Category:Chinese terms by etymology

Chinese terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Chinese back-formations: Chinese terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Chinese blends: Chinese terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Chinese borrowed terms: Chinese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Chinese calques: Chinese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Chinese compound terms: Chinese terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Chinese doublets: Chinese terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
• Category:Chinese ellipses: Chinese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Chinese eponyms: Chinese terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Chinese genericized trademarks: Chinese terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
• Category:Chinese inherited terms: Chinese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Chinese internationalisms: Chinese loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Chinese metonyms: Chinese terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
• Category:Chinese neologisms: Chinese terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Chinese onomatopoeias: Chinese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Chinese partial calques: Chinese partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Chinese rebracketings: Chinese terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Chinese rebuses: Chinese rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
• Category:Chinese reduplications: Chinese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Chinese retronyms: Chinese terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Chinese semantic loans: Chinese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Chinese spelling pronunciations: Chinese terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:Chinese terms by suffix: Chinese terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Chinese terms attributed to a specific source: Chinese terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Chinese terms derived from other languages: Chinese terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Chinese terms derived from toponyms: Chinese terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:Chinese terms making reference to character shapes: Chinese terms making reference to character shapes.
• Category:Chinese terms with unknown etymologies: Chinese terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.