"Drain" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 挤出 | jǐ chū | to squeeze out / to extrude / to drain / to find the time / to burst out |   |
| 排水 | pái shuǐ | to drain | |
| 宣泄 | xuān xiè | to drain (by leading off water) / to unburden oneself / to divulge / to leak a secret | |
| 耗尽 | hào jìn | to exhaust / to use up / to deplete / to drain | |
| 排泄 | pái xiè | to drain (factory waste etc) / to excrete (urine, sweat etc) | |
| 外流 | wài liú | outflow / to flow out / to drain | |
| 地漏 | dì lòu | drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month | |
| 排 |  pái | a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc | |
| 淋 | lìn | to filter / to strain / to drain / gonorrhea / (TCM) strangury | |
| 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 | |
| 浍 | kuài | drain / stream | |
| 流干 | liú gān | to drain / to run dry | |
| 退水 | tuì shuǐ | to divert water / to drain | |
| 沥干 | lì gān | to drain | |
| 外溢 | wài yì | (of liquid) to spill out / to overflow / (of gas) to leak out / (fig.) to spill over / to spread (to new areas) / (fig.) (of wealth etc) to drain / to flow outward (esp. overseas) / (fig.) (of talent) to show / to be revealed | |
| 排海 | pái hǎi | to drain (wastewater) into the sea | |
| 废水 | fèi shuǐ | waste water / drain water / effluent | |
| 排污 | pái wū | to drain sewage | |
| 水道 | shuǐ dào | watercourse (river, canal, drain etc) / water route / lane (in a swimming pool) | |
| 前功尽弃 | qián gōng jìn qì | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain | |
| 排空 | pái kōng | to drain out / to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky | |
| 人才流失 | rén cái liú shī | brain drain / outflow of talent | |
| 排涝 | pái lào | to drain flooded fields | |
| 激浊扬清 | jī zhuó yáng qīng | lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom) / fig. dispel evil and usher in good / eliminate vice and exalt virtue | |
| 排 | pǎi | a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc | |
| 澌 | sī | drain dry / to exhaust | |
| 搋 | chuāi | to knead / to rub / to clear a drain with a pump / to conceal sth in one's bosom / to carry sth under one's coat | |
| 竭泽而渔 | jié zé ér yú | lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
| 唾面自干 | tuò miàn zì gān | to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom) / to turn the other cheek / to drain the cup of humiliation | |
| 扬清激浊 | yáng qīng jī zhuó | lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom) / fig. dispel evil and usher in good / eliminate vice and exalt virtue | |
| 移山倒海 | yí shān dǎo hǎi | lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature | |
| 才外流 | cái wài liú | brain drain | |
| 釂 | jiào | drain a goblet | |
| 甽 | quǎn | drain between fields, irrigation | |
| 人才外流 | rén cái wài liú | brain drain | |
| 以邻为壑 | yǐ lín wéi hè | to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom) | |
| 排洪 | pái hóng | to drain flood-water | |
| 一饮而尽 | yī yǐn ér jìn | to drain the cup in one gulp (idiom) | |
| 主排水沟 | carrier drain / main drain | | |
| 国内人才流失 | guó nèi rén cái liú shī | internal brain drain | |
| 支排水沟 | lateral drain / field drain | | |
| 田间排水沟 | lateral drain / field drain | | |
| 雨水管道 | yǔ shuǐ guǎn dào | storm water drain / storm drain | |
| 雨水集水井 | yǔ shuǐ jí shuǐ jǐng | storm drain catch basin | |
| 排走 | pái zǒu | to drain away / to vent out | |
