| 李代数 | Lǐ dài shù | Lie algebra (math.) |
| 李代桃僵 | lǐ dài táo jiāng | lit. the plum tree withers in place of the peach tree; to substitute one thing for another; to carry the can for sb |
| 历代志上 | Lì dài zhì shàng | First book of Chronicles |
| 历代志下 | Lì dài zhì xià | Second book of Chronicles |
| 母乳代 | mǔ rǔ dài | substitute for mother's milk; milk powder |
| 泛代数 | fàn dài shù | universal algebra |
| 清代 | Qīng dài | the Ch'ing or Qing dynasty (1644-1911) |
| 清代通史 | Qīng dài tōng shǐ | General history of the Qing dynasty, compiled under Xiao Yishan 蕭一山 |
| 源代码 | yuán dài mǎ | source code |
| 汉代 | Hàn dài | the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 无法替代 | wú fǎ tì dài | irreplaceable |
| 物主代词 | wù zhǔ dài cí | possessive pronoun |
| 独二代 | dú èr dài | second generation only child |
| 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 |
| 瓜代 | guā dài | a change-over of personnel; a new shift; lit. replacement for soldier on leave for the melon picking season |
| 当代史 | dāng dài shǐ | contemporary history |
| 当代新儒家 | dāng dài xīn rú jiā | Contemporary New Confucianism; see 新儒家 |
| 疑问代词 | yí wèn dài cí | interrogative pronoun (谁, 什么, 哪儿 etc) |
| 石器时代 | Shí qì Shí dài | Stone Age |
| 硫代硫酸钠 | liú dài liú suān nà | sodium hyposulfide; sodium thiosulfate |
| 示例代码 | shì lì dài mǎ | sample code (computing) |
| 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 |
| 秦代 | Qín dài | Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), founded by the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, the first dynasty to rule the whole of China |
| 穷二代 | qióng èr dài | those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s; see also 富二代 |
| 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 |
| 约翰・厄普代克 | Yuē hàn · È pǔ dài kè | John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 绝代 | jué dài | peerless; unmatched in his generation; incomparable (talent, beauty) |
| 绝代佳人 | jué dài jiā rén | beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance; prettiest girl ever |
| 线性代数 | xiàn xìng dài shù | linear algebra |
| 圣代 | shèng dài | sundae (ice cream dessert with toppings) |
| 股票代号 | gǔ piào dài hào | ticker symbol (to identify share coupon) |
| 能量代谢 | néng liàng dài xiè | energy metabolism |
| 旧五代史 | Jiù Wǔ dài shǐ | History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls |
| 旧石器时代 | Jiù shí qì Shí dài | Paleolithic Era |
| 英代尔 | yīng dài ěr | Intel |
| 万代千秋 | wàn dài qiān qiū | after innumerable ages |
| 万代兰 | Wàn dài lán | Vanda genus of orchids |
| 蒙代尔 | Mēng dài ěr | Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996 |
| 亲代 | qīn dài | parent's generation; previous generation |
| 证券代销 | zhèng quàn dài xiāo | proxy sale of securities |
| 越俎代庖 | yuè zǔ dài páo | lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs; to take matters into one's own hands |
| 农业现代化 | nóng yè xiàn dài huà | modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations |
