"Mottled" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 斑驳 | bān bó | mottled / motley |   |
| 驳落 | bó luò | to peel off / mottled / to fail an exam / to be demoted | |
| 斑竹 | bān zhú | mottled bamboo | |
| 斑剥 | bān bō | mottled and peeling off in places | |
| 芦鳗 | lú mán | variant of 鱸鰻|鲈鳗[lu2 man2], giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata) | |
| 鲈鳗 | lú mán | (Tw) giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), aka swamp eel or marbled eel / (coll.) (alternative for the nearly homonymous 流氓[liu2 mang2]) gangster | |
| 湘妃竹 | xiāng fēi zhú | same as 斑竹[ban1 zhu2], mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's 舜[Shun4] concubines (Ehuang 娥皇[E2 huang2] and Nüying 女英[Nu:3 ying1], known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃[Xiang1 Fei1]) upon learning of his death | |
