Category:Mandarin terms by etymology

Mandarin terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Mandarin borrowed terms: Mandarin terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Mandarin calques: Mandarin calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Mandarin onomatopoeias: Mandarin terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Mandarin reduplications: Mandarin terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Mandarin semantic loans: Mandarin semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Mandarin terms derived from other languages: Mandarin terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Mandarin terms derived through romanized wordplay: Mandarin terms derived through romanized wordplay.