit 赛车女郎 賽車女郎 sài chē nǚ láng pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl 卑躬屈膝 bēi gōng qū xī to bow and bend the knee (idiom) / fawning / bending and scraping to curry favor syn 火塘 huǒ táng indoor fire pit 窝 窩 wō nest / pit or hollow on the human body / lair / den / place / to harbor or shelter / to hold in check / to bend / classifier for litters and broods syn 膝 xī knee syn 坎 埳 kǎn old variant of 坎[kan3] / pit / hole syn 潭 tán deep pool / pond / pit (dialect) / depression syn 探井 tàn jǐng (mining) test pit / exploratory shaft / test well 硐 dòng variant of 洞[dong4] / cave / pit 白花蛇 bái huā shé long-nosed pit viper (agkistrodon acutus) syn 陷坑 xiàn kēng pitfall / pit as animal trap syn 老虎凳 lǎo hǔ dèng tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse) 奴颜婢膝 奴顏婢膝 nú yán bì xī servile and bending the knee (idiom) / fawning / bending and scraping to curry favor syn 欲壑难填 慾壑難填 yù hè nán tián bottomless pit of desire (idiom) / insatiable greed / carnal cravings are never satisfied and are a main obstruction on the path to enlightenment syn 五步蛇 wǔ bù shé Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces) syn 凼 dàng pool / pit / ditch / cesspit 腿肚子 tuǐ dù zi calf (back of the leg below the knee) syn 墓坑 mù kēng tomb pit 坜 壢 lì hole, pit 袚 fú knee-pads / buskins 避坑落井 bì kēng luò jǐng to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom) / out of the frying pan into the fire syn 齐膝 齊膝 qí xī level with one's knees / knee-length (skirt etc) / knee-deep (mud etc) 俑坑 yǒng kēng pit with funerary figures / pit containing terracotta warriors 干坑式厕所 dry-pit latrine / dry pit 腘窝 膕窩 guó wō popliteal (anatomy) / hollow at the back of the knee 关节囊 關節囊 guān jié náng articular capsule (of joint such as knee in anatomy) 89式掷弹筒 89式擲彈筒 knee mortar 膝下假肢 below-knee prosthesis 膝上假肢 above-knee prosthesis 膝上截肢 above-knee amputation / femural amputation 膝下截肢 below-knee amputation / tibial amputation 打千 dǎ qiān genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand 磕膝盖 磕膝蓋 kē xī gài (dialect) knee 朱绂 朱紱 zhū fú (archaic) red silk ribbon tied to a seal or a jade pendant / red knee cover, part of an official's robes (also a synedoche for the attire of an official) / to be an official 骹 qiāo shank (the leg from knee to ankle) / leg (from hip to ankle) / (horse anatomy) pastern 滑跪 huá guì (of a soccer player) to knee slide after scoring a goal / (slang) to drop to one's knees in contrition or surrender (usu. figurative) 凹洞 āo dòng cavity / pit 窞 dàn pit / cave 阬 kēng pit / to defraud 渗坑 滲坑 shèn kēng sewage pit 溛 wā to form hollow / pit 埳 kǎn a pit, a hole, a snare, a danger / a crisis / a mortar 凼子 dàng zi pool / pit / ditch / cesspit 地炉 地爐 dì lú fire pit 坑木 kēng mù pit prop 墓坑夯土层 墓坑夯土層 mù kēng hāng tǔ céng layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology) 心窝儿 心窩兒 xīn wō r one's breast / the pit of one's stomach syn 核儿 核兒 hú r pit (stone of a fruit) syn 梅核气 梅核氣 méi hé qì (TCM) plum-pit qi, a feeling of a lump in the throat (globus pharyngis) or of stagnant phlegm 沤凼 漚凼 òu dàng cesspool / compost pit 无底坑 無底坑 wú dǐ kēng the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible) / pitless (elevator) 狼井 láng jǐng wolf trap (trou de loup), medieval defensive trap consisting of a concealed pit with sharp spikes 跳出火坑 tiào chū huǒ kēng lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom) / to escape from a living hell / to free oneself from a life of torture 颊窝 頰窩 jiá wō dimple / heat-sensing facial pit of a snake 半核 bàn hé hemishell / half-pit 弹芯 bomb core / pit 通风改良坑式厕所 tòng fēng gǎi liáng kēng shì cè suǒ ventilated improved pit latrine / VIP latrine 渗水沟 shèn shuǐ gōu soakage trench / soakage pit 爆破坑 bào pò kēng demolition pit 坑锯 pit sawing 露天坑内爆破 露天坑內爆破 lù tiān kēng nèi bào pò open-pit detonation 火炮掩体 火炮掩體 gun pit 悬浮核 懸浮核 levitated pit / levitated core 坑式厕所 坑式廁所 dug-pit latrine 焦油坑 tar pit 载有政府公约的协定 載有政府公約的協定 Agreement Embodying a Convention on Governance between the Forces for Democratic Change, consisting of FRODEBU, RPB, PP, PL and the Political Parties of the Opposition, composed of UPRONA, RADDES, Inkinzo, PSD, ANADDE, ABASA, PIT, PRP, and PARENA / Agreeme 固体堆芯 固體堆芯 solid pit / solid core 臽 xiàn (archaic) pit / hole in the ground / old variant of 陷[xian4] 龟壳花 龜殼花 guī ké huā Formosan pit viper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus) 旱厕 旱廁 hàn cè pit toilet 比特犬 bǐ tè quǎn pit bull (loanword) 洞子 dòng zi cave / pit / (coll.) greenhouse 互别苗头 互別苗頭 hù bié miáo tou to compete with (idiom) (Tw) / to pit oneself against 粪坑 糞坑 fèn kēng latrine pit / cesspit 地穴 dì xué pit / burrow / crypt syn 别苗头 別苗頭 bié miáo tou (dialect) to compete with / to pit oneself against 