Аннотация:The article is devoted to the ethnocultural functioning specifics of phraseological units with zoomorphic components characterized by a high connotative potential and considered among key sources of the cultural and national heritage of the Chinese nation. It presents linguocultural and semantic properties of the mentioned Chinese phraseological units with zoomorphic components. The author presented ethnocul- tural functioning specifics of Chinese phraseological units with zoomorphic compo- nents and described their linguocultural properties. In addition, the study identified and systematized phraseological units with zoomorphic components, examined their linguocultural properties, discovered the role and dynamics of zoomorphic compo- nents in the units under study, characterized semantic properties of phraseological units with zoomorphic components, considered properties of phraseological units with a common seme – zoomorphism.