- to legalize; to make legal; legalization
- (literary) to blaspheme; to desecrate; to profane
- public morality; social ethics
- to take the bait
- move; act; measure
- to provoke; to stir up; to incite
- to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
- atheism
- to purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy off
- or; either one or the other
- to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed
- chess; chess-like game; a game of chess; CL:盤|盘[pan2]; chess piece; CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1]
- undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
- as before; still; to remain the same
- to summon one's (courage, faith etc); to puff up (one's cheeks etc); to bulge; to swell out
- palm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw; horseshoe; to slap; to hold in one's hand; to wield
- dainty; elegance; elegant
- element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element; (math.) element (member of a set)
- to begin; to open; to start; beginning of an event
- symphony
- (name) Dylan
- sandbar; shoal; sandbank
- 铁杆 tiě gǎn: 铁杆 tie3 gan3: iron rod; zealous; die-hard铁杆 tiě gān: 铁杆 tie3 gan1: iron (golf club)
- in the end; after all; eventually
- opinion poll
- support level; popularity rating
- to listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears
- to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story; to make excuses
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- to come across (sb); to run into
- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- count of votes
- to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- eccentric genius; quirky genius
- see 胸有成竹[xiong1 you3 cheng2 zhu2]
- trend; tendency
- way of doing sth; the right social connection
- not work; be ineffective
- to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
- 桑 sāng: 桑 sang1: (bound form) mulberry tree桑 Sāng: 桑 Sang1: surname Sang