seng-gang si (僧綱司) - prefectural Buddhist registry
seng-hui si (僧會司) - county Buddhist registry
sha (紗) - silk gauze (sha)
shan-hou shi-yi (善後事宜) - remedial arrangements
she (舍) - settlement
she (社) - hamlet
shen-ji jiang-jun (神機將軍) - firearms commander
shen-xiang (沈香) - gharu-wood
shi (使) - envoy
shi-da (事大) -serve the superior
shui-ke ju (稅科局) - commercial tax office
shui-ke si (稅科司) - commercial tax bureau
su-mu (蘇木) - sapan wood
su-xiang (速香) - gharu-wood (su)
sui-wu (隨伍) - following forces
ti-zhi (替職) - succeed to a post
tong-shi (通事) - interpreters
tou-gong (頭功) - great achievements
tou-mu (頭目) - chieftain
tu-qiu (土酋) - native ruler
tu -she (土舍) - This is generally translated as "member of the ruling native-official family", in reference to the "native-official" (土司) rulers of Yun-nan. However, Professor Frederick Mote has advised that this term may have been used, as on the northern Chinese borders, to refer generally to a second-level functionary, regardless of whether he was a family member or clansman of the local ruler.