"Dirt" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 污垢 | wū gòu | dirt / filth / grime |   |
| 污秽 | wū huì | (literary) dirty / filthy / (literary) dirt / filth | |
| 泥垢 | ní gòu | dirt / grime | |
| 埃 |  āi | dust / dirt / angstrom / phonetic ai or e | |
| 污 | wū | dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | |
| 尘 | chén | dust / dirt / earth | |
| 垢 | gòu | dirt / disgrace | |
| 汙 | wū | variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | |
| 温蠖 | wēn huò | dirt | |
| 油污 | yóu wū | greasy dirt / sludge (from an oil spill) | |
| 灰头土脸 | huī tóu tǔ liǎn | head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed | |
| 土路 | tǔ lù | dirt road | |
| 粪土 | fèn tǔ | dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing | |
| 挥金如土 | huī jīn rú tǔ | lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant | |
| 油垢 | yóu gòu | greasy dirt | |
| 白菜价 | bái cài jià | (coll.) very low price / dirt cheap price | |
| 峁 | mǎo | round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China) | |
| 藏污纳垢 | cáng wū nà gòu | to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom) / to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds | |
| 视如粪土 | shì rú fèn tǔ | to look upon as dirt / considered worthless | |
| 澡垢索疵 | zǎo gòu suǒ cī | to wash the dirt to find a defect (idiom) / to find fault / to nitpick | |
| 挶 | jú | structure for carrying dirt | |
| 汚 | wū | variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth | |
| 碰一鼻子灰 | pèng yī bí zi huī | lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt / fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff | |
| 藏垢纳污 | cáng gòu nà wū | to hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom) / to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing / aiding and abetting wicked deeds | |
| 不干不净，吃了没病 | bù gān bù jìng , chī le méi bìng | a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm | |
| 吃土 | chī tǔ | (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items) | |
| 积土成山 | jī tǔ chéng shān | lit. piling up dirt eventually creates a mountain (idiom) / fig. success is the cumulation of lots of small actions | |
| 拔出萝卜带出泥 | bá chū luó bo dài chū ní | lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem | |
