Vocabulary
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| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 吗 嗎 | (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 中国人 中國人 | Chinese person | Proper Noun |
| 陕西 陝西 | Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an | Proper Noun |
| 南京 南京 | Nanjing, sub-provincial city and capital of Jiangsu Province; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368-1421) and of the Republic of China (1927-1937 and 1946-1949) | Proper Noun |
| 上海 上海 | Shanghai municipality | Proper Noun |
| 北大 北大 | Peking University | Proper Noun |
| 秦国 秦國 | the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 香港 香港 | Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC | Proper Noun |
| 法国 法國 | France | Proper Noun |
| 水里 水裡 | Shuili Township in Nantou County, central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 十一 十一 | PRC National Day (October 1st) | Proper Noun |
| 吴国 吳國 | Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods); Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 the southernmost of the three Kingdoms | Proper Noun |
| 太白 太白 | Taibai County in Baoji, Shaanxi; Venus | Proper Noun |
| 大秦 大秦 | Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire | Proper Noun |
| 台湾 台灣 | variant of | Proper Noun |
| 三月 三月 | March; third month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 四月 四月 | April; fourth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 中共 中共 | abbr. for, Chinese Communist Party | Proper Noun |
| 粤语 粵語 | Cantonese language | Proper Noun |
| 北京大学 北京大學 | Peking University | Proper Noun |
| 中西 中西 | China and the West; Chinese-Western | Proper Noun |
| 五月 五月 | May; fifth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 东山 東山 | Dongshan county in Zhangzhou, Fujian; Tungshan township in Tainan county, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 大正 大正 | Taishō, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1912-1926) of emperor Yoshihito | Proper Noun |
| 日本 日本 | Japan | Proper Noun |
| 韩国 韓國 | South Korea (Republic of Korea); (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States | Proper Noun |
| 三星 三星 | Samsung (South Korean electronics company); Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 上都 上都 | Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) | Proper Noun |
| 关中 關中 | Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 元月 元月 | first month (of either lunar or Western calendars) | Proper Noun |
| 太和 太和 | Taihe, a county in Fuyang, Anhui; Taihe, a district of Jinzhou City, Liaoning | Proper Noun |
| 京东 京東 | Jingdong, Chinese e-commerce company | Proper Noun |
| 天问 天問 | Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan; Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem | Proper Noun |
| 殷商 殷商 | final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province | Proper Noun |
| 南宋 南宋 | the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) | Proper Noun |
| 商鞅 商鞅 | Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 有一些 有一些 | somewhat; rather; some | |
| 说起来 說起來 | Say | |
| 昨 昨 | yesterday; in former times, past | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 有请 有請 | to request the pleasure of seeing sb; to ask sb in; to ask sb to do sth (e.g. make a speech) | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 那个 那個 | that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler | |
| 一种 一種 | one kind of; one type of | |
| 不是 不是 | no; is not; not |