to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL: 把 / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper)

paper / treatise / thesis / CL: 篇 / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)

round / lump / ball / to roll into a ball / to gather / regiment / group / society / classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)

examination paper / test paper / CL: 份, 張｜张

to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll

paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張｜张, 紮｜扎

toilet paper

rock-paper-scissors (hand game)

plaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc) / silkworm basket / metal foil / foil paper

paper-cut silhouette / outline / sketch

to construct / to form / to make up / to compose / literary composition / paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

paper bag

letter / letter paper

paper clip

to review (a paper or manuscript)

piece of paper with short note / short letter

photographic paper

completed examination paper / answer sheet / CL: 份, 張｜张

lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節｜元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker

paper towel / napkin / facial tissue / CL: 張｜张, 包

to hang (paper) / to mount (painting)

paper mulberry tree

ritual money made of paper burnt for the Gods or the dead

paper

paper pulp

paper tiger

(onom.) giggling / breathing / tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc

white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book

lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節｜元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)

to put pen to paper; to start to write or draw

to put pen to paper

folder / file (paper)

written examination / paper test (for an applicant)

toilet paper

paper clip

rough straw paper / toilet paper / brown paper

test paper; examination paper

blueprint / drawing / design plans / graph paper

to fold paper (to make origami articles); origami

filter paper

to put pen to paper

joss paper made to resemble paper money

lit. dazzling with paper and gold (idiom); fig. indulging in a life of luxury

kraft paper

fine writing paper, originally from Jing county 涇縣｜泾县, Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui

paper or cloth pasted together

waste paper

paper doll / papercut silhouette

classifier for a ream of paper

to write or draw with a brush / to put pen to paper / to write

lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括｜赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰｜长平之战 in 260 BC

money / paper money / variant of 抄

rice-paper plant (Tetrapanax papyriferus)

draft paper

paper matrix in which type is set

to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over

wide belt / sash / (packaging) paper sash around a book or other product

fine paper made from bamboo, used for calligraphy, painting etc / also written 毛邊｜毛边

to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc)

bamboo and silk writing materials (before paper)

to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)

paper / CL: 張｜张, 沓 / classifier for documents, letter etc

to appear vividly on paper (idiom); to show forth vividly (in writing, painting etc) / to stand out markedly

paper clip

a worthless piece of paper (idiom)

joss paper made to resemble paper money

to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper)

slip of paper

papercutting (Chinese folk art) / to make paper cutouts

notebook / paper notepad / laptop computer

ash from burnt paper

pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras

bank notes / paper currency / CL: 張｜张

paper pattern as model in dressmaking / paper patten

squared paper / graph paper / grid paper (manuscript paper with squares for Chinese characters)

false paper money burned as an offering to the dead

title page / flyleaf / end paper

form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters

lit. paper can't wrap fire; fig. the truth will out

scrap paper

letter paper / writing paper

lit. one object bests another object / every item has a weakness (idiom) / there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock

a piece, scrap or fragment of paper

to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)

dye paper / lake / pond / mount scroll

tall conical paper hat worn as a public humiliation / dunce cap / (fig.) flattery

to present (a gift) / offering / to feed (a signal to a device, paper to a printer etc)

trimmer / paper cutter

(idiom) a piece of paper is too short to convey my feelings

rice paper / membrane of glutinous rice, used to wrap sweets etc

pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras

carbon paper

exam paper

to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write) / paper printed with red characters to trace over

paper flower

litmus paper (chemistry)

money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll / (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession