| 什么是 | shén me shì | what is ...? |  |
| 何谓 | hé wèi | (literary) what is? / what is the meaning of? |  |
| 心里话 | xīn li huà | (to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind | |
| 隐讳 | yǐn huì | to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind | |
| 召 | Shào | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
| 蜀 | Shǔ | short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province / one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province | |
| 鉴往知来 | jiàn wǎng zhī lái | to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs) / studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come | |
| 言不尽意 | yán bù jìn yì | (conventional letter ending) words cannot fully express what is in my heart (idiom) | |
| 安南 | An1 nán | Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006 | |
| 甚么是 | shén me shì | what is ...? | |
| 话到嘴边 | huà dào zuǐ biān | to be on the verge of saying what is on one's mind | |
| 中华龙鸟 | zhōng huá lóng niǎo | Sinosauropteryx, a small dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern China during the early Cretaceous period | |
| 人心隔肚皮 | rén xīn gé dù pí | there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom) | |
