- tax; levy; duty; impost
- believer
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- letter (sent by mail)
- bud
- 蛇 shé: 蛇 she2: snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]蛇 yí: 蛇 yi2: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
- to gather around the stove; (Tw) to come together for a family dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve
- midnight
- ashes
- to be just like
- detailed; meticulous; fine and careful
- lasting; enduring; persistent; permanent; protracted; endurance; persistence; to last long
- (Tw) missile; stray bullet
- to get away; to escape (from obligations); to free oneself; to disengage
- reason; grounds; justification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to take along with one
- sender
- address; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to suffer wear and tear; to deteriorate through use; to wear out
- envelope
- series; set
- broadcast; CL:個|个[ge4]; broadcasting; to broadcast; (formal) to propagate; to publicize
- to be interested
- whiskey (loanword)
- outside; outdoors
- to browse; to look over (books)
- lanes and alleys; neighborhood; lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families
- to revamp; a face-lift; to retread (a tire); to refurbish (old clothes); newly emerging
- to the south of (suffix)
- to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities); to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste); (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods); (dialect) naughty; mischievous
- to correspond (by letter, email etc); to send or receive messages through telecommunications
- abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造[lao2 dong4 gai3 zao4]; reform through labor; laogai (prison camp)
- reeducation through labor; laogai (prison camp)