| 谁料 | shei2 liao4 | who could have known |
| 赑屃 | bi4 xi4 | Bixi, one of the nine sons of a dragon with the form of a tortoise, also known as 龜趺龟趺[gui1 fu1] |
| 难知 | nan2 zhi1 | to know only with difficulty |
| 集恩广益 | ji2 en1 guang3 yi4 | to pool knowledge and ideas to produce a better outcome |
| 雪体 | xue3 ti1 | snow |
| 顷者 | qing3 zhe3 | just now |
| 齐民要术 | qi2 min2 yao4 shu4 | Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈æ€å‹°è´¾æ€å‹°[Jia3 Si1 xie2] |
| 一拍即合 | yi1 pai1 ji2 he2 | Start dancing |
| 无名小卒 | wu2 ming2 xiao3 zu2 | nonentity |
| 深藏不露 | shen1 cang2 bu4 lu4 | to hide |
| 温故知新 | wen1 gu4 zhi1 xin1 | to recall the past to understand the future |
| 赫赫有名 | he4 he4 you3 ming2 | widely known |
| 七大工业国集团 | qi1 da4 gong1 ye4 guo2 ji2 tuan2 | G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia) |