Category:English terms calqued from Chinese

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Newest and oldest pages 
Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. yellow wine
  2. Great River
  3. Forbidden City
  4. good good study, day day up
  5. people mountain people sea
  6. no zuo no die
  7. Jade Emperor
  8. May 35th
  9. you ask me, I ask who
  10. one country, two systems
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. chopstick
  2. dragon boat
  3. brainwash
  4. paper money
  5. Yellow Sea
  6. bean curd
  7. Peking duck
  8. Chinaman
  9. Mandarin
  10. Pearl

English terms that were calqued from Chinese, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Chinese terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|zh|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the Chinese term that the term in question was borrowed from.


Pages in category "English terms calqued from Chinese"

The following 179 pages are in this category, out of 179 total.