This is the Hanzi character 熊 ( pinyin xiong2 ); in English, it means " bear ".

Although the literal translation of the Chinese Cháng Zhēng is “ Long March ”, official publications of the People's Republic of China refer to " The Long March of the Red Army " ( Chinese traditional: 紅軍長征, Chinese simplified: 红军长征, pinyin: Hóngjūn Chángzhēng ).

In Mandarin, the term kuaxing ( 跨性, pinyin kùaxìng ), literally " to go beyond sex ", has recently come into use as a literal translation of the English term " transgender ", but kuaxing is not in popular use outside of academia.

The Ming Dynasty ruled Hebei as " Beizhili " ( 北直隸, pinyin: Běizhílì ), meaning " Northern Directly Ruled ", because the area contained and was directly ruled by the imperial capital, Beijing ; the " Northern " designation was used because there was a southern counterpart covering present-day Jiangsu and Anhui.

* 毛 ‎( hanyu pinyin: Máo ), a Chinese character meaning hair or fur.

* 猫 ‎( hanyu pinyin: Māo ), a Chinese character meaning cat

The species is sometimes nicknamed sibuxiang ( Chinese: 四不像, pinyin: sì bú xiàng ), literally meaning " four not alike ", which could mean " the four unlikes " or " like none of the four "; it is variously said that the four are cow, deer, donkey, horse ( or ) camel, and that the expression means in detail:

The term Beiyang (; pinyin: Běiyáng ; Wade-Giles: Peiyang ; meaning ' Northern Ocean ') originated toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it referred to the coastal areas of Zhili ( Traditional Chinese: 直隸, Simplified Chinese: 直隶, pinyin: Zhílì ) ( today's Hebei ), Liaoning, and Shandong in northeast China.

The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 ( Jyutping: mo1 gwaai3 ; Mandarin Chinese: 魔鬼 ; pinyin: móguǐ ) meaning " monster ", " evil spirit ", " devil " or " demon ".

Nanyang ( Simplified Chinese: ( 南阳 ), Traditional Chinese: ( 南阳 ); pinyin: Nányáng ) 南 Nán-South, 阳 yáng-sun ( the south side of a mountain, or the north side of a river, which in Chinese is called Yang meaning " sunny ").

Yangpu District (, Shanghainese: yan < sup > 1 </ sup > phu < sup > 2 </ sup > chiu < sup > 1 </ sup >, Mandarin pinyin: Yángpǔ Qū ), meaning " Poplar Bank ", is one of the 19 districts in Shanghai.

Because of its meaning ( 發財 / 发财, pinyin fā cái loosely means " to strike it rich "), a giant Green Dragon tile serves as a good luck charm in many Chinese households.

Saimin is a compound of two Chinese words: ( pinyin: xì, jyutping: sai < sup > 3 </ sup >), meaning thin, and ( miàn, min < sup > 6 </ sup >), meaning noodle.

The city was called Dadu or Ta-Tu ( 大都, pinyin: Dàdū, Wade-Giles: Ta-tu ), meaning " great capital " or " grand capital " in Chinese, the name for the capital of the Yuan Dynasty founded by Kublai Khan in China, and was called Daidu by the Mongols, which was a transliteration directly from the Chinese.

The G in front of the highway route numbers stands for 国 ( pinyin: guo ), meaning nation or country.

Hougang is the pinyin version of Aū-káng, a Hokkien and Teochew name meaning " river end ".

In Mandarin, the name of the food is written as 馄炖 ( pinyin: húndùn ; roughly meaning " slowly boiled dumpling ").

The name Cochin came from the original Chinese name 九斤黄 ( in pinyin: jiujin huang, pronounced jil jin hwaang ), meaning nine jin yellow, erroneously conflated with the then-current names for what are now parts of southern India and Vietnam, where jin is a traditional Chinese measurement of weight.

While nanguan is melodic and soft, Beiguan ( 北管 ; pinyin: Běiguǎn ; Taiwanese: Pakkóan, meaning " northern pipes ") is loud, complex and associated with theatrical performance.

The name Yali 雅礼 ( pinyin: Yǎ Lǐ ) comes from the Analects of Confucius, meaning elegance of expression ( ya 雅 ) and propriety of conduct ( li 礼 ), and is a transliteration of Yale in early-20th century.

The Book of Common Prayer is called 公禱書 in Chinese ( pinyin: Gong Dao Shu, Jyutping: Gung Tou Sy ).

Although the pinyin method is easier to learn, root shapes are often preferred by professional typists due to their faster input speed.

The pinyin method can be learned rapidly but its maximum input rate is limited.

In mainland China, wubi ( shape-based ) and pinyin methods such as Sogou Pinyin and Google Pinyin are the most popular ; in Taiwan, Boshiamy, Cangjie, and zhuyin predominate ; and in Hong Kong, Cangjie is most often taught in schools.

In loanword terminology, English Taoism / Daoism is a " calque ", " loan-rendering ", or " hybrid " that blends a borrowed word with a native element, for example, chopstick ) blends Chinese Pidgin English chop (< Cantonese kàp, pinyin kuài 快 " fast ; quick ") with English stick.

" Daodejing " is the pinyin romanization.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

* In the People's Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality ( 直辖市 in pinyin: zhíxiáshì ) is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing ( see Municipality of China )

Pai gow (; pinyin: pái jiǔ ; jyutping: paai4 gau2 ) is a Chinese gambling game, played with a set of 32 Chinese dominoes.

The dagger-axe, or GUH ( Chinese: 戈 ; pinyin: gē ; Wade-Giles: ko ; sometimes confusingly translated " halberd ") is a type of weapon that was in use from Shang dynasty until at least Han dynasty China.

The Chinese Dao ( 刀 pinyin dāo ) is single-edged, sometimes translated as sabre or broadsword, and the Jian ( 劍or剑 pinyin jiàn ) is double-edged.

Although the official pinyin romanisation now is Sichuan, the cuisine is still often spelled Szechuan or Szechwan in North America.

Tao is intrinsically related to the concepts yin and yang ( pinyin: yīnyáng ), where every action creates counter-actions as unavoidable movements within manifestations of the Tao, and proper practice variously involves accepting, conforming to, or working with these natural developments.

** szu or ssu for ssû ( pinyin si ), but is s-before other vowels.

What is pronounced as a close-mid back unrounded vowel is written usually as-e as in pinyin, but sometimes as-o.

What is actually pronounced as-uo is virtually always written as-o in Wade – Giles, except shuo and the three syllables of kuo, k < nowiki >'</ nowiki > uo, and huo, which already have the counterparts of ko, k < nowiki >'</ nowiki > o, and ho that represent pinyin ge, ke, and he.

* The pinyin vowel cluster ong is ung in Wade – Giles.

* Single i is never preceded by y, as in pinyin.

* The isolated syllable eh is written as ê, like in pinyin.

Jingjiang Princes ' City (; pinyin: Jingjiang Wang Cheng ) is a famous historical site in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It now functions as both Guangxi Normal University and as a tourist attraction.

Zhou ( Chinese: 州, pinyin: zhōu ) were historical political divisions of China.

* Ta-Yuan, a historical people of West China ( pinyin spelling )