ZhiliA former administrative region of China, later reformed into Hebei province in 1928.
zhiqingA member of the "educated youth", the young Chinese sent from urban areas to work in poor villages as part of the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement.
ZhitkurA former town in Kapustin Yar, Kapustinoyarsky Selsoviet, Akhtubinsky district, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia; that was demolished to create the Kapustin Yar military reservation.
zhonghuA large low-pitched lute-like string instrument (chordophone) similar to the erhu, usually with two strings and played with a bow; it is part of the huqin family of instruments originating in Chinese traditional music.
zhonghuaceriteA cerium-bearing mineral found in China, now generally believed to be a form of kukharenkoite or huanghoite.
ZhongnanhaiAn area and building in Xicheng district, Beijing, China, which houses the government leaders of the People's Republic of China.
ZhongningA county of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
ZhongqiuSynonym of Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese harvest festival.
zhongruanA plucked long-necked lute-like string instrument (chordophone) of Chinese origin, a medium-sized tenor ruan with four strings and twenty-four frets.
ZhongshaA collection of areas in the South China Sea, including Macclesfield Bank, Scarborough Shoal, Truro Shoal, and other areas claimed by China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC); some of these areas are claimed by the Philippines.
ZhongshanA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southern China.
ZhongweiA prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
ZhongxiangA county-level city of Jingmen, Hubei, China.
zhuAn ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
ZhuangA member of an ethnic group living mostly in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.
zhuangbilityPretension; the state of being a poseur.
ZhuangheA county-level city of Dalian, Liaoning, China.
ZhuangweiA rural township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
zhuangyuanSomeone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.
ZhuangziAn influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period.
ZhuangzianOf or relating to the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi.
ZhuanqukouA town in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
ZhubeiA city in and county seat of Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan.
ZhuchengA subdistrict of Xinzhou district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
ZhuhaiA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
zhuihuA two-stringed chordophone (string instrument) with a fretless fingerboard, played with a bow, of Chinese origin and especially associated with Henan and Shandong.
zhuzAny of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kipchak Plain area that cover much of the contemporary Kazakhstan, and represent the main tribal division within the ethnic group of the Kazakhs.
zhuzhableCapable of being zhuzhed; able to be made more stylish or attractive.
zhuzhingThe act or process of zhuzhing; the act of adding style, improvement, or refinement to something.
ZhvanetsA village, the administrative centre of Zhvanets rural hromada, Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1431.