| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 仕 | 仕 | shì | - to serve as an official - an official - the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4] |
| 侧 | 側 | cè | - the side - to incline towards - to lean - inclined - lateral - side |
| 儩 | 儩 | sì | - the end - to finish |
| 元 | 元 | Yuán | - surname Yuan - the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368) |
| 冥 | 冥 | míng | - dark - deep - stupid - the underworld |
| 右 | 右 | yòu | - right (-hand) - the Right (politics) - west (old) |
| 呡 | 呡 | wěn | - the corners of the mouth - the lips |
| 咩 | 咩 | miē | - the bleating of sheep - final particle which transforms statements into questions that indicate doubt or surprise (Cantonese) |
| 商 | 商 | Shāng | - the Shang dynasty, 16th to 11th century BC |
| 嗷 | 嗷 | áo | - loud clamor - the sound of wailing |
| 噞 | 噞 | yǎn | - the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water |
| 噪 | 噪 | zào | - the chirping of birds or insects - noise - clamor - buzzing - disturbance |
| 塝 | 塝 | bàng | - the edge - border of a field |
| 墒 | 墒 | shāng | - the moisture content of the soil |
| 壝 | 壝 | wěi | - mound - embankment - the earthen altar to the god of the soil |
| 夌 | 夌 | líng | - to dawdle - the name of the father of the Emperor Yao |
| 夏 | 夏 | Xià | - the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC - Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432) - surname Xia |
| 嫦 | 嫦 | cháng | - a legendary beauty who flew to the moon - the lady in the moon |
| 季 | 季 | jì | - season - the last month of a season - fourth or youngest amongst brothers - classifier for seasonal crop yields |
| 宋 | 宋 | Sòng | - surname Song - the Song dynasty (960-1279) - also Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479) |
| 屘 | 屘 | mǎn | - the youngest |
| 屺 | 屺 | qǐ | - mountain without vegetation - the residence of one's mother - see also 岵[hu4] |
| 岵 | 岵 | hù | - mountain covered with vegetation - the residence of one's father - see also 屺[qi3] |
| 左 | 左 | zuǒ | - left - the Left (politics) - east - unorthodox - queer - wrong - differing - opposite - variant of 佐[zuo3] |
| 廆 | 廆 | huì | - a room - the wall of a house - a man's name |
| 弝 | 弝 | bà | - the part of a bow grasped when shooting |
| 志 | 志 | zhì | - aspiration - ambition - the will |
| 愈 | 愈 | yù | - the more...(the more...) - to recover - to heal - better |
| 扬 | 揚 | yáng | - to raise - to hoist - the action of tossing or winnowing - scattering (in the wind) - to flutter - to propagate |
| 旁 | 旁 | páng | - beside - one side - other - side - self - the right-hand side of split Chinese character, often the phonetic |
| 昊 | 昊 | hào | - vast and limitless - the vast sky |
| 昔 | 昔 | xī | - former times - the past - Taiwan pr. [xi2] |
| 昳 | 昳 | dié | - the declining sun in the west |
| 昴 | 昴 | mǎo | - the Pleiades |
| 晋 | 晉 | Jìn | - surname Jin - the Jin Dynasties (265-420) - Western Jin 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265-316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317-420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936-946) - short name for Shanxi province 山西[Shan1 xi1] |
| 暐 | 暐 | wěi | - the bright shining of the sun |
| 暨 | 暨 | jì | - and - to reach to - the limits |
| 曙 | 曙 | shǔ | - daybreak - dawn - the dawn of a new epoch (metaphor) - Taiwan pr. [shu4] |
| 最 | 最 | zuì | - most - the most - -est (superlative suffix) |
| 本 | 本 | běn | - roots or stems of plants - origin - source - this - the current - root - foundation - basis - classifier for books, periodicals, files etc - originally |
| 杪 | 杪 | miǎo | - the limit - tip of branch |
| 枒 | 枒 | yá | - the coconut tree - rim |
| 椳 | 椳 | wēi | - the pivots, at the top and bottom of a Chinese door, on which the door turns |
| 标 | 標 | biāo | - the topmost branches of a tree - surface - sign - to mark - (outward) sign - indication - prize - award - bid |
| 橾 | 橾 | shū | - the hole in the center of a wheel accommodating the axle (archaic) |
| 次 | 次 | cì | - next in sequence - second - the second (day, time etc) - secondary - vice- - sub- - infra- - inferior quality - substandard - order - sequence - hypo- (chemistry) - classifier for enumerated events: time |
| 民 | 民 | mín | - the people - nationality - citizen |
| 泑 | 泑 | yǒu | - the vitreous glaze on china, porcelain etc |
| 派 | 派 | pài | - clique - school - group - faction - to dispatch - to send - to assign - to appoint - pi (Greek letter Ππ) - the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926 - (loanword) pie |
| 凉 | 涼 | Liáng | - the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421) |
| 渨 | 渨 | wēi | - cove - bay - a bend or nook in the hills - the curve of a bow |
| 渭 | 渭 | Wèi | - the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong 關中|关中 plain |
| 汉 | 漢 | Hàn | - Han ethnic group - Chinese (language) - the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 烝 | 烝 | zhēng | - multitudinous - the masses - to present (to sb) - to rise - to advance - to progress - archaic variant of 蒸[zheng1] |
| 燕 | 燕 | Yān | - Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning - north Hebei - the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) - surname Yan |
| 爻 | 爻 | yáo | - the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶ |
| 猇 | 猇 | xiāo | - the scream or roar of a tiger - to intimidate - to scare |
| 甬 | 甬 | Yǒng | - the Yongjiang river 甬江[Yong3 jiang1] through Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1] - abbr. for Ningbo |
| 毕 | 畢 | bì | - the whole of - to finish - to complete - complete - full - finished |
| 瘚 | 瘚 | jué | - to hiccup - the humours of the body |
| 祆 | 祆 | Xiān | - Ormazda, the Sun God of the Zoroastrians and Manicheans - the Sun God |
| 祚 | 祚 | zuò | - blessing - the throne |
| 穹 | 穹 | qióng | - vault - dome - the sky |
| 笔 | 筆 | bǐ | - pen - pencil - writing brush - to write or compose - the strokes of Chinese characters - classifier for sums of money, deals - CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1] |
| 篆 | 篆 | zhuàn | - seal (of office) - seal script (a calligraphic style) - the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆 - writing in seal script |
| 精 | 精 | jīng | - essence - extract - vitality - energy - semen - sperm - mythical goblin spirit - highly perfected - elite - the pick of sth - proficient (refined ability) - extremely (fine) - selected rice (archaic) |
| 美 | 美 | Měi | - the Americas - abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1] - USA - abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2] |
| 翏 | 翏 | liù | - the sound of the wind - to soar |
| 肇 | 肈 | zhào | - the start - the origin |
| 背 | 背 | bèi | - the back of a body or object - to turn one's back - to hide something from - to learn by heart - to recite from memory - unlucky (slang) - hard of hearing |
| 胦 | 胦 | yāng | - the navel |
| 腠 | 腠 | còu | - the tissue between the skin and the flesh |
| 舱 | 艙 | cāng | - cabin - the hold of a ship or airplane |
| 荷 | 荷 | Hé | - Holland - the Netherlands - abbr. for 荷蘭|荷兰[He2 lan2] |
| 蓖 | 蓖 | bì | - the castor-oil plant |
| 螾 | 螾 | yǐn | - the earthworm |
| 蟨 | 蟨 | jué | - the Siberian jerboa |
| 衈 | 衈 | èr | - the blood of a sacrificial fowl which was sprinkled on doors and vessels |
| 衭 | 衭 | fū | - the lapel of a garment |
| 襜 | 襜 | chān | - the front of clothes |
| 西 | 西 | Xī | - the West - abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] - Spanish |
| 该 | 該 | gāi | - should - ought to - probably - must be - to deserve - to owe - to be sb's turn to do sth - that - the above-mentioned |
| 越 | 越 | yuè | - to exceed - to climb over - to surpass - the more... the more |
| 赵 | 趙 | Zhào | - surname Zhao - one of the seven states during the Warring States Period (476-220 BC) - the Former Zhao 前趙 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms |
| 身 | 身 | shēn | - body - life - oneself - personally - one's morality and conduct - the main part of a structure or body - pregnant - classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset - Kangxi radical 158 |
| 锖 | 錆 | qiāng | - the color of a mineral |
| 鏾 | 鏾 | sǎn | - the trigger of a crossbow - crossbow |
| 閛 | 閛 | pēng | - the sound of opening or closing the door |
| 陛 | 陛 | bì | - the steps to the throne |
| 隋 | 隋 | Suí | - the Sui dynasty (581-617 AD) - surname Sui |
| 隒 | 隒 | yǎn | - the appearance of a mountain, as if two pots were standing one upon the other - the steep bank of a stream a rough mountain path |
| 靿 | 靿 | yào | - the leg of a boot |
| 头 | 頭 | tóu | - head - hair style - the top - end - beginning or end - a stub - remnant - chief - boss - side - aspect - first - leading - classifier for pigs or livestock - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 魏 | 魏 | Wèi | - surname Wei - name of vassal state of Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States - Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms from the fall of the Han - the Wei dynasty 221-265 - Wei prefecture and Wei county at different historical periods |
| 鯆 | 鯆 | fǔ | - the skate or ray |
| 鳻 | 鳻 | fēn | - the wild pigeon |
| 鹎 | 鵯 | bēi | - the Pycnonotidae or bulbul family of birds |
| 鸒 | 鸒 | yú | - the eastern jackdaw |
| 一世 | 一世 | yīshì | - generation - period of 30 years - one's whole lifetime - lifelong - age - era - times - the whole world - the First (of numbered European kings) |
| 一套 | 一套 | yītào | - suit - a set - a collection - of the same kind - the same old stuff - set pattern of behavior |
| 一家 | 一家 | yījiā | - the whole family - the same family - the family ... (when preceded by a family name) - group |
| 一样 | 一樣 | yīyàng | - same - like - equal to - the same as - just like |
| 一瞬 | 一瞬 | yīshùn | - one instant - very short time - the twinkle of an eye |
| 一路 | 一路 | yīlù | - the whole journey - all the way - going the same way - going in the same direction - of the same kind |
| 七事 | 七事 | qīshì | - the Seven Duties of a sovereign, namely: offering sacrifice 祭祀, giving audience 朝覲|朝觐, administering jointly 會同|会同, receiving guests 賓客|宾客, running army 軍旅|军旅, attending to farm work 田役, mourning ceremonial 喪荒|丧荒 |
| 七孔 | 七孔 | qīkǒng | - the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth |
| 七曜 | 七曜 | qīyào | - the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) |
| 七窍 | 七竅 | qīqiào | - the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth |
| 三不 | 三不 | sānbù | - the three no's (abbreviated catchphrase) |
| 三世 | 三世 | sānshì | - the Third (of numbered kings) |
| 三光 | 三光 | sānguāng | - the sun, the moon, and the stars |
