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 yǐ lái since (a previous event)
 jì rán since / as / this being the case
 zì cóng since (a time) / ever since
 yóu yú due to / as a result of / thanks to / owing to / since / because
 jì shì is both ...(and...) / since / as / being the case that
 dǎ cóng from / (ever) since
 zì dǎ (coll.) since
 zì self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely
 dǎ to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from
 jì already / since / both... (and...)
 yǐ jiàng since (some point in the past)
 zī yīn (formal) whereas / since
 Chóng qìng Chongqing city (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝[Yu2]
 cóng cǐ from now on / since then / henceforth
 Bǎi dù Baidu, Internet portal and search engine, www.baidu.com, listed as BIDU on NASDAQ since 1999
 jiǔ wéi (haven't done sth) for a long time / a long time since we last met
 zì cǐ since then / henceforth
 zì yòu since childhood
 yǒu shǐ yǐ lái since the beginning of history
 zì gǔ yǐ lái since ancient times
 Hàn yǔ Pīn yīn Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
 hǎi xuǎn (in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition
 lái to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next
 Sī luò fá kè Slovakia (officially, since 1993, the Slovak Republic)
 yǒu shēng yǐ lái since birth / for one's whole life
 yuán yuǎn liú cháng lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom) / fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past / a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then
宿 xīng xiù constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology)
 gǔ wǎng jīn lái since ancient times / since times immemorial
 Sū zhōu Dà xué Suzhou or Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC since 1986)
 gǔ lái since ancient times / it has ever been the case that / see also 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]
 liǎng àn sān dì China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (media term used esp. since 1997)
 jiǔ yǐ long ago / a long time since
 jiāo shēng guàn yǎng pampered and spoiled since childhood
 bǎi huā jiǎng Hundred Flowers Awards, flim prize awarded since 1962
 Láng Píng Jenny Lang Ping (1960-), Chinese volleyball player, coach of USA women's national team since 2005
 quán guó yùn dòng huì National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1959
 kuàng gǔ since the dawn of time / from the year dot
 yǎng huà gài calcium oxide, CaO / (slang) (used as a substitute for 肏[cao4], since CaO resembles cào)
 Zhào Zǐ yáng Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then
 tiān yǎn natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
 Nóng yùn huì China National Farmers' Games (sports meeting for peasants held every 4 years since 1988)
 cóng qù nián since last year
 Hóng Sēn Hun Sen (1952-), prime minister of Cambodia since 1985
 Xiāng gǎng Jī běn fǎ Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
寿 fú shòu luó giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix) that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s
 tiān yǎn lùn the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論|进化论)
 qián wú gǔ rén hòu wú lái zhě to surpass all others of its kind before and since / to have neither predecessors nor successors
 gèn gǔ wèi yǒu unprecedented / never seen since ancient times
 bié lái wú yàng (literary) I trust you have been well since we last met
 nián yǐ lái since the year ...
 quán xīn jì holocene / period since the last ice age
 Quán xīn shì Holocene (geological period covering approx 12000 years since the last ice age)
 Chóng qìng shì Chongqing city, formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝[Yu2]
 dì sān jì third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
 Nán píng dì qū Nanping district (old term) / since 1983, Nanping, county-level city, Fujian
 Zhōu Yī yuè York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
 chéng shì yùn dòng huì National Intercity Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1988
宿 sù cǎo grass that has grown on a grave since last year / (fig.) grave / to have died long ago / fodder provided to animals for the night
 Ní mǐ zī Hào Nimitz class, US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 8 in commission since 1975
 Qū Yuán Jì niàn guǎn Qu Yuan Memorial Hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣|秭归县[Zi3 gui1 Xian4], Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then
·  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician, First lady during Bill Clinton's presidency 1993-2001, Senator for New York since 2001, US Secretary of state from 2009
广西 Guǎng xī Shěng Guangxi province in south China / since 1959, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 xi1 Zhuang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1], location of the Zhuang ethnic group, abbr. 桂[Gui4], capital Nanning 南寧|南宁[Nan2 ning2]
 cóng nà shí hòu from that time on / since then
 zhèng xùn chù political training office (during Chinese revolution, since renamed political division 政治部)
 jì lái zhī , zé ān zhī Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy. / Since this is so, we should accept it. / Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth. / If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.
 Jìn jiāng dì qū Jinjiang county (old term) / since 1983, Jinjiang, county-level city, Fujian
 Pǔ mì péng Bhumibol (b.Dec 5th 1927. King of Thailand since June 9th 1946) / (King) Bhumibol (Adulyadej)
 Dōng wú Dà xué Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC from 1900-1952) / Soochow University (Taipei, Taiwan since 1954)
 Máo Dùn Wén xué jiǎng Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
 Pú tián dì qū Putian prefecture (old term) / since 1983, Putian, prefecture-level city, Fujian
 Sà kè luò fū Jiǎng Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament annually since 1988
 Sà hǎ luó fū jiǎng Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (awarded by EU since 1988)
·  Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California since 2003
 Xiǎn shēng dài Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪[Han2 wu3 ji4], c. 540m year ago
 Xiǎn shēng zhòu Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪[Han2 wu3 ji4], c. 540m year ago
 Fēi Gē Flying Pigeon (famous bicycle brand, made in Tianjin since 1936)
 Lóng yán dì qū Longyan district (old term) / since 1983, Longyan, county-level city, Fujian
 qián nán sī lā fú wèn tí guó jì xíng shì fǎ tíng International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 / International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / Internati
 xīn zì tǐ shinjitai, simplified Japanese character used since 1946
  Statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 / Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for th
 yī lù lái all the way / all along / since the start
 Yuè Hàn Tiě lù Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路[Jing1 Guang3 Tie3 lu4]
 gèn gǔ bù biàn unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous
 qǐ xiǎo since childhood
 shì chǎng huàn jì shù market access in return for technology transfer (PRC policy since the 1980s which gives foreign companies access to China's domestic market in exchange for sharing their intellectual property, characterized by the US in the 2019 trade war as "forced technology transfer")
IP I P intellectual property (in China, esp. since 2015, often used as an entertainment industry term for a creative work used as the basis of a new product, such as a manga adapted as a tv series, or the image of a cartoon character appearing on merchandise)
 dà wài xuān (derog.) China's foreign propaganda machine (esp. since c. 2009)
 xiāng fēi zhú same as 斑竹[ban1 zhu2], mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's 舜[Shun4] concubines (Ehuang 娥皇[E2 huang2] and Nüying 女英[Nu:3 ying1], known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃[Xiang1 Fei1]) upon learning of his death
 Hán Guó yú Daniel Han Kuo-yu (1957-), Taiwanese KMT politician, mayor of Kaohsiung since 2018
 yí cún historical remains / things that have survived since ancient times / (of such things) to survive
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