"Sheath" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 套 |  tào | to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) |   |
| 套子 | tào zi | sheath / case / cover / conventional method / cliché / trick / (coll.) condom | |
| 鞘 | qiào | scabbard / sheath | |
| 笔套 | bǐ tào | the cap of a pen, pencil or writing brush / the sheath of a pen (made of cloth, silk or thread) | |
| 箨 | tuò | sheath around joints of bamboo | |
| 孕穗 | yùn suì | (grain farming) booting (i.e. the swelling of the leaf sheath due to panicle growth) | |
| 胚芽鞘 | pēi yá qiào | coleoptile, protective sheath covering an emerging shoot (botany) | |
| 腱鞘 | jiàn qiào | tendon sheath (anatomy) / epitendon | |
| 髓鞘 | suǐ qiào | myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell) | |
| 叶鞘 | yè qiào | (botany) leaf sheath | |
