- to prevent; to block
- plan; project; program; to plan; to map out; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- turmoil; social upheaval
- 口音 kǒu yin: 口音 kou3 yin5: voice; accent口音 kǒu yīn: 口音 kou3 yin1: (linguistics) oral speech sounds
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 言语 yán yǔ: 言语 yan2 yu3: words; speech; (spoken) language言语 yán yu: 言语 yan2 yu5: to speak; to tell
- each other; one another
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- cannot; must not; should not
- to join; to connect; to link up; to communicate
- to build; to construct
- thus; consequently; as a result
- to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]
- 散 sàn: 散 san4: to scatter; to break up (a meeting etc); to disperse; to disseminate; to dispel; (coll.) to sack散 sǎn: 散 san3: scattered; loose; to come loose; to fall apart; leisurely; powdered medicine
- 东西 dōng xī: 东西 dong1 xi1: east and west东西 dōng xi: 东西 dong1 xi5: thing; stuff; person; CL:個|个[ge4],件[jian4]
- might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個|个[ge4]
- mythical story; myth
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- true; real
- thus
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days)
- penalty; punishment; to punish
- to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)
- adult person
- same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- to run away from trouble; to flee from calamity; to be a refugee
- world
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- reason; cause
- prehistoric times; (attributive) prehistoric
- to pursue; to track down; to search
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- archaeology; to engage in archaeological studies
- legend; fairy tale; myth; mythology
- an epic; poetic saga
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- thirty; 30
- Pacific Ocean
- to sink
- 姆 m: 姆 m1: used in 姆媽|姆妈[m1 ma1]姆 mǔ: 姆 mu3: (old) female tutor; used in 保姆[bao3 mu3]
- to topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize; fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion); to undermine; to subvert
- to rise; to originate; source; derivation