| 事儿 | shì r | one's employment / business / matter that needs to be settled / (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding / trying / troublesome / erhua variant of 事[shi4] / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] |   |
| 苛刻 | kē kè | harsh / severe / demanding | |
| 难缠 | nán chán | (usu. of people) difficult / demanding / troublesome / unreasonable / hard to deal with | |
| 苛求 | kē qiú | demanding | |
| 费工夫 | fèi gōng fu | to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting | |
| 劳心劳力 | láo xīn láo lì | to tax one's mind and body / demanding (work) / dedicated (worker) / hard-working | |
| 冤魂 | yuān hún | ghost of one who died unjustly / departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances | |
| 从难从严 | cóng nán cóng yán | demanding and strict (idiom) / exacting | |
| 未报 | wèi bào | unavenged / still demanding retribution | |
| 碰磁人 | pèng cí rén | person involved in a currently widespread fraud in PRC called 碰磁, consisting of crashing cars then demanding compensation | |
| 碰磁儿 | pèng cí r | a currently widespread fraud in PRC involving deliberately crashing cars then demanding compensation | |
| 诛求 | zhū qiú | exorbitant demands / demanding with menaces / extortion | |
| 三大纪律八项注意 | Sān Dà Jì lu:4 Bā Xiàng Zhù yì | the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime | |
| 吃拿卡要 | chī ná qiǎ yào | dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power | |
| 碰瓷 | pèng cí | (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car) | |
| 一二九运动 | Yī èr Jiǔ Yùn dòng | December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression | |
