A
矮老:                   Pillar-shaped strut.
矮面盆架: Washbasin stand.
矮桌展腿式: Low table with extended              legs. Low waisted          table

which is transformed into a high table by adding round extensions

to the square legs.
案:                   Recessed-leg table.
暗抽屉: Hidden drawers, opened by raising         from  underneath

 rather than with a pull.
凹面: Concave            moulding

B
拔步床: Alcove [5AlkEJv] bedstead.
百宝嵌: One-hundred- precious-material inlay.
半槽地: Half-and-half relief. The most common type of relief carving with relief and ground occupying about the same amount of space.
半桌: Half table, slightly larger than half an eight Immortals [9ImR:`tel] table.
抱鼓: Embracing drums. The drum-shaped elements at the top of a shoe-foot used to hold the spandrels of screens,

clothes racks and lampstands in position.
抱肩榫: Embracing-shoulder tenon. A mitred joint used in waisted furniture of the corner-leg construc-tion to attach the leg and apron. A concealed

triangular-shaped tenon in the apron fits into a

mortise in the leg. Simultaneously a

concealed long and vertical dovetailed tenon slides into a mortise in the apron.

宝塔纹: Pagoda  pattern. Term used in Suzhou to describe the natural grain of beech.
包镶: Complete veneer, a hardwood veneer covering the entire piece of furniture.
宝座: Throne, for emperor or god.
宝座式镜台: Throne-type mirror platform.
霸王枨: Giant's arm brace, extending from the leg to the underside of the table top at a 45° angle.
八仙桌: Eight Immortals table. Square table suitable for seating eight people.
边簧: Tongue, on four sides of the floating panel of a table top.
边框: Frame.
边抹: Square or rectangular frame, consisting of two sides with tenons and two sides with mortises (.榫眼matou).
鳔胶: Fish glue, the best cabinetmaker's glue made from the air bladder of the yellow croaker fish.

冰盘沿: Ice-plate edge. General term for allinward-sloping mouldings.
波纹: Wave lattice. Term found in Yuan ye (The Art of the Garden) and also used for furniture.
步步高 赶枨: Stepped chair stretchers. Chair stretchers which are arranged with the front one lowest, the side ones higher, and the back one highest, so that the joints do not overlap.

踩: Lowering the surface of the wood. General term popular among craftsmen.
草龙: Curling limbed dragon. Stylized dragon pattern in which the legs and tail turn into curls, derived from the curling tendril design.
侧脚: Splayed legs. Term borrowed from ancient architecture (where it describes the splay of pillars at the base) to describe the slight splay of furniture legs at their base.
茶几: Tea table. High table derived from the Ming incense table and popular in Qing times.
插肩榫: Inserted shoulder joint. One of the essential joints of the recessed-leg construction. The upper part of the leg is split to form two tenoned pieces; the front one is made shoulder-like so that it can be inserted into cavities in the apron. When the joint is in place the surfaces of leg and apron are flush.
铲地浮雕: Relief carving on smoothed ground.
长凳: Long bench, general term.
长方凳: Rectangular stool.
缠枝莲纹: Scrolling lotus design.
朝衣柜: Court costume cabinet. Compound wardrobe in four parts with side panels. A kind of sijiangui with panels between the doors and outer frames which make the wardrobe wide enough for court costumes to be placed inside without being folded.
插屏式座屏风: Removable-panel screen set in a stand, the panel having tongues which can be slid in and out of grooves in the vertical pillars.
枨子: Stretcher. Member used mainly to connect two legs.
螭虎闹灵芝: Hornless dragons inter-twined with Iingzhi fungus.
螭纹: Stylized hornless dragon design.
抽屉架: Drawer frame, put inside a cabinet or shelf to hold the drawers.
抽屉脸: Front of a drawer.
抽屉桌: Narrow table with drawers.
橱: Cabinet, southern term for gui, which is more current in the north.
穿带: Penetrating transverse brace, which fits into a groove in the floating panel.
床: Bed, which in China is used for daytime sitting as well as sleeping. General term for both large and small beds.
床围子: Railing on Luohan and canopy bed.
床衣镜: Full-length mirror, a type derived from a screen set into a base which became popular during he Qing dynasty.
春凳: Large bench. In south China the term refers to a bench for two or more people. Northerners use this term only for a bench for more than two people.
攒: To join.
攒斗: Latticework. Literally joining the straight and assembling the curved, two methods of making lattice. General term which is a contraction of cuanjie and doucu.
攒牙子: Apron or apron and spandrel made by joining the straight.
攒边打槽装板: Assembling a mortised-and-tenoned frame with floating panel. This is done by first making a groove all around the inner edge of the frame and then inserting the tongue of the panel.
攒边装板围子: Railing of a Luohan bed consisting of frames with inset panels.
攒接: Joining the straight. Term used for the method of making a lattice from short straight pieces of wood, placed vertically, horizontally, and sometimes diagonally, and mortised and tenoned together. The resulting lattice may have square or rounded corners.
攒接围子: Bed railing made by joining the straight.

