| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 中 | 中 | Zhōng | - China - Chinese - surname Zhong |
| 崋 | 崋 | huá | - flowery - illustrious - Chinese |
| 中文 | 中文 | Zhōngwén | - Chinese - Chinese written language - Chinese writing |
| 䗪 | 䗪 | zhè | - Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis) |
| 夔 | 夔 | Kuí | - one-legged mountain demon of Chinese mythology - Chinese mythical figure who invented music and dancing - Chinese rain god - surname Kui |
| 杞 | 杞 | qǐ | - Chinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense) - willow |
| 枸 | 枸 | gǒu | - Chinese wolfberry (Lycium chinense) |
| 柘 | 柘 | zhè | - a thorny tree - sugarcane - Cudrania triloba - three-bristle cudrania (Cudrania tricuspidata) - Chinese mulberry (Cudrania) |
| 桐 | 桐 | tóng | - Chinese wood-oil tree (Aleurites cordata) |
| 桓 | 桓 | huán | - Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukurossi) - big - pillar (old) |
| 梍 | 梍 | zào | - Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) - now written zào jiá 皂莢|皂荚 |
| 梣 | 梣 | chén | - Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis) |
| 椴 | 椴 | duàn | - Chinese linden (Tilia chinensis) |
| 椿 | 椿 | chūn | - Chinese toon (Toona sinensis) - tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) - (literary metaphor) father |
| 楂 | 楂 | zhā | - Chinese quince - hawthorn |
| 楚 | 楚 | Chǔ | - surname Chu - abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together - Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722-221 BC) |
| 楠 | 楠 | nán | - Machilus nanmu - Chinese cedar - Chinese giant redwood |
| 楷 | 楷 | jiē | - Chinese pistachio tree (Pistacia chinensis) |
| 榠 | 榠 | míng | - Chinese quince |
| 槐 | 槐 | huái | - Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) - Japanese pagoda tree |
| 桧 | 檜 | guì | - Chinese Juniper (Juniperus chinensis) - coffin lid decoration (old) |
| 檫 | 檫 | chá | - Chinese sassafras - Sassafras tzumu |
| 汉 | 漢 | Hàn | - Han ethnic group - Chinese (language) - the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 艾 | 艾 | ài | - Chinese mugwort or wormwood - moxa - to stop or cut short - phonetic "ai" or "i" - abbr. for 艾滋病[ai4 zi1 bing4], AIDS |
| 芍 | 芍 | sháo | - Chinese peony - Paeonia albiflora or lactiflora |
| 芹 | 芹 | qín | - Chinese celery |
| 苕 | 苕 | tiáo | - reed grass - Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora) (old) |
| 苎 | 苧 | zhù | - Boehmeria nivea - Chinese grass |
| 苋 | 莧 | xiàn | - amaranth (genus Amaranthus) - Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor) - Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus) |
| 萧 | 蕭 | xiāo | - miserable - desolate - dreary - Chinese mugwort |
| 蟅 | 蟅 | zhè | - locust - Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis) |
| 饨 | 飩 | tún | - Chinese ravioli |
| 馄 | 餛 | hún | - Chinese ravioli |
| 鮀 | 鮀 | tuó | - catfish - a kind of small fish - Chinese alligator |
| 鳓 | 鰳 | lè | - Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) - white herring - slender shad |
| 鳝 | 鱔 | shàn | - Chinese yellow eel |
| 鳜 | 鱖 | guì | - mandarin fish - Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi) |
| 鸨 | 鴇 | bǎo | - Chinese bustard - procuress |
| 鹂 | 鸝 | lí | - Chinese oriole |
