| 保守 | bǎo shǒu | conservative / to guard / to keep |   |
| 守旧 | shǒu jiù | conservative / reactionary | |
| 右倾 | yòu qīng | right-wing / reactionary / conservative / (PRC) rightist deviation | |
| 抱残守缺 | bào cán shǒu quē | to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom) / conservative / stickler for tradition | |
| 保残守缺 | bǎo cán shǒu quē | conservative / to preserve the outmoded | |
| 守旧派 | shǒu jiù pài | person who sticks to old ways / a diehard / a conservative | |
| 套中人 | tào zhōng rén | a conservative | |
| 率由卓章 | shuài yóu zhuó zhāng | (idiom) / conservative | |
| 迂拘 | yū jū | conventional / conservative | |
| 保守派 | bǎo shǒu pài | conservative faction | |
| 保守党 | bǎo shǒu dǎng | conservative political parties | |
| 撒切尔 | Sā qiē ěr | Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 | |
| 因循守旧 | yīn xún shǒu jiù | (idiom) to continue in the same old rut / diehard conservative attitudes | |
| 故步自封 | gù bù zì fēng | stuck in the old ways (idiom) / refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative | |
| 泥古不化 | nì gǔ bù huà | conservative and unable to adapt (idiom) | |
| 旧调重弹 | jiù diào chóng tán | replaying the same old tunes (idiom) / conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff | |
| 李鹏 | Lǐ Péng | Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown | |
| 瓦哈比教派 | wǎ hā bǐ jiào pài | Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam) | |
| 撒切尔夫人 | Sā qiē ěr Fū ren | Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 | |
| 泥古 | nì gǔ | stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative | |
| 泥守 | nì shǒu | stubborn and conservative | |
| 旧派 | jiù pài | old school / conservative faction | |
| 旧调子 | jiù diào zi | old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff | |
| 西科尔斯基 | Xī kē ěr sī jī | Sikorski (name) / Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007 | |
| 迂讷 | yū nè | overcautious / conservative and dull in conversation | |
| 迪斯雷利 | Dí sī léi lì | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880 | |
| 麦克米兰 | Mài kè mǐ lán | McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963 | |
| 社会保守主义党 | | Social Conservative Party / Conservative Social Party | |
| 美国保守派联盟 | | American Conservative Union | |
| 尼加拉瓜保守民主党 | | Conservative Democratic Party of Nicaragua | |
| 老古板 | lǎo gǔ bǎn | overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square | |
