| 蜻蜓 | qīng tíng | dragonfly | |
| 蜻蜓点水 | qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ | lit. the dragonfly touches the water lightly; superficial contact (idiom) | |
| 草蜻蛉 | cǎo qīng líng | green lacewing | |
| 剑走蜻蛉 | jiàn zǒu qīng líng | the sword moves like a dragon-fly (modern idiom); fig. unexpected winning move; unconventional gambit | |
| 蜻蜓掠水 | qīng tíng lüè shuǐ | The dragonflies skimmed over the water. (idiom) |
| 1 | We stared silently at the tips of our rods, at the dragonflies that came and wells. | |
| 2 | There are a lot of interesting insects. They are ants, butterflies, dragonflies , fireflies, grasshopper and other interesting insects. | |
| 3 | I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. | |
| 4 | These pools often contain hundreds of newly-hatched tadpoles which will become frogs or toads quickly, before the water all evaporates. | |
| 5 | But in the Qin and Han Dynasty, the glass eye beads declined with Chu culture disappearing as a whole culture. Finally the glass eye was gone at the beginning of Han Dynasty . |
