"Narrative" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 故事 | gù shi | narrative / story / tale |  |
| 叙述 | xù shù | to relate (a story or information) / to tell or talk about / to recount / narration / telling / narrative / account |  |
| 口径 | kǒu jìng | bore / caliber / diameter / aperture / (fig.) stance (on an issue) / version (of events) / account / narrative / line | |
| 叙事 | xù shì | narrative | |
| 记叙 | jì xù | to narrate / narrative | |
| 叙述性 | xù shù xìng | narrative | |
| 句群 | jù qún | discourse / group of sentences with clear meaning / narrative | |
| 国语 | Guó yǔ | Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC | |
| 物语 | wù yǔ | monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form) | |
| 综述 | zōng shù | to sum up / a roundup / a general narrative | |
| 简述 | jiǎn shù | to outline / to summarize / to sketch / summary / brief description / concise narrative / in a nutshell / briefly | |
| 谱写 | pǔ xiě | to compose (a piece of music) / (fig.) to create, by one's actions, a narrative (generally one that can be recounted with pride) | |
| 戏说 | xì shuō | dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest | |
| 通史 | tōng shǐ | narrative history / comprehensive history / a history covering an extended period | |
| 记叙文 | jì xù wén | narrative writing / written narration | |
| 叙事诗 | xù shì shī | narrative poem | |
| 倒叙 | dào xù | to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc) | |
| 传 |  zhuàn | biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station | |
| 铺叙 | pū xù | to explain all the details / complete narrative | |
| 圆 | yuán | circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | |
| 变文 | biàn wén | a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes) | |
| 征传 | zhēng zhuàn | narrative of long journey / campaign record | |
| 敷陈 | fū chén | to give an orderly account / a thorough narrative | |
| 顺叙 | shùn xù | chronological narrative | |
| 叙述式报告 | xù shù shì bào gào | narrative report | |
| 方桉说明 | programme narrative | | |
| 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 | |
| 叙事线 | xù shì xiàn | narrative thread / storyline | |
