| 东方文明 | Dōng fāng wén míng | Eastern civilization |
| 东方明珠塔 | Dōng fāng Míng zhū Tǎ | Oriental Pearl Tower |
| 东方明珠电视塔 | Dōng fāng Míng zhū Diàn shì Tǎ | Oriental Pearl Television Tower |
| 东明 | Dōng míng | Dongming county in Heze 菏泽, Shandong |
| 东明县 | Dōng míng xiàn | Dongming county in Heze 菏泽, Shandong |
| 柳暗花明 | liǔ àn huā míng | lit. the willow trees make the shade, the flowers give the light (idiom); at one's darkest hour, a glimmer of hope; light at the end of the tunnel |
| 权利声明 | quán lì shēng míng | copyright statement |
| 正大光明 | zhèng dà guāng míng | just and honorable |
| 注明 | zhù míng | to clearly indicate |
| 流明 | liú míng | lumen (unit of light flux) |
| 海明威 | Hǎi míng wēi | Ernest Hemingway (American novelist) |
| 泾渭分明 | Jīng Wèi fēn míng | as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom); to be entirely different |
| 清明节 | Qīng míng jié | Qingming (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping) festival, beginning of April in China, September in Japan, 3 day long celebration for the dead |
| 清正廉明 | qīng zhèng lián míng | upright and honest |
| 清风明月 | qīng fēng míng yuè | lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom); unattached and at leisure |
| 汉明帝 | Hàn Míng Dì | Emperor Ming of Han (28-75), Western Han Dynasty Emperor 58-75 |
| 照明弹 | zhào míng dàn | a flare; a very light |
| 灯火通明 | dēng huǒ tōng míng | brightly lit |
| 物质文明 | wù zhì wén míng | material culture |
物质文明和精神文
明 | wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng | material and spiritual culture; matter and mind; material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978) |
| 班雅明 | Bān yǎ míng | Benjamin (name) |
| 发明人 | fā míng rén | inventor |
| 发明家 | fā míng jiā | inventor |
| 发明者 | fā míng zhě | inventor |
| 皇冠上的明珠 | huáng guān shàng de míng zhū | the brightest jewel in the crown |
| 皓齿明眸 | hào chǐ míng móu | white teeth and bright eyes (idiom); lovely young woman |
| 祝允明 | Zhù Yǔn míng | Zhu Yunming (1460-1526), Ming dynasty calligrapher |
| 窗明几净 | chuāng míng jī jìng | lit. clear window and clean table (idiom); fig. bright and clean |
| 简单明了 | jiǎn dān míng liǎo | clear and simple; in simple terms |
| 精明强干 | jīng míng qiáng gàn | intelligent and capable (idiom) |
| 精神文明 | jīng shén wén míng | spiritual culture |
| 细明体 | Xì míng tǐ | Mincho narrow font |
| 绝顶聪明 | jué dǐng cōng ming | extremely bright (idiom) |
| 总会三明治 | zǒng huì sān míng zhì | club sandwich |
| 圣多明各 | Shèng Duō míng gè | San Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic |
| 圣多明哥 | Shèng Duō míng gē | Santo Domingo, capital of Dominican Republic |
| 聪明反被聪明误 | cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù | a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good |
| 聪明过头 | cōng ming guò tóu | too clever by half; excessive ingenuity |
| 声明书 | shēng míng shū | statement |
| 胡志明市 | Hú Zhì míng shì | Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam |
| 自作聪明 | zì zuò cōng míng | to think oneself clever (idiom); self-styled genius; a smart aleck |
| 莫明其妙 | mò míng qí miào | unfathomable mystery (idiom); subtle and ineffable; unable to make head or tail of it |
| 蓄须明志 | xù xū míng zhì | to be resolutely opposed to doing sth (idiom) |
| 薄明 | bó míng | dim light; early dawn |
| 亵渎神明 | xiè dú shén míng | sacrilege |
| 言明 | yán míng | state explicitly |
| 订明 | dìng míng | to stipulate; to state expressly; to explicitly provide for |
| 词约指明 | cí yuē zhǐ míng | concise but unambiguous (idiom) |
| 认明 | rèn míng | to identify; to authenticate |
| 说明会 | shuō míng huì | information meeting |
