"Sprout" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 萌芽 | méng yá | to sprout (lit. or fig.) / to bud / to germinate / germ / seed / bud |   |
| 长出 | zhǎng chū | to sprout (leaves, buds, a beard etc) | |
| 萌发 | méng fā | to sprout / to shoot / to bud | |
| 萌动 | méng dòng | to sprout / (fig.) to emerge | |
| 出苗 | chū miáo | to sprout / to come out (of seedling) / to bud | |
| 新芽 | xīn yá | sprout / bud | |
| 胚芽 | pēi yá | bud / sprout / germ | |
| 芽苗 | yá miáo | a shoot / a sprout / a seedling | |
| 苗 |  miáo | sprout | |
| 芽 | yá | bud / sprout | |
| 萌 | méng | to sprout / to bud / to have a strong affection for (slang) / adorable (loanword from Japanese 萌え / moe, slang describing affection for a cute character) | |
| 茁 | zhuó | to display vigorous, new growth / to sprout | |
| 嫩苗 | nèn miáo | seedling / soft shoots / sprout | |
| 滋芽 | zī yá | (dialect) to sprout / to germinate | |
| 抽条 | chōu tiáo | sprout | |
| 萌孽 | méng niè | sprout | |
| 权舆 | quán yú | to sprout / (fig). to begin / beginning | |
| 豆芽 | dòu yá | bean sprout | |
| 幼苗 | yòu miáo | young sprout / bud / sapling / seedling | |
| 勃发 | bó fā | to sprout up / to flourish / (of war etc) to break out / rapid growth | |
| 起泡 | qǐ pào | to bubble / to foam / to blister / to sprout boils (on one's body) / sparkling (wine etc) | |
| 抽 | chōu | to draw out / to pull out from in between / to remove part of the whole / (of certain plants) to sprout or bud / to whip or thrash | |
| 芚 | tún | green sprout / foolish | |
| 萌生林 | low forest / coppice forest / sprout forest | |
