"Moat" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 护城河 | hù chéng hé | moat (surrounding the city wall) |   |
| 沟渠 | gōu qú | channel / moat / irrigation canal | |
| 壕沟 | háo gōu | trench / moat | |
| 池 |  chí | pond / reservoir / moat | |
| 壕 | háo | moat / (military) trench | |
| 堑 | qiàn | (bound form) moat / chasm | |
| 洫 | xù | to ditch / a moat | |
| 淢 | yù | moat / swift current | |
| 壑沟 | hè gōu | ditch / narrow strip of water / moat | |
| 海壕 | hǎi háo | sea moat / moat | |
| 海底环状洼地 | sea moat / moat | | |
| 固若金汤 | gù ruò jīn tāng | lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / fig. well fortified / invulnerable to attack | |
| 天堑 | tiān qiàn | natural moat | |
| 隍 | huáng | dry moat / god of city | |
| 邕 | yōng | city surrounded by a moat / old variant of 雍[yong1] / old variant of 壅[yong1] | |
| 阆 | làng | (literary) vast / spacious / (literary) lofty / (literary) tall door / (literary) dry moat outside a city wall | |
| 高城深池 | gāo chéng shēn chí | high walls and deep moat (idiom) / impenetrable defense | |
| 堭 | huáng | a dry moat outside a city wall / a dry ditch | |
| 城门失火，殃及池鱼 | chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú | a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom) / the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee | |
| 吃一堑，长一智 | chī yī qiàn , zhǎng yī zhì | Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom) / One only learns from one's mistakes. | |
