"Essence" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 精华 | jīng huá | best feature / most important part of an object / quintessence / essence / soul |   |
| 精神 | jīng shén | spirit / mind / consciousness / thought / mental / psychological / essence / gist / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 本质 | běn zhì | essence / nature / innate character / intrinsic quality | |
| 实质 | shí zhì | substance / essence | |
| 精英 | jīng yīng | cream / elite / essence / quintessence | |
| 精髓 | jīng suǐ | marrow / pith / quintessence / essence | |
| 菁华 | jīng huá | the cream / essence / the quintessence | |
| 性 |  xìng | nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 精 | jīng | essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic) | |
| 脑 | nǎo | brain / mind / head / essence | |
| 素 | sù | raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever | |
| 粹 | cuì | pure / unmixed / essence | |
| 髓 | suǐ | marrow / essence / quintessence / pith (soft interior of plant stem) | |
| 䯝 | suǐ | variant of 髓 / marrow / essence / quintessence / pith (soft interior of plant stem) | |
| 素质 | sù zhì | inner quality / basic essence | |
| 真谛 | zhēn dì | the real meaning / the true essence | |
| 元神 | yuán shén | primordial spirit / fundamental essence of life | |
| 鸡精 | jī jīng | chicken bouillon powder (PRC) / essence of chicken, concentrated chicken stock sold as a tonic (Tw) | |
| 太虚 | tài xū | great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos | |
| 国粹 | guó cuì | national essence / quintessence of national culture | |
| 理 | lǐ | texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up | |
| 由表及里 | yóu biǎo jí lǐ | to proceed from the outside to the inside / to see the essence merely by looking at the superficial appearance | |
| 真髓 | zhēn suǐ | the real essence (of the matter) | |
| 事物的本质重于外在 | shì wù de běn zhì chóng yú wài zài | essence is more important than external appearance / a rose by any other name would smell as sweet | |
| 取其精华 | qǔ qí jīng huá | to take the best / to absorb the essence | |
| 唯意志论 | wéi yì zhì lùn | voluntarism / metaphysical view, esp. due to Schopenhauer 叔本華|叔本华[Shu1 ben3 hua2], that the essence of the world is willpower | |
| 实相 | shí xiàng | actual situation / the ultimate essence of things (Buddhism) | |
| 悟入 | wù rù | to understand / to comprehend the ultimate essence of things (Buddhism) | |
| 房劳 | fáng láo | deficiency of kidney essence due to sexual excess (TCM) | |
