Vocabulary: 爱是什么
- all day long; the whole day
- deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)
- to seem; to be like
- walking corpse (idiom); zombie; person who lives only on the material level
- expectations; (math) expected value
- to hate studying
- to warn; to admonish
- to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2]); abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]; (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
- office; duty
- public; common; communal
- transmitter-receiver; broadcasting station; radio station; CL:個|个[ge4],家[jia1]
- start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]
- to experience; to realize; to comprehend
- to give a lecture; to teach a class
- to shock; to astonish
- to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
- to kick; to trample; to tread on
- to hide; to dodge; to avoid
- to heed; to pay attention to
- silent; still; quiet; to mourn in silence; to observe silence; (neologism, attested by 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
- to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
- desire for knowledge
- to reveal; to confess
- lowest point; nadir
- interesting; meaningful; enjoyable; fun
- (of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult; challenging; demanding
- situation (of a person)
- 重 chóng: 重 chong2: to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer重 zhòng: 重 zhong4: heavy; serious; to attach importance to
- to burn; to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)
- to suspend; time-out (e.g. in sports); stoppage; pause (media player)
- brothers and sisters; siblings
- to summon one's courage
- (idiom) to compete to be first; to scramble to get ahead; to rush forward for fear of falling behind
- to mention; to speak of; to talk about
- iceberg; ice-covered mountain; (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long; CL:座[zuo4]
- edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery; marginal; borderline
- penguin
- 望 wàng: 望 wang4: full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards望 wàng: 望 wang4: 15th day of month (lunar calendar)
- under the foot
- the surface of the sea; ocean surface
- to leap; to spring; to throw oneself