"Slender" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 苗条 | miáo tiao | (of a woman) slim / slender / graceful |   |
| 修长 | xiū cháng | slender / lanky / tall and thin | |
| 窈窕 | yǎo tiǎo | (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded | |
| 细长 | xì cháng | slender | |
| 纤纤 | xiān xiān | slim / slender | |
| 高挑 | gāo tiǎo | raised high / (of a person) slender / tall and thin (Taiwan pr. [gao1tiao1]) | |
| 婧 |  jìng | (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented | |
| 孅 | xiān | cunning / slender | |
| 箧箧 | qiè qiè | long and thin / slender | |
| 细挑 | xì tiāo | slender | |
| 纤瘦 | xiān shòu | slender / slim as a thread | |
| 精瘦 | jīng shòu | (coll.) lean (figure, meat etc) / slender | |
| 削瘦 | xuē shòu | thin / lean / slender / skinny / (of cheeks) hollow | |
| 高䠷 | gāo tiǎo | (of a person) slender / tall and thin | |
| 马尾 | mǎ wěi | ponytail (hairstyle) / horse's tail / slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants) | |
| 纤体 | xiān tǐ | to get a slender figure / slimming | |
| 纤腰 | xiān yāo | slender waistline | |
| 细腰 | xì yāo | slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin | |
| 亭亭玉立 | tíng tíng yù lì | slender and elegant (of a woman) | |
| 银鱼 | yín yú | oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon | |
| 根 | gēn | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry) | |
| 水蛇腰 | shuǐ shé yāo | slender and supple waist / lithe body / feminine pose | |
| 细 | xì | thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal | |
| 扦 | qiān | short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc) | |
| 鳓 | lè | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad | |
| 籯 | yíng | slender basket for chopsticks | |
| 细长金枪鱼 | slender tuna | | |
| 曹白鱼 | cáo bái yú | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad | |
| 中卷 | zhōng juǎn | adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw) | |
| 亭亭玉立 | tíng tíng - yù lì | (idiom) (of a woman) slender and elegant / (idiom) (of a plant) tall and straight | |
