| 描述 | miáo shù | to describe / description |   |
| 简述 | jiǎn shù | to outline / to summarize / to sketch / summary / brief description / concise narrative / in a nutshell / briefly | |
| 秋水 | qiū shuǐ | limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes) | |
| 各色 | gè sè | all kinds / of every description | |
| 千奇百怪 | qiān qí bǎi guài | fantastic oddities of every description (idiom) | |
| 奇形怪状 | qí xíng guài zhuàng | fantastic oddities of every description (idiom) / grotesquely shaped | |
| 抒写 | shū xiě | to express (emotions in prose) / a written description (of emotions) | |
| 工笔 | gōng bǐ | gongbi, traditional Chinese painting method characterized by meticulous brush technique and detailed description | |
| 名目繁多 | míng mù fán duō | names of many kinds (idiom) / items of every description | |
| 不可名状 | bù kě míng zhuàng | indescribable / beyond description | |
| 不可胜言 | bù kě shèng yán | inexpressible (idiom) / beyond description | |
| 半封建半殖民地 | bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì | semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang) | |
| 浮生六记 | fú shēng liù jì | Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复[Shen3 Fu4], published 1808 | |
| 苦役或非苦役徒刑 | kǔ yì huò fēi kǔ yì tú xíng | imprisonment of either description | |
| 基准职位说明 | | benchmark post description / benchmark job description | |
| 工作说明 | | job description | |
| 职务说明 | | job description | |
| 商品名称及编码协调制度 | | Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System / Harmonized System | |
| 协调制度 | | Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System / Harmonized System | |
| 结构化产品描述 | | Structured Product Description | |
| 商品名称及编码协调制度国际公约 | | International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System | |
| 国际标准书目着录 | | International Standard Bibliographic Description | |
| 核材料说明 | | nuclear material description / material description | |
| 莫属 | mò shǔ | (the 3rd part of a 3-part construction: 非[fei1] + (noun) + 莫屬|莫属, meaning "to be none other than (noun) / would have to be (noun)") (this construction comes after a description of a person or thing that has a certain attribute) | |
