Terms originating from General Chinese
This page lists all currently defined terms with General Chinese recorded as a language of origin.
Note that etymologies are typically only traced back to the primary or secondary ancestors of a term, and so older ancestors may not be comprehensively included.
- 5-10
- ATB
- O$P$
- OCBC
- ah
- ah then
- ah tiong
- ah tiong bu
- aiyah
- aiyoh
- also
- bittergourd
- blue ginger
- borrow
- cheena
- chicken business
- chicken rice
- chicken rice ball
- chop chop
- chop chop kali pok
- chopsticks
- colour
- come
- come I clap for you
- cooling
- dai
- di di
- dirty
- dry
- face
- fishball
- fishball noodles
- flied lice
- got
- got eyes also don't know orh ee orh
- green bean
- green bean soup
- guai
- haiyo
- hear say
- heart pain
- heaty
- hell money
- horse back cannon
- hungry ghost festival
- iron rice bowl
- jie jie
- kap
- kueh bingka ubi kayu
- lai
- lan
- lao pee huih
- later
- lend
- liao
- look look see see
- look see look see
- lose face
- lotus root
- lotus seed
- ma
- mm
- mooncake
- oei
- old flower
- one
- open
- or ya peh ya som balik ah
- or ya peh ya som balik ah roti prata chai tow kway
- or ya peh ya som balik ah roti prata char kway teow
- orang Cina bukan Cina
- orh
- over
- pau
- pau
- play
- red bean
- red bean soup
- rice bowl
- save face
- say
- say people say yourself
- say real
- see
- see see look look
- show colour
- show face
- si
- si liao
- soya bean
- soya bean milk
- tai tai
- tang yuan
- tau sar pau
- thunder tea rice
- viet bu
- wah
- wait
- wait later
- wantan
- wantan mee
- wantan noodles
- wantan soup
- what thing
- what time already
- white horse
- wind
- you ask me, I ask who
- you then