The features of new words in contemporary Chinese are asfollows: increase in number of the borrowed words, great inflow of words from Hong Kong and Taiwan, abundant growth in the use of terminology, group usage of new phrases.

• 当代汉语新词语的特点是：外来词增多；港台词语大量涌入并与普通词汇并存；术语增多并趋于普通化；新词语中出现词群现象。