- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- (idiom) from top to bottom; top-down
- very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- to become rigid
- to recommend
- to station; to garrison (troops)
- Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲|亚细亚洲[Ya4 xi4 ya4 Zhou1])
- immediately; suddenly
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- to stride toward (success); to march toward; to take a step toward
- enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out
- enough; sufficient
- besides; in addition; moreover; furthermore
- resident; permanent (representative)
- wording (of a proposal); formulation; viewpoint (on an issue); (one of eight methods of bonesetting in TCM) restoring the part displaced by a fracture to its correct position by lifting
- more and more
- in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
- to collect money; to raise funds
- many; quite a few; a good number of
- 钱 Qián: 钱 Qian2: surname Qian钱 qián: 钱 qian2: coin; money; CL:筆|笔[bi3]; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]
- to prepare to build sth
- to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (CL:點|点[dian3])
- to take the opportunity; to take a plane
- to participate; to take part; to join
- to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave; CL:個|个[ge4]
- party; gathering; to meet; to get together
- to celebrate
- to set up; to establish
- to open a business; first transaction of a business day
- (of a bus, train etc) to leave for; heading for
- Milky Way
- guesthouse; lodge; hotel; CL:個|个[ge4],家[jia1]
- horizon
- car window; window of a vehicle (bus, train etc)
- to flash through (one's mind); to dodge (away from pursuers)
- construction site
- tower crane
- can be seen everywhere
- skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4]
- office building
- to go to work; to start work