"Bud" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 萌芽 | méng yá | (of a seed) to germinate / (of a plant) to sprout / to bud / sprout / bud / (also used figuratively) |   |
| 花蕾 | huā lěi | bud / flower bud | |
| 发芽 | fā yá | (of a seed) to germinate / (of a plant) to sprout / to bud / (fig.) (of an idea or plan etc) to start to develop | |
| 萌发 | méng fā | to sprout / to shoot / to bud | |
| 幼苗 | yòu miáo | young sprout / bud / sapling / seedling | |
| 出苗 | chū miáo | to sprout / to come out (of seedling) / to bud | |
| 胚芽 | pēi yá | bud / sprout / germ | |
| 芽 |  yá | bud / sprout | |
| 萌 | méng | (bound form) to sprout / to bud / (coll.) cute / adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え / "moe", affection for an anime or manga character) / (literary) common people (variant of 氓[meng2]) | |
| 蕾 | lěi | bud | |
| 苞 | bāo | bud / flower calyx / luxuriant / profuse | |
| 蕻 | hòng | (literary) luxuriant / flourishing / (literary) bud / (dialect) long stem of certain vegetables | |
| 藟 | lěi | bud / creeper / bramble | |
| 骨朵 | gǔ duǒ | club (ancient stick-like weapon with a melon-shaped enlargement at the tip) / (flower) bud | |
| 新颖 | xīn yǐng | lit. new bud / fig. new and original | |
| 封顶 | fēng dǐng | to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch) | |
| 蓓蕾 | bèi lěi | flower bud / young flower still tightly rolled up | |
| 花苞 | huā bāo | flower bud | |
| 防微杜渐 | fáng wēi dù jiàn | to nip in the bud (idiom) | |
| 含苞 | hán bāo | (of a plant) to be in bud | |
| 接穗 | jiē suì | scion (branch or bud that is grafted onto rootstock) | |
| 防患未然 | fáng huàn wèi rán | to prevent troubles before the event (idiom) / to forestall / to nip sth in the bud | |
| 顶芽 | dǐng yá | terminal bud (growing at the tip of a plant) | |
| 侧芽 | cè yá | axillary bud | |
| 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 | |
| 杜渐防萌 | dù jiān fáng méng | to nip in the bud | |
| 防患未萌 | fáng huàn wèi méng | to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom) / to nip sth in the bud | |
| 含苞待放 | hán bāo dài fàng | in bud / budding | |
| 花骨朵 | huā gǔ duo | (coll.) flower bud | |
| 打蛇不死 | dǎ shé bù sǐ | beat the snake to death or it will cause endless calamity (idiom) / nip the problem in the bud | |
| 棉棒 | mián bàng | cotton swab / cotton bud | |
| 棉花棒 | mián huā bàng | cotton swab / cotton bud | |
| 腋芽 | yè yá | axillary bud / bud growing from axil of plant | |
| 蓇葖 | gū tū | (botany) follicle / flower bud | |
| 冧 | lín | (Cantonese) to topple / to collapse / to coax / flower bud | |
| 美人坯子 | měi rén pī zi | a beauty in the bud | |
