"Novice" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 新手 | xīn shǒu | new hand / novice / raw recruit |   |
| 外教 | wài jiào | foreign teacher (abbr. for 外國教師|外国教师) / greenhorn / novice / amateurish / religion other than Buddhism (term used by Buddhists) | |
| 初出茅庐 | chū chū máo lú | venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn | |
| 新丁 | xīn dīng | new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice | |
| 生手 | shēng shǒu | novice / new hand / sb new to a job | |
| 小白 | xiǎo bái | (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy | |
| 沙弥 | shā mí | novice Buddhist monk | |
| 棒喝 | bàng hè | practice in which a novice monk is shouted at or hit with a stick with the purpose of bringing about instant awakening (Buddhism) / to rebuke sternly | |
| 心手 | xīn shǒu | new hand / novice | |
| 贻笑方家 | yí xiào fāng jiā | a novice making a fool of himself / to make oneself ridiculous before experts | |
