"Primitive" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 原始 | yuán shǐ | first / original / primitive / original (document etc) |   |
| 酋长 | qiú zhǎng | headman (of primitive people) / tribal chief / used as translation for foreign leaders, e.g. Indian Rajah or Arab Sheik or Emir | |
| 原始社会 | yuán shǐ shè huì | primitive society | |
| 原始人 | yuán shǐ rén | primitive man / prehistoric human | |
| 原人 | yuán rén | prehistoric man / primitive man | |
| 蚖 |  yuán | Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod) / variant of 螈, salamander / newt / triton | |
| 低等动物 | dī děng dòng wù | lower animal / primitive life-form | |
| 原生生物 | yuán shēng shēng wù | protist / primitive organism | |
| 文昌鱼 | wén chāng yú | lancelet (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), a primitive fish | |
| 榛狉未改 | zhēn pī wèi gǎi | primitive state | |
| 蚖虫 | yuán chóng | Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod) | |
| 原生水 | yuán shēng shuǐ | juvenile water / primitive water | |