| 三宝 | 三寶 | sānbǎo | - the Three Precious Treasures of Buddhism, namely: the Buddha 佛, the Dharma 法 (his teaching), and the Sangha 僧 (his monastic order) |
| 三教 | 三教 | SānJiào | - the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) |
| 三星 | 三星 | sānxīng | - three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿|参宿[Shen1 xiu4] Chinese constellation - the belt of Orion - three spirits 福[fu2], 祿|禄[lu4], and 壽|寿[shou4] associated with the Three Stars 參宿|参宿[Shen1 xiu4] Chinese constellation |
| 三春 | 三春 | sānchūn | - the three spring months |
| 三曹 | 三曹 | SānCáo | - the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers |
| 三苏 | 三蘇 | SānSū | - the Three Su father and sons - refers to northern Song literati Su Xun 蘇洵|苏洵, Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 and Su Zhe 蘇轍|苏辙 |
| 上个 | 上個 | shàngge | - first (of two parts) - last (week etc) - previous - the above |
| 上古 | 上古 | shànggǔ | - the distant past - ancient times - antiquity - early historical times |
| 上回 | 上回 | shànghuí | - last time - the previous time |
| 上坟 | 上墳 | shàngfén | - to sweep the tombs (of one's ancestors) - the Qingming festival |
| 上天 | 上天 | shàngtiān | - Heaven - Providence - God - the day before - the sky above - to fly to the sky - to take off and fly into space - to die - to pass away |
| 上边 | 上邊 | shàngbian | - the top - above - overhead - upwards - the top margin - above-mentioned - those higher up |
| 下场 | 下場 | xiàchang | - the end - to conclude |
| 下手 | 下手 | xiàshǒu | - to start - to put one's hand to - to set about - the seat to the right of the main guest |
| 下方 | 下方 | xiàfāng | - underneath - below - the underside - world of mortals - to descend to the world of mortals (of Gods) |
| 下边 | 下邊 | xiàbian | - under - the underside - below |
| 下面 | 下面 | xiàmian | - below - under - next - the following |
| 世局 | 世局 | shìjú | - the situation (e.g. political) - the state of the world |
| 世情 | 世情 | shìqíng | - worldly affairs - the ways of the world |
| 世故 | 世故 | shìgù | - the ways of the world |
| 世道 | 世道 | shìdào | - the ways of the world - the morals of the time |
| 世面 | 世面 | shìmiàn | - aspects of society - the world |
| 丞相 | 丞相 | chéngxiàng | - the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles) - prime minister |
| 中原 | 中原 | zhōngyuán | - the central plains of China - the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei - a plain |
| 中庸 | 中庸 | Zhōngyōng | - the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] |
| 中方 | 中方 | Zhōngfāng | - the Chinese side (in an international venture) |
| 中枢 | 中樞 | zhōngshū | - center - backbone - hub (e.g. of transport network) - the central administration |
| 中游 | 中游 | zhōngyóu | - the middle stretches of a river - middle level - middle echelon - midstream |
| 中秋 | 中秋 | Zhōngqiū | - the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month |
| 丹皮 | 丹皮 | dānpí | - the root bark of the peony tree |
| 主妇 | 主婦 | zhǔfù | - housewife - woman of senior authority in a household - the lady of the house - hostess |
| 主掌 | 主掌 | zhǔzhǎng | - in charge (of a position etc) - the person in charge - responsible |
| 乘幂 | 乘冪 | chéngmì | - the power of a number (square, cube etc) - to exponentiate (math.) |
| 九卿 | 九卿 | jiǔqīng | - the Nine Ministers (in imperial China) |
| 九天 | 九天 | jiǔtiān | - the Ninth Heaven - the highest of the heavens |
| 九泉 | 九泉 | jiǔquán | - the nine springs - the underworld of Chinese mythology - Hades |
| 九流 | 九流 | jiǔliú | - the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家[Ru2 jia1], Daoists 道家[Dao4 jia1], Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家[Yin1 yang2 jia1], Legalists 法家[Fa3 jia1], Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1], Mohists 墨家[Mo4 jia1], Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1], Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家[Za2 jia1], and Agriculturalists 農家|农家[Nong2 jia1] |
| 九鼎 | 九鼎 | JiǔDǐng | - the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty |
| 乾坤 | 乾坤 | qiánkūn | - Heaven and earth - Yin and Yang - The Universe |
| 乱世 | 亂世 | luànshì | - the world in chaos - troubled times - (in Buddhism) the mortal world |
| 乱党 | 亂黨 | luàndǎng | - the rebel party |
| 二世 | 二世 | èrshì | - the Second (of numbered kings) - second generation (e.g. Chinese Americans) |
| 二分 | 二分 | èrfēn | - second part - the equinox |
| 五世 | 五世 | wǔshì | - the fifth (of series of numbered kings) |
| 五代 | 五代 | Wǔdài | - Five Dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through to Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang) - the five dynasties forming the interregnum between Tang and Song (936-947), namely: Later Liang 後梁|后梁[Hou4 Liang2], Later Tang 後唐|后唐[Hou4 Tang2], Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4], Later Han 後漢|后汉[Hou4 Han4], Later Zhou 後周|后周[Hou4 Zhou1] |
| 五伦 | 五倫 | wǔlún | - the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) |
| 五味 | 五味 | wǔwèi | - the five flavors, namely: sweet 甜, sour 酸, bitter 苦, spicy hot 辣, salty 鹹|咸 - all kinds of flavors |
| 五岭 | 五嶺 | wǔlǐng | - the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭[Da4 yu3 ling3], Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭[Du1 pang2 ling3], Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭[Qi2 tian2 ling3], Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭[Meng2 zhu3 ling3] and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭[Yue4 cheng2 ling3] |
| 五星 | 五星 | wǔxīng | - the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星 |
| 五洲 | 五洲 | wǔzhōu | - five continents - the world |
| 五凉 | 五涼 | WǔLiáng | - the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|後凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421) |
| 五经 | 五經 | Wǔjīng | - the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1], the Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1] |
| 五色 | 五色 | wǔsè | - multi-colored - the rainbow - garish |
| 五蕴 | 五蘊 | wǔyùn | - the Five Aggregates (from Sanskrit "skandha") (Buddhism) |
| 五号 | 五號 | wǔhào | - the fifth - fifth day of a month |
| 五金 | 五金 | wǔjīn | - metal hardware (nuts and bolts) - the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡 |
| 五霸 | 五霸 | Wǔbà | - the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋[Chun1 qiu1] |
| 井田 | 井田 | jǐngtián | - the well-field system of ancient China |
| 亡者 | 亡者 | wángzhě | - the deceased |
| 交九 | 交九 | jiāojiǔ | - the coldest period of the year - three nine day periods after the winter solstice |
| 人世 | 人世 | rénshì | - the world - this world - the world of the living |
| 人中 | 人中 | rénzhōng | - philtrum - infranasal depression - the "human center" acupuncture point |
| 人事 | 人事 | rénshì | - personnel - human resources - human affairs - ways of the world - (euphemism) sexuality - the facts of life |
| 人定 | 人定 | réndìng | - middle of the night - the dead of night |
| 人心 | 人心 | rénxīn | - popular feeling - the will of the people |
| 人性 | 人性 | rénxìng | - human nature - humanity - human - the totality of human attributes |
| 人民 | 人民 | rénmín | - the people - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 人道 | 人道 | réndào | - human sympathy - humanitarianism - humane - the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism) - sexual intercourse |
| 人间 | 人間 | rénjiān | - the human world - the earth |
| 仙桃 | 仙桃 | xiāntáo | - the peaches of immortality of Goddess Xi Wangmu 西王母 |
| 以上 | 以上 | yǐshàng | - that level or higher - that amount or more - the above-mentioned |
| 以下 | 以下 | yǐxià | - that level or lower - that amount or less - the following |
| 伊犁 | 伊犁 | Yīlí | - the Ili river basin around Turpan in Xinjiang - abbr. for 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture |
| 伏天 | 伏天 | fútiān | - the hottest period of the year - see 三伏天[san1 fu2 tian1] |
| 佛陀 | 佛陀 | Fótuó | - Buddha - transliteration of Sanskrit - the all-enlightened one |
| 作死 | 作死 | zuòsǐ | - (also [zuo1 si3]) to invite death by recklessness - the road to ruin |
| 佳境 | 佳境 | jiājìng | - the most pleasant or enjoyable stage |
| 来年 | 來年 | láinián | - next year - the coming year |
| 俗世 | 俗世 | súshì | - the vulgar world (Buddhist concept) - secular world |
| 个位 | 個位 | gèwèi | - the units place (or column) in the decimal system |
| 假名 | 假名 | jiǎmíng | - false name - pseudonym - alias - pen name - the Japanese kana scripts - hiragana 平假名 and katakana 片假名 |
| 偏旁 | 偏旁 | piānpáng | - the left- and right-side of a split Chinese character, often the key (radical) and phonetic |
| 僧伽 | 僧伽 | sēngqié | - (Buddhism) sangha - the monastic community - monk |
| 僻地 | 僻地 | pìdì | - the sticks - the boondocks |
| 元代 | 元代 | Yuándài | - the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368) |
| 先君 | 先君 | xiānjūn | - my late father - my ancestors - the late emperor |
| 先皇 | 先皇 | xiānHuáng | - the late Emperor |
| 先达 | 先達 | xiāndá | - famous and virtuous ancestors - the great men of the past |
| 光复 | 光復 | guāngfù | - to recover (territory or power) - the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945 |
| 光速 | 光速 | guāngsù | - the speed of light |
| 内场 | 內場 | nèichǎng | - inner area (of a place that has an outer area) - the kitchen of a restaurant (as opposed to the dining area) - infield (baseball etc) - (Chinese opera) the area behind the table on the stage |
| 内眷 | 內眷 | nèijuàn | - the females in a family - womenfolk |
| 内积 | 內積 | nèijī | - inner product - the dot product of two vectors |
| 全场 | 全場 | quánchǎng | - everyone present - the whole audience - across-the-board - unanimously - whole duration (of a competition or match) |
| 全年 | 全年 | quánnián | - the whole year - all year long |
| 全数 | 全數 | quánshù | - the entire sum - the whole amount |
| 全活 | 全活 | quánhuó | - to save life - to rescue - the whole business with all its processes |
| 全班 | 全班 | quánbān | - the whole class |
| 全球 | 全球 | quánqiú | - entire - total - global - the (whole) world - worldwide |
| 全省 | 全省 | quánshěng | - the whole province |
| 全程 | 全程 | quánchéng | - the whole distance - from beginning to end |
| 全线 | 全線 | quánxiàn | - the whole front (in a war) - the whole length (of a road or railway line) |
| 全美 | 全美 | quánMěi | - throughout the United States - the whole of America |
| 全豹 | 全豹 | quánbào | - the full picture (i.e. the whole situation) - panorama |
| 两宋 | 兩宋 | LiǎngSòng | - the Song dynasty (960-1279) - refers to the Northern (960-1127) and Southern Song (1128-1279) |
| 两广 | 兩廣 | LiǎngGuǎng | - the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (traditional) |
| 两性 | 兩性 | liǎngxìng | - the two sexes - bisexual - hermaphrodite - having two characteristics - heterosexual |
| 两方 | 兩方 | liǎngfāng | - both sides (in contract) - the two opposing sides (in a dispute) |
