"overgrown weeds" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 茻 | rank grass / overgrown weeds |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 杂草 雜草 | weeds | syn | |
| 荒芜 荒蕪 | left to return to unchecked growth / overgrown / grown wild | syn | |
| 野草 | weeds / mistress or prostitute (old) | syn | |
| 斩草除根 斬草除根 | to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom) / to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely | syn | |
| 蓬蓬 | overgrown / unkempt (of hair) | ||
| 丛生 叢生 | growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc) | ||
| 蓬乱 蓬亂 | matted (of straw or hair) / unkempt / overgrown / scraggly / thatch | syn | |
| 荒草 | weeds / brush (vegetation) / wild grassland | syn | |
| 蔓生 | trailing plant / liana / creeper / overgrown | ||
| 铲 鏟 | to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds) / to shovel (variant of 剷|铲[chan3]) / (bound form) spade / shovel | syn | |
| 芜 蕪 | overgrown with weeds | syn | |
| 葍 | weeds | ||
| 稂 | grass / weeds | syn | |
| 菆 | arrow / weeds | ||
| 草满囹圄 草滿囹圄 | lit. jails overgrown with grass (idiom) / fig. peaceful society | ||
| 蓬门筚户 蓬門篳戶 | overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home | ||
| 兰艾同焚 蘭艾同焚 | lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom) / fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike | ||
| 视如土芥 視如土芥 | to regard as useless / to view as no better than weeds | ||
| 芜秽 蕪穢 | to be overgrown with weeds | ||
| 榛榛 | overgrown with wild plants | ||
| 芊萰 | green and flourishing / overgrown | ||
| 蓬门荜户 蓬門蓽戶 | overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home | syn | |
| 菶 | expand / thick weeds | ||
| 去芜存菁 去蕪存菁 | lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers / to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom) | ||
| 芿 | weeds that regrow from cut-down roots | ||
| 荒烟蔓草 荒煙蔓草 | lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds / desolate (idiom) | ||
| 莱芜 萊蕪 | field with dense growth of wild weeds | ||
| 草标 草標 | (old) sign made of woven weeds, placed on an object, an animal or a person, indicating that it is for sale. | ||
| 猪草 豬草 | weeds or grass used to feed pigs |