"Caustic" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 尖刻 | jiān kè | caustic / biting / piquant / acerbic / vitriolic / acrimonious |   |
| 损 |  sǔn | to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to ridicule / to deride / (coll.) caustic / sarcastic / nasty / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | |
| 苛性 | kē xìng | caustic (chemistry) | |
| 烧碱 | shāo jiǎn | caustic soda NaOH | |
| 氢氧化钠 | qīng yǎng huà nà | caustic soda / sodium hydroxide NaOH | |
| 轻口薄舌 | qīng kǒu bó shé | (idiom) hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued | |
| 轻嘴薄舌 | qīng zuǐ bó shé | lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom) / hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued | |
| 苛性钾 | kē xìng jiǎ | caustic potash / potassium hydroxide KOH | |
| 苛性钠 | kē xìng nà | caustic soda / sodium hydroxide NaOH | |
| 银丹 | yín dān | lunar caustic (fused silver nitrate, shaped into a stick and used as a cauterizing agent) | |
