| 鼻祖 | bí zǔ | the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc) |   |
| 开山祖师 | kāi shān zǔ shī | founding master of a monastery / founder / originator | |
| 始作俑者 | shǐ zuò yǒng zhě | lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice | |
| 麦克斯韦 | Mài kè sī wéi | Maxwell (name) / James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves | |
| 威利 | Wēi lì | Wylie (name) / Turrell Wylie, originator of the Wylie transcription of Tibetan script | |
| 韦格纳 | Wéi gé nà | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift / also written 魏格納|魏格纳 | |
| 吞米桑布札 | Tūn mǐ Sāng bù zhá | Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script | |
| 威妥玛 | Wēi Tuǒ mǎ | Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system | |
| 魏格纳 | Wèi gé nà | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift | |
| 来电答铃 | lái diàn dá líng | (Tw) ringback tone (heard by the originator of a telephone call) | |
| 原研药 | yuán yán yào | (pharmacology) innovator drug / originator drug (as opposed to a generic drug 仿製藥|仿制药[fang3zhi4yao4]) | |
