"Wire" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 线路 | xiàn lù | line / circuit / wire / road / railway track / bus route |   |
| 电线 | diàn xiàn | wire / power cord / CL:根[gen1] | |
| 线缆 | xiàn lǎn | cable / wire / cord (computer) | |
| 线 |  xiàn | thread / string / wire / line / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1] / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
| 鎍 | suǒ | chain / wire | |
| 橡皮线 | xiàng pí xiàn | wire (sheathed in rubber) / cable | |
| 钢材 | gāng cái | steel (as raw material) / steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc | |
| 电网 | diàn wǎng | electricity grid / power grid / electrified wire netting | |
| 电话线 | diàn huà xiàn | telephone line / telephone wire | |
| 接线 | jiē xiàn | wiring / to connect a wire | |
| 火线 | huǒ xiàn | firing line (battle) / live electrical wire | |
| 钢丝 | gāng sī | steel wire / tightrope | |
| 铁丝 | tiě sī | iron wire / CL:根[gen1] / subway enthusiast (abbr. for 地鐵粉絲|地铁粉丝[di4 tie3 fen3 si1]) / railway enthusiast (abbr. for 鐵路粉絲|铁路粉丝[tie3 lu4 fen3 si1]) | |
| 保险丝 | bǎo xiǎn sī | fuse wire / (electrical) fuse | |
| 铁丝网 | tiě sī wǎng | wire netting / CL:道[dao4] | |
| 回电 | huí diàn | to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram | |
| 铜丝 | tóng sī | copper wire | |
| 拔丝 | bá sī | wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating) | |
| 焊丝 | hàn sī | welding wire | |
| 钢缆 | gāng lǎn | steel cable / wire cable / steel hawser | |
| 围网 | wéi wǎng | seine net / wire mesh fence / fence screen | |
| 拉丝模 | lā sī mó | die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter) | |
| 盘 | pán | plate / dish / tray / board / hard drive (computing) / to build / to coil / to check / to examine / to transfer (property) / to make over / classifier for food: dish, helping / to coil / classifier for coils of wire / classifier for games of chess | |
| 笼 | lóng | enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc / cage / basket / steamer basket / to cover / to cage / to embrace / to manipulate through trickery | |
| 克丝钳子 | kè sī qián zi | wire cutting pincers | |
| 钢丝锯 | gāng sī jù | jigsaw (saw with steel wire blade) | |
| 金属线 | jīn shǔ xiàn | metal wire | |
| 线规 | xiàn guī | wire gauge | |
| 爆炸桥丝式雷管 | exploding bridge wire detonator / EBW detonator | | |
| 有刺铁丝网天幕 | yǒu cì tiě sī wǎng tiān mù | barbed wire apron | |
| 系留线 | xì liú xiàn | tethering wire / tether wire | |
| 蛇腹形铁丝网 | shé fù xíng tiě sī wǎng | concertina wire | |
| 有刺铁丝网 | yǒu cì tiě sī wǎng | barbed wire | |
| 管发射、光学跟踪、有线制导导弹 | tube-launched optically-tracked wire guided missile / TOW missile | | |
| 陶式导弹 | tube-launched optically-tracked wire guided missile / TOW missile | | |
| 有刺铁丝圈 | barbed wire roll | | |
| 电信欺诈 | wire fraud | | |
| 线控简易爆炸装置 | command wire improvised explosive device | | |
| 捆绑用钢丝 | binding wire | | |
| 克丝钳 | wire cutter | | |
| 刺钢丝 | cì gāng sī | barbed wire | |
| 牛筋草 | niú jīn cǎo | wire grass (Eleusine indica) | |
| 蟋蟀草 | xī shuài cǎo | wire grass (Eleusine indica) | |
| 剥皮钳 | bāo pí qián | wire stripper | |
| 熔断丝 | róng duàn sī | fuse wire | |
| 猪笼 | zhū lóng | cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport | |
| 刀片刺网 | dāo piàn cì wǎng | razor wire | |
| 刀片铁丝网 | dāo piàn tiě sī wǎng | razor wire | |
| 电信诈骗 | diàn xìn zhà piàn | wire fraud | |
