"Steam" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 蒸汽 | zhēng qì | steam |   |
| 热气 | rè qì | steam / heat / CL:股[gu3] | |
| 蒸气 | zhēng qì | vapor / steam | |
| 水气 | shuǐ qì | water vapor / steam | |
| 水汽 | shuǐ qì | water vapor / steam / moisture | |
| 汽 |  qì | steam / vapor | |
| 蒸 | zhēng | to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) | |
| 馏 | liù | to steam / to cook in a steamer / to reheat cold food by steaming it | |
| 歊 | xiāo | vapor / steam | |
| 水汀 | shuǐ tīng | steam (Shanghainese) | |
| 焗 | jú | (dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake | |
| 鸣叫 | míng jiào | to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound | |
| 回笼 | huí lóng | to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation | |
| 吐气 | tǔ qì | to exhale / to blow off steam / (phonetics) aspirated | |
| 喷气 | pēn qì | to spurt steam (or air etc) | |
| 汽缸 | qì gāng | cylinder (of steam engine or internal combustion engine) | |
| 汽轮机 | qì lún jī | steam turbine | |
| 熏蒸 | xūn zhēng | (of sultry weather) to be stifling / (TCM) to treat a disease with fumes generated by burning medicinal herbs or with steam generated by boiling herbs / to fumigate | |
| 汽笛 | qì dí | steam whistle / ship horn | |
| 蒸汽机 | zhēng qì jī | steam engine | |
| 万马奔腾 | wàn mǎ bēn téng | lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead | |
| 司炉 | sī lú | stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine) | |
| 汽轮发电机 | qì lún fā diàn jī | steam turbine electric generator | |
| 液态水 | yè tài shuǐ | liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice) | |
| 伴热 | bàn rè | electric heat tracing / steam tracing (for maintaining the temperature of pipes etc) | |
| 汽阀 | qì fá | steam valve | |
| 蒸气重整 | zhēng qì chóng zhěng | steam reforming (chemistry) | |
| 蒸汽机车 | zhēng qì jī chē | steam locomotive | |
| 锅驼机 | guō tuó jī | portable steam engine | |
| 短焰煤 | duǎn yàn méi | steam coal | |
| 锅炉煤 | guō lú méi | steam coal | |
| 饙 | fēn | to steam rice | |
| 水波炉 | shuǐ bō lú | superheated steam oven | |
| 失去后劲 | shī qù hòu jìn | to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam | |
