| 肠管 | cháng guǎn | intestine / gut |   |
| 肠胃 | cháng wèi | stomach and intestine / digestive system | |
| 大肠 | dà cháng | the large intestine | |
| 小肠 | xiǎo cháng | small intestine | |
| 肥肠 | féi cháng | pig-gut (large intestine used as foodstuff) | |
| 羊肠小道 | yáng cháng xiǎo dào | road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom) / narrow and winding road / fig. complicated and tricky job | |
| 回肠 | huí cháng | ileum (segment of small intestine between the jejunum 空腸|空肠[kong1 chang2] and appendix 盲腸|盲肠[mang2 chang2]) | |
| 空肠 | kōng cháng | jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠[shi2 er4 zhi3 chang2] and ileum 回腸|回肠[hui2 chang2]) | |
| 六腑 | liù fǔ | (TCM) six bowels (hollow organs), namely: gall bladder 膽|胆[dan3], stomach 胃[wei4], large intestine 大腸|大肠[da4 chang2], small intestine 小腸|小肠[xiao3 chang2], triple heater 三焦[san1 jiao1], bladder 膀胱[pang2 guang1] | |
| 胴 |  dòng | large intestine / torso | |
| 瘕 | jiǎ | obstruction in the intestine | |
| 升结肠 | shēng jié cháng | ascending colon (anatomy) / first section of large intestine | |
| 横结肠 | héng jié cháng | transverse colon (anatomy) / second section of large intestine | |
| 肠壁 | cháng bì | wall of intestine / lining of gut | |
| 降结肠 | jiàng jié cháng | descending colon (anatomy) / third section of large intestine | |
