| | novel / fiction / CL: 本, 部 | HSK 2 |
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| | fresh (experience, food etc) / freshness / novel / uncommon | HSK 4 |
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| | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting | HSK 5 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條｜条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | 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 | |
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| | variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) | HSK 1 |
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| | fictional fruit in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 / pepino melon | |
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| | character illustrations in classical Chinese novels | |
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| | novel coronavirus (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19) | |
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| | Legend of the Condor Heroes, wuxia ( 武俠｜武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations | |
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| | techno-thriller novel | |
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| | romance novel / romantic fiction | |
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| | SHIBA Ryotarō (1923-1996), Japanese author of historical novels | |
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| | chewiness / (fig.) substance; depth; something to chew on (in a novel, movie etc) | |
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| | Rowling (name) / Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of novels | |
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| | online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 網絡文學｜网络文学) | |
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| | novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒｜新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19) | |
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| | "Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩｜吴承恩, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey" | |
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| | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾｜乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場｜动物农场 | |
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| | Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳｜罗琳 | |
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| | hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist | HSK 7-9 |
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| | novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒｜新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19) | |
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| | novel; new; exotic | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc | |
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| | Vanity Fair (novel and magazine title) | |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢｜红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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| | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc | |
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| | Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wuxia ( 武俠｜武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations | |
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| | heroine (of a novel or film) / main female protagonist | |
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| | Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven, story about the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空｜孙悟空 from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | a martial arts (wuxia) novel | |
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| | murder mystery (novel); whodunit | |
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| | Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature | |
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| | number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number | |
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| | to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc) | |
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| | Frankenstein (novel) | |
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| | screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc) | |
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| | to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空｜孙悟空 in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Sun Wukong 孫悟空｜孙悟空, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 / Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠｜七龙珠 | |
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| | White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | "The Return of the Condor Heroes" (1959-61 wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸) | |
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| | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話｜评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | distinct; different / separately; individually / unusual; novel / (pejorative) eccentric; bizarre | |
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| | Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands | |
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| | the heroes of Liangshan Marsh (in the novel "Water Margin" 水滸傳｜水浒传) | |
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| | trick / pattern / novel idea / knack | |
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| | Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美 | |
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| | cutting-edge (in technology, science, fashion, the arts etc) / novel and competitive / new and dashing | |
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| | Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅 | |
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| | form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty | |
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| | (old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about / novel in the vernacular / fiction writer; novelist | |
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| | Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its TV and screen adaptations | |
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| | Nana (name) / Nana (1880 novel by Émile Zola) / Nana (Japanese manga series) | |
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| | Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case | |
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| | Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851) | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮｜高罗佩 | |
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| | Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城｜围城 | |
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| | The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康 | |
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| | Wolf Totem, novel by Lü Jiamin 呂嘉民｜吕嘉民 aka Jiang Rong 姜戎 | |
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| | Peter Pan, the novel character | |
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| | literary journal published in 1892–93 by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶｜韩邦庆 featuring serialized novels in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular | |
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| | science fiction novel | |
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| | The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓｜吴敬梓 | |
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| | The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) | |
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| | Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker / Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula | |
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| | Li Kui, character in the novel Water Margin 水滸全傳｜水浒全传 | |
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| | Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë 夏洛特·勃良特 | |
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| | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾 | |
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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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| | Yellow Peril, political novel by Wang Lixiong 王力雄 | |
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| | Ding Ling (1904–1986), Chinese novelist, author of the novel "The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River" 太陽照在桑乾河上｜太阳照在桑干河上, persecuted in the 1950s as "anti-Party" | |
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| | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾｜乔治·奥威尔 | |
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| | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
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| | "Red Poppies", novel by 阿來｜阿来 | |
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| | Song Jiang, a principal hero of the novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传 | |
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| | Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera | |
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| | to make a photographic reproduction of an image or document etc; a reproduction / to remake a movie or TV series; a remake / to adapt (a novel etc) as a movie; an adaptation | |
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| | main subject of long novel / true biography | |
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| | Chu Renhuo (1635-1682), author of historical novel Dramatized History of Sui and Tang 隋唐演義｜隋唐演义 | |
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| | (of a movie, novel etc) portraying a love affair; romantic; sentimental | |
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| | Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content | |
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| | golden cudgel, weapon wielded by Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / see 香格里拉市 | |
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| | to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme | |
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| | Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成 | |
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| | Dugu Qiubai, a fictional character appearing in 金庸 novels | |
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| | "The Hunt for Red October", a novel by Tom Clancy | |
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