- interesting; fascinating; amusing
- a pleasant change; a breath of fresh air; refreshing
- nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words; You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
- any; whatever; whichever
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship; CL:家[jia1],處|处[chu4]
- airport terminal
- bookstore; CL:家[jia1]
- to supervise; to manage; to administer; management; administration; CL:個|个[ge4]
- chicken stock; chicken soup; (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
- reading material
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- lit. to flood (idiom); fig. rampant; in plague proportions
- young people; youngster
- to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)
- occupation; profession; vocation; professional
- instinct
- related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation
- question; problem; issue; topic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to cultivate; to raise; to form (a habit); to acquire
- equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- toughness
- otherwise; if not; or (else)
- to set foot on; to step on or into
- strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- to throw down; to fall; to drop and break
- 得 de: 得 de5: structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc得 děi: 得 dei3: to have to; must; ought to; to need to得 dé: 得 de2: to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished得 dè: 得 de4: used in 得瑟[de4 se5]
- lit. head broken and blood flowing; fig. badly bruised
- stage; section; phase; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (idiom) inevitable; unavoidable
- to meet; to run into; to come across
- predicament; plight
- same; like; equal to; the same as; just like
- very little; very few
- linear; linearity
- base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- enough; sufficient
- firm; secure
- 便 pián: 便 pian2: used in 便宜[pian2 yi5]; used in 便便[pian2 pian2]; used in 便嬛[pian2 xuan1]便 biàn: 便 bian4: plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就[jiu4]: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards
- 易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
- risk; hazard
- lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy; a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
- to ask oneself honestly; to search in one's heart