| 1 | 宋 | 宋 | sòng | Song4 | surname Song; the Song dynasty (960-1279); also Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479) | | |
| 2 | 宋代 | 宋代 | sòng dài | Song4 dai4 | Song dynasty (960-1279) | | |
| 3 | 宋朝 | 宋朝 | sòng cháo | Song4 chao2 | Song Dynasty (960-1279); also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479) | | |
| 4 | 宋祁 | 宋祁 | sòng qí | Song4 Qi2 | Song Qi (998-1061), Song dynasty poet and writer, coauthor of History of the Later Tang Dynasty 新唐书 | | |
| 5 | 宋祖英 | 宋祖英 | sòng zǔ yīng | Song4 Zu3 ying1 | Song Zuying (1966-), Chinese folk music singer | | |
| 6 | 宋襄公 | 宋襄公 | sòng xiāng gōng | Song4 Xiang1 gong1 | Duke Xiang of Song (reigned 650-637 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸 | | |
| 7 | 宋武帝刘裕 | 宋武帝劉裕 | sòng wǔ dì liú yù | Song4 wu3 di4 Liu2 yu4 | Liu Yu, founder of Southern dynasty Song 刘宋 , broke away from Eastern Jin in 420 | | |
| 8 | 宋武帝 | 宋武帝 | sòng wǔ dì | Song4 Wu3 di4 | Emperor Wu of Song (363-422), personal name Liu Yu 刘裕 , broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned 420-422 | | |
| 9 | 宋体 | 宋體 | sòng tǐ | song4 ti3 | Mincho; Song font | | |
| 10 | 宋太祖 | 宋太祖 | sòng tài zǔ | Song4 Tai4 zu3 | Emperor Taizu of Song, posthumous title of the founding Song emperor Zhao Kuangyin 赵匡胤 (927-976), reigned from 960 | | |
| 11 | 宋四家 | 宋四家 | sòng sì jiā | Song4 si4 jia1 | four famous Song calligraphers, namely: Su Shi 苏轼 | | |
| 12 | 宋四大书 | 宋四大書 | sòng sì dà shū | Song4 si4 da4 shu1 | Four great compilations of Northern Song dynasty, namely: Extensive records of the Taiping era (978) 太平广记 , Imperial readings of the Taiping era 太平御览 , Prime tortoise of the record bureau 册府元龟 , Finest blossoms in the garden of literature 文苑英华 | | |
| 13 | 宋书 | 宋書 | sòng shū | Song4 shu1 | History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋 ) | | |
| 14 | 宋史 | 宋史 | sòng shǐ | Song4 shi3 | History of the Song Dynasty, twentieth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史 ) | | |
| 15 | 宋任穷 | 宋任窮 | sòng rèn qióng | Song4 Ren4 qiong2 | Song Renqiong (1909-2005), general of the People's Liberation Army | | |
| 16 | 宋庆龄 | 宋慶齡 | sòng qìng líng | Song4 Qing4 ling2 | Song Qingling or Rosemonde Soong (1893-1981), wife of Sun Yat-sen 孙中山 | | |
| 17 | 宋美龄 | 宋美齡 | sòng měi líng | Song4 Mei3 ling2 | Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife | | |
| 18 | 宋濂 | 宋濂 | sòng lián | Song4 Lian2 | Song Lian (1310-1381), Ming dynasty writer, historian and politician | | |
| 19 | 宋教仁 | 宋教仁 | sòng jiào rén | Song4 Jiao4 ren2 | Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913 | | |
| 20 | 宋江 | 宋江 | sòng jiāng | Song4 Jiang1 | Song Jiang, a principal hero of the novel Water Margin 水浒传 | | |
| 21 | 宋徽宗 | 宋徽宗 | sòng huī zōng | Song4 Hui1 zong1 | Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty) | | |
| 22 | 宋干节 | 宋干節 | sòng gān jié | Song4 gan1 jie2 | Songkran (Thai New Year festival) | | |
| 23 | 宋词元曲 | 宋詞元曲 | sòng cí yuán qǔ | song4 ci2 yuan2 qu3 | Song iambic verse and Yuan drama (idiom) | | |
| 24 | 宋慈 | 宋慈 | sòng cí | Song4 Ci2 | Song Ci (1186-1249), Southern Song lawyer, editor of Record of Washed Grievances 洗冤集录 (1247), said to be the world's first legal forensic text | | |
| 25 | 宋楚瑜 | 宋楚瑜 | sòng chǔ yú | Song4 Chu3 yu2 | James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 亲民党 | | |