| 礁石 | jiāo shí | reef | |
| 珊瑚礁 | shān hú jiāo | coral reef | |
| 暗礁 | àn jiāo | submerged reef (rock) | |
| 触礁 | chù jiāo | (of a ship) to strike a reef; (fig.) to hit a snag | |
| 礁溪 | jiāo xī | Jiaoxi or Chiaohsi township in Yilan county 宜兰县 , Taiwan |
| 1 | The solitary reef fish often travels aloneor in pairs and favors a diet of sponges and sea squirts. | |
| 2 | In Hainan, 18 of the 56 fishermen trapped on the North Reef of Xisha are still missing. | |
| 3 | Aclownfish is at home between the stinging tentacles of an anemone, which protects the boldly colored reef dweller and its eggs fromintruders. | |
| 4 | In days gone by this was a place of death for mariners, their ships impaled on reefs and their bones bleached by the sun. | |
| 5 | That encounter, endured by 29-year-old Steve Kulcsar, occurred less than a mile off Australia's east coast, at Long Reef, and was filmed by a fisherman in a small boat nearby. |