English words from Mandarin
- qingsongiteA rare mineral first discovered in Tibet in 2009.
- RouzhiThe Yuezhi.
- sanggenonA chemical compound found in mulberry root bark.
- Shangjing LongquanfuA former capital of Balhae, in present-day Ning'an, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China.
- shih tzuA small dog breed which originated in China; a dog of that breed.
- shikumenAn architectural style found in Shanghai, China, consisting of two or three floors and a front yard protected by high walls.
- siheyuanA traditional type of Chinese residence consisting of four houses with a courtyard in the middle; a Chinese quadrangle.
- SongziA county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- SubeiA Mongol autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
- SuifenheA city in Heilongjiang, China.
- TaishanesePertaining to the area of greater Taishan of Guangdong Province, China; its people; their descendants; the main dialect of the region.
- TouchengAn urban township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
- wangheeBamboo species of the genus Phyllostachys, especially Phyllostachys nigra.
- whangeeAny of over forty Asian grasses of the genus Phyllostachys, a genus of bamboos, hardy evergreen plants from Japan, China and the Himalayas with woody stems sometimes used to make canes and umbrella handles.
- wokouPirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.
- wuxingthe five fundamental elements or phases of processes in traditional East Asian cosmology, consisting of fire, water, wood, metal, and earth
- XiangliuA hydra-like monster which terrorized the world in prehistory.
- XiangyaoSynonym of Xiangliu, a monster.
- xiaolongbaoA type of dumpling or steamed bun (baozi) associated with eastern China, particularly Nanxiang near Shanghai.
- XinzhuA subdistrict of Qingxiu district, Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
- XitieshanA town in Da Qaidam, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
- yeweigame
- YingwusitangSynonym of Yengiostang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- YuanjiangA county-level city of Yiyang, Hunan, China, along the Yuan River.
- YuezhiAn ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.
- ZhapuA town in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay and important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.
- 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.
- ZhumulangmaSynonym of Mount Everest: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- ZhuyinBopomofo, Zhuyin fuhao
- ZihguanA district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- ZijinshanA mountain in Xuanwu district, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.