| 鼍 | 鼉 | tuó | - Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) |
| 七夕 | 七夕 | Qīxī | - double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month - girls' festival - Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting |
| 中古 | 中古 | zhōnggǔ | - medieval - Middle Ages - Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties - Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) - used - second-hand |
| 中式 | 中式 | Zhōngshì | - Chinese style |
| 中装 | 中裝 | zhōngzhuāng | - Chinese dress |
| 中资 | 中資 | zhōngzī | - Chinese capital - Chinese enterprise |
| 中农 | 中農 | Zhōngnóng | - Chinese agriculture |
| 中餐 | 中餐 | Zhōngcān | - Chinese meal - Chinese food - CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4] |
| 侨乡 | 僑鄉 | qiáoxiāng | - home town of overseas Chinese |
| 儿化 | 兒化 | érhuà | - nonsyllabic final r 儿 added to a word in spoken Chinese - also called retroflex final or r-ization |
| 入声 | 入聲 | rùshēng | - entering tone - checked tone - one of the four tones of Middle Chinese |
| 冬瓜 | 冬瓜 | dōngguā | - wax gourd (Cucurbitaceae, Benincasa hispida) - white gourd - white hairy melon - Chinese squash |
| 刺柏 | 刺柏 | cìbǎi | - Chinese juniper |
| 国共 | 國共 | GuóGòng | - Chinese Nationalist Party 國民黨|国民党[Guo2 min2 dang3] and Chinese Communist Party 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3] |
| 国学 | 國學 | guóxué | - Chinese national culture - studies of ancient Chinese civilization - the Imperial College (history) |
| 国乐 | 國樂 | guóyuè | - national music - Chinese traditional music |
| 国画 | 國畫 | guóhuà | - national painting - Chinese art |
| 国语 | 國語 | Guóyǔ | - Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature - Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject - Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government - Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC |
| 地鳖 | 地鱉 | dìbiē | - Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis), used in TCM |
| 地黄 | 地黃 | dìhuáng | - Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa), its rhizome used in TCM |
| 坎肩 | 坎肩 | kǎnjiān | - sleeveless jacket (usually cotton) - Chinese waistcoat |
| 坐墩 | 坐墩 | zuòdūn | - Chinese drum-shaped stool |
| 大料 | 大料 | dàliào | - Chinese anise - star anise |
| 大葱 | 大蔥 | dàcōng | - leek - Chinese onion |
| 字源 | 字源 | zìyuán | - Chinese character etymology |
| 官桂 | 官桂 | guānguì | - Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia) - also written 肉桂[rou4 gui4] |
| 市丈 | 市丈 | shìzhàng | - Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters |
| 市两 | 市兩 | shìliǎng | - Chinese unit of weight equivalent to 50 grams |
| 市制 | 市制 | shìzhì | - Chinese units of measurement |
| 市尺 | 市尺 | shìchǐ | - Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ meter |
| 市担 | 市擔 | shìdàn | - Chinese unit of weight equal to 100 jin (or 50 kg) |
| 市斤 | 市斤 | shìjīn | - Chinese unit of weight equal to 0.5 kg |
| 市钱 | 市錢 | shìqián | - Chinese unit of weight equivalent to 5 grams |
| 成语 | 成語 | chéngyǔ | - Chinese set expression, often made up of 4 characters or two couplets of 4 characters each, often alluding to a story or historical quotation - idiom - proverb - saying - adage - set expression - CL:條|条[tiao2],本[ben3],句[ju4] |