| 两极 | 兩極 | liǎngjí | - the two poles - the north and south poles - both ends of sth - electric or magnetic poles |
| 两讫 | 兩訖 | liǎngqì | - received and paid for (business term) - the goods delivered and the bill settled |
| 八仙 | 八仙 | Bāxiān | - the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) |
| 八卦 | 八卦 | bāguà | - the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1] - gossip - gossipy |
| 八字 | 八字 | bāzì | - the character 8 or 八 - birthdate characters used in fortune-telling |
| 八戒 | 八戒 | bājiè | - the eight precepts (Buddhism) |
| 八方 | 八方 | bāfāng | - the eight points of the compass - all directions |
| 八苦 | 八苦 | bākǔ | - the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) |
| 公家 | 公家 | gōngjiā | - the public - the state - society - the public purse |
| 六合 | 六合 | liùhé | - the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) - the whole country - the universe - everything under the sun |
| 六艺 | 六藝 | LiùYì | - the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮|礼[li3] (禮儀|礼仪[li3 yi2]), music 樂|乐[yue3] (音樂|音乐[yin1 yue4]), archery 射[she4] (射箭[she4 jian4]), charioteering 御[yu4] (駕車|驾车[jia4 che1]), calligraphy or literacy 書|书[shu1] (識字|识字[shi2 zi4]), mathematics or reckoning 數|数[shu4] (計算|计算[ji4 suan4]) - another name for the Six Classics 六經|六经[Liu4 jing1] |
| 兵家 | 兵家 | Bīngjiā | - the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) |
| 其一 | 其一 | qíyī | - one of the given (options etc) - the first - firstly |
| 其三 | 其三 | qísān | - thirdly - the third |
| 其二 | 其二 | qíèr | - secondly - the other (usu. of two) - the second |
| 其他 | 其他 | qítā | - other - (sth or sb) else - the rest |
| 其它 | 其它 | qítā | - other - the others - else - other than it - in addition to the thing mentioned above |
| 其所 | 其所 | qísuǒ | - its place - one's appointed place - the place for that |
| 其余 | 其餘 | qíyú | - the rest - the others - remaining - remainder - apart from them |
| 冥王 | 冥王 | míngwáng | - the king of hell |
| 冥道 | 冥道 | míngdào | - the gateway to the ghost world |
| 冰轮 | 冰輪 | bīnglún | - the moon |
| 凌迟 | 凌遲 | língchí | - the lingering death - the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) |
| 凡百 | 凡百 | fánbǎi | - all - everything - the whole |
| 凡间 | 凡間 | fánjiān | - the secular world |
| 刀口 | 刀口 | dāokǒu | - the edge of a knife - cut - incision |
| 分晓 | 分曉 | fēnxiǎo | - the result (becomes apparent) - now one understands |
| 刑网 | 刑網 | xíngwǎng | - legal net - the long arm of the law |
| 列强 | 列強 | lièqiáng | - the Great Powers (history) |
| 初叶 | 初葉 | chūyè | - early part (of a decade, century etc) - the first years |
| 前人 | 前人 | qiánrén | - predecessor - forebears - the person facing you |
| 前列 | 前列 | qiánliè | - the very front |
| 前尘 | 前塵 | qiánchén | - the past - impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism) |
| 前夕 | 前夕 | qiánxī | - eve - the day before |
| 前夜 | 前夜 | qiányè | - the eve - the night before |
| 前天 | 前天 | qiántiān | - the day before yesterday |
| 前年 | 前年 | qiánnián | - the year before last |
| 前方 | 前方 | qiánfāng | - ahead - the front |
| 前朝 | 前朝 | qiáncháo | - the previous dynasty |
| 前段 | 前段 | qiánduàn | - first part - front end - forepart - front segment - the preceding section |
| 前者 | 前者 | qiánzhě | - the former |
| 前述 | 前述 | qiánshù | - aforestated - stated above - the preceding statement |
| 前边 | 前邊 | qiánbian | - front - the front side - in front of |
| 刹那 | 剎那 | chànà | - an instant (Sanskrit: ksana) - split second - the twinkling of an eye |
| 创世 | 創世 | chuàngshì | - the creation (in mythology and Genesis 1-2) - the first foundational steps |
| 剧坛 | 劇壇 | jùtán | - the world of Chinese opera - theatrical circles |
| 剧终 | 劇終 | jùzhōng | - The End (appearing at the end of a movie etc) |
| 劈叉 | 劈叉 | pǐchà | - the splits (move in dancing) - to do the splits - Taiwan pr. [pi3 cha1] |
| 胜负 | 勝負 | shèngfù | - victory or defeat - the outcome of a battle |
| 劳方 | 勞方 | láofāng | - labor (as opposed to capital or management) - the workers |
| 势头 | 勢頭 | shìtóu | - power - momentum - tendency - impetus - situation - the look of things |
| 北伐 | 北伐 | Běifá | - the Northern Expedition, the Nationalists' campaign of 1926-1928 under Chiang Kai-shek, against the rule of local warlords |
| 北周 | 北周 | BěiZhōu | - the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581) - one of the Northern Dynasties |
| 北国 | 北國 | běiguó | - the northern part of the country - the North |
| 北宋 | 北宋 | BěiSòng | - the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) |
| 北方 | 北方 | běifāng | - north - the northern part a country - China north of the Yellow River |
| 北极 | 北極 | běijí | - the North Pole - the Arctic Pole - the north magnetic pole |
| 北洋 | 北洋 | Běiyáng | - the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong |
| 北海 | 北海 | Běihǎi | - Beihai, park in Beijing to the northwest of the Forbidden City - the North Sea (Europe) - Beihai prefecture level city and seaport in Guangxi - Bohai Sea - Lake Baikal |
| 十位 | 十位 | shíwèi | - the tens place (or column) in the decimal system |
| 十字 | 十字 | shízì | - cross road - cross-shaped - crucifix - the character ten |
| 十干 | 十干 | shígān | - same as 天干 - the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) |
| 十戒 | 十戒 | shíjiè | - the ten commandments (religion) |
| 千位 | 千位 | qiānwèi | - the thousands place (or column) in the decimal system |
| 半点 | 半點 | bàndiǎn | - the least bit |
| 南宋 | 南宋 | Nánsòng | - the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) |
| 南方 | 南方 | nánfāng | - south - the southern part of the country - the South |
| 印数 | 印數 | yìnshù | - the amount of books etc printed at one impression - print run |
| 却是 | 卻是 | quèshì | - nevertheless - actually - the fact is ... |
| 原件 | 原件 | yuánjiàn | - the original - original document - master copy |
| 原位 | 原位 | yuánwèi | - original position - (in) the same place - normal position - the place where one currently is - in situ |
| 原地 | 原地 | yuándì | - (in) the original place - the place where one currently is - place of origin - local (product) |
| 原委 | 原委 | yuánwěi | - the whole story |
| 原样 | 原樣 | yuányàng | - original shape - the same as before |
| 原貌 | 原貌 | yuánmào | - the original form |
| 去向 | 去向 | qùxiàng | - the position of sth - whereabouts |
| 去路 | 去路 | qùlù | - the way one is following - outlet |
| 反面 | 反面 | fǎnmiàn | - reverse side - backside - the other side (of a problem etc) - negative - bad |
| 口气 | 口氣 | kǒuqì | - tone of voice - the way one speaks - manner of expression - tone |
| 古人 | 古人 | gǔrén | - people from ancient times - the ancients - the late (i.e. person who has passed away) |
| 古文 | 古文 | gǔwén | - old language - the Classics - classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose - classical Chinese as a school subject |
| 古琴 | 古琴 | gǔqín | - guqin, a long zither with 5 or 7 strings, plucked with a plectrum - the ancestor of the long zither family, dating back to pre-classical times (playing it was an essential accomplishment of a Confucian gentleman) |
| 另一 | 另一 | lìngyī | - another - the other |
| 另册 | 另冊 | lìngcè | - the Other List (Qing dynasty register of outlaws) - a blacklist of undesirables |
| 右翼 | 右翼 | yòuyì | - the right flank - (politically) right-wing |
| 吃法 | 吃法 | chīfǎ | - way of eating - how something is eaten - how a dish is prepared - the way a dish is to be cooked |
| 同一 | 同一 | tóngyī | - identical - the same |
| 同喜 | 同喜 | tóngxǐ | - Thank you for your congratulations! - The same to you! (returning a compliment) |
| 同年 | 同年 | tóngnián | - the same year |
| 同期 | 同期 | tóngqī | - the corresponding time period (in a different year etc) - concurrent - synchronous |
| 吐蕃 | 吐蕃 | Tǔbō | - Tubo or Tufan, old name for Tibet - the Tibetan Tubo dynasty 7th-11th century AD - also pr. [Tu3 fan1] |
| 吴楚 | 吳楚 | WúChǔ | - southern states of Wu and Chu - the middle and lower Yangtze valley |
| 周家 | 周家 | zhōujiā | - the Zhou family (household, firm etc) - Jow-Ga Kung Fu - Martial Art |
| 周礼 | 周禮 | Zhōulǐ | - the Rites of Zhou (in Confucianism) |
| 命根 | 命根 | mìnggēn | - lifeblood - the thing that one cherishes most in life - (coll.) family jewels (male genitals) |
| 命途 | 命途 | mìngtú | - the course of one's life - one's fate |
| 咱俩 | 咱倆 | zánliǎ | - the two of us |
| 唐宋 | 唐宋 | TángSòng | - the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties |
| 唐末 | 唐末 | Tángmò | - late Tang - the last years of the Tang dynasty - around 900 |
| 商代 | 商代 | Shāngdài | - the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC) |
| 商场 | 商場 | shāngchǎng | - shopping mall - shopping center - department store - emporium - CL:家[jia1] - the business world |
| 启蒙 | 啟蒙 | qǐméng | - to instruct the young - to initiate - to awake sb from ignorance - to free sb from prejudice or superstition - primer - enlightened - the Enlightenment - Western learning from the late Qing dynasty |
| 单子 | 單子 | dānzǐ | - the only son of a family - (functional programming or philosophy) monad |
| 嗣徽 | 嗣徽 | sìhuī | - heritage - the continuation (of a tradition) |
| 嗣岁 | 嗣歲 | sìsuì | - the following year - next year |
| 四大 | 四大 | sìdà | - the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) - the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC) |
| 四库 | 四庫 | sìkù | - the four book depositories, namely: classics 經|经, history 史, philosophy 子, belle-lettres 集 |
| 四德 | 四德 | sìdé | - four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends - the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 |
| 四时 | 四時 | sìshí | - the four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 |
| 四清 | 四清 | Sìqīng | - the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) - abbr. for 四清運動|四清运动[Si4 qing1 Yun4 dong4] |
| 四维 | 四維 | sìwéi | - the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor - see 禮義廉恥|礼义廉耻[li3 yi4 lian2 chi3] - the four directions - the four limbs (Chinese medicine) - four-dimensional |
| 四声 | 四聲 | sìshēng | - the four tones of classical Chinese phonetics, namely: level or even tone 平聲|平声, third tone 上聲|上声, fourth tone 去聲|去声, entering tone 入聲|入声 - the four tones of modern standard Chinese pronunciation, namely: First or high level tone 陰平聲|阴平声, Second or rising tone 陽平聲|阳平声, Third or low-falling-raising tone 上聲|上声, Fourth or falling tone 去聲|去声 |
| 四肢 | 四肢 | sìzhī | - the four limbs of the body |
| 四旧 | 四舊 | sìjiù | - the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution) |
| 四角 | 四角 | sìjiǎo | - the four corners (of a rectangle) - the eaves that the four corners of a building |
| 四谛 | 四諦 | sìdì | - the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 |
