A children's game in which two participants hold a string of rubber bands tied in a circle with their feet and a third participant is challenged to make a certain series of moves in relation to the string successfully.

Alternative form of traditional Chinese medicine

Synonym of People's Republic of China

A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained. / (by analogy) Any repeated irritation that builds to deliver cumulative damage.

Synonym of Great Wall of China

A species of frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis, syn. Hoplobatrachus rugulosus), found mostly in Southeast Asia.

The fruit of a hybrid northeast-Asian pear species, Pyrus × bretschneideri, with the crisp, juicy texture of an apple pear, but with shape and flavor more like those of the European pear.

plural of Chinese white pear

A pocket billiards game for two players, combining the play of eight-ball (except by shooting object balls into the cue ball instead of the other way round) with the shooting style of carom billiards games.

Any of the predominantly ancestor veneration-based, animist, ethnic religious traditions (with elements of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and others) which form the main belief system of a person's spiritual life among many of the Han Chinese.