| 开学 | kāi xué | (of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term |
| 建 | jiàn | to establish / to found / to set up / to build / to construct |
| 建立 | jiàn lì | to establish / to set up / to found |
| 创立 | chuàng lì | to establish; to set up; to found |
| 创建 | chuàng jiàn | to found; to establish |
| 开创 | kāi chuàng | to initiate; to start; to found |
| 创办 | chuàng bàn | to establish; to found |
| 建树 | jiàn shù | to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution |
| 儒家 | Rú jiā | Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] (c. 372-c. 289 BC) |
| 遍布 | biàn bù | to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout |
| 比比皆是 | bǐ bǐ jiē shì | can be found everywhere |
| 发起人 | fā qǐ rén | proposer / initiator / founding member |
| 周公 | Zhōu gōng | Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2], played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], and is also known as the "God of Dreams" |
| 魏 | Wèi | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history |
| 建国 | jiàn guó | to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 |
| 国美 | Guó měi | GOME, electronics chain founded in Beijing in 1987 |
| 万科 | Wàn kē | Vanke, large Chinese real estate company, founded in 1984 |
| 创始 | chuàng shǐ | to initiate; to found |
| 新军 | Xīn jūn | New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) |
| 铸 | zhù | to cast or found metals |
| 小米 | Xiǎo mǐ | Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010 |
| 卵磷脂 | luǎn lín zhī | lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk) |
| 鳈 | quán | fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia) |
| 开国元勋 | kāi guó yuán xūn | founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc |
| 校庆 | xiào qìng | anniversary of the founding of a school |