- to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate
- can't stand it; to be unable to bear; to be unable to resist
- to increase; to strengthen
- with keen interest (idiom); with great pleasure; with gusto; eagerly
- tin; can; CL:個|个[ge4]
- biscuit; cracker; cookie; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
- to invite; to request; to intercept; to solicit; to seek
- to feed to the full; to cram
- belly; abdomen; stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- no use; no good
- immoral
- a little bit
- in private
- scratch (wound); scratch (damage to an object)
- to restrain; to control; restraint; self-control
- shirt collar
- on hand; at hand; one's financial situation
- comfortably off; ample; plenty
- classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
- expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔[bi3],項|项[xiang4]); to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages
- to drop (subject etc)
- to hold one's breath; to feel suffocated (for lack of air); choked with bottled-up resentment
- rope
- to tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap
- firmly; safely
- to steer (a ship)
- (idiom) conscientious; assiduous
- to survey; to measure; to conjecture
- to read out loud; (computing) to read (data); readout (of a scientific instrument)
- Tropic of Cancer
- Taiwan Island
- Taiwan Strait
- against the stream; adverse current; a countercurrent; fig. reactionary tendency; to go against the trend
- spiral; whirlpool; eddy; vortex
- to expend a great deal of effort
- rapid (flow of water)
- spray; ocean spray; spindrift; fig. happenings from one's life; CL:朵[duo3]
- to grow light (at daybreak)
- (of alcohol) to ferment; (of a crisis) to be brewing; to mull over (an issue); to hold exploratory discussions
- barometer
- direction; orientation