2014 captured in words that really matter

The 2014 Words of the Year in China are "law" and "anti-corruption" while the Words of the Year worldwide are "lost" and "Malaysia Airlines", according to a decision of the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press and People's Daily released on Friday.

The judges evaluated words suggested by more than 230 million people online as most representative of 2014.

The evaluation committee said "govern the country under rule of law" was the most important topic of the year, and the word "law" fully deserved the honor.