姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 小伙子 xiǎo huǒ zi young man / young guy / lad / youngster / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 青年 qīng nián youth / youthful years / young person / the young syn 儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) syn 浇水 澆水 jiāo shuǐ to water (plants etc) syn 马尾 馬尾 mǎ wěi ponytail (hairstyle) / horse's tail / slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants) 憔悴 qiáo cuì wan and sallow / thin and pallid / haggard / (of plants) withered syn 转头 轉頭 zhuàn tóu nutation (plants turning to face the sun) syn 下体 下體 xià tǐ lower body / euphemism for genitals / root and stem of plants syn 落叶 落葉 luò yè dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous 花卉 huā huì flowers and plants syn 花草 huā cǎo flowers and plants syn 种群 種群 zhǒng qún population (of a species) / community (of animals or plants) 草木 cǎo mù vegetation / plants 青年人 qīng nián rén young person / the young syn 后生 後生 hòu shēng young generation / youth / young man syn 捕捞 捕撈 bǔ lāo to fish for (aquatic animals and plants) / to catch syn 花枝招展 huā zhī zhāo zhǎn lit. lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze (idiom) / fig. gorgeously dressed (woman) syn 动植物 動植物 dòng zhí wù plants and animals / flora and fauna syn 败落 敗落 bài luò (of status or wealth) to decline / (of buildings etc) to become dilapidated / run-down / (of plants) to wilt syn 绿化 綠化 lǜ huà to make green with plants / to reforest / (Internet slang) Islamization 攀附 pān fù to climb (of climbing plants) / to creep / to cling on to / fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful) / social climbing syn 水草 shuǐ cǎo aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw 多年生 duō nián shēng perennial (of plants) 花木 huā mù flowers and trees / plants / flora syn 涵养 涵養 hán yǎng to cultivate (personal qualities) / (of forests etc) to support / to provide a suitable environment for the replenishment of (natural resources: groundwater, animals, plants etc) syn 打工仔 dǎ gōng zǎi young worker / employee / young male worker 少壮派 少壯派 shào zhuàng pài young guard / young and vigorous group with new ideas / new wave 小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn 少奶奶 shào nǎi nai young lady of the house / wife of the young master syn 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 浇花 澆花 jiāo huā to water the plants / to water the garden 恶少 惡少 è shào young thug / malicious young ruffian syn 野生植物 yě shēng zhí wù plants in the wild 少东 少東 shào dōng boss's son / young master / young boss 分蘖 分櫱 fēn niè tiller (stem at the base of grass plants) syn 返青 fǎn qīng (of plants) to turn green again / to revegetate 株距 zhū jù spacing / distance between plants (within a row) 扶老携幼 扶老攜幼 fú lǎo xié yòu taking everyone along, young and old / to look after the elderly and the young syn 抽 chōu to draw out / to pull out from in between / to remove part of the whole / (of certain plants) to sprout or bud / to whip or thrash syn 棵 kē classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc syn 园 園 yuán land used for growing plants / site used for public recreation / abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc syn 蓬 péng fleabane (family Asteraceae) / disheveled / classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes, campfires: clump, puff syn 株 zhū tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business) syn 葵 kuí used in the names of various herbaceous plants syn 枯 kū (of plants) withered / (of wells, rivers, etc) dried up / (bound form) dull / boring / (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds syn 蒲 pú refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis / common cattail / bullrush 肉豆蔻 ròu dòu kòu nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt) / mace / Myristicaceae (family of plants producing aromatic or hallucinogenic oils) syn 锈斑 鏽斑 xiù bān rust spot / blemish (on plants) 秧 yāng sapling / seedling / sprout / (esp.) rice seedling / stem / stalk / vine / baby livestock / fry / (dialect) to raise / to cultivate (plants or animals) syn 被子植物 bèi zǐ zhí wù angiosperm (flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit) 保苗 bǎo miáo to protect young plants, ensuring that enough survive to produce a good crop 双子叶 雙子葉 shuāng zǐ yè dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants) 裸子植物 luǒ zǐ zhí wù gymnosperm (plants with seed contained in a cone) 挂花 掛花 guà huā to be wounded / (of plants) to bloom syn 卉 huì plants syn 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 淠 pì luxuriant (of water plants) 小 xiǎo small / tiny / few / young syn 小姐 xiǎo jie young lady / miss / (slang) prostitute / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 少 shào young syn 年轻 年輕 nián qīng young syn 妹妹 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 年轻人 年輕人 nián qīng rén young people / youngster syn 男生 nán shēng schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male) 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 少女 shào nǚ girl / young lady syn 少年 shào nián early youth / youngster / (literary) youth / young man syn 从小 從小 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age syn 小鸟 小鳥 xiǎo niǎo small bird / young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick) / (fig.) penis (kiddie term) / (golf) birdie syn 幼稚 yòu zhì young / childish / puerile syn 小伙 xiǎo huǒ young guy / lad / youngster / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 上下 shàng xià up and down / top and bottom / old and young / length / about / more or less syn 分娩 fēn miǎn to give birth to a baby / (of animals) to give birth to young syn 少爷 少爺 shào ye son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) syn 造就 zào jiù to bring up / to train / to contribute to / achievements (usually of young people) syn 满怀 滿懷 mǎn huái to have one's heart filled with / (to collide) full on / (of farm animals) heavy with young syn 年幼 nián yòu young / underage syn 阿飞 阿飛 ā fēi hoodlum / hooligan / young rowdy syn 幼童 yòu tóng young child syn 孩提 hái tí (literary) infant / young child syn 年少 nián shào young / junior syn 香椿 xiāng chūn Chinese toon (Toona sinensis), deciduous tree whose young leaves are used as a vegetable syn 小妹 xiǎo mèi little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc) 红颜 紅顏 hóng yán a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks syn 芳心 fāng xīn the affection, or heart, of a young woman 少年犯 shào nián fàn young criminal / juvenile delinquent 幼小 yòu xiǎo young / immature syn 献殷勤 獻殷勤 xiàn yīn qín to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc) / to fawn upon (an influential politician etc) / to court sb's favor / to ingratiate oneself syn 幼苗 yòu miáo young sprout / bud / sapling / seedling syn 幼儿 幼兒 yòu ér young child / infant / preschooler syn 启蒙 啟蒙 qǐ méng to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty syn 夭折 yāo zhé to die young or prematurely / to come to a premature end / to be aborted prematurely syn 小青年 xiǎo qīng nián young person / youngster syn 小两口 小兩口 xiǎo liǎng kǒu (coll.) young married couple syn 少妇 少婦 shào fù young married woman syn 血气方刚 血氣方剛 xuè qì fāng gāng full of sap (idiom) / young and vigorous syn 初出茅庐 初出茅廬 chū chū máo lú venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn syn 雏儿 雛兒 chú ér newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo syn 