| 残忍 | cán rěn | cruel / mean / merciless / ruthless |   |
| 卑鄙 | bēi bǐ | base / mean / contemptible / despicable | |
| 吝啬 | lìn sè | stingy / mean / miserly | |
| 意味着 | yì wèi zhe | to signify / to mean / to imply | |
| 意味 | yì wèi | meaning / implication / flavor / overtone / to mean / to imply / (Tw) to get a sense of | |
| 刻薄 | kè bó | unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions | |
| 卑劣 | bēi liè | base / mean / despicable | |
| 缺德 | quē dé | mean / nasty / reprehensible / unprincipled | |
| 平均数 | píng jūn shù | mean (statistics) | |
| 意指 | yì zhǐ | to mean / to imply | |
| 意谓 | yì wèi | to mean / meaning | |
| 可鄙 | kě bǐ | base / mean / despicable | |
| 损 |  sǔn | to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to ridicule / to deride / (coll.) caustic / sarcastic / nasty / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | |
| 鄙 | bǐ | rustic / low / base / mean / to despise / to scorn | |
| 陋 | lòu | low / humble / plain / ugly / mean / vulgar | |
| 訑 | yí | arrogant / mean | |
| 鄙吝 | bǐ lìn | vulgar / stingy / miserly / mean | |
| 小手小脚 | xiǎo shǒu xiǎo jiǎo | mean / stingy / to be lacking in boldness / timid | |
| 贫气 | pín qì | mean / stingy / garrulous | |
| 贫相 | pín xiàng | mean / stingy | |
| 鄙劣 | bǐ liè | base / mean / despicable | |
| 代指 | dài zhǐ | to mean / to signify | |
| 登场 | dēng chǎng | to go on stage / fig. to appear on the scene / used in advertising to mean new product | |
| 下流 | xià liú | lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene | |
| 旗号 | qí hào | military banner (often used figuratively, usually pejoratively, to mean "pretext" or "ostensible purpose") / flag signal / semaphore | |
| 中庸 | zhōng yōng | golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary | |
| 卑贱 | bēi jiàn | lowly / mean and low | |
| 四书 | Sì shū | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子 | |
| 说一不二 | shuō yī bù èr | to say one and mean just that (idiom) / to keep one's word | |
| 淫贱 | yín jiàn | morally loose, lewd and low, lascivious and mean / wanton | |
| 卑怯 | bēi qiè | mean and cowardly / abject | |
| 仁义道德 | rén yì dào dé | compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom) / all the traditional virtues / mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical | |
| 口不应心 | kǒu bù yìng xīn | to say one thing but mean another / to dissimulate | |
| 中庸之道 | zhōng yōng zhī dào | doctrine of the mean / moderation in all things | |
| 口说无凭 | kǒu shuō wú píng | (idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement / just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true | |
| 格林尼治 | Gé lín ní zhì | Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time | |
| 格林尼治标准时间 | Gé lín ní zhì Biāo zhǔn shí jiān | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | |
| 格林威治标准时间 | Gé lín wēi zhì Biāo zhǔn shí jiān | (Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) | |
| 平均差 | píng jūn chā | (math.) mean deviation | |
| 算术平均数 | suàn shù píng jūn shù | arithmetic mean | |
| 中值定理 | zhōng zhí dìng lǐ | mean value theorem (in calculus) | |
| 均差 | jūn chā | (numerical analysis) divided differences / (statistics) mean absolute difference | |
| 均方 | jūn fāng | mean square | |
| 平均值定理 | píng jūn zhí dìng lǐ | the mean value theorem (in calculus) | |
| 挨边 | āi biān | to keep close to the edge / near the mark / close to (the true figure) / relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant) | |
| 算术平均 | suàn shù píng jūn | arithmetic mean (math.) | |
| 缺德鬼 | quē dé guǐ | public nuisance / a wicked, mean spirited individual | |
