| | 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° | HSK 5 |
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| | 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° | HSK 5 |
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| | 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 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | steelyard balance; Roman balance / CL: 臺｜台 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta | |
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| | phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization) | |
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| | Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire 羅馬帝國｜罗马帝国 | |
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| | self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa | |
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| | (of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa | |
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| | Roman sandals / ankle-strap sandals | |
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| | method of counting (e.g. decimal or Roman numbers) | |
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| | age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta | |
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| | ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / ninth in order / letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 345° / nona | |
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| | Poseidon, Greek god of the sea / Neptune, Roman god of the sea / Aquaman, DC comic book superhero / (slang) womanizer / player | |
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| | Heracles (Greek mythology) / Hercules (Roman mythology) | |
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| | Byzantium / Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire (395-1453) | |
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| | Juneau, capital of Alaska / Juno, Roman goddess of marriage | |
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| | Diana (goddess in Roman mythology) | |
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| | tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / tenth in order / letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 15° / deca | |
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| | When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do | |
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| | according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79 / Pompey (Roman general) | |
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| | ancient name for east Roman empire | |
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| | the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教 | |
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| | When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do | |
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| | Roman Tam (1945–2002), Canto-pop singer | |
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| | consul (of the Roman Republic) / magistrate (chief administrator) | |
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| | Pompeii, ancient Roman town near Naples, Italy | |
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| | Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty | |
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| | Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) | |
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| | Venus (mythology, Roman goddess of love) | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and philosopher | |
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| | Titus Livius or Livy (59 BC-17 AD), Roman historian | |
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| | Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s | |
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| | Mars (Roman God of War) | |
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| | nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches) | |
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| | Roman numerals | |
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| | the Holy Roman Empire (history) | |
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| | Horace, full Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), Roman poet | |
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| | Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system | |
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| | Herod the Great (73 BC - 4 BC), Roman-appointed king of Judea (37-4 BC) | |
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| | Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800 | |
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| | aquiline nose / Roman nose | |
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| | Mercury (Roman god) | |
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| | Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system | |
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| | Han dynasty name for countries in far West / may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire | |
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| | Diocletian (c. 245-311), Roman emperor | |
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| | Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453) | |
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| | Lupercalia, Roman festival to Pan on 15th February | |
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| | Cantonese romanization / Jyutping, one of the many Cantonese romanization systems | |
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| | Jupiter (Roman god) | |
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| | Chinese postal romanization, developed in the early 1900s, used until the 1980s | |
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| | romanization | |
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| | Roman Catholicism | |
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| | lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do | |
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| | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
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| | Jyutping, one of the many Cantonese romanization systems / abbr. of 粵語拼音｜粤语拼音 | |
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| | romanization | |
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| | Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor | |
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| | lit. whatever mountain one is on, one should sing its songs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do | |
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| | the ten Heavenly Stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) | |
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| | same as 天干 / the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) | |
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| | Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26 | |
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| | Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC), Roman general and statesman | |
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| | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
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| | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
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| | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
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| | Wade-Giles (romanization system for Chinese) | |
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| | Brutus (name) / Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar / Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic | |
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| | Flavius (Roman historian of 1st century AD) | |
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| | roman à clef | |
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| | Aurora, Roman goddess of dawn | |
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| | to burst or force open a door / to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church) / to score a goal (in football, hockey etc) | |
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| | Virgil or Vergilius (70-19 BC), Roman poet and author of the Aeneid 埃涅阿斯紀｜埃涅阿斯纪 | |
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| | Roman letters / Roman alphabet | |
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| | Epistle of St Paul to the Romans | |
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| | Roman law | |
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| | caligae (sandals worn by Roman soldiers in ancient times) / (fashion) Roman-style sandals / ankle-strap sandals | |
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| | (proverb) to follow local customs / When in Rome, do as the Romans do. | |
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| | the common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003 | |
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| | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
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