| 回答 | 回答 | huídá | - to reply - to answer - the answer - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 国学 | 國學 | guóxué | - Chinese national culture - studies of ancient Chinese civilization - the Imperial College (history) |
| 围棋 | 圍棋 | wéiqí | - the game of Go |
| 地幔 | 地幔 | dìmàn | - the mantle of the earth (geology) |
| 地府 | 地府 | dìfǔ | - hell - the nether world - Hades |
| 地心 | 地心 | dìxīn | - the earth's core - geocentric |
| 地支 | 地支 | dìzhī | - the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc |
| 地壳 | 地殼 | dìqiào | - the Earth's crust |
| 地球 | 地球 | dìqiú | - the earth - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 地表 | 地表 | dìbiǎo | - the surface (of the earth) |
| 地轴 | 地軸 | dìzhóu | - the earth's axis |
| 报刊 | 報刊 | bàokān | - newspapers and periodicals - the press |
| 报界 | 報界 | bàojiè | - the press - journalistic circles - the journalists |
| 场次 | 場次 | chǎngcì | - the number of showings of a movie, play etc - screening - performance |
| 尘世 | 塵世 | chénshì | - this mortal life - the mundane world |
| 墒土 | 墒土 | shāngtǔ | - the moisture content of the soil |
| 墒情 | 墒情 | shāngqíng | - the state of moisture in the soil (and whether it can support a crop) |
| 夏历 | 夏曆 | xiàlì | - the traditional Chinese lunar calendar |
| 夕阳 | 夕陽 | xīyáng | - sunset - the setting sun |
| 外滩 | 外灘 | Wàitān | - the Shanghai Bund or Waitan |
| 外界 | 外界 | wàijiè | - the outside world - external |
| 外积 | 外積 | wàijī | - exterior product - the cross product of two vectors |
| 外间 | 外間 | wàijiān | - outer room - the external world - outside |
| 多瑙 | 多瑙 | Duōnǎo | - the Danube |
| 夜色 | 夜色 | yèsè | - night scene - the dim light of night |
| 梦乡 | 夢鄉 | mèngxiāng | - the land of dreams - slumberland |
| 大唐 | 大唐 | DàTáng | - the Tang dynasty (618-907) |
| 大多 | 大多 | dàduō | - for the most part - many - most - the greater part - mostly |
| 大学 | 大學 | Dàxué | - the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism |
| 大我 | 大我 | dàwǒ | - the collective - the whole - (Buddhism) the greater self |
| 大清 | 大清 | DàQīng | - the (great) Ch'ing or Qing dynasty (1644-1911) |
| 大汉 | 大漢 | dàhàn | - big person - the great Han dynasty |
| 大略 | 大略 | dàlüè | - a broad outline - the general idea - roughly |
| 大众 | 大眾 | dàzhòng | - the masses - the great bulk of the population - popular (of music, science etc) |
| 大篆 | 大篆 | dàzhuàn | - the great seal - used narrowly for 籀文 - used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts |
| 大肠 | 大腸 | dàcháng | - the large intestine |
| 大运 | 大運 | Dàyùn | - Mandate of Heaven - the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC - usually written 大運河|大运河[Da4 Yun4 he2] |
| 大部 | 大部 | dàbù | - most of - the majority of sth |
| 大限 | 大限 | dàxiàn | - the limit - maximum - one's allocated lifespan |
| 天下 | 天下 | tiānxià | - land under heaven - the whole world - the whole of China - realm - rule |
| 天儿 | 天兒 | tiānr | - the weather |
| 天子 | 天子 | tiānzǐ | - the (rightful) emperor - "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) |
| 天干 | 天干 | tiāngān | - the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc |
| 天心 | 天心 | tiānxīn | - center of the sky - will of heaven - will of the Gods - the monarch's will |
| 天意 | 天意 | tiānyì | - providence - the Will of Heaven |
| 天时 | 天時 | tiānshí | - the time - the right time - weather conditions - destiny - course of time - heaven's natural order |
| 天涯 | 天涯 | tiānyá | - the other end of the world - a far-away place |
| 天汉 | 天漢 | Tiānhàn | - the Milky Way |
| 天竺 | 天竺 | Tiānzhú | - the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) |
| 天谴 | 天譴 | tiānqiǎn | - the wrath of Heaven - imperial displeasure |
| 天头 | 天頭 | tiāntóu | - the upper margin of a page |
| 太初 | 太初 | tàichū | - the absolute beginning |
| 太极 | 太極 | Tàijí | - the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology |
| 太爷 | 太爺 | tàiyé | - (respectful for) one's grandfather - sb's father - older people - the head of the house (used by servants) - a district magistrate |
| 太虚 | 太虛 | tàixū | - great emptiness - the void - heaven - the skies - universe - cosmos - original essence of the cosmos |
| 太阴 | 太陰 | tàiyīn | - the Moon (esp. in Daoism) |
| 夷门 | 夷門 | Yímén | - the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states |
| 套套 | 套套 | tàotao | - methods - the old tricks - (slang) condom |
| 奥运 | 奧運 | Àoyùn | - abbr. for 奧林匹克運動會|奥林匹克运动会 - Olympic Games - the Olympics |
| 女性 | 女性 | nǚxìng | - woman - the female sex |
| 女方 | 女方 | nǚfāng | - the bride's side (of a wedding) - of the bride's party |
| 女眷 | 女眷 | nǚjuàn | - the females in a family - womenfolk |
| 女红 | 女紅 | nǚgōng | - the feminine arts (e.g. needlework) |
| 始末 | 始末 | shǐmò | - whole story - the ins and outs |
| 子弟 | 子弟 | zǐdì | - child - the younger generation |
| 孔林 | 孔林 | Kǒnglín | - the Confucius family mausoleum at Qufu 曲阜, rebuilt and extended by every dynasty |
| 孔道 | 孔道 | kǒngdào | - opening providing access - the teaching of Confucius |
| 孕穗 | 孕穗 | yùnsuì | - the embryonic development of grain while still on the stem |
| 字画 | 字畫 | zìhuà | - the strokes of a character - calligraphy and painting |
| 官制 | 官制 | guānzhì | - the civil service system - the bureaucratic system |
| 害马 | 害馬 | hàimǎ | - lit. the black horse of the herd - fig. trouble-maker - the black sheep of the family |
| 家常 | 家常 | jiācháng | - the daily life of a family |
| 家景 | 家景 | jiājǐng | - the state of family finance |
| 家蚕 | 家蠶 | jiācán | - the common silkworm (Bombyx mori) |
| 寒食 | 寒食 | hánshí | - cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) - the Qingming festival |
| 实况 | 實況 | shíkuàng | - live (e.g. broadcast or recording) - what is actually happening - scene - the real situation |
| 实相 | 實相 | shíxiàng | - actual situation - the ultimate essence of things (Buddhism) |
| 实体 | 實體 | shítǐ | - entity - substance - thing that has a material existence (as opposed to a conceptual, virtual or online existence) - the real thing (as opposed to an image or model of it) |
| 寰宇 | 寰宇 | huányǔ | - the whole earth - the universe |
| 封底 | 封底 | fēngdǐ | - the back cover of a book |
| 将来 | 將來 | jiānglái | - in the future - future - the future - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 对过 | 對過 | duìguò | - across - opposite - the other side |
| 对门 | 對門 | duìmén | - the building or room opposite |
| 小三 | 小三 | xiǎosān | - mistress - the other woman (coll.) - grade 3 in elementary school |
| 小我 | 小我 | xiǎowǒ | - the self - the individual |
| 小数 | 小數 | xiǎoshù | - small figure - small amount - the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point) - fractional part of a number - number between 0 and 1 - decimal fraction |
| 小篆 | 小篆 | xiǎozhuàn | - the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty |
| 少林 | 少林 | Shàolín | - the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school |
| 尖端 | 尖端 | jiānduān | - sharp pointed end - the tip - the cusp - tip-top - most advanced and sophisticated - highest peak - the best |
| 尼罗 | 尼羅 | Níluó | - the Nile |
| 尾期 | 尾期 | wěiqī | - final period - the end (of a term) - the close |
| 尾梢 | 尾梢 | wěishāo | - the tip - the end - the very end |
| 届满 | 屆滿 | jièmǎn | - the end of fixed period in office - expiration of a term |
| 屋架 | 屋架 | wūjià | - a building - the frame of a building - roof beam - truss |
| 山河 | 山河 | shānhé | - mountains and rivers - the whole country |
| 崛起 | 崛起 | juéqǐ | - to rise abruptly (to a towering position) - to tower over - to spring up - to emerge suddenly - the emergence (e.g. of a power) |
| 左联 | 左聯 | ZuǒLián | - the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930 - abbr. for 中國左翼作家聯盟|中国左翼作家联盟[Zhong1 guo2 Zuo3 yi4 Zuo4 jia1 Lian2 meng2] |
| 左边 | 左邊 | zuǒbian | - left - the left side - to the left of |
| 差商 | 差商 | chāshāng | - the quotient of differences (slope of a line in coordinate geometry) |
| 已往 | 已往 | yǐwǎng | - the past |
| 已故 | 已故 | yǐgù | - the late - deceased |
| 市井 | 市井 | shìjǐng | - marketplace - town - the street (urban milieu) - the haunts of the common people |
| 干支 | 干支 | gānzhī | - the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 - sexagenary cycle |
| 年底 | 年底 | niándǐ | - the end of the year - year-end |
| 年成 | 年成 | niáncheng | - the year's harvest |
| 年节 | 年節 | niánjié | - the New Year festival |
| 幼体 | 幼體 | yòutǐ | - the young (unborn or newborn) of an animal - larva |
| 幽明 | 幽明 | yōumíng | - the hidden and the visible - that which can be seen and that which cannot - darkness and light - night and day - wisdom and ignorance - evil and good - the living and the dead - men and ghosts |
| 底下 | 底下 | dǐxia | - the location below sth - afterwards |
| 底细 | 底細 | dǐxì | - inside information - the ins and outs of the matter - how things stand - what's up |
| 庶民 | 庶民 | shùmín | - the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) - plebeian |
| 建国 | 建國 | jiànguó | - to found a country - nation-building - the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 |
| 弦月 | 弦月 | xiányuè | - half-moon - the 7th and 8th and 22nd and 23rd of the lunar month |
| 形骸 | 形骸 | xínghái | - the human body - skeleton |
| 影坛 | 影壇 | yǐngtán | - moviedom - the world of movies - film circles |
| 彼岸 | 彼岸 | bǐàn | - the other shore - (Buddhism) paramita |
| 征尘 | 征塵 | zhēngchén | - the dust of a long journey |
| 后儿 | 後兒 | hòur | - the day after tomorrow |
| 后台 | 後台 | hòutái | - backstage - the area behind a theatrical stage - backstage supporter |
| 后天 | 後天 | hòutiān | - the day after tomorrow - post-natal - acquired (not innate) - a posteriori |
| 后年 | 後年 | hòunián | - the year after next |
| 后排 | 後排 | hòupái | - the back row |
| 后方 | 後方 | hòufāng | - the rear - far behind the front line |
| 后日 | 後日 | hòurì | - the day after tomorrow - from hence - from now - from now on - henceforth |
| 后段 | 後段 | hòuduàn | - final part - rear - back end - final segment - the following section - last paragraph |
| 后者 | 後者 | hòuzhě | - the latter |
| 后背 | 後背 | hòubèi | - the back (human anatomy) - the back part of sth |
| 后进 | 後進 | hòujìn | - less advanced - underdeveloped - lagging behind - the younger generation - the less experienced ones |
| 后门 | 後門 | hòumén | - the back door - fig. under the counter (indirect way for influence or pressure) - anus |
| 后头 | 後頭 | hòutou | - behind - in the back - the rear side - later - in future |
| 御手 | 御手 | yùshǒu | - the emperor's hand - variant of 馭手|驭手[yu4 shou3] |
| 彻夜 | 徹夜 | chèyè | - the whole night |
| 心窍 | 心竅 | xīnqiào | - the mind - capacity for clear thinking |
| 心经 | 心經 | Xīnjīng | - the Heart Sutra |
| 必经 | 必經 | bìjīng | - unavoidable - the only (road, entrance etc) |
| 性善 | 性善 | xìngshàn | - the theory of Mencius that people are by nature good |
| 悉数 | 悉數 | xīshù | - all - every single one - the entire sum |