| 戏曲 | 戲曲 | xìqǔ | - Chinese opera |
| 扯铃 | 扯鈴 | chělíng | - diabolo - Chinese yo-yo |
| 拳脚 | 拳腳 | quánjiǎo | - Chinese boxing - fist and feet - punching and kicking |
| 拳术 | 拳術 | quánshù | - Chinese boxing - fisticuffs |
| 指事 | 指事 | zhǐshì | - ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) - Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down - also known as self-explanatory character |
| 文言 | 文言 | wényán | - classical Chinese |
| 星官 | 星官 | xīngguān | - Chinese constellations |
| 会意 | 會意 | huìyì | - combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书[liu4 shu1] of forming Chinese characters) - Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements - also known as joint ideogram or associative compounds - to comprehend without being told explicitly - to cotton on - knowing (smile, glance etc) |
| 月季 | 月季 | yuèjì | - Chinese rose (Rosa sinensis) |
| 木瓜 | 木瓜 | mùguā | - papaya (Carica papaya) - genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae - Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) |
| 本草 | 本草 | běncǎo | - a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine - Chinese materia medica |
| 板栗 | 板栗 | bǎnlì | - Chinese chestnut |
| 林纾 | 林紓 | LínShū | - Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into classical Chinese |
| 柴胡 | 柴胡 | cháihú | - Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) - root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM) |
| 桂皮 | 桂皮 | guìpí | - Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamonum cassia) - cassia bark |
| 桔梗 | 桔梗 | jiégěng | - Chinese bellflower |
| 梣树 | 梣樹 | chénshù | - Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis) |
| 梧桐 | 梧桐 | wútóng | - wutong or Paulownia tree (Fermiana platanifolia), a lightweight strong wood used for musical instruments - Chinese parasol tree |
| 杨梅 | 楊梅 | yángméi | - red bayberry - Chinese bayberry - Japanese bayberry - Myrica rubra - CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4] |
| 楠木 | 楠木 | nánmù | - Phoebe zhennan - Machilus nanmu - Chinese cedar - Chinese giant redwood |
| 榔榆 | 榔榆 | lángyú | - Chinese or lacebark elm (Ulmus parvifolia) |
| 橄榄 | 橄欖 | gǎnlǎn | - Chinese olive - olive |
| 正骨 | 正骨 | zhènggǔ | - bone setting - Chinese osteopathy |
| 僵尸 | 殭屍 | jiāngshī | - gyonshi - jiang shi - Chinese vampire - zombie |
| 江猪 | 江豬 | jiāngzhū | - Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer |
| 沉香 | 沉香 | chénxiāng | - Chinese eaglewood - agarwood tree (Aquilaria agallocha) - lignum aloes |
| 油松 | 油松 | yóusōng | - Chinese red pine |
| 泡桐 | 泡桐 | pāotóng | - Paulownia tree (Fermiana platanifolia), a lightweight strong wood used for musical instruments - Chinese parasol tree |
| 凉茶 | 涼茶 | liángchá | - Chinese herb tea |
| 淮山 | 淮山 | Huáishān | - Chinese yam (Dioscorea opposita), also known as nagaimo |
| 汉化 | 漢化 | Hànhuà | - Chinese localization - to convert sth into Chinese |
| 汉姓 | 漢姓 | Hànxìng | - Han surname - Chinese surname |
| 汉字 | 漢字 | hànzì | - Chinese character - CL:個|个[ge4] - Japanese: kanji - Korean: hanja - Vietnamese: hán tự |
| 汉学 | 漢學 | Hànxué | - sinology - Chinese studies (in foreign schools) - Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics |
