| 陳 | [ chén ] surname Chen, Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state, Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2] |
| 陳 | [ chén ] to lay out, to exhibit, to display, to narrate, to state, to explain, to tell, old, stale |
| 陳仁錫 | [ chén rén xī ] Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author |
| 陳仲琳 | [ chén zhòng lín ] Chen Zhonglin or Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳[Xu3 Zhong4 lin2] (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义[Feng1 shen2 Yan3 yi4] is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星[Lu4 Xi1 xing1] |
| 陳伯達 | [ chén bó dá ] Chen Boda (1904-1989), communist party theorist, interpreter of Maoism |
| 陳倉 | [ chén cāng ] ancient name of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi, Chencang district of Baoji City |
| 陳倉區 | [ chén cāng qū ] Chencang District of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi |
| 陳元光 | [ chén yuán guāng ] Chen Yuanguang (657-711), Tang dynasty general with posthumous title 開漳聖王|开漳圣王[Kai1 zhang1 sheng4 wang2], i.e. Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian |
| 陳兵 | [ chén bīng ] to deploy troops, to mass troops |
| 陳其邁 | [ chén qí maì ] Chen Chi-mai (1964-), Taiwanese DPP politician, vice premier of the Republic of China (2019-) |
| 陳再道 | [ chén zaì daò ] Chen Zaidao (1909-1993), general in the People's Liberation Army |
| 陳冠希 | [ chén guān xī ] Edison Chen (1980-), Hong Kong singer and actor |
| 陳凱歌 | [ chén kaǐ gē ] Chen Kaige (1952-), Chinese movie director |
| 陳列 | [ chén liè ] to display, to exhibit |
| 陳列室 | [ chén liè shì ] display room |
| 陳列臺 | [ chén liè taí ] stall |
| 陳勝 | [ chén shèng ] Chen Sheng (died 208 BC), Qin dynasty rebel, leader of the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 陳勝吳廣起義|陈胜吴广起义[Chen2 Sheng4 Wu2 Guang3 Qi3 yi4] |
| 陳勝吳廣起義 | [ chén shèng wú guǎng qǐ yì ] Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising (209 BC), near the end of the Qin dynasty |
| 陳化 | [ chén huà ] to age, to mature (wine, timber etc) |
| 陳厚 | [ chén hoù ] Peter Chen Ho (1931-1970), Chinese actor |
| 陳可雄 | [ chén kě xióng ] Chen Kexiong (1950-), novelist |
| 陳壽 | [ chén shoù ] Chen Shou (233-297), Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] historian, author of History of the Three Kingdoms 三國志|三国志[San1 guo2 zhi4] |
| 陳天華 | [ chén tiān huà ] Chen Tianhua (1875-1905), anti-Qing revolutionary from Hunan, drowned himself in Japan in 1905 |
| 陳奏 | [ chén zoù ] to present a memorial (to the Emperor) |
| 陳奕迅 | [ chén yì xùn ] Eason Chan (1974-), Hong Kong pop singer and actor |
| 陳套 | [ chén taò ] set pattern, old habit |
| 陳嬌 | [ chén ] Chen Jiao, first wife of emperor 漢武帝|汉武帝[Han4 Wu3 di4], died c. 110 BC |
| 陳子昂 | [ chén zǐ áng ] Chen Zi'ang (c. 661-702), Tang dynasty poet |
| 陳屍 | [ chén shī ] to lay out the corpse |
| 陳巴爾虎旗 | [ chén bā ěr hǔ qí ] Old Barag banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia |
| 陳希同 | [ chén xī tóng ] Chen Xitong (1930-), mayor of Beijing at the time of 4th Jun 1989 Tiananmen incident |
| 陳年 | [ chén nián ] old, stored for many years |
| 陳建仁 | [ chén jiàn rén ] Chen Chien-jen (1951-), Taiwanese politician, vice president of the Republic of China 2016-2020 |
| 陳德良 | [ chén dé liáng ] Tran Duc Luong (1937-), former president of Vietnam |
| 陳忱 | [ chén chén ] Chen Chen (1613-1670), novelist and poet at the Ming-Qing transition, author of Water Margin sequel 水滸後傳|水浒后传 |
| 陳恭尹 | [ chén gōng yǐn ] Chen Gongyin (1631-1700), early Qing dynasty poet |
| 陳情 | [ chén qíng ] to give a full account |
| 陳慶炎 | [ chén qìng yán ] Tony Tan (1940-), president of Singapore 2011-2017 |
| 陳摶 | [ chén tuán ] Chen Tuan (871-989), a legendary Daoist sage |
| 陳放 | [ chén fàng ] to display |
| 陳方安生 | [ chén fāng ān shēng ] Anson Chan (1940-), chief secretary for administration, Hong Kong (1997-2001) |
| 陳景潤 | [ chén jǐng rùn ] Chen Jingrun (1933-1996) Chinese number theorist |
| 陳書 | [ chén shū ] History of Chen of the Southern Dynasties, ninth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉[Yao2 Si1 lian2] in 636 during Tang dynasty, 36 scrolls |
| 陳木勝 | [ chén mù shèng ] Benny Chan (Hong Kong film director) |
| 陳橋兵變 | [ chén bīng biàn ] the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty |
