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

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 (abbr. to 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)

Chinese language

China

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

Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)

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

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

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

thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條｜条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)

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

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.)

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°

Chinese character(s)

Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad

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

Spring Festival (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, 個｜个

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

ethnic Chinese person or people

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

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)

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

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

to celebrate the Chinese New Year

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)

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

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

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

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

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

traditional Chinese medicine / CL: 服

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°

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

the emergency number for firefighting services in Mainland China

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

the head of an institution whose name ends in 院; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個｜个

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)

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)

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

(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)

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)

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

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

war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)

(slang) China

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

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

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

abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川 in southwest China

Chinese opera

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

hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine) / crux of an issue / main point in an argument / sticking point / deadlock in negotiations

(bound form) China; Chinese / surname Zhong

Taoism / Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)

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

mainland China's entertainment industry

Chinese poker

to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

Chinese language

(used in overseas Cantonese communities) Chinese person

mainland China (reference to the PRC)

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

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

phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)

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

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

the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology

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-

courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)

Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976

Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經｜道德经 by Laozi

double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女｜牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting

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

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆｜竖笔

(coll.) Bilibili, Chinese video-sharing website featuring scrolled user comments 彈幕｜弹幕 overlaid on the videos

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)

Shing-Tung Yau (1949-), Chinese-American mathematician, Fields medalist in 1982

China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network

"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc

Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书

Weibo (Chinese social media platform)