- an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations
- young; immature
- to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- even if; even though
- to get; to obtain; to receive
- a few; a little; a bit
- delight; pleasure; joy
- the mind; the brain
- rough; rude; boorish; straightforward; uninhibited
- line (in drawing, calligraphy etc); the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
- to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous; laborious; strain
- precipitous
- mountain road
- (coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle)
- very fast; at lightning speed; (coll.) razor-sharp
- on the ground; on the floor
- to go through; to pass through; to thread one's way through
- tennis court
- to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated
- (idiom) to have never met; to be complete strangers
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- already; since; both... (and...)
- (tennis, badminton etc) racket; (table tennis) paddle; (cricket) bat
- 更 gēng: 更 geng1: to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)更 gèng: 更 geng4: more; even more; further; still; still more
- stadium; sports ground; court; pitch; field; golf course; CL:個|个[ge4],處|处[chu4]
- each; respective; apiece
- to like; to be fond of; to take pleasure in; to be keen on; interest; hobby
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- what?; something; anything
- corner (of a room, courtyard etc); (fig.) remote spot; nook
- (of a sound) to come through; to be heard; (of news) to arrive
- (loanword) guitar; CL:把[ba3]
- sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds
- to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with
- accordion
- gift; present; CL:件[jian4],份[fen4]
- 拉 lá: 拉 la2: to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash拉 là: 拉 la4: used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- appearance; manner; pattern; model