| 哪儿 | nǎ r | where? / wherever / anywhere / somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...? / how could ...? |   |
| 哪里 | nǎ lǐ | where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment | |
| 什么地方 | shén me dì fang | somewhere / someplace / where | |
| 某处 | mǒu chù | somewhere | |
| 某地 | mǒu dì | somewhere / some place | |
| 停留 | tíng liú | to stay somewhere temporarily / to stop over | |
| 出行 | chū xíng | to go out somewhere (relatively short trip) / to set off on a journey (longer trip) | |
| 作客 | zuò kè | to live somewhere as a visitor / to stay with sb as a guest / to sojourn | |
| 听来 | tīng lái | to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere | |
| 离家出走 | lí jiā chū zǒu | to leave home (to live somewhere else) | |
| 派往 | pài wǎng | to dispatch sb somewhere | |
| 客居 | kè jū | to live in a foreign place / to live somewhere as a guest | |
| 身在曹营心在汉 | shēn zài Cáo yíng xīn zài Hàn | live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom) / to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else | |
| 凡事总有一个开头 | fán shì zǒng yǒu yī gè kāi tóu | Everything starts somewhere. | |
| 凡事总有开头 | fán shì zǒng yǒu kāi tóu | Everything starts somewhere. | |
| 窜踞 | cuàn jù | to flee in disorder and encamp somewhere | |
| 另谋高就 | lìng móu gāo jiù | to get a better job somewhere else (idiom) / to seek alternative employment | |
| 东方不亮西方亮 | dōng fāng bù liàng xī fāng liàng | if it isn't bright in the east, it'll be bright in the west (idiom) / if something doesn't work here, it might work somewhere else | |
| 路遇 | lù yù | to meet (sb) by chance on the way somewhere / to encounter (sth) on the way somewhere | |
| 爪哇国 | Zhǎo wā guó | ancient state located in present-day Java 爪哇[Zhao3wa1] / (fig.) somewhere remote, inaccessible or obscure | |
| 自驾 | zì jià | to drive oneself somewhere | |
| 自驾车 | zì jià chē | to drive oneself somewhere / private vehicle / (Tw) self-driving car / autonomous car | |
