"Barren" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 贫瘠 | pín jí | barren / infertile / poor |   |
| 瘠薄 | jí bó | (of land) infertile / barren | |
| 不毛 | bù máo | barren | |
| 瘠 |  jí | barren / lean | |
| 埆 | què | (of land) barren / stony | |
| 荒山 | huāng shān | desert mountain / barren hill | |
| 荒漠 | huāng mò | desert / desolate wilderness / barren wasteland / vast and desolate | |
| 荒岛 | huāng dǎo | barren or uninhabited island / CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4] | |
| 寸草不生 | cùn cǎo bù shēng | lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) / fig. barren | |
| 不毛之地 | bù máo zhī dì | barren land / desert | |
| 穷山恶水 | qióng shān è shuǐ | lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment | |
| 薄地 | bó dì | barren land / poor soil | |
| 南泥湾 | Nán ní wān | Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces | |
| 戈壁荒滩 | Gē bì huāng tān | barren sands of the Gobi desert | |
| 薄田 | bó tián | barren field / poor land | |
