Vocabulary
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| 伊犁 伊犁 | Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region; Ili River in central Asia; the Yili basin around Urumqi in Xinjiang | Proper Noun |
| 田间 田間 | field; farm; farming area; village | Proper Noun |
| 南洋 南洋 | Southeast Asia; South seas | Proper Noun |
| 佛性 佛性 | Buddha nature | Proper Noun |
| 苏轼 蘇軾 | Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo, Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose | Proper Noun |
| 法华经 法華經 | The Lotus Sutra | Proper Noun |
| 庄浪 莊浪 | Zhuanglang county in Pingliang, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 墨子 墨子 | Mozi (c. 470-391 BC), founder of the Mohist School, which flourished during the Warring States period (475-220 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 李冰 李冰 | Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC) hydraulic engineer who designed the Dujiangyan irrigation system in Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 三国志 三國志 | History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories, composed by Chen Shou in 289 during Jin Dynasty, 65 scrolls | Proper Noun |
| 永平 永平 | Yongping county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan | Proper Noun |
| 司马迁 司馬遷 | Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian, known as the father of Chinese historiography | Proper Noun |
| 孔孟 孔孟 | Confucius and Mencius | Proper Noun |
| 孝义 孝義 | Xiaoyi, county-level city in Lüliang, Shanxi 山西 | Proper Noun |
| 盐池 鹽池 | Yanchi county in Ningxia; a saltpan | Proper Noun |
| 江浙 江浙 | abbr. for Jiangsu and Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 仪征 儀徵 | Yizheng, county-level city in Yangzhou, Jiangsu | Proper Noun |
| 立夏 立夏 | Lixia or Start of Summer, 7th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 5th-20th May | Proper Noun |
| 汉灵帝 漢靈帝 | Emperor Ling of Han (156-189), reigned from 168 to 189 | Proper Noun |
| 景泰 景泰 | Jingtai county in Baiyin, Gansu; Jingtai Emperor, reign name of seventh Ming Emperor Zhu Qiyu (1428-1457), reigned 1449-1457, temple name | Proper Noun |
| 魏征 魏徵 | Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书 | Proper Noun |
| 察哈尔 察哈爾 | Chahar Province (former province in North China existing from 1912-1936) | Proper Noun |
| 青白 青白 | Qingbaijiang district of Chengdu city, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 琼州 瓊州 | Qiongzhou, historic name for Hainan Island | Proper Noun |
| 天宫 天宮 | Temple in Heaven (e.g. of the Jade Emperor); Tiangong, Chinese space station program | Proper Noun |
| 如来佛 如來佛 | Tathagata, one of the ten sacred names of Buddha | Proper Noun |
| 秀才 秀才 | a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent | Proper Noun |
| 雪梨 雪梨 | Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia (Tw) | Proper Noun |
| 理学 理學 | School of Principle; Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi) | Proper Noun |
| 诸葛 諸葛 | two-character surname Zhuge; Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2] | Proper Noun |
| 梁山 梁山 | Liangshan city and County in Jining, Shandong | Proper Noun |
| 华佗再世 華佗再世 | lit. a reincarnation of Hua Tuo, the legendary physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty (idiom); fig. a highly skilled and virtuous doctor; a miracle-working physician | Proper Noun |
| 阎王殿 閻王殿 | Yama's palace | Proper Noun |
| 中野 中野 | Nakano (Japanese surname and place name) | Proper Noun |
| 川贝 川貝 | Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM) | Proper Noun |
| 李后主 李後主 | Li Houzhu (c. 937-978), the final Southern Tang ruler (ruled 961-975) and a renowned poet; given name Li Yu 李煜 | Proper Noun |
| 松阳 松陽 | Songyang county in Lishui, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 德都 德都 | Dejun, former county, merged into Wudalianchi in Heihe, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 仁丹 仁丹 | Jintan mouth refresher lozenge, produced by Morishita Jintan company from 1905 | Proper Noun |
| 窦娥冤 竇娥冤 | The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by) | Proper Noun |
| 从江 從江 | Congjiang county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou | Proper Noun |
| 李维 李維 | Titus Livius or Livy (59 BC-17 AD), Roman historian | Proper Noun |
| 剑阁 劍閣 | Jiange county in Guangyuan, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 梓潼 梓潼 | Zitong county in Mianyang, north Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 都江堰 都江堰 | Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site; Dujiangyan, county-level city in Chengdu, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 陕甘 陝甘 | Shaanxi and Gansu provinces | Proper Noun |
| 华为 華為 | Huawei (brand) | Proper Noun |
| 木兰 木蘭 | Mulan county in Harbin, Heilongjiang; Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature | Proper Noun |
| 玄武门之变 玄武門之變 | Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗 | Proper Noun |
| 江口 江口 | Jiangkou, a county in Tongren, Guizhou | Proper Noun |