| 汉文 | 漢文 | Hànwén | - Chinese written language - Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad |
| 汉语 | 漢語 | Hànyǔ | - Chinese language - CL:門|门[men2] |
| 牙音 | 牙音 | yáyīn | - velar consonants of Middle Chinese |
| 玉女 | 玉女 | yùnǚ | - beautiful woman - fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals - (polite) sb else's daughter - Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM |
| 甘蓝 | 甘藍 | gānlán | - cabbage - Chinese broccoli - gai larn |
| 番客 | 番客 | fānkè | - (old) foreigner - alien - (dialect) overseas Chinese |
| 白菜 | 白菜 | báicài | - Chinese cabbage - pak choi - CL:棵[ke1], 個|个[ge4] |
| 皂荚 | 皂莢 | zàojiá | - Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) |
| 皂角 | 皂角 | zàojiǎo | - Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) |
| 真腊 | 真臘 | Zhēnlà | - Khmer kingdom of Kampuchea or Cambodia - Chinese term for Cambodia from 7th to 15th century |
| 空竹 | 空竹 | kōngzhú | - Chinese yo-yo |
| 粉丝 | 粉絲 | fěnsī | - bean vermicelli - mung bean starch noodles - Chinese vermicelli - cellophane noodles - CL:把[ba3] - fan (loanword) - enthusiast for sb or sth |
| 粗榧 | 粗榧 | cūfěi | - Chinese plum-yew - Cephalotaxus sinensis (botany) |
| 紫荆 | 紫荊 | zǐjīng | - Chinese redbud (Cercis chinensis) |
| 肉桂 | 肉桂 | ròuguì | - Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia) |
| 旧学 | 舊學 | jiùxué | - old learning - Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West |
| 舌音 | 舌音 | shéyīn | - coronal consonants of Middle Chinese |
| 芍药 | 芍藥 | sháoyào | - Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora) - common herbaceous peony - peony used in TCM |
| 芥蓝 | 芥藍 | gàilán | - Chinese broccoli - Chinese kale - cabbage mustard - Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra - also pr. [jie4 lan2] |
| 花椒 | 花椒 | huājiāo | - Sichuan pepper - Chinese prickly ash |
| 荸荠 | 荸薺 | bíqí | - Chinese water chestnut - Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta |
| 苋菜 | 莧菜 | xiàncài | - amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) - Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus) |
| 莽草 | 莽草 | mǎngcǎo | - Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves) |
| 菜心 | 菜心 | càixīn | - choy sum - Chinese flowering cabbage - stem of any Chinese cabbage |
| 华侨 | 華僑 | Huáqiáo | - overseas Chinese - (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2] |
| 华文 | 華文 | Huáwén | - Chinese language - Chinese script |
| 华裔 | 華裔 | Huáyì | - ethnic Chinese - non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry |
| 华语 | 華語 | Huáyǔ | - Chinese language |
| 莴笋 | 萵筍 | wōsǔn | - Chinese lettuce - celtuce - asparagus lettuce - celery lettuce - stem lettuce |
| 蒲葵 | 蒲葵 | púkuí | - Chinese fan palm - Livistona chinensis |
| 蓑草 | 蓑草 | suōcǎo | - Chinese alpine rush (botany) |
| 薯蓣 | 薯蕷 | shǔyù | - Chinese yam (Dioscorea opposita) |
| 虞喜 | 虞喜 | Yúxǐ | - Chinese astronomer (281-356) famous for determining the precession of the equinoxes |
| 蜡虫 | 蠟蟲 | làchóng | - Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) |
| 蚕蛾 | 蠶蛾 | cáné | - Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) |
| 觱栗 | 觱慄 | bìlì | - ancient bamboo reed instrument - Chinese shawm (probably related to central Asian zurna) |
