| 故事 | gù shi | narrative / story / tale |  |
| 神话 | shén huà | legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology | |
| 童话故事 | tóng huà gù shì | fairy tale | |
| 白蛇传 | Bái Shé Zhuàn | Tale of the White Snake / Madame White Snake | |
| 奇谈 | qí tán | odd story / exotic tale / fig. ridiculous argument | |
| 桃太郎 | táo tài láng | Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale / (Tw) Japanese person | |
| 双城记 | Shuāng chéng Jì | A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 查爾斯·狄更斯|查尔斯·狄更斯[Cha2 er3 si1 · / Di2 geng1 si1] | |
| 牵牛星 | Qiān niú xīng | Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 |  |
| 法海 | Fǎ hǎi | Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇傳|白蛇传[Bai2 she2 Zhuan4] | |
| 危辞耸听 | wēi cí sǒng tīng | to startle sb with scary tale | |
| 孟姜女 | Mèng jiāng nu:3 | heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 / folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body | |
| 宝葫芦的秘密 | bǎo hú lu de mì mì | Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼|张天翼[Zhang1 Tian1 yi4] | |
| 张天翼 | Zhāng Tiān yì | Zhang Tianyi (1906-1985), children's writer, author of prize-winning fairy tale Secret of the Magic Gourd 寶葫蘆的秘密|宝葫芦的秘密[Bao3 hu2 lu5 de5 Mi4 mi4] | |
| 李娃传 | Lǐ Wá Zhuàn | Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简[Bai2 Xing2 jian3] along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot | |
| 源氏物语 | Yuán shì Wù yǔ | The Tale of Genji / Genji Monogatari | |
| 白行简 | Bái Xíng jiǎn | Bai Xingjian (c. 776-826), younger brother of Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4], Tang novelist and poet, author of novel Tale of Courtesan Li Wa 李娃傳|李娃传[Li3 Wa2 Zhuan4] | |
| 紫式部 | Zǐ Shì bù | Murasaki Shikibu (born c. 973), Japanese writer, author of "The Tale of Genji" | |
| 阿里郎 | A1 lǐ láng | Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty / Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites | |
| 地牛翻身 | dì niú fān shēn | (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.) | |
| 塔勒 | tǎ lè | thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword) | |
