| 普京 | pu3 jing1 | Vladimir Putin (1952-), career KGB officer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2000, prime minister from 2008 |
| 江泽民 | jiang1 ze2 min2 | Jiang Zemin (1926-), politician, President of PRC 1993-2003 |
| 十九 | shi2 jiu3 | 19 |
| 科尔 | ke1 er3 | Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998 |
| 拉登 | la1 deng1 | (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda |
| 文化大革命 | wen2 hua4 da4 ge2 ming4 | Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) |
| 同盟会 | tong2 meng2 hui4 | Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨国民党 in 1912 |
| 重庆 | chong2 qing4 | Chongqing city (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, abbr. æ¸ |
| 广西 | guang3 xi1 | until 1959, Guangxi province |
| 国大 | guo2 da4 | abbr. for å°åº¦åœ‹æ°‘大會黨å°åº¦å›½æ°‘大会党, Indian National Congress (INC) |
| 鲁迅 | lu3 xun4 | Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers |
| 南斯拉夫 | nan2 si1 la1 fu1 | Yugoslavia, 1943-1992 |
| 戈尔 | ge3 er3 ge1 er3 | Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate |