- 意识形态 yìshíxíngtài ideologysystem of ideas, values, and beliefs that form the basis of a social, economic, or political system
- 形态学 xíngtàixué morphology (biology)the branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features
- 社会形态 shèhuìxíngtài socio-economic formationThe specific form of a society at a given stage of history, determined by the relationship between its economic base and its political or cultural structure. Examples include primitive, slave, feudal, capitalist, and socialist societies.
- 形态发生素 xíngtàifāshēngsù morphogena signaling molecule that acts directly on cells to produce specific cellular responses depending on its local concentration
- 观念形态 guānniànxíngtài ideologyThe system of ideas, beliefs, and values held by an individual or group to explain social phenomena; also written as [[意识形态|意識形態|yi4 shi2 xing2 tai4]]