"Creature" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 生命 | shēng mìng | life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being / creature (CL:個|个[ge4],條|条[tiao2]) |   |
| 禽兽 | qín shòu | birds and animals / creature / beast (brutal person) | |
| 生灵 | shēng líng | (literary) the people / living thing / creature | |
| 生物 | shēng wù | organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 恶人 | è rén | evil person / vile creature / villain / (archaic) ugly person | |
| 巨兽 | jù shòu | giant creature / huge animal | |
| 杀生 | shā shēng | to take the life of a living creature | |
| 可怜虫 | kě lián chóng | pitiful creature / wretch | |
| 孽障 | niè zhàng | evil creature | |
| 射影 | shè yǐng | (geometry) projection / (Chinese mythology) creature that spits sand to make people ill | |
| 蜮 |  yù | mythical creature / toad / worm | |
| 河童 | Hé tóng | kappa, a child-size humanoid water creature in Japanese folklore | |
| 两性动物 | liǎng xìng dòng wù | hermaphrodite creature | |
| 孽畜 | niè chù | evil creature (multipurpose curse) / evil domestic animal | |
| 泼物 | pō wù | evil creature (curse word) | |
| 羊怪 | yáng guài | faun, half-goat half-human creature of Greek mythology | |
| 虫豸 | chóng zhì | insect or insect-like small creature (literary) / base person (used as a curse word) | |
| 狴犴 | bì àn | (literary) mythical creature resembling a tiger whose image was painted on prison doors / (literary) prison | |
| 赑屃 | Bì xì | (literary) (Chinese mythology) creature resembling a turtle with the head of a dragon, said to be capable of bearing great loads, often carved as plinths for steles in former times / (literary) strenuous / exerting great force | |
| 白泽 | Bái Zé | Bai Ze or White Marsh, legendary creature of ancient China | |
| 山精 | shān jīng | mountain spirit / monster or creature said to inhabit mountains | |
| 犼 | hǒu | mythical man-eating creature resembling a dog | |
