Vocabulary
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| 慈禧 慈禧 | Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908) | Proper Noun |
| 惠安 惠安 | Hui'an, a county in Quanzhou City, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 丝绸之路 絲綢之路 | the Silk Road | Proper Noun |
| 唐宋 唐宋 | the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties | Proper Noun |
| 桥镇 橋鎮 | Bridgetown, capital of Barbados (Tw) | Proper Noun |
| 玉龙雪山 玉龍雪山 | Mt Yulong or Jade dragon in Lijiang 麗江|丽江, northwest Yunnan | Proper Noun |
| 清代 清代 | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 长江流域 長江流域 | Changjiang or Yangtze river basin | Proper Noun |
| 回族 回族 | Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China | Proper Noun |
| 屈原 屈原 | Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞 | Proper Noun |
| 海盐 海鹽 | Haiyan county in Jiaxing, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 豆瓣 豆瓣 | Douban, a Chinese social networking website | Proper Noun |
| 故宫博物院 故宮博物院 | Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing; National Palace Museum, Taipei | Proper Noun |
| 广式 廣式 | Cantonese-style | Proper Noun |
| 战国 戰國 | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 金庸 金庸 | Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy | Proper Noun |
| 德语 德語 | German (language) | Proper Noun |
| 礼记 禮記 | Classic of Rites | Proper Noun |
| 清末 清末 | the final years of the Qing dynasty; late Qing | Proper Noun |
| 斗门 斗門 | Doumen District of Zhuhai City, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 滨松 濱松 | Hamamatsu, city in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan | Proper Noun |
| 都昌 都昌 | Duchang county in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 亚欧 亞歐 | Europe and Asia; Eurasia | Proper Noun |
| 西华县 西華縣 | Xihua county in Zhoukou, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 芋泥 芋泥 | yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine) | Proper Noun |
| 宁南 寧南 | Ningnan County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 南特 南特 | Nantes (city in France) | Proper Noun |
| 古县 古縣 | Gu county in Linfen, Shanxi | Proper Noun |
| 平江县 平江縣 | Pingjiang county in Yueyang, Hunan | Proper Noun |
| 宋慈 宋慈 | Song Ci (1186-1249), author of "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247), said to be the world's first forensic science text | Proper Noun |
| 苍南 蒼南 | Cangnan county in Wenzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 丽江市 麗江市 | Lijiang, prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province | Proper Noun |
| 西王母 西王母 | Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality; popularly known as 王母娘娘 | Proper Noun |
| 说文解字 說文解字 | Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen in 2nd century | Proper Noun |
| 越式 越式 | Vietnamese-style | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 郑 鄭 | the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng, a county-level city in Henan; surname Zheng; abbr. for Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan | |
| 郭 郭 | outer part (of a city); surname | |
| 沙茶 沙茶 | satay (spicy peanut sauce), also spelled sate | |
| 骨 骨 | bone; skeleton; frame, framework | |
| 泽 澤 | marsh, swamp; grace, brilliance | |
| 温 溫 | lukewarm | |
| 武 武 | military; martial, warlike | |
| 膏 膏 | grease, fat; paste, ointment | |
| 放入 放入 | to put in; to insert | |
| 调味 調味 | seasoning; condiment; flavoring; dressing; essences | |
| 意 意 | meaning, intent | |
| 当归 當歸 | Angelica sinensis | |
| 雅 雅 | elegant, graceful, refined | |
| 杜 杜 | stop, prevent; restrict; surname |