| 类型 | lèi xíng | type / category / genre / form / style / (computer programming) type |   |
| 体裁 | tǐ cái | genre / style / form of writing | |
| 流派 | liú pài | tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style | |
| 文体 | wén tǐ | genre of writing / literary form / style / literary recreation and sporting activities | |
| 恶搞 | è gǎo | spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc) | |
| 无厘头 | wú lí tóu | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century | |
| 小调 | xiǎo diào | xiaodiao, a Chinese folk song genre / minor key (in music) | |
| 古风 | gǔ fēng | old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] | |
| 二人转 | èr rén zhuàn | genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China | |
| 诗体 | shī tǐ | poetic form or genre | |
| 山水诗 | shān shuǐ shī | shanshui poetry, genre of Classical Chinese poetry | |
| 纪传体 | jì zhuàn tǐ | history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian | |
| 恶搞文化 | è gǎo wén huà | spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc) | |
| 正太控 | zhèng tài kòng | shotacon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young boys in an erotic manner | |
| 莲花落 | lián huā lào | genre of folk song with accompaniment of bamboo clappers | |
| 萝莉控 | luó lì kòng | lolicon or rorikon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young girls in an erotic manner | |
| 演歌 | yǎn gē | enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads) | |
| 古体诗 | gǔ tǐ shī | a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line | |
| 二人台 | èr rén tái | genre of song-and-dance duet popular in Inner Mongolia | |
| 诗话 | shī huà | notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties | |
| 时代曲 | shí dài qǔ | shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz | |
| 吃播 | chī bō | mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience | |
| 近体诗 | jìn tǐ shī | a genre of poetry, developed in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by its strict form | |
| 霸道总裁 | bà dào zǒng cái | handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status) | |
