- first class; grade A
- a little bit
- good or not?; luckily; fortuitously
- bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- bad person; villain
- 弄 nòng: 弄 nong4: to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with弄 lòng: 弄 long4: lane; alley
- the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
- advocate
- critic; detractor
- (idiom) of long standing; with a long history; stretching back to ancient times
- yardstick; fig. criterion; ground rule
- in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands
- crucial point; crux; CL:個|个[ge4]; key; crucial; pivotal
- gloom
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- to personalize; anthropomorphism
- complex (psychology)
- (idiom) possessing both integrity and talent
- so that; so as to; in order to
- no good; not good for; not beneficial
- to personally undertake or manage
- to blame; to criticize; condemnation; reproach
- to wander; to roam about; to loaf about; to be idle
- ghost; spirit (of the dead)
- to provide food for thought (idiom); thought-provoking
- formalization; formalized
- ruler
- critical; crucial; vital
- effect; efficacy; to imitate
- to enhance; to promote; to enrich
- to arrange; to order about; to manipulate
- to substitute on the sly
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- to call out (a name etc); to shout
- powerful
- four; 4
- (archaic) adept and valiant military general; skilled athlete; top player; champion-level athlete (title awarded by the General Administration of Sport of China based on performance in international and national competitions) (abbr. for 運動健將|运动健将[yun4 dong4 jian4 jiang4])
- to take the lead; to be first to start
- sphere of cultural influence
- to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
- huge waves; (fig.) ruckus; controversy; sensation
- to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family