Word origins

• 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.)
• siA syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
• peThe seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
• yoA greeting similar to hi.
• shanghaiTo force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
• 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.
• chaTea, (sometimes dialect) specifically masala chai.
• hanSorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
• sungA surname from Mandarin.
• taoThe art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
• ChiangA surname from Mandarin; variant form Jiang.
• 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.
• daiA wet nurse; a midwife.
• JiangA surname from Mandarin.
• 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.
• 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.
• liangSynonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.
• HwangA surname.
• SichuanA province in central China. Capital: Chengdu.
• haoA former currency unit of Vietnam, worth one tenth of a dong.
• ShaoA surname.
• yueAn ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
• 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.
• 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.
• YiuA Chinese surname from Hakka.
• YiwuA county of Hami, Xinjiang, China.
• YantaiA coastal prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong, China.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bohai SeaA gulf of the Yellow Sea in the northern Pacific Ocean beside Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and Liaoning on the northeastern coast of mainland China.
• century of humiliationAny period of decline in geopolitical status or reputation.
• Chang'anAn ancient capital of various Chinese empires, located within present-day Xi'an.
• Chungyang ShanmoSynonym of Central Mountain Range on Taiwan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
• congouA kind of Chinese black tea.
• daoshiA person committed to Taoism, a Taoist priest, monk, etc.
• dark forest hypothesisA proposed explanation for the Fermi paradox that suggests extraterrestrial civilizations are abundant but remain silent and hidden, positing that any intelligent civilization views others as potential threats and thus actively avoids revealing itself.
• doufutofu
• FuxiA legendary ancient Chinese ruler and culture hero, typically the brother of Nüwa.
• gongxianosaurAny dinosaur of the Jurassic sauropod genus Gongxianosaurus, one of the earlier genera of sauropods.
• Great RiverSynonym of Mississippi River, USA.
• hinoeumaThe year of the fire horse in the sexagenary cycle of the Japanese traditional calendar, last occurring in 1966. Women born in these years supposedly make poor wives.
• hoppoThe imperial Chinese board of revenue, especially its branch in Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty.
• kemariAn ancient Japanese ball game, still played in modern times, in which players cooperate to try to keep a deerskin ball in the air.
• kolo meeA Sarawak Iban-Chinese dish composed of dry noodles, hot peppers, char siu pork, and vegetables
• kopi auntieA middle-aged or elderly lady who takes drink orders and serves drinks to patrons of a coffee shop.
• LaizhouA county-level city of Yantai, Shandong, China.
• little emperorIn contemporary China, a child with no siblings who is regarded as overly protected and spoiled. (Seen as belonging to a generation which is a product of China's "one-child" policy.)
• mind monkeySynonym of monkey mind
• MinhangA district of Shanghai, China.
• MoismAn ethnic religion of the Zhuang people in China.
• monkey mindA Buddhist concept that describes the state of restlessness, capriciousness, and lack of control of one's thoughts.
• monkey of the mindSynonym of monkey mind
• nankeenA type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
• pearl teaSynonym of gunpowder tea.
• pu'erA kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).
• river crabA Chinese mitten crab.
• Shaozhou TuhuaA highly distinct Chinese dialect spoken around Shaoguan and the border region of Guangdong, Hunan, and Guangxi.
• SiccaweiSynonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
• single eyelidAn upper eyelid that has no noticeable fold when the eye is open; typical of East Asian eyes.
• sumxuA possibly mythical, long-haired, lop-eared type of cat or cat-like creature, now considered extinct, if it ever actually existed.
• TaymingianOf, pertaining to, or from the Ming dynasty of China.
• thunder god vineA plant found in China, Tripterygium wilfordii, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
• Tuen Ng FestivalSynonym of Dragon Boat Festival.
• twankayA variety of green tea.
• wongshyAn Asian tree, Gardenia jasminoides.
• Xi'anThe provincial capital of Shaanxi, China; a subprovincial city in central China famed as the former capital of numerous Chinese dynasties, also known as Chang'an among other historical names.
• XichangA county-level city of Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China.
• YangpuA district of Shanghai, China.
• YangshupuFormer name of Yangpu, a district of Shanghai, China.
• YangxinA town, the county seat of Yangxin County, Binzhou, Shandong, China.
• 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.
• ZikaweiSynonym of Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.