- to start eating; to serve a meal
- bright; shiny; smooth; naked; bald; penniless
- to replace the old with new; to renew; to renovate; to upgrade; to update; to regenerate
- presentable; decent; up to par
- precise and appropriate
- to have stage fright
- (idiom) to interact with people
- 帆 fān: 帆 fan1: sail; Taiwan pr. [fan2], except 帆布[fan1 bu4] canvas帆 fān: 帆 fan1: to gallop; Taiwan pr. [fan2]
- (bound form) boat; craft (esp. small or naval)
- to exclaim in admiration; a gasp of surprise
- to pile up; (bound form) repeated; to fold; classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects); classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition
- abuse of power
- to change; to switch; to convert; to transform
- to gesture; to gesticulate; to practice the moves of a martial art by imitating the teacher; to fight; to come to blows
- pencil sharpener (blade-only type)
- to ingratiate oneself with; to pander to
- (usu. used in the negative) to acknowledge (sb's greeting etc); to respond; to answer
- (name) Karl; Carl
- Vienna, capital of Austria
- iron wire; CL:根[gen1]; subway enthusiast (abbr. for 地鐵粉絲|地铁粉丝[di4 tie3 fen3 si1]); railway enthusiast (abbr. for 鐵路粉絲|铁路粉丝[tie3 lu4 fen3 si1])
- book; notebook; Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi"; CL:本[ben3]; edition
- joy; to joke; to banter; to tease; to mock; Taiwan pr. [nu:e4]
- field; farm; farming area; village
- to volatilize; to vaporize; to evaporate (esp. at ordinary temperatures); (in compound words) volatile
- typhoid
- hanger-on; visitor (in a nobleman's house)
- baseboard; skirting board
- cement; CL:袋[dai4]
- the whole room roaring with laughter (idiom)
- wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas; the whole wide world; chatting about everything under the sun
- someone; a certain person; some people; I (self-address after one's surname)
- to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth); no chance; no connection; not placed (in a competition); (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc