"Dumb" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yǎ dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc)
 hú hu tú tu confused / muddled / stupid / dumb
 nǎo zi yǒu pào soft in the head / brainless / dumb
 yǎ ba mute / muted / a dumb person / to be dumb
 shǎ yǎn stunned / struck dumb / flabbergasted
 shuǎ lài to act shamelessly / to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc / to act dumb / to act as if sth never happened
 lóng yǎ deaf and dumb
 dāi ruò mù jī lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom) / fig. dumbstruck
 zhuāng suàn to act stupid / to play dumb / to pretend to not know
 gǒu shǐ yùn (coll.) (other people's) dumb luck
 yǎ kǒu as if dumb / speechless
 dǎ mǎ hu yǎn to play dumb / to slack off (idiom)
 yǎ jù to mime / a dumb show
 mò jù pantomime / mime / dumb show
 yǎ zi mute person / dumb person / (more commonly called 啞巴|哑巴[ya3 ba5])
 yǒu zuǐ mò shé struck dumb / speechless
 mù zhēng kǒu dāi lit. eye startled, mouth struck dumb (idiom) / stunned / stupefied
 yā zhōng duān dumb terminal
 fàn shǎ to be foolish / to play dumb / to gaze absentmindedly
 qū clumsy and dumb / slow-witted
  dumb mine
  gravity drop bomb / gravity bomb / iron bomb / dumb bomb / free-fall bomb
  gravity drop bomb / gravity bomb / iron bomb / dumb bomb / free-fall bomb
 yǎ zhōng duān dumb terminal
 chuāi zhe míng bai zhuāng hú tu to pretend to not know / to play dumb
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