| 所发现 | suǒ fā xiàn | discovered / what one discovers |  |
| 北京人 | Běi jīng rén | Beijing resident / Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4], Beijing | |
| 案发 | àn fā | (of a crime) to occur / (old) (of a crime) to be discovered / to investigate a crime on the spot | |
| 可遇不可求 | kě yù bù kě qiú | can be discovered but not sought (idiom) / one can only come across such things serendipitously | |
| 多普勒 | Duō pǔ lè | Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect | |
| 北京猿人 | Běi jīng yuán rén | Peking ape-man / Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4] in 1921 | |
| 谷神星 | Gǔ shén xīng | Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi | |
| 智神星 | Zhì shén xīng | Pallas, an asteroid, discovered in 1802 by H.W. Olbers | |
| 灶神星 | Zào shén xīng | Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers | |
| 莫霍洛维奇 | Mò huò luò wéi qí | Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić / (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho | |
| 阿普尔顿 | A1 pǔ ěr dùn | Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere | |
| 擒人节 | Qín rén jié | (jocular) Valentine's Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day | |
| 龙人 | Lóng rén | Dragon Man, the nickname of the individual whose fossilized cranium was discovered in Heilongjiang in 1933, thought to be a Denisovan 丹尼索瓦人[Dan1 ni2 suo3 wa3 ren2] or a new species of extinct human, Homo longi | |
