- investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- to blackmail; to extort
- to go smoothly; to come off; to succeed
- stubble (crop residue); stubble (hair growth); classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop; sth just said or mentioned
- the gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
- to pay
- to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited
- disaster; calamity
- wasted money; pointless expense
- to warm sth up
- to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent
- all parties (in a dispute etc); all sides; all directions
- power; influence; a force (military, political etc)
- lit. to join hands; to act together
- to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- (coll.) older sister's husband
- not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
- to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge
- wife's father, father-in-law
- daughter's husband; son-in-law
- dissatisfied; discontented; resentful; (before a number) to be less than
- to ask for sth back; to recover
- 公道 gōng dào: 公道 gong1 dao4: justice; fairness; public highway公道 gōng dao: 公道 gong1 dao5: fair; equitable
- 季 jì: 季 ji4: season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields季 Jì: 季 Ji4: surname Ji
- to estimate; to fine (archaic)
- to urge reconciliation; to dissuade from punitive action
- feud; bitter quarrel
- (detectable) movement; (sign of) activity; movement and stillness
- 编制 biān zhì: 编制 bian1 zhi4: to establish (a unit or department); authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)编制 biān zhì: 编制 bian1 zhi4: to weave; to plait; to compile; to put together (a lesson plan, budget etc)
- to appoint and dismiss
- to dispatch; to assign; a dispatch
- to distribute; to assign; to allocate; to partition (a hard drive)
- property; belongings
- inquest; trial; interrogation; to try; to interrogate
- voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self-
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- official seal
- to transmit; to dispatch; to issue (an official document or credential)
- secret trouble; sorrow; difficulties
- to pretend; to feign; to act a part
- polite; courteous; formal; modest
- to fight; to exchange blows
- manner; bearing; trace; mark; trail; etiquette
- to criticize; criticism; CL:次[ci4],番[fan1]
- to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly