- café; coffee shop; CL:家[jia1]
- (literary) to drink; to sip; to sob
- (name) MacKenzie; McKinsey
- oracle script; oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
- 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)
- to take office; to assume a post
- to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- worth seeing; considerable; impressive; significant
- to send sb to work abroad or in a different location
- salary; wage
- air; atmosphere
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
- the whole night; all through the night
- bar (place to buy drinks); CL:家[jia1]
- to rotate
- to shout
- next day; the morrow
- to get out of bed; to get up
- wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage; CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
- 劲 jìng: 劲 jing4: stalwart; sturdy; strong; powerful劲 jìn: 劲 jin4: strength; energy; enthusiasm; spirit; mood; expression; interest; CL:把[ba3]; Taiwan pr. [jing4]
- to wane; to vanish gradually
- to stagger; to walk falteringly
- wine shop; pub (public house); hotel; restaurant; (Tw) hostess club
- lobby
- financial affairs; finance
- surname Cai
- see 崇信縣|崇信县[Chong2 xin4 Xian4]
- to meet with; meeting
- Columbia University
- Yale University
- law school
- to major (in a field); to study a specialty to obtain a higher degree
- academic degree; place in school
- generous; ample
- financial sector; the banking business
- keen; sharp; acute
- bearing; manner; mien
- steady; earnest; staid
- to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
- 直 zhí: 直 zhi2: straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters直 Zhí: 直 Zhi2: surname Zhi; Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God
- to hit; to strike; to break; Taiwan pr. [ji2]
- main point; essential
- eye; CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]
- (bound form) general; non-specific; extensive; pan-; to flood; (literary) to float about; to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
- wisps of blood; visible veins; (of eyes) bloodshot
- stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- presumably; probably; in all likelihood; surely