| 爱河 | 愛河 | àihé | - the river of love - a stumbling block on the path to enlightenment (Buddhism) |
| 应届 | 應屆 | yīngjiè | - this year's - the current year's |
| 成年 | 成年 | chéngnián | - to grow to adulthood - fully grown - the whole year |
| 成日 | 成日 | chéngrì | - all day long - the whole day - the whole time |
| 成规 | 成規 | chéngguī | - established rules - the beaten track |
| 戒坛 | 戒壇 | jiètán | - the place for monastic vows (e.g. altar) |
| 战国 | 戰國 | Zhànguó | - the Warring States period (475-221 BC) |
| 战火 | 戰火 | zhànhuǒ | - conflagration - the fire of war |
| 戏眼 | 戲眼 | xìyǎn | - the best part (of a play etc) |
| 户牖 | 戶牖 | hùyǒu | - door and window - the home |
| 房产 | 房產 | fángchǎn | - real estate - the property market (e.g. houses) |
| 所以 | 所以 | suǒyǐ | - therefore - as a result - so - the reason why |
| 所指 | 所指 | suǒzhǐ | - the objects indicated - as pointed out |
| 手感 | 手感 | shǒugǎn | - the feel (of sth touched with the hand) - (textiles) handle |
| 指向 | 指向 | zhǐxiàng | - to point towards - aimed at - facing - the direction indicated |
| 指纹 | 指紋 | zhǐwén | - fingerprint - the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers |
| 扫墓 | 掃墓 | sǎomù | - to sweep the tombs (of one's ancestors) - the Qingming festival |
| 控辩 | 控辯 | kòngbiàn | - the prosecution and the defense (law) |
| 提督 | 提督 | tídū | - the local commander - provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times) |
| 换班 | 換班 | huànbān | - to change shift - the next work shift - to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) - to take over the job |
| 挠率 | 撓率 | náolǜ | - the torsion (of a space curve) |
| 收场 | 收場 | shōuchǎng | - the end - an ending - to wind down - to conclude |
| 攻防 | 攻防 | gōngfáng | - attack and defense - the midfield (in soccer) |
| 故人 | 故人 | gùrén | - old friend - the deceased |
| 故宫 | 故宮 | Gùgōng | - the Forbidden City - abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院[Gu4 gong1 Bo2 wu4 yuan4] |
| 败北 | 敗北 | bàiběi | - to suffer defeat - to lose (a battle, an election) - the loser |
| 教宗 | 教宗 | jiàozōng | - the pope - also called 教皇 |
| 教廷 | 教廷 | Jiàotíng | - the Papacy - the Vatican - the Church government - Holy See |
| 散户 | 散戶 | sǎnhù | - individual (shareholder) - the small investor |
| 敬悉 | 敬悉 | jìngxī | - (honorific) revered news - the most valuable information (in your recent letter, book etc) - Thank you for your letter. |
| 整夜 | 整夜 | zhěngyè | - the whole night - all through the night |
| 敌将 | 敵將 | díjiàng | - the enemy general |
| 敌情 | 敵情 | díqíng | - the situation in the enemy camp - intelligence about the enemy |
| 敌我 | 敵我 | díwǒ | - the enemy and us |
| 敌阵 | 敵陣 | dízhèn | - the enemy ranks |
| 文思 | 文思 | wénsī | - the train of thought in writing |
| 文气 | 文氣 | wénqì | - the impact of a piece of writing on the reader - gentle - refined |
| 文苑 | 文苑 | wényuàn | - the literary world |
| 新春 | 新春 | xīnchūn | - the beginning of Spring - the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day |
| 新朝 | 新朝 | Xīncháo | - the Xin dynasty (8-23 AD) of Wang Mang 王莽, forming the interregnum between the former and later Han |
| 断桥 | 斷橋 | DuànQiáo | - The Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou) |
| 方言 | 方言 | Fāngyán | - the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄[Yang2 Xiong2] in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters |
| 既往 | 既往 | jìwǎng | - past - bygone - the past |
| 日人 | 日人 | Rìrén | - Japanese person - the Japanese |
| 日前 | 日前 | rìqián | - the other day - a few days ago |
| 日方 | 日方 | Rìfāng | - the Japanese side or party (in negotiations etc) |
| 日月 | 日月 | rìyuè | - the sun and moon - day and month - every day and every month - season - life and livelihood |
| 日神 | 日神 | Rìshén | - the Sun God - Apollo |
| 日至 | 日至 | rìzhì | - solstice - the winter solstice 冬至 and summer solstice 夏至 |
| 旭日 | 旭日 | xùrì | - the rising sun |
| 明代 | 明代 | Míngdài | - the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) |
| 明初 | 明初 | Míngchū | - the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century) |
| 明朝 | 明朝 | míngzhāo | - tomorrow morning - the following morning |
| 明清 | 明清 | MíngQīng | - the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties |
| 易经 | 易經 | Yìjīng | - The Book of Changes ("I Ching") |
| 星月 | 星月 | xīngyuè | - the moon and the stars |
| 星空 | 星空 | xīngkōng | - starry sky - the heavens |
| 春光 | 春光 | chūnguāng | - scenes of springtime - the radiance of spring |
| 昧旦 | 昧旦 | mèidàn | - the time just before daybreak |
| 时事 | 時事 | shíshì | - current trends - the present situation - how things are going |
| 时段 | 時段 | shíduàn | - time interval - work shift - time slot - the twelve two hour divisions of the day |
| 时装 | 時裝 | shízhuāng | - the latest fashion in clothes - fashionable |
| 晚清 | 晚清 | wǎnQīng | - the late Qing - late 19th and early 20th century China |
| 晚辈 | 晚輩 | wǎnbèi | - the younger generation - those who come after |
| 晶晶 | 晶晶 | jīngjīng | - the full moon |
| 书坛 | 書壇 | shūtán | - the calligraphic community |
| 书库 | 書庫 | shūkù | - a store room for books - fig. an erudite person - the Bibliotheca and Epitome of pseudo-Apollodorus |
| 书经 | 書經 | Shūjīng | - the Book of History, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1], a compendium of documents which make up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the time of Confucius, also known as 尚書經|尚书经[Shang4 shu1 jing1], 尚書|尚书[Shang4 shu1], 書|书[Shu1] |
| 书圣 | 書聖 | Shūshèng | - great calligraphy master - the Sage of Calligraphy, traditional reference to Wang Xizhi 王羲之[Wang2 Xi1 zhi1] (303-361) |
| 曹操 | 曹操 | CáoCāo | - Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 - the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 |
| 最善 | 最善 | zuìshàn | - optimal - the best |
| 最差 | 最差 | zuìchā | - least - worst - the least - the worst |
| 最为 | 最為 | zuìwéi | - the most |
| 会社 | 會社 | huìshè | - a guild - (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild - the Japanese word for company |
| 月亮 | 月亮 | yuèliang | - the moon |
| 月朔 | 月朔 | yuèshuò | - the first day of each month |
| 月球 | 月球 | yuèqiú | - the moon |
| 月阑 | 月闌 | yuèlán | - the halo of the moon |
| 朔望 | 朔望 | shuòwàng | - the new moon - the first day of the lunar month |
| 望日 | 望日 | wàngrì | - the full moon - the fifteenth day of each lunar month |
| 朝野 | 朝野 | cháoyě | - all levels of society - the imperial court and the ordinary people |
| 朝阳 | 朝陽 | zhāoyáng | - the morning sun |
| 末年 | 末年 | mònián | - the final years (of a regime) |
| 本人 | 本人 | běnrén | - the person himself - I (humble form used in speeches) - oneself - myself - in person - personal |
| 本我 | 本我 | běnwǒ | - id - the self |
| 本文 | 本文 | běnwén | - this text - article - the main body of a book |
| 本月 | 本月 | běnyuè | - this month - the current month |
| 本朝 | 本朝 | běncháo | - the current dynasty |
| 本期 | 本期 | běnqī | - the current period - this term (usually in finance) |
| 本末 | 本末 | běnmò | - the whole course of an event from beginning to end - ins and outs - the fundamental and the incidental |
| 本钱 | 本錢 | běnqián | - capital - (fig.) asset - advantage - the means (to do sth) |
| 本题 | 本題 | běntí | - the subject under discussion - the point at issue |
| 本体 | 本體 | běntǐ | - main part - torso - the thing in itself - noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant) |
| 李氏 | 李氏 | Lǐshì | - the Korean Yi or Lee Dynasty (1392-1910) |
| 杞国 | 杞國 | Qǐguó | - the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence |
| 东吴 | 東吳 | DōngWú | - Eastern Wu (222-280) - the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 |
| 东土 | 東土 | Dōngtǔ | - the East - China |
| 东方 | 東方 | Dōngfāng | - the East - the Orient - two-character surname Dongfang |
| 东部 | 東部 | dōngbù | - the east - eastern part |
| 果期 | 果期 | guǒqī | - the fruiting season |
| 校花 | 校花 | xiàohuā | - the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]) - school beauty queen - campus belle - prom queen |
| 校草 | 校草 | xiàocǎo | - the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花[xiao4 hua1]) |
| 根由 | 根由 | gēnyóu | - the whys and the wherefores - the detailed story - root cause |
| 桃源 | 桃源 | táoyuán | - same as 世外桃源 - the Garden of the Peaches of Immortality - Shangri-la - imaginary land of joy and plenty (sim. Utopia, Cockaigne, Shangri-la) |
| 梅派 | 梅派 | Méipài | - the Mei Lanfang School - see 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳[Mei2 Lan2 fang1] |
| 椅背 | 椅背 | yǐbèi | - the back of a chair |
| 杨业 | 楊業 | Yángyè | - famous Song dynasty family of warriors (c. 10th century AD), resisted the Liao 遼|辽 and defended the Song - the subject of the popular fiction Yang Saga 楊家將|杨家将 |
| 楚国 | 楚國 | Chǔguó | - the state of Chu (history) |
| 业根 | 業根 | yègēn | - the root cause (of evil) - bane (Buddhism) |
| 极东 | 極東 | Jídōng | - the Far East - East Asia |
| 极点 | 極點 | jídiǎn | - extreme point - pole - the origin (in polar coordinates) |
| 标帜 | 標幟 | biāozhì | - an emblem - the epitome (of) - to epitomize |
| 标本 | 標本 | biāoběn | - specimen - sample - the root cause and symptoms of a disease |
| 树梢 | 樹梢 | shùshāo | - the tip of a tree - treetop |
| 机尾 | 機尾 | jīwěi | - the rear (tail) of a plane etc |
| 机头 | 機頭 | jītóu | - the front (nose) of a plane etc |
| 检控 | 檢控 | jiǎnkòng | - to prosecute (criminal) - the prosecution |
| 检方 | 檢方 | jiǎnfāng | - the prosecution - prosecutors |
| 櫆师 | 櫆師 | kuíshī | - Polaris - the north star - same as 北斗[Bei3 dou3] |
| 欠债 | 欠債 | qiànzhài | - to owe a debt - the sum owed |
| 次日 | 次日 | cìrì | - next day - the morrow |
| 欧美 | 歐美 | ŌuMěi | - Europe and America - the West |
| 正史 | 正史 | zhèngshǐ | - the 24 or 25 official dynastic histories - true history, as opposed to fictional adaptation or popular legends |
| 正日 | 正日 | zhèngrì | - the day (of a festival, ceremony etc) |
| 正法 | 正法 | zhèngfǎ | - to execute - the law |
| 正路 | 正路 | zhènglù | - the right way |
| 正轨 | 正軌 | zhèngguǐ | - the right track |
| 正道 | 正道 | zhèngdào | - the correct path - the right way (Buddhism) |
| 武水 | 武水 | Wǔshuǐ | - the Wu river in Hunan and Guangdong - formerly Shuang river 瀧水|泷水 |
| 武圣 | 武聖 | WǔShèng | - the Saint of War (i.e. the deified Guan Yu 關羽|关羽[Guan1 Yu3]) |
| 岁差 | 歲差 | suìchà | - the precession of the equinoxes |
| 归结 | 歸結 | guījié | - to sum up - to conclude - in a nutshell - the end (of a story) |
| 归路 | 歸路 | guīlù | - the way back - return route |
| 归途 | 歸途 | guītú | - the way back - one's journey home |
| 死海 | 死海 | SǐHǎi | - the Dead Sea |
| 死者 | 死者 | sǐzhě | - the dead - the deceased |
| 死鬼 | 死鬼 | sǐguǐ | - devil - You devil! (as joke or insult) - the departed |
| 母丧 | 母喪 | mǔsāng | - the death of one's mother |
| 毒爪 | 毒爪 | dúzhuǎ | - the sting (of scorpion etc) |
