China

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

currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first; original; primary / (bound form) basic; fundamental / (bound form) constituent; part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument; variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon

Chinese language

you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)

horse / CL: 匹 / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess

north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (short name 京)

to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)

ethnic Chinese person or people

home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個｜个

lunch / Chinese meal; Chinese food / CL: 份, 頓｜顿

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本

(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)

Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech

Chinese language

clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°

uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan

region; area (informal or geographical term) / prefecture (in China's administrative system)

writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支,枝) / brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy) / (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork / (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character / (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business / (literary) to write (with a brush or pen)

straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters

south; southern direction / (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River

to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character

second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°

the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)

Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur

Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad

Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character

to celebrate the Chinese New Year

person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting

Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL: 棵

ticket / ballot / banknote / CL: 張｜张 / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊｜块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

traditional Chinese medicine / CL: 服

room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy

hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分)

bird / CL: 隻｜只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

Chinese character(s)

Zhonghua, historical and cultural term for China, often used to denote Chinese civilization and identity (as in 中華文化｜中华文化 "Chinese culture") / used in the official name of the Republic of China, 中華民國｜中华民国

the head of an institution whose name ends in 院; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China

Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條｜条, 本, 句

box; case / hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines

land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule

joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour)

to strike a pose (Chinese opera) / (fig.) to make a public appearance; to come out in public (revealing one's true personality, opinions etc); (of a product) to appear on the market or at a trade show etc

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

the emergency number for firefighting services in Mainland China

the emergency number for medical assistance and first aid in Mainland China

horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent

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)

traditional Chinese decorative knot

People's Republic of China

only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義｜主义 or 論｜论, e.g. 唯理論｜唯理论, rationalism)

Chinese Academy of Science

Chinese language

not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°

migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project

the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar

traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains

a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL: 支, 把

marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位 / nobleman; high official

(slang) China

(slang) Chinese people; we Chinese (often self-referential, ironic); China; the Chinese side

computers, communications, and consumer electronics / China Compulsory Certificate (CCC)

to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp

one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)

reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)

speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message

(bound form) China; Chinese / surname Zhong

nickname for CCTV-6 (China Movie Channel)

Communist Party of China

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

Taoism / Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)

ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊｜块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead

(literary) straw dog used as a ritual offering in ancient China (treated with reverence during the rite and discarded afterwards)

clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role

mainland China's entertainment industry

China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network

circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)

(used in overseas Cantonese communities) Chinese person

betta fish; Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) / Chinese betta; paradise fish (genus Macropodus)

fictional fruit in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 / pepino melon

Chinese painting

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

abbr. for 中國共產黨｜中国共产党, Chinese Communist Party

Chinese opera

phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)

overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL: 個｜个, 位, 名

three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿｜参宿 Chinese constellation / the belt of Orion / three spirits 福, 祿｜禄, and 壽｜寿 associated with the Three Stars 參宿｜参宿 Chinese constellation

People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China

China UnionPay (CUP), China's only domestic bank card organization

see 南京市 / Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-