- 畲族 shēzú She peopleThe She ethnic group, one of China's 56 officially recognized minority groups; primarily distributed across the mountainous regions of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Anhui provinces.
- 徐继畬 xújìyú Xu JiyuXu Jiyu (1795–1873), a Chinese geographer and official during the Qing Dynasty who authored the influential world geography book [[瀛寰志略|瀛寰志略|ying2 huan2 zhi4 lu:e4]]
- 斫畬 zhuóshē slash-and-burn agriculture(literary) slash-and-burn agriculture
- 溥心畬 pǔxīnyú Pu Xinyucourtesy name of Pu Ru, a famous painter and calligrapher of the Qing imperial family who lived from 1896 to 1963
- 菑畬 zīyú farmingfarming or husbandry; the clearing and tilling of land for cultivation