"Spy" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 间谍 | jiàn dié | spy |   |
| 底线 | dǐ xiàn | bottom line / the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy / informer / plant | |
| 特务 | tè wu | special assignment (military) / special agent / operative / spy | |
| 眼线 | yǎn xiàn | informer / snitch / spy / scout / (cosmetics) eye line | |
| 奸细 | jiān xi | a spy / a crafty person | |
| 探子 | tàn zi | intelligence gatherer / spy / detective / scout / sound (medical instrument) / long and narrow probing and sampling utensil | |
| 线人 | xiàn rén | spy / informer | |
| 侦察兵 | zhēn chá bīng | a scout / spy | |
| 细作 | xì zuò | (old) spy / secret agent | |
| 侦察员 | zhēn chá yuán | detective / investigator / scout / spy | |
| 内鬼 | nèi guǐ | mole / spy / rat / traitor | |
| 谍 |  dié | to spy | |
| 伺 | sì | to watch / to wait / to examine / to spy | |
| 觑 | qù | to spy / watch for | |
| 狙 | jū | macaque / to spy / to lie in ambush | |
| 瞷 | jiàn | to spy | |
| 诇 | xiòng | (literary) to spy / to pry into | |
| 巴头探脑 | bā tóu tàn nǎo | to poke one's head in and pry (idiom) / to spy / nosy | |
| 暗桩 | àn zhuāng | submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats / (fig.) informer / spy | |
| 上线 | shàng xiàn | to go online / to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc) | |
| 窥视 | kuī shì | to peep at / to spy on / to peek | |
| 窥探 | kuī tàn | to pry into or spy on / to snoop / to peep / to poke one's nose into / to peer / to get a glimpse of | |
| 侦察机 | zhēn chá jī | surveillance aircraft / spy plane | |
| 刺探 | cì tàn | to pry into / to spy on / to probe into | |
| 谍报 | dié bào | spy report / intelligence | |
| 豢养 | huàn yǎng | to keep (an animal) / to look after the needs of (a person or an animal) / (fig.) to keep (a spy, lackey etc) in one's pay | |
| 窥伺 | kuī sì | to spy upon / to lie in wait for (an opportunity) | |
| 觇 | zhān | keep at / to spy | |
| 觇 | chān | to observe / to spy on / Taiwan pr. [zhan1] | |
| 睪 | yì | to spy out | |
| 詗 | xiòng | clever / to gossip / to spy | |
| 间谍网 | jiàn dié wǎng | spy network | |
| 窥望 | kuī wàng | to peep / to spy on | |
| 遉 | zhēn | spy, reconnoiter / detective | |
| 凌志美 | Líng Zhì měi | Laura Ling, US-Taiwanese woman journalist imprisoned as spy by North Korea in 2009 | |
| 台谍 | Tái dié | Taiwan spy | |
| 敌探 | dí tàn | enemy spy | |
| 暗中监视 | àn zhōng jiān shì | to monitor secretly / to spy on | |
| 李诚恩 | Lǐ Chéng ēn | Euna Li, US-Korean woman journalist imprisoned as spy by North Korea in 2009 | |
| 李云娜 | Lǐ Yún nà | Euna Lee (phonetic transcription), US woman journalist imprisoned as spy by North Korea in 2009 / also written 李誠恩|李诚恩[Li3 Cheng2 en1] | |
| 窬墙窥视 | yú qiáng kuī shì | to spy on sb through a peephole (idiom) | |
| 觑步 | qù bù | to spy on | |
| 越飞 | Yuè fēi | Adolph Abramovich Joffe (1883-1927), Soviet and Comintern diplomat and spy in 1922-23 in Republican China | |
| 间谍飞机 | spy plane | | |
| 谍照 | dié zhào | spy shot / leaked photo of a yet-to-be-released product | |
