MDBG Mobile Chinese English Dictionary (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

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他	tā	(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人)
世纪	shì jì	century / CL:个
年代	nián dài	a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:个
近代	jìn dài	the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
三国	Sān guó	Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新罗 in 658
二十一世纪	èr shí yī shì jì	21st century
旗袍	qí páo	cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits
花木兰	Huā Mù lán	Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature
三字经	Sān zì Jīng	Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters
二十世纪	èr shí shì jì	20th century
国语	Guó yǔ	Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
科普特语	Kē pǔ tè yǔ	Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人, spoken in Egypt until late 17th century
真腊	Zhēn là	Khmer kingdom of Kampuchea or Cambodia / Chinese term for Cambodia from 7th to 15th century
范公偁	Fàn Gōng chēng	Fan Gongcheng (12th century), Southern Song author of 过庭录
茶马古道	Chá mǎ gǔ dào	old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond
不平等条约	bù píng děng tiáo yuē	(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
千字文	Qiān zì wén	Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
战国时代	Zhàn guó Shí dài	the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
方言	Fāng yán	the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
三星堆	Sān xīng duī	archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze artifacts from the 11-12th centuries BC