| | 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.) | HSK 1 |
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| | (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人) | HSK 1 |
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| | a man / a male / men / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) | HSK 2 |
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| | schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male) | HSK 1 |
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| | (bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位 | HSK 1 |
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| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older | HSK 4 |
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| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | HSK 1 |
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| | 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 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | glass / CL: 張|张, 塊|块 / (slang) male homosexual | HSK 5 |
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| | the male sex / a male | HSK 5 |
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| | male-female / male and female | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) young man; polite or friendly form of address or reference for a young male | |
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| | to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc) / Taiwan pr. [tu2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | male villager; (derog.) male peasant | |
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| | clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role | HSK 6 |
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| | (coll.) two brothers; two close male friends | |
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| | a man; a male | HSK 3 |
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| | form of address for a (slightly) older man (esp. among males) | |
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| | duck (CL: 隻|只) / (slang) male prostitute | HSK 5 |
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| | (coll.) male cousin through a female relative | |
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| | male / man (Cantonese) | |
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| | male and female / both types (acid and alkaline, positive and negative etc) / (chemistry) amphoteric | |
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| | (bound form) father / (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父) / (computing) (bound form) parent- | |
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| | Viagra (male impotence drug) | |
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| | (vulgar) male pubic hair / (vulgar) asshole; jerk; dickhead | |
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| | (zoology) (of a female) to be in heat; (of a male) to be in rut | |
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| | senior or older male schoolmate | |
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| | measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male | |
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| | (coll.) teen idol (male) | |
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| | positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴 | |
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| | junior or younger male schoolmate | |
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| | Tian Liang (1979-), former male Chinese diver, Olympic medalist | |
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| | circumcision (male or female) | |
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| | male chauvinist | |
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| | cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | virgin (male) | |
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| | number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants | |
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| | power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals | |
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| | virgin male | |
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| | (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal | |
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| | male / staminate / grand / imposing / powerful / mighty / person or state having great power and influence | |
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| | younger male patrilineal cousin | |
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| | wife of older male cousin via female line | |
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| | Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵|薛宝钗 | |
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| | (TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive | |
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| | henpecked male | |
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| | senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | male fellow disciples; fellow apprentices | |
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| | (coll.) top-ranked male; leading male; top male personality (in a particular field, esp. in entertainment or sports) | |
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| | young, unmarried male; young guy | |
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| | male star / famous actor | |
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| | debut (by a male performer or sports player) | |
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| | male taxi driver / cabbie (slang) | |
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| | male eagle; tercel | |
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| | B2B; business-to-business / (of a connector) male-to-male | |
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| | man / male / male compatriot | |
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| | male cat / tomcat | |
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| | bolt (male component of nut and bolt) | |
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| | (coll.) bald crown; male pattern baldness | |
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| | to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom) | |
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| | adult male | |
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| | otome game – a romance simulation game targeted at women, typically featuring female protagonists and multiple male love interests (abbr. for 乙女遊戲|乙女游戏) | |
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| | male chauvinism | |
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| | Thomas (male name) | |
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| | Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist | |
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| | (of male friends) to have been through thick and thin together / to be like family / to share the same view of things | |
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| | hairdresser / beautician (male) | |
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| | place in Shanghai / (coll.) male homosexual | |
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| | queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang) | |
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| | male lion | |
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| | male baby | |
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| | uncle (polite form of address for older male) | |
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| | wife of younger male cousin via female line / younger cousins via female line | |
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| | (coll.) very close male friends | |
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| | son of a male cousin via female line | |
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| | male chauvinism | |
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| | (male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner | |
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| | male cousin through a female relative | |
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| | (slang) male high school student | |
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| | cock / male breeding poultry | |
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| | male gamete; sperm cell | |
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| | male husky (dog) | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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| | starring male role in a Chinese opera | |
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| | male worker | |
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| | my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male | |
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| | Malé, capital of Maldives | |
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| | stud / male animal kept to breed offspring | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | (female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa") / male friend | |
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| | softshell turtle / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel | |
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| | male guest; male visitor | |
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| | fujoshi (woman who likes manga about male homosexual love) (derived from Japanese 腐女子 "fujoshi") | |
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| | (literary) underage male servant | |
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