| 毒颚 | 毒顎 | dúè | - the sting (of scorpion etc) |
| 毫发 | 毫髮 | háofà | - a hair - the slightest |
| 民情 | 民情 | mínqíng | - circumstances of the people - popular sentiment - the mood of the people - popular customs |
| 民众 | 民眾 | mínzhòng | - populace - masses - the people |
| 水圈 | 水圈 | shuǐquān | - the earth's ocean - the hydrosphere (geology) |
| 求存 | 求存 | qiúcún | - survival - the struggle to eke out a living - to seek for continued existence |
| 江河 | 江河 | jiānghé | - the Changjiang (Yangtze) and Huanghe (Yellow river) - great rivers |
| 江面 | 江面 | jiāngmiàn | - the surface of the river |
| 河口 | 河口 | hékǒu | - estuary - the mouth of a river |
| 河套 | 河套 | Hétào | - the Great Bend of the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia |
| 沿江 | 沿江 | yánjiāng | - along the river - the region around the river |
| 沿线 | 沿線 | yánxiàn | - along the line (e.g. railway) - the region near the line |
| 沿路 | 沿路 | yánlù | - along the way - the duration of a journey |
| 法筵 | 法筵 | fǎyán | - the seat of the Law, on which the one who explains the doctrine is seated (Buddhism) |
| 法网 | 法網 | fǎwǎng | - the net of justice - rigorous process of the law - the long arm of the law |
| 法轮 | 法輪 | Fǎlún | - the Eternal Wheel of life in Buddhism |
| 泰东 | 泰東 | Tàidōng | - the Far East - East Asia |
| 洪家 | 洪家 | HóngJiā | - the Hong family (household) - Hung Gar Kung Fu - Martial Art |
| 流冗 | 流冗 | liúrǒng | - the unemployed workforce |
| 海内 | 海內 | hǎinèi | - the whole world - throughout the land - everything under the sun |
| 海牙 | 海牙 | Hǎiyá | - The Hague (city in the Netherlands) - Den Haag |
| 涅瓦 | 涅瓦 | Nièwǎ | - the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg) |
| 混元 | 混元 | hùnyuán | - time immemorial - origin of the universe - the world |
| 清代 | 清代 | Qīngdài | - the Ch'ing or Qing dynasty (1644-1911) |
| 清廷 | 清廷 | Qīngtíng | - the Qing court (as government of China) |
| 清末 | 清末 | Qīngmò | - the final years of the Ch'ing or Qing dynasty - China at the turn of the 20th century |
| 清军 | 清軍 | Qīngjūn | - the Qing army |
| 浑茫 | 渾茫 | húnmáng | - the dark ages before civilization - limitless reaches - vague and confused |
| 湘江 | 湘江 | Xiāngjiāng | - the Xiangjiang river in Hunan province |
| 准星 | 準星 | zhǔnxīng | - front sight (firearms) - the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard |
| 溟池 | 溟池 | míngchí | - the northern sea |
| 满盘 | 滿盤 | mǎnpán | - a plateful - comprehensive - the full works (e.g. a banquet) - the full price |
| 满门 | 滿門 | mǎnmén | - the whole family |
| 满额 | 滿額 | mǎné | - the full amount - to fulfill the quota |
| 汉代 | 漢代 | Hàndài | - the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 浊世 | 濁世 | zhuóshì | - the world in chaos - troubled times - the mortal world (Buddhism) |
| 滥觞 | 濫觴 | lànshāng | - lit. floating wine goblets on a stream - the origin (of some phenomenon) |
| 瀍水 | 瀍水 | Chánshuǐ | - the Chanshui river in Henan |
| 火场 | 火場 | huǒchǎng | - the scene of a fire |
| 炮烙 | 炮烙 | páolào | - the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument) |
| 烝民 | 烝民 | zhēngmín | - people - the masses |
| 烝黎 | 烝黎 | zhēnglí | - people - the masses |
| 无极 | 無極 | Wújí | - Wuji county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊地區|石家庄地区[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 di4 qu1], Hebei - The Promise (name of film by Chen Kaige) |
| 无为 | 無為 | wúwéi | - the Daoist doctrine of inaction - let things take their own course - laissez-faire |
| 无异 | 無異 | wúyì | - nothing other than - to differ in no way from - the same as - to amount to |
| 炼焦 | 煉焦 | liànjiāo | - coking - the process of producing coke from coal |
| 烟海 | 煙海 | yānhǎi | - the vast ocean |
| 烟瘾 | 煙癮 | yānyǐn | - the urge to smoke - tobacco addiction |
| 荧惑 | 熒惑 | yínghuò | - to bewilder - to dazzle and confuse - the planet Mars |
| 热带 | 熱帶 | rèdài | - the tropics - tropical |
| 灯节 | 燈節 | dēngjié | - the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar) |
| 灯草 | 燈草 | dēngcǎo | - the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps |
| 燕国 | 燕國 | Yānguó | - Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning - north Hebei - the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) |
| 炉火 | 爐火 | lúhuǒ | - the fire of a stove |
| 父丧 | 父喪 | fùsāng | - the death of one's father |
| 犬科 | 犬科 | quǎnkē | - the canines |
| 玄奥 | 玄奧 | xuánào | - abstruse - profound mystery - the mysteries of the universe |
| 玉兔 | 玉兔 | yùtù | - the Jade Hare - the moon |
| 玉帝 | 玉帝 | yùdì | - the Jade Emperor |
| 王法 | 王法 | wángfǎ | - the law - the law of the land - the law of a state (in former times) - criterion |
| 王道 | 王道 | wángdào | - the Way of the King - statecraft - benevolent rule - virtuous as opposed to the Way of Hegemon 霸道 |
| 班花 | 班花 | bānhuā | - the prettiest girl in the class |
| 班草 | 班草 | bāncǎo | - the most handsome boy in the class |
| 现场 | 現場 | xiànchǎng | - the scene (of a crime, accident etc) - (on) the spot - (at) the site |
| 现况 | 現況 | xiànkuàng | - the current situation |
| 理科 | 理科 | lǐkē | - the sciences (as opposed to the humanities 文科[wen2 ke1]) |
| 瑶池 | 瑤池 | Yáochí | - the Jade lake on Mount Kunlun, residence of Xi Wangmu 西王母 |
| 瓜脐 | 瓜臍 | guāqí | - the umbilicus of a melon |
| 甜筒 | 甜筒 | tiántǒng | - the cone of ice-cream cone |
| 产地 | 產地 | chǎndì | - the source (of a product) - place of origin - manufacturing location |
| 产程 | 產程 | chǎnchéng | - the process of childbirth |
| 甬江 | 甬江 | Yǒngjiāng | - the Yongjiang river through Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1] |
| 田鸡 | 田雞 | tiánjī | - frog - the Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus) |
| 甲子 | 甲子 | jiǎzǐ | - first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]) - the sixty-year cycle |
| 男性 | 男性 | nánxìng | - the male sex - a male |
| 男方 | 男方 | nánfāng | - the bridegroom's side - of the bridegroom's family |
| 留都 | 留都 | liúdū | - the old capital (after a move) |
| 异性 | 異性 | yìxìng | - the opposite sex - of the opposite sex - heterosexual - different in nature |
| 异物 | 異物 | yìwù | - rarity - rare delicacy - foreign matter - alien body - the dead - ghost - monstrosity - alien life-form |
| 当世 | 當世 | dāngshì | - the present age - in office - the current office holder |
| 当代 | 當代 | dāngdài | - the present age - the contemporary era |
| 当儿 | 當兒 | dāngr | - the very moment - just then - during (that brief interval) |
| 当夜 | 當夜 | dàngyè | - that very night - the same night |
| 当天 | 當天 | dàngtiān | - the same day |
| 当日 | 當日 | dàngrì | - that very day - the same day |
| 当晚 | 當晚 | dàngwǎn | - the same evening |
| 当月 | 當月 | dàngyuè | - the same month |
| 病根 | 病根 | bìnggēn | - an incompletely cured illness - an old complaint - the root cause of trouble |
| 白文 | 白文 | báiwén | - the text of an annotated book - an unannotated edition of a book - intagliated characters (on a seal) |
| 白术 | 白朮 | báizhú | - the rhizome of large-headed atractylodes (Atractylodes macrocephaia) |
| 白种 | 白種 | báizhǒng | - the white race |
| 百位 | 百位 | bǎiwèi | - the hundreds place (or column) in the decimal system |
| 皇上 | 皇上 | huángshang | - the emperor - Your majesty the emperor - His imperial majesty |
| 皇位 | 皇位 | huángwèi | - the title of Emperor |
| 皇族 | 皇族 | huángzú | - the imperial family - royal kin |
| 皇朝 | 皇朝 | huángcháo | - the imperial court - the government in imperial times |
| 皎月 | 皎月 | jiǎoyuè | - the bright moon |
| 盆腔 | 盆腔 | pénqiāng | - the pelvic cavity - birth canal |
| 益民 | 益民 | yìmín | - good citizens - the right side in a civil war |
| 盛夏 | 盛夏 | shèngxià | - midsummer - the height of summer |
| 盛年 | 盛年 | shèngnián | - the prime of one's life |
| 盘飧 | 盤飧 | pánsūn | - dishes - the food in a dish |
| 眉间 | 眉間 | méijiān | - the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows - glabella |
| 真事 | 真事 | zhēnshì | - reality - veracity - the real thing |
| 真性 | 真性 | zhēnxìng | - real - the nature of sth |
| 真情 | 真情 | zhēnqíng | - real situation - the truth |
| 真相 | 真相 | zhēnxiàng | - the truth about sth - the actual facts |
| 真神 | 真神 | zhēnshén | - the True God |
| 真谛 | 真諦 | zhēndì | - the real meaning - the true essence |
| 真象 | 真象 | zhēnxiàng | - the whole elephant (i.e. not the small parts felt by the proverbial blind feelers) - fig. the whole picture - a realistic overall view of the whole situation |
| 真身 | 真身 | zhēnshēn | - the real body (of Buddha or a God) - true effigy |
| 真道 | 真道 | zhēndào | - the true way |
| 真际 | 真際 | zhēnjì | - the truth - reality |
| 真髓 | 真髓 | zhēnsuǐ | - the real essence (of the matter) |
| 眼力 | 眼力 | yǎnlì | - eyesight - strength of vision - the ability to make discerning judgments |
| 眼福 | 眼福 | yǎnfú | - a treat for the eyes - the rare chance of seeing sth beautiful |
| 睡乡 | 睡鄉 | shuìxiāng | - sleep - the land of Nod - dreamland |
| 短至 | 短至 | duǎnzhì | - the winter solstice |
| 矫诏 | 矯詔 | jiǎozhào | - the pretense of acting on imperial order |
| 硫球 | 硫球 | liúqiú | - Luzon, island of the Philippines - the Ryukyu islands |
| 碑额 | 碑額 | bēié | - the top part of a tablet |
| 碧空 | 碧空 | bìkōng | - the blue sky |
| 社稷 | 社稷 | shèjì | - state - country - the Gods of earth and grain |
| 神力 | 神力 | shénlì | - occult force - the power of a God or spirit |
| 神女 | 神女 | Shénnǚ | - The Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[Wu2 Yong3 gang1] |
| 神曲 | 神曲 | Shénqǔ | - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁 |
| 神髓 | 神髓 | shénsuǐ | - lit. spirit and marrow - the essential character |
| 禅杖 | 禪杖 | chánzhàng | - the staff of a Buddhist monk |
| 秋凉 | 秋涼 | qiūliáng | - the cool of autumn |
| 秤杆 | 秤桿 | chènggǎn | - the beam of a steelyard - a balance arm |
| 秤盘 | 秤槃 | chèngpán | - the tray or pan of a steelyard |
| 秦末 | 秦末 | Qínmò | - the end of the Qin dynasty 207 BC |
| 秦汉 | 秦漢 | QínHàn | - the Qin (221-207 BC) and Han (206 BC-220 AD) dynasties |
| 秦火 | 秦火 | Qínhuǒ | - the Qin burning of the books in 212 BC |
| 秦篆 | 秦篆 | Qínzhuàn | - seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty - the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆 |
| 秦军 | 秦軍 | Qínjūn | - the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors) |
| 秦陵 | 秦陵 | Qínlíng | - the tomb of the First Emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山[Li2 shan1] near Xi'an (awaits excavation) |
| 秩序 | 秩序 | zhìxù | - order (orderly) - order (sequence) - social order - the state (of society) - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 穹窿 | 穹窿 | qiónglóng | - a dome - a vault - the sky |
| 穹苍 | 穹蒼 | qióngcāng | - the sky - the firmament - the vault of heaven |
| 窗扇 | 窗扇 | chuāngshàn | - window - the opening panel of a window |
| 穷人 | 窮人 | qióngrén | - poor people - the poor |
