"Mud" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 泥土 | ní tǔ | earth / soil / mud / clay |   |
| 泥巴 | ní bā | mud | |
| 泥泞 | ní nìng | muddy / mud | |
| 污泥 | wū ní | mud / sludge | |
| 烂泥 | làn ní | mud / mire | |
| 泥浆 | ní jiāng | slurry / mud | |
| 泥水 | ní shuǐ | muddy water / mud / masonry (craft) | |
| 泥淖 | ní nào | mud / muddy swamp / sump / fig. a sticky predicament | |
| 泥 |  ní | mud / clay / paste / pulp | |
| 淖 | nào | slush / mud | |
| 壒 | ài | dust / mud | |
| 漜 | yě | mud | |
| 湴 | bàn | mud / slush / ooze | |
| 泥鳅 | ní qiu | loach / mud fish / CL:條|条[tiao2] | |
| 泥石流 | ní shí liú | landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide | |
| 拖泥带水 | tuō ní dài shuǐ | lit. wading in mud and water / a slovenly job / sloppy | |
| 泥坑 | ní kēng | mud pit / mire / morass | |
| 土坯 | tǔ pī | mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware | |
| 出淤泥而不染 | chū yū ní ér bù rǎn | lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible | |
| 软泥 | ruǎn ní | soft mud / silt / sludge / ooze (geology) | |
| 泥沙俱下 | ní shā jù xià | mud and sand flow together (idiom) / good and bad mingle | |
| 鲮 | líng | mud carp (Cirrhina molitorella) | |
| 烂醉如泥 | làn zuì rú ní | lit. as drunk as mud / completely drunk | |
| 墐 | jǐn | bury / plaster with mud | |
| 塱 | lǎng | raised bank / mud wall | |
| 泥封 | ní fēng | to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute / lute / luting | |
| 滤饼 | lu:4 bǐng | filtrate / solid residue produced by a filter / mud from filtering can sugar | |
| 脱泥 | tuō ní | to remove mud / desliming (in coal production) | |
| 草尼马 | cǎo ní mǎ | grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet | |
| 草泥马 | cǎo ní mǎ | grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet | |
| 泥灶 | mud stove | | |
| 二氧化钛废物 | titanium dioxide wastes / red mud | | |
| 红泥 | titanium dioxide wastes / red mud | | |
| 古柯煳 | cocaïne mud | | |
| 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴 | yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn | lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it | |
| 无心插柳柳成阴 | wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn | lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you / (fig.) unintentional actions may bring unexpected success / also written 無心插柳柳成蔭|无心插柳柳成荫 | |
| 湴 | pán | to wade through water or mud | |
| 燕子衔泥垒大窝 | yàn zi xián ní lěi dà wō | the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom) / many a little makes a mickle | |
| 泼脏水 | pō zāng shuǐ | (lit.) to splash dirty water / (fig.) to throw mud at / to smear (sb) | |
