- air pump
- to draw air out
- 门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men
- Olympic Games; the Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克運動會|奥林匹克运动会[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4 Yun4 dong4 hui4])
- specially; intentionally
- to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to hide; to evade; to dodge; to take shelter; to avoid (difficulties)
- hurricane; violent reform or revolution; violent movement or force
- to stay for a while; to sojourn
- before long; soon after
- obviously; plainly; undoubtedly; definitely
- well-fitting (of clothes)
- undisciplined; loose; slack
- bean; pea; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- pod (of legumes)
- thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive
- 胖 pán: 胖 pan2: healthy; at ease胖 pàng: 胖 pang4: fat; plump
- to answer back; to retort
- firm; steady; staunch; resolute
- young people; youngster
- back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
- driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- steam
- yo-yo (loanword)
- cord; string; rope; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- axis of rotation
- directly
- (particle used to exaggerate certain adjectives, in particular 神經兮兮|神经兮兮, 髒兮兮|脏兮兮, 可憐兮兮|可怜兮兮, and 慘兮兮|惨兮兮)
- attendant; footman (servant)
- timely; at the right time; promptly; without delay
- to stop
- slender; lanky; tall and thin
- dumbbell (weight)
- 挡 dǎng: 挡 dang3: to resist; to obstruct; to hinder; to keep off; to block (a blow); to get in the way of; cover; gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)挡 dàng: 挡 dang4: to arrange; to put in order