"Cunning" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 机械 | jī xiè | machine / machinery / mechanical / (old) cunning / scheming |   |
| 狡猾 | jiǎo huá | crafty / cunning / sly | |
| 狡诈 | jiǎo zhà | crafty / cunning / deceitful | |
| 促狭 | cù xiá | (coll.) teasing / mischievous / (coll.) cunning / sly | |
| 机巧 | jī qiǎo | cunning / dexterous / ingenious | |
| 老奸巨猾 | lǎo jiān jù huá | cunning / crafty / wily old fox | |
| 油 |  yóu | oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning | |
| 狡 | jiǎo | crafty / cunning / sly | |
| 姣 | jiāo | cunning / pretty | |
| 狯 | kuài | crafty / cunning | |
| 毚 | chán | cunning / artful | |
| 孅 | xiān | cunning / slender | |
| 奸狡 | jiān jiǎo | devious / cunning | |
| 鸡贼 | jī zéi | (dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning | |
| 狡狯 | jiǎo kuài | (literary) crafty / cunning | |
| 老狐狸 | lǎo hú li | old fox / fig. cunning person | |
| 白骨精 | bái gǔ jīng | White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]) / (fig.) sly and cunning person | |
| 九头鸟 | jiǔ tóu niǎo | legendary bird with nine heads (old) / cunning or sly person | |
| 诡计多端 | guǐ jì duō duān | deceitful in many ways (idiom) / wily and mischievous / full of craft and cunning | |
| 油嘴 | yóu zuǐ | eloquent and cunning / silver tongued | |
| 花花肠子 | huā huā cháng zi | (slang) a cunning plot | |
| 锦囊妙计 | jǐn náng miào jì | brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom) / bag of tricks / fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag) | |
| 勇略 | yǒng lu:è | brave and cunning | |
| 白鼻子 | bái bí zi | cunning or sly person | |
| 穷竭心计 | qióng jié xīn jì | to remain cunning even though exhausted (idiom) | |
| 鬼计多端 | guǐ jì duō duān | full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious | |
| 巧诈不如拙诚 | qiǎo zhà bù rú zhuō chéng | the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy | |
| 刁悍 | diāo hàn | cunning and fierce | |
