| 现代 | xiàn dài | modern times; modern age; modern era; Hyundai, South Korean company |
| 现代化 | xiàn dài huà | modernization; CL:个 |
| 四个现代化 | sì gè xiàn dài huà | Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology; abbr. to 四化 |
| 现代人 | xiàn dài rén | modern man; Homo sapiens |
| 国防现代化 | guó fáng xiàn dài huà | modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations |
| 工业现代化 | gōng yè xiàn dài huà | modernization of industry, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations |
| 后现代主义 | hòu xiàn dài zhǔ yì | post-modernism |
| 现代五项 | xiàn dài wǔ xiàng | modern pentathlon |
| 现代史 | xiàn dài shǐ | modern history |
| 现代形式 | xiàn dài xíng shì | the modern form |
| 现代性 | xiàn dài xìng | modernity |
| 现代新儒家 | xiàn dài xīn rú jiā | Modern New Confucianism; see also 新儒家 |
| 现代派 | xiàn dài pài | modernist faction; modernists |
| 现代舞 | xiàn dài wǔ | modern dance |
| 现代集团 | xiàn dài jí tuán | Hyundai, the Korean corporation |
| 现代音乐 | xiàn dài yīn yuè | modern music; contemporary music |
| 科学技术现代化 | kē xué jì shù xiàn dài huà | modernization of science and technology, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations |
| 第五个现代化 | dì wǔ gè xiàn dài huà | fifth modernization, i.e. democracy, cf Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations 邓小平, 四个现代化 |
| 农业现代化 | nóng yè xiàn dài huà | modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations |
| 近现代史 | jìn xiàn dài shǐ | modern history and contemporary history |
| 追寻现代中国 | zhuī xún xiàn dài Zhōng guó | In search of Modern China by Jonathan D Spence 史景迁 |