| 薄待 | bó dài | mean treatment / indifference / meager hospitality | |
| 说话算数 | shuō huà suàn shù | to keep one's promise / to mean what one says | |
| 说话算话 | shuō huà suàn huà | to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says | |
| 贪鄙 | tān bǐ | to be avaricious and mean | |
| 近古 | jìn gǔ | near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times) | |
| 鸡鹜 | jī wù | petty or mean persons | |
| 几何平均数 | jǐ hé píng jūn shù | geometric mean | |
| 平均海平面 | píng jūn hǎi píng miàn | mean sea level | |
| 平均年龄 | píng jūn nián líng | mean age | |
| 纱支 | shā zhī | (textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count) | |
| 年平均温度 | nián píng jūn wēn duó | mean annual temperature | |
| 年均温 | nián jūn wēn | mean annual temperature | |
| 全球平均气温 | quán qiú píng jūn qì wēn | global mean temperature | |
| 星历表平日 | xīng lì biǎo píng rì | ephemeris mean day | |
| 平均地面温度 | | mean surface temperature | |
| 臭氧平均总量 | | average total ozone / average total amount of ozone / mean total ozone / mean total amount of ozone | |
| 偏离平均值 | piān lí píng jūn zhí | departure from mean value | |
| 期望平均弹着点 | | desired mean point of impact | |
| 平均太阳日 | píng jūn tài yáng rì | mean solar day | |
| 均方根 | jūn fāng gēn | root mean square | |
| 均方根速度 | jūn fāng gēn sù duó | root mean square velocity / rms velocity | |
| 平均大潮低潮面 | píng jūn dài cháo dī cháo miàn | mean low-water springs / spring low-water | |
| 标准误差 | | standard error / root mean square error / RMS error | |
| 均方根误差 | | standard error / root mean square error / RMS error | |
| 平均小潮高潮面 | píng jūn xiǎo cháo gāo cháo miàn | mean high-water neaps / neap high water | |
| 平均大潮高潮面 | píng jūn dài cháo gāo cháo miàn | mean high-water springs / spring high water | |
| 平均小潮低潮面 | píng jūn xiǎo cháo dī cháo miàn | mean low-water neaps / neap low-water | |
| 平均潮位 | píng jūn cháo wèi | mean tide level / half tide level | |
| 平均低潮面 | píng jūn dī cháo miàn | mean low-water | |
| 平均高潮面 | píng jūn gāo cháo miàn | mean high water | |
| 平均高高潮面 | píng jūn gāo gāo cháo miàn | mean higher high water | |
| 平均低低潮面 | píng jūn dī dī cháo miàn | mean lower low-water | |
| 平均高高潮 | píng jūn gāo gāo cháo | higher high water, mean tide | |
| 格林尼治平时 | gé lín ní zhì píng shí | Universal Coordinated Time / Greenwich Mean Time / Coordinated Universal Time | |
| 平均自由程 | píng jūn zì yóu chéng | mean free path | |
| 分层网次渔获量 | | stratified mean catch per tow / stratified average catch per tow | |
| 移动平均数 | | moving average / running average / rolling average / sliding average / overlapping mean | |
| 重迭平均数 | | moving average / running average / rolling average / sliding average / overlapping mean | |
| 平均气压图 | | mean pressure chart | |
| 故障间隔平均时间 | | mean time between failure | |
| 均方根加速度 | | root mean square acceleration | |
| 修理间隔平均时间 | | mean time to repair | |
| 以小人之心，度君子之腹 | yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù | to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom) | |
| 调和平均数 | tiáo hé píng jūn shù | harmonic mean | |
| 平方平均数 | píng fāng píng jūn shù | root mean square (RMS) / quadratic root | |
| 此话怎讲 | cǐ huà zěn jiǎng | How do you mean? / How could that be the case? / How so? | |
| 死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪 | sǐ le Zhāng tú fū , bù chī hùn máo zhū | lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable | |
| 口说无凭 | kǒu shuō - wú píng | (idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement / just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true | |