D
搭板书案: Board and stand desk, consisting of a top resting on two separate stands with drawers which originally were not intended to be used apart from the table.
大边: Tenon-bearing frame member. If the frame is rectangular the term refers to the two long pieces with tenons; if square, it indicates the two tenon-bearing members; if round, each piece is called a dabian.
大方扛箱: Large square box carried on a pole. Term used in Lu Ban jing (Lu Ban's Classic) for a large picnic box.
带: Transverse brace, which always connects the tenon-bearing frame members. General term which includes the penetrating transverse brace and the curved transverse brace.
带口: Dovetailed groove for the penetrating trans-verse brace on the back of a floating panel.
大理石: Marble, and in particular Dali marble, from Mount Diancang点苍 in the Dali District of Yunnan Province.
搭脑: Top rail. Highest rail on the back of a chair. The term also refers to the highest horizontal member of any frame, such as a clothes rack or towel rack.
挡板: Inset panel on a recessed-leg table with side panels. It usually has openwork carving finished on both sides and sits on a side floor stretcher or base stretchers.
倒棱: Rounding the edges. Procedure done to soften the sharp edges of a member.
打洼: Concave moulding; also called aomian or wamian.
大叶榆: Large leaf elm, a kind of ju wood; also called juyu.
凳: Stool. Also wudeng.
灯草线: Beading, a rounded moulding.
Dengcao 灯草: are rushes used as lampwicks.
灯挂椅: Lamp-hanger chair. Side chair wkh a high narrow bacic resembling the bamboo lamp hangers commonly used in south China.
雕刻: Carving.
吊牌: Metal pull.
吊头: Protruding end. The part of the top of recessed-leg table which extends beyond the leg towards the sides.
地枨: Lowest stretcher on a cabinet.
顶箱: Upper part of a compound wardrobe in four parts.
顶箱立柜: Compound wardrobe in four parts, consisting of two lower cabinets and two upper cabinets; also called sijiangui.
地平 : Platform. Large low wooden platform, usually square, placed in a room to hold furniture. When used for an alcove bed it is slightly larger than the bed. Very large ones are for a screen and throne.
斗: Assembly of more than two members.
斗柏楠: Burl of nan wood; also toubainan, the term used in Gegu yaolun (The Essential Criteria of Antiquities).
斗簇: Assembling the curved, a term for the method of making a lattice unit from large or small curved pieces of wood joined together by loose tenons.
斗簇围子: Luohan bed railing lattice made by assembling the curved; or Luohan bed railing lattice made by assembling the curved together with joining the straight.
斗拱式: Bracket model, a type of spandrel inspired by architectural members.
断纹: Crack patterns, the fortuitous designs formed of small cracks on the surface of aged lacquer.
独板面: Solid board top, found most often on narrow rectangular tables with recessed legs, trestle tables, and benches whose top is not made with a frame.
独板围子: Solid board railing.
都承盘 或 都丞盘 或 都盛盘 或都珍盘: Desk tray or desk treasure tray, for holding the treasures (the paraphernalia used in calligraphy and painting) on a scholar's desk.
墩子: Shoe-foot. Horizontal, usually bridge-shaped, piece of wood supporting a vertical member of a screen, clothes rack or lampstand. It tends to be large and includes the embracing drum.
垛边: Frame-thickening inserts. Separate pieces of wood added, mainly for aesthetic reasons, beneath the four sides of a frame of a table top in order to increase its height. They are commonly found on tables and stools, often on the type with leg-encircling stretcher, or with three spandrels to one leg, and a humpbacked stretcher. The inserts are less deep than the frame members and thus give the illusion of a thick frame without having its weight.
朵云双螭纹: Cloud surrounded by confronting dragons motif.

E
鹅脖: Gooseneck front posts. Curved posts of an armchair which are often made from the same piece of wood as the front legs.
二人凳: Two-seater bench.

F
方凳: Square stool.
方角柜: Square-corner cabinet. Usually a metal hinged cabinet with very little or no splay, and in which each of the four corners forms a right angle.
方桌: Square table. Term refers to tables of various sizes.
风车式: Windmill lattice. Patterned on the shape of the windmill motif used in Chinese paper toys.
分心花: Dividing-the-heart motif, the cusp in the middle of an apron.
浮雕: Relief carving.
浮雕透雕结合: Relief and openwork carving. Term used when both types of decoration occur in a single piece.
扶手: Arms of a chair.
扶手椅: Armchair.

G
盖面: Convex surface or moulding. Term used in Yingzao fashi (Building Standards) and by cabinetmakers today; also called hunmian and tumian.
赶枨: Changing the level of stretchers, in order to spread out the mortises. The term usually refers to the lower stretchers of chairs.
甘蔗床: Sugar-cane squeezer.
高拱罗锅枨: High humpbacked stretcher. Stretcher which often appears on the type of table with three spandrels to one leg and on rectangular tables with recessed legs.
高面盆架: Washbasin stand with towel rack. The two back legs are extended to form the towel rack.
高束腰: High waist. On some examples the influence of a Buddhist pedestal is still discernible.