"Ditch" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 河沟 | hé gōu | brook / ditch |   |
| 沟 |  gōu | ditch / gutter / groove / gully / ravine / CL:道[dao4] | |
| 渠 | qú | (artificial) stream / canal / drain / ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]) / (literary) big / great / (dialect) he / she / him / her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel / felloe | |
| 渎 | dú | disrespectful / (literary) ditch | |
| 凼 | dàng | pool / pit / ditch / cesspit | |
| 洫 | xù | to ditch / a moat | |
| 凼子 | dàng zi | pool / pit / ditch / cesspit | |
| 壑沟 | hè gōu | ditch / narrow strip of water / moat | |
| 三振 | sān zhèn | to strike out / strikeout (baseball, softball) / (Tw) to ditch / to eliminate from consideration | |
| 明沟 | míng gōu | open drainage channel / ditch | |
| 阳沟 | yáng gōu | open drainage channel / ditch | |
| 渠道 | qú dào | irrigation ditch / (fig.) channel / means | |
| 沟壑 | gōu hè | gorge / gulch / ravine / deep ditch | |
| 暗渠 | àn qú | underground water channel / covered ditch / culvert | |
| 圳 | zhèn | (dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. [zun4]) / used in place names, notably 深圳[Shen1 zhen4] | |
| 浦 | pǔ | river bank / shore / river drainage ditch (old) | |
| 背城借一 | bèi chéng jiè yī | to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom) / to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle | |
| 堭 | huáng | a dry moat outside a city wall / a dry ditch | |
