| 帝国主义 | dì guó zhǔ yì | imperialism |
| 帝 | dì | emperor |
| 皇帝 | huáng dì | emperor; CL:个 |
| 帝国 | dì guó | empire; imperial |
| 上帝 | shàng dì | God |
| 反帝 | fǎn dì | anti-imperialist; anti-imperialists |
| 帝制 | dì zhì | autocratic monarchy; imperial regime |
| 帝王 | dì wáng | regent; monarch |
| 汉武帝 | Hàn Wǔ dì | Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC) |
| 道光帝 | Dào guāng dì | Daoguang Emperor |
| 东帝汶 | Dōng dì wèn | East Timor (officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) |
| 光绪帝 | Guāng xù dì | Guangxu Emperor |
| 隋炀帝 | Suí Yáng dì | Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618 |
| 帝俄 | Dì É | Tsarist Russia |
| 罗马帝国 | Luó mǎ Dì guó | Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) |
| 汉献帝 | Hàn Xiàn dì | Emperor Xian of Han (181-234), the final Han emperor, set up by Dong Zhuo 董卓, reigned 189-220, forced to abdicate 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕 |
| 白帝城 | Bái dì chéng | Baidi town in Chongqing 重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction |
| 魏文帝 | Wèi Wén dì | Cao Pi 曹丕, emperor of Wei 220-226 |
| 三皇五帝 | sān huáng wǔ dì | three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend; the earliest system of Chinese historiography |
| 二皇帝 | èr huáng dì | second emperor of a dynasty |
| 五帝 | wǔ dì | Five Emperors from legendary times; possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them; usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黄帝 and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 颛顼, Di Ku 帝喾, Tang Yao 唐尧, Yu Shun 虞舜 |
| 亚力山大帝 | Yà lì shān dà dì | Alexander the Great |
| 亚历山大大帝 | Yà lì shān dà dà dì | Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) |
| 俄罗斯帝国 | É luó sī Dì guó | Russian empire (1546-1917) |
| 伦敦帝国理工学院 | Lún dūn dì guó lǐ gōng xué yuàn | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London |
| 先帝遗诏 | xiān dì yí zhào | posthumous edict of former emperor; Liu Bei's 刘备 edict to posterity |
| 哈里发帝国 | Hā lǐ fā dì guó | Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德 in 632) |
| 唐哀帝 | Táng Āi dì | Emperor Aidi of Tang, reign name of twenty-first and last Tang emperor Li Zhu 李祝 (892-908), reigned 904-907 |
| 唐殇帝 | Táng Shāng Dì | Emperor Shang of Tang, reign name of fifth Tang emperor Li Chongmao 李重茂 (c. 695-715), reigned 710 |
| 土皇帝 | tǔ huáng dì | local tyrant |
| 大清帝国 | Dà Qīng dì guó | the (great) Ch'ing or Qing dynasty (1644-1911); Qing empire |
| 大英帝国 | Dà Yīng Dì guó | the British Empire |
| 大韩帝国 | Dà hán dì guó | Korean empire, from fall of Joseon dynasty in 1897 to annexation by Japan in 1910 |
| 天帝 | Tiān dì | God of heaven; Celestial emperor |
| 奥匈帝国 | Ào Xiōng dì guó | Austro-Hungarian empire 1867-1918 |
| 奥斯曼帝国 | Ào sī màn dì guó | the Ottoman empire |
| 女皇帝 | Nǚ huáng dì | empress; refers to Tang empress Wuzetian 武则天 (624-705), reigned 690-705 |
| 宋武帝 | Sòng wǔ dì | Emperor Wudi of Song; Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420 |
| 宋武帝刘裕 | Sòng wǔ dì Liú yù | Liu Yu, founder of Southern dynasty Song 刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420 |
| 帝位 | dì wèi | the title of Emperor |
| 帝俊 | Dì jùn | Dijun, Shang dynasty protector God; possibly same as legendary Emperor 帝喾 |
| 帝力 | dì lì | Dili, capital of East Timor |
| 帝后 | dì hòu | empress; imperial consort |
| 帝喾 | Dì Kù | Di Ku or Emperor Ku, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝, great-grandson of Yellow Emperor 黄帝 |
| 帝国理工学院 | dì guó lǐ gōng xué yuàn | Imperial College, London |
| 帝汶岛 | Dì wèn dǎo | Timor island |
| 帝汶海 | Dì wèn Hǎi | Timor Sea |
| 帝王企鹅 | dì wáng qǐ é | emperor penguin |
| 帝王切开 | dì wáng qiē kāi | Cesarean section |
| 帝王谱 | dì wáng pǔ | list of emperors and kings; dynastic genealogy |
