| 楹联 | yíng lián | couplet (hung on the columns of a hall) |   |
| 对句 | duì jú | couplet | |
| 门对 | mén duì | couplet (hung on each side of the door frame) | |
| 门联 | mén lián | couplet (hung on each side of the door frame) | |
| 对句 | duì jù | couplet | |
| 千古 | qiān gǔ | for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead) | |
| 对联 | duì lián | rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2] | |
| 对子 | duì zǐ | pair of antithetical phrases / antithetical couplet | |
| 春联 | chūn lián | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
| 青出于蓝 | qīng chū yú lán | lit. green is born of blue, but beats blue (idiom) / fig. the student becomes superior to the master / same as couplet 青出於藍,而勝於藍|青出于蓝,而胜于蓝 | |
| 联 |  lián | to ally / to unite / to join / (poetry) antithetical couplet | |
| 章回小说 | zhāng huí xiǎo shuō | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet | |
| 颔联 | hàn lián | third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet | |
| 对子 | duì zi | pair of antithetical phrases / antithetical couplet | |
