Asia / abbr. for 亞細亞洲｜亚细亚洲

Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]

Asia-Pacific

generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南

Southwest Asia

Southeast Asia

Greater China / refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics) / refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas

non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和)

East Asia

southern Asia

Asian rainy season / monsoon

Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia

Southeast Asia / South seas

Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia / surname Yao

Asian Games

North Asia

Asian area / the Far East / Asia Pacific region

Northeast Asia

(coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person) / layman / amateur

Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs

of Asian descent

Japan (old) / East Asian countries

the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia

long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao

Central Asia

Europe and Asia / Eurasia

Asian Cup

Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2]

Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country

laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia

Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia)

Asia

Radio Free Asia

Asian Cup

initial (i.e. initial consonant of a syllable in Asian phonetics)

Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) / CL: 個｜个, 條｜条

Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles)

Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia

Bo'ao Forum for Asia (since 2001)

the Far East / East Asia

Bank of East Asia

Yue state / generic term for states in south China or southeast Asia at different historical periods

Southeast Asia

the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards / Xionites (Central Asian nomads)

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) (Tw)

banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance

Asian Games

Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia)

Lancang River of Qinghai and Yunnan, the upper reaches of Mekong River 湄公河 of Southeast Asia

Asian Development Bank

Asian Football Confederation / abbr. for 亞洲足球聯合會｜亚洲足球联合会

morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries)

Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)

Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)

jianzi (Asian shuttlecock game)

laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, abbr. for 亞洲基礎設施投資銀行｜亚洲基础设施投资银行

Anatolia, Asia minor

the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)

Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia

Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century)

Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau

East Asian Games

Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk

(derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基｜普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870

ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區｜阿克苏地区, Xinjiang

Asia minor / Anatolia

ancient state of central Asia

southwest Asia

Delta Asia Financial Group (Macau)

final (i.e. final consonant or stop of some syllables in Asian phonetics)

ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty

Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia

water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia / Taiwan pr. [yong1]

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate

Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.

Western Liao, Khitan kingdom of central Asia 1132-1218

(East Asian) hip-and-gable roof

Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)

APEC (Asia Pacific economic cooperation)

boisterous live show held during the Ghost Festival 中元節｜中元节 in Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia

(bird species of China) Asian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)

Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization / APEC

the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America

Asia-Pacific region

Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia

to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe / refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan's subsequent colonization projects in Asia

Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia)

(bird species of China) Asian fairy-bluebird (Irena puella)

yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)

Gao Xianzhi or Go Seonji (c. 702-756), Tang dynasty general of Goguryeo 高句麗｜高句丽 extraction, active in Central Asia

"kopi luwak" or civet coffee, made from coffee beans plucked from Asian palm civet's feces

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

Central Asia

Asia-Pacific

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) / same as 東南亞國家聯盟｜东南亚国家联盟

karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)

Asia, Africa and Latin America

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)