| 书记 | shū ji | secretary (chief official of a branch of a socialist or communist party) / clerk / scribe |   |
| 写手 | xiě shǒu | person who writes articles - newspapers, magazines, blogs (informal) / scribe / copyist / a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy | |
| 史官 | shǐ guān | scribe / court recorder / historian / historiographer | |
| 抄经士 | chāo jīng shì | copyist / scribe | |
| 仓颉 | Cāng Jié | Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and inventor of Chinese writing / (computing) Cangjie input method | |
| 太史令 | tài shǐ lìng | grand scribe (official position in many Chinese states up to the Han) | |
| 太史公 | Tài shǐ gōng | Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4] | |
| 毗耶娑 | Pí yē suō | Vyasa, Indian sage and scribe, supposed author of epic 摩訶婆羅多|摩诃婆罗多[Mo2 he1 po2 luo2 duo1] and a major figure in it | |
