| 来自 | lái zì | to come from (a place) / From: (in email header) |   |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region / regional (away from the central administration) / local | |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line) / continuously / always / from the beginning of ... up to ... / all along | |
| 除了 | chú le | besides / apart from (... also...) / in addition to / except (for) | |
| 下来 | xià lai | to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders) | |
| 韩国 | Hán guó | South Korea (Republic of Korea) / Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄[zhan4 guo2 qi1 xiong2] / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897 | |
| 距离 | jù lí | distance / CL:個|个[ge4] / to be apart from | |
| 避免 | bì miǎn | to avert / to prevent / to avoid / to refrain from | |
| 来看 | lái kàn | to come and see / to see a topic from a certain point of view | |
| 始终 | shǐ zhōng | from beginning to end / all along | |
| 传说 | chuán shuō | legend / folklore / to repeat from mouth to mouth / they say that... | |
| 反正 | fǎn zhèng | anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side | |
| 今后 | jīn hòu | hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on | |
| 从此 | cóng cǐ | from now on / since then / henceforth | |
| 不禁 | bù jīn | can't help (doing sth) / can't refrain from | |
| 以外 | yǐ wài | apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond | |
| 一身 | yī shēn | whole body / from head to toe / single person / a suit of clothes | |
| 出处 | chū chù | source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion) / origin / where sth comes from | |
| 体会 | tǐ huì | to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience | |
| 由此 | yóu cǐ | hereby / from this | |
| 外观 | wài guān | exterior appearance / to view sth from the outside / exterior condition | |
| 前后 | qián hòu | around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear | |
| 出门 | chū mén | to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married | |
| 流动 | liú dòng | to flow / to circulate / to go from place to place / to be mobile / (of assets) liquid | |
| 其余 | qí yú | the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them | |
| 失眠 | shī mián | to suffer from insomnia | |
| 三国 | Sān guó | Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1 luo2] in 658 | |
| 浑身 | hún shēn | all over / from head to foot | |
| 离婚 | lí hūn | to divorce / divorced from (one's spouse) | |
| 从小 | cóng xiǎo | from childhood / from a young age | |
| 摆脱 | bǎi tuō | to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself | |
| 弹出 | tán chū | to eject / to exit from / to pop up | |
| 脱离 | tuō lí | to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany) | |
| 不时 | bù shí | from time to time / now and then / occasionally / frequently | |
| 远离 | yuǎn lí | to be far from / to keep away from | |
| 全程 | quán chéng | the whole distance / from beginning to end | |
| 洛阳 | Luò yáng | Luoyang prefecture-level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times | |
| 就此 | jiù cǐ | at this point / thus / from then on | |
| 借助 | jiè zhù | to draw support from / with the help of | |
| 从中 | cóng zhōng | from within / therefrom | |
| 背影 | bèi yǐng | rear view / figure seen from behind / view of the back (of a person or object) | |
| 难免 | nán miǎn | hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably | |
| 出身 | chū shēn | to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin | |
| 传世 | chuán shì | handed down from ancient times / family heirloom | |
| 改革开放 | gǎi gé kāi fàng | to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980 | |
| 一贯 | yī guàn | consistent / constant / from start to finish / all along / persistent | |
| 隐患 | yǐn huàn | a danger concealed within sth / hidden damage / misfortune not visible from the surface | |
| 避开 | bì kāi | to avoid / to evade / to keep away from | |
| 借鉴 | jiè jiàn | to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others) | |
| 出自 | chū zì | to come from | |
| 堕落 | duò luò | to degrade / to degenerate / to become depraved / corrupt / a fall from grace | |
| 山水 | shān shuǐ | water from a mountain / mountains and rivers / scenery / landscape | |
| 闪过 | shǎn guò | to flash through (one's mind) / to dodge (away from pursuers) | |
| 受益 | shòu yì | to benefit from / profit | |
| 民工 | mín gōng | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project | |
