China

one / 1 / 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

Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China / Peking / PRC government

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

point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更 / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items

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)

Chinese language / CL: 門｜门

also / too / (in Classical Chinese) final particle implying affirmation

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)

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

Chinese language

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

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

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

doctor / court academician (in feudal China) / Ph.D.

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

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)

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

Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)

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

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)

phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization)

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°

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

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

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 chess / CL: 副

tone / note / a tone (on a Chinese syllable) / CL: 個｜个

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)

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°

ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry

foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort

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

fourth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / fourth in order / letter "D" or Roman "IV" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / butyl / cubes (of food)

third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl

martial arts chivalry (Chinese literary, theatrical and cinema genre) / knight-errant

wing / area surrounding the bullseye of a target / to assist / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy / old variant of 翌

one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 / animal from the Chinese zodiac

Chinese-style dress / cheongsam

the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar

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

to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll)

healthy environment / healthy atmosphere / righteousness / vital energy (in Chinese medicine)

to slaughter livestock / to govern or rule / to cheat customers / imperial official in dynastic China

simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字

traditional Chinese character

component in Chinese characters, occurring in 青, 毒, 素 etc / see also 青字頭｜青字头

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬｜沪

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

simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體｜繁体

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

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

abbr. for China

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

China / Chinese / surname Zhong

surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2]

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

mainland China (reference to the PRC)

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

Guangdong province (Kwangtung) in south China, short name 粵｜粤, capital Guangzhou 廣州｜广州

China (alternate formal name)

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°

Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil) / place name / to revive / used as phonetic in transliteration

Anhui Province (Anhwei) in south central China, abbr. 皖, capital Hefei 合肥

Hubei Province (Hupeh) in central China, abbr. 鄂, capital Wuhan 武漢｜武汉

surname Lu / Lu, ancient state of China 魯國｜鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東｜山东

literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)

capacity / quantity / amount / to estimate / abbr. for 量詞｜量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word

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

bean vermicelli / mung bean starch noodles / Chinese vermicelli / cellophane noodles / CL: 把 / fan (loanword) / enthusiast for sb or sth

Hebei province (Hopeh) in north China surrounding Beijing, short name 冀, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊｜石家庄

Henan province (Honan) in central China, abbr. 豫, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州｜郑州

Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇｜苏, capital Nanjing 南京

Liaoning province in northeast China, short name 遼｜辽, capital Shenyang 瀋陽｜沈阳

Hangzhou subprovincial city and capital of Zhejiang province in southeast China

Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company

Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

Zhejiang province (Chekiang) in east China, abbr. 浙, capital Hangzhou 杭州

Jilin province (Kirin) in northeast China, abbr. 吉, capital 長春｜长春 / also Jilin prefecture-level city, Jilin province

surname Wu / area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai / name of states in Southern China at different historical periods

Shandong, province in northeast China, short name 魯｜鲁, capital Jinan 濟南｜济南

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc

People's Republic of China

Fujian province (Fukien) in east China, abbr. 福 or 閩｜闽, capital Fuzhou 福州 / Fujian province (Fukien) in Taiwan

abbr. for Zhejiang 浙江 province in east China

Changsha prefecture-level city and capital of Hunan province in south central China

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 / sub-

Tianjin, a municipality in northeast China, abbr. 津

Shaanxi (formerly Shensi), province in northwest China, abbr. 陝｜陕, capital Xi’an 西安市

Chengdu subprovincial city and capital of Sichuan province 四川 in southwest China

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

Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都

Fuzhou prefecture-level city and capital of Fujian province in east China / formerly known as Foochow or Fuchow

Guizhou province (Kweichow) in south central China, abbr. to 黔 or 貴｜贵, capital Guiyang 貴陽｜贵阳

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

Jingdong, Chinese e-commerce company

Sohu, Chinese web portal and online media company

Sina Weibo, Chinese microblogging website