| 陳毅 | [ chén yì ] Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972 |
| 陳水扁 | [ chén shuǐ biǎn ] Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨|民进党 politician, president of the Republic of China 2000-2008 |
| 陳沖 | [ chén chōng ] Joan Chen (1961-), Chinese born American actress |
| 陳炯明 | [ chén jiǒng míng ] Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong |
| 陳獨秀 | [ chén dú xiù ] Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 |
| 陳皮 | [ chén pí ] orange peel, tangerine peel, dried orange peel used in Chinese medicine |
| 陳省身 | [ chén xǐng shēn ] Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), Chinese-American mathematician |
| 陳米 | [ chén mǐ ] old rice, rice kept for many years |
| 陳納德 | [ chén nà dé ] (Claire) Chennault, commander of Flying Tigers during World War II |
| 陳紹 | [ chén shaò ] old Shaoxing wine |
| 陳美 | [ chén meǐ ] Vanessa-Mae (1978-), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier |
| 陳腐 | [ chén fǔ ] trite, clichéd, empty and trite, banality, platitude |
| 陳舊 | [ chén jiù ] old-fashioned |
| 陳規 | [ chén guī ] outmoded conventions, old-fashioned ways |
| 陳規舊習 | [ chén guī jiù xí ] old rules and customs |
| 陳規陋習 | [ chén guī loù xí ] outmoded conventions, old-fashioned ways |
| 陳設 | [ chén shè ] to display, to set out, furnishings |
| 陳訴 | [ chén sù ] to state, to assert |
| 陳詞 | [ chén cí ] to state one's views, speech, statement, plea |
| 陳詞濫調 | [ chén cí làn ] cliché, commonplace, truism, stereotype |
| 陳說 | [ chén shuō ] to state, to assert |
| 陳谷子爛芝麻 | [ chén gǔ zi làn zhī ma ] lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip |
| 陳貨 | [ chén huò ] shop-worn goods, remnants |
| 陳賬 | [ chén zhàng ] old debt |
| 陳跡 | [ chén jì ] past events, relics from a former age, ruins |
| 陳述 | [ chén shù ] an assertion, to declare, to state |
| 陳述句 | [ chén shù jù ] declarative sentence |
| 陳述書 | [ chén shù shū ] representation letter (law), a brief, written statement, declaration |
| 陳酒 | [ chén jiǔ ] old wine |
| 陳醋 | [ chén cù ] mature vinegar |
| 陳陳相因 | [ chén chén xiāng yīn ] to follow a set routine |
| 陳雲 | [ chén yún ] Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist |
| 陳雲林 | [ chén yún lín ] Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会[Hai3 xia2 Liang3 an4 Guan1 xi5 Xie2 hui4] (2008-2013) |
| 陳露 | [ chén lù ] Lu Chen (1976-), PRC figure skater, 1995 world champion |
| 陳香梅 | [ chén xiāng meí ] Chen Xiangmei (1925-2018), a.k.a. Anna Chennault, born in Beijing, US Republican Party politician, wife of Claire Lee Chennault 陳納德|陈纳德[Chen2 na4 de2] |
| ⇒ 乏善可陳 | [ fá shàn kě chén ] to be nothing to write home about (idiom) |
| ⇒ 五味雜陳 | [ wǔ weì zá chén ] with complex feelings (idiom) |
| ⇒ 六陳 | [ liù chén ] food grains (rice, wheat, barley, beans, soybeans, sesame) |
| ⇒ 南朝陳 | [ nán chaó chén ] Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589) |
| ⇒ 坦陳 | [ tǎn chén ] to reveal, to confess |
| ⇒ 推陳佈新 | [ tuī chén bù xīn ] to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate, to go beyond old ideas, advancing all the time |
| ⇒ 推陳出新 | [ tuī chén chū xīn ] to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate |
| ⇒ 推陳致新 | [ tuī chén zhì xīn ] see 推陳出新|推陈出新[tui1 chen2 chu1 xin1] |
| ⇒ 敷陳 | [ fū chén ] to give an orderly account, a thorough narrative |
| ⇒ 新陳代謝 | [ xīn chén daì xiè ] metabolism (biology), the new replaces the old (idiom) |
| ⇒ 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉 | [ míng xiū zhàn daò àn dù chén cāng ] lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu), fig. to feign one thing while doing another, to cheat under cover of a diversion |
| ⇒ 暗渡陳倉 | [ àn dù chén cāng ] lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu), fig. to feign one thing while doing another, to cheat under cover of a diversion |
| ⇒ 條陳 | [ chén ] to lay out (an argument) item by item, memorandum to a superior |
| ⇒ 橫陳 | [ héng chén ] to lie in disarray, to cut across, to traverse |
| ⇒ 瀝陳鄙見 | [ lì chén bǐ jiàn ] to state one's humble opinion (idiom) |
| ⇒ 直陳 | [ zhí chén ] to say straight out, to point out bluntly, to give a straightforward account, to disclose |
| ⇒ 菌陳蒿 | [ jūn chén haō ] tarragon |
| ⇒ 鋪陳 | [ pū chén ] to arrange, to spread out, to narrate in detail, to describe at great length, to elaborate |
| ⇒ 陳陳相因 | [ chén chén xiāng yīn ] to follow a set routine |