"offspring" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 子孙 子孫 | offspring / posterity | syn | |
| 苗裔 | offspring / descendant / progeny | syn | |
| 胤 | descendant / heir / offspring / posterity / to inherit | syn | |
| 孥 | child / offspring | ||
| 下辈 下輩 | offspring / future generations / younger generation of a family / junior members of a group | syn | |
| 子代 | offspring / child's generation | syn | |
| 裔胄 | descendants / offspring |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 亲 親 | parents-in-law of one's offspring | syn | |
| 遗传 遺傳 | heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring) | ||
| 孕育 | to be pregnant / to produce offspring / to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc) / fig. replete with (culture etc) | ||
| 优生 優生 | outstanding student / to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality) / to enhance the genetic quality of a population / eugenics | ||
| 幼崽 | (zoology) the young / immature offspring | ||
| 再造 | to give a new lease of life / to reconstruct / to reform / to rework / to recycle / to reproduce (copies, or offspring) / restoration / restructuring | syn | |
| 不育 | to be infertile / to have no offspring | ||
| 绝后 絕後 | to have no offspring / never to be seen again / unique | syn | |
| 望子成龙 望子成龍 | lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom) / fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment | syn | |
| 骨血 | flesh and blood / one's offspring | syn | |
| 公畜 | stud / male animal kept to breed offspring | ||
| 名门望族 名門望族 | offspring a famous family (idiom) / good breeding / blue blood | ||
| 多育 | prolific / bearing many offspring | ||
| 犏牛 | offspring of a bull and a female yak | ||
| 崽子 | offspring of an animal / brat / bastard | syn | |
| 嬎 | (dialect) (of birds) to lay eggs / (archaic) to reproduce / to bear offspring | ||
| 幼仔 | (zoology) the young / immature offspring | ||
| 螟蛉 | green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.) | syn |