- Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT); Nationalist Party
- 左 Zǔo: 左 Zuo3: surname Zuo左 zǔo: 左 zuo3: left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- stage; section; phase; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- suffering
- at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- to welcome (a visitor or newcomer); (fig.) to usher in
- beautiful; fine
- a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- to compile
- to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test); by means of; through; via
- road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- changes; vicissitudes
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- descendant; progeny; posterity; later ages; later generations
- to understand; to know; to comprehend
- to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- what?; something; anything
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- to abide by; to keep (promises etc)
- to treasure; to value; to cherish
- the next generation
- (typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…|对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ...
- (a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
- (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- 斗 Dǒu: 斗 Dou3: abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]斗 dǒu: 斗 dou3: dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]; decaliter; peck; cup or dipper shaped object斗 dòu: 斗 dou4: to fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together
- 没 méi: 没 mei2: (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not没 mò: 没 mo4: drowned; to end; to die; to inundate
- to enjoy; to benefit; to have the use of
- 福 Fú: 福 Fu2: surname Fu; abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]福 fú: 福 fu2: good fortune; happiness; luck
- but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- many; quite a few; a good number of
- ancestor; forebear
- to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble; also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4]
- worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
- staunch; strong
- to work; to handle matters; to have a job