- residential area; housing development
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- residential area; neighborhood
- circumstances; situation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- not to mind; unconcerned
- broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of
- old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age)
- shantytown
- to gesture; to gesticulate; to practice the moves of a martial art by imitating the teacher; to fight; to come to blows
- historian
- to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit
- diagram; picture; drawing; chart; map; CL:張|张[zhang1]; to plan; to scheme; to attempt; to pursue; to seek
- criss-crossed (idiom)
- alley
- (bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- 南 Nán: 南 Nan2: surname Nan南 nā: 南 na1: used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]; Taiwan pr. [na2]南 nán: 南 nan2: south
- to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out
- to arrange in order; (math.) permutation
- concentrated; crowded together; intensive; compressed
- apartment building; residential tower
- barely; only; merely; only (this and nothing more)
- range; scope; limit; extent; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule)
- classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
- small multi-story building; modest house with two or more floors
- now; at the present (time)
- lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
- to stand tall; to tower aloft
- building (a relatively large, multistory one); CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4]
- a household; door; family
- 人家 rén jiā: 人家 ren2 jia1: household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]人家 rén jia: 人家 ren2 jia5: other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
- 哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪裡|哪里哪里 nǎ lǐ: 哪里 na3 li3: where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment
- 妻子 qī zi: 妻子 qi1 zi5: wife妻子 qī zǐ: 妻子 qi1 zi3: wife and children
- band; belt; girdle; ribbon; tire; area; zone; region; CL:條|条[tiao2]; to wear; to carry; to take along; to bear (i.e. to have); to lead; to bring; to look after; to raise
- 雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
- Buddhist nun; (often used in phonetic spellings)
- to welcome; to greet
- smile; CL:個|个[ge4],絲|丝[si1]; to smile
- blue (color)