| 旬年 | xun2 nian2 | ten years |
| 未来数年 | wei4 lai2 shu4 nian2 | the coming years |
| 百年不遇 | bai3 nian2 bu4 yu4 | only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc) |
| 第四纪 | di4 si4 ji4 | fourth period |
| 节后春运 | jie2 hou4 chun1 yun4 | post New Years holiday transport |
| 若干年 | ruo4 gan1 nian2 | several years |
| 苦熬 | ku3 ao2 | to endure (years of suffering) |
| 要不了几年 | yao4 bu4 le5 ji3 nian2 | will not take a few years |
| 郎世宁 | lang2 shi4 ning2 | Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) Jesuit who served as Qing court painter for 50 years |
| 陈米 | chen2 mi3 | old rice |
| 隋末 | sui2 mo4 | early 7th century AD |
| 韩爱晶 | han2 ai4 jing1 | Han Aijing (1945-), notorious red guard leader during Cultural Revolution, spent 15 years in prison for imprisoning and torturing political leaders |
| 高迈 | gao1 mai4 | exuberant |