| 名叫 | míng jiào | called / named |   |
| 得名 | dé míng | to get one's name / named (after sth) | |
| 号曰 | hào yuē | to be named / named | |
| 命名 | mìng míng | to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming | |
| 取名 | qǔ míng | to name / to be named / to christen / to seek fame | |
| 洋务运动 | Yáng wù Yùn dòng | Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动 | |
| 夏商周 | Xià Shāng zhōu | Xia, Shang and Zhou, the earliest named Chinese dynasties | |
| 名副其实 | míng fù qí shí | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name | |
| 狼獾 | láng huān | wolverine (Gulo gulo), also named 貂熊[diao1 xiong2] | |
| 里克特 | Lǐ kè tè | Richter (name) / Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named | |
| 阿伏伽德罗定律 | A1 fú jiā dé luó dìng lu:4 | Avogadro's law, a gas law named after Amedeo Avogadro | |
| 以人名命名 | yǐ rén míng mìng míng | to name sth after a person / named after / eponymous | |
| 以本人名 | yǐ běn rén míng | under one's own name / named after oneself | |
| 前揭 | qián jiē | (the item) named above / aforementioned / cited above / op. cit. | |
| 古董滩 | Gǔ dǒng tān | Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries | |
| 康熙字典 | Kāng xī Zì diǎn | the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries | |
| 张揖 | Zhāng Yī | Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓|稚让[Zhi4 rang4], named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅|广雅[Guang3 ya3] and several lost works | |
| 空日 | kòng rì | day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar) | |
| 级强 | jí qiáng | named grade or higher / at least stated magnitude (of earthquake) | |
| 自强运动 | Zì qiáng Yùn dòng | Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动 | |
| 芎藭 | qióng xiōng | chuanxiong rhizome / also named 川芎[chuan1 xiong1] | |
| 芎䓖 | xiōng qióng | chuanxiong rhizome / also named 川芎[chuan1 xiong1] | |
| 山本头 | Shān běn tóu | (Tw) "Yamamoto haircut", similar to a butch cut, but with even length (no tapering on the sides and back), said to be named after Admiral Yamamoto 山本五十六[Shan1 ben3 Wu3 shi2 liu4] | |
| 天问 | Tiān wèn | Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem | |
| 孔方兄 | kǒng fāng xiōng | (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle) | |
