"Offspring" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 子孙 | zǐ sūn | offspring / posterity |   |
| 苗裔 | miáo yì | offspring / descendant / progeny | |
| 胤 |  yìn | descendant / heir / offspring / posterity / to inherit | |
| 孥 | nú | child / offspring | |
| 下辈 | xià bèi | offspring / future generations / younger generation of a family / junior members of a group | |
| 子代 | zǐ dài | offspring / child's generation | |
| 裔胄 | yì zhòu | descendants / offspring | |
| 孕育 | yùn yù | to be pregnant / to produce offspring / to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc) / fig. replete with (culture etc) | |
| 不育 | bù yù | to be infertile / to have no offspring | |
| 优生 | yōu shēng | outstanding student / to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality) / to enhance the genetic quality of a population / eugenics | |
| 绝后 | jué hòu | to have no offspring / never to be seen again / unique | |
| 望子成龙 | wàng zǐ chéng lóng | lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom) / fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment | |
| 亲 | qìng | parents-in-law of one's offspring | |
| 幼崽 | yòu zǎi | (zoology) the young / immature offspring | |
| 骨血 | gǔ xuè | flesh and blood / one's offspring | |
| 公畜 | gōng chù | stud / male animal kept to breed offspring | |
| 名门望族 | míng mén wàng zú | offspring a famous family (idiom) / good breeding / blue blood | |
| 多育 | duō yù | prolific / bearing many offspring | |
| 嬎 | fàn | (dialect) (of birds) to lay eggs / (archaic) to reproduce / to bear offspring | |
| 犏牛 | piān niú | offspring of a bull and a female yak | |
| 崽子 | zǎi zi | offspring of an animal / brat / bastard | |
| 幼仔 | yòu zǎi | (zoology) the young / immature offspring | |
| 螟蛉 | míng líng | green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.) | |
