| 大桶 | dà tǒng | barrel / vat |  |
| 腔 |  qiāng | cavity of body / barrel (e.g. engine cylinder) / compartment / tune / accent of speech |  |
| 桶 | tǒng | bucket / (trash) can / barrel (of oil etc) / CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1] | |
| 枪管 | qiāng guǎn | gun barrel | |
| 短板 | duǎn bǎn | short stave of the barrel (which allows the contents to escape) / (fig.) shortcoming / weak point | |
| 枪杆 | qiāng gǎn | gun barrel | |
| 枪杆子 | qiāng gǎn zi | gun barrel | |
| 膛线 | táng xiàn | rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun) | |
| 来复线 | lái fù xiàn | rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet) | |
| 桶里射鱼 | tǒng lǐ shè yú | to shoot fish in a barrel / to attempt sth too easy | |
| 枪杆儿 | qiāng gǎn r | gun barrel | |
| 枪筒 | qiāng tǒng | barrel of a gun | |
| 箍桶 | gū tǒng | hooped barrel / to handmake a wooden barrel | |
| 来福线 | lái fú xiàn | rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun) | |
| 膛线炮管 | táng xiàn pào guǎn | rifled bore / rifled barrel | |
| 膛线枪管 | táng xiàn qiāng guǎn | rifled bore / rifled barrel | |
| 一股脑 | yī gǔ nǎo | all of it / lock, stock and barrel | |
| 一马勺坏一锅 | yī mǎ sháo huài yī guō | one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom) / one bad apple spoils the barrel | |
