mussel; clam

painted shell; painting on shell

mussels; bivalves grown in rivers and lakes

see 蚌埠市[Beng4 bu4 Shi4]

clamshell

see 蚌山區|蚌山区[Beng4 shan1 Qu1]

clam

Drepung monastery, Lhasa, Tibet

Bengbu, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省[An1 hui1 Sheng3]

Bengshan, a district of Bengbu City 蚌埠市[Beng4 bu4 Shi4], Anhui

elephant trunk clam; geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America)

lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom); fig. birthing a son at an advanced age

abbr. for 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利|鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利[yu4 bang4 xiang1 zheng1 , yu2 weng1 de2 li4]

lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom); fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits