- 千 qiān: 千 qian1: thousand千 qiān: 千 qian1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- journey; trip
- to enter; to join; to go into
- solar system
- huge; enormous; tremendous
- dinosaur (CL:頭|头[tou2],隻|只[zhi1]); (old) (slang) ugly person
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- (of a period of time) long
- regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
- dawn; daybreak
- the first light of dawn; (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- outer space
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- to strike; to hit; to ram
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- to crush; to smash; to shatter
- to flit across; to sweep past; to glance (strike at an angle)
- to freeze
- dying
- 火星 Hǔo xīng: 火星 Huo3 xing1: Mars (planet)火星 hǔo xīng: 火星 huo3 xing1: spark (from a fire)
- desert; CL:個|个[ge4]
- the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace; (Tw) topless
- of short duration; brief; momentary
- to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over
- a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5]
- immediately; presently; following which
- to overlook; to look down at
- the earth
- to see
- under the foot
- to unfold before one's eyes; to emerge; to reveal; to display
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 个 gě: 个 ge3: used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]个 gè: 个 ge4: (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
- full of; brimming with; very full; permeated
- each; every
- 种 zhòng: 种 zhong4: to plant; to grow; to cultivate种 zhǒng: 种 zhong3: seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- 花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- (concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
- research; a study; CL:項|项[xiang4]; to research; to look into
- to gather; to collect
- to classify; to categorize
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)