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 Yīng yǔ English (language)
 Yīng wén English (language)
 yīng zhì English
 yīng gé lán zú qiú guàn jūn English
 tiān zǐ the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
 Yǎ sī IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
 Yīng yǔ jiāo xué English Language Teaching (ELT) / studying and teaching English
 Zhōng guó Rì bào China Daily (an English language newspaper)
 zuò xiù to show off (loanword, from English "show") / to grandstand / to perform in a stage show
 dàng jī to crash (of a computer) / to stop working / (loanword from English "down")
 yì chéng to translate into (Chinese, English etc)
 Měi yǔ American English
 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols
 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]
 Yīng yǔ jiǎo English corner / spoken English practice group
 Yīng yǔ xì anglophone / English department
 Bā lì Pali, language of Theravad Pali canon / Barry (name) / Gareth Barry (1981-), English footballer
 Huò jīn Hawkins or Hawking / Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), English theoretical physicist
 Zhēn dé Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan
 Lái sī tè Lester or Leicester (name) / Leicester, English city in East Midlands
 Zhuó bié lín Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
 Yīng yì English translation
 Zhōng Yīng duì zhào Chinese English parallel texts
 Mǐ ěr dùn Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
 Dí gēng sī Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
 Tuō yè TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)
 jī (bound form) base / foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
 tīng to listen / to hear / to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages
 Yīng jí lì Hǎi xiá English Channel
 Tú líng Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science
 yì easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
 Bài lún George Byron (1788-1824), English poet
 Qiáo sǒu Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]
 Hú kè Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
 bù dìng guàn cí indefinite article (e.g. English a, an)
 Pǔ cì máo sī Portsmouth, southern English seaport
 huá zī huá sī surname Wordsworth / William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English romantic poet
 Dàn ní shēng Tennyson (name) / Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet
 Lán nóng John Lennon (1940-1980), English singer, guitarist, and songwriter
 nǎi xī milkshake (Note: 昔[xi1] is loaned from English "shake" via Cantonese 昔, pr. sik1)
 Hēng lì Wǔ shì Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt / History of Henry V by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4]
·  Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
 Jiā lái Hǎi xiá Strait of Calais in the English channel / Strait of Dover / Pas-de-Calais, département of France
 Kǎ wén dí shí Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist
·  Charlotte Brontë / (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱
 Lā fū bǎo Loughborough, English city
 Dōng mì dé lán East Midlands, English county
西·  Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
 Hàn Yīng hù yì Chinese and English two-way translation
 Bō yì ěr Robert Boyle (1627-1691), English chemist
·  Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 简・奧斯汀|简・奥斯汀[Jian3 · / Ao4 si1 ting1]
 xiàn zài fēn cí present participle (in English grammar)
 Wǎ lǐ sī Wallis (name) / John Wallis (1616-1703), English mathematician, precursor of Newton
·  John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
 Shèng nu:3 Zhēn dé Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
 tīng tóu a can (loanword from English "tin")
 Yīng yǔ rè English language fan / enthusiasm for English
·  Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
 Lái sī tè jùn Leicestershire, English county
 yì zì translation from / loan from (e.g. English word)
 yú hé zhá tǔ dòu tiáo r fish and chips (traditional English food)
 Yīng guó guǎn English horn
 Lǐ Yǎ gè James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English
 yīng wén kǒu yì kē English Interpretation Section
  English Translation Service
  Publishing, Referencing and English Section
 yīng wén rì English Language Day
绿  Green English
 yīng wén zhú zì jì lù kē English Verbatim Section
  English Text-Processing Unit
  English Translation and Text-Processing Section
  English Translation Unit
  English Unit
 Hēng lì · Hā dé xùn Henry Hudson (?-1611?), English explorer and navigator
 Kè lǐ sī tīng · Bèi ěr Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
 Xià luò tè · Bó liáng tè Charlotte Brontë / (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡・愛|简・爱[Jian3 Ai4]
西 Fú lán xī sī · Péi gēn Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
 Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
西 Fǎ lán xī sī · Péi gēn Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist
 Zhēn · Aò sī tīng Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 簡・奧斯汀|简・奥斯汀[Jian3 · / Ao4 si1 ting1]
 Yuē hàn · Běn rén John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
 Shā lā · Bù lái màn Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
 Sāi mú ěr · Yuē hàn xùn Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
 Tuō mǎ sī · Hā dài Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
 Tuō mǎ sī · Sì tè ēn sī · Aì lu:è tè T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), English poet
 Kē lín · Fú sī Colin Firth, English actor (1960-)
 Jié fú lǐ · Qiáo sǒu Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]
 Quán mín Yīng jiǎn General English Proficiency Test (GEPT), commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999
 Qiáo zhì · Bù ěr George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and the inventor of Boolean logic
 Yáng jīng bāng Yīng yǔ pidgin English
西 Pò xī · Bǐ xī · Xuě lái Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic poet
鸿 Gū Hóng míng Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views
 Máo mǔ Maugham (family name) / W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English writer
 Bèi yè sī Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
· Shā lā · Bù lái màn Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
· Yuē hàn · Běn rén John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
· Zhēn · Aò sī tīng Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 簡·奧斯汀|简·奥斯汀[Jian3 · / Ao4 si1 ting1]
西· Fǎ lán xī sī · Péi gēn Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
· Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
·· Tuō mǎ sī · Sì tè ēn sī · Aì lu:è tè T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), English poet
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