- to spread; to lay out; to apply (powder, ointment etc); sufficient (to cover); enough
- to handle; to transact; to conduct
- daytime; during the day; day; CL:個|个[ge4]
- bank; CL:家[jia1],個|个[ge4]
- evening; night
- to prohibit; to ban; to suppress
- to hinder; to obstruct
- gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits
- to produce (from sth else); to derive (from raw material); derivative
- CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference); abbr. of 中國人民政治協商會議|中国人民政治协商会议[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Zheng4 zhi4 Xie2 shang1 Hui4 yi4]
- easy to; convenient for
- to purify
- lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath; incomparable
- to affect adversely; to delay or hinder; to waste (an opportunity); to mislead
- to utilize; to put sth to use
- to seek; to strive for
- light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored); insipid; slack (sales)
- lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom); fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用|卢藏用[Lu2 Cang4 yong4], who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court)
- to vow loyalty and devotion to
- prestige; renown; influence
- miserably
- illusion; hallucination; figment of one's imagination
- (idiom) very few
- lit. to fly upwards swiftly; fig. rapid advance; rapidly developing (situation)
- no wonder (that...)
- to place oneself; to be (in a place or situation)