"Trim" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 修理 | xiū lǐ | to repair / to fix / to prune / to trim / (coll.) to sort sb out / to fix sb |   |
| 修剪 | xiū jiǎn | to prune / to trim | |
| 剪裁 | jiǎn cái | to tailor (clothes) / to trim (expenditure) | |
| 修整 | xiū zhěng | to spruce up / to renovate / to tend (a garden) / to groom (one's hair) / to finish (a rough surface) / to trim (a lawn) / to touch up (a photo) | |
| 笔挺 | bǐ tǐng | (standing) very straight / straight as a ramrod / bolt upright / well-ironed / trim | |
| 剪掉 | jiǎn diào | to cut off / to cut away / to trim | |
| 沿 |  yán | along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge | |
| 裁 | cái | to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment | |
| 剪 | jiǎn | scissors / shears / clippers / CL:把[ba3] / to cut with scissors / to trim / to wipe out or exterminate | |
| 刓 | wán | to trim | |
| 截尾 | jié wěi | to dock / to trim (esp. the tail of an animal) | |
| 沿边儿 | yán biān r | to trim (border with braid, tape etc) | |
| 裁切 | cái qiē | to crop / to trim | |
| 随风倒舵 | suí fēng dǎo duò | to trim one's sails with the wind / to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances (idiom) | |
| 装饰道具 | zhuāng shì dào jù | (theater) set dressing / trim prop | |
| 沿条儿 | yán tiáo r | tape seam (in dressmaking) / tape trim | |
| 开脸 | kāi liǎn | (of a bride-to-be) to remove facial hair and trim hairline (old) / to carve a face | |
| 涂乙 | tú yǐ | to trim or add (to a text) / to edit | |
| 扦脚 | qiān jiǎo | (dialect) pedicure / to trim one's toenails | |
| 绿皮车 | lu:4 pí chē | green train (slow, noisy, unairconditioned train with forest green livery and yellow trim that ran on the Chinese railway system from the 1950s, phased out in the early 21st century) | |
