Vocabulary
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| 孔子 孔子 | Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as | Proper Noun |
| 高宗 高宗 | Gaozong, the temple name of various emperors, notably, and (aka, and respectively) | Proper Noun |
| 蒙古族 蒙古族 | Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia | Proper Noun |
| 广东人 廣東人 | Cantonese (people) | Proper Noun |
| 珠江 珠江 | Pearl River (Guangdong) | Proper Noun |
| 孙中山 孫中山 | Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党; same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙 | Proper Noun |
| 秦军 秦軍 | the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors) | Proper Noun |
| 松潘 松潘 | Songpan County (Tibetan: zung chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 英国人 英國人 | British person; British people | Proper Noun |
| 汪清 汪清 | Wangqing County in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin | Proper Noun |
| 辛亥革命 辛亥革命 | Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 亚丁 亞丁 | Aden | Proper Noun |
| 雷锋 雷鋒 | Lei Feng (1940-1962), a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party | Proper Noun |
| 青藏高原 青藏高原 | Qinghai-Tibetan plateau | Proper Noun |
| 台湾海峡 台灣海峽 | Taiwan Strait | Proper Noun |
| 清朝 清朝 | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 大马士革 大馬士革 | Damascus, capital of Syria | Proper Noun |
| 威尼斯 威尼斯 | Venice; Venezia | Proper Noun |
| 喜马拉雅 喜馬拉雅 | the Himalayas | Proper Noun |
| 木村 木村 | Kimura (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 哥伦布 哥倫布 | Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); Columbus, capital of Ohio | Proper Noun |
| 圣诞老人 聖誕老人 | Father Christmas; Santa Claus | Proper Noun |
| 崇祯 崇禎 | Chongzhen, reign name of last Ming emperor (1628-1644) | Proper Noun |
| 冰心 冰心 | Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer | Proper Noun |
| 清军 清軍 | the Qing army | Proper Noun |
| 洋务运动 洋務運動 | Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动 | Proper Noun |
| 特别行政区 特別行政區 | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门; refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government; refers to special zones in | Proper Noun |
| 珠三角 珠三角 | Pearl River Delta | Proper Noun |
| 鸦片战争 鴉片戰爭 | the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861 | Proper Noun |
| 南美洲 南美洲 | South America | Proper Noun |
| 北斗七星 北斗七星 | (astronomy) Big Dipper | Proper Noun |
| 北非 北非 | North Africa | Proper Noun |
| 印度洋 印度洋 | Indian Ocean | Proper Noun |
| 梅江 梅江 | Meijiang district of Meizhou city 梅州市, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 奔腾 奔騰 | Pentium (microprocessor by Intel) | Proper Noun |
| 布拉格 布拉格 | Prague, capital of Czech Republic | Proper Noun |
| 华南 華南 | Southern China | Proper Noun |
| 茶经 茶經 | the Classic of Tea, first monograph ever on tea and its culture, written by between 760-780 | Proper Noun |
| 磐石 磐石 | Panshi, county-level city in Jilin prefecture 吉林, Jilin province | Proper Noun |
| 山形 山形 | Yamagata prefecture in the north of Japan's main island Honshū | Proper Noun |
| 阿巴 阿巴 | Aba, southeast Nigerian city; Aba, the Lisu 傈僳 word for grandfather | Proper Noun |
| 唐宋 唐宋 | the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties | Proper Noun |
| 迁都 遷都 | to move the capital (city) | Proper Noun |
| 日神 日神 | the Sun God; Apollo | Proper Noun |
| 郊野 郊野 | open area outside the city; countryside | Proper Noun |
| 贾宝玉 賈寶玉 | 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 | Proper Noun |
| 普陀山 普陀山 | Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara) | Proper Noun |
| 戈壁滩 戈壁灘 | Gobi desert | Proper Noun |
| 藏族人 藏族人 | Tibetan (person) | Proper Noun |
| 黄河流域 黃河流域 | the Yellow River basin | Proper Noun |