- to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at
- to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- 头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns
- to whisper to one another's ear
- (coll.) a short while; a moment
- to turn back; to put back; reversal; melodic inversion (in music)
- after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- to declare; to announce; to proclaim
- 攒 zǎn: 攒 zan3: to collect; to hoard; to accumulate; to save攒 cuán: 攒 cuan2: to bring together
- wages; pay; CL:份[fen4]
- to buy; to purchase
- guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither); musical instrument in general
- subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
- formal; official
- to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
- reform; CL:次[ci4],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]; to reform
- kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
- 益 yì: 益 yi4: benefit; profit; advantage; beneficial; to increase; to add; all the more益 Yì: 益 Yi4: surname Yi
- where the wind and the waves are the fiercest; at the heart of the struggle
- staff; personnel; employee
- 板 bǎn: 板 ban3: board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious板 pàn: 板 pan4: to catch sight of in a doorway (old)板 bǎn: 板 ban3: used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]
- flesh of fish; fish and meat; (fig.) victims of oppression; (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
- to get trampled on (idiom); to be taken advantage of
- unemployment; to lose one's job
- home
- to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- plan; program (for action etc); proposal; proposed bill; CL:個|个[ge4],套[tao4]
- at this time; at this moment
- someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom)
- father's younger brother; paternal uncle; form of address used by children for a male one generation older
- at this point; thus; from then on
- 教 jiào: 教 jiao4: (bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)教 jiāo: 教 jiao1: to teach; to instruct教 Jiào: 教 Jiao4: surname Jiao
- half a year
- entrance door; to enter a door; to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
- knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual
- electricity; electric; electrical