| 常规 | cháng guī | code of conduct / conventions / common practice / routine (medical procedure etc) |   |
| 常务 | cháng wù | routine / everyday business / daily operation (of a company) | |
| 日常工作 | rì cháng gōng zuò | routine | |
| 例行 | lì xíng | routine (task, procedure etc) / as usual | |
| 套路 | tào lù | sequence of movements in martial arts / routine / pattern / standard method | |
| 定例 | dìng lì | usual practice / routine | |
| 截程序 | jié chéng xù | routine | |
| 按部就班 | àn bù jiù bān | to follow the prescribed order / to keep to the working routine (idiom) | |
| 作息时间 | zuò xī shí jiān | daily schedule / daily routine | |
| 推手 | tuī shǒu | promoter / advocate / driving force / pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi) | |
| 例行公事 | lì xíng gōng shì | routine business / usual practice / mere formality | |
| 俗事 | sú shì | everyday routine / ordinary affairs | |
| 因循 | yīn xún | to continue the same old routine / to carry on just as before / to procrastinate | |
| 班务会 | bān wù huì | a routine meeting of a squad / team or class | |
| 等因奉此 | děng yīn fèng cǐ | officialese / official routine / (old) (conventional phrase used in response to one's superior) in view of the above, we therefore... | |
| 蹈常袭故 | dǎo cháng xí gù | follow the same old path (idiom) / stuck in a rut / always the same routine | |
| 陈陈相因 | chén chén xiāng yīn | to follow a set routine | |
| 例行修理 | | routine repair | |
| 例行视察 | | routine inspection | |
| 例行医务行政指令 | | routine medical administrative instruction | |
| 例行医疗支援 | | routine medical support | |
| 例行免疫接种 | | routine immunization | |
| 实际例行视察量 | | actual routine inspection effort | |
| 部队日日命令 | | force routine order | |
| 最大例行视察量 | | maximum routine inspection effort | |
| 有计划的例行视察活动 | | planned actual routine inspection effort | |
| 日常规划 | | routine planning | |
| 吃喝拉撒睡 | chī hē lā sā shuì | to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine | |
| 起居作息 | qǐ jū zuò xī | lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life / daily routine / to go about one's daily life | |
| 广场舞 | guǎng chǎng wǔ | square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China | |
| 按部就班 | àn bù - jiù bān | (idiom) to follow the prescribed order / to keep to the working routine | |
