泥土 ní tǔ earth / soil / mud / clay syn 较量 較量 jiào liàng to pit oneself against sb / to compete with sb / contest / battle / to haggle / to quibble syn 沾满 沾滿 zhān mǎn muddy / covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc) / daubed in syn 泥巴 ní bā mud syn 泥浆 泥漿 ní jiāng slurry / mud 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 烂泥 爛泥 làn ní mud / mire 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) 泥泞 泥濘 ní nìng muddy / mud 泥石流 ní shí liú landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide 无底洞 無底洞 wú dǐ dòng bottomless pit 茅坑 máo kēng latrine pit / latrine syn 拖泥带水 拖泥帶水 tuō ní dài shuǐ lit. wading in mud and water / a slovenly job / sloppy syn 心口 xīn kǒu pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts syn 泥鳅 泥鰍 ní qiu loach / mud fish / CL:條|条[tiao2] syn 坑洞 kēng dòng hole / pit / pothole 污泥 wū ní mud / sludge 蝮蛇 fù shé Siberian pit viper (Gloydius halys) / pit viper 软泥 軟泥 ruǎn ní soft mud / silt / sludge / ooze (geology) 矿车 礦車 kuàng chē miner's cart / pit truck 井下 jǐng xià underground / in the pit (mining) 泥水 ní shuǐ muddy water / mud / masonry (craft) 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 土坯 tǔ pī mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware syn 泥淖 ní nào mud / muddy swamp / sump / fig. a sticky predicament 出淤泥而不染 chū yū ní ér bù rǎn lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible 火塘 huǒ táng indoor fire pit 泥沙俱下 ní shā jù xià mud and sand flow together (idiom) / good and bad mingle syn 泥 ní mud / clay / paste / pulp syn 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 磕 kē to tap / to knock (against sth hard) / to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc) syn 坎 埳 kǎn old variant of 坎[kan3] / pit / hole syn 潭 tán deep pool / pond / pit (dialect) / depression syn 淖 nào slush / mud 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 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 鲮 鯪 líng mud carp (Cirrhina molitorella) 凼 dàng pool / pit / ditch / cesspit 罱 lǎn a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net attached to a pair of bamboo poles, which are used to open and close the net / to dredge with such a tool syn 腘 膕 guó knee pit / popliteal fossa (medicine) 墓坑 mù kēng tomb pit 坜 壢 lì hole, pit 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 俑坑 yǒng kēng pit with funerary figures / pit containing terracotta warriors 干坑式厕所 dry-pit latrine / dry pit 壒 ài dust / mud 墐 jǐn bury / plaster with mud 塱 lǎng raised bank / mud wall 泥封 ní fēng to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute / lute / luting 泥古 nì gǔ stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative 漜 yě mud 滤饼 濾餅 lǜ bǐng filtrate / solid residue produced by a filter / mud from filtering can sugar 脱泥 脫泥 tuō ní to remove mud / desliming (in coal production) 草尼马 草尼馬 cǎo ní mǎ grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet 草泥马 草泥馬 cǎo ní mǎ grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet 泥灶 泥竈 mud stove 二氧化钛废物 二氧化鈦廢物 titanium dioxide wastes / red mud 红泥 紅泥 titanium dioxide wastes / red mud 古柯煳 古柯糊 cocaïne mud 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴 有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰 yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it 无心插柳柳成阴 無心插柳柳成陰 wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you / (fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success / also written 無心插柳柳成蔭|无心插柳柳成荫 湴 bàn mud / slush / ooze 湴 pán to wade through water or mud 燕子衔泥垒大窝 燕子銜泥壘大窩 yàn zi xián ní lěi dà wō the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom) / many a little makes a mickle 齐膝 齊膝 qí xī level with one's knees / knee-length (skirt etc) / knee-deep (mud etc) 泼脏水 潑髒水 pō zāng shuǐ (fig.) to sling mud at / to smear / to slander 蹅 chǎ (coll.) to trudge (in mud, snow etc) 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 