- to diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time); (after 不[bu4] or 只[zhi3] or 何[he2] etc) to need; to require; to take
- to change profession
- coldly
- to buy and sell; to do business; to trade; to deal
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while
- to trade; to carry out commercial activities; in business
- energy left over (to do sth else)
- to retort; to refute
- with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support)
- to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation; to make sport of
- 买卖 mǎi mài: 买卖 mai3 mai4: to buy and sell买卖 mǎi mai: 买卖 mai3 mai5: purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store
- that day; the other day
- to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over; Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2]
- at that time
- to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence
- lit. military tactics on paper (idiom); fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice; armchair strategist; idle theorizing; cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
- to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1])
- more than; greater than
- to strictly maintain
- lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs; to take matters into one's own hands
- 支 Zhī: 支 Zhi1: surname Zhi支 zhī: 支 zhi1: to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
- skilled manipulator; tactician; strategist; advisor; counsellor
- patent; sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people; monopoly
- School of Diplomacy of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocates were Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2] and Zhang Yi 張儀|张仪[Zhang4 Yi2]
- demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation; curious coincidence
- feasibility
- 当天 dāng tiān: 当天 dang1 tian1: on that day当天 dàng tiān: 当天 dang4 tian1: the same day
- to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous; laborious; strain
- the gist (of a text or argument); the main points
- all kinds; of every description
- chaotic; topsy turvy; a complete mess
- prescription
- to be born; (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc); (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn); bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
- one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
- to play a critical role (idiom); influential
- lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom); fig. to change the course of events; to turn things around
- the earth
- to tremble; to shake out; to reveal; to make it in the world