- to fish out (from pocket); to scoop
- tea; tea plant; CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
- to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music)
- beer (loanword); CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
- to finish apprenticeship; to graduate; to send out troops (under a commander)
- not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- 捷 jié: 捷 jie2: quick; nimble捷 Jié: 捷 Jie2: Czech; Czech Republic; abbr. for 捷克[Jie2 ke4]捷 jié: 捷 jie2: victory; triumph; quick; nimble; prompt
- swing (seat hung from a frame or branch)
- apartment building; block of flats (may be a public housing block or a condominium etc) (CL:套[tao4])
- to lift open; to tear open
- asleep; sleeping soundly
- to curl up; to huddle; to cower; cringing
- tear stains
- life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me
- to have no sense of shame; shameless
- 盖 gài: 盖 gai4: lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build盖 Gě: 盖 Ge3: surname Ge
- to recall; to recollect; to think back
- yesterday evening; last night
- first signs; development (of a situation)
- to strangle; to throttle
- cradle (for a baby); (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc)
- to control
- (idiom) to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
- the moth flies into the flame; fatal attraction
- romance; love (romantic); CL:份[fen4]
- to bear; to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)
- popular; in demand; well regarded
- to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into
- (idiom) to have a superficial knowledge of a subject; to know a smattering of sth
- lit. from the main room, enter the inner chamber (idiom); fig. to go to the next level; to attain a higher level
- physiognomy
- Classical Chinese
- training in the basic skills; knowledge of the fundamentals
- confused and disoriented
- see 半信半疑[ban4 xin4 ban4 yi2]
- at the present time; currently
- rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting); to exaggerate; to embellish
- to spread falsehoods; to increasingly distort the truth; to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)