| 法国 | Fǎ guó | France / French |  |
| 法语 | Fǎ yǔ | French (language) | |
| 法国法郎 | fǎ guó fǎ láng | French | |
| 法国科学院 | fǎ guó kē xué yuàn | French | |
| 法属南部领地 | fǎ shǔ nán bù lǐng dì | French | |
| 法属印度支那 | fǎ shǔ yìn dù zhī nà | French | |
| 东京 | Dōng jīng | Tokyo, capital of Japan / Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period) | |
| 大卫 | Dà wèi | David (name) / Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French neoclassical painter | |
| 家乐福 | Jiā lè fú | Carrefour, French supermarket chain | |
| 法国人 | Fǎ guó rén | Frenchman / French person | |
| 里昂 | Lǐ áng | Lyon, French city on the Rhône | |
| 闪人 | shǎn rén | (coll.) to beat it / to take French leave | |
| 巴特 | Bā tè | Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician | |
| 法文 | Fǎ wén | French language | |
| 兰蔻 | Lán kòu | Lancôme, French cosmetics brand | |
| 薯条 | shǔ tiáo | french fries / french fried potatoes / chips | |
| 雨果 | Yǔ guǒ | Hugo (name) / Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer | |
| 落地窗 | luò dì chuāng | French window / CL:扇[shan4] | |
| 萨特 | Sà tè | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existential philosopher and novelist | |
| 梅森 | Méi sēn | Martin Mersenne (1588-1648, French mathematician) | |
| 法军 | Fǎ jūn | French army | |
| 戴高乐 | Dài Gāo lè | Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959-1969 | |
| 贞德 | 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 | |
| 巴尔扎克 | Bā ěr zhā kè | Honoré / de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine | |
| 四季豆 | sì jì dòu | green bean / French bean / runner bean |  |
| 舌吻 | shé wěn | to French kiss / French kiss | |
| 炸薯条 | zhá shǔ tiáo | french fries | |
| 莫奈 | Mò nài | Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter | |
| 帕斯卡 | Pà sī kǎ | Pascal (name) / Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician | |
| 霞飞 | Xiá fēi | Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One | |
| 左拉 | Zuǒ lā | Zola (name) / Émile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist | |
| 莫泊桑 | Mò bó sāng | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer | |
| 笛卡尔 | Dí kǎ ěr | René / Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher | |
| 大仲马 | Dà Zhòng mǎ | Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French writer | |
| 孟德斯鸠 | Mèng dé sī jiū | Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755), French political philosopher | |
| 德彪西 | Dé biāo xī | Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer | |
| 莫里哀 | Mò lǐ āi | Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy | |
| 巴斯德 | Bā sī dé | Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist | |
| 笛卡儿 | Dí kǎ ér | René / Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and author of Discours de la méthode 方法論|方法论 | |
| 卡宴 | Kǎ yàn | Cayenne, capital of French Guiana | |
| 福楼拜 | fú lóu bài | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French realist novelist, author of Madame Bovary | |
| 孔德 | Kǒng dé | Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French philosopher | |
| 爱丽舍宫 | Aì lì shě Gōng | Elysée Palace, the residence of the president of the French Republic | |
| 巴黎公社 | Bā lí Gōng shè | Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic | |
| 阿尔萨斯 | A1 ěr sà sī | Alsace, French department | |
| 普鲁斯特 | Pǔ lǔ sī tè | Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author | |
| 加尔文 | Jiā ěr wén | Calvin (1509-1564), French protestant reformer | |
| 拉普拉斯 | Lā pǔ lā sī | Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician | |
| 塔希提 | Tǎ xī tí | Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia | |
| 安南 | An1 nán | Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006 | |
| 热尔韦 | Rè ěr wéi | Gervais (name) / Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist | |
| 德雷福斯 | Dé léi fú sī | Dreyfus (name) / Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish background, infamously imprisoned 1894 in miscarriage of justice | |
| 雷诺阿 | Léi nuò ā | Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter | |
| 拉辛 | Lā xīn | Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist | |
| 普鲁东 | Pǔ lǔ dōng | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist philosopher | |
| 布莱叶 | Bù lái yè | Braille (name) / Louis Braille (1809-1852), French educator who invented braille | |
| 法属圭亚那 | Fǎ shǔ Guī yà nà | French Guiana | |
| 安格尔 | An1 gé ěr | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter | |
| 柏辽兹 | Bó liáo zī | Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique | |
| 德勒兹 | Dé lè zī | Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher | |
| 法国大革命 | Fǎ guó Dà gé mìng | French Revolution (1789-1799) | |
| 法国共产党 | fǎ guó gòng chǎn dǎng | French Communist Party | |
| 法国号 | Fǎ guó hào | French horn | |
| 福柯 | Fú kē | Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher | |
| 拉瓦锡 | Lā wǎ xī | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry | |
| 李维史陀 | Lǐ wéi Shǐ tuó | Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), French social anthropologist | |
| 圆明园 | Yuán míng yuán | Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860 | |
| 中法战争 | Zhōng Fǎ Zhàn zhēng | Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam) | |
| 萨科齐 | Sà kē qí | Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012 | |
| 人间喜剧 | rén jiān xǐ jù | La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré / de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克[Ba1 er3 zha1 ke4] | |
| 伽罗瓦 | Jiā luó wà | Évariste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist | |
| 伽罗华 | Jiā luó huà | Évariste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist / also written 伽羅瓦|伽罗瓦 | |
| 勒威耶 | Lè wēi yē | Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune | |
| 勒庞 | Lè Páng | Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician | |
| 卡门柏乳酪 | Kǎ mén bó rǔ lào | Camembert (soft, creamy French cheese) | |
| 古诺 | Gǔ nuò | Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer | |
| 塔列朗 | Tǎ liè lǎng | Talleyrand (name) / Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French diplomat | |
| 孤拔 | Gū bá | Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War | |
| 拉格朗日 | Lā gé lǎng rì | Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist | |
| 拉法格 | Lā fǎ gé | Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx | |
| 拉盖尔 | Lā gài ěr | Laguerre (name) / Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician | |
| 会士 | huì shì | member of religious order / penitent / frater / translation of French agregé / (holder of teaching certificate) | |
| 会士考试 | huì shì kǎo shì | agrégation (exam for teaching diploma in French universities) | |
| 柯西 | Kē xī | Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857), French mathematician | |
| 梅氏 | Méi shì | Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies | |
| 梅西耶 | Méi xī yē | Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies | |
| 梅西叶 | Méi xī yè | Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies | |
| 梅里美 | Méi lǐ měi | Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera | |
| 比基尼岛 | Bǐ jī ní Dǎo | Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific | |
| 比才 | Bì cái | Bizet (name) / Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French musician, composer of opera Carmen | |
| 比斯特 | Bǐ sī tè | Brest (the most western French town) | |
| 泊松 | Bó sōng | S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1] | |
| 法国革命 | Fǎ guó Gé mìng | French Revolution (1789) | |
| 法式色拉酱 | Fǎ shì sè lā jiàng | French dressing / vinaigrette | |
| 湿吻 | shī wěn | French kiss | |
| 炸土豆条 | zhá tǔ dòu tiáo | french fries / (hot) potato chips | |
| 留尼汪 | Liú ní wāng | Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) | |
| 福煦 | Fú xù | Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One | |
| 穆通 | Mù tōng | Mouton (name) / Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system | |
| 笛沙格 | Dí shā gé | Girard Desargues (1591-1661), French geometer | |
