| 第一 | dì yī | first; number one |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc) |
| 第三世界 | dì sān shì jiè | Third World |
| 第二次世界大战 | Dì èr Cì Shì jiè Dà zhàn | World War II |
| 第二国际 | dì èr guó jì | Second International |
| 第一次世界大战 | Dì yī cì Shì jiè Dà zhàn | World War One |
| 及第 | jí dì | to pass an imperial examination |
| 印第安人 | yìn dì ān rén | American Indians |
| 第一流 | dì yī liú | first-class |
| 第二性 | dì èr xìng | the Second Sex |
| 次第 | cì dì | order; sequence; one after another |
| 第三者 | dì sān zhě | sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship; the other woman; the other man; abbr. to 小三; third person; third party (in dispute); disinterested party; number three in a list |
| 第三纪 | dì sān jì | third period; tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago) |
| 法拉第 | Fǎ lā dì | Faraday (name); Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity |
| 落第 | luò dì | to fail an exam |
| 第二世界 | dì èr shì jiè | Second World |
| 安第斯山脉 | Ān dì sī shān mài | Andes mountain chain of South America |
| 安第斯山 | Ān dì sī shān | the Andes mountain range |
| 甲第 | jiǎ dì | residence of a noble; top candidate in the imperial examinations |
| 不第 | bù dì | to fail the civil service examination in Imperial China |
| 第四纪 | dì sì jì | fourth period; quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years) |
| 上海第二医科大学 | Shàng hǎi Dì èr Yī kē Dà xué | Shanghai Second Medical University |
| 世界第一 | shì jiè dì yī | number one in the world; world first |
| 伯拉第斯拉瓦 | Bó lā dì sī lā wǎ | Bratislava, capital of Slovakia |
| 全世界第一 | quán shì jiè dì yī | world's first |
| 刘光第 | Liú Guāng dì | Liu Guangdi, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 |
| 加里波第 | Jiā lǐ bō dì | Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician |
| 勃艮第 | bó gěn dì | Burgundy (Bourgogne), kingdom during medieval period, now region of France |
| 印第安 | Yìn dì ān | (American) Indian; native American; indigenous peoples of the Americas |
| 印第安座 | Yìn dì ān zuò | Indus (constellation) |
| 印第安纳 | Yìn dì ān nà | Indiana, US state |
| 印第安纳州 | Yìn dì ān nà zhōu | Indiana, US state |
| 印第安纳波利斯 | Yìn dì ān nà bō lì sī | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 品第 | pǐn dì | grade (i.e. quality); rank |
国语注音符号第一
式 | Guó yǔ zhù yīn fú hào dì yī shì | Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan); Bopomofo; abbr. to 注音一式 |
| 天下第一 | tiān xià dì yī | first under heaven; number one in the country |
| 安第斯 | Ān dì sī | the Andes mountain chain |
| 居第 | jū dì | housing; high class residence |
| 府第 | fǔ dì | mansion house; official residence |
| 意第绪语 | Yì dì xù yǔ | Yiddish language |
| 爱德华・达拉第 | Ài dé huá · Dá lā dì | Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician |
| 擢第 | zhuó dì | to pass the civil service examination in Imperial China |
| 故第 | gù dì | former residence |
| 书香门第 | shū xiāng mén dì | family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family |
| 潭第 | tán dì | variant of 覃第 |
科学技术是第一生
产力 | kē xué jì shù shì dì yī shēng chǎn lì | Science and technology is the number one productive force (from 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四个现代化). |
| 第一人称 | dì yī rén chēng | first person (in writing) |
| 第一例 | dì yī lì | first case; first instance; first time (sth is done) |
| 第一个层次 | dì yī gè céng cì | the first stage |
| 第一国际 | dì yī guó jì | First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866 |