| 觱篥 | 觱篥 | bìlì | - ancient bamboo reed instrument - Chinese shawm (probably related to central Asian zurna) |
| 象形 | 象形 | xiàngxíng | - pictogram - one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters - Chinese character derived from a picture - sometimes called hieroglyph |
| 象棋 | 象棋 | xiàngqí | - Chinese chess - CL:副[fu4] |
| 跳棋 | 跳棋 | tiàoqí | - Chinese checkers |
| 酸浆 | 酸漿 | suānjiāng | - Chinese lantern plant - winter cherry - strawberry ground-cherry - Physalis alkekengi |
| 锣鼓 | 鑼鼓 | luógǔ | - gongs and drums - Chinese percussion instruments |
| 集部 | 集部 | jíbù | - non-canonical text - Chinese literary work not included in official classics - apocryphal |
| 青枣 | 青棗 | qīngzǎo | - blue or green jujube - Chinese green date |
| 青菜 | 青菜 | qīngcài | - green vegetables - Chinese cabbage |
| 韭菜 | 韭菜 | jiǔcài | - garlic chives - Chinese chives - Chinese leek |
| 顿号 | 頓號 | dùnhào | - Chinese back-sloping comma 、 (punct. used to separate items in a list) |
| 香椿 | 香椿 | xiāngchūn | - Chinese toon (Toona sinensis) |
| 马蹄 | 馬蹄 | mǎtí | - horse's hoof - horseshoe - Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta) |
| 骐麟 | 騏驎 | qílín | - variant of 麒麟[qi2 lin2] - qilin (mythical Chinese animal) - kylin - Chinese unicorn - commonly mistranslated as giraffe |
| 鳜鱼 | 鱖魚 | guìyú | - mandarin fish - Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi) |
| 鲙鱼 | 鱠魚 | kuàiyú | - Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) |
| 鳄蜥 | 鱷蜥 | èxī | - Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) |
| 鸭梨 | 鴨梨 | yālí | - Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri) |
| 麒麟 | 麒麟 | qílín | - qilin (mythical Chinese animal) - kylin - Chinese unicorn - commonly mistranslated as giraffe |
| 面窝 | 麵窩 | miànwō | - Chinese doughnut |
| 黄连 | 黃連 | huánglián | - Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), rhizome used in medicine |
| 鼍龙 | 鼉龍 | tuólóng | - Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) |
| 七夕节 | 七夕節 | Qīxījié | - Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month - girls' festival - Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女[niu2 lang3 zhi1 nu:3] are allowed their annual meeting |
| 七叶树 | 七葉樹 | qīyèshù | - Chinese horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis) |
| 中国人 | 中國人 | Zhōngguórén | - Chinese person |
| 中国式 | 中國式 | Zhōngguóshì | - Chinese style - à la chinoise |
| 中国画 | 中國畫 | Zhōngguóhuà | - Chinese painting |
| 中国菜 | 中國菜 | Zhōngguócài | - Chinese cuisine |
| 中山服 | 中山服 | zhōngshānfú | - Chinese tunic suit - Mao jacket - CL:件[jian4] |
| 中山装 | 中山裝 | zhōngshānzhuāng | - Chinese tunic suit |
| 中草药 | 中草藥 | zhōngcǎoyào | - Chinese herbal medicine |
| 中西医 | 中西醫 | zhōngxīyī | - Chinese and Western medicine - a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine |
| 中餐馆 | 中餐館 | Zhōngcānguǎn | - Chinese restaurant |
| 二毛子 | 二毛子 | èrmáozi | - (coll.) westernized Chinese |
| 交换码 | 交換碼 | jiāohuànmǎ | - interchange code - computer coding for characters, including Chinese |
| 人民币 | 人民幣 | rénmínbì | - Renminbi (RMB) - Chinese Yuan (CNY) |
| 何首乌 | 何首烏 | héshǒuwū | - Chinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum) - fleeceflower root |
