| 1 | 东西 | 東西 | dōng xi | dong1 xi5 | thing; stuff; person; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 2 | 东西 | 東西 | dōng xī | dong1 xi1 | east and west | | |
| 3 | 东 | 東 | dōng | dong1 | east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord; surname Dong | | |
| 4 | 东北 | 東北 | dōng běi | Dong1 bei3 | northeast; Northeast China; Manchuria | | |
| 5 | 东方 | 東方 | dōng fāng | Dong1 fang1 | east; the East; the Orient; two-character surname Dongfang | | |
| 6 | 东部 | 東部 | dōng bù | dong1 bu4 | the east; eastern part | | |
| 7 | 东南 | 東南 | dōng nán | dong1 nan2 | southeast | | |
| 8 | 东京 | 東京 | dōng jīng | Dong1 jing1 | east longitude; Tokyo, capital of Japan; Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period) | | |
| 9 | 东欧 | 東歐 | dōng ōu | Dong1 Ou1 | Eastern Europe | | |
| 10 | 东海 | 東海 | dōng hǎi | Dong1 Hai3 | East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | | |
| 11 | 东南亚 | 東南亞 | dōng nán yà | Dong1 nan2 ya4 | Southeast Asia | | |
| 12 | 东汉 | 東漢 | dōng hàn | Dong1 han4 | Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220 | | |
| 13 | 东风 | 東風 | dōng fēng | dong1 feng1 | Dongfeng county in Liaoyuan 辽源 , Jilin; easterly wind | | |
| 14 | 东洋 | 東洋 | dōng yáng | Dong1 yang2 | Dongyang county level city in Jinhua 金华 , Zhejiang; Japan (old); East Asian countries | | |
| 15 | 东亚 | 東亞 | dōng yà | Dong1 ya4 | East Asia | | |
| 16 | 东非 | 東非 | dōng fēi | dong1 Fei1 | East Africa | | |
| 17 | 东边 | 東邊 | dōng bian | dong1 bian5 | east; east side; eastern part; to the east of | | |
| 18 | 东面 | 東面 | dōng miàn | dong1 mian4 | east side (of sth) | | |
| 19 | 东南部 | 東南部 | dōng nán bù | dong1 nan2 bu4 | southeast part | | |
| 20 | 东岸 | 東岸 | dōng àn | dong1 an4 | the east bank | | |
| 21 | 东方不亮西方亮 | 東方不亮西方亮 | dōng fāng bù liàng xī fāng liàng | dong1 fang1 bu4 liang4 xi1 fang1 liang4 | if it isn't bright in the east, it'll be bright in the west (idiom); if something doesn't work here, it might work somewhere else | | |
| 22 | 东亚病夫 | 東亞病夫 | dōng yà bìng fū | Dong1 ya4 bing4 fu1 | (derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars) | | |
| 23 | 东太平洋海隆 | 東太平洋海隆 | dōng tài píng yáng hǎi lóng | Dong1 Tai4 ping2 Yang2 Hai3 long2 | East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica) | | |
| 24 | 东主 | 東主 | dōng zhǔ | dong1 zhu3 | owner (e.g. of a shop) | | |
| 25 | 东北方 | 東北方 | dōng běi fāng | dong1 bei3 fang1 | northeast; northeastern | | |