| 销售额 | xiāo shòu é | sales figure / total income from sales / turnover | |
| 生机 | shēng jī | opportunity to live / to reprieve from death / life force / vitality | |
| 从头 | cóng tóu | anew / from the start | |
| 香烟 | xiāng yān | cigarette / smoke from burning incense / CL:支[zhi1],條|条[tiao2] | |
| 转发 | zhuǎn fā | to transmit / to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data) / to pass on / to republish (an article from another publication) | |
| 武术 | wǔ shù | military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3] | |
| 麻醉 | má zuì | anesthesia / to anesthetize / (fig.) to corrupt (sb's mind) / to enervate / to numb the mind (to escape from harsh reality) | |
| 浮现 | fú xiàn | to appear before one's eyes / to come into view / to float into appearance / to come back (of images from the past) / to emerge / it emerges / it occurs (to me that..) | |
| 逃跑 | táo pǎo | to flee from sth / to run away / to escape | |
| 观望 | guān wàng | to wait and see / to watch from the sidelines / to look around / to survey | |
| 遥控 | yáo kòng | to direct operations from a remote location / to remotely control | |
| 与众不同 | yǔ zhòng bù tóng | to stand out from the masses (idiom) | |
| 满面 | mǎn miàn | across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear | |
| 农民工 | nóng mín gōng | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) | |
| 往后 | wǎng hòu | from now on / in the future / time to come | |
| 出乎 | chū hū | due to / to stem from / to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc) / to go against (expectations) | |
| 分组 | fēn zǔ | to divide into groups / group (formed from a larger group) / subgroup / (computer networking) packet | |
| 温家宝 | Wēn Jiā bǎo | Wen Jiabao (1942-), Premier of PRC from 2003-2013 | |
| 视角 | shì jiǎo | angle from which one observes an object / (fig.) perspective / viewpoint / frame of reference / (cinematography) camera angle / (visual perception) visual angle (the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye) / (photography) angle of view | |
| 除此之外 | chú cǐ zhī wài | apart from this / in addition to this | |
| 起源 | qǐ yuán | origin / to originate / to come from | |
| 贯穿 | guàn chuān | to run through / a connecting thread from beginning to end / to link | |
| 除去 | chú qù | to eliminate / to remove / except for / apart from | |
| 租用 | zū yòng | to lease / to hire / to rent (sth from sb) | |
| 一回事 | yī huí shì | one and the same (thing) / one thing (as distinct from another) | |
| 折腾 | zhē teng | to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly) / to repeat sth over and over again / to torment sb / to play crazy / to squander (time, money) | |
| 手心 | shǒu xīn | palm (of one's hand) / control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand) | |
| 时而 | shí ér | occasionally / from time to time | |
| 同人 | tóng rén | people from the same workplace or profession / co-worker / colleague / pop culture enthusiasts who create fan fiction etc | |
| 归纳 | guī nà | to sum up / to summarize / to conclude from facts / induction (method of deduction in logic) | |
| 离别 | lí bié | to leave (on a long journey) / to part from sb | |
| 白酒 | bái jiǔ | baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒[bai2 pu2 tao5 jiu3]) | |
| 生肖 | shēng xiào | one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1] / animal from the Chinese zodiac | |
| 近代 | jìn dài | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | |
| 多方 | duō fāng | in many ways / from all sides | |
| 诚聘 | chéng pìn | to seek to recruit / to invite job applications from | |
| 开采 | kāi cǎi | to extract (ore or other resource from a mine) / to exploit / to mine | |
| 出世 | chū shì | to be born / to come into being / to withdraw from worldly affairs | |
| 安宁 | ān níng | peaceful / tranquil / calm / composed / free from worry | |
| 老乡 | lǎo xiāng | fellow townsman / fellow villager / sb from the same hometown | |
| 禁忌 | jìn jì | taboo / contraindication (medicine) / to abstain from | |
| 绝缘 | jué yuán | to have no contact with / to be cut off from / (electricity) to insulate | |
| 不妙 | bù miào | (of a turn of events) not too encouraging / far from good / anything but reassuring | |
| 金星 | jīn xīng | gold star / stars (that one sees from blow to the head etc) | |
| 出货 | chū huò | to take money or valuables out of storage / to recover / to ship goods / to extract (chemicals from solution) | |