| 儿化韵 | 兒化韻 | érhuàyùn | - retroflex final - nonsyllabic final r 儿 added to a word in spoken Chinese |
| 凌霄花 | 凌霄花 | língxiāohuā | - Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora) |
| 吊钟花 | 吊鐘花 | diàozhōnghuā | - Chinese New Year flower (Enkianthus quinqueflorus) |
| 呒虾米 | 嘸蝦米 | wǔxiāmǐ | - Boshiamy (Hoklo: 無甚物|无甚物[bô-siáⁿ-mi̍h] it's nothing) input method for Chinese |
| 塌棵菜 | 塌棵菜 | tākēcài | - Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard) - Chinese flat cabbage |
| 多瓣蒜 | 多瓣蒜 | duōbànsuàn | - Chinese elephant garlic |
| 大白菜 | 大白菜 | dàbáicài | - bok choy - Chinese cabbage - Brassica pekinensis - CL:棵[ke1] |
| 大茴香 | 大茴香 | dàhuíxiāng | - Chinese anise - star anise |
| 大蝾螈 | 大蠑螈 | dàróngyuán | - Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus davidianus) |
| 奇异果 | 奇異果 | qíyìguǒ | - kiwi fruit - Chinese gooseberry |
| 娃娃鱼 | 娃娃魚 | wáwayú | - Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) |
| 宝塔菜 | 寶塔菜 | bǎotǎcài | - Chinese artichoke - Stachys sieboldii |
| 小儿经 | 小兒經 | Xiǎoérjīng | - Xiao'erjing, refers to the use of the Arabic alphabet to write Chinese |
| 小白菜 | 小白菜 | xiǎobáicài | - bok choy - Chinese cabbage - Brassica chinensis - CL:棵[ke1] |
| 尖头鱥 | 尖頭鱥 | jiāntóuguì | - Chinese minnow (Phoxinus oxycephalus) |
| 年三十 | 年三十 | niánsānshí | - last day of the lunar year - Chinese New Year's Eve |
| 指事字 | 指事字 | zhǐshìzì | - ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) - Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down - also known as self-explanatory character |
| 扬子鳄 | 揚子鱷 | yángzǐè | - Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) |
| 文言文 | 文言文 | wényánwén | - classical Chinese |
| 方块字 | 方塊字 | fāngkuàizì | - Chinese characters |
| 书名号 | 書名號 | shūmínghào | - Chinese guillemet 《》(punct. used for names of books etc) |
| 曹白鱼 | 曹白魚 | cáobáiyú | - Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) - white herring - slender shad |
| 会意字 | 會意字 | huìyìzì | - combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) - Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements - also known as joint ideogram or associative compounds |
| 枫香木 | 楓香木 | fēngxiāngmù | - Chinese sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana) |
| 枫香树 | 楓香樹 | fēngxiāngshù | - Chinese sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana) |
| 杀马特 | 殺馬特 | shāmǎtè | - Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy make-up, flamboyant costumes, piercings etc (loanword from "smart") |
| 海棠花 | 海棠花 | hǎitánghuā | - Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis) |
| 汉学家 | 漢學家 | hànxuéjiā | - sinologist - scholar of Chinese |
| 灯笼花 | 燈籠花 | dēnglónghuā | - Chinese enkianthus |
| 猕猴桃 | 獼猴桃 | míhóutáo | - kiwi fruit - Chinese gooseberry |
| 瓜皮帽 | 瓜皮帽 | guāpímào | - Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon |
| 白蜡树 | 白蠟樹 | báilàshù | - Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM |
| 白蜡虫 | 白蠟蟲 | báilàchóng | - Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) |
| 白头翁 | 白頭翁 | báitóuwēng | - root of Chinese pulsatilla - Chinese bulbul |
| 白暨豚 | 白鱀豚 | báijìtún | - Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) |
| 皂荚树 | 皂莢樹 | zàojiáshù | - Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) |
