"Essentials" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 要领 | yào lǐng | main aspects / essentials / gist |   |
| 要义 | yào yì | the essentials | |
| 精义 | jīng yì | quintessence / essentials | |
| 文房四宝 | wén fáng sì bǎo | Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆|笔[bi3], 墨[mo4], 紙|纸[zhi3] and 硯|砚[yan4] / the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | |
| 提纲挈领 | tí gāng qiè lǐng | to concentrate on the main points (idiom) / to bring out the essentials | |
| 简省 | jiǎn shěng | to simplify / to reduce to essentials / economical | |
