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 zhōng wén bǎn Chinese (language) version
 yǔ wén literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
 Zhōng wén Chinese language
 jiǎn tǐ simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3]
 rén mín bì Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)
 jiǎn tǐ zhōng wén simplified character Chinese, simplified Chinese
 Huá rén ethnic Chinese person or people
 sān xīng 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
 Xīn làng Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
 Guó yǔ 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
 Sōu hú Sohu, Chinese web portal and online media company
 yǔ yīn speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message
 Hàn huà to sinicize / sinicization / (software) Chinese localization
 Zhōng Gòng abbr. for 中國共產黨|中国共产党[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 dang3], Chinese Communist Party
 Zhōng yī traditional Chinese medical science / a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
 Sān guó Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1 luo2] in 658
 zhōng wén wǎng Chinese language network
 zhōng guó rén mín the Chinese people
 Máo Zé dōng Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader
 fán tǐ traditional form of Chinese, as opposed to simplified form 簡體|简体[jian3 ti3]
 Lǎo zǐ Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi
 Zhōng yào traditional Chinese medicine / CL:服[fu4],種|种[zhong3]
 Sān gè Dài biǎo the Three Represents enunciated by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民 / as the duty of the Chinese Communist party in 2001, namely: to represent productivity of an advanced society, forward progress of advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the people
 hàn zì Chinese character / CL:個|个[ge4] / Japanese: kanji / Korean: hanja / Vietnamese: hán tự
 Xīn làng Wǎng Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
 Běi jīng Shí jiān Chinese Standard Time
 Dèng Xiǎo píng Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
 zhōng guó duì Chinese team
 guò nián to celebrate the Chinese New Year
 Hàn yǔ Chinese language / CL:門|门[men2]
 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
 zhōng guó dà lù Chinese mainland
 Huá yǔ Chinese language
 Zhōng huá mín zú the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
 chéng yǔ Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation / idiom / proverb / saying / adage / CL:條|条[tiao2],本[ben3],句[ju4]
 zhōng guó zhèng fǔ Chinese government
 Zhōng fāng the Chinese side (in an international venture)
 Sī mǎ Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima
 fán tǐ zhōng wén traditional character Chinese
 jiāng shī gyonshi / jiang shi / Chinese vampire / zombie
 Liǎng huì National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
 Huá qiáo overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
 shēng xiào one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1] / animal from the Chinese zodiac
 yì qù EachNet, Chinese e-commerce company (formerly owned by eBay and branded as eBay EachNet)
 jìn dài 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)
 chūn yùn (increased) passenger transportation around Chinese New Year
 Kǒng zǐ Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
 fěn sī bean vermicelli / mung bean starch noodles / Chinese vermicelli / cellophane noodles / CL:把[ba3] / fan (loanword) / enthusiast for sb or sth
 wǔ xíng five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
 nóng lì the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar
 hùn dùn primal chaos / formless mass before creation in Chinese mythology / muddled / innocent as a baby
 zì diǎn Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL:本[ben3]
 wǔ bǐ abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 / in 1983
 Máo Zhǔ xí Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 / (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
 Dèng Xiǎo píng Lǐ lùn Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control
 qí lín qilin (mythical Chinese animal) / kylin / Chinese unicorn / commonly mistranslated as giraffe
 tiē bā Baidu Tieba, lit. "Baidu Post Bar", a Chinese online forum hosted by Baidu Inc.
 yī one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
 Zhōng guó Kē xué yuàn Chinese Academy of Science
 zhōng guó lì shǐ Chinese history
 Zhōng kē yuàn abbr. for 中國社會科學院|中国社会科学院[Zhong1 guo2 She4 hui4 Ke1 xue2 yuan4], Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 yīn fú (music) note / phonetic component of a Chinese character / phonetic symbol / phonogram
 Bǎo gāng Baosteel, Chinese steel maker formed in a 1998 merger, then merged to form Baowu 寶武鋼鐵|宝武钢铁[Bao3 wu3 Gang1 tie3] in 2016
 dǎng nèi within the party (esp. Chinese communist party)
 Xiāng gé lǐ lā Shangri-La (mythical location) / Shangri-La town and county in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di2 qing4 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Yunnan / formerly Gyeltang or Gyalthang, Chinese 中甸[Zhong1 dian4] in Tibetan province of Kham
 Sōu gǒu Sogou, Chinese tech company known for its search engine, www.sogou.com
 shàng xiào high ranking officer in Chinese army / colonel
 jiě dú to detoxify / to relieve fever (in Chinese medicine)
 xiàng qí Chinese chess / CL:副[fu4]
 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran
 bái cài Chinese cabbage / pak choi / CL:棵[ke1], 個|个[ge4]
 hǎi táng Chinese flowering crab apple (Malus spectabilis)
 chóng dié to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步[san4 san4 bu4] to have a stroll)
 qīng yī black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦[zheng4 dan4]
 Zhōng shì Chinese style
 Huá yì ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry
 zhèng qì healthy environment / healthy atmosphere / righteousness / vital energy (in Chinese medicine)
 xì qǔ Chinese opera
 Dà Zhōng huá Greater China / refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics) / refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas
 Zhōng shān Dà xué Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists
 Huá wén Chinese language / Chinese script
 zhí tōng chē "through train" (refers to the idea of retaining previous legislature after transition to Chinese rule in Hong Kong or Macao)
 pí pa pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard
 yù nu:3 beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
 cháng páo chang pao (traditional Chinese men's robe) / gown / robe / CL:件[jian4]
 qì xuè qi and blood (two basic bodily fluids of Chinese medicine)
 shào xiào junior ranking officer in Chinese army / major / lieutenant commander
 zì xíng form of a Chinese character / variant of 字型[zi4 xing2]
 qīng cài green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
 zhōng wén xì Chinese language department (of college)
 Hàn rén Han Chinese person or people
 zhōng cǎo yào Chinese herbal medicine
 qiáo xiāng hometown of overseas Chinese
 Zhōng guó shì Chinese style / à / la chinoise
西 Xī shī Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4] of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
 guó huà traditional Chinese painting
 Zhōng cān lunch / Chinese meal / Chinese food / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4]
 yī jīn the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket / lapel
 mù guā papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
 wú tóng wutong (Firmiana platanifolia) / Chinese parasol tree
Chinese Tones