| 分子 | fen1 zi3 | molecule |
| 知识 | zhi1 shi5 | intellectual |
| 知识分子 | zhi1 zhi4 fen4 zi3 | intelligentsia |
| 康有为 | kang1 you3 wei2 | Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898 |
| 斯文 | si1 wen2 | gentle |
| 构思 | gou4 si1 | idea |
| 书生 | shu1 sheng1 | egghead |
| 本体 | ben3 ti3 | torso |
| 郭沫若 | guo1 mo4 re3 guo1 mo4 ruo4 | Guo Moruo (18921978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik |
| 脑力劳动 | nao3 li4 lao2 dong4 | mental labor |
| 上山下乡 | shang4 shan1 xia4 xiang1 | to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) |
| 知识产权 | zhi1 shi2 chan3 quan2 | intellectual property rights (law) |
| 知性 | zhi1 xing4 | intellectuality |