English words from Chinese
- goTo move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- gotExpressing obligation; used with have.
- binA box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- diA meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
- danA title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
- teaThe tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.
- circuitThe act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- siA syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
- ahAn expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.
- aiA pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), endemic to forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil.
- peThe seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
- chiThe twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
- tailThe caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- niA surname from Chinese.
- yoA greeting similar to hi.
- BeijingA direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
- shanghaiTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
- yuAn ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
- fooA metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
- chanAn IRC channel.
- yenThe unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
- huthey (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- wuA Chinese shaman.
- luSynonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.
- aogrue ("blue or green", considered as one color)
- chaTea, (sometimes dialect) specifically masala chai.
- taiA fish, the Japanese bream.
- chinThe bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
- JenA female given name.
- hanSorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
- sungA surname from Mandarin.
- JIAn ancient settlement in northeastern China within modern Beijing.
- mingTo mix, blend, mingle.
- taoThe art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
- ChiangA surname from Mandarin; variant form Jiang.
- leiA garland of flowers in Hawaii.
- juSomeone admitted to university through the JUPAS system.
- BowenA surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
- kinRace; family; breed; kind.
- oxAn adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
- jinA portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a bonsai tree, whether formed naturally or deliberately to suggest age and hardship.
- renA kidney.
- chowFood, especially snacks.
- HOUA surname from Mandarin.
- daiA wet nurse; a midwife.
- JiangA surname from Mandarin.
- mouSentence-final particle, forming a tag question.
- kangA traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
- shenA deity or a spirit, in Chinese folk religion.
- SHUA god personifying the air and atmosphere.
- yongA surname.
- 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.
- YunA surname from Mandarin.
- ZhaoA former city-state in Hongdong, Shanxi, China, under the Zhou.
- fenA type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
- daoAny of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping.
- YaoA Bantu people living in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania in Africa.
- pengA legendary enormous bird.
- baiA marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
- paudone; over; finished
- liangSynonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.
- HwangA surname.
- KwonA surname from Chinese.
- mahjongA game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
- SichuanA province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.
- haoA former currency unit of Vietnam, worth one tenth of a dong.
- simaThe upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.
- ShaoA surname.
- yueAn ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
- brainwashingA form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.
- hengThe character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English that includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones.
- bobaSynonym of tapioca pearl.
- fumTo play upon a fiddle.
- xiongA surname.
- BYDA Chinese multinational manufacturing company.
- ShaanxiA province of China, including the Wei River valley and the fertile southern half of the Ordos Loop, comprising much of the Loess Plateau. Capital: Xi'an.
- cunTo know.
- pelaSynonym of Chinese wax.
- ZongA surname from Chinese.
- YiuA Chinese surname from Hakka.
- brainwashA distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
- ZedongA male given name from Chinese.
- NianA surname from Chinese
- YiwuA county of Hami, Xinjiang, China.
- YantaiA coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
- KTVKaraoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment.
- GuiyangA prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Guizhou, in southwestern China.
- whangTo make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
- KaifengA prefecture-level city on the Yellow River in Henan, China, a former national capital.
- LABAA surname from Polish.
- BohaiSynonym of Bohai Sea, a gulf of the Yellow Sea in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
- XizangTibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.
- MayuSynonym of Double Island
- hysonA Chinese green tea.
- PiaoA surname from Chinese.
- YangtseA gewog of Trashi Yangtse District, Bhutan.
- LaoziAn honorific title for the legendary Taoist philosopher Li Er, who supposedly lived in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and (Chinese mythology) has subsequently been worshipped as a Taoist god.
- YiningA county-level city of Ili prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
- JinshanA district of Shanghai, China.
- BaziA Chinese form of astrology that interprets a person's destiny based on their time of birth and other details.