- mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling
- to reconstruct (an art object); to remodel
- full of youthful energy (idiom); vigorous; energetic; a bright spark
- evening meal; dinner; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- to follow after; immediately afterwards
- dance hall; ballroom; CL:間|间[jian1]
- indoor
- to decorate; interior decoration; to fit up; to renovate
- monotonous
- to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects
- purple; violet (color)
- window curtains
- color; multicolored
- (loanword) disco
- lamp; light; lantern; CL:盞|盏[zhan3]
- to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate
- to go along; to follow
- 排满 pái Mǎn: 排满 pai2 Man3: (historical) anti-Manchu; to oppose Manchu rule排满 pái mǎn: 排满 pai2 man3: to be filled with (things arranged in rows); (of a schedule) to be packed; to be fully booked
- chair; CL:把[ba3],張|张[zhang1]
- all around
- to look at each other
- partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany
- 卡拉 kǎ lā: 卡拉 ka3 la1: karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried卡拉 Kǎ lā: 卡拉 Ka3 la1: Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥[Duo1 ge1]; Cara, Karla etc (name)
- 哇 wā: 哇 wa1: Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting哇 wa: 哇 wa5: replaces 啊[a5] when following the vowel "u" or "ao"
- absolute; unconditional
- so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- speed; rate; velocity; (music) tempo
- progress; improvement; to improve; to progress
- crazy; frenzied; wild
- (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current (year etc); (bound form) original; (bound form) inherent; originally; initially; capital; principal; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- end of the year
- day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
- London, capital of United Kingdom
- (coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person); layman; amateur
- (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
- to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)
- how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?