| 窍门 | 竅門 | qiàomén | - a trick - an ingenious method - know-how - the knack (of doing sth) |
| 笔下 | 筆下 | bǐxià | - the wording and purport of what one writes |
| 笔套 | 筆套 | bǐtào | - the cap of a pen, pencil or writing brush - the sheath of a pen (made of cloth, silk or thread) |
| 笔尖 | 筆尖 | bǐjiān | - nib - pen point - the tip of a writing brush or pencil |
| 笔帽 | 筆帽 | bǐmào | - the cap of a pen, pencil, or writing brush |
| 笔杆 | 筆桿 | bǐgǎn | - the shaft of a pen or writing brush - pen-holder - pen |
| 笔者 | 筆者 | bǐzhě | - the author - the writer |
| 笔锋 | 筆鋒 | bǐfēng | - the tip of a writing brush - vigor of style in writing - stroke - touch |
| 箴言 | 箴言 | zhēnyán | - admonition - exhortation - dictum - the biblical Book of Proverbs |
| 筛法 | 篩法 | shāifǎ | - the sieve method (for primes) |
| 简讯 | 簡訊 | jiǎnxùn | - newsletter - the news in brief - (Tw) SMS message |
| 簧舌 | 簧舌 | huángshé | - the lip or vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument |
| 红尘 | 紅塵 | hóngchén | - the world of mortals (Buddhism) - human society - worldly affairs |
| 红轮 | 紅輪 | hónglún | - the sun |
| 终点 | 終點 | zhōngdiǎn | - the end - end point - finishing line (in a race) - destination - terminus - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 丝毫 | 絲毫 | sīháo | - the slightest amount or degree - a bit |
| 丝路 | 絲路 | SīLù | - the Silk Road - abbr. for 絲綢之路|丝绸之路[Si1 chou2 zhi1 Lu4] |
| 经典 | 經典 | jīngdiǎn | - the classics - scriptures - classical |
| 罗睺 | 羅睺 | luóhóu | - the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the ecliptic in Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit rahu) |
| 群峰 | 群峰 | qúnfēng | - the peaks of a mountain range |
| 群众 | 群眾 | qúnzhòng | - mass - multitude - the masses |
| 翌年 | 翌年 | yìnián | - the following year - the next year |
| 老二 | 老二 | lǎoèr | - the second child or brother (or sister) - (slang) penis |
| 老人 | 老人 | lǎorén | - old man or woman - the elderly - one's aged parents or grandparents |
| 老君 | 老君 | Lǎojūn | - Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism - the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi |
| 老子 | 老子 | Lǎozǐ | - Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism - the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi |
| 老少 | 老少 | lǎoshào | - the old and the young |
| 老龄 | 老齡 | lǎolíng | - old age - aging - aged - geriatric - the aged |
| 考区 | 考區 | kǎoqū | - the exam area - the district where an exam takes place |
| 考期 | 考期 | kǎoqī | - the exam period - the exam date |
| 耦园 | 耦園 | ǑuYuán | - The Couple's Retreat Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu |
| 圣人 | 聖人 | shèngrén | - saint - sage - refers to Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] - the current reigning Emperor |
| 圣朝 | 聖朝 | shèngcháo | - the current imperial dynasty - one's own court |
| 圣母 | 聖母 | Shèngmǔ | - Holy Mother - goddess - the Virgin Mary |
| 圣经 | 聖經 | Shèngjīng | - Holy Bible - the Confucian classics - CL:本[ben3],部[bu4] |
| 圣躬 | 聖躬 | shènggōng | - the Emperor's body - Holy body - the current reigning Emperor |
| 圣体 | 聖體 | shèngtǐ | - the Emperor's body - Jesus' body - communion wafer (in Christian mass) |
| 声母 | 聲母 | shēngmǔ | - consonant - the initial consonant (of a Chinese syllable) |
| 肇始 | 肇始 | zhàoshǐ | - to initiate - to start - the start |
| 肇祸 | 肇禍 | zhàohuò | - the cause (of the disaster) - the initial (accident) |
| 肇端 | 肇端 | zhàoduān | - the starting point |
| 股民 | 股民 | gǔmín | - the investors - a shareholder |
| 背脊 | 背脊 | bèijǐ | - the back of the human body |
| 背面 | 背面 | bèimiàn | - the back - the reverse side - the wrong side |
| 胸椎 | 胸椎 | xiōngzhuī | - thoracic vertebra - the twelve thoracic vertebras behind the ribcage of humans and most mammals |
| 脑后 | 腦後 | nǎohòu | - the back of the head - (fig.) the back of one's mind |
| 脑杓 | 腦杓 | nǎosháo | - the spoon shape slope on the nape |
| 脑海 | 腦海 | nǎohǎi | - the mind - the brain |
| 脚掌 | 腳掌 | jiǎozhǎng | - the sole of the foot |
| 脚板 | 腳板 | jiǎobǎn | - the sole of the foot |
| 举国 | 舉國 | jǔguó | - the entire country |
| 举家 | 舉家 | jǔjiā | - the whole family |
| 旧年 | 舊年 | jiùnián | - last year - the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar) |
| 旧教 | 舊教 | jiùjiào | - old teachings - wisdom from the past - old church - the Catholic church 天主教 as opposed to Protestantism 新教 |
| 旧时 | 舊時 | jiùshí | - in former times - the olden days |
| 旧历 | 舊曆 | jiùlì | - old calendar - the Chinese lunar calendar - same as 農曆|农历[nong2 li4] |
| 船头 | 船頭 | chuántóu | - the bow or prow of a ship |
| 花旗 | 花旗 | huāqí | - the Stars and Stripes (US flag) - by extension, the United States of America - abbr. for Citibank 花旗銀行|花旗银行 |
| 花期 | 花期 | huāqī | - the flowering season |
| 花魁 | 花魁 | huākuí | - the queen of flowers (esp. plum blossom also known as the Japanese apricot (prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.) - unsurpassed beauty - (old) famous courtesan - plant or flower of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn) - orchid (Cymbidium) |
| 芳心 | 芳心 | fāngxīn | - the affection, or heart, of a young woman |
| 英年 | 英年 | yīngnián | - the prime of one's life - youthful years |
| 茶经 | 茶經 | Chájīng | - the Classic of Tea, first monograph ever on tea and its culture, written by 陸羽|陆羽[Lu4 Yu3] between 760-780 |
| 茶艺 | 茶藝 | cháyì | - the art of tea |
| 草民 | 草民 | cǎomín | - the grass roots - the hoi polloi |
| 草码 | 草碼 | cǎomǎ | - the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine |
| 荷兰 | 荷蘭 | Hélán | - Holland - the Netherlands |
| 莒国 | 莒國 | Jǔguó | - the state of Ju, ancient Dongyi state |
| 菁华 | 菁華 | jīnghuá | - the cream - essence - the quintessence |
| 华府 | 華府 | Huáfǔ | - Washington, D.C. - the US federal government |
| 菲酌 | 菲酌 | fēizhuó | - the poor food I offer you (humble); my inadequate hospitality |
| 万位 | 萬位 | wànwèi | - the ten thousands place (or column) in the decimal system |
| 落幕 | 落幕 | luòmù | - the curtain drops - the end of the show |
| 苍生 | 蒼生 | cāngshēng | - (area where) vegetation grows - the common people |
| 苍穹 | 蒼穹 | cāngqióng | - the blue dome of heaven |
| 芸香 | 蕓香 | yúnxiāng | - Rutaceae - the citrus family |
| 艺圃 | 藝圃 | YìPǔ | - The Garden of Cultivation in Suzhou, Jiangsu |
| 虎口 | 虎口 | hǔkǒu | - tiger's den - dangerous place - the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand |
| 虎门 | 虎門 | Hǔmén | - the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong - Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇[Hu3 men2 Zhen4] |
| 虚火 | 虛火 | xūhuǒ | - excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) - the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself |
| 蜀国 | 蜀國 | Shǔguó | - Sichuan - the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods - the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 during the Three Kingdoms |
| 蟠桃 | 蟠桃 | pántáo | - the peaches of immortality kept by Xi Wangmu 西王母 |
| 蟹黄 | 蟹黃 | xièhuáng | - the ovaries, roe and digestive tract of the crab - soft interior of crab as a food delicacy - crab meat |
| 蛎黄 | 蠣黃 | lìhuáng | - the flesh of oyster - marinated oyster meat |
| 众寡 | 衆寡 | zhòngguǎ | - the many or the few |
| 行情 | 行情 | hángqíng | - market price - quotation of market price - the current market situation |
| 卫报 | 衛報 | WèiBào | - The Guardian (U.K. newspaper) |
| 衣钵 | 衣缽 | yībō | - the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism) - legacy - mantle |
| 衣袖 | 衣袖 | yīxiù | - the sleeve of a garment |
| 衣襟 | 衣襟 | yījīn | - the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket - lapel |
| 表里 | 表裡 | biǎolǐ | - the outside and the inside - one's outward show and inner thoughts - exterior and interior |
| 被控 | 被控 | bèikòng | - the accused (in a trial) |
| 复线 | 複線 | fùxiàn | - multiple track (e.g. rail) - multi-lane (e.g. highway) - the complex line (math.) |
| 西天 | 西天 | Xītiān | - the Western Paradise (Buddhism) |
| 西戎 | 西戎 | Xīróng | - the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards - Xionites (Central Asian nomads) |
| 西方 | 西方 | Xīfāng | - the West - the Occident - Western countries |
| 西洋 | 西洋 | xīyáng | - the West (Europe and North America) - countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) |
| 要旨 | 要旨 | yàozhǐ | - the gist (of a text or argument) - the main points |
| 要端 | 要端 | yàoduān | - the main points |
| 要义 | 要義 | yàoyì | - the essentials |
| 要诀 | 要訣 | yàojué | - the key trick - the secret of success |
| 觉醒 | 覺醒 | juéxǐng | - to awaken - to come to realize - awakened to the truth - the truth dawns upon one - scales fall from the eyes - to become aware |
| 诗书 | 詩書 | ShīShū | - the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1] and the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] |
| 诗礼 | 詩禮 | ShīLǐ | - the Book of Songs 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] and Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4] - a cultured well-read person |
| 诗篇 | 詩篇 | shīpiān | - a poem - a composition in verse - fig. epic (compared with historical epic) - the biblical Book of Psalms |
| 详略 | 詳略 | xiánglüè | - concise - the details in brief |
| 详尽 | 詳盡 | xiángjìn | - thorough and detailed - exhaustive - the tedious details in full |
| 论语 | 論語 | Lúnyǔ | - The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] |
| 诸相 | 諸相 | zhūxiàng | - the appearance of all things (Buddhism) |
| 讲筵 | 講筵 | jiǎngyán | - the teacher's seat |
| 识力 | 識力 | shílì | - discernment - the ability to judge well |
| 警民 | 警民 | jǐngmín | - the police and the community |
| 贝母 | 貝母 | bèimǔ | - the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii) |
| 负方 | 負方 | fùfāng | - the losing side |
| 负面 | 負面 | fùmiàn | - negative - the negative side |
| 货站 | 貨站 | huòzhàn | - a store - the collection point in a store |
| 资方 | 資方 | zīfāng | - the owners of a private enterprise - management - capital (as opposed to labor) |
| 贤人 | 賢人 | xiánrén | - great person of the past - venerable forebear - the great and the good |
| 赛程 | 賽程 | sàichéng | - competition schedule - the course of a race |
| 赤子 | 赤子 | chìzǐ | - newborn baby - the people (of a country) |
| 起步 | 起步 | qǐbù | - to set out - to set in motion - the start (of some activity) |
| 起跑 | 起跑 | qǐpǎo | - to start running - the start of a race |
| 趁早 | 趁早 | chènzǎo | - as soon as possible - at the first opportunity - the sooner the better - before it's too late |
| 赶早 | 趕早 | gǎnzǎo | - as soon as possible - at the first opportunity - the sooner the better - before it's too late |
| 跟前 | 跟前 | gēnqián | - in front of - close to - nearby - the time just before |
| 路氹 | 路氹 | Lùdàng | - Cotai, portmanteau term referring to the islands of 路環|路环[Lu4 huan2] (Coloane) and 氹仔[Dang4 zai3] (Taipa) in Macau - the strip of reclaimed land between Coloane and Taipa - the island formed by Coloane, Taipa and the reclaimed land between them |
