| 瓢 |  piáo | dipper / ladle |   |
| 舀勺 | yǎo sháo | scoop / dipper | |
| 北斗 | Běi dǒu | Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan | |
| 斗牛 | Dǒu Niú | Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy) | |
| 北斗星 | Běi dǒu xīng | the Big Dipper / the Plow | |
| 斗转星移 | Dǒu zhuǎn xīng yí | lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1] has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转[xing1 yi2 Dou3 zhuan3] | |
| 魁星 | Kuí xīng | stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the rectangular body of the dipper / Kuixing, Daoist God of fate | |
| 天玑 | tiān jī | gamma Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
| 斗 | dǒu | dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4] / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of 陡[dou3] | |
| 照葫芦画瓢 | zhào hú lu huà piáo | lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly | |
| 星移斗转 | xīng yí Dǒu zhuǎn | lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1] has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移[Dou3 zhuan3 xing1 yi2] | |
| 罡 | gāng | stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper | |
| 南箕北斗 | nán jī běi dǒu | lit. the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom) / fig. sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use | |
| 开阳 | Kāi yáng | zeta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper / Kaiyang county in Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2], Guizhou | |
| 北斗七星 | běi dǒu qī xīng | (astronomy) Big Dipper | |
| 天枢星 | tiān shū xīng | alpha Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
| 天权 | tiān quán | delta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
| 天璇 | tiān xuán | beta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
| 天罡星 | tiān gāng xīng | the Big Dipper | |
| 摇光 | yáo guāng | eta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
| 斗柄 | dǒu bǐng | handle of the Big Dipper | |
| 玉衡 | yù héng | epsilon Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
| 褐河乌 | hè hé wū | (bird species of China) brown dipper (Cinclus pallasii) | |
| 河乌 | hé wū | (bird species of China) white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) | |
| 依葫芦画瓢 | yī hú lu huà piáo | lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification | |
