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 dǎo chū to derive / derived / derivation / to entail / to induce / to export (data)
 yǎn shēng wù a derivative (complex product derived from simpler source material)
 xiàng xíng pictogram / one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 / of forming Chinese characters / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
 mén gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal / derived from Watergate)
 sū yóu chá butter tea (Tibetan, Mongolian etc drink derived from milk)
 bǐ to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
 ā tuō pǐn atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
 xiàng xíng zì pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 / of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
 sū yóu huā butter sculpture (Tibetan art form using paint derived from milk products)
 yǐn shēn yì extended meaning (of an expression) / derived sense
 xún lái fàn chóu (math.) derived category
 bēi guō (slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅[bei1 hei1 guo1]) to carry the can / to be a scapegoat
 yǐ zǐ zhī máo , gōng zǐ zhī dùn lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子) / turning a weapon against its owner / fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices / hoist with his own petard
 gù yǒu cí native words (i.e. not derived from Chinese, in Korean and Japanese etc)
 dǎo chū zhí value deduced by calculation / derived value
 dǎo hán shù derived function / derivative f' of a function f
 zhèng tài young, cute boy / derived from Japanese loanword shotacon 正太控[zheng4 tai4 kong4]
 guò tíng lù lit. Notes on Passing the Hall, historical jottings by 12th century Southern Song poet Fan Gongcheng 范公偁[Fan4 Gong1 cheng1], containing moral instructions derived from great men of Song dynasty
 yīn dú reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 / has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
 xùn dú a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 / is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 / "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 / has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
  Ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology
 nà mó wēn foreman (pidgin derived from "number one", rendered in hanzi) (old)
 xíng yì derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合|场合[chang3 he2], derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")
 qīng néng yuán hydrogen energy (energy derived from using hydrogen as a fuel)
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