| 破折号 | 破折號 | pòzhéhào | - dash - Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash) |
| 红姑娘 | 紅姑娘 | hónggūniang | - Chinese lantern plant - winter cherry - strawberry ground-cherry - Physalis alkekengi |
| 老爷岭 | 老爺嶺 | Lǎoyelǐng | - Chinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok |
| 草石蚕 | 草石蠶 | cǎoshícán | - Chinese artichoke - Stachys sieboldii |
| 华严宗 | 華嚴宗 | Huáyánzōng | - Chinese Buddhist school founded on the Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra (Garland sutra) |
| 着重号 | 著重號 | zhuózhònghào | - Chinese underdot (punct. used for emphasis, sim. to Western italics) |
| 虚缺号 | 虛缺號 | xūquēhào | - Chinese blank character □ (punct. used to represent an unreadable character) |
| 象形字 | 象形字 | xiàngxíngzì | - pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) - Chinese character derived from a picture - sometimes called hieroglyph |
| 象棋赛 | 象棋賽 | xiàngqísài | - Chinese chess tournament |
| 猪婆龙 | 豬婆龍 | zhūpólóng | - Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) |
| 猪拱菌 | 豬拱菌 | zhūgǒngjūn | - Chinese truffle |
| 贺普丁 | 賀普丁 | Hèpǔdīng | - Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定[La1 mi3 fu1 ding4] |
| 锣鼓点 | 鑼鼓點 | luógǔdiǎn | - Chinese percussion fixed pattern - percussion rhythm |
| 间隔号 | 間隔號 | jiàngéhào | - Chinese centered dot mark · (punct. used to separate Western names or words) |
| 关金圆 | 關金圓 | guānjīnyuán | - Chinese customs gold unit, currency used in China between 1930 and 1948 |
| 青江菜 | 青江菜 | qīngjiāngcài | - bok choy - Shanghai pak choy - Chinese mustard (Brassica rapa Chinensis) |
| 音韵学 | 音韻學 | yīnyùnxué | - Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry) |
| 鹅掌楸 | 鵝掌楸 | ézhǎngqiū | - Chinese tulip tree - Liriodendron chinense |
| 盐肤木 | 鹽膚木 | yánfūmù | - Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis) |
| 中共九大 | 中共九大 | zhōnggòngjiǔdà | - Chinese Communist Party 9th congress in 1969 |
| 中央汇金 | 中央匯金 | zhōngyānghuìjīn | - central finance - Chinese monetary fund |
| 中英对照 | 中英對照 | ZhōngYīngduìzhào | - Chinese English parallel texts |
| 中华台北 | 中華臺北 | ZhōnghuáTáiběi | - Chinese Taipei, compromise title of Taiwan participation in PRC international events |
| 五倍子树 | 五倍子樹 | wǔbèizishù | - Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis) |
| 五四运动 | 五四運動 | WǔsìYùndòng | - May Fourth Movement - Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 五笔字形 | 五筆字形 | wǔbǐzìxíng | - Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes - variant of 五筆字型|五笔字型[wu3 bi3 zi4 xing2] |
| 传统医药 | 傳統醫藥 | chuántǒngyīyào | - Chinese traditional medicine |
| 八角茴香 | 八角茴香 | bājiǎohuíxiāng | - Chinese anise - star anise - Fructus Anisi stellati |
| 北京时间 | 北京時間 | BěijīngShíjiān | - Chinese Standard Time |
| 国共内战 | 國共內戰 | GuóGòngNèizhàn | - Chinese Civil War, also known as War of Liberation 解放戰爭|解放战争[Jie3 fang4 Zhan4 zheng1] |
| 外籍华人 | 外籍華人 | wàijíHuárén | - overseas Chinese - persons of Chinese origin having foreign citizenship |
| 多音节词 | 多音節詞 | duōyīnjiécí | - polysyllabic word - Chinese word made up of three or more characters |
| 排华法案 | 排華法案 | páiHuáfǎàn | - Chinese Exclusion Act, a US law restricting Chinese immigration from 1882-1943 |
| 掠卖华工 | 掠賣華工 | lüèmàihuágōng | - Chinese people press-ganged and sold into slavery during Western colonialism |
