"Cable" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 有线 | yǒu xiàn | wired / cable (television) |  |
| 电缆 | diàn lǎn | (electric) cable |  |
| 电报 | diàn bào | telegram / cable / telegraph / CL:封[feng1],份[fen4] | |
| 线缆 | xiàn lǎn | cable / wire / cord (computer) | |
| 缆绳 | lǎn shéng | cable / hawser / mooring rope | |
| 缆索 | lǎn suǒ | cable / hawser / mooring rope | |
| 拍发 | pāi fā | to send / to cable (a telegram) | |
| 链 |  liàn | chain / cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m) / chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m) / to chain / to enchain | |
| 缆 | lǎn | cable / hawser / to moor | |
| 筰 | zuó | cable | |
| 橡皮线 | xiàng pí xiàn | wire (sheathed in rubber) / cable | |
| 缆线 | lǎn xiàn | cable | |
| 有线电视 | yǒu xiàn diàn shì | cable television | |
| 接上 | jiē shàng | to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone) | |
| 光缆 | guāng lǎn | optical cable | |
| 电源线 | diàn yuán xiàn | power cable (of an appliance etc) | |
| 缆车 | lǎn chē | cable car | |
| 分配器 | fēn pèi qì | dispenser (for consumables such as liquid soap) / splitter (for cable TV signal etc) | |
| 同轴电缆 | tóng zhóu diàn lǎn | coaxial cable | |
| 拖链 | tuō liàn | cable carrier (used to protect cables and hoses attached to a machine) / tow chain | |
| 钢缆 | gāng lǎn | steel cable / wire cable / steel hawser | |
| 扎带 | zā dài | cable tie | |
| 吊篮 | diào lán | hanging basket (for flowers) / gondola (of cable car) | |
| 电缆调制解调器 | diàn lǎn tiáo zhì jiě tiáo qì | cable modem | |
| 光纤电缆 | guāng xiān diàn lǎn | optical fiber / optical cable | |
| 吊斗 | diào dǒu | (a container) carried suspended or underslung / cable car bucket | |
| 密码电报 | mì mǎ diàn bào | coded telegram / ciphered cable | |
| 日·电 | cable sent on given date / n日電|n日电 / means news item of nth of the month | | |
| 有线新闻网 | Yǒu xiàn Xīn wén Wǎng | Cable Network News (CNN) | |
| 架空索道 | jià kōng suǒ dào | aerial ropeway / cable car | |
| 第四台 | dì sì tái | fourth channel / (in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV | |
| 扎线带 | zā xiàn dài | cable ties / zip ties | |
| 美国有线新闻网 | Měi guó Yǒu xiàn Xīn wén Wǎng | Cable Network News (CNN) | |
| 锚链孔 | máo liàn kǒng | hawsehole (small hole for anchor cable or hawser in the side of ship) | |
| 海底电缆 | hǎi dǐ diàn lǎn | submarine cable | |
| 有线电视新闻网 | yǒu xiàn diàn shì xīn wén wǎng | Cable News Network | |
| 索缆桩 | suǒ lǎn zhuāng | cable anchor / anchor | |
| 电报员 | diàn bào yuán | cable clerk | |
| 点火电缆 | diǎn huǒ diàn lǎn | firing cable | |
| 海湾国家光纤海底电缆 | fibre optic submarine cable for Gulf States | | |
| 拖缆漂移 | streamer feathering / feathering / streamer drift / cable drift | | |
| 拉雷索 | lā léi suǒ | pulling rope / pulling cable | |
| 架空索道系统 | cable yarding system | | |
| 海洋地震拖缆 | streamer / seismic cable / eel | | |
| 拖缆 | tuō lǎn | streamer / seismic cable / eel | |
| 编码电报 | code cable | | |
| 起爆缆线 | detonator cable / detonation cable | | |
| 罗马有线电视公约 | Rome Convention on Cable Television | | |
| 阻拦索 | arresting cable | | |
| 缆式凿井机 | cable tool drill rig / cable rig | | |
| 日・电 | rì · diàn | cable sent on given date / n日電|n日电 / means news item of nth of the month | |
| 缓降器 | huǎn jiàng qì | cable reel and harness used to lower oneself to safety (e.g. from a building on fire) | |
| 束线带 | shù xiàn dài | cable tie | |
| 索带 | suǒ dài | cable tie / plastic strap | |
| 电缆接头 | diàn lǎn jiē tóu | cable gland | |
