"Defect" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 故障 | gù zhàng | malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software) |  |
| 缺陷 | quē xiàn | defect / flaw |  |
| 毛病 | máo bìng | fault / defect / shortcomings / ailment / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 缺失 | quē shī | lack / deficiency / shortcoming / flaw / defect / to be deficient / to lack | |
| 瑕疵 | xiá cī | blemish / flaw / defect | |
| 叛变 | pàn biàn | to defect / to betray / to mutiny | |
| 缺损 | quē sǔn | defective / defect | |
| 短处 | duǎn chù | shortcoming / defect / fault / one's weak points | |
| 叛逃 | pàn táo | to defect | |
| 投诚 | tóu chéng | to defect / to surrender / to capitulate | |
| 投敌 | tóu dí | to go over to the enemy / to defect | |
| 叛党 | pàn dǎng | to betray one's party / to defect (from the communist party) / renegade faction | |
| 病 |  bìng | illness / CL:場|场[chang2] / disease / to fall ill / defect | |
| 陷 | xiàn | pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect | |
| 疵 | cī | blemish / flaw / defect | |
| 不足的地方 | bù zú de dì fang | defect / disadvantage / drawback / unsatisfactory point | |
| 反水 | fǎn shuǐ | to turn traitor / to defect | |
| 离贰 | lí èr | to defect / to be disloyal | |
| 亏量 | defect | | |
| 矫正 | jiǎo zhèng | to correct / to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) / to cure / rectification / correction / to straighten | |
| 美中不足 | měi zhōng bù zú | everything is fine except for one small defect (idiom) / the fly in the ointment | |
| 无伤大雅 | wú shāng dà yǎ | (of a defect etc) to be of no great matter (idiom) / harmless | |
| 吹毛求疵 | chuī máo qiú cī | lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom) / fig. to be fastidious / nitpick | |
| 语病 | yǔ bìng | faulty wording / mispronunciation due to a speech defect | |
| 叛离 | pàn lí | to betray / to desert / to defect from / to turn renegade | |
| 畸形儿 | jī xíng ér | deformed child / child with birth defect | |
| 人无完人 | rén wú wán rén | nobody is perfect / everyone has their defect | |
| 完好无缺 | wán hǎo wú quē | in perfect condition / without any defect | |
| 澡垢索疵 | zǎo gòu suǒ cī | to wash the dirt to find a defect (idiom) / to find fault / to nitpick | |
| 先天性缺陷 | xiān tiān xìng quē xiàn | birth defect | |
| 出生缺陷 | chū shēng quē xiàn | birth defect | |
| 残疾儿 | cán jí ér | a child with a birth defect / a deformed child | |
| 每一个人都有美中不足的地方 | měi yī gè rén dōu yǒu měi zhōng bù zú de dì fang | However excellent, everyone has his defects. / There is always a fly in the ointment. / cf idiom 美中不足[mei3 zhong1 bu4 zu2], everything is fine except for one small defect | |
| 畸态 | jī tài | deformity / birth defect / abnormality | |
| 言语失常症 | yán yǔ shī cháng zhèng | speech defect | |
| 言语缺陷 | yán yǔ quē xiàn | speech defect | |
| 语言缺陷 | yǔ yán quē xiàn | speech defect | |
| 零缺点 | líng quē diǎn | zero defect / faultless / impeccable | |
| 同意的瑕疵 | defect in consent | | |
| 先天缺陷 | birth defect | |
