- to sponsor; to adopt (pledge to give sb or sth one's special attention or support); to adopt (choose to raise a child or animal as one's own)
- typist
- to go deaf; to lose one's hearing; deafness; hearing loss
- to get drunk
- to accompany
- city center; downtown
- apartment building; block of flats (may be a public housing block or a condominium etc) (CL:套[tao4])
- every day
- as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence; in a drunken stupor
- and even; to go so far as to
- worldwide; entire world
- to betray
- to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)
- to bequeath
- to approach; to get close to
- protector
- to speak in defense of; to argue in favor of; to defend; to plead
- case; instance; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3]
- to sign (a signature)
- Yale
- a swindle; a trap; a racket; a scam; CL:場|场[chang3]
- alliance; union; coalition
- to assign; to appoint; assignment
- cowshed; makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution; (baseball) bullpen
- to discard; to abandon
- envelope; outer shell; hull; cover; case
- journey; trip
- disheveled; tangled
- statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job
- file; record; archive
- brilliant; shiny; a flare; to glisten; to twinkle
- starry sky; the star-studded heavens
- just at the time of; honest; upright; (math.) positive value
- to breathe; to suck in; to absorb; to inhale
- truck; van; freight wagon
- Yamashita (Japanese surname)
- bead; pearl; CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
- to wrap; kerchief; handkerchief; headscarf; pascal (SI unit)
- 马 Mǎ: 马 Ma3: surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]马 mǎ: 马 ma3: horse; CL:匹[pi3]; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
- 刘 Líu: 刘 Liu2: surname Liu刘 líu: 刘 liu2: (classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughter
- (bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable; (used in given names); Taiwan pr. [shu2]