In recent times, the study of Manchu autochthonous poetry brought to light its highly developed verse-technique based on the particularities of the Manchu language and the Manchus’ own culture. In the case of Manchu-Chinese parallel compositions or Manchu translations of Chinese poems, however, the possibilities to express in inadequate way the refinements of Chinese compositions appear sometimes rather limited. Especially in the case of Chinese technical terms or allusions to Chinese culture, the Manchus had two possibilities: to transcribe the Chinese terms or to render them in a more simple way, in order to make them comprehensible to the “common” Manchu reader. In this paper, some examples are discussed to show this way of rendering typical Chinese expressions in Manchu poetical compositions.