| | (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人) | HSK 1 |
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| | century | HSK 3 |
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| | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | 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) | HSK 4 |
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| | Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅｜新罗 in 658 | |
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| | 21st century | |
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| | cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature | |
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| | Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters | |
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| | 20th century | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人, spoken in Egypt until late 17th century | |
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| | Khmer kingdom of Kampuchea or Cambodia / Chinese term for Cambodia from 7th to 15th century | |
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| | Fan Gongcheng (12th century), Southern Song author of 過庭錄｜过庭录 | |
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| | old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond | |
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| | (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries) | |
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| | Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century) | |
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| | the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄｜扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters | |
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| | archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze artifacts from the 11-12th centuries BC | |
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| | medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand | |
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| | century egg; preserved egg | |
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| | Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC) hydraulic engineer who designed the Dujiangyan 都江堰 irrigation system in Sichuan | |
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| | Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the 20th century | |
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| | branch / stem / stalk / CL: 根 / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏, initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) | |
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| | Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south | |
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| | seasoned / honed to perfection over centuries / special reserve | |
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| | late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century | |
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| | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century | |
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| | Zihui, Chinese character dictionary with 33,179 entries, released in 17th century | |
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| | latter half (of a decade, century etc) | |
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| | final years of the century | |
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| | Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century) | |
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| | Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods | |
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| | the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story | |
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| | to invade China (referring to 19th century imperialist powers and Japan) | |
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| | Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC | |
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| | traditional Han Chinese attire (including various styles of clothing worn by the Han ethnic group before the Qing Dynasty, and in the 21st century, revived as part of a cultural movement) / clothing styles of the Han dynasty | |
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| | treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD | |
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| | to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean) | |
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| | mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period | |
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| | Tubo or Tufan, old name for Tibet / the Tibetan Tubo dynasty 7th-11th century AD / also pr. [Tu3 fan1] | |
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| | the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China | |
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| | forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees) | |
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| | end of the century | |
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| | Japanese pirates (in 16th and 17th century) | |
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| | the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC) | |
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| | Aceh province of Indonesia in northwest Sumatra / Aceh sultanate 16th-19th century | |
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| | Ling Xiangru (dates unknown, 3rd century BC), famous statesman of Zhao 趙國｜赵国 | |
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| | Lingshu Jing (Divine Pivot, or Spiritual Pivot), ancient Chinese medical text (c. 1st century BC) | |
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| | Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero) | |
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| | lower half of one's body / Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century) | |
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| | Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公｜晋文公, in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明 (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated | |
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| | Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century | |
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| | hundred years; century / (fig.) a whole lifetime; a person's whole life | |
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| | "Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts | |
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| | (derog.) the Longhairs (Taiping rebels of the 19th century) | |
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| | Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛｜纣辛 | |
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| | tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones | |
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| | Dongguan Hanji, a history of the Eastern Han dynasty consisting of 143 volumes compiled by many 1st and 2nd century authors | |
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| | foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries) | |
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| | Asanga (Buddhist philosopher, c. 4th century AD) | |
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| | La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克｜巴尔扎克 | |
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| | Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist / Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar | |
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| | the 5th century Chinese calendar established by Zu Chongzhi 祖沖之｜祖冲之 | |
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| | final years of Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) / mid 14th century | |
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| | Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century) | |
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| | Silla, Korean kingdom 57 BC-935 AD / one of the Korean Three Kingdoms from 1st century AD, defeating its rivals Paikche 百濟｜百济 and Koguryo 高句麗｜高句丽 around 660 in alliance with Tang China / unified Silla 658-935 | |
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| | Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century | |
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| | Jia Sixie, sixth century writer and author of agricultural encyclopedia Essential skill to benefit the people 齊民要術｜齐民要术 | |
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| | Jiyun, Chinese rime dictionary with 53,525 single-character entries, published in 11th century | |
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| | reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China) | |
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| | dzi bead, a type of stone bead highly prized in Tibet for many centuries, reputed to hold supernatural power | |
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| | Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) / the Syriac script | |
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| | classification of orange trees by 12th century Song dynasty botanist Han Yanzhi 韓彥直｜韩彦直 | |
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| | Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding | |
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| | modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century) | |
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| | Tibetan Tubo Dynasty 7th-11th century AD | |
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| | oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones | |
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| | Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century | |
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| | Luo Maodeng (16th century), Ming author of operas and popular fiction | |
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| | Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam | |
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| | Tongwen Guan, 19th century college that trained translators for China's diplomatic corps, established in Beijing in 1862 and absorbed by the Imperial University in 1902 | |
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| | Niya, ancient kingdom near Khotan in Xinjiang, 1st century BC-4th century AD | |
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| | late Yuan and early Ming / mid 14th century | |
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| | King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant | |
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| | Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet | |
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| | earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, 3rd century, modeled on Erya 爾雅｜尔雅, 18150 entries | |
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| | Mani (3rd century AD), Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism | |
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| | The Carnal Prayer Mat, Chinese erotic novel from 17th century, usually attributed to Li Yu 李漁｜李渔 | |
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| | Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD) | |
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| | Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈思勰｜贾思勰 | |
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| | the Narodniks, Russian populist group in the 19th century | |
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| | Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest systematic Chinese character dictionary, compiled by Xu Shen 許慎｜许慎 in the Eastern Han dynasty (2nd century), containing 10,516 entries | |
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| | Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南｜台南, Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006 | |
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| | Tripitaka, the central character of the 16th century novel "Journey to the West" 西遊記｜西游记, based on the monk Xuanzang 玄奘 (602–664) | |
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| | the K'ung family Masters' anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, possibly forged in third century by Wang Su 王肅｜王肃 | |
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| | The Tale of Genji, classic Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century) | |
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