"Pit" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 kēng variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole
 kuàng chǎng a mine / pit
 kēng dòng hole / pit / pothole
 kǎn old variant of 坎[kan3] / pit / hole
 tán deep pool / pond / pit (dialect) / depression
 dòng variant of 洞[dong4] / cave / pit
 dàng pool / pit / ditch / cesspit
 āo dòng cavity / pit
 dàn pit / cave
 wā to form hollow / pit
 dàng zi pool / pit / ditch / cesspit
 hú r pit (stone of a fruit)
  bomb core / pit
 kēng old variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole
 dòng zi cave / pit / (coll.) greenhouse
 dì xué pit / burrow / crypt
 jiào liàng to pit oneself against sb / to compete with sb / contest / battle / to haggle / to quibble
 xīn kǒu pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts
 jǐng xià underground / in the pit (mining)
 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
 wú dǐ dòng bottomless pit
 shēn tán deep natural pond / deep pit / abyss
 huǒ kēng pit of fire / fig. living hell
 ní kēng mud pit / mire / morass
 cǎi shí chǎng stone pit / quarry
 máo kēng latrine pit / latrine
 shā kēng sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf)
 sài chē nu:3 láng pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl
 huǒ táng indoor fire pit
 fù shé Siberian pit viper (Gloydius halys) / pit viper
 kuàng chē miner's cart / pit truck
 bái huā shé long-nosed pit viper (agkistrodon acutus)
 xiàn kēng pitfall / pit as animal trap
 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
 tàn jǐng (mining) test pit / exploratory shaft / test well
 wǔ bù shé Deinagkistrodon, a venomous pit viper / also called five-paced viper (i.e. can grow to five paces)
 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
 guó knee pit / popliteal fossa (medicine)
 lì hole, pit
 bì kēng luò jǐng to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom) / out of the frying pan into the fire
 mù kēng tomb pit
 kēng pit / to defraud
 shèn kēng sewage pit
 kǎn a pit, a hole, a snare, a danger / a crisis / a mortar
 yǒng kēng pit with funerary figures / pit containing terracotta warriors
 dì lú fire pit
 kēng mù pit prop
 mù kēng hāng tǔ céng layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)
 xīn wō r one's breast / the pit of one's stomach
 òu dàng cesspool / compost pit
 wú dǐ kēng the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible) / pitless (elevator)
 láng jǐng wolf trap (trou de loup), medieval defensive trap consisting of a concealed pit with sharp spikes
 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
 jiá wō dimple / heat-sensing facial pit of a snake
 tòng fēng gǎi liáng kēng shì cè suǒ ventilated improved pit latrine / VIP latrine
 shèn shuǐ gōu soakage trench / soakage pit
  dry-pit latrine / dry pit
 bào pò kēng demolition pit
  pit sawing
  gun pit
  levitated pit / levitated core
  tar pit
  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
  solid pit / solid core
 guī ké huā Formosan pit viper / Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus
 hàn cè pit toilet
 bǐ tè quǎn pit bull (loanword)
 hù bié miáo tou to compete with (idiom) (Tw) / to pit oneself against
 fèn kēng latrine pit / cesspit
 bié miáo tou (dialect) to compete with / to pit oneself against
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