| 提纲 | tí gāng | outline / synopsis / notes |   |
| 笔记 | bǐ jì | to take down (in writing) / notes / a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches / CL:本[ben3] | |
| 题解 | tí jiě | notes / key (to exercises) | |
| 简历 | jiǎn lì | curriculum vitae (CV) / résumé / biographical notes | |
| 注释 | zhù shì | marginal notes / annotation / to annotate / to add comments to text | |
| 游记 | yóu jì | travel notes | |
| 手记 | shǒu jì | to take notes / one's notes | |
| 切磋 | qiē cuō | to compare notes / to learn from one another / to swap pointers | |
| 注解 | zhù jiě | to annotate / annotation / comment / interpretation / to explain with notes / explanatory note | |
| 笔录 | bǐ lù | to put down in writing / to take down notes / transcript / record | |
| 纸币 | zhǐ bì | bank notes / paper currency / CL:張|张[zhang1] | |
| 夹带 | jiā dài | to carry within it / to be mixed in / to slip sth in / to intersperse / (hydrology etc) to entrain / to smuggle / notes smuggled into an exam | |
| 札记 | zhá jì | reading notes / CL:篇[pian1] | |
| 简谱 | jiǎn pǔ | music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7 | |
| 杂记 | zá jì | various notes or records / a miscellany / scattered jottings | |
| 五音 | wǔ yīn | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1] | |
| 自序 | zì xù | author's preface / autobiographical notes as introduction to a book | |
| 散记 | sǎn jì | random jottings / travel notes | |
| 笔谈 | bǐ tán | to communicate by means of written notes (instead of speaking) / to publish one's opinion (e.g. as part of a scholarly dialogue) / (in book titles) essays / sketches | |
| 作笔记 | zuò bǐ jì | to take notes | |
| 凡例 | fán lì | notes on the use of a book / guide to the reader | |
| 摘记 | zhāi jì | to take notes / to excerpt | |
| 三和弦 | sān hé xián | triad / musical chord of three notes, such as major triad do-mi-so | |
| 合四乙尺工 | hé sì yǐ chǐ gōng | names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la | |
| 宫商角徵羽 | gōng shāng jué zhǐ yǔ | pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la | |
| 散匪 | sǎn fěi | scattered bandits / fig. random jottings / marginal notes | |
| 琐记 | suǒ jì | fragmentary recollections / miscellaneous notes | |
| 纪昀 | Jì Yún | Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱微草堂筆記|阅微草堂笔记 | |
| 诠注 | quán zhù | notes and commentary / exegesis | |
| 过庭录 | guò tíng lù | lit. Notes on Passing the Hall, historical jottings by 12th century Southern Song poet Fan Gongcheng 范公偁[Fan4 Gong1 cheng1], containing moral instructions derived from great men of Song dynasty | |
| 阅微草堂笔记 | Yuè wēi Cǎo táng Bǐ jì | Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀|纪昀[Ji4 Yun2], novel of the supernatural / The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny | |
| 音名 | yīn míng | names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi) | |
| 简要说明 | jiǎn yào shuō míng | concise notes | |
| 联合国国际汇票和国际本票公约 | | United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes / UNCITRAL Convention | |
| 贸易法委员会公约 | | United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes / UNCITRAL Convention | |
| Lotus Notes 客户机 | Lotus Notes kè hù jī | Lotus Notes client / Notes client | |
| 方桉咨询说明 | | Programme Advisory Notes | |
| 国家发展战略政策说明 | | National Development Strategies Policy Notes | |
| 国际汇票和国际期票统一法 | | Uniform Law on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes | |
| 统一汇票和本票法及统一条例公约 | | Convention on the Unification of the Law relating to Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, and Uniform Regulations | |
| Lotus Notes 共享资源 | | Shared Resources on Lotus Notes | |
| 财务报表的附注 | | notes to the financial statements | |
| 解决汇票和本票的某些法律抵触公约 | | Convention for the Settlement of Certain Conflicts of Laws in connection with Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes | |
| 汇票和本票印花税法公约 | | Convention on the Stamp Laws in connection with Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes | |
| 军事观察员准则说明 | | Notes for the Guidance of military observers | |
| 部队派遣国准则的说明 | | Notes for Guidance of Troop Contributors | |
| 发言者参考要点 | | notes for speakers | |
| 统一汇票和本票法公约 | | Convention providing a Uniform Law for Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes | |
| 工尺谱 | gōng chě pǔ | traditional Chinese musical notation using Chinese characters to represent musical notes | |
| 粉板 | fěn bǎn | blackboard / painted board on which to make temporary notes with brush pen | |
| 批点 | pī diǎn | to add critical marks or notes to a text / (fig.) to criticize | |
| 诗话 | shī huà | notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties | |
| 合四乙尺工 | hé sì yǐ chě gōng | names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la | |
