"Dim" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 淡淡 | dàn dàn | faint / dim / dull / insipid / unenthusiastic / indifferent |   |
| 朦胧 | méng lóng | (literary) (of moonlight) dim / (literary) murky / indistinct | |
| 暗黑 | àn hēi | dark / dim | |
| 黯然 | àn rán | dim / sad | |
| 阴暗 | yīn àn | dim / dark / overcast / darkness / shadow / (fig.) dismal / gloomy / somber / murky / shadowy (side) | |
| 暗淡 | àn dàn | dark / dim (light) / dull (color) / drab / (fig.) gloomy / bleak | |
| 昏花 | hūn huā | dim (eyesight) / blurred (vision) | |
| 幽微 | yōu wēi | faint / subtle (of sound, scent etc) / profound / mysterious / dim | |
| 惨 |  cǎn | miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy | |
| 黯 | àn | (bound form) dark / dull (color) / dim / gloomy | |
| 暧 | ài | (of daylight) dim / obscure / clandestine / dubious | |
| 窈 | yǎo | (literary) deep / profound / dim (variant of 杳[yao3]) | |
| 瞀 | mào | indistinct vision / dim | |
| 黪 | cǎn | dark / dim / gloomy / bleak | |
| 暡曚 | wěng méng | (literary) (of daylight) dim | |
| 混茫 | hùn máng | dim / obscure | |
| 溟溟 | míng míng | drizzling / gloomy / dim / obscure | |
| 溟蒙 | míng méng | drizzling / gloomy / dim / obscure | |
| 黑魆魆 | hēi xū xū | dim / dark / murky / black | |
| 昒 | hū | daybreak / dawn / dusky / dim | |
| 曚昽 | méng lóng | (literary) (of daylight) dim / (literary) murky / indistinct | |
| 魆 | xū | dim / dark / sudden / surreptitious / Taiwan pr. [xu4] | |
| 夜色 | yè sè | night scene / the dim light of night | |
| 点心 | diǎn xin | light refreshments / pastry / dim sum (in Cantonese cooking) / dessert | |
| 饮茶 | yǐn chá | to have tea and refreshments / to have dim sum lunch (Cantonese) | |
| 源远流长 | yuán yuǎn liú cháng | lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom) / fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past / a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then | |
| 点穴 | diǎn xué | to hit a pressure point (martial arts) / dim mak / see also 點脈|点脉[dian3 mai4] | |
| 茶点 | chá diǎn | tea and cake / refreshments / tea and dim sum | |
| 蒸笼 | zhēng lóng | steamer basket (e.g. for dim sum) | |
| 笼屉 | lóng tì | bamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum) | |
| 萝卜糕 | luó bo gāo | radish cake (a type of dim sum, commonly called "turnip cake") | |
| 杳冥 | yǎo míng | dim and dusky / far and indistinct | |
| 老耄 | lǎo mào | dim sight of the aged / doddering / senile | |
| 薄明 | bó míng | dim light / early dawn | |
| 点脉 | diǎn mài | to hit a pressure point (martial arts) / dim mak / see also 點穴|点穴[dian3 xue2] | |
| 流沙包 | liú shā bāo | salted egg custard bun / lava bun (steamed bun with a sweet runny egg custard filling, a popular dim sum) | |