| 新春佳节 | 新春佳節 | xīnchūnjiājié | - Chinese New Year festivities |
| 木骨都束 | 木骨都束 | Mùgǔdūshù | - Chinese name for African kingdom in Somalia, cf Mogadishu 摩加迪沙 |
| 梨园子弟 | 梨園子弟 | líyuánzǐdì | - Chinese opera performers |
| 正骨八法 | 正骨八法 | zhènggǔbāfǎ | - the eight methods of bone setting - Chinese osteopathy |
| 民族工业 | 民族工業 | mínzúgōngyè | - national industry - industry run by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese |
| 海外华人 | 海外華人 | hǎiwàiHuárén | - overseas Chinese |
| 湖北花楸 | 湖北花楸 | Húběihuāqiū | - Chinese Rowan tree - Sorbus hupehensis or Hupeh rowan |
| 汉英互译 | 漢英互譯 | HànYīnghùyì | - Chinese and English two-way translation |
| 紫花地丁 | 紫花地丁 | zǐhuādìdīng | - Chinese violet (Viola mandsurica) |
| 农历新年 | 農曆新年 | nónglìxīnnián | - Chinese New Year - Lunar New Year |
| 中国大蝾螈 | 中國大蠑螈 | Zhōngguódàróngyuán | - Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus davidianus) |
| 中国工程院 | 中國工程院 | ZhōngguóGōngchéngyuàn | - Chinese Academy of Engineering |
| 中国科学院 | 中國科學院 | ZhōngguóKēxuéyuàn | - Chinese Academy of Science |
| 中华田园犬 | 中華田園犬 | Zhōnghuátiányuánquǎn | - Chinese rural dog - indigenous dog - mongrel |
| 威氏注音法 | 威氏註音法 | Wēishìzhùyīnfǎ | - Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese |
| 心里美萝卜 | 心裡美蘿蔔 | xīnliměiluóbo | - Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable |
| 中国剩余定理 | 中國剩餘定理 | Zhōngguóshèngyúdìnglǐ | - Chinese remainder theorem (math.) |
| 五四爱国运动 | 五四愛國運動 | wǔsìàiguóyùndòng | - May Fourth Movement - Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles |
| 传统中国医药 | 傳統中國醫藥 | chuántǒngzhōngguóyīyào | - Chinese traditional medicine |
| 呒虾米输入法 | 嘸蝦米輸入法 | fǔxiāmǐshūrùfǎ | - Boshiamy (Hoklo: 無甚物[bô-siáⁿ-mi̍h] it's nothing) input method for Chinese |
| 香港中文大学 | 香港中文大學 | XiānggǎngZhōngwénDàxué | - Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 中国人民解放军 | 中國人民解放軍 | ZhōngguóRénmínJiěfàngjūn | - Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) |
| 中国社会科学院 | 中國社會科學院 | ZhōngguóShèhuìKēxuéyuàn | - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) |
| 中国餐馆症候群 | 中國餐館症候群 | Zhōngguócānguǎnzhènghòuqún | - Chinese restaurant syndrome |
| 符拉迪沃斯托克 | 符拉迪沃斯托克 | Fúlādíwòsītuōkè | - Vladivostok (Russian port city) - Chinese name 海參崴|海参崴 |
| 中国伊斯兰教协会 | 中國伊斯蘭教協會 | ZhōngguóYīsīlánjiàoXiéhuì | - Chinese Patriotic Islamic Association |
| 中国地球物理学会 | 中國地球物理學會 | ZhōngguóDìqiúWùlǐXuéhuì | - Chinese Geophysical Society |
| 中国天主教爱国会 | 中國天主教愛國會 | ZhōngguóTiānzhǔjiàoÀiguóhuì | - Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association |
| 中华苏维埃共和国 | 中華蘇維埃共和國 | ZhōnghuáSūwéiāiGònghéguó | - Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-1937) |
| 中国人民解放军海军 | 中國人民解放軍海軍 | ZhōngguóRénmínJiěfàngjūnHǎijūn | - Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) |
| 中国人民对外友好协会 | 中國人民對外友好協會 | ZhōngguóRénmínDuìwàiYǒuhǎoXiéhuì | - Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) |
| 中国人民武装警察部队 | 中國人民武裝警察部隊 | ZhōngguóRénmínWǔzhuāngJǐngcháBùduì | - Chinese People's Armed Police Force (CAPF) |
| 中国国际信托投资公司 | 中國國際信托投資公司 | ZhōngguóGuójìXìntuōTóuzīgōngsī | - CITIC - Chinese International Trust and Investment Company |
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