| 躯壳 | 軀殼 | qūqiào | - the body (housing the soul) |
| 农历 | 農曆 | nónglì | - the traditional Chinese calendar - the lunar calendar |
| 迎亲 | 迎親 | yíngqīn | - to escort the bride - the groom's family sends a marriage sedan 花轎|花轿 to escort the bride |
| 近代 | 近代 | jìndài | - the not-very-distant past - modern times, excluding recent decades - (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) - capitalist times (pre-1949) |
| 迦持 | 迦持 | jiāchí | - the laws of the Buddhism |
| 逝者 | 逝者 | shìzhě | - the dead or departed |
| 连宵 | 連宵 | liánxiāo | - the same night - that very night - successive nights |
| 周径 | 週徑 | zhōujìng | - circumference and radius - the circular ratio pi |
| 遐心 | 遐心 | xiáxīn | - the wish to abandon or keep aloof - the desire to live in retirement |
| 达赖 | 達賴 | Dálài | - the Dalai Lama - abbr. of 達賴喇嘛|达赖喇嘛[Da2 lai4 La3 ma5] |
| 远天 | 遠天 | yuǎntiān | - heaven - the distant sky |
| 远洋 | 遠洋 | yuǎnyáng | - distant seas - the open ocean (far from the coast) |
| 适间 | 適間 | shìjiān | - just now - the present time |
| 遗妻 | 遺妻 | yíqī | - widow - the deceased's widow |
| 遗教 | 遺教 | yíjiào | - work or plans left as a legacy - the views of the departed - posthumous orders or teachings |
| 遗族 | 遺族 | yízú | - the bereaved - family of the deceased |
| 边头 | 邊頭 | biāntóu | - the end - border - just before the end |
| 那世 | 那世 | nàshì | - the world of the dead |
| 那天 | 那天 | nàtiān | - that day - the other day |
| 部首 | 部首 | bùshǒu | - the key or radical by which a character is arranged in a traditional Chinese dictionary |
| 乡亲 | 鄉親 | xiāngqīn | - fellow countryman (from the same village) - local people - villager - the folks back home |
| 乡试 | 鄉試 | xiāngshì | - the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing |
| 酒神 | 酒神 | Jiǔshén | - the Wine God - Bacchus |
| 醉圣 | 醉聖 | zuìshèng | - the Sage of intoxication - refers to Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai 李白 (701-762) |
| 释义 | 釋義 | shìyì | - the meaning of sth - an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases - definition - an interpretation (of doctrine) - religious doctrine |
| 重九 | 重九 | chóngjiǔ | - the Double Ninth Festival (9th day of the 9th lunar month) |
| 金乌 | 金烏 | jīnwū | - Golden Crow - the sun - the three-legged golden crow that lives in the sun |
| 针鼻 | 針鼻 | zhēnbí | - the eye of a needle |
| 银坛 | 銀壇 | yíntán | - moviedom - the world of movies - film circles |
| 银屏 | 銀屏 | yínpíng | - television - TV screen - the silver screen |
| 银海 | 銀海 | yínhǎi | - moviedom - the world of movies - film circles |
| 银牌 | 銀牌 | yínpái | - silver medal - CL:枚[mei2] - silver trophy - the runner-up |
| 银点 | 銀點 | yíndiǎn | - the silver point - the melting point of silver 962°C used as a calibration point in some temperature scales |
| 钢花 | 鋼花 | gānghuā | - the fiery spray of molten steel |
| 长城 | 長城 | Chángchéng | - the Great Wall |
| 长孙 | 長孫 | zhǎngsūn | - eldest grandson - the eldest son of one's eldest son |
| 长尾 | 長尾 | chángwěi | - the long tail |
| 长至 | 長至 | chángzhì | - the summer solstice |
| 门扇 | 門扇 | ménshàn | - door - the opening panel of a door |
| 门路 | 門路 | ménlù | - way of doing sth - the right social connection |
| 门道 | 門道 | méndao | - the way to do sth - knack |
| 闪族 | 閃族 | Shǎnzú | - the Semites |
| 闪灵 | 閃靈 | Shǎnlíng | - The Shining (1980 Stanley Kubrick film from Stephen King's 1977 novel) - ChthoniC (Taiwanese metal band) |
| 闭幕 | 閉幕 | bìmù | - the curtain falls - lower the curtain - to come to an end (of a meeting) |
| 开学 | 開學 | kāixué | - foundation of a University or College - school opening - the start of a new term |
| 开春 | 開春 | kāichūn | - beginning of spring - the lunar New Year |
| 开赛 | 開賽 | kāisài | - to start a match - the kick-off |
| 陋居 | 陋居 | Lòujū | - The Burrow (Harry Potter) |
| 阴曹 | 陰曹 | yīncáo | - hell - the inferno |
| 阴间 | 陰間 | yīnjiān | - the nether world - Hades |
| 阳间 | 陽間 | yángjiān | - the world of the living |
| 隆冬 | 隆冬 | lóngdōng | - midwinter - the depth of winter |
| 阶乘 | 階乘 | jiēchéng | - the factorial of a number, e.g. 5! = 5.4.3.2.1 = 120 |
| 隔天 | 隔天 | gétiān | - the next day - on alternate days |
| 际遇 | 際遇 | jìyù | - luck - fate - opportunity - the ups and downs of life |
| 险峰 | 險峰 | xiǎnfēng | - perilous peak - the lofty heights |
| 隐土 | 隱土 | yǐntǔ | - legendary land of hermits - secret land - the back of beyond |
| 雅歌 | 雅歌 | yǎgē | - part of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 - a song - a poem set to elegant music - a refined chant - the biblical Song of Solomon |
| 双喜 | 雙喜 | shuāngxǐ | - double happiness - the combined symmetric character 囍 (similar to 喜喜) as symbol of good luck, esp. marriage |
| 双眼 | 雙眼 | shuāngyǎn | - the two eyes |
| 云层 | 雲層 | yúncéng | - the clouds - cloud layer - cloud bank |
| 零数 | 零數 | língshù | - the part of a number which is discarded when rounding down |
| 霄汉 | 霄漢 | xiāohàn | - the sky - heavens above - by extension, refers to the Imperial Court |
| 霞径 | 霞徑 | xiájìng | - a misty path - the path of the Daoist immortals |
| 霸业 | 霸業 | bàyè | - the business of hegemony - toiling to become master of the universe |
| 霸道 | 霸道 | bàdào | - the Way of the Hegemon - abbr. for 霸王之道 - despotic rule - rule by might - evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道 - overbearing - tyranny - (of liquor, medicine etc) strong - potent |
| 灵命 | 靈命 | língmìng | - the will of Heaven - the will of God |
| 青年 | 青年 | qīngnián | - youth - youthful years - young person - the young |
| 韩方 | 韓方 | Hánfāng | - the Korean side |
| 韩江 | 韓江 | Hánjiāng | - the Han river in Guangdong |
| 韵尾 | 韻尾 | yùnwěi | - the rhyming part of a syllable - in a Chinese syllable, the medial vowel plus final consonant (if any) |
| 韵母 | 韻母 | yùnmǔ | - medial and final of a Chinese syllable (excluding initial consonant and tone) - the rhyming part of a Chinese syllable - rhyme - vowel - character used in traditional phonetics to indicate value of rhyme - final sound - phoneme |
| 页底 | 頁底 | yèdǐ | - the bottom of the page |
| 页首 | 頁首 | yèshǒu | - the head of a page - page heading |
| 顶层 | 頂層 | dǐngcéng | - top floor - the top of a building |
| 顿悟 | 頓悟 | dùnwù | - a flash of realization - the truth in a flash - a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist) |
| 领口 | 領口 | lǐngkǒu | - collar - neckband - neckline - the place where the two ends of a collar meet |
| 头一 | 頭一 | tóuyī | - the first |
| 头香 | 頭香 | tóuxiāng | - the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities) - (Taiwan slang) the first reply to a blog post etc |
| 颈椎 | 頸椎 | jǐngzhuī | - cervical vertebra - the seven cervical vertebrae in the neck of humans and most mammals |
| 风向 | 風向 | fēngxiàng | - wind direction - the way the wind is blowing - fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones) - how things are developing - course of events |
| 风城 | 風城 | Fēngchéng | - The Windy City, nickname for Chicago 芝加哥[Zhi1 jia1 ge1], Wellington, New Zealand 惠靈頓|惠灵顿[Hui4 ling2 dun4] and Hsinchu, Taiwan 新竹[Xin1 zhu2] |
| 风雨 | 風雨 | fēngyǔ | - wind and rain - the elements - trials and hardships |
| 风头 | 風頭 | fēngtóu | - wind direction - the way the wind blows - fig. trend - direction of events - how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself) - public opinion (concerning one's actions) - publicity (usually derog.) - limelight |
| 飞征 | 飛征 | fēizhēng | - birds and beasts - the beasts of the field and the birds of the air - same as 飛禽走獸|飞禽走兽 |
| 食道 | 食道 | shídào | - esophagus - the proper way to eat - food transportation route |
| 养活 | 養活 | yǎnghuo | - to provide for - to keep (animals, a family etc) - to raise animals - to feed and clothe - support - the necessities of life - to give birth |
| 余者 | 餘者 | yúzhě | - the remaining people |
| 余集 | 餘集 | yújí | - complement of a set S (math.) - the set of all x not in set S |
| 首要 | 首要 | shǒuyào | - the most important - of chief importance |
| 马脚 | 馬腳 | mǎjiǎo | - sth one wishes to conceal - the cat (as in "let the cat out of the bag") |
| 脏病 | 髒病 | zāngbìng | - dirty illness - venereal disease - the pox |
| 体坛 | 體壇 | tǐtán | - sporting circles - the world of sport |
| 高头 | 高頭 | gāotou | - higher authority - the bosses - on top of |
| 魔戒 | 魔戒 | Mójiè | - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 托爾金|托尔金[Tuo1 er3 jin1] |
| 鱼舱 | 魚艙 | yúcāng | - the fish hold (of a fishing vessel) |
| 鲁君 | 魯君 | Lǔjūn | - the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius) |
| 鮨科 | 鮨科 | qíkē | - the grouper family - Serranidae (fish family including Epinephelinae or grouper 石斑魚|石斑鱼) |
| 鸩羽 | 鴆羽 | zhènyǔ | - the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩 |
| 鸽派 | 鴿派 | gēpài | - dove faction (opposite: 鹰派, hawks) - peace party - the faction seeking peace |
| 黄泉 | 黃泉 | Huángquán | - the Yellow Springs - the underworld of Chinese mythology - the equivalent of Hades or Hell |
| 黄浦 | 黃浦 | Huángpǔ | - the main river through Shanghai - name of a district in Shanghai |
| 黄道 | 黃道 | huángdào | - the ecliptic (the plane of the solar system) |
| 黎庶 | 黎庶 | líshù | - populace - masses - the people |
| 黎民 | 黎民 | límín | - the common people - the great unwashed |
| 黑道 | 黑道 | hēidào | - dark road - criminal ways - the underworld - see also 白道[bai2 dao4] |
| 点睛 | 點睛 | diǎnjīng | - to dot in the eyes - fig. to add finishing touch - abbr. for idiom 畫龍點睛|画龙点睛, to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes - the crucial point that brings the subject to life |
| 党性 | 黨性 | dǎngxìng | - the spirit or character of a political party |
| 鼻祖 | 鼻祖 | bízǔ | - the earliest ancestor - originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc) |
| 鼻翼 | 鼻翼 | bíyì | - the wing of the nose - ala nasi |
| 龙君 | 龍君 | lóngjūn | - the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea (mythology) |
| 一个样 | 一個樣 | yīgeyàng | - same as 一樣|一样[yi1 yang4] - the same |
| 一回事 | 一回事 | yīhuíshì | - one thing - the same as |
| 一家人 | 一家人 | yījiārén | - household - the whole family |
| 一家子 | 一家子 | yījiāzi | - the whole family |
| 一席话 | 一席話 | yīxíhuà | - the content of a conversation - words - remarks |
| 一胎制 | 一胎制 | yītāizhì | - the one-child policy |
| 三九天 | 三九天 | sānjiǔtiān | - the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year |
| 三原则 | 三原則 | sānyuánzé | - the Three Principles (in many contexts) |
| 三夷教 | 三夷教 | sānyíjiào | - the three foreign religions (Nestorianism, Manicheanism and Zoroastrianism) |
| 三归依 | 三歸依 | sānguīyī | - the Three Pillars of Faith (Buddha, dharma, sangha) - see also 三寶|三宝[san1 bao3] |
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