"Spongy" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 松软 | sōng ruǎn | flexible / not rigid / spongy / soft or runny (not set hard) / loose (soil) |   |
| 海绵状 | hǎi mián zhuàng | spongy | |
| 泡 |  pāo | puffed / swollen / spongy / small lake (esp. in place names) / classifier for urine or feces | |
| 糠 | kāng | husk / (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising) | |
| 空心 | kōng xīn | hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop) | |
| 牛腩 | niú nǎn | brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin | |
| 腩 | nǎn | brisket / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / see 牛腩[niu2 nan3] esp. Cantonese / erroneously translated as sirloin | |
| 多孔材料 | duō kǒng cái liào | multicellular material / spongy substance / porous material | |
| 稀松骨质 | xī sōng gǔ zhì | cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone | |
| 灯草 | dēng cǎo | the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps | |
| 烤麸 | kǎo fū | kao fu, a spongy wheat gluten product used in Chinese cuisine | |
